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<P>AN ORDINANCE OF THE Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT, For the maintaining of the Forces of the &s;even a&s;&s;ociated Counties un|der the Command of EDWARD Earl of MANCHESTER.</P>
<P>By a Weekly payment upon the &s;aid a&s;&s;ociated Coun|ties; to begin the fir&s;t day of September, and to continue for foure Moneths next en&s;uing.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Septemb. 26. 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Commons in Parliament, That this Ordinance be forthwith printed &amp; publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>LONDON: Printed for <HI>Edward Husbands.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="Parliamentary ordinance">
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>26 September, 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas the Counties of <HI>Norfolk, Suffolk, E&s;&s;ex, Lincoln,</HI> and other Counties with them A&s;&s;ociated, out of their loyall re&s;pect to His Maje&s;tie, their pious di&s;po&s;ition to the peace and happine&s;&s;e of this Kingdome; in obedi|ence to the Orders of Parliament, have rai|&s;ed and maintained to the number of Four|teen thou&s;and Hor&s;e, Foot, and Dragoones, or thereabouts, and with them have done many great &s;ervices again&s;t the Common Enemie, tending much to the &s;afetie of the Kingdome; And have al&s;o bought many Armes and Ammunition, and mu&s;t buy more, whereby to furni&s;h them&s;elves with a traine of Artillerie; and have been, and mu&s;t be at great charges in maintaining and recruiting the &s;aid Forces, and in kee|ping &s;everall Garri&s;ons, making and ere|cting of Fortifications, Magazines, Courts of Guards, and other things requi&s;ite and nece&s;&s;ary for the defence and &s;afetie of the &s;aid a&s;&s;ociation again&s;t the incur&s;ions of the Enemie: By all which meanes the &s;aid A&s;|&s;ociation is become much indebted, and without the &s;peedy rai&s;ing of large and con|&s;iderable
<PB N="3" REF="2"> &s;ums of money proportionable to their va&s;t expences, cannot long &s;ub&s;i&s;t in a condition to keep them&s;elves from ruine, and to advance the publique &s;afetie. It is thereupon Ordained by the Lords &amp; Com|mons in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, and by au|thoritie of the &s;ame, That for the intents &amp; purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, the &s;everall weekly &s;ums of money hereafter in this Ordinance men|tioned, &s;hall be charged, rated, taxed and le|vied upon the &s;everall Counties, according to the proportions herein expre&s;&s;ed; The &s;ame to be paid in weekly to the &s;everall Col|lectors, &amp; by them to the Trea&s;urer or Trea|&s;urers appointed by this Ordinance for the receiving hereof. That is to &s;ay,</P>
<P>Vpon the County of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> the weekly &s;um of one thou&s;and &s;ixe hundred eighty &s;even pounds ten &s;hillings.</P>
<P>Vpon the County of <HI>Suffolk,</HI> the weekly &s;um of one thou&s;and eight hundred &s;eventy five pounds.</P>
<P>Vpon the County of <HI>Norfolk</HI> and City of <HI>Norwich,</HI> the weekly &s;um of one thou&s;and eight hundred &s;eventy five pounds.</P>
<P>Vpon the County of <HI>Hertford,</HI> the weekly &s;um of &s;ixe hundred &s;eventy five pounds.</P>
<P>Vpon the County of <HI>Cambridge,</HI> the week|ly
<PB N="4" REF="3"> &s;um of five hundred &s;ixty two pounds ten &s;hillings.</P>
<P>Vpon the County of <HI>Huntington,</HI> the week|ly &s;um of three hundred and thirty pounds.</P>
<P>Vpon the County of <HI>Lincolne</HI> and City of <HI>Lincoln,</HI> the weekly &s;um of one thou&s;and two hundred eighteen pounds fifteen &s;hillings.</P>
<P>Vpon the I&s;le of <HI>Ely,</HI> the weekly &s;um of two hundred twenty one pounds five &s;hillings.</P>
<P>And the &s;aid weekly Payments are to be|gin from the fir&s;t day of <HI>September,</HI> in the year of our Lord 1644. and &s;o to continue weekly for four moneths next en&s;uing from the &s;aid fir&s;t of <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P>And be it further ordained, that every per&s;o~ or per&s;ons that were to be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed or taxed by any former Ordinance of Parliament, &s;hall be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and taxed by this Ordinance, and &s;hall be liable to as great forfeitures &amp; penalties for not paying of the &s;um or &s;ums to be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, as they &s;hould have been, if the &s;ame had been a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by vertue of the la&s;t Ordinance for the weekly payment for the &s;aid A&s;&s;ociation, made the 20. of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t: And the &s;everall re&s;pective Deputy Lieutenants and Committees named and tru&s;ted within the &s;aid A&s;&s;ociation or any part thereof, by the &s;aid recited Ordinance,
<PB N="5" REF="3"> to take care for the a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing, collecting or levying of any monies, are named &amp; tru&s;ted by this Ordinance, and have as full power and authority given by this Ordinance, to nominate and appoint Collectors and A&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ors, and to di&s;traine, fine and impri&s;on, or &s;eque&s;ter, as they or any of them had by ver|tue of the &s;aid recited Ordinance, in all or any part of the &s;aid a&s;&s;ociated Counties.</P>
