AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in Parliament, Whereby the Commissioners name in a late Act of Parliament for raising the Subsidy of 400000 l. in the several Counties of this Kingdom, are authorised to take and receive all such Moneys, Victuals, arms, Ammunition, Goods, wears, and Commodities, as have been lately collected for the relief of Ireland; which the Church-wardens and other Collectors are required to pay in without delay.  

Die Lunae, 22 Maii. 1643.  
ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this Ordinance shall be forthwith printed and published.  
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LONDON, Printed for John Wright in the Old-baily, May 23. 1643.   

Die Mercurii, 17 Maii. 1643.  
WHereas by an Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, dated the 30. day of january last, for a new loan and Contribution towards the relief of Ireland, it is( amongst other things which conduce to the advance of that service) ordered that the Churchwardens of every Parish( or the Overseers for the poor, where there is no Churchwardens) having collected and gathered the free and charitable Benevolences of all the Inhabitants thereof; and all sum and sums of money, victual, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, wears, or Commodities that any the said Parishioners shall be willing to lend and disburse, as in the said Ordinance is expressed, shall cause to be written down in a Schedule thereof indented, as well the name and names of the several Givers as of the Lenders, with the several sum and sums which shall bee by every of them lent or given: and having subscribed their names at the foot of one part of the said Schedule indented, shall deliver that part, together with all such sum and sums of Money, victual, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, wears, and Commodities, unto such person or persons as shall be therefore employed and entrusted by Order of the Committee of Parliament mentioned in the said Ordinance to bee appointed to take care of the affairs of Ireland, or any eight of them, and that the said person and persons so entrusted, shall upon receipt thereof subscribe the other part of the said Schedule to remain with the Churchwardens, or Overseers, and Parishioners, as is expressed in that Ordinance, and receiving the Money, victual, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, wears, and Commodities in the several Parishes, shall with all convenient speed after the receipt thereof return the same unto the Treasurers appointed by that Ordinance at the Guildhall London. Now forasmuch as in the directions that have been already given into the several Counties of this Kingdom, to the Commissioners name in the late Act of Parliament for raising the subsidy of 400000. li. to whose care and good endeavours the managing of this affair is specially recommended; no person or persons are particularly name to receive such Money, Victuals, arms, Ammunition, Goods, wears, and Commodities from the Churchwardens and Overseers in such manner as the Ordinance of Parliament doth seem to require, and as may bee for their indemnity and discharge.  
The Lodrs and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, to avoid all ambiguities and hindrances that may retard the service which is of so great necessity at this present, and to give the best furtherance they may to so pious and charitable a work which is so well begun in divers parts of the Kingdom, already do hereby authorize and appoint the before mentioned Commissioners name in the late Act of Parliament for raising the subsidy of 400000. li. in the several Counties of this kingdom, and the Dominion of Wales, within the several divisions of each County, as well within Liberties as without, to receive and take either by themselves, or such persons as they shall deputy from the Churchwardens, Collectors, and others that are employed for such Collections, all such Moneys, Victuals, arms, Ammunition, Goods, wears and Commodities, as they have, or shall from time to time have collected by virtue of the said Ordinance, together with the Schedules thereof, so to be signed as aforesaid, and to subscribe and deliver back unto those Churchwardens or Collectors, the other part of such Schedules indented for their indemnity and discharge: And the said Churchwardens and Collectors of every Parish, as well within Liberties as without, are hereby required to deliver, without delay, all such Money, Victuals, arms, Ammunition, Goods, wears, and Commodities, with the Schedules before mentioned, unto those respective Commissioners, or such as they shall appoint to receive the same, who are in all other respects to observe the former directions given them for the disposing thereof, according to the tenor of the said Ordinance and Orders given them in that behalf.  
FINIS.