Notes: | Caption title. Signed at end: Ma. Nedham. Broadside. After printing without any word of preface the Covenant, and the Negative Oath, Nedham observes "Thus you may see how the inclinations of Dis-affected Party were bent when the Covenant was made, and how solemnly it was taken by many of them ... How near this comes to our own times I leave it to the judicious reader to judge ..." Marchamont Nedham or Needham, a noted politician during the Civil Wars, appears to have printed the above paper. cf. Crawford, J.L.L. Cat. of Engl. broadsides 117. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Wing N405 Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1977. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 721:16)
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