AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT, FOR The bringing in the Arrears of the Assessments for the Army, within the City of London and Liberties thereof. With the names of the Persons in each Ward appointed for executing the same. Die Lunae, 24 April. 1648. ORdered by the Lords Assembled in Parliament, That this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published. joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum. Imprinted at London for John Wright at the King's Head in the old Bayley. 1648. Die Lunae 24 April. 1648. An Ordinance for the speedy bringing in the Arrears of the Assessments in the City of London and Liberties thereof. WHereas by an Ordinance of Parliament of the fifteenth of February 1644. Entitled, An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, For raising and maintaining of Forces for the defence of the Kingdom, under the Command of the Lord Fairfax by the name of Sir Thomas Fairfax Knight, a Monthly Assessment to continue for ten Months from the first of February, 1644. to the first of December than next following, was Ordained to be taxed and levied upon the City of London and other places and Counties in the said Ordinance mentioned: And by another Ordinance of Parliament, dated the thirteenth day of August, 1645. the said Monthly assessment for maintenance of the said Army was Ordained, and appointed to continue and endure for six Months longer from the said first day of December 1645. unto the first day of June than next following; And whereas by an Ordinance of Parliament dated the sixteenth pay of April, 1646. the said Ordinance of the fifteenth of February, 1644. with all the Taxes, and payments therein mentioned were to continue for four Months longer, from the said first of june, 1646. until the first of Octob. following; And whereas also by another Ordinance of Parliament of the three and twentieth day of june last, 1647. several sums of money were to be taxed, levied, and paid for maintenance of the said Army by a Monthly assessment, to continue for twelve Months from the five and twentieth day of March, 1647. to the five and twentieth day of March, 1648. And whereas by an Ordinance of Parliament of the fifteenth of March last, 1647. the like sums of money upon the said City are to be taxed, levied, and paid for maintenance of the said Army by a Monthly assessment, to continue for six Months longer from the five and twentieth of March last to the nine and twentieth of September now next ensuing, as by the said several Ordinances may appear, And whereas many great and considerable sums of money remain in Arreare, and yet unpaid upon the said several Ordinances within the said City of London and Liberties thereof, to the discouragement of those that have willingly paid their proportion, very evil example of others, and great hindrance of payment of the Army; and to the end the said Arrears may be speedily gotten in, and all obstructions that hinder the coming in thereof be removed, It is Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, and be it Ordained by the authority thereof, That the several persons hereafter named shall be, and are hereby appointed Commissioners for the said several taxes and assessments in the said City, and in the several Wards, and Liberties in and belonging to the said City respectively, to put the said several Ordinances in execution, and have power, and are hereby authorized to execute, and perform all and every the powers and authorities comprised in the said Ordinances, or in any the Ordinances mentioned in the said last recited ordinance of the fifteenth of March last, or every of them, in as full and ample manner to all intents and purposes as any the Committees or Commissioners in the said ordinances named, or any of them might or could do, or perform the same. Aldersgate within. RIchard Moral Josias Hams Thomas Nowell. Richard Gibbs john Sherman Roger Jenkinson Aldersgate without john Johnson Richard Coates Miles Flesher John Billingsley George Osburneston William Laurence Algate Ward. RIchard Cheverton John Owfield John Dethick Sammel Moyer John Merryat Christopher Blackston Basingshaw. EEdwin Browne George Dunn Capt. Winstandley Thomas Clerk Broad-street Ward THomas Clowes james Storey Richard Clutterbuck Robert Haunch Rowland Wilson, Senior. Nicholas Can Hogan hovel William Allen Bridge Ward. TObias Lisle Richard Young Stephen Estwick Thomas Player Edward Bellamy Isaac Foster Thomas Ward Tho. Andrew's, junior Samuel Lee William Mulins Capt. Nathaniel Lacie Bread-street Ward. RIchard Turner Francis Water-house Thomas Steyne, signior Major Hitchcock john Harper john Pocock Richard Hutchison Capt. Edward Storey Richard Rigglesworth Martin Nowell Francis Craftes Billingsgate Ward. RObert Wood John Wallington William Harris Randolph Baskervill Thomas Lenthall Richard Batson Dennis Gawden Thomas Radburne George Greimes Bishopsgate Ward. WIll. Pease Deputy Thomas Stock Hugh Norris Richard Hardmeat William Brumwitch William Manby john Everet William Bartley Richard Warring Edward Abel William Fletcher William Hedges Edward Salisbury Griffith Owen Chandlewick Ward. HVmphrey haly Thomas Andrews Richard Warner Zouch Watson Richard Dawes Thomas Water's Grace Harding Cordwayner Ward. MAurice Gethin Tempest Milner Nathaniel Hall James Cook Richard Perry Henry Coleburne William Wallis Cripplegate within Walter Boothby Anthony Webster Richard Floyd Hugh Wood Francis Ash William Blackwell Cripplegate without RObert Manwaring Henry Greene Charles Mynne Ralph Tasker Walter Price Francis Webb Robert Arden Colemanstreet ANdrew Kendrick Col. Owen Rowe Ralph Hartley Mark Hildersly Thomas Barn●rdiston Richard Ashurst Thomas Bower Cheap-ward Will. Adam's Dep. Daniel Waldow George Hadley Robert Winch Giles Dent John jurion Thomas Allen William Goddard Thomas Brown Thomas Benson Matthew Abott Jeremy Royston Edmund Sleigh Castle Beynard THomas Gee William Gibb William Antrobus Thomas Cole Draper Andrew Neale Jeremy Richardson Henry Coles D●niel Tailor John Ireton Henry Barton Vincent Limbrow John Wine Dyer Cornhill ward FRancis Moss Gilbret Morewood Francis Coleing Philip Mead Major Wollaston Thomas Harris Dowgate ward IOhn Green Deputy Major Colson John Bennet William Brumskill Edward Hollingshed Peregrine Pretty William Roberts Thomas Fisher Farringdon within RIchard Glide John Fenton L. Col. Edward Vaughan Edward Honywood Anthony Dowse Patrick Banford Peter Mills Hugh Ratcliff John Strange William Greenhill Edward Parkes Michael Raynor George Clarke John Jones Tower ward IOhn Bennet Andrew Richard William Bateman Henry Sweet john Milton Thomas Burnell Gilbert Keat john Langley Nathaniel Wright George Hanger Farrington without on Fleetstreet side. THo. Arnoll Deputy Matthew Fox joseph Parrot Stephen Sedgewicke William Perkins Francis Allen Alexander Normington Thomas Watkins Edward Lightmaker Sepulchre side. Nathaniel Camfield Giles Rolls john Wilcox Thomas Knowles john Gregory Miles Petty john King Benjamin Potter james Stephens james Martin Lime-street. ABraham Chamberlain Roger Peele Richard Middleton john Freebody Langborne. IOhn Babington Robert Sweet Tobias Dixon Robert Dicer Thomas Manering Robert Render jasper Cleyton Andrew Hyde Geoffrey Howland Thomas Turgis Portsoken Ward LEonard Tower's john Haies Richard Berisford Richard Grasforth William Wats●n Edward Ansloe Queene-hith. EDmund Whitwell William Ball Henry Hickman Thomas Churchman Richard Irons Vrian Normansell Vintry. MArtin Bradgate Henry Waller john Cook Andrew Bitgood Humphrey Gould Colonel Shepheard Thomas Caffin Ralph Baily Robert Norwood Walbrooke. THomas Dawney William Rawson Robert Mead Francis Clay Edward Stock Michael Hearing Thomas Walker john adam's. FINIS.