Array, Military Commission Of
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Definition
Array, Military Commission of. Previous to the reign of Henry VIII., in order to protect the kingdom from domestic insurrections or foreign invasions, it was usual from time to time for our princes to issue commissions of array, and send into every county officers in whom they could confide, to muster, array, or set in military order the inhabitants of every district. The form of the commission was settled by 5 Hen. 4, so as to prevent the insertion therein of any new penal clauses, Rushworth, Hist. Coll., vol. Iv., pp. 662, 667.
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