17. Junii, 1643.  
IT is this day ordered by the Commons House of Parliament, That the high-Constables of the several Hundreds in the counties of Berks, Buckingham, Middlesex, and Surrey, in whose Divisions any sick and maimed soldiers of the Parliaments Army are or shall be quartered or Billeted, do take special care that the said soldiers be furnished, and supplied with Lodging and Bedding, fitting for men in their condition: And the said high-Constables are hereby authorised and required to send their warrants and Precepts to the petty-Constables of all Towns near adjoining to those Towns and Houses where the said soldiers are quartered, for the bringing in of Bedding, if need require, for the use of the said soldiers, till it shall please God to restore them to health.  
And it is further ordered, That the Committee for Sequestration of the several counties above mentioned, out of such Bedding as by virtue of the Ordinance of Parliament for Sequestration, shall be seized for the use of the commonwealth, shall deliver so much thereof as shall be needful, to the Treasurers appointed by this House for maimed soldiers, or to such as they shall appoint, for the use of the said sick and wounded men: And that the high-Constables shall take care to restore such Bedding as shall be by them supplied, to the Owners thereof; As also, That the above mentioned Treasurers for maimed soldiers, do take care that the Bedding by them received from the Committee for Sequestration, be not imbezilled, but carefully kept and accounted for to the use and service of the commonwealth.  
Hen. Elsing, Cler. Parl. D. Com.