WHereas the Counties of Norffolk, Suffolk, Essex, and the other Associated Counties, out of their loyall respect to his Majesty, their pious dispo­sition to the peace & happines of this Kingdom, in obedience to the orders of Parliament, have raysed & mainteined, to the number of foureteen thousand Horse, Foot, and Dragoons, or thereabouts, And with them, within five months last past, have done many services against the common Enemy, tending much to the safety of the King­dom, & intend to rayse a far more considerable Force, both of Horse and Foot; And have also bought many Armes and Ammunition, and must buy more, whereby to furnish them­selves with a Traine of Artillery, and have beene, and must be at great charges in maintaining and Recruiting the said Forces, and in keeping severall Garrisons, making and erecting of Fortifications, Magazines, courts of Guard, and other things requisite and necessary, for the defence and safety of the said Association, against the Incursions of the Enemy. By all which meanes, the said Association is be­come much indebted, and without the speedy raysing of large and considerable summes of Money, proportionable to their bast expences, cannot long subsist in a condition to keepe themselve from Ruine, and to advance the Publique safety.

[Page 2] It is thereupon Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That for the intents and purposes aforesaid, the severall weekely summes of Money, hereafter in this Ordinance mentioned, shall be Charged, Rated, Taxed, and Levyed upon the severall Counties, according to the Proportions herein expressed, the same to be payd in weekly to the several Collectors, and by them to the Treasurer or Treasurers appoynted by this Ordinance for the receiving hereof, That is to say, upon the County of Essex, the weekely summe of one thousand six hundged eighty seven pounds ten shillings, upon the County of Suffolke, the weekely summe of one thousand eight hundred seventy five pounds, upon the Coun­ty of Norffolke, and City of Norwich, the weekely summe of one thousand eight hundred seventy five pounds, upon the County of Hartford, the weekely summe of six hundred seventy five pounds, upon the County of Cambridge, the weekly sum of five hundred sixty two pounds ten shillings, upon the County of Huntington, the weekely summe of three hundred and thirty pounds, upon the County of Lincolne, and City of Lincolne, the weekely summe of one thousand two hundred eighteene pounds fifteene shillings, and upon the Isle of Ely, the weekely summe of two hundred twen­ty one pounds five shillings, And the said weekely pay­ments are to begin from the first day of January instant; and so to continue weekely for foure moneths next ensuing from the said first day of January.

And be it further Ordained, That every person or per­sons that were to be Assessed or Taxed, by any former Or­dinance of Parliament, shall be Assessed and Taxed by this Ordinance, and shall be lyable to as great Forfeitures and Penalties, for not paying of the summe or summes to bee Assessed, as they should have beene if the same had beene Assessed, by vertue of the last Ordinance for the weekely [Page 3] payment for the said Association made the twentyeth of Sep­tember last, And the severall and respective Deputy Lieu­tenants and Committees, named and tr [...]ed within the said Association, or any part thereof, by the said recited Ordinance, to take care for the Assessing, Collecting, or Le­vying of any Monyes, are named and intrusted by this Ordinance, and have as full Power and Authority given them by this Ordinance, to nominate and appoynt Colle­ctors and Assessors, and to Distreine, Fine, Imprison, or Sequester, as they or any of them had, by vertue of the said recited Ordinance, in all, or any part of the said Associated Counties, And the severall Collectors, shall pay the sever­all summes by them Collected, at the place or severall pla­ces where the Earle of Manchester, and the Committee for the Association attending the said Earle shall appoynt, and to the Treasurer or Treasurers to be by them named, which Treasurer or Treasurers are to Issue out the Mo­nyes received for the purposes aforementioned, according to the Warrants or directions of the said Earle of Manche­ster, and of any two of the said Committees for the said Association, which shall be appoynted thereunto by the said Earle, and a full Committee, consisting of one for every County at least and of the Commissary Generall, for the time being of the said Earle of Manchester: And that no Monyes be Issued out without Order under the hands of the said Earle, such two of the said Committee and the said Commissary Generall, nor yet without the privity of the whole Committee attending the said Earle.

