AN ORDINANCE MADE And agreed by the LORDS and COMMONS of Par­liament the 28th day of August 1641.

For the speedie disarming of Popish Recusants, And other dangerous persons.

LONDON: Printed by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL. MDCXLI.

¶An Ordinance made and agreed by the Lords and Commons of Parliament the 28th day of August 1641.
For the speedie disarming of Popish Recu­sans, and other dangerous persons.

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[Page 5] For the Citie and Countie of the Citie of York, The Lord Major for the time being, Sir Thomas Widrington, and Sir William Allinson.

For the Countie of Sussex, Sir Thomas Pel­ham, Master Shelley, Master William Hay.

For the Ports in Sussex, William Hay, Her­bert Morley Esquires.

For the Countie of Buck. Sir William An­drewes Barr. Sir Alexander Denton Knight, Sir John Parsons.

For the Countie of Berk Sir George Stone­house, Master John Parker, Sir John Backhouse, Roger Knight.

For the Countie of Cornewall, Sir Richard Carey Barronet, Alexander Carey, Esquires, Sir Richard Buller Knight.

For the Countie of Cumberland, Richard Bar­wise Esquire, and William Penington of Seaton Esquire.

For the Countie of Cambridge, Sir Dudley North, Sir John Cutts, Thomas Chicesley, Tho­mas Symonds, Thomas Wendy Esquires.

For the Countie of Devon, Sir Samuel Rolle, Sir John Bampfield Barronet.

For the Citie of Exceter, the Major for the time being.

For the Countie of Dorsett, Sir Walter Erle, Sir Thomas Trenchard Knights.

For the Countie of Essex, Sir Harbottle Grim­ston, Sir Richard Everard, Sir Thomas Bendish, Sir Robert Kemp.

For the Countie of Gloucester, Henry Brett [Page 6] Esquire, Sir Robert Cooke, Edward Stevens, Thomas Hodges Esquires.

For the Citie and Countie of the Citie of Gloucester, The Major of the Citie of Glou­cester, and the two ancient Aldermen.

For the Countie of Huntington, Sir Sydney Mountague, Aunslow Winch Esquire, Torrell Jos­lin Esquire, Henry Cromwell Esquire.

For the Countie of Hartford, Edward Chester, Edward Wingate Esquires, John Butler.

For the Countie of Hereford, Walter Kirle Esquire, Sir William Crofts Knight, John Scudamore of Kenchurch, James Kirle, Edward Broughton Esquires.

For the Countie of Kent, Sir Edward Boyes, Sir Thomas Walsingham, Sir Edward Partridge Knights, Richard Lee Esquire.

And for the Citie and Countie of the Citie of Canterburie, Sir Edward Masters Knight.

And for the Ports in Kent, and their Mem­bers, Sir Edward Boyes Knight.

For the County of Leicester, Sir Arthur Haslrigge, Thomas Lord Gray.

For the County of Middlesex, Sir John Da­vers, Sir William Roberts, Sir Henry Roe, Sir Gilbert Gerrard, Sir John Francklin.

For the City of Westminster, Sir Robert Pye, William Wheeler Esquire, John Glyn Esquire.

For the City of London, the Lord Major, Thomas Soame, Isaac Penington Aldermen, Sa­muel Vassall, and Captain John Ven Merchants, Members of the House of Commons.

[Page 7] For the County of Northhampton, Edward Mountague Esquire, Sir John Draydon, Sir Christopher Yelverton, Zouch Tate Esquire.

For the County of Norfolk, Sir John Pots, Sir Tho Woodhouse, Sir Edmund Moundford.

For the City of Norwich, and County of the same, the Major for the time being.

For the County of Northumberland, Sir John Fennick, Henry Ogle, Thomas Middleton, William Shafto of Babington Esquires.

For the Town of Newcastle, the Major for the time being, Master Ledyard.

For the Town of Barwick, Sir Robert Jack­son, Master John Sleigh Gentleman, William Fen­wick Gentleman.

For the County of Oxon, James Fynes,, Sir William Cobb, Sir Thomas Penniston, John Doyly Esquire.

For the County of Rutland, Sir Guy Palmes, Sir Edward Harrington, Robert Horseman junior Esquire.

For the County of Surrey, Sir John Evelin, Sir Ambrose Brown Barronet.

