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 and Dominion of Wales. And for the better and more orderly taking thereof theſe directions enſuing are appointed and enjoyned ſtrictly to be followed.

Hat the Speakers of both Houſes of Parliament doe ſpeedily ſend (to the Lord Generall, and all other Commanders in chiefe, and Governours of Townes, Forts, Caſtles, and Garriſons, as alſo to the Earle of Warwick Lord High Admirall of England) true Copies of the ſaid ſolemne League and Covenant to the end it may be taken by all Officers and Souldiers under their ſeverall Commands.

That all the Knights and Burgeſſes now in Parliament, doe take ſpeciall care ſpeedily to ſend down into their ſeverall Counties (which are or ſhall hereafter be under the power of the Parliament) a competent number of true Copies of the ſaid League and Covenant unto the Committees of Parliament in their ſeverall Counties; And that the ſaid Committees doe within ſix dayes at the moſt diſperſe the ſaid Copies to every Pariſh Church or Chappell in their ſeverall Counties, to be delivered unto the Miniſters, Churchwardens, or Conſtables of the ſeverall Pariſhes.

That the ſaid Committees be required to returne a Certificate of the day when they received the ſaid Copies, as alſo the day they ſent them forth, and to what Pariſhes they