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 Counties of gloucester, Hereford, Monmouth, Glamorgan, brecknock, and Radnor.  
And to enable the Committee for the said Counties and City of gloucester, to put all former Ordinances of Parliament for advance of money in execution.  


10th. Maij. 1644.  
Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published.  
Hen. elsing, clear. Parl. D. come.    
Printed for Edward Husbands, 1644. May 13.   

An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for raising and maintaining of Horse and foot for the Garrison of gloucester,& for the Counties of gloucester, &c.  
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 400. horse, and other forces be presently raised, and money provided for the same,& 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,& the forces under his command, Do declare, order, and ordain, 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. Pury Esq. Members of the House of Commons, the mayor and Recorder of the City of gloucester for the time being, sir Giles Overbury▪ Kt Edw. massy, Col. and governor of gloucester, james Kirle, John Stephens, Tho. Stephens, Edw. Harley, Isaac Bromwich, Sylvanus Wood, Will. shepherd, Stephen Flower, Edw. Broughton, and Henry jones Esq. shall be, and are hereby nominated a Committe 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 far forth as they, or any of them have not been already fully executed within the places aforesaid, except the Ordinances for levying of moneys 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 authorized, 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 tenor 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 Sequestration 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 Lenders 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 Lenders, 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& 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,& of this present ordinance, as well 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 shal 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, then 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 authorised 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 t●hm 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, and within 20. miles of the same not yet sequestered nor discovered, and which shall be discovered by the said Committees, or any three, or more of them, or by such person or persons as they shall authorize under their hands and seals for that purpose, within three Moneths 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 of 5000. pounds; And that the said committees or any person or persons authorised 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 chairman to be one, to the end, they may judge of their Delinquency before his or their estates be 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 national 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 whoremasters within the said counties and city that are scandalous in their lives, or ill-affected 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 sand 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 eject all such scandalous Ministers and whoremasters, 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 whoremasters 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, Sheriffes, Constables, and other His Majesties Officers and Ministers, are hereby required to be aiding and assisting to the said Committee as aforesaid in the execution of this service; and tis lastly ordered, declared& ordained, 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.   
FINIS.