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<HEAD>AN ORDINANCE OF The <HI>Lords</HI> and <HI>Commons</HI> a&s;&s;embled in Parliament,</HEAD>
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<P>Authorizing <HI>Robert</HI> Earl of <HI>Warwick</HI> Lord High Admiral of <HI>England,</HI> to execute Mar&s;hal-Law upon &s;uch Captains, Commanders, Officers, Mariners, Seamen and Soldiers as &s;hall not be &s;ubject to his Power and Authority.</P>
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<P>WHereas it is found that great inconveniences have en|&s;ued for want of a &s;trict and &s;evere Di&s;cipline to have been ob&s;erved in the Navy or Fleet &s;et forth by Au|thority of Parliament, under the Command of <HI>Robert</HI> Earl of <HI>Warwick</HI> Lord High Admiral of <HI>England;</HI> It is now Ordained and Declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament a&s;|&s;embled, That from henceforth the Captains, Commanders, Officers, Mariners, Seamen and Soldiers, and all other what|&s;oever thereunto belonging, under the Command of the &s;aid Lord High Admiral, &s;hall expect no further forbearance of &s;uch puni&s;hment as may be condignly inflicted upon them, according to the Civil Laws, Law-Mar&s;hal, and Cu&s;toms of the Sea, and according to &s;uch Laws and Ordinances as &s;hall by him the &s;aid Lord High Admiral and his Councel of VVar, by him put in Commi&s;sion under his Hand and Seal, be concluded and agreed upon, but &s;hall therein be &s;ubject to his and their Power and Authority, to be puni&s;hed by Death, or otherwi&s;e according to their demerits, and as &s;hall be due unto them by the &s;aid Laws and Ordinances.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>21 Augu&s;ti, 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That this Ordinance be forth|with printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Edward Husband,</HI> Printer to the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons, <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 22. 1648.</P>
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