The advice and direction of both Houses of Parliament, to Sir William Brereton, and to the rest of the deputy lieutenants, for the county of Chester With orders of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the regulating of those souldiers that are gon, or shall goe, under the command of his Excellency, Robert Earle of Essex, Lord generall for this expedition. Die Jovis, August 18. 1642. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that these orders bee forthwith printed and published. John Browne Cler. Parliamentor (August 19. Printed at London for Iohn Wright, 1642)
"The printing is probably unauthorized"--Lambert, S. Printing in Parliament, 1641-1700, p. 31. - Reproduction of the original in the British Library. - Thomason, E.112[37]. - Wing (2nd ed.), E1197