THE DESIRES OF THE COMMISSIONERS for the weekly Loane to HIS Majesty's Horse in the County of OXFORD, PRESENTED TO HIS MAJESTY IN THE BEHALF OF the County. Whereupon it is Ordered by His MAjESTY, and commanded to be Printed, both for the information of the Officers and Soldiers of the Army, and Inhabitants of the County aforesaid.  
Printed by His Majesty's Command At OXFORD, February 9 By LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the University. 1643.   

The DESIRES of the COMMISSIONERS For the weekly Loane to His MAJESTY'S Horse in the County of Oxford, etc.  
THe pay to each Regiment being proportioned, so many Towns (lying together) may be assigned to each, as by the sums already laid upon each Town in the Loane of 300 per week, the Money may be raised to every Regiment.  
2 That the petty Constables make Assessments, and publish them to the Jnhabitants, and then return a Copy of the Assessment to the Officer in chief of the Quarter they are off, and make them only in the names of the parties in present occupation of the land, with a distinction of places, whereby the Officer may know how to make Distress in case of refusal.  
3 That the Commissioners for the County may have power to regulate and alter Assessments upon complaint made to them, and that the Army submit to such alteration of Assessments as come unto them figned under three of the Commissioners hands.  
4 That the petty Constables collect the Money, and bring the same to any place of the Division they are off, but not further, as the Officer in chief shall appoint.  
5 That when the Constable's return, that they cannot levy the Money from the parties upon demand, then only it shall be lawful for the chief Officer of the Quarter to distrain, or to send an Inferior Officer with Soldiers to levy it, which he or they are to perform, by calling the petty Constable, or his deputy to show them the place Taxed, whereupon only, or upon the party's goods in an other place of that Manor, they are to distrain, or if in case they distrain otherwise, or in any other then as aforesaid, that such Distress shall be accounted in them as unlawful Plundering, and the Officers and Soldiers be proceeded against by a Court of War, as for Plundering those in due Obedience to His Majesty, who pay duly all Contribution to His Majesty's use.  
6 That when a distress is to be, no more Goods and Chattles shall be taken, then (as near as may be) can be esteemed a double value of the Money Taxed upon the place, and that distress not put to sale until three days be expired, after the Distress taken, and likewise being first appraised by two sufficient men of the parish: and if the Distress do exceed the double value of the Tax, by reason of a fit is not to be had, than the over plus to be left in the Constable's hands to be returned to the owner.  
7 Where more Troopers are Quartered upon any person, exceeding the weekly charge of his Contribution, and the Soldiers pay not that over plus, it shall be lawful for the Constable of the place to make payment to the party forth of the money to be collected by him in his liberties, and such money is to be allowed him by the Officer in chief of the Quarter upon the Constable's Account to be next made to the said Officer.  
8 Where Lands be unstockt, and the Loan not paid, it shall be lawful for the Officer in Chief of the Quarter to make his best of the whole, till due order be taken for payment by the owner of the land, and if it be wood-lands there, it may be lawful to sell, to the double value of the Tax weekly, of the Underwoods, (not meddling at all with Timber) until due payment be made by the owners.  
9 That the Commissioners in the first order named continue their meetings as formerly appointed, to hear and determine all controversies arising upon Assessments, and to transmit the complaints and greivances of the Country to the Court of War which are occasioned by the Soldiers; and if the Court of War shall not give due remedy, That the Commissioners may repair to His Majesty and the Council of War, for further redress against both Court of War and Troops offending.  
10 That a Court of war be named and required to sit upon the same days as the Commissioners do, as aforesaid.  
11 That His Majesty's Horse be quartered, if it may be, in Market Towns, and Towns of Thoroughfare, where are conveniency of Stabling and Victualling houses, as places most convenient, and for the more ease of the Farmer leaving convenient stabling and lodging in Inns for entertainment of Travellers.  
12 That these Articles be Printed and published in all Churches, and so many Copies printed as each Town and Constable in the County, and every Officer may have one or more for his information.  
13 That if any damages accrue by the Soldiers within their Quarters, reparations may be made according to his Majesty's Agreement to that effect, as formerly, & if that be not then sufficient to the party's loss and damage arising from the Soldiers, That the effect of so much may be supplied forth of the moneys raised upon delinquents Estates in the County.  
Lastly, that all Commodities shall be taken and paid for, and all billeting be taken & paid for according to the rates & prizes formerly in the printed Books of Agreement by His Majesty, for the Information of the County in that case, set forth by Commissioners. Given at Our Court at Oxford, this Eight day of February, in the Nineteenth year of Our Reign. 1643.  
FINIS.