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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03013	An ordinance and declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. For the assessing of all such as have not contributed upon the propositions of both Houses of Parliament for raising of money, plate, horse, horsemen, and armes for defense of the King, kingdom, and Parliament, or have not contributed proportionably according to their estates. : With an explanation of the former ordinance declaring that if any person so assessed shall within 6 or 12 dayes ... pay in the money to the treasurers in Guild-Hall, they shall give acquittances for the same ... to be repaied upon the publique faith ... : Likewise an ordinance of both Houses of Parliament for the better provision of victuals and other necessaires for the Army ...	England and Wales.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1769; ESTC R206908	5,129	11

AN ORDINANCE AND DECLARATION Of the LORDS and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT For the assessing of all such as have not contributed upon the propositions of both Houses of Parliament for raising of Money Plate Horse Horsemen and Armes for defence of the King Kingdome and Parliament or have not contributed proportionably according to their Estates With an Explanation of the former Ordinance declaring That if any Person so assessed shall within 6 or 12 dayes after notice thereof pay in the Money to the Treasurers in Guild-Hall they shall give acquittances for the same as usuall to be repaied upon the publique Faith But if they refuse to pay the collectors shall have power to distreine their goods imprison their persons and the families of such dis-affected Persons shall no longer remaine within the City of London Likewise an Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament for the better provision of Victuals and other necessaries for the Army and for payment and satisfaction to be made for the same Die Martis 29 Novemb. 1642. ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that these Ordinances bee forthwith Printed and published Iohn Browne Cler. Parl. Decemb 1. Printed for I. Wright in the Old-Bailey 1642. An Ordinance and Declaration Of the Lords and Commons in Parliament WHereas the King seduced by wicked Counsell hath raysed an Army and levyed War against the Parliament and great number of Forces are daily raised under the commands of Papists and other ill-affected persons by Commissions from his Majesty And whereas divers Delinquents are protected from publike Justice by his Majesties Army and sundry outrages and rapines are daily committed by the Souldiers of the said Army who have no respect to the Lawes of God or the Land but burne and plunder the Houses and seize and destroy the persons and goods of divers His Majesties good Subjects And whereas for the maintenance of the said Army divers assessements are made upon severall Counties an● His Majesties Subjects are compelled by the souldiers to pay the same which sa●d army if it should continue wou●d soone ruine and w●ste the whole Kingdome and overthrow Religion Law and Libertie For suppressing of which said army and ill-affected persons there is no probable way under God but by the armv raysed by au●hority of the Parliament which said army so raysed cannot be maintained without great summes of Money yet for raysing such summes by reason of his Majesties withdrawing himselfe from the advice of the Parliament there can be no Act of Parliament passed with his Majesties assent albeit there is great Justice that the said Monies should be raysed The Lords and Commons in Parliament having taken the same into their serious consideration and knowing that the said army so raysed by them hath beene hitherto for the most par● maintained by the voluntary contribution of divers well affected persons who have freely contributed according to their abilities But considering there are divers others within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbes of the same and also within the Borough of Southwarke that have not contributed at all towards the maintenance of the said army or if they have yet not ●nswerable to their Estates who notwithstanding receive benefit and protection by the same army as well as any others and therefore its most just that they should as well as others be charged to contribute to the maintenance thereof Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by authority thereof That Isaac Pennington Lord Maior of the City of London Sir John Wollaston Knight and Alderman Alderman Towes Alderman Warner Alderman Andrewes Alderman Chambers Alderman Fowkes Sir Thomas Soham Knight and Alderman Samuel Vassell John Venn Morris Thompson and Richard VVarrin Citizens or any foure of them shall hereby have power and authority to nominate and appoynt in every Ward within the City of London six such persons as they or any foure of them shall thinke fit which said six so nominated or any foure of them shall hereby have power to enquire of any that shall remaine or be within the said severall Wards that have not contributed upon the Propositions of both Houses of Parliament concerning the raysing