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<P> A DECLARATION AND ORDINANCE OF THE <HI>LORDS</HI> AND <HI>COMMONS</HI> A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT, For the A&s;&s;ociating of the &s;everall Counties of <HI>Norfolk, Suffolk, E&s;&s;ex, Cambridge,</HI> I&s;le of <HI>Ely, Hertford,</HI> and County of the City of <HI>Norwich,</HI> for the mutuall defence and pre&s;ervation of them&s;elves from all Rapines, Plundrings, and Spoylings of Papi&s;ts, and other ill affected per&s;ons, who have combined, and rai&s;ed great force of Hor&s;e and Foot, to de&s;troy multi|tudes of His Maje&s;ties Subjects.</P>
<P>Together with divers In&s;tructions for the Lord-Liev|tenants, Deputy-Lievtenants, and other Officers of the &s;aid Counties.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a Declaration and Engagement of the &s;aid Coun|ties, according to their &s;everall Sub&s;criptions.</P>
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<P><HI>ORdered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, That this De|claration and In&s;tructions be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</HI></P>
<P>Joh. Brown, Cler. Parliament.</P>
<P>Hen. El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>J. R.</HI> for <HI>Edw. Husbands,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop in the Middle-Temple. <HI>Feb.</HI> 3. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration and Ordinance of the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Lords and Commons now in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, being cer|tainly informed, That Papi&s;ts, and other wicked and ill-affected per&s;ons, have trayterou&s;ly combined together, and entred into A&s;|&s;ociation, and have rai&s;ed, and daily do rai&s;e great Forces both of Hor&s;e and Foot, in &s;everall Counties of this Kingdom, and have plundered, &s;poiled, and de&s;troyed Multitudes of His Maje&s;ties good Subjects; and if not timely prevented, will utterly &s;ubvert and de&s;troy the true Pro|te&s;tant Religion (which is their chief De&s;ign) the Laws of the Land, the Priviledges if Par iament, and the Liberty of the Subject; The &s;aid Lords and Commons do declare, That they hold it a thing mo&s;t fit and nece&s;&s;ary for the pre&s;ent &s;tate of this Kingdom, and do accordingly Order, That all Lords-Lievtenants, Deputy-Liev|tenants, Colonells, Captains, and other Officers, and all other well-affected per&s;ons, In|habitants in the &s;everall Counties of <HI>Norfolk, Suffolk, E&s;&s;ex, Cambridge,</HI> and the I&s;le of <HI>Ely, Hertford,</HI> and the County of the City of <HI>Norwich,</HI> &s;hall and may a&s;&s;ociate them&s;elves, and mutually ayd, &s;uccour, and a&s;&s;i&s;t one another, in the mutuall defence and pre&s;ervation of them&s;elves, and of the Peace of the &s;aid Counties, from all Rapines, Plundering, Spoylings of the &s;aid Papi&s;ts and ill-affected per&s;ons.</P>
<P>And it is further Ordered and Declared; That the &s;aid Lords-Lievtenants, De|puty-Lievtenants, Colonells, Captains, and other Officers, have Power and Authority to rai&s;e Forces of Hor&s;e and Foot, and to leade them into any place which &s;hall be fitting and convenient, and to give Battell, and to fight with all &s;uch as are, or &s;hall be rai&s;ed to levy War again&s;t the Parliament, and all other Forces rai&s;ed without Au|thority and Con&s;ent of both Hou&s;es of Parliament; that make any In&s;urrection, and plunder and de&s;troy His Maje&s;ties good Subjects, And them to invade, re&s;i&s;t, &s;up|pre&s;&s;e, &s;ubdue, and pur&s;ue, kill and &s;lay, and put to execution of death, and by all means to de&s;troy, as enemies to the Kingdom; and to perform all things el&s;e needfull for the pre&s;ervation of the &s;afety and peace of the &s;aid Counties, either by Water or Land, ob&s;erving from time to time &s;uch other Directions and Commands, as they &s;hall receive from both Hou&s;es of Parliament, or from the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> Lord
