September 1643
[6 September, 1643.]
Weekly Assessments on Associated Counties of Norfolk, etc. for payment of their forces.
The Lords and Commons in Parliament taking into serious
consideration, the great charge which the five Associated Counties
of Norffolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Hartford, Huntington, the Isle
of Ely, and City of Norwich, are now necessarily to undergoe, by
reason of many thousands of Horse and Foote which they are inforced to raise, and send out, for the defence of the said associated
Counties, and parts adjacent, against a great Army of the Earle
of Newcastles. To the end the said severall Counties may not
be destroyed for want of competent Summes of money to pay
their Forces; And that those Summes of money may be raised
with as much ease, and indifferency to the good Subjects as the
exigent of these times will permit, the said Lords and Commons
doe Ordaine and be it ordained by the said Lords and Commons
in this present Parliament assembled, that such summes of
money as shall be by any sixe or more of the Deputy Livetenants
thought necessary for the payment of such Forces of Horse,
Foot and Dragoones as are raised or to be raised by the
aforesaid severall Counties respectively be charged rated taxed
and leavyed upon all and every the foresaid Associated Counties,
by a weekly Assessment in the same manner as the weekly
Taxe for the payment of his Excellency his Army, is rated
charged taxed and leavyed, to begin the thirteenth day of this
present September, by the same Committee and persons named
and appointed for the said severall and respective Counties of
Norffolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Hartford, Huntington, Isle of Ely,
and City of Norwich.
Treasurers.
Provided the said weekely assessments by this Ordinance be
not greater then the weekely taxe for the payment of his
Excellency his Army for the two last months beginning the
third of August, and ending the last of September next in case
the former Ordinances, and other provisions for money be not
sufficient to pay the said Forces without his weekely taxe, and
that any three or more of the Deputy Livetenants in their severall
Counties, shall appoint such Treasurers as they shall thinke fit.