An ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled giving Sir Tho. Fairfax power to prest men in all townes, and places where his army shall march. And to continue for the space of one moneth. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83296 of text R212238 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.9[35]). 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 A83296 Wing E2078 Thomason 669.f.9[35] ESTC R212238 99870880 99870880 161133 2240945961

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A83296) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161133) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f9[35]) An ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled giving Sir Tho. Fairfax power to prest men in all townes, and places where his army shall march. And to continue for the space of one moneth. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Edward Husband, London : Iune the 12. 1645. Order to print dated: 10. Junii. 1645 and signed: Hen. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Fairfax, Thomas, -- Baron, 1612-1671 -- Early works to 1800. Impressment -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A83296 R212238 (Thomason 669.f.9[35]). civilwar no An ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, giving Sir Tho. Fairfax power to prest men in all townes, and places where hi England and Wales. Parliament. 1645 1 334 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ORDINANCE OF The Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled , giving Sir THO. FAIRFAX power to prest men in all Townes , and places where his Army shall march . And to continue for the space of one Moneth .

BE it Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled , That Sir Thomas Fairfax shall have power by virtue of this Ordinance , to Imprest Men in all Townes , Parishes and places , as his Army shall march through , or Quarter in , during the space of one Moneth after the passing of this present Ordinance .

Provided that this Ordinance shall not extend to the Pressing of any Clergyman , Scholler , or Student in any the Vniversities , Inns of Court or Chancery , or houses of Law , or of any person rated in the last Subsidies granted by Parliament , or the Sonne of any person rated at five Pound Goods , or three Pound Lands in the Subsidie Books , or of any person of the Ranke , or Degree of an Esquire or upwards , or the Sonne of any such person , or the Sonne of the Widdow of any such person , or to the Pressing of any person under the age of eighteene , or above the age of fifty , or of the Members or Officers of either House of Parliament , or of their meniall servants , or any the assistants or attendants of the Lords House , or any of their meniall servants , or of any Marryner , Seaman , Waterman , or Fisherman , or any Officer imployed in the Office of Excize , or in the Office of customes for Tunnage or Poundage .

10. Junii . 1645.

ORdered by the Commons , That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published .

Hen. Elsynge , Cler. Parl. Dom. Com.

London , Printed for Edward Husband , Iune the 12. 1645.