AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT, For the more speedy raising of the moneys formerly Imposed, and yet unpaid, within the City of London and Liberties thereof. Die Lunae, 23 Octobris. 1643. ORdered that this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and published. Jo. Browne Cler. Parliamentorum. H Elsing. Cler. Parl. D. Com. LONDON, Printed by Richard Cotes, 1643. Die Lunae, 23. Octob. 1643. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT. THE Lords and Commons taking into their consideration the great burden and charge hitherto for the most part undergone by the willing part of the City of London and Liberties thereof, by their ready payments and contributions, in pursuance of several Acts and Ordinances of Parliament, heretofore made for that purpose, whilst others, through want of the due execution thereof, have either paid and contributed nothing, or not considerably thereunto: For remedy thereof, do Ordain, and be it Ordained by the said Lords and Commons, that the several persons hereafter named, shall within the several Wards of the said City and Liberties, be employed as agents to put in execution the several Acts and Ordinances hereafter mentioned, in manner as is hereby Declared, viz, In the Ward of Cheap & Cornhill Edward Lynsey. John pain Algate Matthew Bug Samuel Poole Bassingshaw Colemanstreet James Wight Samuel Wight Bishopsgate within and without Francis Laurence Jeremy Arnold Bridgeward Candlewicke Richard Cole Thomas Baker Billingsgate Tower Ward Humphrey Burey Lynam Robins Breadstreete Cordweyners' Arthur Coleman John Ankle Vintrey Thomas Lindsey John Eames. Cripplegate within George Comes Thomas Hamersley Cripplegate without Thomas Layton Jervis Goffe. Dowgate Walbrooke William Rudgdale Thomas Williamson Queenehithe William Bridges Edward Cole Aldersgate Henry Whittingham John Morton Broadstreet Henry Wilson Thomas Thorneton Portsoken John Ford Thomas Downall Farringdon within Joseph Hunscot Maximilian Buck Farringdon without the East division Clement Carter Henry Hastings Farringdon without Fleetstreet division John Digby Laurence Forden Castle Baynard Thomas Jervis Adam Houghton Langborn Limestreet Francis Burrist Edward edmond's Which said several persons, or any other that the Committee for the Militia of London shall add, who are hereby enabled thereunto, upon notice given them by the Collectors or any of them, of the last Subsidies, for four hundred thousand pounds, and of the weekly Assessments or any Fifteen heretofore granted by the Common-council of the City of London, who are hereby required upon the request of the persons above named to give notice thereof accordingly, what persons within their several Wards, or Precincts have refused, or neglected to pay their said Subsidies, Weekly Assessments, and Fifteen; And what the said Arrearages are, and upon notice also given to the Persons above named, by the Treasurors appointed to receive the moneys brought in upon the late Ordinance of the 18. of August last; or by any of the Common-council men of any Ward, what Arrearages are due thereupon, and from whom, (who are also required hereby upon the request of the Persons above named to give notice thereof accordingly) shall together with the said Collectors of each several Ward, or any of them, forthwith repair to the several Persons so in Arreare, or to the usual places of their abode. And if upon demand thereof made, such persons shall neglect or refuse to pay the said weekly Assessments, Subsidies or the said Fifteen, to the said Collectors or any of them; And shall neglect or refuse forthwith to pay the Arrearages due upon the said late Ordinance of the eighteenth of August, to the Treasurors appointed for that purpose; That then it shall and may be lawful to and for the persons above named, in the presence of the said Collectors, or any of them, or of the Constables of the said several Wards, and Precincts, who are hereby required to be aiding and assisting herein, within their several Precincts, and Wards, to destreyne, seize, take, and carry away from the several persons so in Arrears, so much of the Goods and Estate of every such person, so refusing or neglecting to pay the same as aforesaid, as may fully satisfy the said Arrearages, with all charges of seizures, and removal thereof; And it is also ordained, that all the goods so seized, and distreined as aforesaid, shall be forthwith Inventoried by the said persons above named in the presence of the said Constables, and Collectors, or some of them; And also appraised by such Persons as shall be for that purpose appointed, by William Rowell, Richard Willet, Henry Cole, Richard Everet, Robert Doleman, 〈◊〉 Stock, Thomas Vincent, and John Bret, or any two of them, who are hereby appointed a Committee to sit at Gresham College, to receive the said Inventories, and Goods so appraised; Which said Inventories are to be subscribed by the persons hereby appointed to distrain, together with the Constables or Collectors that shall be present at the distress. And in case neither the persons whose goods shall be seized, or distreyned, nor