AN ORDINANCE OF The Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled, giving Sir THO. FAIRFAX power to prest men in all Townes, and places where his Army shall march. And to continue for the space of one Moneth.

BE it Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Par­liament assembled, That Sir Thomas Fairfax shall have power by virtue of this Ordinance, to Imprest Men in all Townes, 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.

Provided that this Ordinance shall not extend to the Pressing of any Clergyman, Scholler, or Stu­dent in any the Vniversities, Inns of Court or Chancery, or houses of Law, or of any person rated in the last Subsidies granted by Parliament, or the Sonne of any person rated at five Pound Goods, or three Pound Lands in the Subsidie Books, or of any person of the Ranke, or Degree of an Es­quire or upwards, or the Sonne of any such person, or the Sonne of the Widdow of any such person, or to the Pressing of any person under the age of eighteene, or above the age of fifty, or of the Members or Officers of either House of Parliament, or of their meniall servants, or any the as­sistants or attendants of the Lords House, or any of their meniall servants, or of any Marryner, Seaman, Waterman, or Fisherman, or any Officer imployed in the Office of Excize, or in the Office of customes for Tun­nage or Poundage.

ORdered by the Commons, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.

Hen. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. Dom. Com.

London, Printed for Edward Husband, Iune the 12. 1645.

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