Two Orders of the Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT, Concerning SOLDIERS.

ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That all such Of­ficers and Commanders as hath or shall give any false Attestations or Certificates to Soldiers for the receiving of their Arrears, shall for­feit all the Arrears due unto themselves upon their Entertainment.

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VVHereas there was the sum of Twenty thousand pounds formerly charged upon the Moyety of the Receipts at Goldsmiths-Hall, not past in security for the last Two hundred thousand pounds to be issued out for payment of the private Soldier, which because it could not come into cash in any convenient time to relieve the present Necessities of the private Soldier, The Houses out of consideration of the said Neces­sities, have borrowed the sum of Ten thousand pounds of the Treasurers in VVeavers­Hall, which they have ordered forthwith to be issued to the private Soldier for a Moneths pay unto them, till their Accompts be stated; It is Ordered and Declared, That the said remaining Ten thousand pounds formerly charged upon the said Moyety of the Receipts of Goldsmiths-Hall, shall be imployed to the pay of the private Soldier, as formerly: And that it be effectually recommended from this House to the Com­mittee and Treasurers at Goldsmiths-Hall, forthwith to furnish the said Ten thousand pounds so charged as aforesaid, to be issued to the private Soldier, as is formerly Ordered, and to return their Answer to this House with all speed, and their Opinions how this Ten thousand pounds may be speedily raised and furnished for the uses aforesaid.

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ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That these Orders be forthwith printed and published.

H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.

London, Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons, Iune 23. 1647.

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