AN ORDINANCE OR DECLARATION Of The LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
Concerning a Commission with Instructions thereunto annexe●, directed to the Right Honourable the Lords Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, and some other Gentlemen of the Counties of Essex, Hertford, and Bedford, from hi● Exce●lency the earl of Essex, Lord general, for the disarmi●g of the Popish and ill affencted parties in the said several Counties, as also for the raising and taking of Horse, Money, and Plate, of all such as have not contributed, or not propo●tionably to their Estates, to the Propositions of Pa●liament.  
And that colonel Walter Long shall take and receive such moneys as are behind, unpaid in such hundreds where the said Commission hath been put in execution, that so he may give an exact account for the whole, and likewise manifest his just and faire proceedings with the PARLIAMENT.  


Die jovis, Maii 25. 1643.  
ORdered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, that this Ordinance and Declaration bee forthwith Printed and Published.  
John brown clear. Parliamentor.    
May 26. Printed for John Wright in the Old-Bailey. 1643.   

AN ORDINANCE OR DECLARATION OF THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT.  
Die Mercurii, 24 Maii, 1643.  
IT is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in parliament, That whereas his Excellency the earl of Essex, Lord general of the Army, raised for the defence of King and Parliament, directed a Commission, with Instructions thereunto annexed, unto the Right Honourable the Lords Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, and some other Gentlemen of the Counties of Essex, Hertford, and Bedford, and to colonel Walter Long a Member of the House of Commons, who in particular was commanded by the said Lord general to put the said Commission in execution, with any two or more of the said Commissioners, according to the said Instructions therewith given for the disarming of the Popish and ill-affected parties in the said several Counties, as also for the raising and taking of Horse, Money, and Plate, of such as had not contributed to the Propositions of Parliament, or not proportionable to their Estates; And whereas the said colonel Walter Long, with other of the said Commissioners, have in part executed the said Commission in some hundreds, within the said County of Essex and not elsewhere, and hath raised in Money and Plate to the value of threé thousand pounds or thereabouts, besides divers sums of money which do yet remain in the hands of sundry persons in the said hundreds, who have promised to pay the same to the said Colonel Walter Long; And whereas an Ordinance of Parliament hath since been made, for the rating and taring of such persons mentioned in the said Commission, not exceeding the twentieth part of their Estates, or the fifth part of their yeérly Revenue, which is to be Assessed and gathered by certain persons; name and appoynted by the said Ordinance, And for that there may not beé any loss or damage to the Parliament, or distraction in the said County; by raising and collecting of moneys by the said several ways: It is therefore Ordained and Declared, that the said colonel Walter Long, shall take and receive such moneys as are behind and unpayd in such hundreds; where the said Commission hath been put in execution, that so he may give an exact account for the whole, and likewise manifest his just and faire proceédings therein, having promised to leave a book in every hundred, of what moneys he hath received in the said hundred, for his and their better satisfaction and discharge, which both Houses of Parliament do well approve of, the said colonel Walter Long, and other the said Commissioners, not having direction in their said Instructions, to give Tickets unto any as is appoynted in the aforesaid Ordinance, which notwithstanding he shall do to such as shall desire them. And for the Residue of the said County of Essex, and other the Counties aforenamed, where the said Commission hath not as yet been executed, there the persons nominated in the said Ordinance, are to execute the same according to the Instructions therein given them: And for those moneys which are behind and unpayd in those hundreds where the said Commission hath been put in execution, The said colonel Walter Long is appoynted to take and receive the same for completing and paying his Regiment, and to be accountable for that, and for the residue, if any shall be remaining; And if any the said several sums of money, directed by this Ordinance, to be paid to the said colonel Walter Long, shall be taken and received by any other person by virtue of the late recited Ordinance, or by any other way, it shall be forthwith restored to the said colonel Walter Long to be employed to the purposes aforesaid. And lastly it is Ordained and Declared, that all such persons who have paid, or shall pay their moneys unto the said colonel Walter Long, by virtue of his said Commission, shall not be ranted and taxed again by virtue of the aforesaid Ordinance, if they have paid according to the Proportions therein mentioned.   
FINIS.