Die Sabbathi Januar. 7. 1642.  
A Declaration of Both Houses of Parliament, knowing the necessity of a present Subscription of Money and Plate, for further supply of the ARMY.  
THe pressing necessities of this kingdom, caused, and daily multiplied by the traitorous and bloody counsels and attempts of those pernicious and desperate Counsellors, still about the King, and protected by him, while they more and more manifest their implacable enmity to our religion, the Parliament, and peace of all his Majesties good Subjects and Dominions, have been such, and so many, as have compelled Us the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, to borrow more and far greater sums of money, upon the public Faith,( besides those which we ourselves advanced for the preservation of our Religion, the being( as well as the just and undoubted power and privileges of Parliament, our laws and Liberties, from most apparent destruction) then at first we intended, and to be longer in repaying the same( which we still unanimously resolve shall be fully paid back with interest) then heretofore we promised. And albeit we be now preparing and expediting sundry propositions to be humbly and speedily presented to his Majesty for an honourable and firm settling of the public Peace, without more effusion of Christian blood, yet no rational man can be ignorant of the further necessity of providing more Treasure, as well for support of the army raised by authority of Parliament, until the King shall vouchsafe graciously to condescend to our just and necessary requests; as for the full payment of all such sums of money as already are, or further may be due, and arrere for the necessary provision of arms, Ammunition, and pay of the said Army, until their dis-banding and return home to their several Countries( according to the times to be limited for that purpose) that so they may not be occasioned through want of pay to plunder, rob, or pillage by the way homeward, after their discharge and dismission.  
Upon these grounds alone, we might very well recommend to the good affections and zeal of all good men within the City of London and throughout the kingdom a new advance and loan of a very large and considerable sum of money, lest( while all we have is now in more imminent danger than ever) not onely all the moneys already lent, but all those Treasures of our Religion, laws, and Liberties( which ought to be more precious to us then our whole estates and lives, which we have solemnly devoted to the defence of this cause) be utterly lost for want of some further supply, to close and perfect the work in a safe and honourable way, whereby all these may be saved, and the moneys already advanced for this service be in due time fully repaid.  
But when we consider further, that( notwithstanding all his Majesties protestations, Declarations, and Proclamations to the contrary) not onely a great number of known papists are entertained, and employed in his Majesties army, who have actually levied war against the King and Parliament: but Commissions have issued under the great seal of England, to the earl of Worcester, and to the earl of Newcastle; by means whereof many thousands of professed papists( whose very principles of religion do engage them to rebellion and shedding the blood of all protestants; and therefore ought not by the laws to be entrusted with arms in their own houses, nor to come within the verge of his Majesties Court) are gathered into great bodies, and do actually bear arms against the King, Parliament, and Kingdom, and have plundered, robbed, pillaged, and murdered very many of his Majesties good protestant Subjects in the Northern parts, besides sundry other places of this Kingdom; which armies of papists do daily increase by the accession of many arms and popish Commanders from foreign parts, arriving at Newcastle, and other ports, and joining themselves with those professed enemies to our religion,& to the laws made to guard it,& to suppress or prevent their frequent treasons and rebellions; and that it is notoriously known, that the rebels in and about Newcastle, under the command of the earl of Newcastle, do lay very great impositions upon every ship-lading of coals exported thence for th● use of the C●●y of London& other places of this Kingdom; and if these impositions be not paid, stay is made of their Cole-ships, a●d some of them are compelled oversea, to fetch in more men, arms, and ammunition, to furnish the said popish army, against us, and our religion; by which means a great de●rth of coals must inevitably befall the poor people in and about London, that probably may occasion many dangerous tumults and commotions, while the said Popish army is advancing toward London, with hope that by this and other their devilish artifices they may find all in combustions here, whereby they may with less resistance pillage and sack this city, cut the throats of all men of estates, and ravish their wives and daughters without difference( for papists, in such cases, never make difference between friends and enemies:) yea, so insolent and barbarous are these bloody enemies become, that( while some men in these parts do causelessly murmur and complain if any thing, although it amount not to the thirtieth part of their estates, be required of them for their own preservation as well as for the public safety) these popish rebels violently seize upon the persons of so many men of quality and wealth as they can, although no enemies to their cause, and compel them to redeem themselves, some at 1000. l. some at 2000. l. some at 3000. l. a man, enforcing others to bring in large contributions to the supply of their army, even to the one half& more of some of their estates, and exacting the same with such rigour, that the miseries under which their friends as well as others do groan and mourn, without the least ease or pity, cannot be sufficiently expressed. Upon all which considerations we cannot but declare, that we have just cause to suspect that however they abused his Majesty so far, as to obtain such illegal Commissions to levy forces upon pretence of assisting his Majesty; yet having gotten power and strength into their hands, they will not lay down their arms, even when his Majesty shall have laid down his, unless they may give laws to the King and Parliament, for toleration of their superstition and idolatry and the abrogation of all laws made against it, but will proceed with fire and sword to root out our religion, and all