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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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THE TRVE COPPY OF A LETTER SENT BY M^r SPEAKER <HI>To the Sheriffes of &s;everall Counties.</HI>
NAMELY: Worce&s;ter, Cambridge, Huntington, Lece&s;ter, North-hampton, Warwick, AND Rutland.
Which have not as yet paid in the Poll-Money.
With the Copy of an Order &s;ent from the LORDS and COMMONS now a&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT to the&s;e &s;everall Counties before-na|med, for the &s;peedy tran&s;portation of that Money to York for disbanding of his Maje&s;ties Army.
<HI>And they that are found faulty, &s;hall incurre both the ill-opinion and &s;evere puni&s;hment of both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 24. 1641.</P>
<P>Printed in the Yeare, <HI>MDCXLI.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A LETTER SENT FROM M^r SPEAKER TO THE <HI>SHERIFFES</HI> OF SEVERALL COUNTIES, <HI>By the Command of the</HI> HOUSE <HI>of</HI> COMMONS.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons</HI> did hope that in &s;o great a time, and &s;o vi&s;ible a Nece&s;&s;ity of pre&s;ent money, no pri|vate per&s;on, much le&s;&s;e any publique Of|ficers, would have bin &s;o &s;low, incontributing their a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the Poll-money, but by the not comming in of this, from the &s;low and &s;len|der comming of it, from others; together with more particular Informations; Wee are forced to
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beleeve, that both Payers, A&s;&s;e&s;&s;orts, Collecters, and Returners, are in fault concerning it.</P>
<P>I am therefore commanded, to let you know from the Hou&s;e, that as you tender your own, or the publique good, you make all po&s;&s;ible ha&s;te in retur|ning &s;uch moneyes as you have ready, and that you make knowne to the Commi&s;&s;ioners, that (if wee be not by them prevented) the Hou&s;e intends to make a Revenue of the A&s;&s;e&s;ments, to the end, that where|in the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors either through partiality; &s;hould be found either to have left any uncharged, whom the Act chargeth, or to have charged any lower then they are charged by the Act: tho&s;e that &s;hould be found faulty, may incurre both the ill opinion, and &s;evere puni&s;hment of <HI>Parliament,</HI> as Contemners of the greate&s;t Authority, in a time of greate&s;t nece&s;&s;i|ty; and by that Contempt, being cau&s;es of the Ar|myes le&s;&s;e &s;peedy disbanding, to the danger as well as the un&s;upportable, and unnece&s;&s;ary Expence of this Kingdome.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>AUGUST <HI>the</HI> 24. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>Augu&s;t the</HI> 24. 1641.</HEAD>
<HEAD>AN ORDER OF The Lords and Commons in Parliament, concerning the more &s;peedy Tran&s;portation of the <HI>Poll-money</HI> to <HI>Yorke,</HI> for disbanding of His Maje&s;ties Army.</HEAD>
<P>WHEREAS it is enacted, that the Sheriffes of the Counties, and Cities hereafter named, &s;hall a|mong&s;t others, pay &s;uch &s;ummes of Money, as they &s;hall receive for <HI>Poll-money,</HI> to the Trea&s;urer, in the Act named in the Chamberlaines Office, within the City of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>Now fora&s;much, as their long delay, and &s;low payment is very burthen&s;ome and dangerous to the Kingdome; becau&s;e the Kings Army in the North,
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by this meanes remaines undisbanded, to the in&s;up|portable charge of the <HI>Common-wealth.</HI></P>
<P>For the more &s;peedy reliefe of the <HI>Kingdome,</HI> the LORDS and COMMONS in this Parliament a&s;&s;embled, doe hereby order and ordaine, that the &s;everall Sheriffes of <HI>VVorce&s;ter, Cambridge, Hunting|ton, Liece&s;ter, North-hampton, Rutland, VVarwicke,</HI> and of the Cities that are Counties within tho&s;e Countries, and every of them re&s;pectively: &s;hall forthwith upon notice of this Order, &s;end &s;uch Mo|neyes now in their hands, or &s;hall come to his hand, or any of their hands re&s;pectively, or to the hands of his under Sheriffe or Deputy, or to the hands of any of their under Sheriffes, or Deputies, re&s;pective|ly under a &s;ufficient Guard and Convoy to the City of <HI>Yorke,</HI> to pay the &s;ame to Sir <HI>VVilliam Vindall,</HI> Knight, <HI>Trea&s;urer of his Maje&s;ties Army,</HI> now thee re&s;iding, taking his Acquittance for the &s;ame: which Acquittance the &s;aid &s;everall Sheriffes re&s;pectively &s;hall &s;end to the Chamber of <HI>London;</HI> and that the &s;aid <HI>Trea&s;urer</HI> in the Act named, &s;hall accept of the &s;ame, as if &s;o much Money were paid in the &s;pecie, and &s;hall deliver an Acquittance or Acquit|tances &s;or the &s;ame, which &s;hall be as &s;ufficient a di&s;charge to the &s;aid &s;everall Sheriffes, as if the Mo|ney had bin paid there.</P>
<P>And the &s;aid <HI>Trea&s;urer</HI> of the Army, is hereby required, that he &s;hall as &s;peedily as he may, after the receit of any &s;uch &s;ummes from any of the She|riffes afore-mentioned, &s;end up to the &s;aid <HI>Trea&s;urer</HI> of the <HI>Chamberlain of London,</HI> pre&s;ent and di&s;tinct <HI>Certificates</HI> of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>It is further ordered, that the &s;everall Sheriffes of the <HI>Counties</HI> through which the&s;e Moneyes doe
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pa&s;&s;e, &s;hall provide a &s;ufficient Convoy to guard the &s;ame through the &s;everall Counties: and that the Sheriffes under who&s;e charge the money is, &s;hal have allowance for Tran&s;portation thereof in their &s;everall Accounts.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, it is ordered, that a &s;trict Account be ta|ken of the proceedings of the &s;everall <HI>Sheriffes;</HI> As al&s;o, the <HI>Trea&s;urer</HI> of his Maje&s;ties Army, and of the <HI>Trea&s;urer</HI> appointed by the Act, and of their obe|dience, and conformity to this Order: and if any &s;hall fai&s;e therein, it &s;hall be interpreted as a great neglect of the &s;afety of the <HI>Kingdome,</HI> and contempt of both Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament;</HI> for which they &s;hall be called to an&s;wer, and make &s;ati&s;faction a&s;well for their offence, as for &s;uch dammage as the <HI>Common-wealth</HI> hath under-gone by their default.</P>
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