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<HEAD>&leaf; BY THE KING.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">&para; To Our tru&s;ty and welbeloved Our Colonells, Lievtenant-Colonells, Serjean<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">-Majors, Cap|taines, and all other Our Officers of Our Army.</HEAD>
<P>_WEE taking into Our Princely Con&s;ideration the ready affection of Our good People of Our Counties of <HI>Oxford</HI> and <HI>Berks,</HI> to &s;upply and furni&s;h Our Army with all po&s;|&s;ible accommodation the Country can afford, Doe expect therefore, that you, whom We have tru&s;ted with Commands, &s;hall take e&s;peciall care in your &s;everall Quarters, that all Souldiers under you treate, all Our good people with Brotherly humanity, and that none of them wa&s;te or &s;poyle anyi Corne, Hay, or other provi&s;ions, but to husband and pre&s;erve the &s;ame, as much as may be: And doe require your Care herein, as you tender Our Honour, the good of Our Army, and the con&s;ervation of the weale-publike. Further commanding you to let all the Souldiers under your Command know from Us&punc; That if they &s;hall tran&s;|gre&s;&s;e herein, they mu&s;t expect to receive that puni&s;hment which either the law Martiall, or the Lawes of the Land can ju&s;tly impo&s;e upon them: And We admoni&s;h you that upon all Complaints again&s;t any of your Soul|diers, you render them to Our Mini&s;ters of Iu&s;tice to be examined and proceeded again&s;t accordingly; Hereof you may not fayle.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From Our Court at OXFORD, <DATE>this Twentieth of <HI>January,</HI> 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>An Agreement of the great Inque&s;t made At the la&s;t Se&s;sions for the County of WORCESTER, for the rai&s;ing of three Thou|&s;and pound Monethly, towards the payment of His MAjESTIES Forces, &s;ent and rai&s;ed for defence of the &s;aid County and City of <HI>VVorce&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Wigorn. &s;&s;. Ad general. Sc&s;sion. pacis Dom. Regis tent. apud Wigorn. pro Com. praedict. <DATE>decimo die Ianuarii, Anno Regni Dom, <HI>CAROLI</HI> nunc Regis Angliae, &amp;c. Decimo Octavo.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas the great Inque&s;t at this pre&s;ent Se&s;&s;ions, upon con&s;ideration had of the Kings Maje&s;ties mo&s;t gratious Letters, agreed that there &s;hould be rai&s;ed forth of the County of <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> the &s;umme of three Thou&s;and pounds of lawfull Engli&s;h money a Moneth, towards the payment of His Maje|&s;ties forces, &s;ent and rai&s;ed for the defence of the &s;aid County, and the City of <HI>VVorce&s;ter.</HI> the fir&s;t pay|ment to be for this pre&s;ent Moneth of <HI>Ianuary,</HI> and the &s;aid Summe or Summes which &s;hould be rai|&s;ed, to be paid unto the &s;everall High-Con&s;tables of the County of <HI>VVorce&s;ter,</HI> and to be paid by them unto <HI>Iohn Bacon</HI> Gent. to be di&s;po&s;ed of by Sir <HI>VVilliam Ru&s;&s;ell</HI> Baronet, High-Shriffe of the County of <HI>VVorce&s;ter,</HI> and Governor of the &s;aid City, uppon accompt to be given by him to the Kings Maje&s;ty, and likewi&s;e to the &s;aid County, which fir&s;t Monethly payment &s;hall be paid before the &s;econd day of <HI>February</HI> next coming, and &s;o to continue, as long as Sir <HI>VVilliam Ru&s;&s;ell</HI> and the Kings Maje&s;ties Iu&s;tices of peace of the County of <HI>VVorce&s;ter,</HI> a&s;&s;embled at this pre&s;ent <HI>Se&s;sions,</HI> &s;hall thinke fit: And that the &s;ame Mony &s;hould be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by foure or more of the mo&s;t &s;ufficient Inhabitants of every Pari&s;h or Village in the County of <HI>VVorce&s;ter,</HI> according to the u&s;uall rates of the payments within the &s;aid County, And that every per&s;on which &s;hould be &s;o a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed for his Lands and Rents where they Lye, and all per&s;ons of ability &s;hould be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed for their per&s;onall e&s;tate, And likewi&s;e the Clergy, and all others that are owners of Impropriate Tithes or any others Tyches what&s;oever, &s;hould be a&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ed towards the &s;aid paiment from time to time, which &s;aid agreement of the great Inque&s;t, the Court doth very well approve, and doth order it accordingly, It is thereupon ordered, That the Clarke of the Peace &s;hall pre&s;ent|ly make out warrants to the &s;everall High-Con&s;tables of the County of <HI>VVorce&s;ter</HI> for the Collecting of the &s;ame</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Per <HI>CURIAM.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at OXFORD by <HI>Leonard Lichfield</HI> Printer to the Univer&s;ity. <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1642.</P>
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