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House of Commons Journal Volume 5, 19 July 1647:

Garisons.

…Resolved, &c. That this House doth adhere to the former Vote, for the Demolishing of Denbigh Castle, as it went from the House.

Resolved, &c. That this House doth adhere to the former Vote, for the total Demolishing of Holt Castle, as it went from this House.

Resolved, &c. That this House doth agree with the Lords, That the Castle of Ruthen be disgarisoned; and the Works about it sithence these Troubles slighted and dismantled.

Resolved, &c. That this House doth adhere to the former Vote, for the Disgarisoning and Demolishing of the Castles of Hawarden, Flynt, and Ruthland, in the same manner as it went from this House.

Resolved, &c. That this House doth adhere to their former Vote, in Approving of what the Committee of the County of Lancaster hath done, in Demolishing of Latham House.

Resolved, &c. That this House doth adhere to their former Vote, for the Disgarisoning and Demolishing of Harleigh Castle.

Resolved, &c. That this House doth adhere to their former Votes, for the Disgarisoning and Demolishing of the Castles of Aberistwith and Cardigan.

Resolved, &c. That this House doth adhere to their former Vote, that Wenny Castle be made indefensible.

Resolved, &c. That this House doth agree with the Lords, That the Execution of these Votes be left to the Care of the Deputy Lieutenants of the several Counties to be forthwith performed accordingly with the Addition of this Clause; viz. After the Word “Lieutenants,” and before the Word “of,” “or Commissioners of Parliament, named in the Ordinance for the raising the Sixty thousand Pounds per mensem, or any Three or more of them.”

Which said Clause is to be inserted: and the Lords Concurrence therein desired.

Resolved, &c. That this House doth declare, That the Castle and great Fort at Bristolle shall be kept garisoned with Two hundred and Fifty Men in them, according to the former Vote.

Resolved, &c. That this House doth declare, That the Castle of Carmarthen shall be kept garisoned with One hundred Men in it, according to their former Vote.

…It is further Ordered, That the same Proportion of Powder, Match, and Bullet, as was formerly allowed for the Service of the Garison in Dartmouth Castle, be still continued and allowed them out of the publick Stores: And that the Government thereof be in the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses, as formerly.

…Mr. Scawen reports an Estimate of the Pay of such Garisons as are to continue, and of such Horse and Dragoons as are to be kept up, not of the Army, for One Month, at Twenty-eight Days to the Month, according to the Proportion of Pay voted the Thirteenth of April 1647: The which was read.

And then there’s one about our very own Ministry of Vice and Virtue in House of Commons Journal Volume 5, 1 February 1647:

Publick Fast.

An Ordinance for publishing the Resolutions and Order of both Houses for the setting apart Wednesday the Tenth Day of March next for a Day of publick Humiliation, to be humbled thereon, for the Spreading and Growth of Errors and Heresies; and to seek God’s Assistance for the Suppressing of the great Growth of Errors and Heresies; was this Day read the First and Second time.

And the Question being put, For the Commitment of it;

It passed with the Negative.

And then the Question being put, For passing the Ordinance;

The Ordinance passed, upon the Question: And it is ordered to be sent unto the Lords for their Concurrence.

Mr. Tate is appointed to carry it to the Lords.

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