of Money Plate Horse Horsemen and armes for defence of the King and both Houses of Parliament and also of such as are able men that have contributed yet not according to their Estates abilities And the said six persons so nominated or any four of them within their severall and respective wards and limits shall have power to assesse such person or persons as are of ability and have not contributed and also such as have contributed yet not according to their ability to pay such sum or sums of Money according to their Estates as the said Assessors or any foure of them shall think fit and re●sonable so as the same exceed not the twentieth part of their Estates and to nominate and appoint fit persons for the collection thereof And if any person so assessed shall refuse to pay the money assessed upon him it shall be lawfull to and for the said Assessors and Collectors or any of them to leavy the said sum so assessed by way of distresse and sale of the goods of the person so assessed and refusing And if any person so distrained shall make resistance It shall be lawfull to and for the respective Assessors and Collectors or any of them to call to their assistance any the Trained bands of the said City of London or any other his Majesties Subjects who are hereby required to be ayding assisting to the said Assessors and Collectors in the premises And it is hereby further ordained that the respective Burgesses of Westminster and Southwark together with the severall Committees appointed for the subscriptions of Money Plate Horse Horse-men and armes within the said City and Borough shall respectively have power hereby to nominate Sessors for the same City and Borough in such manner as the Lord Major c. hath for the City of London and the said Assessors or any foure of them to name collectors as aforesaid Which said Assessors and Collectors shall have the same power respectively within their respective limits as those to be nominated within the said City of London have hereby limit●ed to them And for the Suburbs of London and Westminster the respective Knights of the Shires where the said Suburbs are shall have hereby the like power to name Assessors and they so named or any foure of them and the Collectors by them to be nominated or any of them within their respective limits shall have the like power respectively as the Assessors and Collectors for London have by vertue of this Ordinance And be it ordained that the sums so assessed and levied as aforesaid shall be paid in at Guild-Hall London to the hands of Sir Iohn Wollastone Knight Iohn VVarner Iohn Towes and Thomas Andrews Aldermen or any two of them And the Assessors

and Collectors to be nominated by vertue hereof shall weekely report to the Committe of the House of Commons for the propositions aforesaid what sums of money have bin assessed and what sums have bin levied weekely according to the purport hereof And the said monies so levied and paid in shall be issued forth in such sort as the other monies raised upon the propositions aforesaid and not otherwise Die Martis 29. Novemb. 1642. VVHereas a late Ordinance is passed by both Houses of Parliament for the Reasons therein declared for the assessing of all such persons within the Cities of London and westminster and the Suburbes thereof with the Burrough of Southwark as have not contributed upon the Propositions of both Houses of Parliament for raysing of Money Plate Horse Horsemen and Armes for defence of the King Parliament and Kingdome or have not contributed proportionably to their estates and abilities And whereas it is thought fit that some additions be made for further explanation and better execution of the said Ordinance Be it further Ordained and declared by the Lords and Commons assembled Parliament that such persons as shall be assessed by the respective Assessors in the said Ordinance appoynted and shall within six dayes next after notice given to them or left at their severall houses within the said Cities Suburbes or Burrough pay in the one moity of the said sums of Money so assessed and within twelve dayes after the said notice given as aforesaid the other moity thereof unto the Treasurers of Money and Plate in Guild-Hall London or unto the Collectors appoynted by the said Ordinance respectively to receive the same that then the said Treasurers or Collectors shall give Acquittances for the same as hath beene done to such who have lent Monies or Plate upon the Propositions of both Houses as aforsaid And the said Monies so payd to the said Treasurers or to the said severall Collectors shall be repayd upon the Publike Fath as al other Monies lent upon the said Propositions of both Houses And as for those who shall so far discover their disaffection as not to bring in the severall sums of Money so assessed upon them to the persons before appoynted within the times limited that then their goods shall be distrained and sold according to the said Ordinance And if no sufficient Distresse be found that then the said Collectors shall respectively have power to enquire of any summe or summes of Money due or to be due unto them respectively so assessed form any person or persons for any Rents Tithes Goods or Debts or for