FOUR ORDINANCES OF THE LORDS and COMMONS, Assembled in PARLIAMENT, Viz. 

The 1. for raising and maintaining of Horse and Foot for the Garrison of Gloucester.  
The 2. for a weekly Assessment on the County and City of Gloucester.  
The 3. for continuance of a weekly Assessment on the City and County of Gloucester.  
The 4. concerning Currants.    

13. Martii 1644.  
ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament, that the several Ordinances for raising Moneys for the City and County of Gloucester, be forthwith Printed and published.  
Hen. Elsing Cler. Parl. Dom. Com.   
LONDON, Printed for Edward Husbands, March. 18. 1645.   

10. Maii. 1644. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, for raising and maintaining of Horse and Foot for the Garrison of Gloucester, and for the County of Gloucester, etc.  
WHereas the County and City of Gloucester, and the County of the said City are now in a sad condition, by reason of the enemies lying upon them, and keeping many Garrisons in the County of Gloucester, and the Counties of Hereford, Monmouth, Glamorgan, Brecknock, and Radnor, being almost all in their power, whereby the Irish Rebels and other enemies have the freer passage for prosecuting their bloody designs against this Kingdom to spoil and ruin the same; for prevention whereof and to reduce the residue of the said Counties to their due obedience of the King and Parliament, there is great necessity that three or four hundred horse, and other Forces be presently raised, and money provided for the same, and also for the better maintaining of the Forces already raised, and to be raised in the said Counties and City. The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, considering the premises, and well weighing the extraordinary and faithful service performed at, before and since the late siege of Gloucester, by the Garrison there, by Colonel Massey, and the Forces under his command, Do declare, order, and ordains, and be it hereby ordered, declared, and ordained, That Sir Robert Harley, Knight of the Bath; John Wild, Sergeant at Law; Nathaniel Stephens, Edward Stephens, Tho. Hodges, & Tho. P●ry, Esquires; Members of the House of Commons, the Mayor and Recorder of the City of Gloucester for the time being; Sir Giles Overbury, Knight; Edward massy, Colonel and Governor of Gloucester; James Kirle, John Stephens, Thomas Stephens, Edward Harley, Isaac Bromwich, Sylvanus Wood, Willam Shepheard, Stephen Flower, Edward Broughton, and Henry Jones, Esquires; shall be, and are hereby nominated a Committee of, and for the said several Counties and City; and that they, or any three or more of them shall hereby have full power and Authority, to take the subscriptions of all such persons as will voluntarily lend or contribute any sum or sums of Money, Plate, Horse or Arms towards the supplies and provisions aforesaid, and for other necessaries for the advancement of the said service, which sum and sums of Money, Plate, Horse, or Arms to be subscribed, lent, and contributed as aforesaid, the said Committee, or any three or more of them shall and may receive and employ for the services aforesaid, and give Notes, or Acquittances for the several sums of Money, Plate, Horse, or Arms so received, which said Notes or Acquittances shall be a sufficient specialty for the several persons that shall lend, or contribute any Money, Plate, Horse, or Arms as aforesaid, to demand re-payment thereof, or the value thereof with such increase as shall be agreed upon so as the same shall not exceed 8. l. per cent. And for the better enabling the said Committee to make re-payment of such Moneys, and the value of such Plate, Horse, and Arms as shall be lent for the purposes aforesaid and for the raising, maintenance, and supplies of the said Forces from time to time as need shall require, Be it further ordained by the Lords and Commons, that the said Committee, or any three or more of them, shall have Power and Authority to put in execution within the said Counties the several Ordinances of this present Parliament hereafter mentioned; That is to say, The Ordinance for Sequestration of Malignants, Delinquents, and Papists Estates; the Ordinance for raising of Money, by taxing such as have not at all contributed, or not according to their Estates; The Ordinance for the weekly Assessments, and all other Ordinances made this present Parliament, for advance of Money through the whole Kingdom of England, and dominion of Wales, for the service of the King and Parliament, so fare forth as they, or any of them have not been already fully executed within the places aforesaid, except the Ordinances for levying of Money by way of Excise, or new Impost, the proceed of all which raised, and to be raised within the said Counties, shall be paid unto the said Committee, or any three or more of them to be issued out for the uses and purposes aforesaid, which shall be a sufficient discharge to the Commissioners of Excise in that behalf. And the Commissioners of Excise are Authorised, and hereby required