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<P>AN ORDINANCE OF THE Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT, For the A&s;&s;ociating the Counties of <HI>Wilts, Dor&s;et, Somer&s;et, Devon</HI> and <HI>Cornwall,</HI> and the Cities of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> and <HI>Exeter,</HI> and the Town and County of <HI>Poole.</HI></P>
<P>And for the putting of them into a Po&s;ture of <HI>DEFENCE.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>20. Augu&s;t, 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Commons in Parliament, That this Ordinance be forthwith pri<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ted &amp; publi&s;hed:</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Henry El&s;yng, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed for <HI>Edward Husbands,</HI> Augu&s;t 22.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Augu&s;t 20. 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>WHereas Papi&s;ts and other wicked and ill-affected per&s;ons have traite|rou&s;ly combined together and entred into A&s;&s;ociation, and have rai&s;ed and dayly doe rai&s;e, great forces both of Hor&s;e and foot in &s;everall counties of this Kingdome, and are now actually leavying war in the &s;e|verall and re&s;pective counties of <HI>Wilts, Dor|&s;et, Sommer&s;et, Devon</HI> and <HI>Cornwall,</HI> and in the cities of <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> and <HI>Exon,</HI> and in the Towne and county of <HI>Poole,</HI> and have in all and every the &s;aid counties, cities and places mi&s;erably plundered, &s;poyled and de|&s;troyed multitudes of his Maje&s;ties good &s;ubjects, and if not timely prevented will utterly &s;ubvert and de&s;troy the true Pro|te&s;tant Religion, (which is their cheife&s;t de&s;igne) the Laws of the land, the Pri|viledges of Parliament, and the Liberties of the &s;ubject; The Lords and Commons now in Parliament as&s;embled, doe hereby order and ordain, that the &s;aid counties, ci|ties and places &s;halbe a&s;&s;ociated, and that
<PB N="4" REF="3"> the committees nominated and appointed by the late Ordinance of Parliament, of the fir&s;t of <HI>Iuly,</HI> 1644. for the &s;everall and re&s;pectiue counties, cities, and places a|fore&s;aid re&s;pectively appointed to put in execution the &s;euerall Ordinances of Par|liament, in the &s;aid Ordinance mentioned and expre&s;&s;ed, and all Colonels, Lieu|tenant-Colonels, Captains and other Of|ficers, and all other well affected per&s;ons Inhabitants of the &s;aid counties, cities, and places, &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, cities, and places.</P>
<P>Now for the better carrying on of &s;o ne|ce&s;&s;ary a work in &s;uch manner as by the &s;aid Ordinance, or this pre&s;ent Ordinance is or &s;halbe limited and appointed, and for the rai&s;ing of moneys and forces with|in the &s;aid counties, and places, for &s;up|pre&s;&s;ing the &s;aid Rebels there, and for the maintenance of all &s;uch Garri&s;ons as are or &s;halbe erected by authority of Par|liament, for the better defence of the &s;ame,</P>
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<P> The &s;aid Lords and Commons doe or|der and ordaine, and doe hereby ordaine and Authorize the &s;aid Committees of the &s;aid counties, cities, and places, re&s;pec|tively or any three or more of them, to put in execution within the &s;aid &s;everall and re&s;pective counties, cities, and places, the &s;everall Ordinances of Parliament therein mentioned and expre&s;&s;ed, and the Ordinance for voluntary Loanes and Contributions to the Parliament, And the Ordinance of the 29. of <HI>Iune,</HI> 1643. for the Admini&s;tring of the Vow and Co|venant appointed to be taken by every man throughout the whole Kingdome, according to the In&s;tructions how and in what manner the &s;ame ought to be taken. And it is further Ordained, that in every of the afore&s;aid counties, out of the &s;everall &amp; re&s;pective Committees, there &s;hall be e&s;ta|bli&s;hed by the &s;everall &amp; re&s;pective Co~mit|tees, a &s;tanding Committee of five at the lea&s;t in the re&s;pective counties of <HI>Dor&s;et</HI> and <HI>Cornwall,</HI> and of &s;even at the lea&s;t in the re|&s;pective counties of <HI>Wilts, Somer&s;et</HI> and <HI>De|von,</HI> and of three at the lea&s;t in the re&s;pe|ctive counties of <HI>Bri&s;toll, Exon</HI> and <HI>Pool,</HI> to be