And be it further Ordained; That all the Forres raysed, or to be raysed, under the command of the said Earle, shall be kept intire, and not drawne forth, or kept, or continued forth upon any service, without the knowledge and joynt consent of the said Earle, and the said Committee while they are together, or of one of them, while they are distant [Page 4] one from another, or without particular directions of Par­liament. And that every Captaine both of Horse and Foot, and every other Superior or Inferior Officer, or other in the army of the said Earle of Manchester, or belonging to the said associated Counties, whose pay comes to ten shill­ings a day or above, shall take but halfe the pay due to him and shall respit the other halfe upon the Publique Faith, untill these unnaturall Warres be ended; And every Officer or other, that is to have five shillings a day or above, and under ten shillings, shall accept of two thirds of the pay due to him, and shall respit one third part upon the Publique Faith, untill these unnaturall Warres shall bee ended. And when there is three moneths pay due to any of them, or more, a Certificate thereof from the said Earle, such two of the said Committee and Commissary, as may give out Warrants for the Issuing out Monyes, shall be sufficient to demand the said Monyes owing upon the Publique Faith as aforesaid.

And be it further Ordained, that all the said Captaines both of Horse and Foote, are to make good to the said Com­mittee, all the Horses and Horse-Armes, and Foote-Arms, that shall be lost, or imbeazel'd by them, or under their com­mands, unlesse they can make it appeare, that they were lost in service against the Enemy, And the said Captaines are enjoyned to give a List under their hands to the said Com­mittee, for the Association of all men, horses, and armes, under their commands, And the said Lords & Commons doe further Ordaine, that all the Moneys collected and not disposed of, or to be Collected upon the fifth and twentieth part of mens estates, or of the last three, Moneths pay: and all the moneys or other benifit arising by vertue of any Or­dinance, for the third part of the sequestration, setled upon the Earle of Manchester, shall be paid unto the Treasurers appointed as aforesaid, and from thence to issue out againe for the intents and purposes aforementioned.

[Page 5] And it is likewise Ordained, that if any of the said Asso­ciated Forces, have taken, or shall take free quarter within the said Association, every Officer is then to have but one third part of the present pay due to him by this Ordi­nance, for so long time as he or they have had, or shall have free quarter.

And every Common foote Souldier, but halfe pay, & e­very Common horseman, or Trooper, foureteene pence a day, and the residue of their pay, is to be reserved for the Pay­ment of their quarters, and to be imployed for the purpo­ses aforementioned; And they further Ordaine, that the shall send one or two of their Deputy Lieutenants, or Com­mittees trusted by the Parliament, with the Affaires of the said County and City, to the Committee for the said Associ­ation to Cambridge, who shall have hereby equall power with any other of the said Committee at Cambridge, while they sit there, or in any other place; And the said Earle and Committee for the said Association, have hereby power gi­ven them to call all Collectors, Treasurers, or others, that have or are thought to have any of the said monyes in their hands, to an accompt, and to cause the said money in their hands to be paid unto the Treasurers appointed by this Ordinance; And if any Collectors, Treasurers, or o­thers, shall refuse to accompt, or to pay in the monyes wherewith they are charged, then the said Earle & Com­mittee shall Fine them double the sum charged upon them, which if it be not paid within six daies after, the summe is set and notice thereof left at his or their dwelling house, It shall be lawfull to distraine for the same, and if there be not sufficient distresse wherewith to satisfie; Then the said Earle and Committee, may imprison the offender herein, and sequester his estate, untill the money charged, and the Fine set, be levied and paid. And it is Ordained, that six [Page 6] pence in the pound, shall be allowed for every summe of mo­ney, which shall be collected and paid to the said Treasurer, whereof three pence shall be for the Collectors, and three pence for the Treasurer; And the said Treasurer shal keepe a Register Booke, of the several summes received and paid out by them, and shall render and accompt thereof, unto the said Earle and Committee, once every Moneth at least.