any in his behalf do within three days after seizure, redeem the same, as they shall be appraised, Then the said Committee or any two of them, to sell the same for the best advantage; And from time to time to deliver the moneys so received for the same, to the Treasurer's sitting at Guild-Hall London appointed by the said Ordinance of the eighteenth of August last; and to restore the overplus, if any be, to the persons so seized and distreined as aforesaid. And it is hereby further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons, that the persons above named, shall hereby have power and Authority in the presence of the said Collectors, and Constables, or any of them, as well within any privileged places, as without, to break open all Locks, Doors, or other strength whatsoever, where the Estates, Money, or Goods belonging to any such person so in arreare, are, or shall be; And the Trained Bands, Voluntires and other Forces, their Commanders and Officers, and also the several Constables and other Officers, within their Limits, are hereby required and enjoined to be aiding and assisting to the persons above nominated and employed, for the service aforesaid; And it is further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons, that the said Committee, or any two of them, shall allow to the persons above named and appointed, to make seizures as aforesaid three pence for every pound, which the goods so distreined by them and sold shall amount unto, and also such other allowance to such other person or persons necessarily employed for the service aforesaid, as the said Committee shall think requisite, to be paid out of the money taken for the sale of the said goods. It is also ordained by the said Lords and Commons to the end both this, and the Ordinance for Sequestration formerly made, may be effectually put in execution, and that as well the several Committees for Sequestrations, both within the said City of London and Liberties, and elsewhere, appointed in pursuance of the Ordinances for Sequestrations formerly made, as also the said Committee hereby appointed to sit at Gresham College, shall have power at such times as the said Committees, or any of them think fit, to cause the said Collectors, or any other their Under-officers, to give an account upon oath, to the said Committee, or any of them, concerning any the deal and proceed of the said Collectors, and Under-officers in their several employments under the said Committees. And to the end this present Ordinance, or any thing therein contained, may not hinder the due and orderly execution of the said Ordinances formerly made for the sequestrations of the estates of Papists and Delinquents within the said City of London and liberties thereof; Be it therefore ordained, that all such as shall fraudulently imbezele, conceal, or convey away all, or any part of their goods, money, or estate, without valuable consideration, Bona fide, thereby preventing or avoiding the payment of any Taxes or Assessments, laid upon them by any Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, or any distress or seizure in case of non payment thereof, or that after any such Tax or Assessments convey themselves away, or refuse to be spoken with, whereby any such Tax or Assessment laid on them by any Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament cannot be executed upon them, or their estates, according to the true meaning and purport thereof, shall be still taken to be delinquents, only within the said Ordinance of Sequestration, and their Estates sequestered by the said sequestrators (the Common-council men and Collectors of each Ward and Precinct within the said City and Liberties, being hereby required upon request made to them, or any of them, by the said Committee for sequestrations, or the Collectors ap-apointed by the said Committee, to give a Catalogue or other notice of such persons now or heretofore inhabiting within their several Wards, This present Ordinance or any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding; And it is also ordained by the said Lords and Commons, that if the said Collectors, Constables or any other persons hereby appointed or to be appointed for the purposes mentioned in this Ordinance, and in pursuance thereof shall refuse or neglect to execute and do what hereby is required from them or any of them, that then upon proof made thereof to the Committee of the House of Commons for examinations, sitting at Westminster, or to the Militia for the City of London, every person so refusing, or neglecting as aforesaid, shall be by the said Committees, or either of them committed to safe custody without Bail or Maineprise, or Assessed to pay such sums of money by way of fine, as the said Committee, or Militia shall think fit, so the same exceed not the sum of ten pounds for any one offence, and every person and persons doing and performing any thing in pursuance of this present Ordinance shall be therefore from time to time kept harmless by the authority of both Houses of Parliament. Jo. Browne Cler. Parliamentorum. H. Elsing Cler. Parl. D. Com. FINIS.