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A83109	An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament; for putting the associated counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Huntington, Hertford, Cambridge, Lincoln, the Isle of Ely, and the cities of Lincoln and Norwich into a posture of defence; by the better regulating of the trained bands, and raising other forces of horse and foot, for the preservation and safety of the said counties and cities. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Elsyng, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1644 (1644)	Wing E1903; Thomason E53_23; ESTC R22997	4,725	15

upon such Horse or in such Arms he or they so refusing or neglecting shall by the said Deputy Lieutenants or any three or more of them be Fined not exceeding the sum of Forty shillings and Imprisoned untill the said Fine be paid And the person or persons so refusing have conformed themselves unto the said Service And it is Ordained That the Lord Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenants or any three or more of them or the standing Committee of the severall and respective Associated Counties may Imprison all such as shall be mutinous or Disturbers of the Peace and may Fine them not exceeding the sum of Five pounds And that it shall be lawfull for the said Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants or any of them to draw together the Troops and Companies which are to be raised by vertue of this Ordinance or any part of them and with the consent of the Major part of any of the said Troops and Companies to Conduct and leade by themselves or by such as they or any three or more of them shall appoint into any of the said Associated Counties and with them to Oppose Resist Kill and Slay all such as in any Hostile manner declare themselves as Enemies to the King Parliament and Kingdom And that it shall and may be lawfull for the said Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants or any one of them in their severall and respective Counties to charge Carts Carriages and Horses for the necessary Service of the Parliament allowing for every Cart with Five Horses after the rate of Twelve pence per Mile outward onely and so rateably for more or fewer Horses and for every single Horse after the rate of Two pence per Mile outwards onely And in case any shall refuse upon reasonable notice to provide their Carts Carriages or Horses to be made use of for the Service aforesaid It shall be lawfull for the laid Deputy Lieutenants or any one of them to Imprison the Owners of the said Carts Carriages or Horses or to Impose a Fine upon them not exceeding the sum of Ten pounds And be it Ordained That the petty Constables Overseers of the Poor of the severall Parishes within the said respective Counties and such other persons as shall be nominated by the Deputy Lieutenants of the said Counties or any two of them shall be the Collectors of all sums of Money as shall by vertue of this Ordinance be Imposed or set upon any person ●r persons within their said Parishes and for their pains they shall be allowed Two pence in the pound for all Monies so by them Collected and leavyed which said sums of Money so to be set and Collected as aforesaid shall be paid to the high Constables of the severall Hundreds within the said respective Counties and in Corporations to the Major or other head Officer of the said Corporations who also shall have Two pence in the pound allowed unto them for their pains of making out their Warrants and receiving and paying over the said Moneys to such Treasurer or Treasurers as shall be appointed in the severall Divisions by the Deputy Lieutenants of the severall and respective Counties or any two or more of them who are to issue forth the same for the use and service of the severall and respective Counties by the Vote of the Major part of the respective Deputy Lieutenants present or any three of them present and by their order in pursuance thereof under their hands and not otherwise And the said Treasurers art hereby required to keep a perfect Accompt of all such Moneys as they shall receive and pay by vertue of this Ordinance and to deliver Copies of their said Accompts unto the standing Committee of their said severall and respective Counties and the said Treasurers for their charge and pains shal likewise be allowed Two pence in the pound for all such sums of Money as they shall receive and issue forth by Authority as aforesaid And if any person or persons chargeable by this Ordinance shall not within Six dayes after demand or notice to be left at their dwelling house or usuall place of abode pay the sum or sums on him or them assessed or set as aforesaid It shal be lawfull for the said Collectors any one or more of them to leavie the sum by way of Distresse and sale of the Goods ofg the person persons so assessed or fined And in case of Resistance to call to their assistance any of the Trained Bands or Companies of Voluntiers or other forces of the said respective Counties who are hereby required to be aiding and assisting to the said Constables or other Collectors in the Premises as they will answer the contrary And if any person or persons which shall be assessed or fined as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to pay either their Assessment or Fine to the Constables or other Collectors appointed within Twelve dayes after it shall be demanded The Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants or any two or more of them upon return of the Names of such who shall so refuse or neglect shall charge the said person or persons with double as much as he or they were assessed or fined And if the said persons shall refuse or neglect to pay the said sum so doubled within Twelve dayes after it shall be demanded That it shall be lawfull for the said Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants of the said respective Counties or any two or more of them to commit the person or persons so refusing or neglecting to Prison And in case the said Treasurers high Constables petty Constables Overseers of the Poor or other Collectors to be nominated as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to leavie and receive the sums of Money to be assessed and set by vertue of this Ordinance It shall be lawfull for the said Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants or any two or more of them of the severall and respective Counties to fine the said Treasurers high Constables and Collectors not exceeding the sum of twenty pounds to be leavyed upon them by way of Distresse and sale of their Goods and by such person or persons as shall be appointed by the said Deputy Lieutenants or any two or more of them Provided alwayes That the Forces to be raised by vertue of this Ordinance shall not be carryed out of the said severall and respective Counties wherein they are or shall be raised otherwise then as before in this Ordinance is declared without the consent of the said Lord Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants and Committees of the severall and respective Counties or the greater part of them FINIS

AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT For putting the Associated Counties OF Suffolk Norfolk Essex Huntington Hertford Cambridge Lincoln The Isle of Ely and the Cities of Lincoln and Norwich into a Posture of Defence By the better Regulating of the Trained Bands and Raising other Forces of Horse and Foot for the preservation and safety of the said Counties and Cities ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament that this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published Henry Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. London Printed for Edward Husbands and are to be sold at his shop in the Middle-Temple Iuly 5. 1644. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for putting the Associated Counties of Suffolk Norfolk Essex Hantington Hertford Cambridge Lincoln the Isle of Ely and the Cities of Lincoln and Norwich into a Posture of Defence by the better regulating of the Trained-Bands and raising other Forces of Horse and Foot for the preservation and safety of the said Counties and Cities THe Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament taking into their serious consideration the sad and manifold Oppressions and Miseries that now do threaten the utter Ruine and Desolation of this Kingdom in generall and the Counties of Norfolk Suffolk Essex Cambridge Hertford Lincoln Huntington The Cities of Norwich Lincoln and Counties of the same and the Isle of Ely in particular And how necessary a thing it is that all men well-affected having any bowells of compassion towards their afflicted Country should in these times of Imminent danger put themselves into a Posture of Defence by raising of Forces both of Horse and Foot for the defence and safety of the said Associated Counties and Cities from the Invasion and Fury of the Irish Rebells Popish and ill-affected persons who seek the Ruine and Destruction of the whole Kingdom in generall and the said Associated Counties in particular Be it Ordained and Declared by the Lords and Cōmons assembled in Parliament and by the Authority of the same That for the intents and purposes before mentioned the said Associated Counties and Cities shall forthwith be put into a Posture of Defence and shall raise Forces of Horse and Foot for the defence of the said Association And that the Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants of the said severall and respective Counties and Cities or any two or more of them shall forthwith after notice or receipt of this Ordinance issue out their Warrants to the Constables and Overseers of th●●●●erall Parishes or to any two or mo●● 〈◊〉 the most able and fitting persons of the parishes within every respective Hundred or Division thereby requiring them at certain times and places prefixt to deliver unto them a List or Schedule of the Names of all persons within their severall and respective Parishes from the Age of Sixteen to Sixty being of ability of body and of all other persons whatsoever worth an Hundred pounds or more in Lands or Goods And of all Horses and Mares above four yeers of Age and the Names of the Owners And of all Arms Guns and other usefull Weapons for the War with the Names of the Owners of them Except such Horses Men and Arms as are now or shall be hereafter Listed in the Trained-Bands and Trained Troops And that the said Lord Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants or any two or more of them shall hereby have power to charge the said parties with Horse and Arms so as no person be charged with a Harquebushier or light-Horse ●●●●sse he hath One hundred pounds p●●●nnum in Lands or be worth One thousand two hundred pounds in Goods and Lands nor with a Dragoon unlesse he be worth four hundred pounds in Goods or forty pounds per annum in Lands nor with a foot Arms unlesse he be worth one hundred pounds in Goods or Ten pounds per annum in Lands And be it further Ordained That all persons well-affected being charged and listed to serve as aforesaid or the Major part of them shall within their severall and respective Divisions forthwith and so from time to time as cause shall be propound and nominate all Colonells Lieutenant Colonells Sergeant Majors and Captains over them being men of ability and men well-affected which said Officers being approved and allowed of by the Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants or any three or more of them within their respective Counties and Cities shall have Commissions accordingly And be it further Ordained That all and every person or persons whatsoever which shall by vertue of this Ordinance be charged to provide Horse or Arms as aforesaid shall every Moneth after they are so charged pay to the Treasurers appointed by the Deputy Lieutenants or any two of them for the severall and respective Counties the severall Sums of Money following viz. Every Horse Twelve pence every Foot Six pence towards the providing of Trumpets Drums Colours and other charges incident to the said Service Provided alwayes that this extraordinary charge and imposition of Arms do not continue any longer then during these times of imminent danger and that it shall be no President for the future Provided also that no Member of either House of Parliament nor their Meniall Servants nor any of the Assistants of either of the said Houses be charged by this Ordinance but that it be left to his or their good affection what they will do in this Service Provided also that if any person or persons whatsoever shal be overcharged by the said Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants or any two of them of the respective Counties or Cities that then the said Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants or any three or more of them of the respective Counties or Cities shall hereby have power to ease such person or persons overcharged as in their Discretions they shall think fit And if any Officers or Souldiers of the Trained Bands or Troops have heretofore since the First of August in the yeer of our LORD One thousand Six hundred forty three refused or neglected or if they or any other Forces of Horse or Foot to be raised at any time hereafter shall refuse or neglect upon Summons according to this or other Ordinance of Parliament to attend their charges and duties in their severall and respective places or to appear with their Horse and Arms or to send some other Man with such Horse or Arms as they are or shall be charged withall Every such Defaulter for every such offence shall be Fined by the said Lord Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants or any two or more of them not exceeding the sum of Twenty pounds And if any person or persons in the said severall and respective Counties who by a former Ordinance of Parliament may be Impressed have been or are hereafter shall be charged by the said Lord Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants or any two of them to serve in the Arms of any person or persons charged as aforesaid to finde Arms or Horse do or shall refuse or neglect to appear at Musters or to serve