ALL THE ORDINANCES AND DECLARATIONS OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT, For the Assessing of all such as have not contributed upon the Propositions of Both Houses of Parliament, for raising of Money, Plate, Horse, Horsemen, and Arms, for the defence of the King, Kingdom, and Parliament; or have not contributed proportionally according to their Estates.  
Ordered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament that these Ordinances be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.  
ALSO Divers Orders of the Committee of Lords and Commons for Advance of Money and other necessaries for the Army: for the better execution of the said Ordinances and Declarations.  
Martin Dallison Clerk to the said Committee.  
Printed at London for R. Dunscomb. Februar. 14. 1642.   

An Ordinance and Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament.  
WHereas the King seduced by wicked Counsel hath raised an Army, and levied war against the Parliament, and great number of Forces are daily raised under the commands of Papists and other ill affected persons, by Commissions from his Majesty; And whereas divers Delinquents are protected from public Justice by his Majesty's Army, and sundry outrages and rapines are daily committed by the Soldiers of the said Army, who have no respect to the Laws of God or the Land; but burn and plunder the houses and seize and destroy the persons of divers his Majesty's good Subjects: And whereas for the maintenance of the said Army divers Assessments are made upon several Counties, and His Majesty's Subjects are compelled by the Soldiers to pay the same; which said Army if it should continue would soon ruin and waste the whole Kingdom, and overthrow Religion, Law, and Liberty. For suppressing of which said Army and illaffected persons, there is 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 sums of Money, yet for raising such sums by reason of his Majesty's withdrawing himself from the advice of the Parliament, there can be no Act of Parliament passed with his Majesty's 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 been 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 Southwark, 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 as well as any others, and therefore it is most just, that they should as well 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 John Wollaston, Knight and Alderman, Alderman Towes, Alderman Warner, Alderman Andrews, Alderman Chambers, Alderman Fow●e, Sir Thomas S●ame Knight and Alderman, Samuel Vassell, John Venne, Morris Thompson, and Richard Warring, Citizens; or any four of them, shall hereby have power and authority to nominate, land appoint in every Ward, within the City of London, six such persons as they, or any four of them, shall think fit, which said six so nominated, or any four of them, shall hereby have power to inquire of any that shall remain, or be within the said several Wards, that have not contributed upon the Propositions of both Houses of Parliament, concerning the raising of money, plate, horse, horsemen, & arms, for defence of the King & 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 several and respective Wards and Limits, shall have power to Assess 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 twentyeth 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 lawful to and for the said Assessors and Collectors, or any of them, to levy the said sum so Assessed by way of Distress, and sale of the goods of the person so Assessed, and refusing. And if any person so distrained shall make resistance, It shall be lawful to and for the respective Assessors and Collectors or any of them, to call to their assistance any of the trained Bands of the said City of London, or any other his Majesty's Subjects, who are hereby required to be aiding and assisting to the said Assessors and Collectors in the premises; And it is hereby further ordained, that the respective Burgesses of Westminster and Southwark, together with the several Committees, appointed for the Subscriptions of Money, Plate, Horse, Horsemen, and Arms within the said City and Borough, shall respectively have power hereby to nominate Sessors for the said City and Borough, in such manner as the Lord Major, etc. 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 City 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 four 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 virtue of this Ordinance. And be it Ordained that the sums so Assessed and levied, as aforesaid, shall be paid in at Guildhall London, to the hands of Sir John Wollastan Knight, John Warner, John Towes, and Thomas Andrews Aldermen, or any two of them; And the Assessors and Collectors to be nominated by virtue hereof, shall weekly report to the Committee of the House of Commons for the Propositions aforesaid, what sums of money have been Assessed, and what sums have been levied weekly, according to the purport hereof. And the said moneys so levied and paid in, shall be ●sslied 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 Southwark, as have not contributed upon the Propositions of both Houses of Parliament, for raising of Money, Plate, Horse, Horsemen, and Arms, for defence of the King, Parliament, and Kingdom, or have not contributed proportionably to their Estates and Abilities. And whereas it is thought 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 days next after notice given to them, or left at their several houses within the said Cities, Suburbs, or Borough, pay in the one moiety of the said sums of money so Assessed, and within twelve days after the said notice given as aforesaid, the other moiety thereof, unto the Treasurers of money and plate in Guildhall London, or unto the Collectors appointed by the said Ordinance, respectively to receive the same, that then the said Treasurers, or Collectors, shall give Acquittances 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 several Collectors, shall be repaid upon the Public Faith, as all other monies lent upon the said Propositions of both Houses. And as for those who shall so fare discover their disaffection, as not to bring in the several 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 distress be found, that then the said Collectors shall respectively have power to inquire 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 virtue 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, until the full value of the sum or sums so Assessed, and the charges in levying and recovering of the same shall be received