EEBO link. This is 669.f.12[14] in the Thomason tracts. I'm only noting it because it's printed by John Wright, the "cheap print specialist" (according to Bellany's article on Buckingham's representation) stationed "at the Kings Head in the Old Bayley" in 1648. He was also involved in "Letter to the Christian Family."
This single-sheet originally caught my attention because of the high and clear quality of both image-texts on this page: the illustrated border and the (factorum?) woodblock capital. The blocks have such fine and dark lines that they resemble copperplates without plate-marks.
In fact, as I trawl through 669.f.12, it becomes apparent that John Wright was no mere "cheap print specialist," but rather the regular printer for John Brown, a clerk of Parliament in 1648.
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