__ affociation 
STATE PAPERS. 
Majefty, leave me no doubt but that 
it is your Majefty’s intention to 
fupport, on conftitutional grounds 
only, your claims of your neigh- 
bours in Franconia; and confe- 
quently that you will leave thofe 
lefs powerful co-eftates and pro- 
prietories of the Empire in the en- 
joyment of what the laws fecure to 
them, and of what your Majefty 
grants to your own fubjects againft 
yourfelf, to wit, their maintenance 
and re-eftablifhment in a juft and 
inconteftible poffeffion. 
While I moft willingly, on the 
prefent occafion, manifeft the moft 
perfeét confidence in your Majefty, 
I at the fame time take the oppor- 
tunity of renewing to your Majef- 
ty the affurances of the high efteem 
with whichI am, &c. 
(Signed) GeorceR. 
_ St. James's, Feb. 17, 1797. 
PLAN SENT TO ALL THE PARISHES 
OF GREAT BRITAIN, MAY, 1797. 
Plan of a General Affaciation of the In- 
habitants of the Parifh of : 
to ferve without Pay, for the Protec- 
~ tion thereof, in cafe of any Emergency, 
at the Reguifition of the Civil Power, 
- to be fubmitted to the Confideration of a 
Kefiry to be called for that Purfofe. 
1ft. GENERAL affociation 
fhall be formed, which 
= fhall be compofed of 
houfeholders, and fuch other in- 
_ mates as fhall be recommended by 
tivo houfeholders at the leaft, being 
themfelves members of the affo- 
ciation, and approved, if judged 
neceflary, by a committee of the 
affociation to be chofen ata gene- 
ral meeting. 
_ 2d. That the members of the af- 
fociation fliall put down their names 
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and places of abode in a book, to be 
provided and kept in the veftry for 
that purpofe. 
3d. The parith to be divided in- 
to diftri@s; the inhabitants of each 
diftrict who enroll themfelves, to be 
divided into claffes of fifty each, to 
be commanded by an inhabitant of 
that diftriét, who fhall be confidered 
as captain of the clafs, and aét as 
fuch, under.a commiffion from his 
Majeity. This officer to be recom- 
mended by a committee of the aflo- 
ciation to the Lord Lieutenant, 
Each clafs fhall carry a flag to dif- 
tinguifk it, and the perfen who is to 
carry it fhall be nominated by the 
captain of each clafs. 
4th. The majority of any clafs 
fhail be empowered to rejeét from 
that clafs any individual, whether 
heufeholder or inmate, who fhall 
appear to them tobe an unfit mem- 
ber thereof. tat © 
5th. In cafe of alarm, and at the 
requifition of the civil power, the 
clafs to be »ffembled at a rendez~ 
vous, which fhall be previoufly ap- 
pointed by the captain. 
6th. Piace of general rendezvous 
for all the claffes fhail be appointed 
by the committee of affociation, 
7th. All perfons.enrolling them- 
felves, to furnifh their own arms; 
which arms fhall be either firelocks 
and bayonets, pikes, or any other 
arms which fhall be approved of by 
the committee. 
8th. A lift of the members in 
each clafs to be made, and a copy 
lodged with each member in that 
clais, together with a copy of fuch 
inftructions, figned by the captain 
of the clafs, as may be found necef- 
fary for their more fpeedily colle@- 
ing together, in cafe of alarm, and 
for regulating the proper quantity 
of ammunition which each member 
rer , furnithed 
