MY Lord Mayor and this Court of Aldermen taking into considerati­on the wants and necessities of the honest and Laborious poore Inhabitants (especially of the out Parishes) of this City; In this extreame hard and cold season, doe earnestly recommend it to the Ministers in their severall Congregations within this City and Liberties, on the next Lords day, to move their people to a charitable Contribution towards their Reliefe and succour; And that the same may succeed the more effectually, It is thought fit that the Church-wardens or other Offi­cers doe the same day according to the usuall manner after Sermon, receive the Charity of such strangers as resort to their respective Congregations; And that the Common-Councell-men throughout the said City and Liberties, do on the day following Collect from house to house the benevolence of all the able Inhabitants in their severall Precincts; And further that the whole Collection in every Parish and Precinct, be paid by the said Common-Councell-men and Churchwardens re­spectively unto M^r Chamberlaine at his office in Guild-hall London, on Tuesday next the 9^th of this instant February, to be thence immediately issued, paid, and distributed, according to the discretion and direction of the Iustices of peace of the said City, to, and amongst the severall Parishes within the same City and Liberties, for relief of their said poor, and proportionably to the number and necessities of them.