that profess it, as they have already begun and still proceed to do in Ireland, if there be not a good provision of Treasure to maintain and support our army, not onely during the time of treaty, but until such time as the said popish army be dissolved, and the papists sufficiently secured from ability and opportunity to disturb that blessed peace and settling of our religion and laws, which now through Gods blessing may be happily obtained, as it is unfeignedly and earnestly desired by us: We therefore the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament, for the more speedy and effectual provision of moneys to be employed in quenching this unnatural and bloody war now kindled, not onely in the heart, but in almost all parts of this Kingdom at once, by those papists, persons popishly affencted, Traytors, and delinquents, about his Majesty,( who have already made this flourishing Nation to become a field of blood) have in the first place begun a new subscription, and again assessed ourselves towards the raising of such a considerable sum of money, as of necessity must be forthwith advanced, for the purpose aforesaid, albeit many of us be exceedingly prejudiced in our estates, by plundering, pillaging, and forced contribution to those enemies of the King and kingdom in places where any of our estates lye, and our respective Lands are situated, besides the great charge and losses sustained by our long attendance upon the public service of the King and kingdom: And having by this our example recommended this work to be further advanced and carried on by all others, who are touched with any sense of piety to God, and their native Country, now in a flamme, or of zeal to the true religion professed amongst us, or of conscience in making good their solemn protestation and vow already made to Almighty God. Wee do further order and require: That the several persons hereunder name or any three or more of them, do forthwith summon all the inhabitants and other resiants within 〈…〉 which they, or any three, or more of them shall think fit to be summoned: and do likewise repair unto the several houses or places of abode of all the inhabitants, and other resiants or sojourners within the said 〈…〉 which they, or any three or more of them shall think fit to be repaired unto: And in the name of both Houses of Parliament do give hearty thankes to so many of them( whether summoned or repaired unto) as have already contributed by way of loan or gift, any money, plate, horse, or arms, according to the propositions of both Houses of Parliament, heretofore published in that behalf, or otherwise, assuring all and every of them, that the said Houses are very sensible of their alacrity and duty therein; and do resolve to be as careful of their safety, welfare, and reimbursment, as of their own, and to live and die with them in this cause: And likewise, that the said persons hereunder name, or any three or more of them, do acquaint not onely those, but especially the rest of the said Inhabitants, who have not yet contributed, with the further urgent necessity of new subscriptions for plate and money, still pressing beyond former expectation, and accordingly desire and stir up them and every of them to under-write in a book provided for that purpose( and wherein their names shall be registered whether they underwrite or no) such sums of money and plate, as may testify their real and further performance of their late Protestation and sacred vow to Almighty God, and of their readiness to join with the rest of the well-affected party of the kingdom, and with us the Lords and Commons, who are resolved to pursue this work with our lives, persons, and estates, for their preservation as well as for our own: And because the success of this further levy of money depends much upon the speedy bringing in thereof; It is therefore further ordered, that all such persons as shall hereupon subscribe as aforesaid, be desired by the parties employed to take their subscriptions, instantly to bring in one fourth part of the said money and plate subscribed by each of them respectively, to the Treasurers for money and plate formerly appointed in the Guild-hall London, who shall thereupon give receipts for the same in manner and form already used. And that the second fourth part of their said Subscriptions be likewise brought in, to the persons and places aforesaid at the end of one month next after their subscriptions; And the third fourth part be accordingly brought in, at the end of the second month after their said Subscriptions, and the last payment at the end of the third month next after their said Subscriptions. And for the ease of such men so subscribing whose occasions will not permit them to make their several payments at Guild-Hall at the times aforesaid, it is further ordered, that the said parties employed to take their said Subscriptions, or any two or more of them shall demand and receive of the said persons subscribing, the several and respective sums so subscribed, and in arrere and unpaid by the space of six daies after the several times of payment, shall be respectively commenced, and expired, and shall give acquittances for the same in manner and form appointed and used upon the former subscriptions of money and plate: For all which both Houses of Parliament do hereby engage the public Faith of the kingdom; that they shall be repaid with eight pounds per cent. allowance for the same, according to the said former Propositions. And if any thing not mentioned in this Declaration and Order may conduce to the more effectual promoting of this new Subscription, and the receipt thereof, the same is hereby referred to the wisdom and care of the Committee of Lords and Commons for advance of money and other necessaries for the Army, to be prosecuted and improved with effect. And lastly it is Ordered that this Declaration and Order be Printed and published.  
J. Brown clear. Parliamentorum.   

Die Sabbati 14. Januarij 1642.  
IT is ordered by the Lords and Commons of the Committee for Advance of Money, and other necessaries for the Army, that this Declaration be red, by the Minister of each Parish Church, within the Cities of London and Westminster, the Suburbs, and Liberties, and the Borough of southwark before the Congregation, to morrow in the forenoon ●r afternoon, and that the said Minister do use his best endeavour to exhort the people to the subscriptions herein desired with all expedition.   

Printed at London. January 18. 1642.