Chiverton  blazon or coat of arms Mayor. 
 Thursday the 4th of February 1657.  
MY Lord Mayor and this Court of Aldermen taking into consideration the wants and necessities of the honest and Laborious poor Inhabitants (especially of the out Parishes) of this City; In this extreme hard and cold season, do earnestly recommend it to the Ministers in their several Congregations within this City and Liberties, on the next Lord's day, to move their people to a charitable Contribution towards their relief and succour; And that the same may succeed the more effectually, It is thought fit that the churchwardens or other Officers do the same day according to the usual manner after Sermon, receive the Charity of such strangers as resort to their respective Congregations; And that the common-council-men throughout the said City and Liberties, do on the day following Collect from house to house the benevolence of all the able Inhabitants in their several Precincts; And further that the whole Collection in every Parish and Precinct, be paid by the said common-council-men and Churchwardens respectively unto Mr Chamberlain at his office in Guildhall London, on Tuesday next the 9th of this instant February, to be thence immediately issued, paid, and distributed, according to the discretion and direction of the justices of peace of the said City, to, and amongst the several Parishes within the same City and Liberties, for relief of their said poor, and proportionably to the number and necessities of them.  
Sadler.   

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