May 1643
[2 May, 1643.]
Captains of Trained Bands to appoint Marshals.; Their Office.; And Allowance.; Soldiers reviling officers or neglecting duty to be imprisoned.
Whereas by an Order of Parliament, the fourth of January
last, it was Ordered that the Colonells, Captaines and Lieutenants
of the Trained Bands or others in the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Suburbs thereof, and the County of Middlesex,
might inflict the punishment of two dayes imprisonment without
Bayle or Main-price, or the Mulct of five shillings for supply of
the Service, upon such Souldiers under their commands, as
should not repaire to their Colours at the time appointed, and to
do their duties there, when, and as often as they should be
thereunto required, unlesse they be reasonably excused by their
Captain or Lieutenant: Which Order is not onely troublesome,
but begets much dis-affection between the chief Officers and
Souldiers, and therefore it is not so fully executed upon the
Offendors as it ought to be: Therefore it is this day Ordered by the
Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament, That for the
better execution of the aforesaid Order in every branch therein
contained, (which every Captain respectively is hereby required
to doe) every of the said Captains respectively shall elect and
appoint, one able person to be Marshall of his Trained Band, who
shall by vertue of this Ordinance repaire to such Souldiers as
his Captain or Lieutenant shall from time to time give him
notice of, that have made breach of the aforesaid Order of the
fourth of January, or any part thereof: which Marshall so
elected, shall with a Constable, who is hereby required to assist
him, and such others as he shall call to aide him in the name of
his Captain, inflict (according to the same Order) the punishment
of two dayes imprisonment upon him or them, or the Mulct of
five shillings, which he shall forthwith after the receipt of the
same, deliver and pay to his Captain, to bee employed as by the
same Order is appointed: And for the pains taken of every such
Marshall, and to encourage him the better to perform his Office,
It is also Ordered, that every Captain respectively shall allow
unto him the said Marshall, out of every five shillings so collected
as aforesaid, the sum of twelve pence, and if any such Marshall
shall be found remisse, negligent or partiall in not performing
the trust in him reposed, It is likewise Ordered, That every
Captain may at his pleasure dismisse him from his place, and
elect another in his stead, which hee shall conceive to bee more
faithfull to performe the same: Also it is Ordered by the Lords
and Commons now Assembled in Parliament, That if any
Souldier or Souldiers, Listed under any of the Captains before
mentioned, shall in the time of his or their Service, when he or
they shall be commanded to doe duty, revile, or give any
ill beseeming language to the Captain or any other Officer
belonging unto him, or neglect to doe such duty, as at any
time ought or shall bee imposed upon him, or them, that then
the Captain or Lieutenant, may upon the Examination thereof,
commit such Souldier or Souldiers as shall so offend to Prison,
there to remain 24 houres without Bayle or Maine-prise: And
that every Captain respectively shall be saved harmlesse by the
Authority of both Houses of Parliament, for executing the severall
Orders aforesaid, or any of them.