WHereas there is a Commission Directed to The Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of London, the Right Honourable William Lord Craven, Sir William Wilde Sir Henage Finch, Sir Thomas Adams, Sir Ri­chard Brown, Sir John Robinson, Sir James Bunce, Knights and Baronets, Sir Reginald Forster Baronet, Sir John Bramston Knight of the Bathe, Sir Edward Turner, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir William Bateman, Sir Lancelot Lake, Sir Thomas Bird, Sir Thomas Ingram, Sir George Symon, Sir Thomas Player, Sir John Babor, Knights; The Chancellor to the said Bishop for the time being; Cheyney Roe, Thomas Smith, John Stent, Richard Proctor, Nathaniel Snape, Ralph Hawtrey, John Hawtrey, George Day, Christopher Abdey, Joseph Aloff, Simon Rolestone, Thomas Lucie, Robert Harleston, George Charnocke, Charles Pitfeild, Thomas Stringer, Richard Abel, Thomas Warner, Edward Dedson, John Robinson, Edward Hore, Richard Sidenham, Esquires; William Goodman, Obadiah Haywerton, Samuel Eames, Thomas Fowell, Walter Lapp, Robert Stanhope, Thomas Ewen, Joseph Surbutt, Thomas Martin, William Rudd, William Sanckey, William Burrows, Richard Mills, William Cotton, and Peter Mills, Gentlemen; Commissioners authorized by the Kings most Excellent Majesty, under the Great Seal of England, According to the Statute of the 43. of Eliz. for the Inquiry and Finding out of all Lands, Goods, and Stocks of money heretofore given to Charitable Vses. And having special trust and confidence in their fidelities; Have authorized and appointed them Commissioners and doth give unto them, or [...]ny four or more of them, full power and authority to enquire by all lawfull ways and means, according to the purport [...]nd true meaning of the said Statute, What Lands, Tenements, Rents, Annuities, Profits, Hereditaments, Goods, Chattels, Money, or Stocks of Money, have at any time heretofore been given by any King, or Queen of England, or [...]ny other well disposed person, or persons, for relief of aged, impotent, or poor People, maintenance of sick and maimed Souldiers, or Mariners, Schools of Learning, Free-Schools, or Scholars in Vniversities, repair of Bridges, Havens, [...]awswayes, Churches, Sea-banks, or High-wayes, education or preferment of Orphans, relief, stock, or maintenance, [...]or Houses of Correction, marriages of poor Maids, supportation of Tradesmen, or Persons decayed, redemption of Pri­ [...]oners, or Captives, setting out of Souldiers, &c. within the said County and City; And of all abuses, breaches of [...]rust, misimployment, or misgovernment of the same Lands, &c. heretofore given to, or for, any of the Charitable and [...]odly Vses before rehearsed

It is this day declared by the said Commissioners, That it shall be taken as a good and acceptable service of any per­ [...]n or persons within the County and City aforesaid, and in the several Parishes thereof, to acquaint the said Com­ [...]issioners, of all such Sums of Money given for the relief of the Poor, and all other the Charitable and Godly Vses, [...]bove-mentioned; And if any person, or persons, can inform the said Commissioners of any the aforesaid Abuses, let [...]em repair to the House of John Bennet Gent. at the Starr-Inn in Newington-Butts neer Southwark, or to the house of John [...]ell Gent. Clerk of Clarks-hall neer the Three-Cranes in the Vintrey in Thamestreet, London, any Fryday between the [...]ours of Ten and Two, who will receive all your Presentments, and perfect them accordingly: upon which Present­ [...]ents, care will be taken, that the Moneys shall be made good, with sufficient damages for the use and benefit of the [...]oor, That the Donors Will shall be in all things performed, according to the true intent and meaning thereof.

And it is further desired, by the said Commissioners, That all Ministers in their Churches and Chappels within [...]he said County and City, for the furthering of so good a work, read this Order the next Lords-day after the receipt [...]hereof in their several Congregations, and that it be fixed upon the Church-Doors in the said Parishes, That all [...]ersons may take notice hereof.