Instructions for Deputy Lievtenants, &c.
THat the Deputy Lievtenants of each County which are members of the House, shall have authority to tender the Propositions to the other Deputy Lievtenants of the same County, and take their subscriptions, and all such Deputy Lievtenants, or any two of them, as shall subscribe according to the Propositions, shall have authority to assemble, and call together all such persons as they shal think fit, and to tender those Propositions to all such persons as shall be present; or to any persons within their Counties respectively, and receive their subscriptions, and the said Deputy Lievtenants, or any two of them, shal have authority to name such, and so many persons as they shall think fit; to assemble and call together every person, or to repaire to their severall houses, or dwellings within [Page 2]their respective Countyes, and to take their Subscriptions, which Subscriptions are by them to be returned to such persons as shall be appointed Receivers in the respective Countyes, who shall from time to time certifie the summes, values, or proportions of such subscriptions to the Treasurers of London.
2. The said Deputy Lievtenants, or the greater party of them, shall have power to name receivers in their severall Counties, and all such as shall either before or after their subscriptions pay, or bring in any Money or Plate, shall deliver the name to such person or persons as shall bee appointed by the said Deputy Lievtenants, or the greater part of them, under their hands to be receivers, which the said persons so appointed shall cause to be delivered to the Treasurers in London, named in the said Propositions, and shall receive acquittances from the said Treasurers, in the name, and to the use of the severall persons, from whom they shall receive such Money or Plate, and shall deliver [Page 3]such Acquittances to the severall persons to whom they doe belong, and all such as make such returnes of Money or Plate, shall receive reasonable allowance from the Treasurers for the same, according to their discretions.
3. All that find Horses shall presently send them up to London, according to the Propositions.
4. In those Countyes where no Commissions are issued to those that were nominated for Deputy Lievtenants, or none have beene nominated, there the same authority to bee given to such Iustices of the Peace, or other Gentlemen of those Countyes, which shall be named by the Knights and Burgesses of those Countyes, and approved by both Houses, as is to the Deputy-Lievtenants in the first instruction.
5. That the time of notice shall be taken to [Page 4]be from the time that every man beares the Propositions first read by the Authoritie aforesaid.
6. It is ordered that Captaine Burrell, Master Loyd, Iohn Smith of London Gentlemen, and Francis Dowet of London Gent. bee Commissaries to inroll and value. The Horses and Armes to be raised according to the Propositions.