with pay, and the preventing of further oppression to the people, by free quarter or billet,
together with the Orders and Resolutions of Parliament, concerning the disposall of the present
forces and rules concerning quartering.
Whereupon I am Commanded by the Parl. to desire your Excellency (accordingly,) That
you would speedily send out to every Garison, one or more of the cook to be published there by
the respective Governors, and to every moving Regiment, to many of the bookes as that every
Troops and Company may have one, with order that the Captaine do a[unr]quaint their under
Officers and Souldiers, with the effect thereof, so far as concernes them to know. And that they
cause the same to be published within their quarters.
And that the chief Officer present with each Troop and Company, do always keep and carry
about with their Troopes or Companies, one of the said books, and upon any motion to new
quarters, that they cause the bookes to be publised, or the effect thereof to be communicated
to the [unr]bitance, within their quarters, that they may more surely know what is to be performed
on their parts and what they may thereupon expect from the Souldiery.
And I am likewise to desire your Lordships strict Order to the Officers both in the field and
Garison, that they duly observe the Act with the Orders and Rules annexed: And that the
Countrey performing what is directed on their parts, they cause the Souldiery strictly tools
serve the same on their. This being all I have in Command , I rest
Westminster 25. May 1649.
Your Excellencies humble Servant
Will: Lenthall Speaker.
The house ordered the Speaker to subscribe himself Speaker of the Parl. Of England.
By Letters from Bristoll, it is this day advertized from Ireland, That Lieut. Gen. Byrne
hath declared for Owen Roe, being resolved not to take the Covenant; And therefore
a party are joyned of the Lord Inchiqueeenes and the Lord Taffes forces to go against
him, and are upon their march into the Counties of Wexford, and Wicklow, where Lieut.
Gen: Bynnes forces quarter.
SIR,
A Letter from Cleave in Holland.
THE millitary Assembly at Nurnberg is begun, the respective Generalls have visited each
other, and the Overture of the Treaty was made at the Town house, by the imperiall Commissory
Gen: Lord Beumenthall, consisting in those two points, That the Armies may be disbanded,
and the place surrendred, for to establish the peace of the Empier, President Essen
answered in the behalf of Sweden, they were very fe[unr]ly, but must see first the point of the
Aurmistia (or forget fulnesse) and grievances put in execution. And the Prince Elector Palatine
restored, exhibiting therewith a Catalogue of the things to be restored; whereof the Elector
Palatine was the first of all, whereat the Imperial its [unr]eemed some what perplexed, by
reason of the Spaniards refusing to part so soone with Frankendale, and the Emperors being
loath to fall out with them. The Sweades professe in plain[unr], [unr]y will not disband a man
unlesse the Prince Elector be restored first; And it is not like [unr]e French (in the Empire)
will quit their hold, without the surrender of Frankendale, whereby the generall peace may
be unretarded. The Prince Flector hath sent his Ratification of the instrumentum paces to
Munster, and made likewise further application to the Emperour, where of Copies were sent to
Nurenburgh: Has Nighmesse Brother Prince Philip negotiating there in his [unr], And
the Imperialists afford better hopes thereupon. The Sweadish Geuralissi[unr] wished the P.
[unr]ector at Nurenburgh in person, who is like to advance to Cassell first to take further advice