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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83215	Die Veneris, 13 Junii, 1645. An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the more speedy getting in of the monies in arreare, formerly imposed upon the bill of 400000 li. The ordinances for the fifty subsidies, weekly assessment, and weekly meale, within the city of London and liberties thereof. Joh. Brown, Cleric. Parliamentorum. H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1645 (1645)	Wing E1998; Thomason E288_16; ESTC R200102	3,824	11

Die Veneris 13 Junii 1645. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE More speedy getting in of the Monies in Arreare formerly Imposed upon the Bill of 400000 li. The Ordinances for the Fifty Subsidies Weekly Assessement and Weekly Meale within the City of LONDON and Liberties thereof Joh. Brown Cleric Parliamentorum H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. Printed at London by Richard Cotes 1645. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Die Veneris 13 Junii 1645. WHereas by an Act of Parliament made in the seventeenth yeer of his Majesties Reign that now is Intituled An Act for the raising and levying of Monies for the necessary Defence and great Affaires of the Kingdomes of England and Ireland and for the payment of Debts undertaken by the Parliament It was amongst other things thereby Enacted that the sum of foure hundred thousand pounds should bee Assessed levyed and paid to such persons and in such manner as in the said Act is contained And whereas by three severail Ordinances of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled divers great sums of money have been taxed and assessed viz. The one of them bearing date on the fourth day of March 1642. Inti●uled An Ordinance for the speedy raising and levying of Monies for the maintenance of the Army raised by the Parliament and other great affaires of the Common-wealth by a weekly Assessement One other of them bearing date on or about the eighteenth day of August 1643. For the speedy supply of Monies within the City of London and Liberties thereof for the reliefe and maintenance of the Armies raised and to bee raised for the necessary Defence of the said City and Liberties And the other of them bearing date on or about the six and twentyeth day of March 1644. Intituled An Ordinance for the Contribution of the value of One Meale in a Week A great part of which Monies Assessed by vertue of the aforesaid Act and Ordinances are yet unpaid chiefely through the default of the severall Collectors Subcollectors and other Officers appointed for those services to the great discouragement of those who have willingly contributed and paid their severall Rates and Assessements imposed upon them to the great disservice of the Common-wealth And forasmuch as the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common-Councell assembled out of their care to advance the publick service have by severall Acts and Orders of the said Common-Councell nominated and appointed severall persons Members of the said Common-Councell to be a Committee for the gathering in of Arrears which said Committee for want of a sufficient power as well to compell Collectors and Officers heretofore appointed for the service aforesaid to bring in to them their Accompts and Moneys received as also the persons rated and taxed to pay the said severall sums in arreare could not performe such service as otherwise they might have done For remedy wherof be it Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That the severall persons hereafter nominated and appointed by the said Court of Common-Councell for the getting in of the Arreares aforesaid viz. Sir John Wollaston Knight and Alderman John Warner and Thomas Andrews Aldermen of the said City and Richard Glyd William Antrobus Walter Boothby Francis Peck Francis Ash Colonell Francis West Thomas Nowell Thomas Blackwell Christopher Pack John Greene John Sadler James Story John Babbington Thomas Arnold John Dethicke Iohn Holliday Tobias Lisle Thomas Lenthall Thomas Brightwell Peter Jones Edwyn Brown William Jesson Randall Baskervile Richard Young Thomas Clowes Alexander Jones Richard Willet Philip Parker Jo. Jurian Richard Chiverton James Wal●am James Harbert Hoogan Hovell William Rowell and William Beak or any six of them shall bee a Committee and shall have hereby Power and Authority by themselves or such as they shall appoint to gather levie and receive of all such person and persons as have been taxed and assessed within the Cities of London and Liberties thereof their Executors or Administrators having sufficient Assets all such summe and summes of money now in Arreare and rated taxed and imposed upon them by vertue of the said Act and Ordinances or any of them and to send for any such person or persons wheresoever they shall inhabite or bee found And it is Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That all High-Collectors Sub-Collectors and other Officers which are already appointed by vertue of the said Act and Ordinances shall within three days after demand made by the said Committee or such person or persons as the said Committee or any of them shall appoint after notice thereof given or left at his usuall dwelling or place of abode bring in their severall Rolls Bookes of Accompts and Receipts concerning the severall summes taxed levyed or received by vertue of the said Act and Ordinances and also as well the said High-Collectors Sub-Collectors and other Officers having moneys in their hands or due from them by vertue of the said Act and Ordinances as all other person and persons in Arreare and taxed rated or assessed by vertue thereof shall immediately pay the same to the said Committee or to the Treasurer or Treasurers by them appointed to receive the same any thing to the contrary