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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Die Sabbati, 24. Decemb.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD>&leaf; An Order for a charitable Contribution for the relief of maymed Souldiers.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas many well affected People, out of Zeal and faithfullne&s;&s;e to the pre&s;ervation of the true Prote&s;tant Religion, Laws, and Liberties of this Kingdom, have gone forth under the command of his Excellency the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> in the Army &s;et forth by the Parliament; and divers of them have in &s;everall Battles, and fights, with the Enemies of the King and Kingdom, lo&s;t their lives; leaving poor Widows, and Fatherle&s;&s;e Children unprovided for behinde them: And others of them have received, Wounds and Maymes in their Bodies; Whereby &s;ome of them are di&s;-enabled to help them|&s;elves for getting a Livelyhood hereafter: and all of them having been at charges, expences, and lo&s;&s;es, in the &s;aid &s;ervice of the Kingdom, and curing of their Mayms and Wounds.</P>
<P>It is this day Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, That a generall Colle|ction by way of contribution, towards the relief, and &s;upport of the aforementioned poor di&s;tre&s;&s;ed People be made in every Pari&s;h Church of <HI>London,</HI> A&s;well within the Walls, as in the Suburbs thereof, And in the City of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and Borough of <HI>Southwark</HI> and the liberties thereof, By the Church-Wardens, Collectors for the Poor, Side&s;men, or Con&s;tables of each Pari&s;h, or Ward, within the afore&s;aid Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and the Borough of <HI>Southwark</HI> as afore&s;aid, on the two next Lords-dayes, both in the Fore-noon, and After-noon of the &s;ame dayes. And the Monyes &s;o collected by them, to pay unto Ma&s;ter <HI>Holland,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Jennour,</HI> Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons, or &s;uch as they &s;hall appoint to re|ceive the &s;ame at Gold-Smiths-Hall, <HI>London,</HI> on the Thur&s;day next, after the &s;aid Lord-dayes re&s;pectively, By them to be di&s;po&s;ed of to the u&s;es afore&s;aid in &s;uch manner as the Committee appointed by the Hou&s;e of Commons, for Maymed Soul|diers, &s;hall from time to time direct. And it is further Ordered, That the Mini&s;ter of every Pari&s;h, &s;hall publi&s;h this Order in their Churches on the &s;aid Lords-dayes, both in the Fore-noon, and Afternoon, And &s;hall exhort the people to a liberall con|tribution to this &s;o pious and charitable a Work.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed <HI>Edw. Husbands,</HI> and <HI>Joh. Frank.</HI> 1642.</P>
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