WHEREAS the Lords and Commons of both Houses of Parliament, made request at a Common Councell holden this day in the afternoone, for the loane of three score thousand pounds to be paid by the Citizens on munday next, into the Trea­sury at the Guild hall, for the present supply of the great wants and payment of the Army (under the Command of his Excellency Robert Earle of Essex) which is very much in arreare in their pay. The Common Councell considering the present ne­cessity and urgent occasion, did condiscend to doe their utmost endevours to promote the advance­ment of the said money. And the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councell-men then pre­sent, did freely declare what summe of money they will then bring in, towards the same. And for the more speedy advancement of the remainder of the said 60000. pounds. It was conceived re­quisite that the Minister of every Parish Church, shall to morrow publish this unto his Parishioners, and effectually move them freely to advance some good summe, towards the raising of the remainder of the said money, And the Common Councell men and Churchwardens of every Parish, with such others as the Common Councell men shall thinke fit, are desired to repaire to every Inhabitant and Lodger within their severall Parishes, and earnestly perswade them to this good worke; And set downe all their names and surnames, and the summes of money they shall respectively lend, and the particular answers of such able men as refuse to lend. And the said Common Councell men and Churchwardens, are desired to Collect the said monies so to be lent, and pay the same into the Trea­sury at the Guild hall, and to give Receipts for what they shall collect, and upon their payment thereof to take a Receipt from the Treasurers. All which Monies so to be lent, the Lords and Commons Declared, shall be re-payed unto the severall lenders, out of the first monies that shall be received out of the weekely payments of money, agreed upon by an Ordinance in Parliament this day made, to be raised for the maintaining of the Army: And the Lords and Commons likewise declared that they hoped that this will be the last monies that they shall require from the City in this kinde.

And at the request, and by the directions of the said Common Councell, I doe hereby desire the Minister, Common Councell men, and Churchwardens of every Parish, to doe their utmost endea­vours for the speedy and effectuall promoting of this businesse, and to doe therein as is before men­tioned.