For the County of Salop, Sir Richard Newport, Master Rich. Moore, Charles Baldwin Esquires.

For the County of Southhampton, Richard Whitehead Esquire, Sir William Lewis.

For the Town of Southhampton, the Major for the time being.

For the County of Suffolk, Sir Roger North, Sir Robert Crane, Robert Reynolds Esquire, Sir William Platers, William Cage Esquire.

[Page 8] For Somersetshire, Sir John Horner, Sir John Paulet Knights, John Pyne Esquire.

For the City of Bristoll, the Major for the time being, John Guning, John Tomlinson.

For the County of Westmerland, Sir Philip Musgrave Knight and Barronet, Sir Henry Bel­lingham, Gawin Braithwait Esquire.

For the County of Wilts, Sir Nevill Poole, Anthony Hungerford Esquire.

For the County of Worcester, Humphrey Sal­loway Esquire, Edward Dingley, Edward Pitt, Tho­mas Rowse Esquires.

For the City of Worcester, the Major for the time being.

For the County of Warwick, Sir Richard Skef­fington, William Coombes Esquire, John Hales, Richard Shugborough Esquires.

For the City and County of Coventry, the Ma­jor for the time being, Alderman Million, John Barker.

For the City of Litchfield, the Bailifses for the time being.

For the County of Anglesey, Thomas Buckley Esquire, Owen Wood Esquire.

For the County of Brecnock, Henry Williams, Thomas Groyn, William Morgan Esquires.

For the County of Carnarvon, Thomas Glynn of Nautley, William Thomas, Owen Wynn, Tho­mas Madrin Esquires.

For the County of Denbigh, Thomas Middleton, John Lloyd, William Wynn Esquires.

For the County of Flint, Sir Thomas Mostin, [Page 9] Humphrey Dymocke, John Eaton, John Salisbury junior, Esquires.

For the County of Glamorgan, William Her­bert, Sir Thomas Lyne, Miles Button Esquires.

For the County of Merioneth, William Salis­bury Esquire, Sir James Price Knight.

For the County of Pembroke, Sir Richard Phil­lips Barronet, Sir Hugh Owin Knight and Bar­ronet.

For the County of Mountgomery, Arthur Price Esquire, Richard Griffith, Edward Vaughan E­squires.

For Radnor, Thomas Lewes, Robert Williams, Richard Jones Esquires.

For the County Palatine of Durham, Sir Ly­onell Maddison, Sir Alexander Hall, George Lil­burne, Clement Fulthrop.

For the County of Cardigan, Walter Lloyd, James Lewes Esquires.

For the County of Carmarthen, Richard Erle of Carbury, Francis Lloyd Esquires.

For the County of Monmouth, Sir William Morgan, Thomas Morgan, William Herbert of Col­brooke, William Baker of Aburgany, Sir Robert Cooke, Sir Charles Williams, James Kirke E­squires:

Which said persons, so appointed and nomi­nated, or any one, or more of them, together with the Iustices of the Peace of every Shire, County, or Riding respectively, or any one, or more of them, or the Major, Bailiffes, Iustice of the Peace, Iurats, or other head Officers [Page 10] within any City, or Town Corporate, or other priviledged Place, or any one, or more of them respectively, shall have power, and are hereby authorized, and required to do and perform all and every such thing, and things, as shall be ne­cessary for the due execution of this present Or­dinance, according to the Instructions here­with annexed: Which said Instructions are hereby Ordered, and Commanded to be duely Observed, and Executed, by all and every per­son, and persons whom it shall, or may apper­tain, as they will answer the contrary at their perills.

This Ordinance to continue no longer then till the end of this present Session of Parlia­ment.

INSTRUCTIONS Appointed by Ordinance of PAR­LIAMENT to the persons there­by authorized for the disarm­ing of Popish Recusants, and other dangerous persons.

1.

SUch Members of the house of Commons, and other persons as in and by the said Ordinances are par­ticularly named and ap­pointed, or any one or more of them, and the Iustices of the Peace of each seve­rall Countie, Shire, or Riding within England or Wales, as also the Majors, Bayliffes, Iustices of the Peace, Iu­rates, or other head Officers, of, or within any Citie, Town-Corporate, or [Page 12] Priviledged place respectively, or any one or more of them together, with some, or one of the persons nominated in the said Ordinance, are to see the same forthwith put in execution, and shall have power to call the high She­riffe of each County, and his Ministers, all Constables, and Tything-men, and other Officers, or any of them, when and as oft as they shall think fit, to be aiding and assisting to them from time to time within their severall limits and Iurisdictions, in the due performance of this Service, and to do, and execute all, and every such thing or things as shall be requisite and necessary in that behalf, and the said Members of the said House of Commons are especially required to see the said Ordinance forth­with put in execution.

