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 employed for the Aid and Assistance of the Lord FAIRFAX.  

ORdered by the Commons in Parliament, That this be forthwith printed and published:  
H: Elsing, Cler. Parl. D. Com.  
Printed for Edward Husbands, October 18. 1643.    

ALl Gentlemen soldiers, under the command of Lieutenant colonel John Hopson, repair to your Colours at your rendezvous 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 excellency, 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 not appear by Twelve of the clock in Saint James field, to march as they shall be directed; Then their shops 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 ordered, 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 soldiers that shall voluntarily in person express their alacrity and courage in so commendable a service, as a testimony of their good affections, and a perpetual memorial to the honour of them and their posterity.   

A Declaration of the Commons in Parliament, &c.  
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 recommended 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 engage the public-faith for repayment; And this House doth further Declare, That it shall be held an acceptable service in all such as have, or shall encourage others to a cheerful 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 several sums of Money, Plate, Horse, and Ammunition subscribed, or to be hereafter subscribed as abovesaid, within the several and respective counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincoln, and the city and county of the city of Norwich, and to apprise the said Horses, and to give Acquittances and Receipts for the same; which Receipts shall be presented to the Treasurers at Guildhall, London, to be by the said Treasurers received and entered in as full and beneficial a manner, as if the several Subscribers had actually paid in the several sums subscribed unto the said Treasurers at Guildhall, London, whereby the several contributors may have the security of the public-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 several Subscriptions, and the intent of the Subscribers therein.  
FINIS.