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A37899 An ordinance made and agreed by the Lords and Commons of Parliament the 28th day of August 1641 for the speedie disarming of popish recusants, and other dangerous persons. England and Wales. 1641 (1641) Wing E1789; ESTC R11519 4,335 22

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Ordinances are particularly named and appointed or any one or more of them and the Iustices of the Peace of each severall Countie Shire or Riding within England or Wales as also the Majors Bayliffes Iustices of the Peace Iurates or other head Officers of or within any Citie Town-Corporate or Priviledged place respectively or any one or more of them together with some or one of the persons nominated in the said Ordinance are to see the same forthwith put in execution and shall have power to call the high Sheriffe of each County and his Ministers all Constables and Tything-men and other Officers or any of them when and as oft as they shall think fit to be aiding and assisting to them from time to time within their severall limits and Iurisdictions in the due performance of this Service and to do and execute all and every such thing or things as shall be requisite and necessary in that behalf and the said Members of the said House of Commons are especially required to see the said Ordinance forthwith put in execution 2. The said persons authorized are to inform themselves by all convenient wayes and means of all such Arms Gun-powder and Munition of what kinde soever as any Popish Recusant convict or person whatsoever either of the Nobility or other which is or shall be indicted for Popish Recusants and such indictments either removed by Certiorari or being not removed shall not by Appearance and Traverse or otherwise be legally discharged or which shall not have reparied to Church more then once in every moneth or shall not have received the holy Communion according to the Rites of the Church of England within one whole yeer next before the making of the said Ordinance or which shall refuse to take the Oaths of Supremacy or Allegiance upon lawful tender thereof made or whose Children or Grand-Children or any of them being at their dispose or in house with them are bred up in the Popish Religion or have not repaired to the Church within one whole yeer next before the making of the said Ordinance according to the Lawes and Statutes of the Realm or whose houshold servants or any number of them are of the Popish Religion hath or have in his or her house or houses or elsewhere or in the hands or possession of any other to his or her use or at his or her disposition And are to search all such places where any such Arms Gun-powder or Munition of any such Popish Recusant or other person whose Arms by the said Ordinance is to be taken away is placed or deposited or supposed to be placed or deposited 3. They are to take and seize all such Armes Gun-powder and Munition as aforesaid in whose hands or custody or in what place soever the same shall be other then such weapons as shall be by the said persons so authorized thought fit to remain and be allowed to the said Recusants or other Popish persons as aforesaid for the defence of his or her person or houses and shall cause the same to be placed in some Citie or Town-Corporate or other convenient Town of the same Countie and there safely kept at the costs and charges of the owner thereof and the Armourer to be admitted to dresse and amend the same so oft as need shall require 4. And if any such Popish Recusant or other person as aforesaid or any other person or persons which have or hath or shall have any such Armes Gunpowder or Munition in his or their hands or possession to the use of such Recusant or other person as aforesaid or by his her or their appointment shal conceal the said Arms Gunpowder and Munition or any part thereof or shall refuse to discover the same to the said persons authorized or otherwise wilfully oppose hinder or disobey the said persons authorized or any of them in the execution of the said Ordinance that then every such Popish Recusant and other person so offending shall be held a contemptuous person and be liable to such further punishment as by the Parliament upon Certificate thereof made shall be thought fit and the persons authorized are to certifie their names accordingly They are to make Certificate to the Parliament of all such Armes Gunpowder and Munition as they shall take or seize by force or vertue of the said Ordinance As also of the person and persons whose the same were and from whom they are so taken and in what place or places the same are found or taken and where and in what City Town or place and in whose custody the same shall be left or deposited and what order they shall take concerning the same and shall likewise certifie what Armes or Munition they shall leave to such Recusants or persons as aforesaid for the defence of his or her person or house 5. They are to enquire what Popish Recusants have lately had any Armes or Munition taken away by whom and by what means and where or in whose hands the same remains and to take care that the same may be safely placed and kept in such manner as aforesaid and to make Certificate thereof to the Parliament 6. To take care that the said Arms and Munition so to be seized and taken away by force of the said Ordinance may so be placed and disposed of as there may not be too great a quantity thereof at the same time in one and the same City Town or place but that it may be distributed and placed in severall Towns and places in such manner and proportion as shall be most convenient for the use and safety of the Kingdom FINIS LONDON Printed by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of John Bill 1641.