May 1643
[17 May, 1643.]
Ord. 30 Jan., 1642/3.
Whereas by an Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament,
dated the 30. day of January last, for a new Loane and Contribution towards the reliefe 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 poore, where there is no Churchwardens) having collected
and gathered the free and charitable Benevolence of all the
Inhabitants thereof; and all sum and sums of Monie, Victuall,
Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, 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
severall Givers as of the Lenders, with the severall sum and sums
which shall be 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, Victuall, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, and Commodities, unto such person or persons as shall be therefore
imployed and intrusted by Order of the Committee of Parliament
mentioned in the said Ordinance to bee appointed to take care
of the affaires of Ireland, or any eight of them, and that the said
person or persons so intrusted, shall upon receipt thereof subscribe the other part of the said Schedule to remaine with the
Church-wardens, or Overseers, and Parishioners, as is expressed
in that Ordinance, and receiving the Money, Victuall, Arms,
Ammunition, Goods, Wares, and Commodities in the severall
Parishes, shall with all convenient speed after the receipt thereof
returne 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 named in the late Act
of Parliament for raysing the Subsidie of 400000 li. to whose
care and good endeavours the managing of this Affaire is
specially recommended; no person or persons are particularly
named to receive such Money, Victualls, Armes, Ammunition,
Goods, Wares, and Commodities from the Church-wardens, and
Overseers in such manner as the Ordinance of Parliament doth
seeme to require, and as may bee for their indempnitie and
discharge.
Power to Commissioners named in late Ord. receive all Moneys, etc., levied thereunder.; Church-Wardens and Collectors to deliver all.;such Moneys, etc., to Commissioners or their Deputies.
The Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled,
to avoid all ambiguities and hinderances 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
worke which is so well begun in divers parts of the Kingdom
already, do hereby authorize and appoint the before mentioned
Commissioners named in the late Act of Parliament for raising the
Subsidie of 400000. li. in the severall Counties of this Kingdome,
and the Dominion of Wales, within the severall divisions of each
County, as well within Liberties as without, to receive and take
either by themselves, or such persons as they shall depute from
the Churchwardens, Collectors, and others that are imployed for
such collections, all such Moneys, Victuals, Armes, Ammunition,
Goods, Wares and Commodities, as they have, or shall from time
to time have collected by vertue of the said Ordinance, together
with the Schedules thereof, so to be signed as aforesaid, and to
subscribe and deliver back unto those Church-wardens or
Collectors, the other part of such Schedules indented for their
indempnity and discharge: And the said Church-wardens and
Collectors of every Parish, as well within Liberties as without,
are hereby required to deliver, without delay, all such Money,
Victuals, Armes, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, 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
behalfe.