Instructions, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, for Oliver Cromwell, Esquire, Thomas Shirwood, Mayor of the Town of Cambridge, Robert Twelvers, Thomas French, and Robert Robson, Aldermen, appointed to take Care for the Peace and Safety of the said Town of Cambridge.

Instructions for Cambridge.

You are required and authorized to exercise and train all the Train Bands and Voluntiers in the Town of Cambridge, and shall lead and conduct them against all Forces that attempt to seize upon that Town, or to disturb the Peace of it; and you are authorized to fight with all such Persons to kill and slay them, and by all Means to defend your Town from all hostile Attempts there.

You are likewise authorized to disarm all Popish Recusants, and all other dangerous and ill-affected Persons, who have opposed the Orders and Proceedings of Parliament, or endeavoured to oppress the People, by the Commission of Array, or otherwise.

Instructions agreed on by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, for Wm. Earl of Bedforde, Lieutenant of the Counties of Somersett and Devon, Phillip Earl of Pembroke and Montgom'y, Lieutenant of the County of Wilts and South'ton, Charles Viscount Cranborne, Lieutenant of Dors't and Hartford, Denzill Hollis, Esquire, Lieutenant of the City and County of the City of Bristoll, and to all their Deputy Lieutenants respectively; Sir Walter Erle, Knight, Sir Thomas Trenchard, Knight, John Browne, Esquire, Colonel Charles Essex, being Persons especially appointed and authorized by the Lords and Commons, to suppress the Rebellion and Commotion raised by the Marquis Hartford and others, in the County of Som's't and Dors't, and other Western Counties; and for all other Lieutenants and Deputy Lieutenants of the several Counties of the Kingdom respectively.