from time to time, to issue their Warrants to their inferior Officers within the said Counties for payment of the said Moneys accordingly, and that the said Committee, or any three or more of them take care of the full and due execution of the said Ordinances, according to the tenure and true meaning of the same respectively; and for the more speedy raising of Moneys for the repayment of such sums, and the value of such Plate, Horse, or Arms, as shall be brought in by subscriptions as aforesaid; Be it ordained by the Lords and Commons, that the said Committees, or any three or more of them, shall have hereby full power and authority to set, and let the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments of all Malignants, Delinquents, and Papists, which shall be seized and sequestered according to the Ordinance of Parliament for Sequestrations, within the said Counties and City, from year to year, or by Lease or Leases for the intents or purposes aforesaid, so long as the said Sequestration shall continue; and in case the said Subscribers and Lender's shall not receive full satisfaction of their principal Money, and interest to be lent and subscribed as aforesaid out of the Estates of Malignants, Delinquents, and Papists, and other provision as aforesaid, that then the said Subscribers, and Lender's, and every of them are by virtue of this Ordinance to have the public faith of the Kingdom for the repayment of such sum and sums of Money as shall be due unto them,  
And be it further Ordained, that the said Committees or any three or more of them shall have full power and Authority to name and appoint such Treasurers. Collectors, and other Officers within the said Counties & City, as they shall think fit and convenient for the better putting in Execution of all and every the aforesaid Ordinances of Parliament, and of this present Ordinance, aswell for the receiving of all or any the said Moneys, as also for the issuing out of the same, for the purposes aforesaid, by warrant under the hands of the said Committee, in such manner as the said Committee, or any three or more of them shall appoint, and to call to account from time to time upon Oath, all such Treasurers, Collectors, and other persons who shall receive any Moneys, Plate, Horse, or Arms, by virtue of this present Ordinance of Parliament, for the Services aforesaid, and to give such fitting and reasonable allowances unto such persons as shall be employed in the Execution of the Ordinance aforesaid, and of this present Ordinance, or any of them for their charges and pains therein, as the said Committees or any three or more of them shall think fit: provided that such allowance shall not exceed the respective rates allowed by the said several Ordinances in other Counties of the Kingdom for putting the said Ordinances in Execution; And if any such Treasurers, Collectors or other person or persons shall refuse to Account or pay in the Moneys wherewith they are charged, than the said Committees, or any three or more of them, shall return their names to one or both Houses of Parliament, and the said Committees, or any three or more of them are hereby enabled and Authorized to call to account upon oath all such person and persons of the said several Counties, as have received any Moneys by Authority of Parliament, which they have not made even payment of. And the said Committees or any three or more of them are hereby Authorized, to Administer the several oaths specified in the foresaid Ordinances, to such Commissioners or persons as have not already taken the same: And be it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons, that the personal Estates of such Malignants, Delinquents and Papists within the Cities of London and Westminster, & within 20. miles of the same not yet sequestered nor discovered, & which shall be discovered by the said Committees, or any three, or more of them, or by such person or persons as they shall Authorise under their hands and seals for that purpose, within three Month's next after the passing of this Ordinance shall be allowed unto the said Committees for the further advancement of the said service: Provided that the said concealed Estates exceed not the sum 5000 pounds; And that the said Committees, or any person or persons authorized by them as aforesaid, nor any of them shall possess themselves of the said Delinquents or Papists Estates before he or they acquaint the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestrations therewith, or any three or more of them, whereof the Chayrman to be one, to the end, they may judge of their Delinquency before his or their Estates he sequestered and taken away: And be it further Ordained by the Lords and Commons, that the said Committees, or any three or more of them, shall have power and authority, and are hereby required to administer the late Nationall Covenant appointed to be taken by the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to all persons within the said Counties and City, who ought to take the same by the