<PB REF="3"> Generall: And that the &s;aid Inhabitants of the &s;aid &s;everall Counties, and every of them, for &s;o doing, &s;hall he &s;aved and kept harmle&s;&s;e, by power and Authority of Parliament.</P>
<P>And the &s;aid Lords and Commons taking into their &s;erious Con&s;iderations the nece&s;&s;ity of appointing a Commander in chief over the Forces which are, or &s;hall be rai&s;ed in the Counties afore&s;aid, or any of them, for the Service afore&s;aid, in regard that by particular Commi&s;&s;ions already granted to per&s;ons in the &s;aid &s;everall Coun|ties, there is not power given to lead Forces out of their own Counties; It is Ordered, That the Lord Generall the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> &s;hall be de&s;ired to grant a Commi&s;&s;ion to <HI>William</HI> Lord <HI>Grey</HI> of <HI>Wark,</HI> to command in chief, as Major, Generall of all the Forces to be rai&s;ed in the &s;aid Counties, and to have power to lead, conduct, and carry the &s;ame to &s;uch places within the &s;aid Counties, as he &s;hall think fit, for the defence of the &s;aid Counties, And likewi&s;e power to give the &s;ame Orders and In&s;tructions, in his Excellencies ab&s;ence, for regulating the Souldiers, which are or &s;hall be under his Command, as his &s;aid Excellency hath given to his Army, and to u&s;e Mar&s;hall Law to compell Obedience thereunto, as occa&s;ion &s;hall require; And al&s;o Power and Authority to make and appoint Colonells, Captains, and other Officers, for levying, conducting and leading the &s;aid Forces as he &s;hall think fit.</P>
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<ITEM>Joh. Brown, Cleric. Parliamentorum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. El&s;ynge, Cleric. Parl. D. Com.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>In&s;tructions for the Lord-Lievtenants, Deputy-Liev|tenants, and other Officers and Commanders in the Counties of <HI>Norfolk, Suffolk, E&s;sex, Cambridge,</HI> I&s;le of <HI>Ely, Hartford,</HI> and County of the City of <HI>Norwich.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat the Lords-Lievtenants of the &s;everall Counties of <HI>Norfolk, Suffolk, E&s;&s;ex, Cambridge,</HI> I&s;le of <HI>Ely, Hartford,</HI> and the County and City of <HI>Norwich,</HI> or the Deputy-Lievtenants of the &s;aid Counties re&s;pectively, or any two or more of them, with all convenient &s;peed, do &s;ummon the &s;everall Gentlemen, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the &s;aid &s;everall Counties, as well within Liberties and Corporations, as without; That do, or are able to bear or finde Armes, to &s;uch places in the &s;aid &s;everall Counties, as they hold mo&s;t fitting, and at &s;uch meetings to take a view what Arms and Force can be rai&s;ed in the &s;aid Counties re&s;pectively, and examine the defects of Arms and Ammunition, and to con&s;ult of &s;ome &s;itting cour&s;e how to have the want of Armes and other defects to be &s;upplyed, and at &s;uch meetings, or at any other fit time and times, the &s;aid Deputy-Lievtenants, or any two of them, with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the
<PB REF="3"> Committee, for the Propo&s;itions and Sub&s;criptions in the &s;everall Counties, or any two of them, &s;hall and may propound to all the Inhabitants of the &s;aid Counties, Cities, and Corporations, that are able to bear or finde Arms, or to contribute towards the &s;ame, what pre&s;ent and imminent danger and ne|ce&s;&s;ity the whole Kingdom is now reduced unto, by the wicked advice and attempts and con&s;piracies of Papi&s;ts and other per&s;ons now about His Ma|je&s;ty, and to propound to them to joyn in A&s;&s;ociation and mutuall defence of one another, according to the form of an A&s;&s;ociation hereunto annexed: and to require them to &s;et down in writing, and &s;ub&s;cribe what Arms for Hor&s;e and Foot, what Hor&s;e, either Dragooners or others, they will have in readine&s;&s;e upon every ju&s;t occa&s;ion, for the defence of the &s;aid Counties.</P>
