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A82547 Die Lunæ quinto Maii 1645. At the Committee of Lords and Commons appointed by ordinance the 28 of March last, for securing eighty thousand pounds and for a further provision for the raising and maintaining of the forces under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax. England and Wales. Parliament. 1645 (1645) Wing E1239; Thomason 669.f.9[33]; ESTC R212232 1,471 1

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Die Lunae quinto Maii 1645. At the Committee of Lords and Commons appointed by Ordinance the 28 of March last for securing Eighty thousand pounds And for a further provision for the raising and maintaining of the Forces under the Command of Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX WHEREAS of the ten moneths Assessments charged upon severall Counties of this Kingdome by the Ordinance of the Fifteenth of February last past for raising and maintaining of the said Forces Three whole Moneths Assessements are become due and ought to have been collected and paid to the Treasurers at Warres at Guild-hall London according to the said Ordinances But through the negligence of the severall Assessors Head-collectors Sub-collectors and others that are trusted and imployed therein by the Parliament most of the Counties have not paid in any Money at all And such Counties as have paid in any the summes are so inconsiderable as that the Army can thereby in no sort bee supplied And unlesse some speedy and effectuall course be taken for the Collecting of those Moneys and such other Assessements as shall incurre manifold mischiefs will inevitably and suddenly ensue to the exceeding great prejudice of the Common-wealth It is therefore Ordered that the Agents appointed by the Parliament to solicite the bringing in of those Moneys shall forthwith repaire into the severall Counties to them assigned Who are hereby authorized to call before them or any of them the Assessors Head-collectors and Sub-collectors appointed for the Assessing and collecting of the said Assessements and to take an accompt of them what they have collected and paid and to whom and what remaines in their hands and what is and shall be from time to time in Arrears in the severall Divisions of the Counties and to cause such summes of Money as are now due to be forthwith collected and paid to the Treasurers at Warres at Guild-hall London And whatsoever person or persons the said Agents or any of them shall finde in the said Counties to have neglected their duties in assessing collecting paying distrayning or otherwise for the three Moneths past or shall neglect their duty for the time to come to take them into safe custody and forthwith to bring or to send them to the Committee or Committees in the severall Divisions of the Counties or before this Committee to be forthwith proceeded against as the said Ordinances of Parliament direct And the said Committee or Committees in the severall Counties aforesaid are hereby desired and required forthwith upon the complaints of the said Agents or any of them to proceed accordingly And it is further Ordered that all Justices of Peace High Constables Constables Captaines and other Officers and Souldiers or any of the Trained Bands of the severall Counties and all other his Majesties Subjects shall be ayding and assisting to the said Agents or any of them for the apprehending and conducting of the said offendors to the aforesaid respective Committees And it is lastly ordered That this service which so much concernes the Publique may effectually be carried on That in each of the Counties of Essex Norfolke Suffolke Kent Sussex London Middlesex and Surrey there shall be an Agent imployed to attend this service and one Agent for the Counties of Hartford and Bedford and another for the County of Cambridge with the Isle of Ely and the County of Huntington Which severall Agents are constantly to remaine in the Counties and are every six dayes to returne an accompt of their proceedings herein unto this Committee and likewise of the proceedings of the Committee or Committees in the severall Counties in this Businesse And this shall be a sufficient Warrant not only to the said Agents but likewise to the said Justices of Peace High Constables Constables Captaines other Officers and Souldiers and other his Majesties Subjects that shall be imployed in the service aforesaid Pembrooke Mountgom Salisbury Vis Say Seale Wharton Arthur Heslerige William Masham Iohn Potts Iohn Evelyn Tho. Hodges Iohn Venn Robert Scawen Valentine Wauton 12. Die Maii 1645. At the Committee above mentioned ORdered that M. Thomas Walker M. Jeremiah Whitworth M. Edward West and M. John Walker or any one of them shall have power to execute the Directions above mentioned As Agents employed by Order of the House of Commons Rob. Scawen London Printed for ED. HUSBAND 1645.