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England and Wales, Parliament, Public General Acts, 1650. An Act to Prohibit all Commerce and Traffique between England & Scotland, and Enjoyning the Departure of Scots out of this Commonwealth.
London: Printed by Edward Husband & John Field, Printers to Parliament, 1650.
Folio, four leaves; this Act ordered on 2 August 1650; title with woodcut device and printed within a double-rule, disbound, title browned, edges heavily chipped, with losses to blank margins, 10 1/2 x 7 in.
This Act of the English Parliament was issued at the height of the Third English Civil War between Scottish Royalists and supporters of Charles II. Cromwell had just arrived in Edinburgh at the end of July in 1650 in support of the English Republic. On the third of September, the Scots were dealt a crushing blow by the New Model Army at the devastating Battle of Dunbar.