<P>Secondly, the better to prevent the plundering and &s;poyling of the &s;aid Counties, and to have means for the furni&s;hing of Arms and Ammunition, making Fortifications, and payment of Officers, and other publike nece&s;&s;ary charges; That there be forthwith rai&s;ed in the &s;aid &s;everall Counties re&s;pe|ctively, the fourth part of &s;uch like &s;everall Sums as were a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed upon the &s;aid Counties, by vertue of the Act lately made in this pre&s;ent Parliament, for the rai&s;ing of 400000 pounds, the &s;ame fourth part to be rai&s;ed by way of Tax and Rate, upon the &s;aid &s;everall Counties re&s;pectively.</P>
<P>Thirdly, And for the better levying of the &s;aid fourth part of the &s;aid Sum of 400000 pounds, or of any other Summe to be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and &s;et upon the &s;aid Counties, for the defence and pre&s;ervation of the &s;ame, by con&s;ent of both Hou&s;es of Parliament; That the Lords-Lievtenants, and Deputy-Lievtenants of the &s;aid Counties re&s;pectively, or any two or more of them, &s;hall, and may A&s;&s;e&s;&s;e and Tax, or cau&s;e to be A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and Taxed, the &s;aid &s;um and &s;ums, upon the &s;everall Cities, Corporations, Hundreds, Towns, and Hamlets in the &s;aid &s;everall Counties, after the mo&s;t indu&s;trious and u&s;uall proportion of other Rates in the &s;aid Counties: And that they, or any two or more of them, nominate and appoint Trea&s;urers, Collectors, and A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors in every County above&s;aid, for the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing, Receiving, and Collecting &s;uch Sum and Sums of Money as above&s;aid: And that the &s;aid Lord-Lievtenants, De|puty-Lievtenants, or any two or more of them, &s;hall, and may grant War|rants under their Hands and Seals in writing, to any Con&s;table or other Of|ficer what&s;oever, To rai&s;e and levie the &s;aid Sum and Sums &s;o to be A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and Taxed as above&s;aid, upon all &s;uch per&s;ons upon whom any Sum &s;hall be &s;o A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and &s;et as above&s;aid, that do refu&s;e or neglect to pay the &s;ame by way of Di&s;tre&s;&s;e or Sale of the goods of the per&s;on &s;o refu&s;ing, or neglect|ing to pay the &s;ame. And in ca&s;e no Di&s;tre&s;&s;e is or may be found, then the &s;aid Lord-Lievtenants, Deputy-Lievtenants, or any two or more of them, &s;hall, and may commit &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons &s;o refu&s;ing and neglecting to pay as above&s;aid, to &s;ome common Goal, there to remain without Bayl
<PB REF="4"> or Mainprize, untill payment made of &s;uch &s;umme and &s;ummes as above&s;aid.</P>
<P>Fourthly, That all Sheriffs, Ju&s;tices of the Peace, Maiors, Bayliffes, and Con&s;tables, and all other His Maje&s;ties Officers, as well within Liberties, as without, Be from time to time Ayding and A&s;&s;i&s;ting unto the &s;aid Lord-Lievtenants, Deputy-Lievtenants, in execution of the power to them given by both Hou&s;es of Parliament, and of the&s;e In&s;tructions.</P>
<P>Fifthly, The Lord-Lievtenants, Deputy-Lievtenants of the &s;aid &s;everall Counties, or any two or more of them, do put in execution in the &s;aid Coun|ties all former In&s;tructions to them granted by both Hou&s;es of Parliament, for the executing of the <HI>Militia,</HI> di&s;arming of Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, and other ill affected per&s;ons; and for the pre&s;erving the Peace of the &s;aid Counties.</P>
