Three ordinances of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. The first for keeping in godly ministers placed in livings by authority of Parliament. The second concerning the regulating the sale of bishops lands, and expediting the conveyances thereof. The third for the reliefe of Chester. Die LunÆ 23. August. 1647. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that these three ordinances be forthwith printed and published. Jo. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.
England and Wales.Parliament.
London : Printed for John Wright at the Kings Head in the old Bayley,
1647.
The relief was necessary because Chester was "visited by the plague"--cf. Thomason Catalogue.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug: 24".
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) E2368.
Thomason E.404[18].
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