Die Veneris, 28. Maii, 1647.  
Instructions agreed upon by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, to be observed in taking, examining, and determining the Accounts of all Officers and Soldiers, who have actually and faithfully served under their command in the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales from or since the beginning of these Wars.  
I THat all Officers of Horse, Foot, and Dragoones, who have served under the Command and Pay of the Committee of any Association, County, or Garrison, shall have all the Accounts for their pay certified according to Muster, by every such Committee, or any three of them, under their hands respectively, (viz.) How long every such Officer hath actual served with a Regiment, Troop, or Company, under his Command; And what number, to his knowledge, that Regiment, Troop, or Company, did consist of, during that time, by what Commission, under whose Command, in what quality, and what Money, to their knowledge, every Officer hath received for or toward his Pay; and what he hath received in Horse, Arms, or other goods, for which he may be charged by and accountable to the State. And in case the Committee for any Association, County, or Garrison, shall give notice to the Committee, or Sub-Committee, appointed for this service, that they are unable to certify on the behalf of such an Officer, or that such an Officer, hath not served under their Command, Then the Commander in chief of every such Garrison, Regiment, or Regiments under whom such an Officer hath served, and the next in chief under him, that shall then survive respectively, with the Captain, if then living, who shall be concerned in any such Certificate, to be given on the behalf of his Officers, shall certify the same according to Musters as aforesaid, under their own Hands and Seals; which they are to do with such care, as they and every of them may deliver the same upon their Oaths, if required, before the Committee for this Service, or their Sub-Committees; which Accounts so certified by the Committees or Officers, as aforesaid, shall be returned to the Sub-Committee appointed by the Committee for the Accounts of the Kingdom, for taking the Accounts of that County where such Officer hath served, and from them to be transmitted to the Committee appointed for this service, to receive such further charge as they shall be able to give, and afterwards to be by them determined according to these Instructions, and speedily returned to the said Sub-Committee, who are to deliver the same to the several Officers, and other persons who are concerned therein.  
II. That all Officers whatsoever, who do or have served in the Grand Armies of the Kingdom, and have not had relation at the same time to particular Counties or Garrisons, shall according to Muster have such and the like Certificates from the two Superior Officers (which shall be surviving) of the Regiment wherein they have actually served; And in case the Certificate concern any Officer under the degree of a Captain, than that Captain, if living who is concerned in that Certificate, on the behalf of his Officer, shall join in certifying the same accordingly; and from them transmitted to the Committee for this Service.  
III. That no Certificate shall be taken, where the parties that give it have not made it first to appear to the Committee appointed for this Service, or their Sub-Committee, that they have not been cashiered from their command for any misdemeanour: And shall likewise have given in to the aforesaid Commmittee, or Sub-Committees, their Hands, Seales, and Qualities, with which addition they shall afterwards certify and no other ways.  
FOUR That in case any Committee of both Houses of Parliament, or any General, have heretofore granted any Warrants by Authority from the Parliament for payment of any Arrears due to any Officer for his Service; And that the same, or any part thereof, doth still remain unpaid, Then in every such case the Committee appointed for this purpose, shall make deduction upon evety Warrant, according to the directions herein expressed; and the remainder appearing due thereupon shall be accounted to every such Officer a just debt from the State.  
V That all Officers and Soldiers who have already received any sum of Money in full satisfaction from the respective Counties where they served, though it was not agreeable hereunto, shall not by virtue of this Ordinance (any Clause herein contained) claim any such pretended Arrears.  
VI That all Governors of Cities, Castles, Towns, or Forts, unto whom any allowance is due, either as Governor, or for Pay, Spies, Intelligence Fortifications, or moneys necessarily laid out for Horses Arms, Ammunition, or otherwise for the service of the State and hath not received the same shall have the Accounts of such Pay and Charges examined, allowed, and determined, by the Committee appointed for this purpose, as an Arreare to them due.  
Provided always, that the Governor aforesaid shall take his Corporal Oath that neither in Money, Horse Arms, or other Goods appertaining, or belonging to the State, he hath received any part of the Money which he accounts as due unto himself; And shall upon the same Oath deliver in an Account of what ever remaineth in his hands belonging to the State.  
VII That no Officer of what quality soever (who hath received any Money or Goods from the State, or other ways for which he is to be accountable) shall have his Accounts determined by the Committee appointed for the same, before he hath delivered in an Account thereof to the Committee for the Accounts of the whole Kingdom or their Sub-Committees respectively. And in case it shall appear at any time within two years after determination of any such Account, that any such Officer is further chargeable, he shall for default herein forfeit to the State double the sum which shall appear he hath not formerly acknowledged upon his Account.  
VIII That no Officer of Horse, or Dragoones in Commission shall receive Pay for any Horses in order to their respective qualities, other than he shall make to appear by the Musters, he kept for the service of the Parliament, and for such time only, as it shall so appear he kept them.  