<P>And the &s;everall Collectors &s;hall pay the &s;everall &s;ums by them collected, at the place or &s;everall places where the Earl of <HI>Manche|&s;ter</HI> and the Committee for the A&s;&s;ociation attending the &s;aid Earl, &s;hall appoint to the Trea&s;urer or Trea&s;urers, to be by them na|med; which Trea&s;urer or Trea&s;urers are to i&s;&s;ue out the monies received for the purpo|&s;es aforementioned, according to the War|rants or directions of the &s;aid Earl of <HI>Man|che&s;ter,</HI> &amp; of any two of the &s;aid Committees for the &s;aid A&s;&s;ociation, which &s;hall be ap|pointed thereunto by the &s;aid Earl, and a ful Committee con&s;i&s;ting of one for every Coun|ty at the lea&s;t, and of the Commi&s;&s;ary Gene|rall for the time being of the &s;aid Earl of <HI>Manche&s;ter;</HI> And that no monies be i&s;&s;ued out without order under the hand of the &s;aid Earl, &s;uch two of the &s;aid Committees, and
<PB N="6" REF="4"> the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ary Generall, nor yet with|out the privitie of the whole Committee at|tending the &s;aid Earl.</P>
<P>And the &s;aid Lords &amp; Commons doe fur|ther ordain, that all monies collected and not di&s;po&s;ed of, or to be collected upon the fifth &amp; twentieth part of mens e&s;tates, or of the la&s;t four months pay; and all the monies or other benefit ari&s;ing by vertue of any Ordinance for the third part of the Seque&s;tration &s;etled upon the Earl of <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> &s;halbe paid unto the Trea&s;urers appointed as afore&s;aid, and from thence to i&s;&s;ue out again for y^e intents and purpo&s;es aforementioned; and the &s;aid Earl and Committee for the &s;aid a&s;&s;ociation have thereby power given them to call all Collectors, Trea&s;urers, or others that have or are thought to have any of the &s;aid mo|nies in their hands, to an accompt, and to cau&s;e the &s;aid money in their hands to be paid unto the Trea&s;urers appointed by the former Ordinances.</P>
<P>And if any Collectors, Trea&s;urers, or o|thers &s;hall refu&s;e to accompt or to pay in the monies wherewith they are charged: then the &s;aid Earl &amp; committee &s;hal fine them dou|ble the &s;um charged upon them, which if it be not paid within &s;ix days after the &s;um is &s;et,
<PB REF="4"> and notice thereof left at his or their dwelling hou&s;e: it &s;halbe lawfull to di&s;trein for the &s;ame: &amp; if there be not &s;ufficient di&s;tre&s;&s;e wherewith to &s;atisfie, then the &s;aid Earl and Committee may impri&s;on the offender herein; &amp; &s;eque&s;ter his e&s;tate, untill the money charged &amp; fine &s;et be leavied and paid.</P>
<P>And it is further Ordayned, that four pence in the pound &s;hall be allowed for every &s;um of money which &s;hall be Collected, and paid to the &s;aid Trea&s;urer, whereof two pence &s;hall be for the Collectors, and two pence for the Trea&s;urer: And the &s;aid Trea&s;urer &s;hall keep a Regi&s;ter book, of the &s;everall &s;ums received and paid by them, and &s;hall render an account thereof, unto the &s;aid Earl and Committee, once every moneth at lea&s;t.</P>
<P>And be it further Ordayned, that three Commi&s;&s;ioners hereafter to be nominated and appointed, to re&s;ide in the Army, &s;hall take &s;peciall care that they keep con&s;tant cor|re&s;pondency with the two Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment, and with the Committee of the Mem|bers of the Hou&s;e of Commons, appointed for the A&s;&s;ociated Counties; and that they take &s;uch cour&s;e that no Commander or Officer &s;hall receive any pay, but &s;uch as duely attend their charge: And it is de&s;ired, that the &s;aid Earl of <HI>Manche&s;ter</HI> do admit to his Coun&s;ell for the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners
<PB REF="5"> re&s;iding in his Army, to advi&s;e with them, and arme them with power to view and exa|mine the Mu&s;ters of the &s;aid Army; and to take &s;uch cour&s;e as &s;hall be thought mo&s;t fit for the preventing of dead payments, fal&s;e Mu&s;ters, free quartering without warrants, Plundering, Seizing of Hor&s;es or Armes, or for the avoyding of any other mi&s;demeanor, which may turn to the prejudice of the Com|mon wealth. And that the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;io|ners, &s;hall once in a moneth, certifie the &s;tate of the Army, and give an accompt of their pro|ceedings unto the Parliament, or to the afore|&s;aid Committee, for the A&s;&s;ociated Counties, and likewi&s;e certify what further in&s;tructions &s;halbe agreed upon by the Coun&s;ell of Warre, touching the &s;ame, and the afore&s;aid Com|mi&s;&s;ioners &s;halbe nominated and appointed, by the Committee for the a&s;&s;ociated Counties &s;itting at <HI>Cambridge,</HI> or the major part of them out of their own number.</P>
<P>And be it La&s;tly Ordained, that the &s;aid Earl, Deputy Lieutenants, Committees, collectors, a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, and every one of them, &amp; every other per&s;on, that &s;hall be ayding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to them, or any of them, in doing any thing by vertue of this Ordinance, &s;halbe de|fended and &s;aved harmle&s;&s;e therein by autho|rity of both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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