<PB N="6" REF="4"> alwaies re&s;ident in &s;uch part of y^e counties, as the major part of the re&s;pective Com|mittees of &s;uch county &s;hall appoint to ad|vi&s;e and direct all things that they &s;hall thinke fit for the good Government and &s;afety of their re&s;pective counties, in pur|&s;uance of any Ordinance or Ordinances of Parliament, and to take care and order of all other affaires for the good and pre|&s;ervation of the re&s;pective counties, cities and places, according to the orders, Or|dinances, and directions of Parliament, who at the fir&s;t meeting &s;hall appoint a place of their &s;itting, and the per&s;ons that &s;hall &s;it, and their turnes; provided that none of the &s;aid Committees &s;halbe In|joyned to &s;it at one time above fourteen dayes together, except the chair-man, who &s;hall continually be one of the 7. 5. or 3. of the &s;aid &s;tanding Committee for the next 14 dayes following.</P>
<P>And it is further ordained and declared, That <HI>Algernon</HI> Earl of <HI>Northumberland, Phi|lip</HI> Earle of <HI>Pembrooke</HI> and <HI>Montgomery, William</HI> Earl of <HI>Salisbury, Iohn</HI> Lord <HI>Ro|berts,</HI> and <HI>Tho:</HI> Lord <HI>Bruce,</HI> and the Knights, Citizens, and Burge&s;&s;es of the Hou&s;e of
<PB N="7" REF="4"> Commons for the &s;everall and re&s;pective counties, cities and places afore&s;aid, be a Committee for the pre&s;ervation and &s;afety of the &s;aid a&s;&s;ociated counties, cities, and places, or any eight or more of them, &s;hall from time to time have power to appoint Trea&s;urers for the &s;everall and re&s;pective counties, cities &amp; places, who are hereby au|thorized to receive al &s;uch &s;ums of mony as &s;hall be lent, a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and collected within the &s;aid counties, cities and places re&s;pe|ctively, &amp; who &s;hall from time to time i&s;&s;ue out &s;uch moneys for the nece&s;&s;ary u&s;es of y^e &s;aid counties, cities and places re&s;pectively for the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, according to &s;uch warrant or warrants, as any &s;uch trea&s;u|rer or trea&s;urers &s;hall receive fro~ the &s;tan|ding Co~mittees of the re&s;pective counties, cities or places, or the major part of them.</P>
<P>And it is further Ordained that the &s;aid co~mittees re&s;pectively, or any three or more of them, &s;hall have power fro~ time to time to a&s;&s;igne, and by their &s;everall Mini&s;ters and Officers, to cut and take &s;ufficient Timber, &s;tanding or being upon the Lands of Papi&s;ts or Delinquents E&s;tates, for the making of Fortifications in &s;uch towns &amp;
<PB N="8" REF="5"> places of any of the &s;aid counties, cities &amp; places re&s;pectively, as by any three or more of the re&s;pective Committees &s;halbe thought fit, expre&s;&s;ing the &s;ame by warrant under their hands.</P>
<P>And the &s;aid Lords and Commons, doe hereby Order and Ordain, that the Com|mittees of the &s;everall and re&s;pective coun|ties, cities and places, or any three or more of them &s;hall forthwith after notice and receipt of this Ordinance, i&s;&s;ue out their warrants to the Con&s;tables, Churchwar|dens, and Over-&s;eers of the &s;everall pa|ri&s;hes, or to any two or more of the mo&s;t a|ble and fitting per&s;ons within every re|&s;pective pari&s;h, thereby requiring them at certain times and places prefixt to deliver unto them a Li&s;t or &s;chedule of the names of all per&s;ons within their &s;everall and re|&s;pective pari&s;hes, from the age of &s;ixteen to &s;ixty (being of ability of body) And of all Hor&s;es, Mares and Geldings, above four yeers of age, together with the Names of the Owners, and of all Arms, Guns, and other u&s;efull weapons for the war, with the Names of the Owners of them, ex|cept &s;uch Hor&s;es, Men and Arms, as are
