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<HEAD>&leaf; A Declaration and Ordinance of the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, for new Loans and Contributins, as well from the United-Provinces, as from <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> for the &s;peedy relief of the mi&s;erable and di&s;tre&s;&s;ed e&s;tate of the Prote&s;tants in the Kingdom of <HI>Ireland;</HI> who&s;e lives are dayly &s;acrificed, not onely to the malice of their and our bloody enemies (the Popi&s;h Rebels) but like like to Starving, Cold, and Hunger</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the ga&s;ping Condition of the Kingdom of <HI>Ireland</HI> is too much manife&s;t, their e&s;tates d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">voured, their lives daily &s;acrificed, not onely to the malice of their and our bloody enemies, the Popi&s;h Rebells, but likewi&s;e to the more un|avoydable executioners, Starving, Cold, and Hunger; their &s;orrows hardly to be equall'd, nor their utter de&s;truction po&s;&s;ibly to Be prevented, but by the great and unde&s;erved mercy of God, upon &s;ome &s;peedy Supply of their grievous nece&s;&s;ities. In a deep &s;en&s;e and compa&s;&s;ion of their &s;ad e&s;tate, and not &s;o much doubting the charity of all good Pro|te&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">nts here (which hath been &s;o fully manife&s;ted before) as to u&s;e many Arguments to invite them to a liberall Con|tribution and Loan, for the pre&s;ent relief of tho&s;e of our own Blood and Profe&s;&s;ion, and to hinder the Rebels from be|ing &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">rers in the execution of tho&s;e devilli&s;h Plots which they and their adherents in <HI>England</HI> have devi&s;ed, and too far effected among&s;t us (who can expect no &s;afety <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ere, if that Kingdom be not pre&s;erved unto us, that hath &s;o neer a relation and depend|ance upon this) and for the more &s;peedy rai&s;ing, collecting, and di&s;po&s;ing of &s;uch Supply as God &s;hall incline the hearts of his people to afford their brethren in <HI>Ireland,</HI> which can be no otherwi&s;e procured at this time, by rea&s;on of the unhappy di&s;tempers here.</P>
<P>The Lords and Commons in Parliament do hereby order and declare, That all and every His Maje&s;ties well-affected Subjects of any His Kingdoms or Dominions, and any per&s;on or per&s;ons of the Dutch Nation, under the Government of the States generall of the Uni|ted Provinces, that at any time hereafter &s;hall bring in, and disbur&s;e any Sum or Sums of Money, to be employed and laid out for the main|tenance of the Army in <HI>Ireland</HI> again&s;t the Rebells, or that &s;hall bring in and deliver any Victuall, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, or Commodities fit and nece&s;&s;ary for the better &s;upply of the &s;aid Army, to be received and indifferently apprized and valued, by &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons as &s;hall be appointed for that purpo&s;e by the Committee for the Iri&s;h Affairs, made the 30 of <HI>September,</HI> 1642. or any eight of them, tho&s;e intre&s;ted with this Service, and that are hereafter named; That all and every &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons &s;hall have the publike Faith of the Parliament, and both Hou&s;es of Parliament do hereby engage the publike Faith of the Kingdom, to &s;atisfie and content, and that &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hall be &s;atisfied and contented for the &s;ame, either out of the Rebels Lands in <HI>Ireland</HI> forfeited, or that &s;hall be forfeited, and confi&s;cate when it &s;hall plea&s;e God that Kingdom &s;hall be reduced, in proportion an&s;werable and according to the &s;everall &s;um and &s;ums of Money, in manner and form afore&s;aid to be brought in, and in all re&s;pects and things to their be&s;t advantage and contentment, as the Adventurers for Lands in <HI>Ireland,</HI> according to the former Propo&s;itions and &s;everall Acts of Parliament, or any of them, therefore made and enacted this pre&s;ent Se&s;&s;ion, &s;hall have their Lands &s;et out unto them, or otherwi&s;e at their election &s;hall be re&s;atisfied their Mo|neys, and the value of their Goods with intere&s;t for the &s;ame, after the rate of eight pounds <HI>per centum,</HI> for &s;o long time as it &s;hall be forborn, to be paid out of the common I rea&s;ure of this Kingdom; And for the better ordering and managing of this affair, and to the end that &s;uch Moneys, Victuals, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, and Commodities thus to be brought in, may onely be imployed for the mainte|nance of the &s;aid Army and not otherwi&s;e: The Lords and Commons do hereby nominate, authorize, and appoint, Sir <HI>Paul Pynder,</HI> Mr. <HI>John Kendrick,</HI> Mr. <HI>William Pennoyer,</HI> Mr. <HI>Maurice Thomp&s;on,</HI> Mr. <HI>Michael Ca&s;teel,</HI> Mr. <HI>Benjamin Goodwyn,</HI> to be Trea&s;urers, and to have the re|ceiving of the &s;aid Money, Victuall, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, and Commodities, and to nominate, appoint, and imploy all &s;uch per&s;ons under them for the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, as they &s;hall think fit; and the &s;aid Money, Victuals, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, and Commodities, to pay and deliver out for the maintenance of the &s;aid Army in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and for no other cau&s;e what&s;oever, and to reward the per&s;ons to be imployed under them for their &s;ervice, in &s;uch manner as the &s;aid Committee, or any eight of them &s;hall from time to time, order, direct, and