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B01253	Orders appointed by His most excellent Maiestie, and signified by speciall letters from the right honourable the lords of his most honourable Priuie Counsell, which all persons within this county, of what degree or qualitie soeuer, are straitly commanded to obserue.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I).	1626 (1626)	STC 8845; ESTC S122695	4,072	1

❧ Orders appointed by His most Excellent Maiestie and signified by speciall Letters from the Right Honourable the Lords of His most Honourable Priuie Counsell which all persons within this County of what degree or qualitie soeuer are straitly commanded to obserue 1. FOrasmuch as the Sergeants who were sent by His Maiestie into this County for the Exercising and Instructing of the trayned Souldiers here have done much good yet not so much as His Maiestie may iustly expect from so exact Rules and Directions as were giuen a great cause whereof hath beene for that as well diuers who stand charged with finding of Armes haue of late dayes beene negligent to send their Souldiers and Armes to the vsuall places of Traynings as also the Souldiers when they were there haue gone away as soone as they were called before they haue been exercised and haue come thither without Powder and Match It is now therefore straitly required That from henceforwards no man whatsoeuer that findes either Horse or Foote presume to faile in sending such Horsemen Powder and Armes which hee is charged to send to the vsuall places of Musters and that no Souldier presume to depart from his Coulours vntill hee shall bee discharged by his Captaine And that no man charged with either Horse or Foote doe presume to borrow either Horse or Armes but that he haue the same alwayes by him to bee ready at an houres warning vpon paine of seuere punishment if the same bee discouered 2. VVHereas His Maiestie hath a speciall care that both Captaines Officers and Souldiers bee not onely able and sufficient men but also well affected in Religion and hath therefore giuen expresse Commandement that aswell the Officers as Souldiers be not onely able and sufficient men but also well affected in Religion to which purpose His Maiestie hath commanded that aswell the Officers as Souldiers take the Oathe of Allegiance That they therefore take notice hereof and faile not to bee present at the time of Traynings when they are to take the sayd Oath lest a Certificate being made to the Lords of the Counsell of their defaults there be a suspicion conceiued of their disaffection in Religion by reason of their absence at such Time as they should take the sayd Oathes 3. VVHereas at the first comming of the Sergeants into the Countrey there was special order giuen that out of euery hundred men there should be two chosen to be Sergeants Corporals who should be taught and instructed to exercise the other Souldiers That they who are so chosen accordingly doe at such times as there are no publike Trainings and when they haue best leisure repaire to the Sergeants who are come out of the Low-Countreys to that purpose to be instructed by them in the duetie of their places and that as well they as all other Officers be very carefull to enable themselues to exercise their Companies when the Sergeants be gone out of the Countrey 4. FOrasmuch as His Maiestie hath taken speciall notice that a chiefe cause of the insufficiencie of the trained Bands of this Kingdome proceedes from the changing of hatch therefore giuen commandement that no Souldier enrolled remooue his dwelling out of the Towne or Parish of his abode without Licence obtained of the Deputie Lieutenant of that Diuision to the end that in case he shall bee licensed to depart that then the Company may be againe made vp and compleat both for Number Persons of actiue and able bodies and men practised in their Armes It is therefore straitly commanded That all the Souldiers take notice thereof and be carefull in obeying this His Maiesties Command 5. FOrasmuch as there are at this present great preparations both in Spaine and Flanders as well for Land as Sea-forces and that it is most apparant that the Enemies of his Maiesties Peace haue some Designes vpon his Highnesse Kingdomes and therefore it is fit that euery man bee in a readinesse vpon any sudden alarme That therefore euery Horse man haue alwayes by him in a readin●sse a pound of Powder and foure and twentie Bullets And euery Musquetiere his Bandeliers full of Powder foure and twentie Bullets and sixe yards of Match to serue vpon any sudden Alarme vntill the Magazin of the Countie may bee brought vnto them It is therefore commanded that euery Souldier haue in a readinesse by him a Snap-sacke to carry his Victuals in And the said Powder Match Bullets and Snap-sacke to bee presently prouided and daily renewed as occasion serues at the charge of the Townes or priuatemen that are charged with the said Armes And for that the Pistols and Harquebusses for Horse men and the Musquets for Foot men are many of them of seuerall Bores so that the Magazins of the Countrey cannot possibly serue them all That therefore euery man who findes any such Armes haue by him a Melting ladle a payre of Moulds fit for his Pistoll Harquebusse or Musquet according as hee finds the same 6. THat euery Officer and Souldier bee alwayes in a readinesse at an houres warning with his Armes and prouisions as aforesaid to repaire to his Colours at such place of Rendeuous as shall by his Captaine bee appoynted 7. THat such Beacons as are in any sort decayed be forthwith made vp and repayred and that there bee prouision of Wood laid by them for the maintaining and renewing of them and that they bee diligently watched by discreet and sufficient men 8. VVHereas His Maiestic hath giuen expresse commandement That there be sufficient prouision of Carriages in readinesse for the conueying of Munition Victuals Baggage c. to such Rendeuous as the Forces of this Countie shall be assigned vnto And that to euery thousand Souldiers there be allotted one hundred Pioners to be prouided with Spades Pick●xes Shouels H●tchets Bills and the like And that there bee Carts and Carriages and a conuenient number of Nagge 's appoynted to mount Shot on vppon any sudden And that there be Postes appointed in seuerall parts of this Countie to be sent with directions from place to place That therefore the high Constables within their seuerall Hundreds doe presently warne foure sufficient Carts and twentie Naggs to euery Company of two hundred men within some of those Townes where the said two hundred men are charged to bee always in readinesse to repaire at an houres warning to such Rendeuous as the Captaine within that Diuision shall appoint his Souldiers to repaire vnto letting the Owners of the said Carts and Horses know that there is no intention to lay any charge vpon them but that they shall be fully and reasonably satisfied for any seruice they shall performe therein And that euery high Constable doe deliuer a Note in writing both to the Deputie Lieutenants neere adioyning and to the Captaine of that Diuision as well of the names of the men whom he hath warned to haue the said C●●ts and Naggs at all times in a readinesse as in what Parishes they dwell And that all the