any other things or cause whatsoever And the said respective Collectors shall have power by vertue of this Ordinance to receive all or any part of the said summes due or to be due unto them or any of them so assessed untill the full value of the summe or summes so assessed and the charges in levying and recovering of the same shall be received and satisfied And the said respective Collectors shall have further power to compound for any of the said Rents Tithes Goods or Debts due unto the said person so assessed respectively as aforesaid with any person or persons by whom the said Rents Tithes Goods or Debts are or shall be owing as also to give full and ample discharge for the Money by them so received upon composition or otherwise which discharges shall be good and effectuall to all intents and purposes And if the summe or summes of Money so assessed cannot be levyed by any of these meanes or wayes then the persons so respectively assessed shall be imprisoned in such places of this Kingdome and for so long time as the Committee of the House of Commons for Examinations shall appoynt and order And the families of all such persons so imprisoned shall no longer remaine within the Cities of London and Westminster the Suburbes and the Counties adjacent And be it further Ordained that all and every the Assessors and Collectors of the said severall summes shall have the protection of both Houses of Parliament for their indemnity in this service and receive such reasonable allowances for their paines taken and charges disbursed or to be disbursed therein as the Committee of Lords and Commons for advance of Money and other necessaries for the Army raysed by the Parliament shall apportion and appoynt An Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament for the better Provision of Victuals and other Necessaries for the Army and for payment and satisfaction to bee made for such provisions Die Martis 29 Novemb. 1642. IT is Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament That Committees shall be named in all Counties to take Care for Provisions of Victuals for the Army raysed by the Parliament as likewise for the taking up of Horses for service in the Field Dragooners and Draught-Horses as likewise for borrowing of Money or Plate to supply the Army Which Committees or any two or more of them shall have power and authoritie to value all kind of Provisions both for Men and Horse all kind of Horse for service or otherwise which shall be voluntarily offered to be lent upon the Publike Faith or likewise to receive any Money or Plate to be lent as before and that upon Certificate of any two of such Committees the same Provisions of Horses Money and Plate and the value thereof shall be entred by the Treasurer of the Propositions and shall be repayed to the party from whom the same was received with like Consideration as other Money lent And in case the Owners of such Provisions Money Plate and Horses shall refuse or neglect to bring in the same upon publike Faith for the use of the Army for the better preventing the spoyle and embezeling of such Provisions of Money Plate and Horses by the disorder of the Souldiers and that they may not come into the hands of the Enemies It is further Ordered that the Committees afore-mentioned or any two of them be hereby authorized and enabled to send for such Provisions Money Plate and Horses and take the same into their Custodie and to set an indifferent Value and Rate upon them Which Value they shall certifie to the Treasurers for the Propositions to be repayd at such time and in such manner as shall be Ordered by both Houses of Parliament It is likewise Ordered That the said Committees of the severall and respective Counties shall meet and consult with the Committees of the adjacent and neighbour Counties unto the place or places where the said Army or any part thereof shall passe and remaine concerning the Receiving Procuring Valuing and Disposing of such Provisions Horses Money and Plate And if they cannot conveniently meet that then it shall be lawfull for any two or more of the Committee to execute the severall Services above mentioned in the adjoyning Counties as well as in the Countie wherein hee is named a Committee and that such Certificates as they shall make of any Provisions Horses Money or Plate shall be as effectuall for the Securities of the Parties as if the same were received and taken within the Countie for which hee or they are named Committees And the said Committees or any two or more of them shall cause the said Provisions to be delivered to the Commissarie for the Victuals or to his Deputie and such other Officers of the Army who may be charged with the same upon their Accompt and shall certifie the Treasurer of the Army or his Deputie that so Defalcation of the Value thereof may be made out of the Pay of such Officers and Souldiers as shall receive the same And the said Committee shall likewise cause all such Money and Plate to be delivered unto the Treasurer of the Armie or his Deputie who shall take Care to convey the Plate unto the Treasurer for the Propositions and shall be charged with all such Money upon his Accompt as with other Money received from them FINIS