A proclamation declaring his Maiesties pleasure concerning the dissoluing of the present conuention of parliament
A 1621 royal proclamation issued under James I of England, printed in London by the king's printers Bonham Norton and John Bill, dissolving a parliamentary convention. The three pictures are printer's ornaments: a heraldic royal coat of arms under a crown, a large decorative initial A with dragon-like heads, and a horizontal headpiece of winged figures and scrolling foliage. A designer could take from them the formal dignity of early seventeenth-century printed heraldry and the decorative capital letter tradition.
