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A82789	Foure ordinances of the Lords and Commons, assembled in Parliament, viz. The 1. for raising and maintaining of horse and foot for the garrison of Glocester. The 2. for a weekly assessement on the county and city of Glocester. The 3. for a continuance of a weekly assessement on the city and county of Glocester. The 4. concerning currans. 13. Martii 1644. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that the severall ordinances for raysing moneys for the city and county of Glocester, be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1645 (1645)	Wing E1545; Thomason E274_1; ESTC R212146	6,713	16

FOVRE ORDINANCES OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Viz. The 1. for raising and maintaining of Horse and Foot for the Garrison of Glocester The 2. for a weekly Assessement on the County and City of Glocester The 3. for continuance of a weekly Assessement on the City and County of Glocester The 4. concerning Currans 13. Martii 1644. ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament that the severall Ordinances for raysing Moneys for the City and County of Glocester be forthwith Printed and published Hen. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. LONDON Printed for Edward Husbands March 18. 1645. 10. Maii. 1644. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for raising and maintaining of Horse and Foot for the Garrison of Glocester and for the County of Glocester c. WHereas the County and City of Glocester and the County of the said City are now in a sad condition by reason of the enemies lying upon them and keeping many Garrisons in the County of Glocester and the Counties of Hereford Monmouth Glamorgan Brecknock and Radnor being almost all in their power whereby the Irish Rebels and other enemies have the freer passage for prosecuting their bloody designes against this Kingdome to spoyle and ruine the same for prevention whereof and to reduce the residue of the said Counties to their due obedience of the King and Parliament there is great necessity that three or foure hundred horse and other Forces be presently raised and money provided for the same and also for the better maintaining of the Forces already raised and to be raised in the said Counties and City The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled considering the premises and well weighing the extraordinary and faithfull service performed at before and since the late siege of Glocester by the Garrison there by Collonel Massey and the Forces under his command Doe declare order and ordains and be it hereby ordered declared and ordained That Sir Robert Harley Knight of the Bath John Wilde Serieant at Law Nathaniel Stephens Edward Stephens Tho. Hodges Tho. P●ry Esquires Members of the House of Commons the Maior and Recorder of the City of Glocester for the time being Sir Giles Overbury Knight Edward Massie Collonel and Governour of Glocester James Kirle John Stephens Thomas Stephens Edward Harley Isaac Bromwich Sylvanus Wood Willam Shepheard Stephen Flower Edward Broughton and Henry Jones Esquires shall be and are hereby nominated a Committee of and for the said severall Counties and City and that they or any three or more of them shall hereby have full power and Authority to take the subscriptions of all such persons as will voluntarily lend or contribute any summe or summes of Money Plate Horse or Armes towards the supplies and provisions aforesaid and for other necessaries for the advancement of the said service which summe and summes of Money Plate Horse or Armes to be subscribed lent and contributed as aforesaid the said Committee or any three or more of them shall and may receive and employ for the services aforesaid and give Notes or Acquittances for the severall summes of Money Plate Horse or Armes so received which said Notes or Acquittances shall be a sufficient specialty for the severall persons that shall lend or contribute any Money Plate Horse or Armes as aforesaid to demand re-payment thereof or the value thereof with such encrease as shall be agreed upon so as the same shall not exceed 8. l. per cent And for the better enabling the said Committee to make re-payment of such Moneys and the value of such Plate Horse and Armes as shall be lent for the purposes aforesaid and for the raysing maintenance and supplies of the said Forces from time to time as need shall require Be it further ordained by the Lords and Commons that the said Committee or any three or more of them shall have Power and Authority to put in execution within the said Counties the severall Ordinances of this present Parliament hereafter mentioned That is to say The Ordinance for Sequestration of Malignants Delinquents and Papists Estates the Ordinance for raysing of Money by taxing such as have not at all contributed or not according to their Estates The Ordinance for the weekly Assessements and all other Ordinances made this present Parliament for advance of Money through the whole Kingdome of England and dominion of Wales for the service of the King and Parliament so farre forth as they or any of them have not been already fully executed within the places aforesaid except the Ordinances for leavying of Money by way of Excise or new Impost the proceed of all which raised and to be raised within the said Counties shall be paid unto the said Committee or any three or more of them to be issued out for the uses and purposes aforesaid which shall be a sufficient discharge to the Commissioners of Excise in that behalfe And the Commissioners of Excise are Authorised and hereby required from time to time to issue their Warrants to their inferiour Officers within the said Counties for payment of the said Moneys accordingly and that the said Committee or any three or more of them take care of the full and due execution of the said Ordinances according to the tenure and true meaning of the same respectively and for the more speedy raising of Moneys for the repayment of such summes and the value of such Plate Horse or Armes as shall be brought in by subscriptions as aforesaid Be it ordained by the Lords and Commons that the said Committees or any three or more of them shall have hereby full power and authority to set and let the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of all Malignants Delinquents and Papists which shall be seized and sequestred according to the Ordinance of Parliament for Sequestrations within the said Counties and City from yeare to yeare or by Lease or Leases for the intents or purposes aforesaid so long as the said Sequestration shall continue and in case the said Subscribers and Lenders shall not receive full satisfaction of their principall Money and interest to be lent and subscribed as aforesaid out of the Estates of Malignants Delinquents and Papists and other provision as aforesaid that then the said Subscribers and Lenders and every of them are by vertue of this Ordinance to have the publique faith of the Kingdome for the repayment of such summe and summes of Money as shall be due unto them And be it further Ordained that the said Committees or any three or more of them shall have full power and Authority to name and appoint such Treasurers Collectors and other Officers within the said Counties City as they shall thinke fit and convenient for the better putting in Execution of all and every the aforesaid Ordinances of Parliament and of this present Ordinance aswell for the receiving of all or any the said Moneys as also for the issuing out of the same for the purposes aforesaid by warrant under the