And be it lastly Ordained, that the said Earle, Deputy Lieutenants, Committees, Collectors, Assessors, and every one of them, and every other person that shall be aiding and assisting to them, or any of them, in doing any thing by ver­tue of this Ordinance, shalbe defended and saved harmlesse therein, by authority of both Houses of Parliament.

WHereas many Complaints are made by the will affected Inhabitants of the Associated Counties of Essex, Norffolk, Suffolk, Hartford, Cambridge, Hunting­ton, and Lincolne; That the service of the Par­liament is retarded, the Enemy strengthned, the peoples Soules starved, and their minds diver­ted from any care of Gods Cause, by their idle, ill affected, and scandalous Clergy, of the Vni­versity of Cambridge, and the Associated Coun­ties; And that many that would give Evidence against such scandalous Ministers, are not able to travell to London, nor be are the charges of such a Iourney: It is Ordanted by the Lords & Com­mons Assembled in Parliament, That the Earle of Manchester shall appoynt one or more Com­mittees in every County, consisting of such as have beene nominated Deputy Lieutenants, or [Page 8] Committees by any former Ordinance of Par­liament, in any of the said Associated Counties, every Committee to consist of ten, whereof any five or more of them, to sit in any place or places within any the said Associated Counties where the said Earle shall appoynt, with power to put in execution these Instructions following, and in pursuance thereof, to give assistance to the said Committeés.

First, They shall have power to call before them, all Provosts, Masters, and Fellowes of Colledges, all Students, and Members of the Vniversity, and all Ministers in any County of the Association, and all Schoole-masters that are scandalous in their lives, or ill-affected to the Parliament, or Fomentors of this unnaturall Warre, or that shall wilfully refuse obedience to the Ordinances of Parliament, or that have deser­ted their ordinary places of residence, not being imployed in the service of the King and Parlia­ment. And they shall have power to send for any Witnesses, and examine any complaint or testi­mony against them, upon Oathes of such per­sons as shall and may be produced to give Evidence against them, and shall certifie their Names with the Charge and Proofes against them, to the said Earle of Manchester, and [Page 9] he shall have power to eject such as he shall iudge unfit for their Places, and to sequester their Estates, Meanes, and Revenues, and to dispose of them as he shall thinke fitting, and to place other fitting persons in their Roome, such as shall be approved of by the Assembly of Di­vines fitting at Westminster.

The Earle of Manchester, or the said Com­mittee or Committees shall have power to ad­minister the late Covenant taken and to be taken of all the three Kingdoms, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to all persons in any of the said Associated Counties, and the Isie of Ely, upon such Penalties as are or shall be assigned by the Parliament in this behalfe.

And be it ordained, That the said Earle of Manchester shall have power to dispose of a fifth part of all such Estates as they shall sequester, for the benefit of the Wives and Children of any of the aforesaid persons.

The said Committee or Committees shall imploy a Clerke for the registring of all War­rants, Orders, Summons, and Ejectments made by them: And that they choose some con­venient place for the preserving of the Writings of this Committee.

That the said Earle of Manchester shall have [Page 10] power to examine and inhibite all such as doe obstruct the Reformation now endeavoured by the Parliament and Assembly of Divines.

And be it further declared, That all such as shall doe any thing in execution of this Ordi­nance, shall be kept indempnified by the Autho­ritie and Power of both Houses of Parlia­ment.

And further be it ordeined, That the Earle of Manchester shall have power to appoint a con­venient number, consisting of one or more out of every Countie, one out of the Citie of Norwich, and one out of the Countie and Citie of Lin­colne: Provided, that three of these be Deputie-Lieutenants to sit at Cambridge, for the better ordering of all Businesses of the Association, according to Ordinances and Orders of Par­liament, and according to his Commission granted by his Excellencie the Earle of Essex; And that the present Committee for the Associ­ation sitting at Cambridge, shall cease, when the Earle of Manchester shall have appointed another under his hand and seale.