Printed broadside proclamation announcing the end of the First Anglo-Dutch War, one page, 10.75 x 14.25, printed in London by Will. du-Gard and Hen. Hills, 1654, headed, "By the Lord Protector. A Proclamation of the Peace made between this Commonwealth, and that of the United Provinces of the Netherlands." In part: "His highness the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, considering how necessary it is, not only to preserve Peace and quiet at home, but, as far as in him lyes, to live in Amity and Friendship with his Neighbors, hath be the blessing of God…That all Enmity, Hostility, Discord and War between the said Commonwealths, their People and Subjects, shall cease and be forgotten." In very good to fine condition, with light staining and foxing, and old repairs on the reverse to tears and areas of paper loss.