appoint; and the per&s;ons to be impolyed under the Trea&s;urers before named, to be rewarded for their &s;er|vice in &s;uch a manner and proportion as the &s;aid Committee, or any eight of them &s;hall from time to time order and appoint; and the re|ceipts and payments of Moneys coming at, and i&s;&s;uing out by vertue of this Ordinance, &s;hall be kept in <HI>Guild-Hall London,</HI> by the &s;aid Trea&s;urers and others by them appointed, and that an Acquittance under the hands of any two or more of the &s;aid Trea&s;urers &s;hall be a &s;ufficient di&s;charge to any per&s;on, paying any &s;um or &s;ums of Money to them, by vertue of this Ordinance: And for the more &s;peedy and better effect of this Ordinance, The Lords and Commons in Parliament have commanded that the &s;ame be forth with put in Print, and be publi&s;hed and di&s;per&s;ed in every Pari&s;h in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> as well within Liberties as without; And the Par&s;ons, Vicars, or Curates of the &s;aid Pari&s;hes re&s;pectively, Are hereby required to read this Ordinance in the &s;everall Pari&s;h Churches and Chappels upon the next Lords day, after the &s;ame &s;hall be delivered unto them, and to exhort the people to a free and liberall Contribution to &s;o nece&s;&s;ary and godly a work as this is. And the Church-wardens or Over&s;eers for the poor where there are no Church-wardens of the &s;aid Pari&s;hes re&s;pectively, are hereby authorized and required, after the reading of this Ordinance as afore&s;aid, to go from hou&s;e to hou&s;e, to every the Inhabitants of the &s;aid Pari&s;hes re&s;pectively, and as well to Collect and gather the free and charitable benevolence of all the Inhabitants thereof, from the be&s;t to the meaner &s;ort of people, that &s;hall be willing to contribute any thing herein, as all and every other &s;um and &s;ums of Money, as al&s;o Victuall, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, or Commodities, That any the &s;aid Pari&s;hioners re&s;pectively, &s;hall be willing to lend and disbur&s;e, to be re-&s;atisfied for the &s;ame, as is herein before expre&s;&s;ed: And the &s;aid Church-wardens and Over|&s;eers for the poor, &s;hall cau&s;e to be written down in a Schedule thereof indented, as well the name and names of the &s;everall givers, as of the lenders, with the &s;everall &s;um or &s;ums of Money which &s;hall be by every of them lent or given; And the &s;aid Church-wardens and Over&s;eers for the poor having &s;ubfcribed their names at the foot of one part of the &s;aid Schedule indented, &s;hall deliver that part, together with all &s;uch &s;um and &s;ums of Money, Victuall, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, and Commodities as &s;hall be given or lent in the &s;aid re&s;pective Pari&s;hes unto &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;halbe therefore imployed and intru&s;ted by Order of the &s;aid Committee or any eight of them; And the &s;aid Per&s;ons &s;o intru&s;ted, &s;hall upon receipt thereof, from the &s;aid Church-wardens and Over&s;eers for the poor, &s;ub&s;cribe the other part of the &s;aid Schedule, to remain with the &s;aid Church-wardens or Over&s;eers for the poor, and Pari&s;hioners; the producing wherof, to the &s;aid Lords and Commons in Parliament, or to &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as they &s;hall appoint for the &s;ame, being well atte&s;ted at the time of the &s;ub&s;cription, under the hand writing of the Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate, and four or more of the principal Inha|bitants of the &s;aid Pari&s;hes re&s;pectively, at all and every time and times, then afterwards &s;hal be an authentique and &s;ufficient ground for all and every &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, their Executors, Admini&s;trators or A&s;&s;ignes, that &s;hall lend any &s;um or &s;ums of Money, or other Goods above mentioned, to be imployed as afore&s;aid, to have, demand, and receive the &s;ame back again, or &s;uch content and &s;atisfaction to be there|fore made, and given unto them as the &s;aid Lords and Commons have herein before declared and undertaken. And the &s;aid per&s;ons &s;o intru&s;ted for receiving the &s;aid Money, Victuals, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, or Commodities in the &s;aid &s;everall Pari&s;hes, &s;hall with all convenient &s;peed, after the receipt thereof, return the &s;ame unto the &s;aid Trea&s;urers herein before named at the <HI>Guild Hall London.</HI> And the &s;aid Committee are hereby directed to appoint a Regi&s;ter, and entries to be made of all and every the &s;aid Schedules, &s;ums of Mo|ney, and premi&s;&s;es to be thus received, whereby the per&s;ons lending the &s;ame, may be the more ju&s;tly &s;atisfied, and to remain upon Record as an Act of great bounty and piety, and much conducing to the &s;afety of all His Maje&s;ties Dominions.</P>
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<HEAD>Die Lunae, 30 Januarii. 1642.</HEAD>
<P>IT is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That this Ordinance be forthwith publi&s;hed in Print; And that all Par&s;ons, Vicars, and Curates in the Kingdom of England, and Dominion of Wales, be required to reade this Ordinance in their &s;everall Churches and Chappels re&s;pectively, the next Lords day after the re|ceiving of the &s;aid Ordinance: And they are likewi&s;e required to &s;tir up the people to a large and free benevolence to our poor Brethren in Ireland, according as it is expre&s;&s;ed in this Ordinance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Jo. Brown, Cler. Parl.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>H. El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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