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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83237	An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament: for the raising of money to pay the charge of the fortifications and guards, and for other necessary uses: for the safety of the city, and parts adjacent, within the lines of communication, and weekly bills of mortality.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1651 (1651)	Wing E2016A; ESTC R176474	4,481	11

Die Martis 3 Decemb. 1644. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE Raising of Money to pay the Charge of the Fortifications and Guards and for other Necessary USES For the safety of the City and parts adjacent within the Lines of Communication and Weekly Bills of Mortality London Printed by Richard Cotes 1651. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED FOrasmuch as the Fortifications and Guards within the Cities of London and Westminster and parts adjacent within the Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality are very necessary for the safety and defence of the said Cities and places and preservation of the Parliament in these times of distraction and danger and for that the Citizens and Inhabitants within the said Cities and places have been and are daily at great charges in maintaining the same For raising of money to pay the charge of the Fortifications and Guards aforesaid and for satisfying the great debts thereby already incurred and other necessary uses The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled have Ordained And be it Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That there shall be monthly charged and levied upon the Cities of London and Westminster The Hamblets of the Tower and Burrough of Southwark and all other Parishes and places within the Line of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality the summe of six thousand nine hundred sixty two pounds foure shillings that is to say upon the City of London five thousand foure hundred eighty two pounds ten shillings three pence Upon the City and Liberty of Westminster six hundred sixteen pounds ten shillings eight pence halfe penny Upon the Hamblets foure hundred ninty three pounds foure shillings seven pence Upon the Burrough of Southwark three hundred sixty nine pounds eighteen shillings five pence farthing for the purposes aforesaid for six moneths To commence from the first day of November last past And to the end the severall summes of money may be duly raised levied and paid as hereafter is directed Be it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That the Lord Major and Aldermen of London shall be Committees for the City of London and Liberties thereof And the Lord Major and Aldermen of London and six such persons of every of the Sub-committees for the Militia within the Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality as the said severall and respective Committees shall nominate and appoint for this service and the former Committees named in the Ordinance for the two last months assessements for the City of Westminster Burrough of Southwarke Hamblets of the Tower and other places within the Line of Communication and Weekly Bills of Mortality without the City of London and Liberties thereof shall bee Committees for the said City of Westminster Burrough of Southwarke Hamblets of the Tower and places aforesaid without the City of London and Liberties thereof within their severall and respective divisions which said Committees in their severall and respective divisions or any two or more of them respectively are hereby authorized and required to direct their warrants to such number of persons as they shall thinke fit within their severall and respective divisions to be Assessors for the said Rates which said persons are hereby authorized and required to assess all and every person and persons wheresoever they shall live and inhabite either within the said Limits or without having any reall or personall Estate within the Limits Circuits and Bounds of their respective Divisions according to the rate and proportion in this Ordinance mentioned And bee it further Ordained by the Lords and Commons That the severall summes which shall be hereafter assessed or taken upon the severall Cities and Places aforesaid shall bee assessed and taken both for Lands and Goods upon such Persons and Estates and in such manner and forme as is directed for the Weekly Assessments in an Ordinance of Parliament of the fourth day of March 1642. Intituled An Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament For the speedy raising and levying of Money for the maintenance of the Army raised by the Parliament and other great Affaires of the Common-wealth by a Weekly Assessement and to the end that the said Rates be equally and indifferently assessed and the Moneys duly Collected and true accompt thereof made the said Assessors are hereby required within six dayes after such assessement made to deliver two Copies of their respective assessements fairly written and subscribed by them unto the said Respective Committees or to any of them whereof one to remain with the said Committee and the other to be delivered to the Collectors with Warrants to levy the said Moneys And the said severall Committees or any three of them are hereby respectively authorized from time to time to nominate one or more sufficient and honest Persons in every division or allotment to be Collectors of the said Moneys so assessed and Rated which said Collectors are hereby authorized and required to collect the said Moneys so assessed and the said respective Committees or any six of them are hereby authorized to allow and pay unto the said respective Collectors two pence in the pound for their paines in collecting the said Moneys and one penny in the pound to their Clerkes for their paines in fair writing the said Assessements And if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall refuse or neglect to pay any Summe or Summes of Money whereat he or they shall be Rated and assessed That then it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Collectors or any of them to leavy the summe so assessed by Distress and the Sale of the Goods of such person or persons so refusing or neglecting to pay deducting the summe assessed and the reasonable charges of Distraining and restore the overplus to the owner thereof And likewise to breake open any House Chest Truncks Boxe or other thing wherein any such Goods are and to call to their assistance any of the Trained Bands Constables Headboroughs or any other Forces within the Cities and Places where any resistance shall be made or any other person or persons whatsoever which said Forces and persons are hereby required to be aiding and assisting in the premises as they shall answer the contrary at their perills And if any Question or difference shall happen to arise upon the taking such Distress between the parties distrained and distraining the same shall be ended and determined by the said Committees or any two of them and the said severall Committees or any two or more of them are hereby authorized and required to use such other wayes or meanes for the speedy levying of the said Assessements as to them shall be thought fit And if any person or persons shall purposely convey away his or their Goods or any other personall Estate whereby the summe of money so assessed cannot bee levied according to this Ordinance Then the said respective Committees or any two of them are hereby authorized by

