Die Martis 4. April. 1648.  
AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT: For the better payment of Tithes and Duties to the Ministers of the City of London.  
WHereas by an Ordinance of Parliament of the eighth of Novemb. Anno. Dom. 1644. entitled, An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the true payment of Tithes, and other such Duties, according to the Laws and Customs of the Realm, there is a Proviso, That the said Ordinance, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to any Tithes, Offerings, Yearly payments, or other Ecclesiastical Duties, due or to be due for any Houses, Buildings, or other Hereditaments within the City of London, or the Liberties thereof, which be otherwise provided for by Act of Parliament: And whereas some doubt and scruple hath been made, whether the Lord Major of the said City of London be sufficiently authorized to relieve such Ministers within the said City or the Liberties thereof, as have been put into any Benefice or Ecclesiastical Living by way of Sequestration by both or either Houses of Parliament, or by the Committee for Plundered Ministers, or any other Committee of Parliament; Be it therefore Ordered and Ordained by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembied, That the said Proviso in the before mentioned Ordinance of the eighth of Novem. 1644. be hereby repealed and wholly made null and void, and that the said Ordinance of the eighth of November 1644. and the Ordinance of the ninth of August. 1647. entitled, An additional Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the true payment of Tithes and other Duties; and the Ordinance of the 23. of August, 1647. entitled, An Ordinance for keeping in godly Ministers, placed in Live by authority of Parliament, and all other Ordinances of Parliament, concerning the payment of Tithes, Rates for Tithes, Rents, or other Duties, do extend unto the said City of London, and the Liberties thereof, and be put in execution by the Lord Mayor of the said City for the time being; or by any two justices of Peace within the said City or Liberties thereof, who are hereby authorized and required respectively, to require and command the aid of all Constables and other Officers, that shall be by the said Lord Maior or justices of Peace, as aforesaid, appointed for their assistance in the due execution of this Ordinance, as well within their several Parishes or Precincts as without, as well in cases of Sequestration as otherwise, to all intents and purposes, and in the like manner, as in and by the said Ordinances is Ordained, Limited and appointed to be executed and done, in any other place or places within the Kingdom of England by the respective justices of Peace, and other Officers in the said Ordinances mentioned.  
Provided, That this Ordinance, or any thing therein contained, shall not be construed to extend to the payment of any other kind of Tithes Payments, Rents or Duties, than such as have been paid at any time since the beginning of this Parliament, or two years before.  
Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorun  
FINIS.