late Ordinance and Instructions for that purpose, and have not already taken it. And be it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons, that the said Committees or any three or more of them, shall have power to call before them all Ministers and Schoolmasters within the said Counties and City that are scandalous in their lives, or illaffected to the Parliament, or fomenters of this unnatural War, or shall wilfully refuse obedience to the Ordinances of Parliament, or shall have deserted their ordinary place of Residence, not being employed in the service of the King and Parliament, and they shall have power to send for any witnesses, and examine any complaint, or receive any testimony against them upon Oath of any person that shall be produced to give evidence against them, and upon such proofs of the aforesaid crimes, the said Committees, or any three or more of them; have hereby power to remove and eiect all such scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters, and in their places to nominate and appoint such learned, able, and godly persons as they shall think fit, and shall cause all such Ministers and Schoolmasters so nominated, appointed, and placed, to be put in possession of the said several Churches and Schools, who shall and may respectively take, receive, and perceive, to their own use, the profits and revenues belonging to the said several Churches and places in as large and ample manner as the several Ministers and persons in the said several places have formerly used to do: And all Majors, Sheriffs, Constables, and other. His Majesty's Officers and Ministers, are hereby required to be aiding and affisting to the said Committee, as aforesaid in the execution of this service; and 'tis last ordered, declared and orpained, that the good endeavours of the said Committee in the execution of the premises, are, and shall be taken as real and public testimonies to the public weal, and themselves, and such others as shall act, and be aiding and assisting to them according to the true meaning of this present Ordinance, shall be for so doing, saved harmless and indemnified by power of Parliament.  
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Die Mercurii 2 Octobris 1644. An Ordinance for a weekly assessment on the County of Gloucester, and on the City and County of the City of Gloucester.  
WHereas the Committee nominated in a former Ordinance of Parliament, for raising and maintaining of Horse and Foot, for the Garrison of Gloucester, and for the County of Gloucester, Hereford, Monmouth, Glamorgan, Brecknock, and Radnor, are not able by the Ordinances of Sequesiration of Delinquents and Papists Estates, And the Ordinance of raising Moneys by taxing such as have not Contributed, or not according to their Estates to raise such present sums of Money as are expedient for the maintenance of the present Forces within the said Garrison, and County of Gloucester.  
It is therefore Ordained, And be it hereby Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled, That the said Committee nominated in the said Ordinance, or any four or more of them, shall have, and hereby hath power and Authority to Rate and Tax upon the said County of Gloucester, the sum of one thousand pounds a week, and on the said City and County of the said City of Gloucester, the sum of one hundred pounds a week, to begin from the Sixteenth day of August last passed: And so to be weekly paid for the space of five Months, Unless the said Houses of Parliament shall make any other Order concerning the same, to be Rated, Taxed, Levied, and Collected in such sort, manner, and form, as is prescribed in the former Ordinances of the weekly Assessments; And in lieu of the said weekly Assessments, and to be employed for, and towards the maintenance of the said Forces in the said Garrison and County of Gloucester, & City and County of the City of Gloucester, aforesaid: And for preventing disorders in raising Horse, Levying Moneys, and taking and Seizing Goods without Authority,  
It is hereby Ordered and Ordained by the said Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled, That from henceforth no Horse shall be there raised, or Money Levied, or Goods taken of any person or persons, without Consent and Order of the said Committee, or the Major part of them then present, expressed by warrant under their hands.  
And that no free Quarter shall be Assigned, or taken of the Inhabitants under Contribution: by the Commanders and Officers of Horse, and their Troopers, but by like Order & Consent of the said Committee by warrant as aforesaid And so long time as any of the said Troopers have free Quarter, they are to have but half Pay: And the Officers to allow in Proportion out of their Pay.  
And that all Officers, and Soldiers, both Horse and Foot, shall be Paid according to the late establishment of my Lord General's Army: And no Commander or Officer there, shall receive Pay, but such as duly attend their Charge, unless otherwise specially Employed in service of the Parliament.  
