At Whitehall the eleventh of March, 1628.  


Lord Keeper.  
Lord Precedent.  
Lord Privy Seal.  
Lord High Chamberlain.  
earl Martial.  
Lord Chamberlain.  
earl of Suffolk.  
earl of Dorset.  
earl of Carlisle.  
earl of Banbury.  
Lord Vi. Dorchester.  
Lord Bishop of London.  
Lord Bishop of Winton.  
Master Secretary Coke.    
WHereas his MAJESTY'S Army (lately discharged at Portsmouth) hath continued since the first raising thereof by the space of forty two months; In which time, diverse great payments have been made to the Officers thereof, in full satisfaction of their actual Service abroad, and with a great overplus to the most, as appeareth by sundry accounts lately certified to the Board, in answer to certain Petitions thereto exhibited; And yet nevertheless, there is claimed some arrears of Pay by many, which they demand for the time of their Soldiers being Billeted in the Country: His MAJESTY, out of His Princely desire and care to give all the said Officers full content in their reasonable demands, hath this day, with the Advice of His Counsel, Ordered, That all the Accounts of moneys paid, or imprested in part of pay, to any of the Officers of his Highness said Army, either by john Bear, Esquire, Sir Thomas Love, Knight, and Captain john Mason, Treasurers and Pay masters for the Army, or the deputy Lieutenants, and Collectors of the Loans in and about the Countries wherein the said Soldiers were billetted: Also the Accounts of Sir George Chudleigh, and Sir james Bag, Knights, with the Accounts of such moneys as were paid to the said Officers in Ireland after their return from Cadiz, or privately issued to any particular persons to and for the use of any of the said Officers out of his Highness' Receipt of the Exchequer, or other Offices. Moreover, all sums paid unto any of the said Officers by the late Duke of Buckingham, or any of his Ministers, or that have been paid by any others not here nominated for that purpose, shall before the last day of june next, be delivered up to the hands of the two Auditors of the Impressed, to be by them examined and cast up, aswell for the dead as for the living, that so such remainder of Pay as shall be found justly due upon the foot of every man's Account fairly to be drawn up, and signed by the Auditor, may be paid unto themselves, their Executors or Assigns, at such convenient times as shall be then appointed by the Lords of his MAJESTY'S Privy Counsel; there being no possible means of setting down days of payment of moneys before the sum be known, at which time, the days of payment shall be expressly and punctually set down. And it is further ordered, that all such as have given credit to any of the said Officers since the time of their employments in these His MAJESTY'S late Services, for Meat, Drink, Apparel, Lodging, or Moneys, shall have full power by virtue of any the Bills Bonds, or assignments of any the said Officers authorising them in that behalf, to receive satisfaction, out of their said remainder of Pay, so fare as what shall be found to be due unto them will extend. And in the mean time both Officers their Creditors are prohibited to trouble his MAJESTY, or the Lords of his Highness' Counsel, or any other, with any further Suits and Petitions, by reason of the premises; but to attend and expect the finishing of the said Accounts, and the time to be prefixed for payment.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and john Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty.  
ANNO M.DC.XXVIII.