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A26083 The association, agreement and protestation of the counties of Cornvvall and Devon, January 5, 1643 Cornwall (England : County); Devon (England) 1643 (1643) Wing A4052; ESTC R10797 4,010 12

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THE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT AND PROTESTATION OF THE COVNTIES OF CORNVVALL AND DEVON Ianuary 5. 1643. Printed by His MAJESTIES Command At OXFORD Ianuary 18. By Leonard Lichfield Printer to the Vniversity 1643. THE Articles of the Associations c. 1. THat a Protestation be taken by all men within the two Counties above the age of Sixteene yeares and Subscription thereunto according to the form agreed on before the Minister of the Parish or some other Person as shall be appointed in each Parish by the Iustices of Peace of each County or two of them The same being first taken by all the Commissioners at this meeting and all Persons refusing be forthwith certified to the Iustices of the Peace and be secured as Enemies to the Peace of the Kingdom And this to be done with all speed and account given before the twentieth of February 2. That his Highnesse be moved That there be two Commissioners of each County to take the Musters of the Army and that the Treasurer give an account monthly to the Committees of each County of his disbursments 3. That there be strict continuall search for all Souldiers that have at any time been in Pay since these Warres in every Parish and that they be forthwith sent to recruit the Army and such as shall refuse that they be sent to the Provost-Marshall-Generall And that no Souldier depart from his Colours without licence according to His Majesties Proclamation and Articles and Offenders to be proceeded with according to their merits and that as many more be raised in each County as may recruite the Companies and that every Foot Company consist of one Hundred and every Troop of Horse and Dragooners of threescore And if any Foot Company have lesse then fifty and of Horse and Dragooners lesse then thirty then if such Company be not recruited to these last numbers or more within a month after the Muster the Officers pay to be detained and after that the Company paid and reduced and the same rule to be held for Pioners as for Foot Companies And herein his Highnesse directions are to be desired and that the Committees may be informed of the present number of the Army and what the present weekly Charge of it commeth to 4. That there be account taken of the Captaines and other Officers that have had any charge of Armes how the same have been disposed and that by warrant from the Commissioners there be a generall search for Armes through both Counties And that the Constables of each Parish repaire to every house within the same and take view of them and give in their account to the high Constables who are to bring it to the Commissioners That the weekly payments in both Counties be raised with all diligence and Arrears collected and accounted for untill Plymouth be reduced And that Committees be appointed in each County respectively to take the accounts of all Receivers of the weekly payments which are to be the same that take the Treasurers accounts 5. That the Commissioners of Devon as hath been done in Cornewall proceed against such as have failed to attend the Sheriffe upon warrant for the Posse Comitatûs and that the Fines may be imployed for the present supply of His Majesties Army with Armes and Ammunition for a present Magazine of Armes Ammunition and Tooles in each County wherein His Majesties Pleasure is to be desired 6. That there be an humble Remonstrance of the estate of both Counties to His Majesty and of the necessity that all Monyes comming of Delinquents Estates Fines and Compositions may be imployed to the use of the Army and Garrisons and payment of the Debts contracted for His Majesties Service and by His former Proclamations to be secured and that His Majesties Commissions may authorize that disposition and that the Delinquents Estates in both Counties be seized and disposed of by the Commissioners of each County to the same purpose respectively and no Commanders of the Army intermeddle with it without their Authority 7. That no Sequestration be made after Composition made and paid but by Order at the Generall Sessions of the Peace or other generall meeting of the Commissioners by common Consent there unlesse for new offences 8. That the Army be governed according to His Majesties Articles and that all Persons of what condition soever be held infamous and Enemies to the publique Peace that shall raise or cause any Mutinies or disobedience thereunto and suffer all severity according to His Majesties Articles 9. That all such Persons as have been or shall be slayne in the present Warre or dye in the service by whose life any other Person held any Lands or Rents the Party to whom the Right to grant such Land or Rent belongeth unto shall be bound to grant an Estate for a life instead of the Person so killed or dying under the Rents and Covenants as was formerly held unto such Person and Persons as was intitled to hold the same and at his nomination And the refusers to loose the double value of the Estate one halfe to His Majesty the other to the Party and to be imprisoned till payment 10. That if either or both Counties of Somerset and Dorset will enter into this Union and Association they shall be received with all chearfulnesse 11. That if any Minister shall refuse or wilfully neglect the solemne Celebration of the Fast appointed by His Majesty on the second Friday of the Moneth or shall not read the Service and Prayers appointed for that Fast and being called before a Iustice of Peace shall not promise and protest his future conformity he be forthwith secured and his Estate sequestred And the like course to be taken with such Ministers as absent themselves that day unlesse upon sicknesse or other cause allowed by two Commissioners or Iustices of Peace And the like order to be taken with such as shall not read such Bookes as shall be appointed to be read by His Majesty And the Constables and Church-wardens are to certifie their defaults to the next Iustices 12. That His Majesty be moved for a Confirmation of the present Vnion and Articles 13. That there be provided a Thousand Barrells of Powder and ten Thousand Fire-Armes at the charge of both Counties whereof Cornewall to be a Fourth and Devon three parts according to the proportion of the grand Subsidie 14. That the Army shall be recruited and encreased to the number of Eighteen Thousand Horse and Foot to be raised proportionably in both Counties 15. That His Highnesse be entreated that a Commission be granted to authorize an impresse of Souldiers for the present service 16. That on the first Wednesday of the next Month and every Month following the Committee now appoynted for Cornwall which are Sir Samuell Cosewarth Richard Prideaux Walter Langdon Nevill Bligh and Renatus Bellat Esquires and of Devon Arthur Basset Esquire William Tothill Iohn Mere Gilbert Pard and Thomas Mediford Esquires doe meet first at Exeter and continually