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A83209 An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the maintaining of the forces of the seven associated counties, under the command of Edward Earl of Manchester. By a weekly payment upon the said associated counties; to begin the first day of September, and to continue for foure moneths next ensuing. : Septemb. 26. 1644. / Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this ordinance be forthwith printed & published. ; H. Elsynge, cler. Parl. D. Com. England and Wales. Parliament.; Elsynge, Henry, 1598-1654. 1644 (1644) Wing E1991A; ESTC R175203 3,000 10

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AN ORDINANCE OF THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT For the maintaining of the Forces of the seven associated Counties under the Command of EDWARD Earl of MANCHESTER By a Weekly payment upon the said associated Counties to begin the first day of September and to continue for foure Moneths next ensuing Septemb. 26. 1644. ORdered by the Commons in Parliament That this Ordinance be forthwith printed published H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. LONDON Printed for Edward Husbands 26 September 1644. WHereas the Counties of Norfolk Suffolk Essex Lincoln and other Counties with them Associated out of their loyall respect to His Majestie their pious disposition to the peace and happinesse of this Kingdome in obedience to the Orders of Parliament have raised and maintained to the number of Fourteen thousand Horse Foot and Dragoones or thereabouts and with them have done many great services against the Common Enemie tending much to the safetie of the Kingdome And have also bought many Armes and Ammunition and must buy more whereby to furnish themselves with a traine of Artillerie and have been and must be at great charges in maintaining and recruiting the said Forces and in keeping severall Garrisons making and erecting of Fortifications Magazines Courts of Guards and other things requisite and necessary for the defence and safetie of the said association against the incursions of the Enemie By all which meanes the said Association is become much indebted and without the speedy raising of large and considerable sums of money proportionable to their vast expences cannot long subsist in a condition to keep themselves from ruine and to advance the publique safetie It is thereupon Ordained by the Lords Commons in Parliament assembled and by authoritie of the same That for the intents purposes aforesaid the severall weekly sums of money hereafter in this Ordinance mentioned shall be charged rated taxed and levied upon the severall Counties according to the proportions herein expressed The same to be paid in weekly to the severall Collectors by them to the Treasurer or Treasurers appointed by this Ordinance for the receiving hereof That is to say Vpon the County of Essex the weekly sum of one thousand sixe hundred eighty seven pounds ten shillings Vpon the County of Suffolk the weekly sum of one thousand eight hundred seventy five pounds Vpon the County of Norfolk and City of Norwich the weekly sum of one thousand eight hundred seventy five pounds Vpon the County of Hertford the weekly sum of sixe hundred seventy five pounds Vpon the County of Cambridge the weekly sum of five hundred sixty two pounds ten shillings Vpon the County of Huntington the weekly sum of three hundred and thirty pounds Vpon the County of Lincolne and City of Lincoln the weekly sum of one thousand two hundred eighteen pounds fifteen shillings Vpon the Isle of Ely the weekly sum of two hundred twenty one pounds five shillings And the said weekly Payments are to begin from the first day of September in the year of our Lord 1644. and so to continue weekly for four moneths next ensuing from the said first of September And be it further ordained that every persō or persons that were to be assessed or taxed by any former Ordinance of Parliament shall be assessed and taxed by this Ordinance and shall be liable to as great forfeitures penalties for not paying of the sum or sums to be assessed as they should have been if the same had been assessed by vertue of the last Ordinance for the weekly payment for the said Association made the 20. of September last And the severall respective Deputy Lieutenants and Committees named and trusted within the said Association or any part thereof by the said recited Ordinance to take care for the assessing collecting or levying of any monies are named trusted by this Ordinance and have as full power and authority given by this Ordinance to nominate and appoint Collectors and Assessors and to distraine fine and imprison or sequester as they or any of them had by vertue of the said recited Ordinance in all or any part of the said associated Counties And the severall Collectors shall pay the severall sums by them collected at the place or severall places where the Earl of Manchester and the Committee for the Association attending the said Earl shall appoint to the Treasurer or Treasurers to be by them named which Treasurer or Treasurers are to issue out the monies received for the purposes aforementioned according to the Warrants or directions of the said Earl of Manchester of any two of the said Committees for the said Association which shall be appointed thereunto by the said Earl and a ful Committee consisting of one for every County at the least and of the Commissary Generall for the time being of the said Earl of Manchester And that no monies be issued out without order under the hand of the said Earl such two of the said Committees and the said Commissary Generall nor yet without the privitie of the whole Committee attending the said Earl And the said Lords Commons doe further ordain that all monies collected and not disposed of or to be collected upon the fifth twentieth part of mens estates or of the last four months pay and all the monies or other benefit arising by vertue of any Ordinance for the third part of the Sequestration setled upon the Earl of Manchester shal be paid unto the Treasurers appointed as aforesaid and from thence to issue out again for the intents and purposes aforementioned and the said Earl and Committee for the said association have thereby power given them to call all Collectors Treasurers or others that have or are thought to have any of the said monies in their hands to an accompt and to cause the said money in their hands to be paid unto the Treasurers appointed by the former Ordinances And if any Collectors Treasurers or others shall refuse to accompt or to pay in the monies wherewith they are charged then the said Earl committee shal fine them double the sum charged upon them which if it be not paid within six days after the sum is set and notice thereof left at his or their dwelling house it shal be lawfull to distrein for the same if there be not sufficient distresse wherewith to satisfie then the said Earl and Committee may imprison the offender herein sequester his estate untill the money charged fine set be leavied and paid And it is further Ordayned that four pence in the pound shall be allowed for every sum of money which shall be Collected and paid to the said Treasurer whereof two pence shall be for the Collectors and two pence for the Treasurer And the said Treasurer shall keep a Register book of the severall sums received and paid by them and shall render an account thereof unto the said Earl and Committee once every moneth at least And be it further Ordayned that three Commissioners hereafter to be nominated and appointed to reside in the Army shall take speciall care that they keep constant correspondency with the two Houses of Parliament and with the Committee of the Members of the House of Commons appointed for the Associated Counties and that they take such course that no Commander or Officer shall receive any pay but such as duely attend their charge And it is desired that the said Earl of Manchester do admit to his Counsell for the purposes aforesaid the said Commissioners residing in his Army to advise with them and arme them with power to view and examine the Musters of the said Army and to take such course as shall be thought most fit for the preventing of dead payments false Musters free quartering without warrants Plundering Seizing of Horses or Armes or for the avoyding of any other misdemeanor which may turn to the prejudice of the Common wealth And that the said Commissioners shall once in a moneth certifie the state of the Army and give an accompt of their proceedings unto the Parliament or to the aforesaid Committee for the Associated Counties and likewise certify what further instructions shal be agreed upon by the Counsell of Warre touching the same and the aforesaid Commissioners shal be nominated and appointed by the Committee for the associated Counties sitting at Cambridge or the major part of them out of their own number And be it Lastly Ordained that the said Earl Deputy Lieutenants Committees collectors assessors and every one of them every other person that shall be ayding and assisting to them or any of them in doing any thing by vertue of this Ordinance shal be defended and saved harmlesse therein by authority of both Houses of Parliament H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com.