And that no other Commander or Officer shall be Paid, but such as are received now into service, and such as shall be here after received, and approved of by the said Committee, or the Major part of them  
And that no Officer or Commander shall receive Pay there as an Officer and Commander, both Horse and Foot, by virtue of any Commission granted to any one person, for Horse and Foot, except Colonel Massey Governover of Gloucester.  
And that all such Horse, Beasts and Cattles, as shall be taken and driven by any of the Forces in the said several Counties, out of the Enemy's Quarters, shall be delivered to the said Committee, or such persons as they shall appoint; To the end, they may be employed towards the Public Charge, according to the said Ordinance, some reasonable reward to be allowed to the said Soldiers, who shall do the said Service, as the said Committee shall think fit.  
And it is hereby Ordained that all Commanders, Officers, and Soldiers in the said Garrison of Gloucester, and several Counties aforesaid, shall be, and are hereby required from timeto time, Aiding and assisting to the said Committee in the execution of the said former Ordinance, and of this present Ordinance.  
And that the said Committee, and their Agents, and Assistants, in execution of the Premises, shall be Saved harmless, and Protected by Authority of Parliament.  
And lastly it is hereby Ordained by the said Lords and Commons, That the said Committee, or any five or more of them, may Imprison all such as shall make any attempt, or do any Act tending to the disturbance of the proceed of the said Committee, Or the Peace of the said County, And them to fine, not exceeding the Sum of Ten Pounds, upon every such offender; every such offender to remain in Prison until he have satisfied and paid the said Fine, which shall be Employed to the uses expressed in the said former Ordinance.  
Hen: Elsing Cler. Par. Dom. Com.   

13. Martii 1644. An Ordinance for the continuance of a weekly assessment on the County of Gloucester and on the City and County of the City of Gloucester.  
WHereas the Committee nominated in a former Ordinance of Parliament, for raising and maintaining of Horse and Foot for the Garrison of Gloucester, and for the County of Gloucester, Hereford, Monmouth, Glamorgan, Brecknock, and Radnor, are not able by the Ordinances of sequestration of Deliaquents and Papists estates, And the Ordinance of raising moneys, by taxing such as have not Contributed, or not according to their Estates, to raise such present sums of money as are expedient for the maintenance of the present Forces within the said Garrison and County of Gloucester.  
It is therefore ordained, And be it hereby ordained by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, That the said Committee nominated in the said Ordinance, or any four or more of them shall have and hereby hath power and Authority to Rate & Tax upon the said County of Gloucester, the Sum of one thousand pound per week, and on the said City and County of the said City of Gloucester, the Sum of one hundred pounds a week, to begin from the Sixteenth day of January last passed: and so to be weekly Paid for the space of nine Months from henceforth next ensuing unless the said Houses of Parliament shall make any other Order concerning the same, to be Rated, Taxed, Levied, and Collected in such sort, manner and form, as is prescribed in the former Ordinances of the weekly Assessments: and in lieu of the said weekly Assessments: and to be employed for and towards the maintenance of the said Forces in the said Garrison, and County of Gloucester, and City and County of the City of Gloucester aforesaid.  

15. Martii 1644  
Whereas by Ordinance of Parliament, beareing date die veneris 21. Feb. 1644. It is Ordained (in't. alia) that one third part of the profit that shall arise out of the Customs payable upon Currans shall be appropriated to the Garrison of Gloucester. It is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, that the Commissioners of the Customs, shall from time to time, during the continuance of the said Ordinance, pay over all the said third part of the profit that shall arise out of the Customs payable upon Currans, unto Nathaniel Stephens, Thomas Hodges, and Thomas Pury, esquires, Members of the House of Commons for the use of the Garrison of Gloucester upon account (if the said Garrison be continued a Garrison) takeing their receipt for the same, which shall be to the said Commissioners and every of them a suficient discharge in that behalf.   
Hen. Elsing, Cler Parl. Dom. Com.  
FINIS.