Die Lunae, 18 Septemb. 1643.  
Whereas Thomas Andrews, John Fowke, Richard Chambers, William Barkley, Aldermen of the City of London; Maurice Thompson, Francis Allen, James Russell, and Stephen Estwick, Merchants, are Ordained and Constituted to be Collectors and Commissioners, enabled to receive all such sums of Money as should be paid for Customs, or advanced by way of Loan, or otherwise for and in respect of Goods and Merchandise, exported out of, and imported into the Port of London, and all other Ports within the Realm of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Barwick, the said Commissioners receiving what they ought to rec●●ve, by virtue of the several Ordinances of both Houses of Parliament already past, concerning them, are contented to advance by way of Loan, thirty thousand pounds, towards supply of the pressi●● N●●essities of the Navy:  
It is thereupon ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parlance. That the said Commissioners shall repay unto themselves by way of defalcation, out of the one ●●lfe of the said Receipts, the forsaid s●mme of thirty thousand grounds, with Interest for the same, ●●●●r the rate of eight pound percent. for a year at the end of six ●●neths next to be elapsed and expired; And for the further encouragement and security of the said Commissioners, It is likewise Ordained by the said Lords and Commons, that the said Commissioners shall continue in the said employment until the five & twentieth of March one thousand six hundred forty five, And shall not then be displaced nor dismissed from the said employment, without Order of both houses of Parliament; for until they be reimbursed the said thirty thousand pounds, with Interest as aforesaid, and all other sums which shall be due unto them. And it is likewise Ordained, that aswell the Ordinance concerning the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage, with such alterations as the said Lords and Commons shall think sit; As also the other several Ordinances herein mentioned, in all other things, shall stand and continue in full force, and power, to all inten● and purposes, during all the ti● aforesaid.   

23 Martii 1643.  
ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published,  
H. Elsing Cler. Parl. D. Con●   

LONDON, Printed for Laurance Blaiklock, at Temble Bar, 1644.