By the Council of State. A Proclamation. Whereas the Parliament assembled at Westminster the third of November, one thousand six hundred and forty, is now dissolved, and the care and preservation of the publick in this interval, is in a special manner, committed by authority of Parliament, to the Council of State, ...

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Title from caption and opening lines of text. Date and place of publication from Wing. Order to print dated: Saturday March 17. 1659. At the Council of State at VVhitehal. Signed: W. Jessop, Clerk of the Council. Annotation on Thomason copy: "March 19". Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and the Harvard University Library.