<PB N="9" REF="5"> now, or &s;halbe hereafter li&s;ted in the trained Bands and Trained-Troops.</P>
<P>And it is likewi&s;e Ordained, That the &s;aid <HI>Algernon</HI> Earl of <HI>Northumberband, Phi|lip</HI> Earl of <HI>Pembrook,</HI> and <HI>Mountgomery, William</HI> Earl of <HI>Sali&s;bury, Iohn</HI> Lord <HI>Ro|berts,</HI> and <HI>Tho:</HI> Lord <HI>Bruce,</HI> and the Knights Citizens, and Burge&s;&s;es of the Hou&s;e of Commons of the counties, cities and pla|ces afore&s;aid, or any eight or more of them from time to time &s;hall hereby have power to nominate and appoint, all Colonells, Lieutenant Colonells, Serjeant Ma|iors both of Hor&s;e and Foot, to be o|ver the forces both of Hor&s;e and Foot, to be rai&s;ed by vertue of this Ordinance, in the &s;everall and re&s;pective counties, cities and places afore&s;aid; And the Lord Ge|nerall or &s;uch as &s;hall from time to time Command in Cheif, in the &s;aid A&s;&s;ociated counties, cities and places, are de&s;ired to grant Commi&s;&s;ions to them accordingly, And that the &s;everall and re&s;pective &s;tand|ing Committees in the &s;aid counties, cities and places, &s;hall &s;everally have power to nominate all Captaines, to be under the &s;aid Colonells and Lieutenant-Colonells,
<PB N="10" REF="6"> &s;everally and re&s;pectively, which &s;aid Of|ficers &s;hall have Commi&s;sions as afore|&s;aid.</P>
<P>And th&egrave; &s;aid Lords and Commons, doe al&s;o hereby Order and Ordain, that the &s;aid Committees of the &s;everall and re|&s;pective Counties, cities and places, and by the directions of the &s;aid Committees and not otherwi&s;e, all Colonells, Lieu|tenant-Colonells, Captains and other Of|ficers, made and appointed by vertue of this Ordinance, &s;hall have power and au|thority in the &s;everall and re&s;pective coun|ties, cities and places afore&s;aid, to rai&s;e forces both of Hor&s;e and Foot; And the &s;aid Officers &s;hall have power according to the cour&s;e of War, to lead them unto any place which &s;hall be fitting and convenient, and to give battel, and to fight with all &s;uch Forces, as are, or &s;hall be rai&s;ed without Authoritie of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, or do make In&s;urrections, Plunder, and de&s;troy His Maje&s;ties good Subjects, or leavy War again&s;t the Parliament, and them to invade, re&s;i&s;t, &s;uppre&s;&s;e, &s;udue and pur&s;ue, kill and &s;lay, and put to execution of death, and by all means to de&s;troy as
<PB N="11" REF="6"> enemies to the Kingdom, either by Water or by 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, the Committee of the two Kingdoms, or the Lord-Generall, or in his ab&s;ence, the Commander in chief Re|&s;ident upon the place. And if any Officers or Souldiers of the Trained-Bands, or Troops, or other Forces of Hor&s;e or Foot rai&s;ed, or at any time to be rai&s;ed, &s;hall re|fu&s;e or neglect upon &s;ummons, according to this, or other Ordinances of Parlia|ment, to attend their charges and duties in their &s;everall &amp; re&s;pective places, or to ap|pear with their Hor&s;e or Arms, or to &s;end &s;ome other able man with Hor&s;e or Arms, as they are, or &s;hall be charged withall; e|very &s;uch defaulter, for every &s;uch offence, &s;hall be fined by the &s;aid re&s;pective &s;tanding Committees, or the Major part of them, not exceeding the &s;um of Ten pounds, and by them impri&s;oned, untill the &s;aid fine be &s;ati&s;fied, and paid. And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, in the &s;aid &s;everall and re&s;pective Counties, that &s;hall be charged by the &s;aid &s;everall and re&s;pective Committees, or any
<PB N="12" REF="7"> two or more of them, to &s;erve with the Arms of any per&s;on or per&s;ons charged to finde Arms or Hor&s;e, do, or &s;hall refu&s;e, or neglect to appear at Mu&s;ters, or to &s;erve upon &s;uch Hor&s;e, or with &s;uch Arms, he or they &s;o refu&s;ing or neglecting, &s;hall by the &s;aid Committees, or any three, or more of them, be fined at their di&s;cretions, not ex|ceeding the &s;um of fourty &s;hillings for eve|ry &s;uch offence, and by them be impri&s;oned, untill the &s;aid fine be &s;ati&s;fied and paid, and the per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o refu&s;ing, have con|formed them&s;elves unto the &s;aid &s;ervice.</P>
