The Committee of the Militia of the City of London and parts adjacent within the lines of communication and parishes within the weekly bils of mortality having taken knowledge that many persons within the limits aforesaid (out of a pious zeale and good affection to the publique cause) have of late freely and voluntarily subscribed divers summes of money towards the maintaining of forces to bee sent forth by the said committee ... Committee for the Militia of London. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A48977 of text R37947 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L2851J). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. 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A48977) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 105972) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1619:6) The Committee of the Militia of the City of London and parts adjacent within the lines of communication and parishes within the weekly bils of mortality having taken knowledge that many persons within the limits aforesaid (out of a pious zeale and good affection to the publique cause) have of late freely and voluntarily subscribed divers summes of money towards the maintaining of forces to bee sent forth by the said committee ... Committee for the Militia of London. 1 broadside. s.n., [London : May 11, 1644] Title from first lines of text. At head of sheet: May 11, 1644. Imperfect: faded, last two lines illegible. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Committee for the Militia of London. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. A48977 R37947 (Wing L2851J). civilwar no The Committee of the Militia of the City of London and parts adjacent within the lines of communication and parishes within the weekly bils Committee for the Militia of London 1644 610 2 0 0 0 0 0 33 C The rate of 33 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-03 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion May 11. 1644. THE Committee of the Militia of the City of London , and parts adjacent , within the Lines of Communication , and Parishes within the weekly Bils of Mortality , having taken knowledge that many persons within the Limits aforesaid ( out of a pious zeale and good affection to the Publique Cause ) have of late freely and voluntarily subscribed divers summes of money , towards the maintaining of Forces to bee sent forth by the said Committee , in pursuite of the late successe Almighty God hath given us against our Enemies ) have thought fit for the better promoting of so good a work , to direct the further recommendation thereof to the Minister , and Church-wardens of the severall Parishes within the Limits aforesaid , effectually to move and incite all persons interessed in this Cause , cheerefully and freely to subscribe in some good measure , towards the maintenance of the said Forces , which in pursuite of the Enemy , may ( by Gods blessing ) put a happy end unto this unnaturall Warre , now raging within this Kingdome . And the said Committee doe earnestly desire and require you respectively forthwith to examine diligently what Subscriptions of money have already beene made by any person or persons within your said Parish , for the purpose aforesaid ; and effectually to move all others ( that have not as yet done any thing in this behalfe ) freely to subscribe in some considerable manner towards this most necessary Service ; and to let such well-affected persons know , as shall forthwith advance and pay unto the Treasurers for Money and Plate at the Guild-Hall any summes of money for the purpose aforesaid ; that for their encouragement they shall have the security expressed in an Ordinance of Parliament , made the third of Aprill last ; by which it is ordained that all such moneys so advanced and lent as aforesaid , and paid to the said Treasurers ; shall bee imployed onely to maintaine the said forces , and not otherwise ; and shall bee repaid with interest after the rate of eight pounds per . centum , out of the Receipts of the Excise and New-Impost , granted by a late Ordinance of Parliament : That is to say , the first halfe yeeres Interest at six moneths after the Loane of the said moneys , and the last halfe yeeres Interest , together with the principall , at the end of the next six moneths following . And also to let such Parishes know , as shall desire rather to lend their Money for this Cause ; to bee repaid upon the Publicke Faith ; and to chuse Collectors and Treasurers among themselves to receive and issue out the same to any of the said Forces , according to the direction of the said Committee of the Militia , that the said Committee upon knowledge thereof , will forthwith indeavour to procure an Ordinance of Parliament for the same purpose . And the said Committee do further desire you to certifie them in writing under your hands , upon Wednesday next , the names and sirnames of all such within your Parish , as have subscribed to this most necessary work , together with the summes of Money , underwritten by them , As also the names and sirnames of all such persons of ability within the said Parish , that shall refuse to subscribe for the use and purpose aforesaid . Dated this 〈…〉 th of May , 1644 . I 〈…〉 d Committee .