17. Junii, 1643.
IT is this day ordered by the Commons House of Parliament, That the high-Constables of the severall Hundreds in the counties of Berks, Buckingham, Middlesex, and Surrey, in whose Divisions any sick and maymed Souldiers of the Parliaments Army are or shall be quartered or Billeted, do take speciall care that the said Souldiers be furnished, and supplyed with Lodging and Bedding, fitting for men in their condition: And the said high-Constables are hereby authorised and required to send their VVarrants and Precepts to the petty-Constables of all Towns neer adjoyning to those Towns and Houses where the said Souldiers are quartered, for the bringing in of Bedding, if need require, for the use of the said Souldiers, till it shall please God to restore them to health.
And it is further ordered, That the Committee for Sequestration of the severall counties above mentioned, out of such Bedding as by vertue of the Ordinance of Parliament for Sequestration, shall be seized for the use of the Common-wealth, shall deliver so much thereof as shall be needfull, to the Treasurers appointed by this House for maymed Souldiers, or to such as they shall appoint, for the use of the said fick and wounded men: And that the high-Constables shall take care to restore such Bedding as shall be by them supplyed, to the Owners thereof; As also, That the above mentioned Treasurers for maymed Souldiers, do take care that the Bedding by them received from the Committee for Sequestration, be not imbezilled, but carefully kept and accompted for to the use and service of the Common-wealth.