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A83556 Two ordinances of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, one for the constant recruiting, maintaining, and regulating of the forces of the seven associated counties, under the command of Edward Earle of Manchester. The other, for the regulating the Vniversity of Cambridge, and for removing of scandalous ministers in the seven associated counties. Die Lunæ, 22 Jan. 1643. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that these ordinances shall be forthwith printed and published. J. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum. England and Wales. Parliament. 1644 (1644) Wing E2412; Thomason E30_4; ESTC R9166 5,066 12

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Foote-Arms that shall be lost or imbeazel'd by them or under their commands unlesse they can make it appeare that they were lost in service against the Enemy And the said Captaines are enjoyned to give a List under their hands to the said Committee for the Association of all men horses and armes under their commands And the said Lords Commons doe further Ordaine that all the Moneys collected and not disposed of or to be Collected upon the fifth and twentieth part of mens estates or of the last three Moneths pay and all the moneys or other benifit arising by vertue of any Ordinance for the third part of the sequestration setled upon the Earle of Manchester shall be paid unto the Treasurers appointed as aforesaid and from thence to issue out againe for the intents and purposes aforementioned And it is likewise Ordained that if any of the said Associated Forces have taken or shall take free quarter within the said Association every Officer is then to have but one third part of the present pay due to him by this Ordinance for so long time as he or they have had or shall have free quarter And every Common foote Souldier but halfe pay every Common horseman or Trooper foureteene pence a day and the residue of their pay is to be reserved for the Payment of their quarters and to be imployed for the purposes aforementioned And they further Ordaine that the shall send one or two of their Deputy Lieutenants or Committees trusted by the Parliament with the Affaires of the said County and City to the Committee for the said Association to Cambridge who shall have hereby equall power with any other of the said Committee at Cambridge while they sit there or in any other place And the said Earle and Committee for the said Association have hereby power given them to call all Collectors Treasurers or others that have or are thought to have any of the said monyes in their hands to an accompt and to cause the said money in their hands to be paid unto the Treasurers appointed by this Ordinance And if any Collectors Treasurers or others shall refuse to accompt or to pay in the monyes wherewith they are charged then the said Earle Committee shall Fine them double the sum charged upon them which if it be not paid within six daies after the summe is set and notice thereof left at his or their dwelling house It shall be lawfull to distraine for the same and if there be not sufficient distresse wherewith to satisfie Then the said Earle and Committee may imprison the offender herein and sequester his estate untill the money charged and the Fine set be levied and paid And it is Ordained that six pence in the pound shall be allowed for every summe of money which shall be collected and paid to the said Treasurer whereof three pence shall be for the Collectors and three pence for the Treasurer And the said Treasurer shal keepe a Register Booke of the several summes received and paid out by them and shall render and accompt thereof unto the said Earle and Committee once every Moneth at least And be it lastly Ordained that the said Earle Deputy Lieutenants Committees Collectors Assessors and every one of them and every other person that shall be aiding and assisting to them or any of them in doing any thing by vertue of this Ordinance shal be defended and saved harmlesse therein by authority of both Houses of Parliament Iohn Browne Cleric Parl. Die Lunae 22 Ian. 1643. AN Ordinance for Regulating the Vniversity of CAMBRIDGE and for removing of Scandalous Ministers in the seven Associated Counties WHereas many Complaints are made by the will affected Inhabitants of the Associated Counties of Essex Norffolk Suffolk Hartford Cambridge Huntington and Lincolne That the service of the Parliament is retarded the Enemy strengthned the peoples Soules starved and their minds diverted from any care of Gods Cause by their idle ill affected and scandalous Clergy of the Vniversity of Cambridge and the Associated Counties And that many that would give Evidence against such scandalous Ministers are not able to travell to London nor be are the charges of such a Iourney It is Ordanted by the Lords Commons Assembled in Parliament That the Earle of Manchester shall appoynt one or more Committees in every County consisting of such as have beene nominated Deputy Lieutenants or Committees by any former Ordinance of Parliament in any of the said Associated Counties every Committee to consist of ten whereof any five or more of them to sit in any place or places within any the said Associated Counties where the said Earle shall appoynt with power to put in execution these Instructions following and in pursuance thereof to give assistance to the said Committeés First They shall have power to call before them all Provosts Masters and Fellowes of Colledges all Students and Members of the Vniversity and all Ministers in any County of the Association and all Schoole-masters that are scandalous in their lives or ill-affected to the Parliament or Fomentors of this unnaturall Warre or that shall wilfully refuse obedience to the Ordinances of Parliament or that have deserted their ordinary places of residence not being imployed in the service of the King and Parliament And they shall have power to send for any Witnesses and examine any complaint or testimony against them upon Oathes of such persons as shall and may be produced to give Evidence against them and shall certifie their Names with the Charge and Proofes against them to the said Earle of Manchester and he shall have power to eject such as he shall iudge unfit for their Places and to sequester their Estates Meanes and Revenues and to dispose of them as he shall thinke fitting and to place other fitting persons in their Roome such as shall be approved of by the Assembly of Divines fitting at Westminster The Earle of Manchester or the said Committee or Committees shall have power to administer the late Covenant taken and to be taken of all the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland to all persons in any of the said Associated Counties and the Isie of Ely upon such Penalties as are or shall be assigned by the Parliament in this behalfe And be it ordained That the said Earle of Manchester shall have power to dispose of a fifth part of all such Estates as they shall sequester for the benefit of the Wives and Children of any of the aforesaid persons The said Committee or Committees shall imploy a Clerke for the registring of all Warrants Orders Summons and Ejectments made by them And that they choose some convenient place for the preserving of the Writings of this Committee That the said Earle of Manchester shall have power to examine and inhibite all such as doe obstruct the Reformation now endeavoured by the Parliament and Assembly of Divines And be it further declared That all such as shall doe any thing in execution of this Ordinance shall be kept indempnified by the Authoritie and Power of both Houses of Parliament And further be it ordeined That the Earle of Manchester shall have power to appoint a convenient number consisting of one or more out of every Countie one out of the Citie of Norwich and one out of the Countie and Citie of Lincolne Provided that three of these be Deputie-Lieutenants to sit at Cambridge for the better ordering of all Businesses of the Association according to Ordinances and Orders of Parliament and according to his Commission granted by his Excellencie the Earle of Essex And that the present Committee for the Association sitting at Cambridge shall cease when the Earle of Manchester shall have appointed another under his hand and seale John Browne Cler. Parliament FINIS