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A26085 The Association agreement and protestation of the covntries of Somerset ... [et al.] 1644 (1644) Wing A4054; ESTC R15252 4,052 12

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of the County of Somerset to the Lord Hoptons Army and the Garrison of Bristoll shall continue without any alteration untill His Majesty shall settle some other course for payment of the same and regard to be had of the County of Somerset by the other Associated Counties during the continuance of such payment for a proportionable abatement 11 That no Sequestration be made after composition made and paid but by Order of the generall Sessions of the Peace or other Generall meeting of the Commissioners by common consent there unlesse for new offences 12 That the weekly payments in all the four Counties be raised with all diligence and Arrearages Collected and accounted for untill the Towns of Plimouth Poole Lyme and Wareham be reduced And that Committees be appoynted in each County respectively to take the accounts of all Receivers of the weekly payments which are to be the same that take the Treasurers accounts 13 That there be provided 1000 Barrells of Powder and 10000 Fire-Armes at the charge of those four Counties according to the proportions before expressed 14 That the said Army to be raised by the said four associated Counties shall not be removed out of those Counties untill the Towns of Plimouth Poole Lyme and Wareham and such other places of those four Counties that shall hereafter rise in Rebellion if any do be reduced to their due Obedience to His Majesty unlesse in case of necessity as His Majesty by the advice of the Councell of War of that Army shall think fit 15 That in regard by this Association the Counties of Somerset Dorset Devon and Cornwall make themselves but as one entire body therefore aswell the charges of the Garrisons within those Counties as of the Forces thus to be raised shall be cast together and from the time of this Association which shall be accounted from the first of May 1644 untill God shall blesse this Kingdom with a happy Peace each County shall bear its proportionable part of the charg according to the proportions aforesaid 16 That His Majesty be moved that severall Commissions be granted to certain Persons of each of those Counties to authorize an Impresse of Souldiers for this present Service 17 That if any Minister shall refuse or Wilfully neglect the solemne Celebration of the Fast appointed by His Majesty on the second Friday of every Month or shall not read the Service prayers appoynted for that Fast being called before a Justice of Peace shall not promise protest his future conformity he be forthwith secured and his Estate sequestred and the like course to be taken with such Ministers as absent themselves that day from their Cures unlesse upon sicknes or other cause allowed by two Commissioners or Iustices of Peace and the like order to be taken with such as shall not read such books or writings as shall be appointed by His Majestie to be read in Churches and Chappell 's and the Constables and Churchwardens are to certifie their defaults to the next Justices 18 That there be copies of this Protestation delivered out by the Sheriffe at the Sessions of the Peace of each County to the Constables of each Hundred respectively and the Hundred Constables do immediately deliver out severall copies to all the Petty-Constables which are by the Minister of every Parish Church and Chappell to be published the next Sunday following after the receipt and such persons as shall take the same are to subscribe their names thereunto before the said Minister Constable or Churchwardens or two of them and the Ministers Constables are to give the list or certificate of their names that take it and of them that refuse to the Constables of the Hundred who are to deliver the same to the Commissioners at the next generall meeting after the taking or refusall thereof THE PROTESTATION I A. B. doe in the presence of Almighty God promise vow and protest with my utmost power to maintain and defend the true reformed Protestant Religion established by Law in this Kingdome against all Popery Popish and other Innovations of Sectaries and Schismaticks As also His Majesties Person and Rights against all Forces whatsoever And in like manner the Lawes Liberties and Priviledges of Parliament and of this Kingdom And I shall to the utmost of my Power preserve and defend the Peace of the foure Counties of Somerset Dorset Cornwall and Devon and all persons that shall unite themselves by this our Protestation in the due performance thereof and to my power assist His Majesties Armies for reducing the Townes of Plimouth Poole Lyme and Wareham and resistance of all Forces of Scots Invaders and others levied under pretence of any authority of the Two Houses of Parliament without His Majesties consent That if the County of Wilts and City of Bristoll will enter into this Association they shall be received with all cheerfullnes That His Majestie be moved for a confirmation of the present Union and Articles FINIS