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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03015	The ordinance and declaration of the Lords and Commons, for the assessing all such who have not contributed sufficiently for raising of money, plate, &c. with His Maiesties declaration to all his loving subjects upon occasion thereof.	England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1642 (1642)	Wing E1771E; ESTC R221064	10,616	41

THE ORDINANCE AND DECLARATION of the Lords and Commons for the Assessing all such who have not contributed sufficiently for raising of Money Plate c. WITH HIS MAIESTIES DECLARATION TO ALL His loving Subjects upon occasion thereof Charles R. OUr expresse pleasure is That this Our Declaration be published in all Churches and Chappels within Our Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales by the Parsons Vicars or Curates of the same SHREWSBURY Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. An Ordinance and Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament WHereas the King seduced by wicked Counsell hath raised an Army and levied War against the Parliament and great number of Forces are daily raised under the commands of Papists and other ill affected persons by Commissions from His Majestie And whereas divers Delinquents are protected from publike Justice by His Majesties Army and sundry outrages and rapines are daily committed by the Souldiers of the said Army who have no respect to the Laws of God or the Land but burn and plunder the Houses seize and destroy the persons and goods of dive●s His Majesties good Subjects And whereas for the maintenance of the said Army divers Assessements are made upon severall Counties and His Majesties Subjects are compelled by the Souldiers to pay the same which said Army if it should continue would soon ruine and waste the whole Kingdom and overthrow Religion Law and Liberty For suppressing of which said Army and ill-affected persons there is no probable way under God but by the Army raised by Authority of the Parliament which said Army so raised cannot be maintained without great summes of Money yet for raising such summes by reason of His Majesties withdrawing himself from the advice of the Parliament there can be no Act of Parliament passed with His Majesties assent albeit there is great justice that the said Moneys should be raised The Lords and Commons in Parliament having taken the same into their serious consideration and knowing that the said Army so raised by them hath been hitherto for the most part maintained by the voluntary contribution of divers well-affected persons who have freely contributed according to their abilities But considering there are divers others within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs of the same and also within the Borough of Southwark that have not contributed at all towards the maintenance of the said Army or if they have yet not answerable to their Estates who notwithstanding receive benefit and protection by the same Army as well as any others and therefore it 's most just that they should as well as others be charged to contribute to the maintenance thereof Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled by Authority thereof That Isaac Pennington Lord Major of the City of London Sir Iohn Wollaston Knight and Aderman Alderman Towes Alderman Warner Alderman Andrewes Alderman Chambers Alderman Fowkes Sir Thomas Seham Knight and Alderman Samuel Vassell Iohn Ven Morries Thompson Richard Warrin Citizens or any four of them shall hereby have power and Authority to nominate and appoint in every Ward within the City of London six such Persons as they or any four of them shall think fit which said six so nominated or any four of them shall hereby have power to enquire of any that shall remain or be within the said severall Wards that have not contributed upon the Propositions of both Houses of Parliament concerning the raising of Money Plate Horse Horsemen and Arms for defence of the King and both Houses of Parliament also of such as are able men that have contributed yet not according to their Estates and Abilities And the said six persons so nominated or any four of them within their severall and respective wards and limits shall have power to assesse such person or persons as are of ability and have not contributed and also such as have contributed yet not according to their ability to pay such sum or sums of Money according to their Estates as the said Assessors or any four of them shal think fit and reasonable so as the same exceed not the twentieth part of their Estates and to nominate and appoint fit persons for the collection thereof And if any person so assessed shall refuse to pay the Money assessed upon him it shall be lawfull to and for the said Assessors and Collectors or any of them to levy the said summe so assessed by way of distresse and sale of the goods of the person so assessed and refusing And if any person so distrained shall make resistance it shall be lawfull to and for the respective Assessors and Collectors or any of them to call to their assistance any the Trained bands of the said City of London or any other His Majesties Subjects who are hereby required to be ayding and assisting to the said Assessors and Collectors in the premisses And it is hereby further ordained That the respective Burgesses of Westminster and Southwark together with the severall Committees appointed for the subscriptions of Money Plate Horse Horsemen and Arms within the said City and Borough shall respectively have power hereby to nominate Sessors for the same City and Borough in such manner as the Lord Major c. hath for the City of London and the said Assessors or any four of them to name Collectors as aforesaid which said Assessors and Collectors shall have the same power respectively within their respective limits as those to be nominated within the said City of London have hereby limited to them And for the Suburbs of London and Westminster the respective Knights of the Shires where the said Suburbs are shall have hereby the like power to name Assessors and they so named or any four of them and the Collectors by them to be nominated or any of them within their respective limits shall have the like power respectively as the Assessors and Collectors for London have by vertue of this Ordinance And be it ordained that the summes so assessed and levied as aforesaid shall be paid in at Guild Hall London to the hands of Sir Iohn Wollastone Knight Iohn Warner Iohn Towes and Thomas Andrewes Aldermen or any two of them And the Assessors and Collectors to be nominated by vertue hereof shall weekly report to the Committee of the House of Commons for the propositions aforesaid what summes of money have been assessed and what summes have been levied weekly according to the purport hereof and the said Moneys so levied and paid in shalt be issued forth in such sort as the other Moneys raised upon the propositions aforesaid and not otherwise Die Martis 29. Novemb. 1642 WHereas a late Ordinance is passed by both Houses of Parliament for the Reasons therein declared for the Assessing of all such persons within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof with the Borough of Southwark

