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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>HIS MAIESTIES LATE COMMISSION OF ARRAY For the County of Middle&s;ex; more e&s;pecially for the Cities of LONDON and WESTMINSTER.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed to the world for the &s;atisfacti|on of all good people again&s;t the fal&s;hood of the Rebels, who impudently call this Commi&s;&s;ion a <HI>horrid Plot,</HI> and <HI>hor|rible Trea&s;on.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Printed in the Yeare</HI> M.DC.XLIII.</P>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties late Commi&s;sion of <HI>Array</HI> for the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex;</HI> more e&s;pecially for the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_CHARLES By the Grace of God, &amp;c. To Our Tru&s;ty and Welbeloved <HI>A. B.</HI> &amp;c. and to all &s;uch other per|&s;on and per&s;ons, as according to the true intent and purpo&s;e of the&s;e pre|&s;ents, &s;hall be nominated and appointed to be Ge|nerall, Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, Sergeants Majors, and other Officers of Our Councell of Warre, Greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Whereas in Our Citie of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Westmin&s;ter,</HI> and Suburbs thereof, our Burrough of <HI>South warke,</HI> and County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> there are rai&s;ed and con|tinued great numbers of Military Forces, both Hor&s;e and Foot, who under the command of <HI>Robert</HI> Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> as their Generall, and under the conduct of divers others, pretending to derive their Authority from the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, have trayte|rou&s;ly
<PB N="2" REF="3">levied Warre and rebelled again&s;t Vs their naturall Leige Lord; and many of Our Subjects have beene &s;educed by fal&s;e informations, by the practice of a few, who have been the Contrivers of the&s;e mi&s;chievous plots, and have joyned with them, either in per&s;on, or by aiding them with Men, Money, Hor&s;es, or other things, and many of Our good and loyall Subjects over-awed by the power of the Rebels, have beene inforced to contribute to them for the maintenance of this unnaturall Warre, and others refu&s;ing have beene plundered and rob|bed of their e&s;tates, and &s;ome committed to &s;everall Pri&s;ons, and there barbarou&s;ly u&s;ed, contrary to the liberty of free-borne men, the Lawes of the Land, and contrary to all humanity; of all which injuries and calamities falling upon Our good Subjects We are very &s;en&s;ible, and are de&s;irous to give reliefe to Our good Subjects by all the be&s;t meanes we can, and to re&s;i&s;t the violence and in&s;olency of the&s;e Re|bels and their adherents; We having no other end therein, but to pre&s;erve the true Prote&s;tant Religion in the purity and integrity thereof, to maintaine the Lawes of the Land, and the liberty of their per&s;ons, and property of the e&s;tates of Our Subjects, and the ju&s;t Priviledges of Parliament. We have thought it fit for Our better &s;ervice to &s;ettle a Councell of War in or about Our &s;aid Citie of <HI>London,</HI> which may
<PB N="3" REF="3">take the&s;e things into their &s;ad con&s;iderations, which may conduce be&s;t to this end, and to have &s;uch Commanders and Officers &s;ettled in the place a|fore-&s;aid, which may both rai&s;e, governe, and lead &s;uch Forces as may be rai&s;ed there. Know yee therefore, that We repo&s;ing &s;peciall tru&s;t and confi|dence in your fidelities, indu&s;tries, and good di&s;cre|tions, have made choice of, nominated and appoin|ted you to be Our Councell of Warre for the &s;aid Citie of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>VVe&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and Suburbs there|of, Our &s;aid County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> and Burrough of <HI>Southwarke;</HI> and doe hereby give and grant Power and Authority to you, or any foure of you, to make choice of &s;uch other able and di&s;creet per&s;ons as you &s;hall thinke fit, and nominate under the hands and Seales of the greater number of you, which with your &s;elves &s;hall make up in all the number of 21. and no more: and We doe give and grant unto you, or any foure of you, Power and Authority, at &s;uch times and &s;uch places as you &s;hall thinke con|venient, to a&s;&s;emble and meet together, and there to con&s;ult, advi&s;e, and re&s;olve of all &s;uch things, and of &s;uch wayes and meanes, as you, or any foure of you &s;hall thinke fitte&s;t, for the rai&s;ing of Forces, both Hor&s;e and Foot, either of the Inhabitants of the &s;aid Cities, County, and Burrough, or of any the adja|cent