<P>And it is further Ordained, That the Committees of the &s;everall and re&s;pective Counties, or any three, or more of them, may impri&s;on all &s;uch as &s;hall make any at|tempt, or do any act tending to the di&s;tur|bance of the proceedings of the re&s;pective Committees, or the peace of the &s;aid coun|ties, cities, and places, and them may fine not exceeding the &s;um of twenty pounds, upon every offendor, every &s;uch offendor to remain in pri&s;on untill he hath &s;ati&s;fied and paid the &s;aid fine.</P>
<P>And that it &s;hall be lawfull for the &s;aid Committees or any two of them, in their
<PB N="13" REF="7"> &s;everall and re&s;pective counties, to charge carts, carriages, and hor&s;es, for the nece&s;|&s;ary &s;ervice of the Parliament, allowing every cart with five hor&s;es after the rate of twelve pence <HI>per</HI> mile outward onely, and &s;o rateably for more or fewer hor&s;es; and for every &s;ingle hor&s;e, after the rate of two pence <HI>per</HI> mile outwards onely: every wilfull neglecter, or refu&s;or, to provide his cart, carriages, or hor&s;es, to be made u&s;e of for the &s;ervice afore&s;aid, to be impri&s;on|ed by any three of them, or to be fined at the di&s;cretion of the &s;aid <HI>Committees,</HI> or any three of them, not exceeding the &s;um of ten pounds.</P>
<P>And it is hereby Ordained, That the &s;tanding <HI>Committees</HI> in the &s;everall coun|ties, cities, and places, &s;hall give &s;uch al|lowance to the Collectors, Trea&s;urers, and other Officers, for the collecting, bringing, and paying, out of the moneys, by virtue of any the forementioned Ordinances, as by the &s;everall and re&s;pective Ordinances is ordered, limitted, and appointed. And in ca&s;e in any of the &s;aid Ordinances, no provi&s;ion is made for the &s;ame, The &s;aid &s;tanding <HI>Committees</HI> re&s;pectively, or the
<PB N="14" REF="8"> major part of them &s;hall allow &s;ix pence in every twenty &s;hillings, and no more, to be di&s;po&s;ed of to &s;uch Collectors, Trea&s;u|rers, or other Officers, and in &s;uch propor|tion, as they, or the major part of them &s;hall think meet.</P>
<P>And the &s;aid Trea&s;urers are hereby re|quired to keep a perfit accompt of all &s;uch moneys as they &s;hall receive and pay, by virtue of this, or any of the Ordinances afore&s;aid, and to deliver copies monethly of their &s;aid accompts, unto the &s;tanding <HI>Committee</HI> of their &s;aid &s;everall and re&s;pe|ctive counties: And it is hereby further Ordained, That the &s;tanding <HI>Committee</HI> of the &s;everall and re&s;pective counties, or the major part of them, &s;hall have power and authority to advance by way of Loan, or borrow, any &s;um or &s;ums of money, for this &s;ervice and other nece&s;&s;ary charges, tending to the &s;afety and pre&s;ervation of the &s;aid counties, cities, and places, and for the &s;ecurity of any per&s;ons that &s;hall lend any money for the u&s;es afore&s;aid, to give them Warrants under their hands, or the hands of three of them at lea&s;t, to re|ceive the &s;ame again of &s;uch Trea&s;urer
<PB N="15" REF="8"> or Trea&s;urers, to whom &s;uch Warrant, or Warrants, &s;hall be directed, who &s;hall up|on the &s;ight of this Warrant, or a copy thereof left with him, detain &s;o much of the moneys, which he or they, &s;hall receive as afore&s;aid, to di&s;charge the &s;aid Warrant; and if &s;uch Trea&s;urer or Trea&s;urers, &s;hall not accordingly &s;top, and detain &s;o much money, which he hath or &s;hall next receive, to &s;ati&s;fie the per&s;on or per&s;ons, the money &s;o lent as afore&s;aid, upon proof thereof made to the &s;aid &s;tanding <HI>Committees</HI> re&s;pe|ctively; the &s;aid <HI>Committees</HI> or the major part of them, &s;hall under their hands, give Warrants to the high Con&s;tables of the <HI>Hundreds</HI> where &s;uch Trea&s;urer or Trea&s;u|rers dwell, or have e&s;tates, or to &s;uch other per&s;on or per&s;ons, as they &s;hall think fit, to leavy &s;o much money as the Warrant or Warrants were made for, of the Goods and e&s;tate of the Trea&s;urer or Trea&s;urers, by way of di&s;tre&s;&s;e, and &s;ale of the Goods, to the u&s;e of the per&s;on or per&s;ons, &s;o lend|ing as afore&s;aid. And in ca&s;e any Trea&s;u|rers or Collectors, &s;hall refu&s;e or neglect to leavy, or receive the &s;ums of money to be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by virtue of any the Ordinances
