December, 1647
[24 December, 1647.]
Three Ords, of 24 Dec, 1647, recited.; £600,000 charged on above securities for; satisfaction of soldiers' arrears.; Treasurers at War to issue moneys on instructions of Army Committee.
The Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled taking into Consideration the great Arreares of Pay due to
the Souldiery that have faithfully served the Parliament, and
being resolved to secure the same, have by an Ordinance of both
Houses of Parliament of the 24th of this instant December,
Ordained, That the Money arising out of the remaining part of
the Lands and Revenues of all the late Arch Bishops, and
Bishops of the Realme of England and Dominion of Wales, late
belonging to the Archbishopricks and Bishopricks appointed to
be sold by severall Ordinances of Parliament (after such ingagements as are Charged thereupon shall be first satisfied) shall be
imployed for the payment of the Souldiery. And by another
Ordinance of Parliament of the date aforesaid, two third parts
of all the Lands and Hereditaments of all the Delinquents mentioned or comprehended in the three first qualifications of that
Proposition for Delinquents lately sent to the King to the Isle of
Wight, not formerly disposed of, or the Fines that shall be set
by the said Houses upon those Delinquents, are appointed to be
and enure to the use aforesaid. And further by an Ordinance
of Parliament of the same Date, the summe of six hundred
thousand Pounds is charged to be paid out of the Moyty of the
Receipts of the Excise in Course towards payment of the Arreares
of the Army that is to be kept up, and the supernumeraries
that are to be disbanded, As by the said severall Ordinances may
appeare. It is now Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled, That the summe of 600000 Pounds be, and is
hereby charged upon all and every the Securities aforesaid, for
and towards satisfaction of the Arreares of the Souldiers that are
to be kept up in this Kingdom, and of the Supernumeraries that
are now to be disbanded, and shall be in the first place satisfied.
And it is further Ordained by the Lords and Commons aforesaid,
That all and every such summe and summes of money, as shall
be received and come in upon any the Securities aforesaid, shall
be from time to time paid unto the Treasurers at Warres at
Guildhall, London, and shall be issued and paid forth by the
said Treasurers at Warres, to such person and persons for the
uses aforesaid, in such manner as the Committee of Lords and
Commons for the Army, or any five of them shall from time to
time under their hands limit and appoint.