June, 1645
[11 June, 1645.]
Power to Sir T. Fairfax to press men during one month.
Be it Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament
assembled, That Sir Thomas Fairfax shall have power by vertue
of this Ordinance to Imprest men in all Towns, 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.
Persons exempted.
Provided, That this Ordinance shall not extend to the Pressing
of any Clergyman, Scholar or Student in any the Universities,
Inns of Court or Chancery, or Houses of Law, or of any person
rated in the last Subsidies granted by Parliament, or the Son of
any person rated at Five pounds Goods, or Three pounds Lands in
the Subsidy Books, or of any person of the Rank or Degree of
an Esquire or upwards, of the Son of any such person, or the
Son of the Widow of any such person, or to the Presting of any
person under the age of Eighteen, or above the age of Fifty, or
of the Members or Officers of either House of Parliament, or their
menial Servants, or any the Assistants or Attendants of the
Lords House, or any of their menial Servants, or of any Marriner, Seaman, Waterman or Fisherman, or any Officer imployed
in the Office of Excize, or in the Office of Customs for Tunnage
or Poundage.