themselves or such other persons as they shall appoint to imprison the persons and the Sequestrators to sequester the Estates of every such person for the advancement of the said service And the Tenants of all Houses and Lands which shall bee rated by vertue of this Ordinance are hereby required and authorized to pay such summes of money as shall bee rated upon every such House and Lands and to deduct out of their Rents so much of the said Rates as in respect of the Rents of every such House and Lands the Landlords should or ought to pay or beare and the Landlords both mediate and immediate according to their respective Interests are hereby required to allow such deductions and payments upon the receipt of the residue of their Rents and to give Acquittances for their whole Rents as if no deductions had been made And if any Landlord refuse to make any such deduction or allowance or to give such acquittances then the respective Committees for the sequestrations in the Cities and places aforesaid upon proof thereof made before them are hereby authorized for every time they shall so refuse to seize and sequester for the service aforesaid one full halfe yeeres rent payable to such persons so refusing allowing out of the same the summe of money so paid by that Tenant as aforesaid And if any difference shall arise between Landlord and Tenant or any other concerning the said Rates the said severall Committees or any two of them in their severall divisions have hereby power to settle the same as they shall thinke fit And the said Collectors and every of them are hereby required from time to time to pay such summe and summes of money as shall be by them collected by vertue of this Ordinance to such Treasurer or Treasurers for the City of London and Liberties thereof as the Common-Councell of the said City shall appoint And for the Lines of Communication and within the Weekly Bills of Mortality without the City and Liberties to such Treasurer or Treasurers as the respective Sub-Committees in their severall Divisions shall appoint And the said severall Committees are hereby required to take speciall care that the said Monethly Assessements be constantly levied collected and paid to the said Treasurer or Treasurers once in every Moneth during the continuance of the terme mentioned in this Ordinance And be it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons that if any person or persons shall wilfully neglect or refuse to take upon him any Office or place herein mentioned incident to this service For lecting or having taken upon him such Office or place shall refuse or neglect to execute or performe the same or if any other person or persons shall neglect or refuse to perform his duty in the due and speedy execution of this present Ordinance the Lord Major of the said City for the time being or any two of the Aldermen of the same City for the City of London and the Liberties thereof and the said respective Committees without the Liberties of the said City and within the Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality or any five of them have hereby power to commit such person or persons so refusing or neglecting this service as aforesaid to prison there to remain without Bail untill he shall conform himself or otherwise to impose upon such person or persons so refusing or neglecting the said service or their duties therein such Fine or Fines as to them shall be thought fit and cause the same to be levyed by distress and sale of goods in manner and forme aforesaid Provided That no fine to be imposed upon any of the said Committees shall for any one offence exceed the summe of five pounds and that no fine to be imposed upon any Assessor Collector or any other person to be imployed by the said Committees in the said service or refusing to be imployed therein shall for any offence exceed the sum of five pounds And that no priviledged place or person within the Cities and places aforesaid shall be exempted from the said Assessements and Taxes And be it further Ordained That the said severall and respective Committees and every of them shall from time to time give a true and perfect account of all their doings and proceedings in the execution of this Ordinance viz. The Treasurer or Treasurers for London and the Liberties to the Major Aldermen and Common-Councell of the said City of London or to such persons as they shall appoint And the said Sub-Committees and their Treasurers to the Committee for the Militia of the said City And be it further Ordained that the Treasurers appointed to receive the money by vertue of this Ordinance are appointed hereby authorized to issue out the said Monies so gathered and received for the purpose aforesaid and not otherwise within the City and Liberties as the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons in Common-Councell assembled or such persons as they from time to time shall appoint for that purpose and without the said City and Liberties and within the Line of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality as the said Sub-Committees within their severall divisions shall appoint for the uses aforesaid and not otherwise And be it lastly by the said Lords and Commons further Ordained that all and every the respective Committees Assessors Treasurers and Collectors of the respective Divisions aforesaid and all that shall assist them in the premisses shall be by the power of Parliament Protected and saved harmlesse both for what according to the true meaning of the Premisses they have or shall do therein Provided alwayes that such Rates and Assessements as shall be made by vertue of this Ordinance upon any Peeres of this Kingdome or Members Assistants or Attendants upon either the Houses of Parliament shall before the same be levied be presented to the respective Houses whose Members Assistants or Attendants shall be concerned therein respectively and by such respective House allowed and approved of any thing in this present Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding Jo. Brown Cleric Parliamentorum H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. FINIS