all such Money and Plate to be delivered unto the Treasurer of the Army or his Deputy who shall take care to convey the Plate unto the Treasurer for the Propositions and shall be charged with all such Money upon his accompt as with other Money received from them His MAIESTIES DECLARATION TO ALL HIS LOVING SUBJECTS upon occasion of the aforesaid Ordinance and Declaration It would not be beleeved at least great pains have been taken that it might not that the pretended Ordinance of the Militia the first attempt that ever was to make a Law by Ordinance without Our consent or the keeping Vs out of Hull and taking Our Arms and Munition from Vs could any way concern the Interest Property or Liberty of the Subject and it was confessed by that desperate Declaration it self of the 26 of May that if they were found guilty of that charge of destroying the title and interest of Our Subjects to their Lands and Goods it were indeed a very great Crime But it was a strange fatall Lethargy which had seized Our good People and kept them from discerning that the Nobility Gentry Commonalty of England were not onely stripped of their Preeminences and Priviledges but of their Liberties and Estates when Our just Rights were denyed Vs and that no Subject could from thenceforth expect to dwell at home when We were driven from Our Houses and Our Towns It was not possible that a Commission could be granted to the Earle of Essex to raise an Army against Vs and for the safety of Our Person and preservation of the Peace of the Kingdom to pursue kill stay Vs and all who wish well to Vs but that in a short time inferior Commanders by the same Authority would require Our good Subjects for the maintenance of the Property of the Subject to supply them with such summes of Money as they think fit upon the penalty of being Plundred withall extremity of War as the stile of Sir Edward Baytons Warrant runs against Our poore Subjects in Wiltshire and by such Rules of unlimited Arbitrary Power as are inconsistent with the least pretence or shadow of that Property it would seem to defend If there could be yet any understanding so unskilfull and Supine to beleeve That these Disturbers of the publike peace do intend any thing but a generall confusion they have brought them a sad Argument to their own doores to convince them after this Ordinance and Declaration 't is not in any sober mans power to beleeve himself worth any thing or that there is such a thing as Law Liberty Property left in England under the Iurisdiction of these men and the same power that robbs them now of the Twentieth part of their Estates hath by that but made a claime and entitled it self to the other Ninteen when it shall be thought fit to hasten the generall ruine Sure if the minds of all men be not stubbornly prepared for Servitude they will looke on this Ordinance as the greatest Prodigie of Arbitrary Power and Tyranny that any Age hath brought forth in any Kingdom other Grievances and the greatest have been conceived intolerable rather by the Logique and Consequence then by the Pressure it self this at once sweeps away all that the Wisdom and Iustice of Parliaments have provided for them Is their Property in their Estates so carefully looked to by their Ancestors and so amply established by Vs against any possibility of Invasion from the Crown which makes the meanest Subject as much a Lord of his own as the greatest Peer to be valued or considered here is a Twentieth part of every mans Estate or so much more as four men will please to call the Twentieth part taken away at once and yet a Power left to take a Twentieth still of that which remains and this to be levied by such circumstances of severity as no Act of Parliament ever consented to Is their liberty which distinguishes Subjects from Slaves and in which this free-born Nation hath the Advantage of all Christendom dear to them they shall not onely be imprisoned in such places of this Kingdom a latitude of Iudgement no Court can challenge to it self in any Cases but for so long time as the Committee of the house of Commons for examination shall appoint and order the House of Commons it self having never assumed or in the least degree pretended to a power of Iudicature having no more Authority to administer an Oath the onely way to discover and finde out the truth of facts to then to cut off the heads of any of Our Subjects and this Committee being so far from being a part of the Parliament that it is destructive to the whole by usurping to it self all the power of King Lords Commons All who know any thing of Parliaments know That a Committee of either House ought not by the Law to publish their own Results neither are their conclusions of any force without the Confirmation of the House which hath the same power of controlling them as if the matter had never been debated but that any Committee should be so contracted as this of Examination a stile no Committee ever bore before this Parliament as to exclude the Members of the House who are equally trusted by their Countrey from being present at the Counsells is so monstrous to the Priviledges of Parliament that it is no more in the power of any man to give up that freedom then of himself to order That from that time the place for which he serves shall never more send a Knight or Burgesse to the Parliament and in truth is no lesse then to alter the whole frame of Government to pull up Parliaments by the Roots and to commit the Lives Liberties and Estates of all the People of England to the Arbitrary power of a few unqualified Persons who shall dispose thereof according to their discretion without account to any Rule or Authority whatsoever Are their Friends their Wives and Children the greatest blessings of Peace and the comforts of Life precious to them would even their penury and imprisonment be lesse grievous by those cordialls they shall be devorced from them banished and shall no longer remain within the Cities of London and Westminster the Suburbs and the Counties adjacent and how far those adjacent Counties shall extend no man knows Is there any thing now left to enjoy but Liberty to Rebell and destroy one another are the outward blessings onely of Peace Property and Liberty taken and forced from Our Subjects are their Consciences free and unassaulted by the violence of these fire-brands sure the Liberty and freedom of Conscience cannot suffer by these men Alasse all these punishments are imposed upon them because they will not submit to Actions contrary to their naturall Loyalty to their Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy and to their late voluntary Protestation which obliges them to the care of Our Person and Our just Rights Now many Persons of Honour Quality and Reputation