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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83504	Three ordinances, declarations and votes of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the present assessing of all such within the cities of London, Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, that have not contributed upon the propositions of both Houses of Parliament. With the additionall instructions to the Lord Maior, &c. and the assessors and collectors of the said contributions.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E2358; Thomason E83_3; ESTC R776	6,569	12

THREE ORDINANCES DECLARATIONS and VOTES of the Lords and Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT For the present assessing of all such within the Cities of London Westminster and the Borough of Southwark that have not contributed upon the propositions of both Houses of Parliament With the Additionall instructions to the Lord Maior c. and the Assessors and Collectors of the said Contributions Die Martis 20 Decemb. 1642. ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that these Ordinances Declarations Votes be forthwith printed and published I. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum LONDON Printed for Iohn Wright in the Old-baily Decemb. 22. 1642. An Ordinance and Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament WHereas the King seduced by wicked Councell hath raised warre against the Parliament and great numbers of Forces are dayly raised under the command of Papists and other ill affected persons by Commissions from his Majesty and whereas divers Delinquents are protected from publique 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 and his Majesties Subjects are compelled by the Souldiers to pay the same which said army if it should continue would soon ruine and waste the whole Kingdome and overthrow Religion Law and Liberty For suppressing of which said army and ill affected persons ther 's no probable way under God but by the army raised by authority of the Parliament which said army so raised cannot be maintained without great summes of money yet for raising 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 raised The Lords and Commons in Parliament having taken the same into their serious consideration and knowing that the said army so raised by them hath beene hitherto for the most part maintained by the voluntary contributions 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 Suburbs 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 answerable to their Estates who notwithstanding receive benefit and protection by the same army aswell as any others and therefore 't is most just that they should aswell 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 Major of the City of London Sir Iohn Wollaston Knight and Alderman Alderman Towes Alderman Warner Alderman Andrewes Alderman Chambers Alderman Fowke Sir Thomas Soams Knight and Alderman Samuell Vassell Iohn Venn Morris Thompson and Richard Warring Citizens or any four of them shall hereby have power and authority to nominate and appoint in every Ward within the City of London fix 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 raising 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 and 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 and 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 four of them shall think fit and reasonable 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 distreined 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 aiding and assisting to the said assessors and collectors in the premisses and it is hereby farther ordained that the respective Burgesses of Westminster and Southwarke 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 four 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 Citie of London have hereby limited to them And for the Suburbs of London and Westminster the respective Knights of the shire 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 Wollaston Knight John Warner John 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 committee 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 levyed 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. WHereas 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

Suburbs thereof with the Borough of Southwarke 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 Parliament and Kingdome or have not contributed proportionably to their estates and abilities And whereas it is though 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 in parliament that such persons as shall be assessed by the respective assessors in the said Ordinance appointed and shall within six daies next after notice given to them or left at their severall houses within the said Cities Suburbs or Borrough pay in the one moity of the said sums of money so assessed and within twelve daies 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 appointed by the said Ordinance respectively to receive the same that then the said treasurers or collectors shall give acquitances for the same as hath been done to such who have lent monies or plate upon the propositions of both houses as aforesaid And the said monies so paid to the said treasurers or to the said severall Collectors shal be repaid upon the publike Faith as all 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 appointed 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 sum or sums of money due or to be due unto them respectively so assessed from any person or persons for any Rents tithes Goods or Debts or for any other thing 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 sums due or to be due unto them or any of them so assessed untill the full value of the sum or sums so assessed and the charges in levying and recovering of the same shall be received and satified 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 sum or sums of Money so assessed cannot be levyed by any of these means or waies 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 the Examinations shall appoint and order and the families of all such persons so imprisoned shal no longer remain within the Cities of London and Westminster the Suburbs and the Counties adjacent And be it further ordained that all and every the assessors and Collectors of the said severall sums shall have the protection of both Houses of Parliament for their indemnity in this service and receive such reasonable allowances for their pains 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 raised by the Parliament shal apportion and appoint A Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament Die Mercurii 7 Decemb. 1642. WHereas in and by a late Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament It is ordained for the cause therein expressed that all persons of ability within the Cities of London and Westminster and Suburbs of the same and also within the Borough of Southwark who have not at all or not answerable to their estates contributed towards th● maintenance of the army raised by authority of this present Parliament shall be assessed in such manner and proportion as in the said Ordinance is directed of which the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament do expect a vigorous and speedy execution but finding some doubt to be raised upon the point of time whether that clause of not contributing at all or not in proportion to their estates be meant of not contributing before the passing of the said Ordinance in both houses of Parliament or to be extended to any time before the assessing of them and giving them notice of it in such manner as in the said Ordinance is appointed We the said Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled do hereby declare That if any person or persons who have not contributed at all or not answerable to their estates shall before any assessement of them be made and notice thereof left at their Houses according to the said Ordinance contribute towards the maintenance of the said Army by loane or otherwise according to their severall and respective estates as others wel-affected have already done without evasion or collusion every such person so contributing shall be accepted as doing an acceptable service to the Common-wealth be freed from the payment of all and every tax and assessement of him to be made by the Assessors authorized by the said Ordinance for that purpose as likewise from all distresses imprisonment and other Punishments to be inflicted by vertue of the said Ordinance or any addition to or explanation made of it for the not paying of any such assessements And hereof all such Assessors and Collectors are hereby required to take notice And for this end It is ordered by the said Lords and Commons that this Declaration be forthwith printed and published VOTES Of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for the better enabling of the Lord Major to put their said Ordinance in execution Die Mercurii 7. Decemb. 1642. Resolved upon the Question THat the Lord Major and other persons named in the Ordinance shall have power to nominate and appoint six other persons to be Assessors in the several Wards of Farringdon without and Cripplegate and as many in other Wards as shall be cause Resolved upon the question THat the Lord Major and the other persons named in the said Ordinance shall have power to nominate two persons to be Assessors in the severall priviledged places within the severall Wards Die Mercurii 14. Decemb. 1642. An Ordinance made by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled for the better and more speedy execution of the late Ordinance of Novemb. 29. 1642. WHereas according to an Ordinance and Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament of the 29 of November last the persons whose names are subscribed are appointed and since approved of by