and satisfied: 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, 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 effectual to all intents and purposes. And if the sum or sums of Money so Assessed cannot be levied by any of these means or ways, than the persons so respectively Assessed, shall be imprisoned in such places of this Kingdom, 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, shall 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 several 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, shall 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 answerably to their Estates, contributed towards the 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 & 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 Ordnance 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 answerably to their Estates, shall before any assessment 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 loan or otherwise, according to their several and respective Estates, as others well-affected have already done, without evasion or collusion, every such person so contributing, shall be accepted as doing an acceptable service to the Commonwealth, and be freed from the payment of all and every Tax and Assessment of him to be mad by the Assessors, authorized by the said Ordinance for that purpose, as likewise from all Distresses, imprisonment, and other Punishments to be inflicted by virtue of the said Ordinance, or any addition to, or explanation made of it, for the not paying of any such Assessments; 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 better enabling of the Lord Major to put their late Ordinance in execution.  
Die Mercurii Decemb. 1642.  
Resolved upon the Quession.  
That the Lord Maior 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 there 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 several privileged places, within the several 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 the 29. of November, 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 both Houses of Parliament, to be Assessors and Collectors of _____ It is now ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. And the said persons are hereby required and authorized, upon the Receipts of this order, forthwith to proceed, effectually and diligently, to execute the said Ordinance, according to the tenor hereof, in every behalf, without omission, favour, dread, malice or any other thing, to be attempted, by them, or any of them, to the contrary thereof: And for that end, It is further Ordained and Declared: That the said Assessors, shall hereby have authority to call before them, as well such persons, as they shall think fit to their assistance: as also, all or any such persons, as are to be assessed. And the said Assessors shall appoint the said Collectors, in their several Divisions and Precincts, for the gathering the sums that shall be assessed; And give notice of the sum & sums of money, at which every person, in their divisions and Pr●cincts, shall be particularly assessed. And whereas it is expressed, in the said Ordinance, (So as the assessment exceed not the twentieth part of the estates of the persons to be assessed) It is hereby Declared, for prevention of all inequality in the said assessment: That if the said Assessors, or any four of them, proceeding in their assessment according to their Judgements, and best Information, shall assess any person above the twentieth part of his estate; And that the person so assessed, doth find himself grieved, with the same assessing or rating: That then the party so assessed, (paying one moiety of the sum he shall be assessed at, within six days next after assessment, and notice thereof given, or left, at the dwelling house of the party so assessed) may, (during six days, after his having paid the said Moiety, as aforesaid) have liberty, and may address himself for remedy and relief, unto the persons nominated by the said Ordinance, to nominate the Assessors, or any four of them, and may tender his voluntary Oath, or Protestation, to such persons, that he is overrated, and of the true value of his estate (if he please:) and after due examination, and perfect knowledge thereof had, and perceived; the said Persons authorized to nominate Assessors as aforesaid, or any four of them, shall hereby have power to Order such abatement of the said assessment, according as shall appear unto them just, and equal upon the same examination. And it is hereby further Ordained and Declared, that the person so assessed and sworn, shall within three days next after the Order of abatement, in that behalf made, pay unto, or be repald by the Treasurers who received the other moiety of such assessment, such sum or sums of money, as by the said Order of abatement shall be appointed: And in case the said person, so sworn and assessed, shall not pay within the said three days, next after Order of abatement made, the sum thereby ordered to be paid; That then the same sum shall be recovered by distress, or otherwise, as is provided in the said Ordinance of the 29. of November last, in case the sums assessed shall not be paid into the Guild-hall London, according to the true meaning of the same.) And if it be proved by witnesses, or by the parties own confession, or other lawful ways or means, within six months after any such Oath made, that the same person so rated, and sworn, was of any better or greater estate, in Lands, Goods, or other things above specified, at the time of the making the said Ordinance, than the said person so sworn, did declare upon his Oath: that then every person so offending, shall lose and forseit so much lawful money of England, as he the same person so sworn, was first assessed at, or taxed to pay, by virtue of the Ordinance aforesaid: To be recovered by Distress, or otherwise, as is provided, in the said Ordinance of the 29. of November last, (in case the sums of money to be assessed by virtue of the said Ordinance shall not be paid into the Guild-hall London, according to the true meaning of the same.) And it is hereby further Ordained and Declared, That the said Assessors and Collectors shall incur no damage by ●●ason of their over-valuing the estate of any person assessed, or to be assessed, or recovering or receiving the same, by virtue of the Ordinance aforesaid, unless some corruption or indirect carriage therein, shall be proved in Parliament against them.  
Die Veneris, Decemb. 16. 1642. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and published. Jo. Browne Cler. Parliamentorum.   

