BY virtue of an Order of the Honourable House of Commons, made on Monday the seventh of this present month of February, 1641. We (the Committee appointed, to receive the moneys given, by the Members of the House of Commons, for the relief of the poor distressed people that are come out of Ireland) are to require you to send unto us, or any one of us, a Certificate, what sums of money are collected within your Parish for the relief of the poor distressed people of Ireland, and to require you to bring in such sums of money, as you have received, to that Committee, who are authorised by the House to receive the same.  
Dated at Westminster, the fifteenth day of February, 1641. The Committee appointed by the House for the said Collection are 

Sir Edward Aiscough Knight.  


Francis Rowse  
Henry Martin  
William Wheler   Esquires.   To the Minister, and Churchwardens of the Parish of