<P>Sixthly, That no Trea&s;urer and Receiver of any Money, &s;hall i&s;&s;ue out any Money, but under the hands of the Lord-Lievtenants, or two or more Deputy Lievtenants in every County re&s;pectively; And that the &s;everall Lord-Liev|tenants, and Deputy-Lievtenants, do not &s;ign or grant any Warrants for the i&s;&s;uing or paying any Sum or Sums, but for the furni&s;hing of Arms and Am|munition, making of Fortifications, payment of Officers and Souldiers, and other nece&s;&s;ary publike charges, tending to the &s;afety and pre&s;ervation of the &s;aid Counties, and not otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>Seventhly, That the Lord-Lievtenants, Deputy-Lievtenants of every the &s;aid Counties re&s;pectively, or any two or more of them, &s;hall and may from time to time, rai&s;e &s;uch, and &s;o many of the Trayned Bands, and other per|&s;ons inhabiting in the &s;aid Counties, as they &s;hall judge nece&s;&s;ary and fitting, to enter into the hou&s;es of all Papi&s;ts, and other per&s;ons that are voted to be De|linquents, by both or either Hou&s;es of Parliament, Or that have put in execu|tion the Commi&s;&s;ion of Array, Or that have been pre&s;ent with, or Ayding and A&s;&s;i&s;ting to His Maje&s;ty in this unnaturall War again&s;t the Parliament; Or that being of ability, have not contributed upon the Propo&s;itions of rai&s;ing of Hor&s;e, Money, or Plate, for the defence of the King and Parliament; Or that have refu&s;ed to &s;end Hor&s;e and Arms to the Mu&s;ters, when by the Depu|puty-Lievtenants appointed by power of Parliament, they having been re|quired &s;o to do; Or &s;uch Clergy-men and others, that have publikely preach|ed or declared them&s;elves to oppo&s;e, di&s;grace, or revile the Proceedings of both or either Hou&s;es of Parliament, and to &s;eize upon the Arms, Ammuni|tion, and Hor&s;es &s;it for &s;ervice in the War, that belong to &s;uch per&s;on and per|&s;ons; The &s;ame Hor&s;es, Arms, and Ammunition to be employed and di&s;po&s;ed of by the direction of one or more of the Deputy-Lievtenants of the &s;aid Counties, for the pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">like &s;ervice and defence of the &s;everall Counties, and in the mean time to be kept in &s;ome &s;afe place.</P>
<P>Highthly, That in every County the Lord-Lievtenants, Deputy-Lievtenants, or any two or more of them, do cau&s;e the &s;everall Companies of the Train'd
<PB REF="4"> Bands and Voluntiers to be put into Regiments; and to nominate, appoint, and place Colonells, Lievtenant-Colonells, Serjeant-Majors, Captaines, Lievtenants, and other Officers in every Regiment and Company, where any &s;uch are wanting; or when &s;uch as are, and have been nominated, have re|fu&s;ed to execute tho&s;e places.</P>
<P>Ninthly, That the Lord-Lievtenants, Deputy-Lievtenants, or any two of them in each County re&s;pectively, do nominate and appoint one experienced Souldier in every Regiment to be an Adjutor, to be re&s;ident in the &s;aid Coun|ties to exerci&s;e the &s;everall Companies of the &s;aid Regiments, and to be ayd|ing and a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the Colonell from time to time, and to do and perform all &s;uch commands as he &s;hall receive from the Lord-Lievtenants, Deputy-Lievtenants, or the &s;aid Colonell; And al&s;o to have in every Regiment, one experienced Souldier to be a Serjeant, to exerci&s;e and teach the &s;everall Com|panies, and to execute the commands of the Lord-Lievtenants, Deputy-Liev|tenants, or the Colonell, Lievtenant-Colonell, or Serjeant-Major of the &s;aid Regiment, and the &s;aid Serjeant to have the pay of a Serjeant to a Company; and al&s;o that in each Troop of Hor&s;e, there be an experienced Souldier ap|pointed to be a Corporall.</P>
<P>Tenthly, That the Dragooners be put into Companies, And that one hundred and twelve be allotted to a Company; and that each Company of Dragooners have an experienced Souldier to be a Corporall, and he to have the pre&s;ent pay of a Corporall.</P>