<PB N="16" REF="9"> before mentioned, it &s;hall be lawfull for the &s;aid <HI>Committee,</HI> or any three or more of them, of the &s;everall and re&s;pective counties, to fine any the &s;aid per&s;ons &s;o offending, not exceeding the &s;um of twenty pound to be levied upon them, by way of di&s;tre&s;&s;e, and &s;ale of their Goods, and by &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;hall be appointed by the <HI>Com|mittees</HI> of the &s;aid re&s;pective counties, or by any three of them. And be it further Pro|vided, That the Forces rai&s;ed, and to be rai&s;ed by virtue of this Ordinance, &s;hall not be carried out of the &s;aid &s;everall and re&s;pective counties, wherein they are, or &s;hall be rai&s;ed without the con&s;ent of the &s;aid &s;tanding <HI>Committees</HI> of the &s;everall and re&s;pective counties, or the greater part of them, or without particular directions of Parliament, or of the <HI>Committee</HI> of both Kingdoms, appointed for the ordering and directing all matters concerning the War, by Ordinance of both Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment: Provided neverthele&s;&s;e, That if any of the <HI>Committees</HI> of any of the re&s;pe|ctive counties, and places, or the Trea&s;u|rers, Collectors, or other Officers appoint|ed, or to be appointed for, in, or about the
<PB N="17" REF="9"> execution of any the &s;aid Ordinances afore|mentioned, or of this pre&s;ent Ordinance, &s;hall refu&s;e or neglect to take the Vow and Covenant appointed by the &s;aid Ordinance of the 29. of <HI>Iune,</HI> 1643. or the late Nationall Covenant appointed to be taken by every per&s;on in the three Kingdoms of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> being thereunto requi|red by the re&s;pective <HI>Committees,</HI> or any three or more of them; that then they &s;hall from thenceforth &s;tand di&s;abled, to do, or execute any thing, as one of the <HI>Committees;</HI> &amp; that they &s;hall not be admitted to any of the <HI>Committees</HI> afore&s;aid, or to do, or execute any thing or things in the execution of the &s;aid Ordinances: And the &s;aid <HI>Committees</HI> of the &s;everall and re&s;pective counties, are to ten|der the &s;aid re&s;pective Covenants, to all and every per&s;on or per&s;ons appointed, or to be appointed for the execution of this pre|&s;ent Ordinance, or any the Ordinances a|forementioned in the &s;aid Ordinance of the 1. of <HI>Iuly,</HI> 1644. expre&s;&s;ed and recited: And that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever, be admitted or allowed to be an Officer or Commander in the &s;aid &s;ervice of the &s;aid re&s;pective counties, unle&s;&s;e they &s;hall fir&s;t take the &s;aid Vows and Covenants before
<PB N="18" REF="10"> the re&s;pective <HI>Committees,</HI> or any three or more of them.</P>
<P>And it is further Ordained, That the <HI>Committees</HI> of the &s;aid counties, or any three or more of them re&s;pectively, &s;hall hereby have power and authority from time to time, to demand and take accompt of all Mu&s;ters that &s;hall be made by the &s;everall Commi&s;&s;aries; and all Captains, both of Hor&s;e and Foot, are to make good to the &s;aid <HI>Committees,</HI> all the hor&s;es, hor&s;e arms, and foot arms, that &s;hall be lo&s;t, or imbe|zelled by them, or under their commands, unle&s;&s;e they can make it appear they were lo&s;t in &s;ervice again&s;t the enemy: And the &s;aid captains are enjoyned to give a li&s;t un|der their hands to the &s;aid re&s;pective &s;tand|ing <HI>Committees</HI> of all men, hor&s;e, and arms, rai&s;ed, or to be rai&s;ed by the &s;aid a&s;&s;ociated counties, &amp; under their command: And that every captain, both of hor&s;e and foot, and every other &s;uperiour or inferiour officer, who&s;e pay comes to ten &s;hillings a day, or above, &s;hall take but one half the pay due unto him, and take the publike Faith for the other half, untill the War be ended. And every officer who&s;e pay cometh to five &s;hillings a day, or more, and under ten &s;hil|lings
