AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
To enable the Committee of the MILITIA of LONDON to make Searches for Popish Recusants, and other ill-affected Persons.  
And to raise, maintain, and continue 600. Horse, for the defence and safety of the Parliament, City, and parts adjacent.  
Die Sabbathi 10. Julii, 1647.  
ORdered by the Lords Assembled in Parliament, That this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published.  
Jo. Brown clear. Parliamentorum.  
London Printed for John Wright at the Kings Head in the old Bayley. 1647.   

Die Sabbathi 10. Julii. 1647.  
An Ordinance to enable the Committee of the Militia of London to make Searches, and to raise six hundred Horse.  
THe Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled do Declare and ordain, That the Committee of the Militia of London shall have power, and are hereby authorised and required by themselves, or such as they, or any nine or more of them shall appoint, to search all houses and places within the Lines of Communication, and Parishes mentioned in the weekly Bills of Mortality, and Hamblets of the Tower, where the said Committee, or any nine or more of them shall have cause to suspect; for all Popish Recusants, or other persons, who have or shall discover their ill affection to the Parliament, by any act or offence for which they ought to be sequestered by any Ordinance of Parliament; and for such person or persons as by any Act or Ordinance of Parliament be Declared, Ordained, or Commanded to depart, or not come into, or be removed out of the City of London and Liberties thereof, or out of the Line of Communication, or Parishes within the weekly Bills of Mortality, and Hamblets of the Tower; and likewise to search for arms, Ammunition, and materials for war in the custody of, or belonging to such persons; and to seize and take away the same, and also to commit to safe custody all such persons as abovesaid( other then such as by both Houses of Parliament, or by Authority from the said Houses are enabled, declared, or have licence to abide, or come into the said City and places) or to expel all and every such persons( other then as abovesaid) out of the Line of Communication, and limits aforesaid as they shall see cause; and in case of resistance to command any Constable, or Constables, or others in their aid, to break open any house or place within the said limits where any resistance shall be made. And it is hereby further Declared and Ordained, and the said Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled do Declare, and ordain for the better suppression of all tumults, and unlawful assemblies within the Cities of London and Westminster, and parts adjacent, and for the defence and safety of the Parliament and City, and parts adjacent, That the Militia of the City of London, or any nine or more of them shall, and may, and are hereby enabled, authorised, and required to continue, raise, or leavy, or cause to be continued, raised, or levied from time to time one Regiment of Horse, with Riders and furniture fitting, not exceeding six hundred Horse with Officers. And for the better continuing, raising, and levying the said six hundred Horse, it is further Ordained, and be it by authority of Parliament Ordained, That the said Committee of the Militia of London, or any nine, or more of them, shall hereby have full Power and Authority from time to time to charge such Inhabitants who are constantly dwelling within the Lines of Communication, and Parishes mentioned in the weekly Bills of Mortality, and Hamblets of the Tower, or such persons who have any stocks going in Trade within the Limits aforesaid, and absent themselves( as shall appear to them to be most able) to find and maintain Horses with Riders and Furniture, at their proper charge, for the defence of the City, and parts adjacent,( so as no person shall be charged for the raising and maintaining of more then two Horses) to be put under such Commanders and Officers as the said Committee shall think sit: And if any person or persons who shall be charged to find Horses, Riders, and Furniture, as is aforesaid, and shall refuse or neglect to provide the same, within three daies after notice thereof given to them, or left in writing at their dwellings, shall forfeit and pay twenty pounds; And if they shall neglect or refuse to sand forth their Horse or Horses, with Riders provided and furnished, as is aforesaid, when, and as often as he or they shall be summoned thereunto by the said Committee, or such Commanders or Officers as they shall appoint; in default thereof, that then they shall forfeit and pay ten shillings upon every such failing, or suffer four daies imprisonment without bail or Mainprize, to be inflicted upon every such Offendor, in such manner and form, and by such Officers and Persons as are appointed for the inflicting of penalties upon the failing of the Foot Souldiers of the trained Bands, expressed in an Ordinance of Parliament, dated the second day of May, Anno Dom. 1643. And the said Fines to be employed by the said Committee toward the payment of the Commanders and Officers of the said Horse; and for such other uses as the said Committee shall find necessary for the better carrying on the said Service.  
And be it hereby further Declared and Ordained, That for the better executing of this present Ordinance, and such former Ordinances which are now in force concerning the Militia of the City of London, and the places aforesaid, Power and Authority be hereby given to the said Committee, to make one or more Sub-Committee or Sub-Committees within the said Limits, as they shall think fit, for the executing of this and the said former Ordinances concerning the Militia: And all Constables, Headboroughs, and other inferior Officers within the said Limits, and all Commanders and Souldiers of the said Militia, are hereby required to obey and execute such Warrants and Orders as they from time to time shall receive from the said Committee, or Sub-Committee, or Sub-Committees, for, and concerning the execution of the same accordingly. And lastly, That no privileged place, or person, within the Limits aforesaid, shall be exempted from the Power of this Ordinance, except the Peers of this realm, and Members of the House of Commons, and Assistants of the House of peers, and Officers and Attendants of both Houses of Parliament respectively, who shall be exempted from this Ordinance, and all things therein contained. Provided that this Ordinance shall continue for two months and no longer.  
FINIS.