blazon of the Protectorate  
Thursday the Four and twentieth of February, 1652.  
Ordered by the Parliament,  
THat the Ministers in the several Congregations within the Cities of London and Westminster, and the late Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality, Do on the next lordsday render Thanks to Almighty God for his great Mercy vouchsafed to this Commonwealth, in the great Success he hath been pleased to give unto the Navy of this Commonwealth against the Dutch Fleet, on the Eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth days of this instant February; wherein many of their Men of war and other Ships were sunk and taken, and the rest put to flight and scattered.  
Ordered by the Parliament, That it be referred to the Lord Major of the City of London, to give timely notice of this Order to the Ministers within the places aforesaid.   

ORdered by the Parliament, That this Order be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.   

London, Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament 〈…〉