A Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament.  
Die Mercurii 10. May, 1643.  
WHereas by the Ordinance of Parliament for the speedy raising and levying of Money, for the maintenance of the Army, raised by the Parliament, and other great affairs of the commonwealth, by a weekly assessment. It is ordained among other things, that the weekly sum of three hundred pounds, shall be charged, rated, taxed and levied upon the Borough of Southwark, the Parishes of Redrith, Newington-Butts, and Lambeth, as by the said Ordinance may appear; which sum of three hundred pounds, since reduced to two hundred pounds. And because in common account the liberty of the Clink, and the Bankside lying in the Parish of S. saviour's, & the Parish of S. Mary Magdalens Bermondsey, in the County of Surry, are reputed to be within the said borough and lie within the limits of the places in the said former Ordinances specified, the same were not in the said former Ordinance particularly named, and expressly set down, whereby some doubt hath been made, whether the said liberties of the Clink, the Bankside, and the said Parish of S. Mary Magdalens are within the intent of the said former Ordinance, which occasions the retarding of the assessing and collecting of the said weekly assessments, to the prejudice of the public affairs of the commonwealth; The Lords and Commons do ordain and declare, and be it ordained and declared by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, That the said liberty of the Clink, and the Bankside aforesaid, and the said Parish of S. Mary Magdalens Bermondsey and every of them, at the several times of the making of the said recited Ordinances were, now are, and shall be reckoned and held to be within the intent and true meaning of the said Ordinance; And that the said two hundred pounds weekly assessment, shall be charged, rated, taxed and levied upon the said Borough of Southwark, the Parishes of Redrith, Newington-Butts and Lambeth, and upon the said liberties of the Clink and the Bankside, and Parish of S. Mary Magdalens Bermondsey, And that none of the said places or Parishes shall be exempt from the same charge, but shall every of them be contributory thereunto as amply and fully to all intents, constructions, and purposes, as if the same and every of them had been expressed and set down by name, in the said former Ordinance; Any matter, thing, or cause whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.  

Die Martis 16. May; 1643.  
Ordered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, that this Declaration shall be forthwith printed and published.  
John Browne Cler. Parliamentorum.    

LONDON, Printed for John Wright in the Old-bailey, 1643.