IX And forasmuch as the greatness of the debt due to the whole Soldiery, who have served faithfully in this War, hath occasioned heretofore part of the Pay to them so due to be respited on the Publique-Faith for a present ease; Yet considering the same debt will at length become payable from the Commonwealth, of whom the Souldery of this Kingdom have been necessitated to take freequarter when moneys could not be provided for them; And when they have received moneys for their Pay, they have many times left their Quarters undischarged, so that the Public will be in danger to suffer in both; It is therefore ordered that no sum of Money due to any Officer, or Soldier, shall be so respited, But the Committee appointed for this service shall have power, and are hereby authorized and required to deduct respectively out of the whole sum demanded for pay by any Officer, or Soldier for their service in this Kingdom of England, and Dominion of Wales, the several and respective proportions of Moneys hereafter expressed, for their Quarters due to the Commonwealth,  
X From all Foot Soldiers, and Officers of Foot, whose pay is seven shillings a week, or under, three shillings a week for their Quarters.  
XI From all Sergeants of Foot, four shillings and six pence a week for their Quarters.  
XII From all Officers of Foot in Commission, of what quality soever, one fourth part of their respective pays for their Quarters.  
XIII From all Officers belonging to the Train of Artillery, one fourth part of the respective pay to them due.  
XIV From all Officers of Horse or Dragoones of what quality soever, one third part of the pay to them due for themselves and Horses.  
XV From all private Troopers eight shillings a week for their Quarters, Provided that this extend not to such Officers in Commission that have served in any Garrison, County, or Grand Army and shall make it appear by sufficient testimonies to the Committee for this purpose, or their Sub-Committees, they have discharged their Quarters, during the time for which they crave allowance.  
XVI That all private Soldiers, as well of Horse as Foot disbanded, or to be disbanded, who have not received satisfaction for their service in the Armies, or Counties where they have served, shall receive the same from the Committees of the several Armies or Counties, where they have done, or now do the service; For the evidencing whereof, every such Soldier shall bring to the respective Committees a Note under the hands and seals of his Officer that he is so many weeks in Arreare, who are to deduct out of such Arrears for his Quarters, according to the rate hereby Ordered both for Horse and Foot. Provided, that this extend not to any private Soldier, whether of Horse or Foot, who hath left the service of that Army, Garrison, or County, without lawful discharge, although he hath forthwith Listed themselves in some other place for the service of the Parliament, or that hath not, or hereafter shall not, deliver in to the respective Committees aforesaid, such Horse and Arms with which he hath served, or a Certificate under the hand of his superior Officer, that such Horse and Arms with which he hath served did not appertain to the State, or was lost in actual service, whose accounts cast up as is expressed, upon Certificate from the Committees for the respective Armties and Counties aforesaid, of such a debt due to the private Soldier of that Army or County, they shall forthwith be enabled to discharge the same,  
XVII That all Accounts that have heretofore been stated by Order of Parliament, or any Committee thereof, shall be regulated according to the Instructions herein contained by the Committee appointed for this service, except such who have received the sums of money so certified, or some part thereof in full of their whole demand.  
XVIII That all Officers, who were in actual service the 25 day of March Anno 1647. shall have their Accounts made up to that time, and all others disbanded to the time of their dismission, Provided that this extend not to any Officer of what quality soever, who hath had a Commission for a Regiment, Troop, or Company, and with the same hath not been for the time he craveth allowance in actual service, neither shall any Certificate be made for longer time than any such Officer hath had such a Regiment, Troop, or Company, actually under his command, upon penality of the loss of their whole Arrears, who shall certify the same, Provided that this exception shall not any way debar from payment, that Regiment of Reformadoes under the command of Colonel Saunderson, but they and every of them abating for their Quarters, one third part of their respective pays, shall have their Accounts made up according to the agreement made then with them, as Reformadoes, and what money remains due to them for that service, shall be accounted as a debt from the State; And it is further Provided, That where it shall appear any Officer hath had a Regiment, Troop, or Company under his command, for which he craveth allowance, which did not consist of above the number hereafter specified, that is to say, in a Regiment of Foot three hundred, in a Regiment of Horse one hundred and fifty, in a Troop of Horse or Dragoones five and twenty, in a Comp●ny of Foot forty, all Officers included, That he or they shall have his and their Accounts made up, after the proportion of a third part of the full allowance of pay hereafter expressed, and not otherwise.  
XIX That the Account of all Officers, who have served in such Garrisons, for which there hath been establishments made for a smaller pay than the allowance for Horse and Foot before the twentieth of March 1643. made to the late Lord, General the Earl of Essex, shall have their Accounts made up no otherways then by the allowance of pay established for that Garrison but shall have no part of what resteth due unto them deducted for free Quarter; But every such Officer shall bring to the Committee appointed for this service, or their Sub Committee, a Certificate under the hand and seal of the Major, Bailiff, or the Supreme Civil Officer of that City or Town that he hath paid for his Quarters the time of his command in that Garrison, which Certificate so brought shall sufficiently assure the Committee for this service, that such an Officer hath paid his Quarter.  
XX That all Accounts, except of the Officers of the Garrisons, for which there hath been particular establishments, and of the Reformadoes before mentioned, shall be determined according to the allowance of pay made to the late Lord General the Earl of Effex his Army, before the twentieth day of March 1643.  
XXI And lastly, It is ordered and ordained, that all, and singular sum and sums of Money that shall appear to be remaining due upon the several Accounts which shall be taken, examined allowed and determined by the Committee appointed for this service, according to the Instructions herein expressed, shall be accounted as a just debt from the State.   

Die Veneris 28, Maii, 1647.  
ORdered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that these Instructions be forthwith Printed and published.  
Joh. Brown. Cler. Parliamentorum.   

London Printed for John Wright, at the King's Head in the Old Bayley,