Die Veneris, Decemb. 16. 1642.  
Whereas several Ordinances of both Houses of Parliament of the 29. of November last, and the seventh and foureteenth of this instant December are passed, concerning assessing such persons as are of ability, and have not contributed, or not according to their ability, as in the said Ordinances do and may appear; It is now further Ordained and Declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled: That the several and respective Assessors shall not assess any of the Members, of either of the Houses of Parliament, or the Assistants of the House of Peers, any thing in the preceding Ordinances, or any of them, to the contrary notwithstanding. But that the Members of either House, shall be assessed by that House, whereof they are Members, and the Assistants of the Peers by the House of Peers.  

Ordered that this Ordinance shall be Printed.  
Jo. Browne Cler. Parliamentorum.    

Ult. Januar. 1642.  
At the Committee of Lords and Commons for Advance of money and other necessaries for the ARMY.  
IT is Ordered that all such persons as already are assessed, or hereafter shall be Assessed upon, or by virtue of the Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, of the 29. of November last, do immediately from and after payment of the sums at which they are assessed (unto the Treasurers at Guildhall) repair unto Haberdashershall, in the afternoons, and there produce and show their Acquittances unto the Clerk of this Committee, who is entrusted with the keeping the Accounts of that business, and is appointed to Register the same Acquittances. And it is likewise Ordered that this be Printed and published.  
Martin Dallison, Clerk to the said Committee.   

Die Veneris 3. Feb. 1642.  
IT is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, that the Collectors made upon the Ordinance of the 29. of November, for Assessments, shall have power to break open any Chests, Trunks, Boxes, Doors, or other things, whereby to take a Distress for the sums of money assessed upon any person, and unpaid; And the time limited for payment by the said Ordinance elapsed; And also if they find any Chests, money, or other Goods in the hands of any persons, which shall be proved or confessed to belong to any person assessed, that hath not satisfied the assessment; That the said Collectors shall have power to seize such Chests, money, or Goods, for satisfaction of the sums assessed.  
Jo. Browne Cler. Parliamentorum.   

