On 19 July 1642 King Charles I, in an unconstitutional act and without the assent of Parliament, issued a commission of array for Devonshire to Henry Bourchier and 27 other nobles and leading gentlemen.
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On the outbreak of Civil War Price helped to put the royal commission of array into force in Radnorshire, and was the first Welsh MP to be disabled from sitting in parliament on 4 October 1642.
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Wolryche accepted a commission to collect the Poll Tax in 1641 and during the summer of 1642, with both Charles and Parliament mobilising for possible war, both he and Ottley received Commissions of array from the king.
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In September his commission of array for Shropshire was renewed, along with his uncle's, and his commission of the peace was renewed twice in 1404, in March from Westminster and in November from Coventry.
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The local population viewed the commission of array as an act of royal aggression against them, whilst ignoring the royalist argument that it had been resorted to as a defense to the Militia Ordinance passed unconstitutionally by Parliament without Royal Assent.
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During the English Civil War Shrewsbury was a Parliamentarians in February 1645, the commissioners for corporations later stated that " he had declared himself against the commission of array " and " refused to find a dragoon for the King s service ".
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In 1332 he received an unspecified reward for his good services in Ireland and a grant of lands at Malahide, near Court of Common Pleas and then back to King's Bench; he also served on a commission of array in Yorkshire.
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York's and Salisbury's army was said by some to number 8, 000 to 9, 000 men, but by others to be only a few hundred strong, as York intended to recruit local forces with a Commission of Array.
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By another contemporary account, William Worcester's " Annales Rerum Anglicorum ", John Neville himself obtained a Commission of Array from Richard of York to raise 8, 000 men to fight on York's side under the Earl of Westmoreland.
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In 1639 / 40 Earl Rivers was appointed on to a committee investigating complaints against Charles I . During 1641 his allegiance swung back to Charles, and in 1642 he was given the Kings'commission of Array to raise a Regiment of Foot in Cheshire.
