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</FIGURE>INSTRUCTIONS To be ob&s;erved touching the Collection appointed by the Declaration of his Highne&s;s and the Council hereunto annexed, inviting the people of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales</HI> to a day of Solemn Fa&s;ting and Humiliation.</HEAD>
<P><LABEL>I.</LABEL>_THat the Mini&s;ters and Church-wardens of the re&s;pective Cities, Towns, Pari&s;hes, and other Congrega|tions, as well within the privileged places, as without, by them&s;elves, or with &s;uch others who&s;e hearts the Lord &s;hall ingage in &s;o charitable and pious a work, do the next Lords day after the publication of this Declaration, go from Hou&s;e to Hou&s;e within &s;uch City, Town or Pari&s;h, and ask and receive what each Hou&s;e-keeper and others will freely give, and in the pre&s;ence of the party giving, &s;et down his or her name, with the &s;um by him or her given, fairly written in a Schedule to be by them annexed to this Declaration, and the total &s;um thereof to endor&s;e upon the &s;aid Declaration, &s;ub|&s;cribed by the &s;aid Mini&s;ter, Church-wardens, and others, who &s;hall a&s;&s;i&s;t in the &s;aid Collection; That all the moneys &s;o collected, together with the &s;aid Schedule, and Declaration &s;o indor&s;ed, be returned and paid by the &s;aid Mini&s;ter and Church-wardens, within four daies then next following, unto the Maior, or other Head Officer of &s;uch City or Town, or to the next Ju&s;tice of the Peace to the Pari&s;h where &s;uch collection &s;hall be made, who is hereby im|powred and required to receive the &s;ame, and to give his acquittance to &s;uch per&s;on &s;o paying the &s;ame, and within twenty daies after, or &s;ooner, if it may be, to return the &s;um and &s;ums &s;o received, unto <HI>Christopher Pack,</HI> the pre&s;ent Lord Maior of the City of <HI>London,</HI> and Sir <HI>Thomas Vyner</HI> Knight Alderman of the &s;aid City, or either of them, who are hereby appointed Trea&s;urers for receiving the whole &s;um which &s;hall be gathered upon this Collection, who&s;e acquittance &s;hall be a &s;ufficient Di&s;charge fur &s;uch &s;um &s;o paid in. And that the &s;aid Mini&s;ter and Church-wardens do within &s;ix daies after &s;uch Collection certify unto <HI>Henry Scobell</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Clerk of the Council, the &s;um &s;o collected, in &s;uch City, Town or Pari&s;h, to the end an exact accompt may be taken thereof.</P>
<P><LABEL>II.</LABEL>That Sir <HI>Gilbert Gerard,</HI> Baronet, Sir <HI>John Trevor,</HI> Knight, <HI>Edward Cre&s;&s;et,</HI> E&s;quire, Mr. <HI>Philip Nye,</HI> Mr. <HI>Edmund Calamy,</HI> Mr. <HI>Jo&s;eph Caryl,</HI> Mr. <HI>William Kiffen,</HI> Mr. <HI>William Jenkins,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Thomas Harri&s;on,</HI> or any five or more of them, be, and are hereby appointed a Committee to have the care of this bu&s;ine&s;s, that the &s;ums &s;o collected be paid into the &s;aid Trea&s;urers, and to con&s;ider of the be&s;t waies and means how the &s;ame may be di&s;po&s;ed of, for the relief of the &s;aid poor Prote&s;tants, and to give an accompt thereof to the Council, to the end the Charity afote&s;aid may be &s;peedily and effectually imployed to the be&s;t advantage of the &s;aid poor Prote&s;tants, and according to the intention of the Givers.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Henry Hills</HI> and <HI>John Field,</HI> Printers to his Highne&s;s, MDCLV.</P>
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