WHereas the gasping Condition of the Kingdom of Ireland is too much manifest, their estates d [...]voured, their lives daily sacrificed, not onely to the malice of their and our bloody enemies, the Popish Rebells, but likewise to the more un­avoydable executioners, Starving, Cold, and Hunger; their sorrows hardly to be equall'd, nor their utter destruction possibly to Be prevented, but by the great and undeserved mercy of God, upon some speedy Supply of their grievous necessities. In a deep sense and compassion of their sad estate, and not so much doubting the charity of all good Pro­test [...]nts here (which hath been so fully manifested before) as to use many Arguments to invite them to a liberall Con­tribution and Loan, for the present relief of those of our own Blood and Profession, and to hinder the Rebels from be­ing sh [...]rers in the execution of those devillish Plots which they and their adherents in England have devised, and too far effected amongst us (who can expect no safety [...]ere, if that Kingdom be not preserved unto us, that hath so neer a relation and depend­ance upon this) and for the more speedy raising, collecting, and disposing of such Supply as God shall incline the hearts of his people to afford their brethren in Ireland, which can be no otherwise procured at this time, by reason of the unhappy distempers here.

The Lords and Commons in Parliament do hereby order and declare, That all and every His Majesties well-affected Subjects of any His Kingdoms or Dominions, and any person or persons of the Dutch Nation, under the Government of the States generall of the Uni­ted Provinces, that at any time hereafter shall bring in, and disburse any Sum or Sums of Money, to be employed and laid out for the main­tenance of the Army in Ireland against the Rebells, or that shall bring in and deliver any Victuall, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, or Commodities fit and necessary for the better supply of the said Army, to be received and indifferently apprized and valued, by such person and persons as shall be appointed for that purpose by the Committee for the Irish Affairs, made the 30 of September, 1642. or any eight of them, those intrested with this Service, and that are hereafter named; That all and every such person and persons shall have the publike Faith of the Parliament, and both Houses of Parliament do hereby engage the publike Faith of the Kingdom, to satisfie and content, and that such persons shall be satisfied and contented for the same, either out of the Rebels Lands in Ireland forfeited, or that shall be forfeited, and confiscate when it shall please God that Kingdom shall be reduced, in proportion answerable and according to the severall sum and sums of Money, in manner and form aforesaid to be brought in, and in all respects and things to their best advantage and contentment, as the Adventurers for Lands in Ireland, according to the former Propositions and severall Acts of Parliament, or any of them, therefore made and enacted this present Session, shall have their Lands set out unto them, or otherwise at their election shall be resatisfied their Mo­neys, and the value of their Goods with interest for the same, after the rate of eight pounds per centum, for so long time as it shall be forborn, to be paid out of the common I reasure of this Kingdom; And for the better ordering and managing of this affair, and to the end that such Moneys, Victuals, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, and Commodities thus to be brought in, may onely be imployed for the mainte­nance of the said Army and not otherwise: The Lords and Commons do hereby nominate, authorize, and appoint, Sir Paul Pynder, Mr. John Kendrick, Mr. William Pennoyer, Mr. Maurice Thompson, Mr. Michael Casteel, Mr. Benjamin Goodwyn, to be Treasurers, and to have the re­ceiving of the said Money, Victuall, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, and Commodities, and to nominate, appoint, and imploy all such persons under them for the purposes aforesaid, as they shall think fit; and the said Money, Victuals, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, and Commodities, to pay and deliver out for the maintenance of the said Army in Ireland, and for no other cause whatsoever, and to reward the persons to be imployed under them for their service, in such manner as the said Committee, or any eight of them shall from time to time, order, direct, and appoint; and the persons to be impolyed under the Treasurers before named, to be rewarded for their ser­vice in such a manner and proportion as the said Committee, or any eight of them shall from time to time order and appoint; and the re­ceipts and payments of Moneys coming at, and issuing out by vertue of this Ordinance, shall be kept in Guild-Hall London, by the said Treasurers and others by them appointed, and that an Acquittance under the hands of any two or more of the said Treasurers shall be a sufficient discharge to any person, paying any sum or sums of Money to them, by vertue of this Ordinance: And for the more speedy and better effect of this Ordinance, The Lords and Commons in Parliament have commanded that the same be forth with put in Print, and be published and dispersed in every Parish in England and Wales, as well within Liberties as without; And the Parsons, Vicars, or Curates of the said Parishes respectively, Are hereby required to read this Ordinance in the severall Parish Churches and Chappels upon the next Lords day, after the same shall be delivered unto them, and to exhort the people to a free and liberall Contribution to so necessary and godly a work as this is. And the Church-wardens or Overseers for the poor where there are no Church-wardens of the said Parishes respectively, are hereby authorized and required, after the reading of this Ordinance as aforesaid, to go from house to house, to every the Inhabitants of the said Parishes respectively, and as well to Collect and gather the free and charitable benevolence of all the Inhabitants thereof, from the best to the meaner sort of people, that shall be willing to contribute any thing herein, as all and every other sum and sums of Money, as also Victuall, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, or Commodities, That any the said Parishioners respectively, shall be willing to lend and disburse, to be re-satisfied for the same, as is herein before expressed: And the said Church-wardens and Over­seers for the poor, shall cause to be written down in a Schedule thereof indented, as well the name and names of the severall givers, as of the lenders, with the severall sum or sums of Money which shall be by every of them lent or given; And the said Church-wardens and Overseers for the poor having subfcribed their names at the foot of one part of the said Schedule indented, shall deliver that part, together with all such sum and sums of Money, Victuall, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, and Commodities as shall be given or lent in the said respective Parishes unto such person or persons as shalbe therefore imployed and intrusted by Order of the said Committee or any eight of them; And the said Persons so intrusted, shall upon receipt thereof, from the said Church-wardens and Overseers for the poor, subscribe the other part of the said Schedule, to remain with the said Church-wardens or Overseers for the poor, and Parishioners; the producing wherof, to the said Lords and Commons in Parliament, or to such person or persons as they shall appoint for the same, being well attested at the time of the subscription, under the hand writing of the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, and four or more of the principal Inha­bitants of the said Parishes respectively, at all and every time and times, then afterwards shal be an authentique and sufficient ground for all and every such person and persons, their Executors, Administrators or Assignes, that shall lend any sum or sums of Money, or other Goods above mentioned, to be imployed as aforesaid, to have, demand, and receive the same back again, or such content and satisfaction to be there­fore made, and given unto them as the said Lords and Commons have herein before declared and undertaken. And the said persons so intrusted for receiving the said Money, Victuals, Arms, Ammunition, Goods, Wares, or Commodities in the said severall Parishes, shall with all convenient speed, after the receipt thereof, return the same unto the said Treasurers herein before named at the Guild Hall London. And the said Committee are hereby directed to appoint a Register, and entries to be made of all and every the said Schedules, sums of Mo­ney, and premisses to be thus received, whereby the persons lending the same, may be the more justly satisfied, and to remain upon Record as an Act of great bounty and piety, and much conducing to the safety of all His Majesties Dominions.