An Act for the encouraging and increasing of shipping and navigation.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

England and Wales. Parliament.

Contributor:

England and Wales.

Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.

Bill, John, active 1630-1681, printer.

Barker, Christopher, active 1640-1680, printer.

England and Wales. Parliament.

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Public General Acts. 1660. 12 Car.II.stat.1.c.18.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipping--England--Early works to 1800.

Shipping.

Trade regulation--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Trade regulation.

Commerce.

Colonies.

Great Britain--History--Charles II, 1660-1685.

Great Britain.

History.

Great Britain--Commerce--Colonies--Early works to 1800.

England.

Penn Provenance:

Dangar, William (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Bond, Thomas, 1765-1837 (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 17 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 28 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Anno XII. Caroli II. Regis. An act for the encouraging & increasing of shipping and navigation

Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, duodecimo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the five and twentieth day of April, An. Dom. 1660. In the twelfth year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign Lord Charles, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c.

Fingerprint:

orut ornd org- sowi (3) 1660 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1660.

Notes:

Title from caption title on p. 1, 2nd count.

At head of caption title on p. 1, 2nd count: Anno XII. Caroli II. Regis

Title page reads: Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, duodecimo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the five and twentieth day of April, An. Dom. 1660. In the twelfth year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign Lord Charles, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c.

Text printed in Roman and black letter type.

Also issued as part of: An exact collection of all such Acts, declarations, orders, votes, proclamations, speeches, letters, and messages, as have been printed and published since the beginning of this session of Parliament, April 25, 1660. In the twelfth year of his Majesties reign. With a table reciting the particulars thereof, London, 1660 [i.e. 1664] (Wing E1533A).

Last word of first line of text: 'shipping'; first word of line below initial: 'strength'; last word of last full line of text of first page: 'or'.

Includes references to plantations and territories in America.

Signatures: A-E² (A1, E2 versos blank).

Woodcut royal crest of England and Wales on title page; initial.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 17 in a volume of statutes passed by the Parliament of England and Wales, in the years 1660-1662; two ms. tables of contents inserted at beginning of volume.

Culture Class Collection copy has two ms. ownership inscriptions: "W[illia]m Dangar No. 2" and "Tho[ma]s Bond East Looe" on the front free endpaper of the volume.

Culture Class Collection copy has leaves also foliated 180- 190 in ms.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) E1108

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 660/81

ESTC R208537

Related Work:

England and Wales. Anno regni Caroli II. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, duodecimo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the five and twentieth day of April, an. Dom.

OCLC:

285464364