<P>Eleventhly, That the Lords-Lievtenants, Deputy-Lievtenants in each County re&s;pectively, or any two, or more of them, &s;hall, and may give com|mand and directions from time to time, to &s;ecure, and fortifie all Bridges, Caw&s;es, and Pa&s;&s;ages, and in times of approach of an Enemy, or fear of any Inva&s;ion by an Enemy, to pull down, or &s;top the Bridges, Caw&s;es, Pa&s;&s;ages, and to cut the Banks in the &s;aid Counties re&s;pectively; And to have power to fortifie and &s;ecure any Town, Hundred, or Hamlet, where the &s;aid Town, Hundred or Hamlet are willing to do the &s;ame at their own proper charges; And al&s;o to have Power at all times, to &s;eize, and &s;top all Barges, Boats, or other Ve&s;&s;els, pa&s;&s;ing by Water for the &s;afety of the &s;aid County.</P>
<P>Twelfthly, That the &s;aid Lords-Lievtenants, Deputy-Lievtenants, or any two of them, &s;hall, and may Impri&s;on, or commit to &s;afe cu&s;tody, all and every &s;uch Per&s;ons, as being able, and have had due Summons, do notwith|&s;tanding refu&s;e, or wilfully neglect to appear at Mu&s;ter, or to &s;end &s;ome able Per&s;ons to be allowed of, by the Captains, or chief Officer of the Company in his behalf.</P>
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<ITEM>Joh. Brown, Cl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r. Parliamentorum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</ITEM>
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<P>_WHereas the Lords and Commons now a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, have taken into th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir con&s;iderations, That in times &s;o full of Divi&s;ion and Danger as the&s;e are, an &V;nion of our Hearts and Forces is mo&s;t conducing to the publike Good, and &s;afety of the whole Kingdom; And have therefore ordai|ned, That the Inhabitants of the Counties of <HI>E&s;&s;ex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cam|bridge&s;hire,</HI> and <HI>Hertford&s;hire,</HI> together with the I&s;le of <HI>Ely,</HI> and County of the City of <HI>Norwich,</HI> &s;hould enter into an A&s;&s;ociation with one another, for the maintenance and pre&s;ervation of the Peace of the &s;aid Counties: Therefore in pur&s;uance of the &s;aid Order, and the better to confirm a mutuall Confidence in one another, we who&s;e Names are hereunto &s;ub&s;cribed, do hereby promi&s;e, te&s;tifie, and declare, To maintain and defend, with our Lives, Powers, and E&s;tates, the Peace of the &s;aid Counties, And to ayd and a&s;&s;i&s;t one another, under the Command and Conduct of &s;uch Per&s;on as now hath, or hereafter &s;hall have, by the Authority of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, The Command in chief of all the Forces of the &s;aid Counties, according to the true intent and meaning of the &s;aid Order of A&s;&s;ociati|on. Whereunto we do mo&s;t willingly give our A&s;&s;ents; and neither for hope, fear, or other re&s;pect, &s;hall ever relinqui&s;h this Promi&s;e.</P>
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<ITEM>Joh. Brown, Cleric. Parliamentorum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. El&s;ynge, Cleric. Parl. D. Com.</ITEM>
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<P>WE who&s;e Names are here under-witten, do hereby engage our &s;elves to provide Hor&s;es and Arms, and to maintain and finde at our own proper Co&s;ts and Charges, and at all times to have in a readine&s;&s;e, for the &s;ervice of this and tho&s;e other Counties now a&s;&s;ociated together by the Au|thority of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, &s;o many men compleatly armed and furni&s;hed, and &s;uch Hor&s;es, Geldings, Nagg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, Mares, as we have &s;everally and re&s;pectively &s;ub&s;cribed for; to be commanded, l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d, and conducted into any parts and places within the &s;aid County, by &s;uch per&s;on as now hath, or hereafter &s;hall have the Command in chief of all the Forces of the &s;aid Counties.</P>
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