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Middlesex county records
… taken before Francis Flower J.P., of Edward Boorde of Cuckefilde co. Sussex and Andrew Roch of Plymouth …
Novembris 1643: A Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That all Colonels, Captains, and other Officers, with all other well-affected Persons, inhabiting in the several Counties of Hampshire, the Town and County of Southampton, Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, shall and may associate themselves, in the mutual Defence and Preservation of each other; and shall have Power to raise Forces of Horse and Foot, to suppress all such as are or shall be raised to levy War against the Parliament, or that make any Insurrection, plunder and destroy His Majesty's good Subjects in those Counties: And that the Lord General the Earl of Essex be desired to grant a Commission to Sir William Waller Knight, to command in Chief, as Major General over the said Forces.
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum