By the King
Subtitle: trustie and welbeloved, wee greete you well ... : that which we require therefore is, that within twelve dayes after the receipt hereof, you will cause the summe of --- to be delivered to --- whom we have appointed to be our collector in our Countie of --- : the loane whereof, we do desire to be untill the foure & twenty day of March which shalbe in the yeare of our Lord God 1605 ...
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 1984
Publisher: R. Barker?
Published: 1604
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Public Debts; Early works to 1800; Public Finance; Appropriations and expenditures
Other titles: Trustie and welbeloved, wee greete you well
Notes: Printed in civilité type.

Imprint from STC (2nd ed.).

"Giuen vnder our Priuie Seale at our palace of Westminster the last day of July, in the second yeere of our reign of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the eight and thirtieth."

There are three major states. (1) Last line begins "Ireland". 1a: the last 7 lines have blanks for the sum, the collector, and the county. 1b: these blanks printed with "twentie pounds", "Thomas Scudamore Esquire", and "Yorke"; some resetting. (2) Last 7 lines partly reset; last line begins "England". 2a: the last 7 lines have blanks for the sum, the collector, and the county. 2b: these blanks printed with (alpha) ¹40, (beta) ¹30, or (gamma) ¹20 and Sir Charles Cornwallis, Norfolk. (3) Last 7 lines partly reset; last line begins "our". All copies of state 3 have blanks.--Cf. STC (2nd ed.).

STC (2nd ed.) 9175i.3

Crawford, J.L.L. Royal proclamations, 1485-1714, 998

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