heretofore ordained notwithstanding And if any High-Collector Sub-Collector or other Officer already appointed for the service aforesaid or any other person or persons whatsoever in Arreare as aforesaid shall fail therin that then the said Committee by such person or persons as they shall appoint by vertue of a Warrant from the Committee of Lords and Commons for advance of moneys and other necessaries for the Army now sitting at Haberdashers-Hall shall levie the same summe and sums of moneys so rated taxed or assessed or in the hands and custody of every such person and persons as aforesaid by distresse of the Goods and Chattels of such person and persons neglecting or refusing to pay the same in manner aforesaid and sell the Goods so distrained for the service aforefaid And if any person or persons shall stand out or forbeare to make payment of any summe and summes of money so in Arreare or in his custody as aforesaid untill a distresse shall be taken for the same that then hee or they so standing out or forbearing shall pay all reasonable charges for all such distresse removall and sale of their Goods as the said Committee shall direct or appoint And if no sufficient distresse can be found or come by that then the said Committee by such person or persons as they shall appoint and by such warrant as aforesaid shall have hereby power and authority to commit every such person and persons to safe custody untill he or they shall satisfie and pay unto the said Committee or to the Treasurer or Treasurers by them appointed the said severall summes of money And it is further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That if any such High-Collector Sub-Collector or other Officer

heretofore appointed to levie gather or receive any the summes of money aforesaid shall faile after demand made as aforesaid to bring in to the said Committee as aforesaid the said Rolls Books of Accompts or other Receipts concerning the severall summes of money taxed rated or received by vertue of the said Act or Ordinances as aforesaid shall bee committed to safe Custody by vertue of such Warrant as aforesaid till hee or they shall conform him or themselves and give satisfaction to the said Committee touching the same And it is further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons that all monies received and now in the hands of the said Committee appointed by the said Common-Councell and which hereafter shall bee received by the said Committee or the Treasurer or Treasurers by them appointed upon the said Act for the Royall Subsidies shall bee from time to time by the said Committee or Treasurer paid into the Chamber of the City of London and the Acquitances of the Chamberlain for the time being shall bee to them a sufficient discharge to bee disposed of as by the said Act is directed Any Proviso heretofore made to the contrary not withstanding And all Money recelved and to bee received by the said Committee or the Treasurer or Treasurers by them appointed or to bee appointed upon any other Assessement or Ordinance aforesaid shall bee by the said Committee Treasurer or Treasurers paid to such purposes as by the said severall Ordinances is directed and appointed And it is further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons that it shall and may beelawfull and the said Committee shall hereby have full power and authority to use and imploy all such Officers as now are or which hereafter shall be nominated and chosen by the said Committee for the furtherance and better carrying on of the service aforesaid And it is further Ordained by the said Lords and Common● that it shall and may bee lawfull to and for the laid Committee upon receipt of the said severall summes of Money in the hands of any of the Collectors Sub-collectors and other Officers to make such allowance thereout to the said High Collectors Sub-collectors and other Officers as by the said Act and Ordinances are to be allowed And it is further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons in regard of the great charges necessarlly required to the getting in of the said severall Arreares that it shall and may bee lawfull to and for the said Committee to deduct out of all such Monies as have been or shall bee brought in to them as aforesaid to bee disposed of by the laid Committee for payment of Officers and such other Occasions as they shall think sit except such monies as have been already received upon the said Act of Parliament for the Royell Subsidie so much as to them shall bee thought necessary So the same doe not exceed the summe of three pence per pound And it is Ordained that all Majors Sheriffes Captaines Lieutenants Bayliffes Constables and all other Officers and Souldiers shall bee aiding and assifting to the said Committee and all such Officers as shall bee imployed by them for the better Execution and performance of the said Service And it is lastly Ordained by the said Lords and Commons that whatsoever the said Court of Common-councell or the said Committee appointed by the said Court as aforesaid or any of them or the Persons imployed and to bee imployed by them have heretofore done or shall hereafter doe for the furtherance of this Service according to the Tenour and Purport of this or any former Ordinance or the Act of Parliament mentioned in this Ordinance they shall bee saved and kept harmlesse and indemonifyed for the same by the Authority of both Houses of Parliament Provided alwayes that this Ordinance or any Clause therein contained shall not extend to the distraining of the Goods or commitment of the person of any Peare of this Realm nor any Assistant Officer or Attendant of the House of Peeres nor to any Member or Officer of the House of Commons nor to the sending for any of the Persons aforesaid Joh. Brown Cleric Parliamentorum H. Elsynge Cler. Parl Dom. Com. FINIS