Die Mercurii 8. Februa. 1642.  
An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament, for the better Levying and receiving of moneys Assessed by virtue of the late Ordinance of 29. Novemb. 1642.  
WHEREAS Information is given, That divers Collectors, nominated for the Collecting, Levying, and receiving of the sums of money Assessed by virtue of the late Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, of the 29. of November last, for Assessments, by reason their other Employments in the Public Affairs of the State, have been taken off, from the due execution of the same Ordinance, whereby well affected Persons are still occasionally pressed to further contributions, whilst those that have not contributed, or not in proportion to their Estates, do not make a proportionable supply; Be it therefore Ordained, and Declared by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That the Collectors nominated or to be nominated by virtue of the said Ordinance, shall from and after the eleventh day of this instant month of February, only give notice to the Persons assessed, or to be assessed of the several sums of money at which they are or shall be assessed; And after the days limited by the said Ordinance for payment, shall be elapsed, shall repair to the houses of the persons assessed, or to be assessed, and demand the several sums of money, at which they are or shall be assessed; and if the same be unpaid, then to take notice whether sufficient distress may be had, to satisfy the sums assessed or no, and accordingly to certify the same under their hands, to the Committee of Lords and Commons for Advance of money and other necessaries for the Army; And the said Collectors are hereby required and authorised to inquire of any sum or sums of money due, or to be due unto the persons respectively assessed, or to be assessed, from any person or persons for any Rents, Tithes, Goods, or Debts, or for any other thing or cause whatsoever; And to compound and receive the same, and give discharges therefore, according to the power to them formerly given by the said Ordinance; And it is hereby further Ordained, that where the said Collectors shall certify that a sufficient Distress may be had for the sums of money assessed, or to be assessed; That Colonel Randall Manwaring, Colonel Richard Browne, Captain Edmund Harvey, Captain Robert Manwaring, Captain Heriot Washborne, and such Captains, Lieutenants, Officers, and Soldiers under their several and respective Commands, as they or any of them shall appoint; Upon notice thereof given, shall immediately repair unto the several houses of the persons assessed, or to be assessed, and certified as aforesaid; And levy the sums of money so assessed, by distress, in as ample manner, as by the said Ordinance of 29. November, and an Order of both Houses of Parliament, of the third of this instant month of February, the Collectors nominated upon the said Ordinance are authorised and appointed to do and perform: And the distress and distresses so had and taken, to carry into Guildhall London, or Crosseby-house in Bishopsgate street London, or to such other place or places as the said Committee shall appoint; To be sold and disposed of, for or towards satisfaction of the sums assessed, at such times, and by such persons, and in such manner, as by the said Committee shall be directed; And in case certificate be made by the said Collectors, that no sufficient distress can be had, or found, and the sums of money assessed, cannot be levied by any of the ways or means in the said Ordinance mentioned. Then the said Colonel Randall Manwaring, Colonel Richard Browne, Captain Edmund Harvey, Captain Robert Manwaring, Captain Heriot Washborne, and such Captains, Lieutenants, Officers and Soldiers under their Command, as they or any of them shall Command and appoint, shall repair unto the dwelling houses of such person or persons, as are or shall be assessed, and certified as aforesaid, and there or within any other place within this Kingdom, where such person or persons shall be suspected to be, to make diligent search, and him, her, or them, to apprehend and bring in safe custody before the Committee of the house of Commons for Examinations, who have power to imprison them in such places of this Kingdom, and for so long time, as the same Committee shall appoint and Order; And the said Colonels and Captains, and other the Captains, Lieutenants, Officers, and Soldiers, under the command of them or any of them, shall have power to break open any of the locks and doors of any room of other place in or belonging to the said houses or places where search shall be made for the parties assessed, or to be assessed, respectively; and the Goods, Debts, Money, and Estate of such persons as already are imprisoned, or to be imprisoned, shall stillbe liable, and shall and may be seized on, sold, received, and disposed of, for satisfaction of the sums assessed, wheresoever, or in whose hands soever the same shall be found: And the Families of such Persons Assessed, or to be Assessed, who have or shall absent themselves from their dwelling houses, or places of abode, within the Cities of London and Westminster, the Suburbs of the same, and the Borough of Southwark, shall be further proceeded against, as in the said Ordinance of 29. Novemb. is provided. And the said Collectors, and all Colonels, Captains, Lieutenants, Officers, Soldiers, and other person or persons as shall be appointed or employed, in, and for the better execution of the said Ordinance as aforesaid, shall have the protection of both Houses of Parliament for their indemnity in this service; And if any thing not mentioned in the said Ordinance of 29. November. or this present Ordinance, may conduce to the more effectual levying and receiving of moneys to be assessed upon the said Ordinance of 29. November, the same is hereby referred to the wisdom and care of the said Committee of Lords and Commons for advance of money and other necessaries for the Army; And lastly it is Ordered that this Ordinance shall be Printed and published.  
Jo. Browne Cler. Parliamentorum.   

Februa. 9 1642.  
At the Committee of Lords and Commons for Advance of Money and other Necessaries for the ARMY.  
IT is Ordered: That the Assessors nominated upon the Ordinance of Parliament of 29. Novemb. last, for Assessments, within the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Suburbs of the same, and the Borough of Southwark, do forthwith proceed to make a further and full Assessment, of all the Inhabitants in the several and respective places aforesaid, which they hold meet to be assessed: And that the said Assessors do, on or before Friday the 17. of this instant February, deliver to this Committee, under their hands, two scrolls of the names of the persons assessed, and the sums of Money at which they shall be assessed, one of which scrolls shall remain with the Clerk of this Committee, and the other, to be delivered or sent by him, to the Collectors in the several and respective places aforesaid. And it is ordered that henceforth the Collectors of each Ward and place, do weekly every Tuesday and every Friday in the afternoons, certify under their hands to this Committee, the days that notice was given to the parties Assessed. And the days for payment, limited by the said Ordinance being expired, the said Collectors are to repair to the houses of the persons assessed, and demand the several sums at which they were assessed, which they finding unpaid are to take notice whether a sufficient Distress may be had to satisfy the sums assessed or no, and accordingly from time to time to certify the same to this Committee every Tuesday, and Friday weekly in the afternoons, whereof they are not to fail. And it is ordered that this be Printed and published.  
Martin Dallison, Clerk to the said Committee.