An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. : For the speedy pressing of 20000 souldiers, with so many gunners, trumpetors, and chirurgions as shall be thought fit by the committies for the six associated counties of Norfolke, Suffolke, Essex, Cambridge, Herford-shire and Huntington shire, with the c-ty of Norwich, and Isle of Ely.
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