WHereas divers persons have beene Assessed upon the Ordinances of Parliament, for the twentieth part, and weekely Assessement, Subsidies, and o­ther payments; many of which have Refractorily and wilfully suffered the dayes for payment of the sums Assessed to be elapsed, & covertly conveighed a­way their goods from their houses, & absented their persons to avoyd payment of their Assessements, or else have suffered Imprisonment and their houses to stand empty, wherby they might be free from bearing part of those common Taxes and Charges, which the necessities of these troublous times require: For remedy whereof, and better satisfaction of the sums Assessed on such persons, It is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That such persons as shall bee appoynted by the Committeé of Lords and Commons for advance of Money, and other necessaries for the Armie, shal have power to let, set, or Rent forth, to such persons and for such time, Fine, and Rent, as they shall thinke fit, the houses of any person or persons, who are already Imprisoned for their Assessments, or absent themselvs for non­payment of their Assessments, And the Monies raysed by the Rents of the said Houses, to convert & imploy towards satisfaction of the same Assessements, and payments: And that such persons as shall take the same Houses, shall discharge the head Rents due to be payd for such houses, as also the duties to the Parish during their abode in the same, and the persons so taking and Leasing the said houses, shall be saved harmelesse and indempnified, against the persons Impriso­ned, or absenting themselves as aforesaid, by the power and Authori­ty of both Houses of Parliament.