<PB N="19" REF="10"> a day, &s;hall accept of two parts of three of &s;uch pay due unto him, and re&s;pite the other third part upon the publike Faith, untill the war be ended: And when there is three months pay due to any of them, a certificate thereof under the hands of the &s;aid <HI>Committees</HI> of the re&s;pective counties, or any three of them, &s;hall be a &s;ufficient warrant to &s;uch officer, to demand and re|ceive the &s;aid moneys owing, upon the pub|like Faith, as afore&s;aid. And it is likewi&s;e Ordained, That no free quarter &s;hall be taken in any the &s;aid a&s;&s;ociated counties: And if any forces &s;hall take free quarter, every officer is to have but one third part of the pre&s;ent pay due to him for &s;o long time, as he or they have had, or &s;hall have free quarter; and every common foot &s;oul|dier, but half pay, and every common hor&s;e|man or trooper, fourteen pence a day: And the re&s;idue of their pay is to be re&s;erved for payment of their quarters, and to be employed for the purpo&s;es above men|tioned.</P>
<P>And it is likewi&s;e ordained, That twen|ty one or more of the Committees appoint|ed the fir&s;t of <HI>July,</HI> 1644. as afore&s;aid, where|of of the counties of <HI>Wilts, Dor&s;et, Somer&s;et,</HI>
<PB N="20" REF="11"> <HI>Devon</HI> and <HI>Cornwall,</HI> three at lea&s;t of every the &s;aid counties re&s;pectively, and two or more of the county of <HI>Pool,</HI> who hereby have power to a&s;&s;emble them&s;elves toge|ther in any place within any part of the &s;aid counties, as often as they &s;hall think fit, to advi&s;e and direct all things that they &s;hall conceive fit, for the more &s;peedy and effectual execution of this Ordinance in all or any of the &s;aid counties, cities &amp; places.</P>
<P>And be it likewi&s;e Ordained, That the Committees of the &s;aid &s;everall and re&s;pe|ctive counties, or any three or more of them re&s;pectively, &s;hall have power to &s;ecure the per&s;ons of all dangerous Malignants and Delinquents, being and re&s;iding in the &s;aid &s;everall counties, And that the &s;elect and &s;tanding Committees of the re&s;pective counties, &s;hall have power to call before them all Mini&s;ters and School-ma&s;ters that are &s;candalous in their lives, or ill-affected to the Parliament, or that have de&s;erted their Cures or ordinary place of their re&s;idence, not having a &s;ufficient ground for their ab&s;ence; &amp; that they, or the major part of them re&s;pectively, &s;hall have power to Examine any complaints again&s;t them, upon the Oaths of &s;uch per&s;ons as
<PB N="21" REF="11"> &s;hall or may be produced to give Evidence a|gain&s;t them; And the &s;aid Committees re&s;pe|ctively &s;hall hereby have power to admini&s;ter &s;uch Oath accordingly, and &s;hall have power, upon &s;ufficient proof of their Delinquency, to remove &s;uch as they &s;hall judge unfit for their places, and Seque&s;ter their E&s;tates and Re|venues, and to place others well qualified and Orthodox per&s;ons in their room, &s;uch as &s;hall be approved by three or more godly and learned Divines re&s;iding in any of the &s;aid counties, or any three or more of the A&s;&s;embly of Di|vines; and the &s;aid re&s;pective &s;tanding Com|mittees have hereby power to make &s;uch al|lowance for the maintenance of &s;uch Mini|&s;ters and School-ma&s;ters as they &s;hall think fit.</P>
<P>And be it Ordained, That the &s;aid &s;elect and &s;tanding Committees re&s;pectively, or the major part of them &s;hall have power to nominate and appoint Solicitors, Collectors, and other Officers within the &s;aid counties, for putting in execution of all and every the &s;aid Orders and Ordinances of Parliament, and of this pre&s;ent Ordinance.</P>
<P>Provided alwayes, that this Ordinance &s;hall not extend to the putting out of any the Trea&s;urers, Solicitors, or other officers for|merly
