IT is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that the Ensignes and Cornetts sent up now by Sir Thomas Fairfax, and all other Ensignes and Cornetts, that have at any time formerly, or shall at any time hereafter be taken from the enemy, shall be brought into the Heralds office, by those persons in whose hands they do now or shall happen to remaine, to the end the same may be registred and preserved in some convenient place there, and that they may be known what they are, and when, and where they were taken, and that William Ryley Esquire Lancaster Herald at armes, be solely entrusted with the custody and safe keeping of them, and shalbe answerable for the same upon demand of both Houses, or either House of Parliament or of any Committee to be appointed by them in that behalfe.
Die Martis, Iunii 24. 1645.
Hen. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. Dom. Com.
London Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honourable House of Commons. 1645.