AN ORDINANCE OF PARLIAMENT, whereby a Committee of Lords and Commons is appointed to receive, prepare, and consider of Propositions for the speedy relief of IRELAND.  
Die Martis, 1 Julii. 1645.  
WHereas late informations are come from several parts of Ireland, and more particularly from the province of Munster, importing the great extremities and danger that kingdom is reduced unto, which must of necessity be taken into a serious and speedy consideration; Be it therefore ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that the Earl of Kent, Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Salisbury, Earl of Denbigh, Earl of Bolinbrook, Lord Willoughby, Lord Montague, Lord Howard, Mr. Hollis, colonel William Jephson, Sir John Clotworthy, Sir John Evelin senior, Mr. Whitehead, Mr. Robert Goodwin, Mr. Lisle, Mr. Raynolds, Sir William Brereton, Mr. Maynard, Mr. Rigby, colonel Moor, Mr. Roll, Sir Walter Earl, Mr. Knightly, and Mr. Tate, or any five of them, be a Committee to receive prepare, and consider of propositions for the speedy relief of that Kingdom, and particularly for the Province of Munster, and to prepare them in such order for the two houses of Parliament as may most facilitate the affairs of that distressed kingdom; And are to sit constantly for the affairs aforesaid Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satturdaies, and oftener, as occasion shall require, in such place as they shall think fit.  


Jo. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.  
H. Elsing. Cler. Parl. D. Com.     

Die Lunae, 7 Julii. 1645.  
IT is now resolved and thought fit by the Committee above mentioned, that their place of meeting and sitting shall be at the Chambers called the Queen's Court in Westminster. And that the Ordinance and this their resolution be forthwith printed and published, to the end that such as have or shall have propositions to offer for the relief of Ireland may know to whom and to what place to repair with the same.  
Signed by order of the Lords, H. KENT. Signed by order of the Commons, WILLIAM JEPHSON.