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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Die Lunae quinto Maii</HI> 1645.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD>At the Committee of Lords and Commons appointed by Ordinance the 28 of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, for &s;ecuring Eighty thou&s;and pounds, And for a further provi&s;ion for the rai&s;ing and maintaining of the Forces under the Command of Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX.</HEAD>
<P>_WHEREAS of the ten moneths A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments charged up|on &s;everall Counties of this Kingdome, by the Ordinance of the Fifteenth of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, for rai&s;ing and maintaining of the &s;aid Forces, Three whole Moneths A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements are become due, and ought to have been collected and paid to the Trea&s;urers at Warres at Guild|hall <HI>London,</HI> according to the &s;aid Ordinances; But through the negligence of the &s;everall A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, Head-collectors, Sub-collectors, and others that are tru&s;ted and imployed therein by the Parliament, mo&s;t of the Counties have not paid in any Money at all; And &s;uch Counties as have paid in any, the &s;ummes are &s;o in|con&s;iderable, as that the Army can thereby in no &s;ort bee &s;upplied; And unle&s;&s;e &s;ome &s;peedy and effectuall cour&s;e be taken for the Collecting of tho&s;e Moneys, and &s;uch other A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements as &s;hall incurre, manifold mi&s;chiefs will inevitably and &s;uddenly en&s;ue, to the exceeding great prejudice of the Common-wealth: It is therefore Ordered, that the Agents ap|pointed by the Parliament to &s;olicite the bringing in of tho&s;e Moneys, &s;hall forthwith repaire into the &s;everall Counties to them a&s;&s;igned, Who are hereby authorized to call before them, or any of them the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, Head-collectors, and Sub-collectors, appointed for the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing and collecting of the &s;aid A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements, and to take an accompt of them what they have collected and paid, and to whom, and what remaines in their hands, and what is, and &s;hall be from time to time in Arrears in the &s;everall Divi&s;ions of the Counties, and to cau&s;e &s;uch &s;ummes of Money as are now due, to be forthwith collected and paid to the Trea&s;urers at Warres at Guild-hall <HI>London;</HI> And what&s;oever per&s;on or per&s;ons the &s;aid Agents, or any of them, &s;hall finde in the &s;aid Counties to have neglected their duties in a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing, collecting, paying, di&s;trayning, or otherwi&s;e for the three Moneths pa&s;t, or &s;hall neglect their duty for the time to come, to take them into &s;afe cu&s;tody, and forthwith to bring, or to &s;end them to the Committee or Committees in the &s;everall Divi&s;ions of the Counties, or before this Committee, to be forthwith proceeded again&s;t, as the &s;aid Ordinances of Parliament direct, And the &s;aid Committee or Committees in the &s;everall Counties afore&s;aid are hereby de&s;ired, and required forthwith upon the complaints of the &s;aid Agents, or any of them, to proceed accordingly. And it is further Ordered, that all Ju&s;tices of Peace, High Con&s;tables, Con&s;tables, Captaines, and other Officers and Souldiers, or any of the Trained Bands of the &s;everall Counties, and all other his Maje&s;ties Subjects &s;hall be ayding, and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid Agents, or any of them, for the appre|hending and conducting of the &s;aid offendors to the afore&s;aid re&s;pective Committees. And it is la&s;tly ordered, That this &s;ervice which &s;o much concernes the Publique, may effectually be carried on, That in each of the Counties of <HI>E&s;&s;ex, Norfolke, Suffolke, Kent, Su&s;&s;ex London, Middle&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Surrey,</HI> there &s;hall be an Agent imployed to attend this &s;ervice, and one Agent for the Counties of <HI>Hartford</HI> and <HI>Bedford,</HI> and another for the County of <HI>Cambridge,</HI> with the I&s;le of <HI>Ely,</HI> and the Coun|ty of <HI>Huntington,</HI> Which &s;everall Agents are con&s;tantly to remaine in the Counties, and are every &s;ix dayes to returne an accompt of their proceedings herein unto this Committee, and likewi&s;e of the proceedings of the Committee or Committees in the &s;everall Counties in this Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; And this &s;hall be a &s;ufficient Warrant, not only to the &s;aid Agents, but likewi&s;e to the &s;aid Ju&s;tices of Peace, High Con&s;tables, Con&s;tables, Captaines, other Officers and Souldiers, and other his Maje&s;ties Sub|jects that &s;hall be imployed in the &s;ervice afore&s;aid.</P>
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<ITEM>Pembrooke &amp; Mountgom.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Salisbury.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Vi&s;. Say &amp; Seale.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wharton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arthur He&s;lerige.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Ma&s;ham.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Potts.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Evelyn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho. Hodges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Venn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Scawen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Valentine Wauton.</ITEM>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>12. Die Maii 1645.</DATE> At the Committee above mentioned.</DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered that <HI>M. Thomas Walker. M. Jeremiah Whitworth. M. Edward We&s;t.</HI> and <HI>M. John Walker.</HI> or any one of them, &s;hall have power to execute the Directions above mentioned As Agents employed by Order of the Hou&s;e of Commons.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Rob. Scawen.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>London Printed for ED. HUSBAND. 1645.</P>
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