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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>22. <HI>Febr.</HI> 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD>AN ORDINANCE OF THE <HI>LORDS</HI> and <HI>COMMONS</HI> A&s;&s;embled in Parliament;
Commanding all Officers and Souldiers, upon pain of Death, to repair to their Colours within Eight and forty hours after notice of this Ordinance.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is this Day Ordered by the Lords and Commons in this pre&s;ent Parliament a&s;&s;embled, That all Officers and Souldiers (other then &s;uch as &s;hall have leave or Licen&s;e, from the Lord-Generall, or other Commander in chief, &s;hall and do within Eight and forty hours after notice of this Ordinance) upon pain of Death repair to their &s;everall Colours: And all Officers are hereby injoyned to take &s;peciall care to keep their Souldiers together, as they will an&s;wer the contrary at their extreame&s;t perill. And for the more &s;peedy and effectuall execution of this Ordinance, It is further Ordained, That the &s;everall Committees of the &s;everall and re&s;pective Counties, Cities and places, &s;hall immediatly upon receipt hereof, cau&s;e the &s;ame to be pub|li&s;hed, in every Market-Town and Pari&s;h-Church within their re&s;pective Limits. And it is further Ordained by the Authority afore&s;aid, That the Committees and Deputy-Lieutenants of the &s;everall Counties afore&s;aid, or any one of them &s;hall apprehend every Souldier, who after publication hereof &s;hall not repair to their Colours, according to this Ordinance, and commit them to pri&s;on, and with all convenient &s;peed take order, that every per&s;on &s;o committed, may bee &s;ent to his Commander in chief, To the intent they may be proceeded again&s;t ac|cording to the cour&s;e of War: And every per&s;on, that after publication of this Ordinance, &s;hall willingly harbour or entertain any Officer or Souldier, that hath or &s;hall depart from his Colours (without the Pa&s;&s;e of his &s;uperior-Officer) &s;hall, for every Day that he &s;hall &s;o harbour or entertain, forfeit the Sum of Ten Shillings, to be leavyed by the Warrant of the &s;aid Committees, or any two of them, by Di&s;tre&s;&s;e and Sale of the Offenders Goods; And the Committees are hereby required and injoyned to leavie the &s;aid Fines accordingly.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>22. <HI>Febr.</HI> 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered, That Colonell <HI>Manwaring</HI> be required to cau&s;e this Ordinance to be publi&s;hed by &s;ound of Drum and Trumpet in <HI>London,</HI> and Lines of Com|munication: And tho&s;e Committees and other per&s;ons to whom it doth appertain without the Line, are al&s;o required to publi&s;h the &s;ame in their &s;everall Counties, Towns and Pari&s;hes where any Souldiers are, by like beat of Drum, and Trumpet.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Edw: Husbands.</HI> 1644.</P>
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