To the constables and overseers of [blank] By vertue of a warrant to me directed from the standing committee at Chelmsford ...

To the constables and overseers of [blank] By vertue of a warrant to me directed from the standing committee at Chelmsford ...

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BY vertue of a Warrant to me directed from the ſtanding Committee at Chelmsford, intimating that the Lords and Commons aſſembled in Parliament conſidering the oppreſſions and miſeries that now doe threaten the utter ruine and deſolation of this Kingdome in generall, and of this, and the other aſſociated Counties in particular, [...]nd how neceſſary it is that all men well affected that have any compaſſion towards their afflicted Countrey ſhould now put themſelves into a preſent poſture of defence, by raiſing forces of Horſe and Foot for the defence of the aſſociation from the invaſion of Iriſh Rebels, popiſh and other ill affected perſons, have for theſe and many other waighty reaſons by an Ordinance bearing date the fifth of July laſt, Ordained and Declared that this County among others ſhall be put forthwith into a poſture of defence. Theſe are therefore to require you by the Authority aforeſaid to returne the names, at the time and place hereafter appointed, of all perſons vvithin your Precincts vvho are vvorth one hundred pounds or more in lands or goods, or in lands and goods together; to the end they may be charged ſeverally vvith Horſe and Armes, ſo as no perſon be charged vvith an Harquibuſhire or light Horſe unleſſe he hath an hundred pounds per annum in lands, or be vvorth one thouſand two hundred pounds in goods and lands; nor vvith a Dragoone unleſſe he be vvorth foure hundred pounds in goods, or forty pounds per annum in lands; nor with a Foot-Armes, unleſſe he be vvorth an hundred pounds in goods, or ten pounds per annum in lands. You are likevviſe required to publiſh to all men, that this extraordinary charge and impoſition of Armes, according to the expreſſe words of the Ordinance it ſelfe, ſhall continue no longer then during theſe times of imminent danger, and ſhall be no preſident for the future. And you are to make returne hereof unto the Deputy-lieutenants at the ſigne of the [...] in [...] on [...] being the [...] day of next enſuing by nine of the clock In the morning.

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To the constables and overseers of [blank] By vertue of a warrant to me directed from the standing committee at Chelmsford ...

Essex (England)

Edition statement

1642

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Date

2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

ID [DLPS]

A62716

ID [STC]

Wing T1393B

ID [STC]

ESTC R220683

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

99832079

ID [PROQUEST]

99832079

ID [VID]

36548

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— To the constables and overseers of [blank] By vertue of a warrant to me directed from the standing committee at Chelmsford ..., Essex (England).

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1 sheet ([1] p.)

s.n.,. [London? :: 1642]. (Title includes opening words of text.) (Place and date of printing from Wing.) (A directive required by the authority of Parliament to prepare for local defence against a possible invasion from Ireland.) (Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.)

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