A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning diverse well affected persons and citizens of the City of London who are willing and ready to undertake and advance a considerable number of souldiers, and them to arme, maintaine, and pay for severall months ensuing, or during these times of danger, upon the publike faith. Die lunæ. 14. Novemb. 1642 England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82636 of text R211422 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[104]). 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. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A82636 Wing E1364 Thomason 669.f.5[104] ESTC R211422 99870149 99870149 160817 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82636) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160817) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f5[104]) A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning diverse well affected persons and citizens of the City of London who are willing and ready to undertake and advance a considerable number of souldiers, and them to arme, maintaine, and pay for severall months ensuing, or during these times of danger, upon the publike faith. Die lunæ. 14. Novemb. 1642 England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1642] Place and date of publication from Wing. Declaration signed: John Brown, Cler. Parliament. Signed at bottom of text: Isacke Pennington, Major. John Langham, Thomas Andrews, Shreiffes [sic]. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng London (England) -- Defenses -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A82636 R211422 (Thomason 669.f.5[104]). civilwar no A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning diverse well affected persons and citizens of the City of London, England and Wales. Parliament. 1642 1076 2 0 0 0 0 0 19 C The rate of 19 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament , concerning diverse well affected persons and Citizens of the City of London , who are willing and ready to undertake and advance a considerable number of Souldiers , and them to Arme , maintaine , and pay for severall months ensuing , or during these times of danger , upon the publike Faith . Die Lunae . 14. Novemb. 1642. WHereas divers well-affected Persons , Citizens of the City of London , and others , have advanced severall great summes of money , and other supplies for the safety of the King , Parliament , and Kingdome , and also have set forth many Souldiers under the severall Commands of their Excellencies the Earles of Essex and Warwicke : Notwithstanding all which said former Advances , and for the better supply of the said Forces , as also for the more sure preservation and safety of the King , Parliament , and City , which so much concernes the Publique . And no way to hinder or backward the said former undertakings or intentions ; divers of the said well-affected Persons , are and do declare themselves yet willing and ready , further to undertake and advance a considerable number of Souldiers , and them to Arme , maintaine and pay for severall moneths ensuing , or during these times of dangers and Distractions , for the purposes aforesaid . Provided they may have the Publique Faith of the Kingdome for repayment of all such summes of money , which they shall so advance by way of Loane . All which is Declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament , to be an acceptable Service to the King , Parliament , and Kingdome , and necessarily tending to the preservation of them . And doe therefore Order that all such as shall furnish Men , Money , Horse or Armes for this Service , shall have the same fully Repayed againe , with interest for the forbearance thereof from the times disbursed : And for the true payment thereof , doe hereby engage to all and every such person and persons the Publique Faith of the Kingdome . And doe further Order , that the Lord Major , and Sheriffes of London for the time being , shall by themselves , and such Sub-Committee as they shall appoint to take the said Subscriptions , who are to order the performance of this Service for the advancement thereof . John Brown , Cler. Parliament . ACcording to an ordinance of Parliament bearing date the fourteenth day of this present Moneth of November 1642 concerning the advancing of a considerable number of Souldiers , by contribution of Money ; and Armes , to be raised within this City , and liberties by the subscriptions of persons to be called upon in the severall Wards and Parishes , for the perfecting of this necessary worke , and the furtherance of the same , being directed by the said ordinance unto us the Major and Sheriffs of this City , and to such subcommittee , as by us shall be thought fit , for the execution of the contents of the said ordinance , we doe therefore hereby ordaine and appoint the severall persons here under mentioned that is to say ( Robert Sweet for La●gborne Ward . John Bellamie for Cornehill Ward . Hugh Smithson for Cheap Ward . Richard Willet for Cordwinders Ward . Wylliam Walwin for Vintrey Ward . Haugan Hovell for Broadstreete Ward . Christopher Nicholson for Castle-Bennets Ward . Miguel Styles for Candleweak Ward . John Hilliard for Dowgate Ward . Rich. Cotes for Aldersgate without . and John Leigh for Aldersgate within . Walter Boothby for Cripplegate Ward . Nicholas Gerrard for Breadstreete Ward . Will. and Matthew Fox for Farington without . Tho. Lentall for Billingsgate Ward . Tho. Hutchins for B●shopsgate Ward . Richard Finch for Queene-hithe Ward . Robert Meade for Walbrooke Ward . Will. Farrington for Port-Sokin Ward without . Marke Hilsley for Colemanstreete Ward . John Dethick , for Limestr . Ward . John Kenricke for Tower Ward . Tho. Foote , for Bridge Ward . Francis Greeneway for Basinghall Ward . Edward Vaughan for Farrington within . Solomon Vandebrooke for the Dukes place , ) and to any other Committes , that have not yet brought in their names unto you to be a generall Committee for the mannaging of this businesse , and for the same to assemble themselves together from time to time , keeping their Court at Weavers Hall , or where-else your selves shall finde most convenient , to consider and conclude of those things which may promote the expedition of this service , to which purpose we give you by these presents full power and authority together with the other treasurers of severall parishes to collect and receive all such subscriptions as shall be advanced for money and armes as aforesaid , and that by monethly payments to begin from the first day of this present Moneth , and to deale with the Deputies , Common-councell men , Church-wardens and all others of the severall Wards and Parishes within and about this City of London , and particularly with those who have not yet promoted the subscriptions in their Wards or Parishes , nor have hitherto chosen any Treasurers nor Committes for the furtherance of this worke ; to call before you all such persons , and to presse them thereunto , by vertue of the ordinance of Parliament , and of this our authority given unto you in this behalfe , for the execution whereof , it will be convenient that the greatest number of you should be present at your Courts , however when there shall be a defect of the greater number , then whatsoever six persons of you at the least shall debate and resolve upon , shall passe for good , and be entred for an order , and for your ease and more free attendance upon the Committee Court . We give you power in your seuerall Parishes to chuse and appoint such person or persons as you think meet together in the subscriptions , and to bring in the same to you that are Treasurers , as well as Committees . Isacke Pennington , Major . Shreiffes . John Langham , Thomas Andrews ,