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<OPENER><DATELINE>At EDINBURGH <DATE>the 13 of MARCH 1645.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THe Committee of Parliament taking into their con&s;ideration, the pre&s;ent Condition of the Regiments rai&s;ed in this Kingdome, and now imployed, either within the &s;ame or in the Kingdome of England, Do finde the &s;ame to be very weake, through the numbers of Deficients and Runawayes that are wanting, and the flowne&s;&s;e of the Officers in put|ting to execution the&s;e publike Acts made again&s;t them: And that by the great number of Officers and &s;mall number of Souldiers they are become very burdenable to the Kingdome, and almo&s;t u&s;ele&s;&s;e for Service; Yet the Committee, to te&s;tifie their de&s;ires to have the&s;e Regiments Recruted, if the Officers will performe what is incumbent to them in that behalfe, They have thought fit, for &s;ome time, to forbeare the reforming thereof, And do declare, that if betwixt and the fir&s;t day of May next, the weak Regi|ments of Foot &s;hall not be made up to con&s;i&s;t of 600 at lea&s;t, and the Companies of 60. and the weak Regi|ments of Hor&s;e having eight Troups, to con&s;i&s;t of 320. and the Troupe of 40. be&s;ide the Officers: then the Com|mittees with the Armies <HI>re&s;pectiv&egrave;,</HI> by advice of the Lord Generall, or Commander in chiefe, &s;hall reforme and joyne the&s;e Regiments to &s;tronger as they &s;hall think fitting.</P>
<P>And to the effect the&s;e Regiments may be the better made up betwixt and the &s;aid day, The Committee Ordains &s;ome Officers of each Regiment, To bring to the Committee of the Shire, out of which that Regiment was rai|&s;ed, A Li&s;t or &s;uch per&s;ons as were de&s;igned to have gone out in the publick Service, and did not go out; or having gone out, did returne: And de&s;igne them by Name and &s;irname, with the per&s;ons and places from which they &s;hould have come, or the Re&s;etters of &s;uch as have come home; which being done, It is declared, That the Commit|tee of the Shire is obliged within Ten dayes thereafter, To deliver to the Officers the&s;e Deficients and Run-awayes, and any others that have come to that Shire without Te&s;timonials (they not being claimed by other Regiments:) And failing thereof, The Committee doth hereby Ordaine the Committee of Warre of the Shire, to make up and deliver to the Officers, the like number both of Hor&s;e and Foot, within other Ten dayes, under the pains contained in the Acts of Parliament formerly made, for putting out of Hor&s;e and Foot: Which Acts the Officers are Ordai|ned to pro&s;ecute and &s;ee put in execution. And if it &s;hall be found that any Officers have, or &s;hall receive money for Hor&s;e and Men, and not furni&s;h and out them out, The Officers are to be ca&s;heered, di&s;graced, and ordained to con&s;ign the Money in the hand of the Clerk of the Commitee of the Shire, to be di&s;po&s;ed of as that Committee after hearing of the parties &s;hal think fitting: And the&s;e who gave the money, &s;hal be &s;til obliged notwith&s;tanding thereof, to put out their Men and Hor&s;e. And it is hereby recommended to the Committees with the Armies, to &s;et downe &s;ome cour&s;e how Colonel <HI>Ereskines</HI> Regiment, and the&s;e Regiments and Troups that were leavyed and not put out by the Shires, may be be&s;t recruted. And Ordains this Act to be Printed and Publi&s;hed at the Armies and Mar|ket-Cro&s;&s;es of the Shires, that none pretend ignorance thereof.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Arch. Primero&s;e.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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