An Order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That the Judges and Justices of Assize, in the severall Counties of England and Wales, in open Court, and in their severall Charges to be delivered to the Grand Juries at the next Assizes, shall declare and publish, That the said Lords and Commons have resolved upon the Question, That His Majesties Commissions of Array are against Law, and against the Liberty and Property of the Subject.
WHereas severall Commissions of Array have lately issued out under the Great Seal of England, into the severall Counties of Leicester, Worcester, and other Counties of this Realm, tending to the great danger of His Majesty, and the disturbance of the Peace of this Kingdom: For the preventing thereof, and of the Execution, and issuing out of any such Commissions for the time to come▪ It is Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That the Judges and Justices of Assize, of the severall Counties of England and Wales, be required in their severall Circuits, at the Assizes and great Sessions to be next held for each County, within this Realm, and the Dominion of Wales, respectively, in open Court, and in their severall Charges to be delivered to the Grand-Juries at the said Assizes, and great Sessions, openly to declare and publish, That the said Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament have, upon mature deliberation, Resolved upon the Question, That the said Commissions of Array are against Law, and against the Liberty and Property of the Subject: And that all those that are Actors in putting the same in Execution, shall be esteemed disturbers of the Peace of the Kingdom, and Betrayers of the Liberty of the Subject.
Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That this Order shall be forthwith Printed and Published.