Junij 3. 1643.

At the Committee of Lords and Commons for Advance of Money and other Necessaries for the ARMY.

IT is Ordered, That the Collectors upon the weekly Assessement, by vertue of the Ordinance of Parliament, of the fourth of March last, doe use their best indeavours to collect the Arreares of such monies as are assessed by vertue of the said Ordinance, and carry in and pay the same to the Treasurers in Guild-hall, before the twelfth of this instant June, & that in the meane time the said Collectors do give a note (of the names of such persons in their severall and respective Wards and Pre­cincts as have been refractory and refuse to pay the said weekly assessement) unto the persons newly appointed to take distresse, who are to distraine for the summes assessed and unpaid, and pay the same to the Collectors in the said severall and respective Wards in case they distraine mony, and the goods they distraine to carry to Guild-hall to Samuel Gosse, or his Deputy appointed to receive the same. And for such sums of money as the said persons shall distraine, the said Collectors shall not onely allow and pay to the persons taking distresse, the two pence in the pound allowed by the said Ordinance, but also two pence in the pound more of their own monies for their paines therein, if they themselves shall not be willing to performe the duty as is required of them by the said Ordinance, And that the said Collectors doe appeare before this Committee on the said twelfth of June, and bring with them a note of the totall summes assessed in their severall precincts, and com­mitted to their care of Collection; And an Accompt of what summes they have paid to the Treasurers at Guild-hall of the said weekly assessement by them respectively collected, and the dates of the Acquittances given by the said Treasurers for the same, and what sums of money shall then remaine in their hands not paid in to Guild-hall; And a Roll of the names of such persons, as then shall not have fully paid their assessements, and the severall summes of money by them unpaid; That so the said Collectors, or those persons newly appointed to distraine, may levy the same by distresse accor­ding to the said Ordinance, whereof they are not to faile. It is also ordered that this be Printed and published.

Martin Dallison Clerke to the said Committee.

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