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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83205	An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the maintenance and pay of the garrisons of Newport Pagnel, Bedford, Lyn Regis, and other garrisons in the Eastern Association. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance be printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1645 (1645)	Wing E1989; Thomason E299_5; ESTC R200248	4,092	15

AN ORDINANCE OF THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT For the maintenance and pay of the GARRISONS OF Newport Pagnel Bedford Lyn Regis and other Garrisons in the Eastern Association ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Ordinance be printed and published H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. London Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons Septemb. 4. 1645. Die Mercurii 3. Sept. 1645. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT WHereas by a former Ordinance made in or about the eighteenth of December 1643. It was provided and Ordained That the Town of Newport Pagnell in the County of Buckingham should be fortified and the Garrison there maintained at the charges of severall Counties neer adjoyning but no provision is thereby made for the Garrisons of Bedford in the county of Bedford of Huntington in the County of Huntington of the Castle of Cambridge in the county of Cambridge or Lyn Regis in the county of Norfolk and at present there is no provision or maintenance made for the said last recited Garrisons The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled taking into their serious consideration how the said Garrisons may for the time to come be maintained and have constant pay provided for the Officers and Souldiers of the said Garrisons Have Ordered and be it by Authority of Parliament Ordained That the said Ordinance made in or about the eighteenth of December 1643. for the maintaining the said Garrison of Newport Pagnell be repealed and made void from the first day of June in the year of our Lord God 1645. And the said Lords and Commons do further Declare and Ordain That for the maintaining the said Garrisons of Newport Pagnell Bedford Huntington Castle at Cambridge and Lyn Regis from the said first day of June 1645. there shall be monethly raised within all the Counties Cities and places hereafter named the monethly Sum of Three thousand seven hundred fourty and six pounds the same to be Assessed raised and Leavied within the said Counties and Cities respectively in manner and form following Viz. In the County of Bedford the monethly sum of One hundred seventy three pounds and three pence In the County of Hertford the monethly sum of Two hundred ninety seven pounds sixteen shillings and a peny In the County of Cambridge the monethly sum of Two hundred forty five pounds six shillings and eight pence In the Isle of Ely the monethly sum of Ninety pounds seventeen shillings and eleven pence In the County of Huntington the monethly sum of One hundred thirty nine pounds sixteen shillings and seven pence In the County of Norfolk the monethly sum of Eight hundred sixty six pounds nineteen shillings and five pence In the County of Suffolk the monethly sum of Eight hundred and fifteen pounds eleven shillings and nine pence In the County of Essex the monthly sum of Seven hundred and fourteen pounds four shillings and seven pence In the County of the City of Norwich the monethly sum of One hundred pounds thirteen shillings and seven pence In the County of Northampton the monethly sam of Two hundred pounds In the County of Buckingham the monethly sum of Eighty pounds And it is also Ordained That the first moneth and time of payment shall begin and be Accompted from the first day of June in the year of our Lord 1645. and to continue for the space of one whole year next after the first of June last past And it is further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That the severall Lords Lieutenants of the respective Counties of the Eastern Association shall be and are hereby appointed to be of the Committee of the said Association And that the severall sums of money monthly raised within the said Counties shall be imployed and disposed of for the maintenance and pay of such and so many Officers within the said severall Garrisons as by the said Committee for the Eastern Association shall be nominated and appointed and also for the maintenance of the severall Souldiers within the said severall Garrisons as hereafter followeth Viz. At Newport Pagnell Eight hundred Foot and One hundred and twenty Horse At the Town of Bedford Eighty foot and Fourty Dragooons At the Town of Huntington Eighty Foot and Fourty Dragoons At the the castle of Cambridge One hundred and twenty Foot and ten Horse which said Horse are are to be ordered and directed by the said Committee of the Eastern Association At the Town of Lyn Regis One thousand Foot whereof Three hundred are to be sent to Boston for the better securing of that Garrison as they shall be ordered and directed by both Houses of Parliament or the Committee of both Kingdoms or by the said Committee of the House of Commons for the Eastern Association And be it further Ordained That the said Committee for the said Eastern Association shall and may from time to time nominate and appoint such person and persons to be Treasurer and treasurers for the receiving and paying such Sums of money to be raised within the said counties as abovesaid as they shall think fit and that the severall collectors and other persons within the said severall counties do pay all moneys by them received and to be received and collected by vertue of this Ordinance to such Treasurer or Treasurers so to be named and appointed as aforesaid And be it further Ordained and declared That all the sums of many to be assessed and raised by vertue of this Ordinance shall be wholly imployed in the maintaining and paying the Officers and Souldiers of the said Garrisons and in and about the said Garrisons and necessary preservation of them and