To the constables and overseers of [blank] By vertue of a warrant to me directed from the standing committee at Chelmsford ... Essex (England) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A62716 of text R220683 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1393B). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A62716 Wing T1393B ESTC R220683 99832079 99832079 36548 2240906395

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A62716) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 36548) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2100:03) To the constables and overseers of [blank] By vertue of a warrant to me directed from the standing committee at Chelmsford ... Essex (England) 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. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament. -- Proceedings. 1642. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Ireland -- History -- Rebellion of 1641 -- Early works to 1800. Essex (England) -- Defenses -- Early works to 1800. A62716 R220683 (Wing T1393B). civilwar no To the constables and overseers of [blank] By vertue of a warrant to me directed from the standing committee at Chelmsford, ... Essex 1642 1 385 1 0 0 0 0 0 26 C The rate of 26 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Constables and Overseers of _____

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 within your Precincts who are worth one hundred pounds or more in lands or goods , or in lands and goods together ; to the end they may be charged severally with Horse and Armes , so as no person be charged with an Harquibushire or light Horse unlesse he hath an hundred pounds per annum in lands , or be worth one thousand two hundred pounds in goods and lands ; nor with a Dragoone unlesse he be worth foure hundred pounds in goods , or forty pounds per annum in lands ; nor with a Foot-Armes , unlesse he be worth an hundred pounds in goods , or ten pounds per annum in lands . You are likewise 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 .