AN ORDINANCE AND DECLARATION Of the LORDS and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
For the assessing of all such as have not contributed upon the propositions of both Houses of Parliament, for raising of Money, Plate, Horse, Horsemen, and arms, for defence of the King, kingdom, and Parliament, or have not contributed proportionably according to their Estates.  
With an Explanation of the former Ordinance, declaring, That if any Person so assessed, shall within 6 or 12 days (after notice thereof) pay in the Money to the Treasurers in Guild-Hall, they shall give acquittances for the same, as usual, to be repaied upon the public Faith. But if they refuse to pay, the collectors shall have power to distrain their goods, imprison their persons, and the families of such disaffected Persons shall no longer remain within, the City of London.  
Likewise an Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, for the better provision of Victuals, and other necessaries for the Army, and for payment and satisfaction to be made for the same.  

Die Martis, 29 Novemb. 1642.  
ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that these Ordinances be forthwith Printed and published.  
John Browne, Cler. Parl.   
Decemb, 1. Printed for I. Wright in the Old-Bailey. 1642.   

An Ordinance and Declaration Of the Lords and Commons in Parliament.  
WHereas the King seduced by wicked counsel hath raised an Army, and levied War against the Parliament, and great number of Forces are daily raised under the commands of Papists and other ill-affected persons, by Commissions from his Majesty; And whereas divers Delinquents are protected from public Justice by his Majesties. Army, and sundry outrages and rapines are daily committed by the soldiers of the said Army, who have no respect to the laws of God or the Land, but burn and plunder the Houses, and seize and destroy the persons and goods of divers His majesty's good Subjects; And whereas for the maintenance of the said Army divers assessments are made upon several Counties, an● His majesty's Subjects are compelled by the soldiers to pay the same; which sa●d army if it should continue, wou●d soon ruin and w●ste the whole kingdom, and overthrow Religion, Law, and liberty. For suppressing of which said army and ill-affected persons there is no probable way under God, but by the armv raised by au●hority of the Parliament; which said army so raised cannot be maintained without great sums of Money, yet for raising such sums by reason of his majesty's withdrawing himself from the advice of the Parliament, there can be no Act of Parliament passed with his majesty's assent, albeit there is great Justice that the said moneys should be raised: The Lords and Commons in Parliament, having taken the same into their serious consideration, and knowing that the said army so raised by them, hath been hitherto for the most par● maintained by the voluntary contribution of divers well affected persons, who have freely contributed according to their abilities.  
But considering there are divers others within the Cities of London and Westminster, and the suburbs of the same, and also within the Borough of Southwark, that have not contributed at all towards the maintenance of the said army, or if they have, yet not ●nswerable to their Estates, who notwithstanding receive benefit and protection by the same army as well as any others, and therefore its most just that they should as well as others be charged to contribute to the maintenance thereof.  
Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, and by authority thereof; That Isaac Pennington Lord Maior of the City of London, Sir John Wollaston Knight and Alderman, Alderman Towes, Alderman Warner, Alderman Andrew's, Alderman Chambers, Alderman Fowkes, Sir Thomas Soham Knight and Alderman, Samuel Vassell, John Venn, Morris Thompson, and Richard Warrin, Citizens, or any four of them, shall hereby have power and authority to nominate, and appoint in every Ward within the City of London, six such persons as they, or any four of them, shall think fit, which said six, so nominated, or any four of them, shall hereby have power to inquire of any that shall remain, or be within the said several Wards that have not contributed upon the Propositions of both Houses of Parliament, concerning the raising of Money, Plate, Horse, Horsemen, and arms, for defence of the King and both Houses of Parliament, and also of such as are able men, that have contributed, yet not according to their Estates & abilities. And the said six persons so nominated or any four of them within their several and respective wards and limits, shall have power to assess such person or persons, as are of ability and have not contributed, and also such as have contributed, yet not according to their ability, to pay such sum or sums of Money according to their Estates, as the said Assessors or any four of them shall think fit and re●sonable, so as the same exceed not the twentieth part of their Estates, and to nominate and appoint fit persons for the collection thereof. And if any person so assessed shall refuse to pay the money assessed upon him, it shall be lawful to and for the said Assessors and Collectors, or any of them to levy the said sum so assessed by way of distress and sale of the goods of the person so assessed, and refusing; And if any person so distrained shall make resistance, It shall be lawful to and for the respective Assessors and Collectors or any of them, to call to their assistance any the Trained bands of the said City of London or any other his majesty's Subjects, who are hereby required to be aiding & assisting to the said Assessors and Collectors in the premises; And it is hereby further ordained, that the respective Burgesses of Westminster and Southwark, together with the several Committees appointed for the subscriptions of Money, Plate, Horse, horsemen and arms within the said City and Borough shall respectively have power hereby to nominate Sessors for the same City and Borough, in such manner as the Lord Major, &c. hath for the City of London, and the said Assessors or any four of them to name collectors as aforesaid; Which said Assessors and Collectors shall have the same power respectively within their respective limits, as those to be nominated within the said City of London have hereby limit●ed to them. And for the Suburbs of London and Westminster, the respective Knights of the Shires where the said Suburbs are shall have hereby the like power to name Assessors, and they so named, or any four of them, and the Collectors by them to be nominated, or any of them within their respective limits, shall have the like power respectively as the Assessors and Collectors for London have by virtue of this Ordinance. And be it ordained that the sums so assessed and levied as aforesaid shall be paid in at Guild-Hall London, to the hands of Sir John Wollastone, Knight, John Warner, John Towes, and Thomas Andrews Aldermen, or any two of them; And the Assessors and Collectors to be nominated by virtue hereof shall weekly report to the committee of the House, of Commons, for the propositions aforesaid, what sums of money have been assessed, and what sums have been levied weekly according to the purport hereof, And the said moneys so levied and paid in shall be issued forth in such sort as the other moneys raised upon the propositions aforesaid, and not otherwise.  

Die Martis, 29. Novemb. 1642.  
Whereas a late Ordinance is passed by both Houses of Parliament, for the Reasons therein declared, for the assessing of all such persons within the Cities of London and westminster, and the suburbs thereof, with the burrow of Southwark, as have not contributed upon the Propositions of both Houses of Parliament, for raising of Money, Plate, Horse, Horsemen, and arms, for defence of the King, Parliament, and kingdom, or have not contributed proportionably to their estates and abilities. And whereas it is thought fit that some additions be made for further explanation and better execution of the said Ordinance: Be it further Ordained and declared by the Lords and Commons assembled Parliament, that such persons as shall be assessed by the respective Assessors in the said Ordinance appointed, and shall within six days' next after notice given to them, or left at their several houses within the said Cities, suburbs, or burrow, pay in the one moiety of the said sums of Money so assessed, and within twelve days after the said notice given as aforesaid, the other moiety thereof, unto the Treasurers of Money and Plate in Guild-Hall London, or unto the Collectors appointed by the said Ordinance, respectively to receive the same, that then the said Treasurers, or Collectors, shall give Acquittances for the same, as hath been done to such who have lent moneys or Plate, upon the Propositions of both Houses as aforsaid. And the said moneys so paid to the said Treasurers, or to the said several Collectors, shall be repaid upon the public Fath, as all other moneys lent upon the said Propositions of both Houses. And as for those who shall so far discover their disaffection, as not to bring in the several sums of Money so assessed upon them to the persons before appointed, within the times limited, that then their goods shall be distrained and sold according to the said Ordinance. And if no sufficient distress be found, that then the said Collectors shall respectively have power to inquire of any sum or sums of Money due, or to be due unto them respectively so assessed form any person or persons for any Rents, Tithes, Goods, or Debts, or for any other things or cause whatsoever. And the said respective Collectors shall have power by virtue of this Ordinance, to receive all or any part of the said sums due, or to be due unto them or any of them so assessed, until the full value of the sum or sums so assessed, and the charges in levying and recovering of the same shall be received and satisfied. And the said respective Collectors shall have further power to compound for any of the said Rents, Tithes, Goods, or Debts, due unto the said person so assessed respectively as aforesaid, with any person or persons by whom the said Rents, Tithes, Goods, or Debts, are, or shall be owing, as also to give full and ample discharge for the Money by them so received, upon composition or otherwise, which discharges shall be good and effectual to all intents and purposes. And if the sum or sums of Money so assessed cannot be levied by any of these means or ways, than the persons so respectively assessed, shall be imprisoned in such places of this kingdom, and for so long time as the Committee of the House of Commons for Examinations, shall appoint and order: And the families of all such persons so imprisoned, shall no longer remain within the Cities of London, and Westminster, the suburbs and the Counties adjacent.  
