September, 1645
[9 September, 1645.]
Committee of Militia of London may send out 500 Horse raised under Ord. of 27 Feb. 1644-5.; And recall them two months.;Penalty for neglect to provide Horse.; Power to Common Council to levy £10000 for payment of above Forces.
The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, do Ordain
and Declare, and be it Ordained and Declared, That the Committee of the Militia of London within the Lines of Communication and Bills of Mortality, shall have power, and are hereby
authorized to send Five hundred Horse and Five hundred
Dragoons, raised or to be raised by vertue of an Ordinance bearing date the 27. of February, 1644. under such Officers as the
said Committee of the Militia shall think fit for the publique service of the Kingdom, and under such Commanders in chief as the
Committee of both Kingdoms shall appoint; And the said Committee of the Militia shall have power to call back the said Forces
at the end of two Moneths next after the date of this Ordinance.
And it is further Ordained, That if any person or persons that are
or shall be charged to finde Horse as aforesaid, or for the future
safety of the city and parts adjacent, shall refuse or neglect to
provide and send in within two days after notice thereof given to
them in person, or left at their dwellings, the said Horse, with
Rider, Furniture and Arms thereunto belonging to the Commissaries in More-fields, there to be listed, valued and marked, or to
send in the sum of twelve pounds to the Committee of CommonCouncel sitting in the Irish Chamber at Guildhall, for them to
buy and provide the said Horse, Furniture and Arms for the
said publique service of the Kingdom; and in default thereof,
the said Committee of Common-councel or any five of them shall
have power, and are hereby authorized, to fine such person or
persons, not exceeding the sum of Twenty pounds upon any one
person, and in case of non-payment, to imprison the persons of
such offenders until they have paid the same, or to leavy the said
fines by distress and sale of the said offenders goods, in such
maner and form as is expressed in an Ordinance of both Houses
of Parliament dated 1. July 1645. Intituled, An Ordinance for
the raising of Twenty thousand pounds to be imployed towards
the reducing of Oxford. And be it Ordained, That the said Committee of Common-Councel, or any five of them shall have power,
and are hereby authorized from time to time, to impose the sum
of forty shillings to be leavied as aforesaid, or five days imprisonment, without bail or mainprize, upon every such person or
persons appointed or to be appointed to finde Horses and Riders,
compleatly furnished and armed in his or their Troop or Troops,
who shall neglect or refuse to send forth their said Horse or
Horses compleatly furnished as aforesaid, when and so often as he
or they shall be thereunto summoned; which fines are to be imployed by the said Committee for the paying of the Commanders
and other Officers of the said Troops. And to the end the aforesaid Five hundred Horse, and Five hundred Dragoons with their
Commanders and Riders, may be paid during the time of their
being abroad in the said publike service, and the owners of the
said Horse and Arms secured & satisfied for such Horse or
Arms as shalbe lost in the service, or made unuseful, so as the
value of a Light horse, Furniture and Arms exceed not the sum
of Twelve pounds, and a Dragoons horse, Furniture and Arms exceed not the sum of Six pounds; It is Ordained by authority
aforesaid, That the Committee of Common-Councel for getting in
the arrears, sitting at Weavers Hall, London, shall have power
in the City of London and Liberties thereof, and the several SubCommittees of the Militia without the Liberties, and within the
Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality, shall
have power, and are hereby authorized to assess the sum of ten
thousand pounds upon such persons of ability as either now
inhabit or have any trade or stock going within the limits aforesaid, for the payment of the said Forces.
Said sum to be levied according to former Ord. of 1st July, 1645.; Repayment of Moneys lent on this Ord. to be made out of Excize.; Satisfaction for Horses & Arms lost or made unserviceable.; Assistance.; None to be exempt from this Ord. save Members, etc. of both Houses.
And it is further Ordained, That the said Committee of arrears,
and the said several Sub-Committees, shall have power, and are
hereby authorized to leavy the said Ten thousand pounds, or any
part thereof, in like maner and form as is expressed in the former
recited Ordinance of 1. July, 1645. which money so leavied shalbe
paid to the said Committee of arrears, whose receipts under the
hands of any two of them shall be sufficient to enable the said
lenders to demand the same with interest after the rate of eight
pounds per cent. of the Commissioners of Excize in maner and
form as hereafter is expressed: And the said Committee of
arrears to issue out the said money from time to time, for the
payment of the said Forces by Warrant from the said Committee of the Militia, and shall have power to deduct such necessary charges for the collecting and gathering in of the said
moneys, as the said several Committees shall think fit, not exceeding three pence in the pound. And the said Lords and
Commons do hereby Ordain, That such persons as shall pay in
any moneys by vertue of this Ordinance, shall be repaid the
several sums which shall be by them advanced out of the receipt
of Excize by Ordinance of the 11. of Septemb. 1643. And that
no Ordinance nor Assignment, which is not already passed upon
those receipts shall precede this Ordinance: And the Commissioners of the Excize and New-Impost for the time being, are
hereby authorized to pay at the end of six moneths, the interest
of so much monys as shal be advanced by vertue hereof, after the
rate of eight pounds per centum, per annum, and the principal
money, and the rest of the interest after the rate aforesaid,
shalbe paid in due course unto such persons as did advance
the same, whose receipt shalbe a sufficient discharge to the
Commissioners of Excize, and every of them in that behalf,
for principal and interest, and every part and parcel thereof:
and shall also pay in course unto the said Committee for
arrears, or any two of them, whose receipt shall be a sufficient
discharge to the Commissioners of Excize for so much money
as shalbe certified by Mr. John Smith, and Mr. Tho:
Richardson Commissaries. or other such Commissioners for the
time being, to make satisfaction for such Horse and Arms as
shall be lost or made unuseful in the said service, To the end the
said Committee may be enabled to satisfie the said owners thereof
accordingly. And that all Commanders, Officers, Soldiers, Constables and Headboroughs within the limits aforesaid, are hereby
required to be ayding and assisting in the due execution of this
Ordinance; and that all persons acting in the pursuance of the
same, shall be saved harmless by authority of both Houses of
Parliament. And that no priviledge place or person within the
limits aforesaid, shall be exempted from the power of this Ordinance, except the Peers of this Realm, and Members of the
House of Commons, and Assistants of the House of Peers, and
Officers and Attendants of both Houses of Parliament respectively, who shall stand exempted from this Ordinance, and all
things therein contained.