Charles the Second by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. : To all and singular arch-bishops, ... greeting. Whereas we are credibly given to understand, as well by the humble supplication and petition of the inhabitants of the town of Milton Abbas in our county of Dorset, as also by a certificate ... that on the fourth day of August in the tenth year of our raign, there happened a very sudden and dreadful fire in the said town ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)

Contributor:

Bodington, J., bookseller.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fires--England--Early works to 1800.

Fires.

Milton Abbas (England)--Early works to 1800.

Milton Abbas (England).

England.

Genre:

Proclamations -- England -- 17th century.

Broadsides -- England -- 17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet ( 1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by W.G. for the assignes of J. Bodington, [1660]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Title from opening lines of proclamation.

The imprint is enclosed in square brackets.

"Brief for a collection for a fire at Milton Abbas, Dorset, which destroyed 4 Aug. 1658 (10 Chas. II), $5,000 worth of goods, &c., ruining 130 persons. To last one year"--Steele.

Steele notation: the assises October.

Royal arms at the head of title, initial.

Imperfect: stained and torn, with slight loss of text.

Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland--Crawford Collections.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 3044:23) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition, 1994), C3610E

ESTC R214084

Steele, I, 3266

OCLC:

879330893

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.