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Commissions of array developed from the ancient obligation of all free men to defend their tribal lands. Commissioners were usually experienced soldiers, appointed by the crown to array able bodied men from each shire. By the time of the Wars of the Roses, conscript levies were less important than troops raised by [[indenture]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}}

Although obsolete by the 17th century, the system was revived by [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] in 1642 (in opposition to the 1641 [[Militia Ordinance]] that gave [[Parliament of England|Parliament]] control of raising troops) in order to muster a [[Cavalier|Royalist]] army at the onset of the [[English Civil War]].{{Citation<ref>Andriette, needed|date=JulyEugene 2013}}A., Devon and Exeter in the Civil War, Newton Abbot, 1971, p.56</ref>

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