hands of the said Committee in such manner as the said Committee or any three or more of them shall appoint and to call to account from time to time upon Oath all such Treasurers Collectors and other persons who shall receive any Moneys Plate Horse or Armes by vertue of this present Ordinance of Parliament for the Services aforesaid and to give such fitting and reasonable allowances unto such persons as shall be employed in the Execution of the Ordinance aforesaid and of this present Ordinance or any of them for their charges and paines therein as the said Committees or any three or more of them shall think fit provided that such allowance shall not exceed the respective rates allowed by the said severall Ordinances in other Counties of the Kingdome for putting the said Ordinances in Execution And if any such Treasurers Collectors or other person or persons shall refuse to Accompt or pay in the Moneys wherewith they are charged then the said Committees or any three or more of them shall return their names to one or both Houses of Parliament and the said Committees or any three or more of them are hereby enabled and Authorized to call to accompt upon oath all such person and persons of the said severall Counties as have received any Moneys by Authority of Parliament which they have not made even payment of And the said Committees or any three or more of them are hereby Authorized to Administer the severall oaths specified in the foresaid Ordinances to such Commissioners or persons as have not already taken the same And be it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons that the personall Estates of such Malignants Delinquents and Papists within the Cities of London and Westminster within 20. miles of the same not yet sequestred nor discovered which shall be discovered by the said Committees or any three or more of them or by such person or persons as they shall Authorize under their hands and seales for that purpose within three Moneths next after the passing of this Ordinance shal be allowed unto the said Cōmittees for the further advancement of the said service Provided that the said concealed Estates exceed not the sum 5000 pounds And that the said Committees or any person or persons authorized by them as aforesaid nor any of them shall possesse themselves of the said Delinquents or Papists Estates before he or they acquaint the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestrations therewith or any three or more of them whereof the Chayr-man to be one to the end they may iudge of their Delinquency before his or their Estates he sequestred and taken away And be it further Ordained by the Lords and Commons that the said Committees or any three or more of them shall have power and authority and are hereby required to administer the late Nationall Covenant appointed to be taken by the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland to all persons within the said Counties and City who ought to take the same by the late Ordinance and Instructions for that purpose and have not already taken it And be it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons that the said Committees or any three or more of them shall have power to call before them all Ministers and Schoole-masters within the said Counties and City that are scandalous in their lives or ill-affected to the Parliament or fomenters of this unnaturall War or shall wilfully refuse obedience to the Ordinances of Parliament or shall have deserted their ordinary place of Residence not being employed in the service of the King and Parliament and they shall have power to send for any witnesses and examine any complaint or receive any testimony against them upon Oath of any person that shall be produced to give evidence against them and upon such proofes of the aforesaid crimes the said Committees or any three or more of them have hereby power to remove and eiect all such scandalous Ministers and Schoole-masters and in their places to nominate and appoint such learned able and godly persons as they shall think fit and shall cause all such Ministers and Schoole-masters so nominated appointed and placed to be put in possession of the said severall Churches and Schooles who shall and may respectively take receive and perceive to their owne use the profits and revenues belonging to the said severall Churches and places in as large and ample manner as the severall Ministers and persons in the said severall places have formerly used to do And all Maiors Sheriffs Constables and other His Maiesties Officers and Ministers are hereby required to be ayding and affisting to the said Committee as aforesaid in the execution of this service and t is lastly ordered declared and orpained that the good endeavours of the said Committee in the execution of the premisses are and shall be taken as reall and publick testimonies to the publique weale and themselves and such others as shall act and be ayding and assisting to them according to the true meaning of this present Ordinance shall be for so doing saved harmlesse and indempnified by power of Parliament FINIS Die Mercurii 2 Octobris 1644. An Ordinance for a weekly assessment on the County of Glocester and on the City and County of the City of Glocester WHereas the Committee nominated in a former Ordinance of Parliament for raising and maintaining of Horse and Foote for the Garrison of Glocester and for the County of Glocester Hereford Monmouth Glamorgan Brecknock and Radnor are not able by the Ordinances of Sequesiration of Delinquents and Papists Estates And the Ordinance of raising Moneys by taxing such as have not Contributed or not according to their Estates to raise such present summes of Money as are expedient