WHereas it is found that great inconveniences have insued for want of a strict and severe discipline to have been observed in the Army now raised by authority of Parliament, under the command of Robert Earle of Essex, And for that the Lawes and Ordinances by him set forth for the government of the said Army have not been put in due exe­cution: It is now Ordained and Declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That from henceforth the Officers and Souldi­ers of the said Army may not expect any further forbearance of such punishment to be inflicted on them for any their Offence, as shal be due unto them by the said Laws and Ordinances, But that the Lord Generall may and ought to punish them by death or otherwise according to their demerits.