October 1644
[2 October, 1644.]
Whereas the Committee nominated in a former Ordinance of
Parliament for raising and maintaining of Horse and Foot for
the Garrison of Glocester, and for the Counties of Glocester,
Hereford, Monmouth, Glamorgan, Brecknock and Radnor, are
not able by the Ordinances of Sequestration of Delinquents and
Papists Estates, and the Ordinance of raysing Moneys by taxing
such as have not contributed, or not according to their estates,
to raise such present summes of Money, as are expedient for the
maintenance of the present Forces within the said Garrison and
County of Glocester.
Power to Committee named by former Ord.; to tax Gloucestershire, for use of Garrison and Forces there.; No Horse or Money to be raised without consent of Committee.; Free-quarter.; Officers' and Soldiers' Pay.; Horses and Cattle taken from Enemy to be used towards Public Charge.; Allowance to Soldiers for such service.
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 foure or
more of them shall have, and hereby hath power and authority
to rate and taxe upon the said County of Gloster, the summe of
one thousand pounds a weeke, and on the said City and County
of the said City of Gloster, the summe of one hundred pounds a
weeke, to begin from the sixteenth day of August last past, and
so to be weekly paid for the space of five moneths, unlesse the
said Houses of Parliament shall make any other Order concerning
the same; To be rated, taxed leavied and collected in such sort,
manner and forme, as is prescribed in the former Ordinances of
the weekly Assessments, and in lieu of the said weekly Assessments, and to be imployed for and towards the maintenance of
the said Forces, in the said Garrison and County of Gloster,
and City and County of the City of Gloster aforesaid: And for
preventing disorders in raysing Horse, leavying Moneys, and
taking and seizing goods without authoritie, It is hereby
Ordered and Ordained by the said Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled That from henceforth no Horse shall be there
raysed, or Money leavied, 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 and 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 halfe pay, and the Officers to allow in proportion
out of their pay. And that all Officers and Souldiers, both horse
and foot shall be paid according to the late establishment of the
Lord Generalls Army. And no Commander or Officer there
shall receive pay, but such as duly attend their charge, unlesse
otherwise especially imployed in service of the Parliament. And
that no other Commander or Officer shall be payd but such as are
received now into service, and such as shall be hereafter
received and aprooved 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 of Horse and Foote by
vertue of any Commission granted to any one person for Horse and
Foote, except Collonel Massey Governour of Glocester. And that
all such Horse, Beasts, and Cattle, as shall be taken and driven by
any of the Forces in the said severall Counties out of the enemies
quarters, shall bee delivered to the said committee or such
persons as they shall appoint, to the end they may be
imployed towards the publique charge according to the
said Ordinance, save reasonable reward to be allowed to the
Souldiers who shall doe the said service as the said Committee
shall thinke fit.
Assistance.; Indemnity.
And it is hereby Ordained, That all Commanders Officers and
Souldiers in the said Garrison of Glocester, and several Counties
aforsaid, shall be and are hereby required to be from time to
time ayding and assisting unto the said Committee, in the
execution of the said former Ordinances, and of this present
Ordinance, and that the said Committee and their Agents and
Assistants, in execution of the premisses, shall bie saved harmelesse, and protected by authority of Parliament
Punishment of those disturbing proceedings of Committee.
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 doe
any act tending to the disturbance of the proceedings 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 remaine in Prison untill he have
satisfied and paid the said fine, which shall be imployed to the
uses exprest in the said former Ordinance.