Whereas it hath pleased the most wise God, in his providence, to take out of this world the most serene and renowned, Oliver late Lord Protector of this Commonwealth (printed by Henry Hills and Iohn Field, printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1658)
A proclamation by the Privy Council, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of London, declaring Richard Cromwell Lord Protector. - Annotation on Thomason copy: "4th 7ber [i.e. September] 1658". - Reproductions of the originals in the British Library (Thomason reel 669) and the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (UMI reel 2170). - Steele notation: to Richard, Government. - Steele, I, 3098. - Thomason, 669.f.21[9]. - Title from first lines of text. - Wing (2nd ed., 1994), E2924