<PB N="22" REF="12"> appointed by the Committee of Lords and Commons, by vertue of the Ordinance of Seque&s;trations, or by any Ordinance for the execution of the &s;aid Ordinance or Ordinan|ces for Seque&s;trations.</P>
<P>And it is further ordained, That the &s;aid &s;tanding Committees in the re&s;pective coun|ties &s;everally, are hereby enabled and autho|ri&s;ed to call to an accompt upon oath, all &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons of the &s;everall and re&s;pe|ctive counties, as have received any Moneys or Goods by colour, or authority of any Or|der, Ordinance or Act of Parliament, which they have not made even payment of; And &s;uch as &s;hall refu&s;e to make accompt, or pay in the Money wherewith they are charged, then the &s;aid &s;tanding Committees of the &s;everall counties, cities and places re&s;pectively, &s;hall fine them double the &s;um charged upon them, which if it be not paid by &s;uch per&s;on or per|&s;ons as &s;hall be &s;o charged and fined, within &s;ix dayes after demand by the re&s;pective &s;tan|ding Committees, or by order of the &s;aid &s;tan|ding Committees, the re&s;pective Committees or the major part of them, left at his or their hou&s;es or dwellings; the &s;aid Committees re|&s;pectively &s;hal give order for the di&s;training for the &s;ame, and if there be not &s;ufficient di&s;tre&s;&s;e
<PB N="23" REF="12"> wherewith to &s;atisfie; then the &s;aid &s;tanding <HI>Committees,</HI> or the major part, may impri&s;on the offendor, and &s;eque&s;ter his E&s;tate, untill the money charged, and the fine &s;et, be &s;atisfi|ed and paid.</P>
<P>And it is further Ordered and Ordained, by the Authority afore&s;aid, That if any per|&s;on or per&s;ons be overcharged by any A&s;&s;e&s;&s;e|ment in any of the re&s;pective counties, cities, and places afore&s;aid, that then the &s;tanding <HI>Committees</HI> of the &s;aid re&s;pective counties, ci|ties, and places, or the major part of them hereby have power to ea&s;e &s;uch per&s;on or per|&s;ons overcharged, as in their di&s;cretions they &s;hall think fit. And be it Ordained, That eve|ry per&s;on &s;hall be rated for the e&s;tate he hath in each &s;everall place, citie, and countie; and if his Land be let at neer the full value there|of, &s;uch per&s;on to whom the rent belongeth, &s;hall be &s;olely chargeable therewith; but if it be &s;et under value, the &s;um taxed &s;hall be ap|portioned &s;o, that the Le&s;&s;ee or Tenant, and he, or they to whom the rent belongeth, may bear their proportionable &s;hares as the A&s;&s;e&s;|&s;or or A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors &s;hall think meet: And it is al|&s;o Ordained, That what&s;oever &s;ums of mony are or &s;hall be &s;et, or impo&s;ed by virtue of the aforementioned Ordinances upon any Land-Lords,
<PB N="24" REF="13"> or Le&s;&s;ors for, or in re&s;pect of any Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, held of them by any Le&s;&s;ees or Tenants, the &s;ame &s;hall be paid by their &s;everall and re&s;pe|ctive Tenants, which they &s;hall deduct and defaulk out of the next rents payable by them, to their re&s;pective Le&s;&s;ors or Land-Lords; and for &s;o doing, the &s;aid Le&s;&s;ees and Tenants, their Heirs, Executors, Admini&s;trators, or A&s;&s;ignes, from, or again&s;t any Covenant, Grant, Condition, Writing Obligatory, mat|ter of Record, or otherwi&s;e to the contrary, &s;hall be &s;aved harmle&s;&s;e, and di&s;charged by Authority of both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
<P>And it is la&s;tly Ordained by the Authority afore&s;aid, That in ca&s;e the &s;aid Forces, or any of them, &s;halbe commanded out of the bounds and limits of the &s;aid A&s;&s;ociation, that the &s;aid &s;everall and re&s;pective counties, cities, and places, &s;hall not be charged with the pay|ment of them, during the time of their ab|&s;ence, unle&s;&s;e they march forth of the &s;aid countie, with the leave and con&s;ent of the Select and &s;tanding <HI>Committee,</HI> for the time being, or the major part of them.</P>
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