Whereas Thomas Andrews, John Fowke, Richard Chambers, William Bark­ley, Aldermen of the City of London; Maurice Thompson, Francis Allen, James Russell, and Stephen Estwick, Merchants, are Ordained and Constituted to be Col­lectors and Commissioners, ena­bled to receive all such summes of Money as should bee paid for Customes, or advanced by way of Loan, or otherwise for and in re­spect of Goods and Merchandize, [Page]exported out of, and imported into the Port of London, and all other Ports within the Realm of England, Do­minion of Wales, and Towne of Barwick, the said Commissioners receiving what they ought to re­c [...]ve, by vertue of the severall Or­ [...]inances of both Houses of Parli­ament already past, concerning them, are contented to advance by way of Loan, thirty thousand pounds, towards supply of the pres­si [...] N [...]essities of the Navie:

It is thereupon ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parlia­ [...]. That the said Commissio­ners shall repay unto themselves by way of defalcation, out of the one [...]lfe of the said Receipts, the [...]said s [...]mme of thirty thousand grounds, with Interest for the same, [...]r the rate of eight pound per­cent. for a yeare at the end of six [...]neths next to bee elapsed and [Page]expired; And for the further en­couragement and security of the said Commissioners, It is likewise Ordained by the said Lords and Commons, that the said Commis­sioners shall continue in the said im­ployment untill the five & twentieth of March one thousand six hundred forty five, And shall not then be dis­placed nor dismissed from the said imployment, without Order of both houses of Parliament; for untill they be re-imbursed the said thirty thousand pounds, with Interest as aforesaid, and all other sums which shall bee due unto them. And it is likewise Ordained, that aswell the Ordinance concerning the Subs [...]y of Tonnage and Poundage, with such alterations as the said Lords and Commons shall think sit; As also the other severall Ordinances herein mentioned, in all other things, shall stand and continue in [Page]full force, and power, to all inten [...] and purposes, during all the ti [...] aforesaid.