urn at all without the consent of his parents,
or his guardians, nor shall it be any reproach to him or impediment to
his bearing of magistracy."

This order, with relation to foreign expeditions, will be proved and
explained together with--

The twenty-seventh order, "Providing, in case of invasion apprehended,
that the lords high sheriffs of the tribes, upon commands received from
the Parliament or the Dictator, distribute the bands of the elders into
divisions, after the nature of the essays of the youth; and that the
second division or essay of the elders, being made and consisting of
30,000 foot and 10,000 horse, be ready to march with the second essay of
the youth, and be brought also by the conductors to the strategus.

"The second essay of the elders and youth being marched out of their
tribes, the lords high sheriffs and lieutenants shall have the remaining
part of the annual bands both of elders and youth in readiness, which,
if the beacons be fired, shall march to the rendezvous to be in that
case appointed by the Parliament or the Dictator: And the beacons being
fired, the curiata comitia, or parochial congregations, shall elect a
fourth both of elders and youth to be immediately upon the guard of the
tribes, and dividing themselves as aforesaid, to march also in their
divisions according to orders, which method in case of extremity shall
proceed to the election of a third, or the levy of a second, or of the
last man in the nation, by the power of the lords high sheriffs, to the
end that the commonwealth in her utmost pressure may show her trust that
God in his justice will remember mercy, by humbling herself, and yet
preserving her courage, discipline, and constancy, even to the last drop
of her blood and the utmost farthing.

"The services performed by the youth, or by the elders, in case of
invasion, and according to this order, shall be at their proper cost and
charges that are any ways able to endure it; but if there be such as are
known in their parishes to be so indigent that they cannot march out of
their tribes, nor undergo the burden in this case incumbent, then the
congregations of their parishes shall furnish them with sufficient sums
of money to be repaid upon the certificate of the same by the Parliament
when the action shall be over. And of that which is respectively
enjoined by this order, any tribe, parish, magistrate, or person that
shall fail, is to answer for it, at the Council of War,