And be it further Ordained, that all and every the Assessors and Collectors of the said several sums, shall have the protection of both Houses of Parliament, for their indemnity in this service, and receive such reasonable allowances for their pains taken and charges disbursed, or to be disbursed therein, as the Committee of Lords and Commons for advance of Money and other necessaries for the Army, raised by the Parliament, shall apportion and appoint.    

An Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, for the better Provision of Victuals, and other Necessaries for the Army, and for payment and satisfaction to be made for such provisions.  
Die Martis, 29 Novemb. 1642.  
IT is Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, That Committees shall be named in all Counties, to take Care for Provisions of Victuals for the Army raised by the Parliament, as likewise for the taking up of Horses for service in the Field, Dragooners, and Draught-Horses, as likewise for borrowing of Money or Plate to supply the Army. Which Committees, or any two or more of them, shall have power and authority, to value all kind of Provisions both for Men and Horse, all kind of Horse for service, or otherwise, which shall be voluntarily offered to be lent upon the public Faith, or likewise to receive any Money or Plate to be lent as before; and that upon Certificate of any two of such Committees, the same Provisions of Horses, Money, and Plate, and the value thereof shall be entered by the Treasurer of the Propositions, and shall be repaid to the party from whom the same was received, with like Consideration as other Money lent.  
And in case the Owners of such Provisions, Money, Plate, and Horses, shall refuse or neglect to bring in the same upon public Faith, for the use of the Army, for the better preventing the spoil and embezeling of such Provisions of Money, Plate, and Horses, by the disorder of the soldiers, and that they may not come into the hands of the Enemies: It is further Ordered, that the Committees aforementioned, or any two of them, be hereby authorized and enabled to send for such Provisions, Money, Plate, and Horses, and take the same into their custody and to set an indifferent Value and Rate upon them: Which Value they shall certify to the Treasurers for the Propositions, to be repaid at such time, and in such manner, as shall be Ordered by both Houses of Parliament. It is likewise Ordered, That the said Committees of the several and respective Counties shall meet and consult with the Committees of the adjacent and neighbour Counties, unto the place or places where the said Army or any part thereof shall pass and remain, concerning the Receiving, Procuring, Valuing, and Disposing of such Provisions, Horses, Money, and Plate. And if they cannot conveniently meet, that then it shall be lawful for any two, or more of the Committee, to execute the several Services above mentioned in the adjoining Counties, as well as in the county wherein he is named a Committee; and that such Certificates as they shall make of any Provisions, Horses, Money, or Plate, shall be as effectual for the Securities of the Parties, as if the same were received and taken within the county for which he or they are named Committees. And the said Committees, or any two, or more of them, shall cause the said Provisions to be delivered to the commissary for the Victuals, or to his deputy, and such other Officers of the Army, who may be charged with the same upon their account, and shall certify the Treasurer of the Army, or his deputy that so Defalcation of the Value thereof may be made out of the Pay of such Officers and soldiers as shall receive the same. And the said Committee shall likewise cause all such Money and Plate to be delivered unto the Treasurer of the army, or his deputy, who shall take Care, to convey the Plate unto the Treasurer for the Propositions, and shall be charged with all such Money upon his account as with other Money received from them.  
FINIS.