July, 1644
[19 July, 1644.]
Committee for Militia of London to press Soldiers for reduction of Oxon.
Be it Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament
assembled, That the Committee of the Militia for the City of
London, shall be, and are hereby Authorized speedily to presse
the number of one thousand Souldiers within the said City, and
the Lines of Communication, to be employed for a Regiment for
Serjeant Major Generall Browne, towards the reducing of the
County of Oxon, Berks and Bucks, with such limitations and
restraints touching the persons that are to be pressed, as in
former Ordinances for pressing of Souldiers hath been appointed.
Committees for Bucks, etc., to levy 500 soldiers in each County.
And be it further Ordained, That the severall Committees of
the Counties of Bucks, Berks, and Oxon, shall have power, and
are hereby Authorized to presse within each of the said Counties
respectively, five hundred Souldiers for the service of the Parliament, with such limitations and restraints touching the persons that are to be pressed, as in former Ordinances for pressing
of Souldiers hath been appointed.