WHereas We have not received that satisfaction We expected (not­withstanding Our many Proclamations and Orders made for the Government of Our Army, and particularly against the losing, seiling away, and spoyling of Our Arms by the Common-Souldiers, and for the keeping them fixt) But on the contrary, finding those abuses and neglects still to continue & encrease; We are therefore once more enforced, & do hereby straitly Require and Command all Colonells, Lieutenant-Colonells, Serjeant-Ma­jors, Captians, and other Officers of Our Army, whom it may concern, forthwith, or within four dayes after the publication hereof, to return to Us, Our Councell of Warre, or to the Serje­ant-Major-Generall of Our Army, a true accompt of the number and quantity of Arms in each Company and Regiment of Our Army, attested by the Colonell, Lieutenant-Colonell, Serjeant-Major, or Captain of each Company; and if any Arms shall henceforward be found unfixt by the negligence of the Souldier, the Reparation thereof shall be made good out of his or their Entertainments; and this course We will constantly to be continued and put in pra­ctice, the care and oversight whereof to be committed to the respective Quartermaster of each Regiment (or some other fit person appointed by the Colonell) whom We command, once in fourteen dayes, to take a view of all the Arms of the Regiment, and to see Our Com­mands therein fully obeyed: And for the more speedy execution thereof, Our will is, That each Colonell make choice of two able Gun-smiths to be imployed therein, on whom We in­tend to settle an Allowance fitting for the same. And to the end the losse of Arms may not be so frequent (to the prejudice of Our Service) as formerly, Our further pleasure is, That each Captain, upon the return of the Certificate of the number and quantitie of the Arms of his Company, stand charged to Us by Indenture (in the Office of Our Ordinace) for such numbers certified; which Arms are to be made good out of His Entertainment, if hereafter they shall be wilfully or negligently made away by His Souldiers. Lastly, Our Will and Command is, That all Arms bought, or provided by Us, or by any Person for Our Service, as likewise all Arms borrowed in any Counties hereafter, or taken from the Rebells, or Per­sons disaffected to Our Service, be first brought into Our Magazines, and from thence, as we shall direct, be distributed, and given out for Our Service. To Our Pleasure herein de­clared, We require full and speedy Obedience to be given by all Officers and Souldiers of Our Army: And that it may be the more fully put in execution, Our further Pleasure and Command is, That this be read within four dayes after the publication, at the head of every Regiment and Company, that so all Our Officers and Souldiers, whom it may concern, may take notice of it, and observe the same, as they and every of them will avoid Our high Displeasure for their neglect of any the least particular herein mentioned.

Given at Our Court at Oxford, this Tenth day of March, in the Eighteenth yeer of Our Reign. 1642.

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