A DECLARATION OF The Committee for the Militia: CONCERNING The Penalties that are to be inflicted upon thoſe of the TRAINED-BANDS that exempt themſelves in this preſent Expedition.
Together with a Declaration of the COMMONS Aſſembled in Parliament, for the raiſing of Money, Plate, and Horſe, to be imployed for the Aid and Aſsiſtance of the Lord FAIRFAX.
ORdered by the Commons in Parliament, That this be forthwith printed and publiſhed:
Printed for Edward Husbands, October 18. 1643.
ALl Gentlemen Souldiers, under the command of Lieutenant Colonell John Hopſon, repair to your Colours at your Rendevouze in_____this preſent Wedneſday morning, being the Eighteenth day of October, 1643. completely Armed, fit for ſervice, by Seven of the clock there to receive further command from the Earl of Eſſex his Excellencie, or other Officers under him: And if any ſhall fail to be ready to march away at the hour of Eight of the clock, he ſhall forfeit Five ſhillings; And if they ſhall not appear by Nine of the clock, Ten ſhillings; And if they ſhall•ot appear by Twelve of the clock in Saint James field, to march as th•y ſhall be directed; Then their ſhops4 are to be ſhut up, and they deprived of Trade, and liable to the Expulſion out of the Lines of Communication.
And the Committee for the Militia ſitting at Worceſter-houſe do further declare, that it is ordred, that every Pariſh from whence the Regiment is drawn, ſhall ſpeedily prepare a large Table to be fixed within the reſpective Churches, wherein ſhall be inſcribed the Names of all ſuch Souldiers that ſhall voluntarily in perſon expreſſe their alacrity and courage in ſo commendable a ſervice, as a teſtimony of their good affections, and a perpetuall memoriall to the honour of them and their poſterity.
IT is this day ordered by the Commons in Parliament aſſembled, That the Aid and aſsiſtance of the Lord Fairfax ſhall be eſpecially and reſpectively recōmended to the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Eſſex, Lincoln, & to the city & county of the city of Norwich; And the Houſe doth declare, That it is and ſhall be held an acceptable ſervice in any man that will give any aſsiſtahce in Men, Money, Plate, Horſe, or Ammunition, to the ſaid Lord Fairfax; And this Houſe doth ingage the Publique-Faith for repayment; And this Houſe6 doth further Declare, That it ſhalbe held an acceptable ſervice in all ſuch as have, or ſhall encourage others to a cheerfull aſsiſtance of the ſaid Lord Fairfax. And it is further ordered, That Sir William Conſtable Baronet ▪ and ſuch as he ſhall depute and appoint, ſhall have power to receive the ſeverall ſums of Money, Plate, Horſe, and Ammunition ſubſcribed, or to be hereafter ſubſcribed as aboveſaid, within the ſeverall and reſpective counties of Eſſex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincoln, and the city and county of the city of Norwich, and to apprize the ſaid Horſes, and to give Acquittances and Receipts for the ſame; which Receipts ſhalbe preſented to the Treaſurers at Guild-hall, London, to be by the ſaid Treaſurers received7 and entred in as full and beneficiall a manner, as if the ſeverall Subſcribers had actually paid in the ſeverall ſums ſubſcribed unto the ſaid Treaſurers at Guild-hall, London, whereby the ſeverall contributers may have the ſecurity of the Publique-Faith for their repayment, as was upon the former Propoſitions for the Subſcriptions of Money, Horſe and Plate, &c. The which Money, Plate and Horſe, the ſaid Sir William Conſtable or his Deputies, ſhall diſcharge themſelves of by order of the Lord Fairfax, according to the ſeverall Subſcriptions, and the intent of the Subſcribers therein.
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