An Act for Indempnifying of Such Persons as have Acted for the...
Cromwell's Parliament Indemnifies its Mercenaries [Great Britain]. [Parliament]. An Act for Indempnifying of Such Persons as have Acted for the Service of the Publique. At the Parliament Begun at Westminster the 17th Day of September, An. Dom. 1656. London: Printed by Hen: Hills and John Field, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1657. [ii], 5 pp. Folio (10-3/4" x 6-3/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning, faint dampstain along right side of text block, leaves separating, light foxing to a few leaves, early handwritten page number to p. 1 and brief note to p. 3. $250. * Passed by the Second Protectorate Parliament under the rule of Oliver Cromwell, this act declared that those who had assisted the Parliamentarian cause would be "fully Acquitted, Pardoned, and Discharged of and from all Actions, Suits, Indictments, Informations, Prosecutions, Judgements, Executions, and Molestations whatsoever." This broad cover was provided "whatsoever be the Quality of the Person," a necessary addition given that many of the "divers Persons" the Parliamentarians had employed were mercenaries. English Short-Title Catalogue R27220.
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