to no other use whatsoever And that the said Treasurer and Treasurers shall issue forth and pay no sum of money but for the uses and intents aforesaid and that by warrant and Order in writing to be from time to time had and made from the said Committee for the Eastern Association under five or more of their hands which said Committee are to issue forth no Order or warrant but for the uses and intents aforesaid other then in allowances of necessary Fees and charges to Treasurers Collectors and other persons imployed in the collecting raising and paying of the said moneys which said Treasurers Collectors and other persons are to have no greater Fees or allowances then is allowed to the Treasurers Collectors and other persons appointed for the collecting the severall Sums of money raised by the severall Ordinances of Parliament for the payment of Sir Thomas Fairfaxes Army And it is further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for the Assessing Leavying and raising the severall monethly Sums aforesaid upon the severall counties aforesaid The Committes or any three or more them of the severall counties of Norfolk Suffolk Essex Cambridge Isle of Ely Huntington Northampton Bedford Buckingham and city of Norwich respectively already established and appointed by Parliament for the Assessing Raising and Leavying

the severall Sums of money for the payment of the Army under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax shall and may have power to nominate Assessors Collectors and other Officers and persons for the assessing raising collecting and leavying the monethly Sums of money within the said severall counties cities and places and shall have power to assesse tax raise collect and leavy the said severall sums of money within the said respective counties with the best equality they may upon each Parish Township or place within the said severall counties And shall and may send forth their Warrants to the high Constables or such other persons as they or any three of them shall think fitting for the rating assessing and collecting of the severall sums taxed or rated upon the said severall Parishes Townships and places which Sums so Rated and Taxed to be raised by distresse and sale of the goods of all and singular such persons as shall refuse or neglect after lawfull demand to pay their proportions so rated upon them by Warrant under the hand of any two or more of the said Committees respectively And if any person shall finde himself grieved by any such Tax That such person upon complaint to the said Committees or any two of them respectively if they shall think fit shall be relieved in such sort as they or any two of them respectively shall finde reasonable Provided That such complaint be made within six dayes after notice of his said Tax And if any person or persons within the said respective counties which by vertue of this Ordinance shall be Rated to pay any Sum or Sums of money shall obstinately refuse to pay the same And if no goods of such person or persons can be found whereby he may be distrained for payment thereof That then it shall be lawfull to and for the said Committees or any three or more of them respectively to cause such person not being a Peer of this Realm or assistant of the House of Peers so refusing or neglecting to be imprisoned and there to be detained and kept untill he or they shall pay their said rates Taxes And it is further Ordained That for the better raising of the said severall Sums of money within the said severall counties that all person and persons bodies politique and corporate all Mannors Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments goods and chattels whatsoever within the said counties that are liable and chargeable with the taxes and payment of any money for the payment of the said Army under Sir Tho Fairfax within the said counties are and shall be liable to the payment of the said severall Sums to be raised by vertue of this Ordinance And the said Committees of the said severall counties or any three or more of them shall and may do and execute all such power and authority for the raising of the said severall Sums of money to be raised within the said counties by vertue of this Ordinance as to them or any three of them is given by vertue of the said Ordinances for the payment of the army under the command of Sir Tho Fairfax upon all persons not being a Peer of this Realm or assistant of the House of Peers and shall may give such allowance and allowances to Officers and Fine imprison except as aforesaid such as shall neglect or refuse their several duties and offices in such sort and manner as in and by the said Ordinance for the payment of Sir Tho Fairfaxes Army is appointed And it is further Ordered and Declared That all Sum and Sums of money not yet assessed collected or paid from the severall counties named in and by the said Ordinance made in or about the eighteenth of December 1643. for the erecting and maintaining of the Garrison of Newport Pagnell untill the said first day of June 1645. shall and may be forthwith assessed collected and paid in such manner and by such person and persons as in and by this Ordinance is appointed and declared unto the said Treasurer and Treasurers to be appointed by vertue of this present Ordinance which said Sums of money shall be paid and disposed for the payment and discharge of the Billet and Quarter due by the Officers and Souldiers of Newport Pagnell unto the Inhabitants of Newport Pagnell and three hundreds of Newport and other Towns and places neer adjoyning and after such Quarter and Billet first paid then the remainder and overplus if any be to such person and persons as by the said Committee for the Eastern Association shall be appointed and declared And it is further Ordained and declared That the said Committee for the Eastern Association shal and may from time to time cause Musters to be taken within the said Garrisons so often as they shall hold fitting and that they shall and may nominate and appoint such person and persons as they please to take such Musters FINIS