for the maintenance of the present Forces within the said Garrison and County of Glocester It is therefore Ordained And be it hereby Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That the said Committee nominated in the said Ordinance or any foure or more of them shall have and hereby hath power and Authority to Rate and Taxe upon the said County of Glocester the sume of one thousand pounds a weeke and on the said City and County of the said City of Gloucester the summe of one hundred pounds a weeke to begin from the Sixteenth day of August last past And so to be weekly paid for the space of five Months Vnlesse the said Houses of Parliament shall make any other Order concerning the same to be Rated Taxed Leavied and Collected in such sort manner and forme as is prescribed in the former Ordinances of the weekly Assessments And in lieu of the said weekly Assessments and to be imployed for and towards the maintenance of the said Forces in the said Garrison and County of Glocester City and County of the City of Gloucester aforesaid And for preventing disorders in raising Horse Leavying Moneys and taking and Seizing Goods without Authority It is hereby

Ordered and Ordained by the said Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That from henceforth no Horse shall be there raised or Money Levied or Goods taken of any person or persons without Consent and Order of the said Committee or the Major part of them then present expressed by warrant under their hands And that no free Quarter shall be Assigned or taken of the Inhabitants under Contribution by the Commanders and Officers of Horse and their Troopers but by like Order Consent of the said Committee by warrant as aforesaid And so long time as any of the said Troopers have free Quarter they are to have but halfe Pay And the Officers to allow in Proportion out of their Pay And that all Officers and Souldiers both Horse and Foote shall be Paid according to the late establishment of my Lord Generalls Army And no Commander or Officer there shall receive Pay but such as duely attend their Charge unlesse otherwise specially Imployed in service of the Parliament And that no other Commander or Officer shall be Paid but such as are received now into service and such as shall be here after received and approved of by the said Committee or the Major part of them And that no Officer or Commander shall receive Pay there as an Officer and Commander both Horse and Foote by vertue of any Commission granted to any one person for Horse and Foote except Collonell Massey Governouer of Gloucester And that all such Horse Beasts and Cattell as shall be taken and driven by any of the Forces in the said severall Counties out of the Enemies Quarters shall be delivered to the said Committee or such persons as they shall appoint To the end they may be imployed towards the Publique Charge according to the said Ordinance some reasonable reward to be allowed to the said Souldiers who shall doe the said Service as the said Committee shall think fit And it is hereby Ordained that all Commanders Officers and Souldiers in the said Garrison of Glocester and severall Counties aforesaid shall be and are hereby required from timeto time Ayding and Asisting to the said Committee in the execution of the said former Ordinance and of this present Ordinance And that the said Committee and their Agents and Assistants in execution of the Premises shall be Saved harmeles and Protected by Authority of Parliament And lastly it is hereby Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That the said Commitee or any five or more of them may Imprison all such as shall make any atempt or doe any Act tending to the disturbance of the proceedings of the said Committee Or the Peace of the said County And them to fine not exceeding the Summe of Ten Pounds upon every such offender every such offender to remaine in Prison untill he have satisfied and paid the said Fine which shall be Imployed to the uses exprest in the said former Ordinance Hen Elsynge Cler. Par. Dom. Com. 13. Martii 1644. An Ordinance for the continuance of a weekly assessment on the County of Glocester and on the City and Countie of the Citie of Glocester WHereas the Committee nominated in a former Ordinance of Parliament for raising and maintaining of Horse and Foote for the Garrison of Glocester and for the County of Glocester Hereford Monmouth Glamorgan Brecknock and Radnor are not able by the Ordinances of sequestration of Deliaquents and Papists estates And the Ordinance of raising moneys by taxing such as have not Contributed or not according to their Estates to raise such present summs of money as are expedient for the maintenance of the present Forces within the said Garison and County of Glocester It is therefore ordained And be it hereby Ordined by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament That the said Committee nominated in the said Ordinance or any foure or more of them shall have and hereby hath power and Authority to Rate Taxe upon the said County of Glocester the Summe of one thousand pound per week and on the said City and County of the said City of Glocester the Summe of one hundred pounds a week to begin from the Sixteenth day of January last past and so to be weekely Paid for the space of nine Moneths from henceforth next ensuing unlesse the said Houses of Parliament shall make any other Order concerning the same to be Rated Taxed Levied and Collected in such sort manner and forme as is prescribed in the former Ordinances of the weekly Assessments and in lieu of the said weekly Assessments and to be imployed for and towards the maintenance of the said Forces in the said Garrison and County of Glocester and City and County of the City of Glocester aforesaid 15. Martii 1644 VVHereas by Ordinance of Parliament beareing date die veneris 21. Feb. 1644. It is Ordained in t alia that one third part of the profit that shall arise out of the Customes payable upon Currans shall be appropriated to the Garrison of Glocester It is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament that the Commissioners of the Customes shall from time to time during the continuance of the said Ordinance pay over all the said third part of the profit that shall arise out of the Customes payable upon Currans unto Nathaniell Stephens Thomas Hodges and Thomas Pury esquires Members of the House of Commons for the use of the Garrison of Glocester upon account if the said Garrison be continued a Garrison takeing their receipt for the same which shall be to the said Commissioners and every of them a suficient discharge in that behalfe Hen. Elsynge Cler Parl. Dom. Com. FINIS