2.

The said persons authorized are to inform themselves by all convenient wayes and means, of all such Arms, Gun-powder, and Munition, of what [Page 13] kinde soever, as any Popish Recusant convict, or person whatsoever, either of the Nobility, or other, which is or shall be indicted for Popish Recusants, and such indictments, either removed by Certiorari, or being not removed, shall not by Appearance and Traverse, or otherwise be legally discharged, or which shall not have reparied to Church more then once in every mo­neth, or shall not have received the holy Communion, according to the Rites of the Church of England, within one whole yeer next before the making of the said Ordinance, or which shall re­fuse to take the Oaths of Supremacy or Allegiance upon lawful tender there­of made, or whose Children, or Grand-Children, or any of them, being at their dispose, or in house with them, are bred up in the Popish Religion, or have not repaired to the Church within one whole yeer next before the making of the said Ordinance, according to the Lawes and Statutes of the Realm, or whose houshold servants, or any [Page 14] number of them are of the Popish Re­ligion, hath, or have in his or her house or houses, or elsewhere, or in the hands or possession of any other to his or her use, or at his or her disposition; And are to search all such places where any such Arms, Gun-powder, or Muni­tion of any such Popish Recusant, or other person, whose Arms by the said Ordinance is to be taken away, is pla­ced or deposited, or supposed to be placed or deposited.

3.

They are to take and seize all such Armes, Gun-powder, and Munition, as aforesaid, in whose hands or custody, or in what place soever the same shall be (other then such weapons as shall be by the said persons so authorized, thought fit to remain, and be allowed to the said Recusants, or other Popish persons, as aforesaid, for the defence of his or her person or houses; and shall cause the same to be placed in some Ci­tie, or Town-Corporate, or other [Page 15] convenient Town of the same Coun­tie, and there safely kept, at the costs and charges of the owner thereof, and the Armourer to be admitted to dresse and amend the same so oft as need shall require.

4.

And if any such Popish Recu­sant, or other person as aforesaid, or any other person or persons, which have, or hath, or shall have any such Armes, Gunpowder, or Munition in his or their hands or possession, to the use of such Recusant or other person, as aforesaid, or by his, her, or their ap­pointment, shal conceal the said Arms, Gunpowder, and Munition, or any part thereof, or shall refuse to discover the same to the said persons authori­zed, or otherwise wilfully oppose, hin­der, or disobey the said persons authori­zed, or any of them in the execution of the said Ordinance, that then every such Popish Recusant, and other per­son so offending, shall be held a con­temptuous [Page 16] person, and be liable to such further punishment as by the Parlia­ment, upon Certificate thereof made, shall be thought fit, and the persons authorized are to certifie their names accordingly: They are to make Certi­ficate to the Parliament of all such Armes, Gunpowder, and Munition as they shall take or seize by force, or vertue of the said Ordinance; As al­so of the person and persons whose the same were, and from whom they are so taken, and in what place or places the same are found or taken, and where and in what City, Town or place, and in whose custody the same shall be left or deposited, and what order they shall take concerning the same, and shall likewise certifie what Armes or Mu­nition they shall leave to such Recu­sants or persons as aforesaid, for the defence of his or her person or house.

5.

They are to enquire what Po­pish Recusants have lately had any [Page 17] Armes or Munition taken away, by whom and by what means, and where or in whose hands the same remains, and to take care that the same may be safely placed, and kept in such manner as aforesaid, and to make Certificate thereof to the Parliament.

6.

To take care that the said Arms and Munition so to be seized and taken away by force of the said Ordinance, may so be placed and disposed of, as there may not be too great a quantity thereof at the same time in one and the same City, Town or place, but that it may be distributed and placed in seve­rall Towns and places, in such man­ner and proportion as shall be most convenient for the use and safety of the Kingdom.

FINIS.

LONDON, Printed by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: And by the Assignes of John Bill. 1641.

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