September, 1647
[2 September, 1647.]
Names of Committee of London Militia.; Powers.; May appoint and dismiss officers.
The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, taking into
their serious Consideration of the present state and condition of
the Kingdome of England, and particularly of the City of London,
Do Ordaine and Declare, And be it Ordained and Declared by
the Authority of the Parliament, That Isaac Pennington, Sir
John Wollaston, Tho. Atkin, John Warner, John Fowke, William
Gibbs, Thomas Andrewes, Thomas Foote, Symon Edmonds
Alderman of the said City of London, Major Generall Philip
Skippon, Col. John Venn, Francis Allen, Col. Rowland Wilson
Jun. Colonell Edmond Harvy, Major Richard Sallaway, Richard
Turner Sen., Samuel Warner, William Bartley, William Hobson,
James Russel, Colonel Owen Roe, Colonell Thomas Player, Stephen
Estwick, Colonell Robert Tichburne Lieutenant of the Tower, Col.
Richard Turner, Tempest Milner, William Antrobus, Thomas
Noell, Christopher Pack, Thomas Arnold, Col. Nathaniel Camfield,
Samuel Moyer, Alexander Normington, Alexander Jones, Maurice
Gething, and Mark Hildersley, Citizens, or any nine or more of
them, and no other person or persons whatsoever, be, and are
hereby constituted and appointed a Committee for the Militia of
the City of London and Liberties thereof, and shall have power
and are hereby Authorized to assemble and call together all and
singular person and persons within the said City of London and
Liberties thereof, that are meet and fit for the Wars, and them
to Train, Exercise and put in readinesse, and them after their
abilities and faculties, well and sufficiently from time to time to
cause to be Arrayed and weaponed, and to take the Musters of
them in places most fit for that purpose; And that they shall
have power to leade, conduct and imploy the persons aforesaid
arrayed and weaponed, for the suppression of all Rebellions,
Insurrections and Invasions, that may happen within the said
City and Liberties thereof; And likewise shall have further power
and Authority to Leade, Conduct, and Imploy the Persons
aforesaid, Arrayed and Weaponed, as well within the said City
as within any other part of this Realme of England or Dominion
of Wales, for the suppression of all Rebellions, Insurrections, and
Invasions that may happen, according as they shall from time to
time receive directions from the Lords and Commons assembled in
Parliament And that the said Committee, or any nine or more
of them as aforesaid, shall have power, and are hereby authorized
to constitute and make Colonels, Captaines, and other officers,
and shall have power to remove and displace Colonels, Captaines,
and other officers from time to time, as they, or any nine or
more of them as aforesaid shall see cause and thinke fit; and
that the said Committee, or any nine or more of them as aforesaid,
shall have the same power and authority within the said City
and Liberties thereof, as any Committee for the Militia of the
City of London had the twentieth day of July, Anno Dom. 1647.
by any Order or Ordinance of Parliament.
Indemnity.
And that all and every Person or Persons who shall Act, or doe
any Act or thing whatsoever by vertue of this, or any former
Order or Ordinances of Parliament concerning the said Militia
shall be saved harmlesse, and indempnified for and concerning
the same by Authority of Parliament.
No citizen of London compellable to serve out side.
And it is hereby further Ordained, That no Citizen of the City
of London, nor any of the Forces of the said City, or Liberties
thereof, shall bee drawne forth, or compelled to goe out of the said
City or Liberties thereof for Military Service, without his or their
free consent.
And this present Ordinance is to continue during the pleasure
of both Houses of Parliament.