<PB N="4" REF="4">Counties or other place, who will voluntarily a&s;&s;ociate them&s;elves to that purpo&s;e; and tho&s;e For|ces to arme, mu&s;ter, conduct, order, leade, and go|vern in the places afore-&s;aid, or in any other County adjacent, of el&s;ewhere, in &s;uch manner as yee by your &s;elves, or by &s;uch other able and fit per&s;ons as you or any foure of you &s;hall to that purpo&s;e ap|point, according to the&s;e pre&s;ents. And the better to effect this Our &s;ervice, We doe further give and grant unto you, or any foure of you, Power and Authority under your hands and Seales, to make choyce of, and appoint &s;uch a fit per&s;on as you &s;hall thinke meet, to be Captaine Generall of all tho&s;e Forces thus to be rai&s;ed, and &s;uch other per&s;ons as you or any foure of you &s;hall in like manner make choice of, and appoint to be Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, and Sergeant Majors over tho&s;e Forces in &s;uch manner, and in &s;uch places as yee &s;hall &s;o ap|point; who by vertue thereof, and by vertue of the&s;e pre&s;ents, &s;hall have Power and Authority to doe, execute, and performe all tho&s;e things, which to the&s;e &s;everall Offices and Imployments according to the Law Mar&s;hall doe belong. And We doe fur|ther promi&s;e and grant, that with all convenient &s;peed after we &s;hall have notice from you, or any foure of you, under your hands or Seales, of your
<PB N="5" REF="4">nomination of any per&s;ons to tho&s;e &s;everall places, We &s;hall grant and confirme unto them and every of them re&s;pectively tho&s;e &s;everall places to which you have &s;o nominated them as afore-&s;aid, under Our Great Seale of <HI>England,</HI> or otherwi&s;e as &s;hall be rea&s;onably advi&s;ed and required of Vs. And Wee do further by the&s;e pre&s;ents give and grant unto you full Power and Authority by all &s;uch good wayes and meanes as you or any foure of you &s;hall under your hands agree upon, to rai&s;e money for the clo|thing, arming, furni&s;hing, and paying of all &s;uch Souldiers, as &s;hall be thus rai&s;ed, and for the provi|ding of all Ammunition and other nece&s;&s;aries for the Warre; all which money upon a ju&s;t account We do for Vs, Our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors, promi&s;e, grant, and agree well and truly to repay, &s;o &s;oone as we &s;hall be enabled thereunto: and in the meane time to &s;ecure the &s;ame to tho&s;e who for our &s;ervice, and by your mediation and indu&s;try &s;hall lend or disbur&s;e the &s;ame. And We do further by the&s;e pre|&s;ents grant, that &s;uch Generall, Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, and other Officers &s;o by you nominated as afore-&s;aid, &s;hall have full Power and Authority by virtue of the&s;e pre&s;ents, to leade and order the Soul|diers &s;everally under their charge, and with them to fight again&s;t Our Enemies and Rebels, and them
<PB N="6" REF="5" MS="y">to &s;lay and de&s;troy; or them to &s;ave according to the Law Martiall, or cour&s;e of Warre: for the do|ing of all which this &s;hall be to you and them and every of them a &s;ufficient Warrant. Willing and requiring, &amp;c.</P>
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<P>This is a true Copie of the Commi&s;sion it &s;elfe, which His <HI>Maje&s;tie</HI> &s;ent up to <HI>London,</HI> whereby all good peo|ple may perceive what bottomle&s;&s;e &s;landers the Authors of this Rebellion rai&s;e to &s;educe His Maje&s;ties Subjects into perjury, by taking this new <HI>Oath</HI> and <HI>Covenant,</HI> which is expre&s;ly again&s;t the Law of God, and their Oath of Allegiance.</P>
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<Q>Feare God, obey the King.</Q>
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