Section III Commissions to issue under the Great Seal for Collecting such Monies to the Commissioners named in c. 2. ante.

Commission to Bristol.; To the Cinque Ports. ; Dover.; Folkstone.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that for the better collecting and receiving of the said severall su[m]mes by this act appointed or intended severall Commissions shall forthwith be made and directed by the Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper for the time being out of the Court of Chancerie under the Great Seale unto the severall Commissioners named in one act lately made in this present Parliament intituled An act for the releife of his Majesties Army and the Northerne parts of this Kingdome And alsoe one other Commission for the Citie of Bristoll to the Maior for the time being and to John Taylor John Gunning John Tomlinson Andrew Carleton Richard Helworth William Jones Ezechiell Wallis George Knight and John Lock Esquires And other Commissions to every of the Cinque Ports that is to say To the Maior for the time being Steven Munnings Thomas Day John Brome William Richards Samuel Dell Robert Brome Jurates for the towne and port of Dover and theire eight members For the towne and port of Folstone The Maior for the time being Robert Culverdown Thomas

New Romney. ; Lid. ; Hithe. ; Sandwich. ; Rye. ; Tenterden. ; Winchelsea. ; Schedule of Tenor of act to be affixed to Commission.; Commissioners to exhort the people in their respective Limits to contribute; ; and to collect Monies; ; and such Monies, together with Notes in Writing of the Names, of the Persons contributing, to transmit, under their Hands, to the Sheriffs, who are to give Acquittances.; Monies contributed in London and Westminster to be paid to the Receivers before mentioned, who are to give Acquittances. Interest at £ 8. per Cent. on Monies lent.

Inneth For Feversham To the Maior for the time being Master Bois Master Marlow Master Crump For the towne and port of New Rumney To the Maior for the time being Robert Wivell Steven Etherick John Wilcock William Lancaster Gentlemen For the towne of Lid To the Bayliffe for the time being Thomas Tapp Thomas Struggle John Bate William Godfrey Gent For the towne and port of Heith and the members thereof To the Maior for the time being William Deede John Down John Hogben John Crump John Lambert For the towne and port of Sandwich and the Members thereof To the Maior for the time being X1Stephen Inckpet William Nelson George Wood Mathew Peak Jurats For Rye with y^e members of it To y^e Maior for y^e time being Robert Ewen Richard Cockram Joseph Bembrick Allen Gribble Jurates For Tenterden To the Maior for the time being Robert Pope Samuel Short Esquires John Austen Thomas Short Jurates For the town of Winchelsea To the Maior for the time being and Daniel White a Jurate And to every of the said Commissions one or more Schedules containing in them the tenor of this act shall be affixed by which Commission the Commissioners in every such Commission named according to this act or any three or more of them shall by vertue of this act before the first day of March which shall be in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand six hundred fourty and one summon and call togeather at such places and times and by such waies and meanes as they or any three or more of them shall appoint such person and persons residing within the severall Counties where they shall be appointed Commissioners as they in theire discretions shall thinke fitt and earnestly to move and perswade them liberally to contribute and lend money toward so good a worke And the said Commissioners are alsoe required to collect and gather such sums of money as themselves or any of them shall thinke fitt to give or lend to the uses aforesaid it being hoped and expected that by theire good example herein they will incourage others to doe the like and such su[m]ms of money as shall be soe lent to the uses aforesaid by any person or persons whatsoever together with notes in writing of the said severall su[m]mes and of the names of the severall Lenders thereof under the hands of the said Commissioners or any twoe or more of them to be paid and delivered over with all possible speed to the Sheriffes of the said severall Counties respectively where such person or persons so lending shall be resident the said Sheriffes giving severall Acquittances for receipt thereof (saving and except) that within the Cities of London and Westminster the sums which shall be there so lent shall be immediately by the persons lending the sum paid and delivered to the Treasurers and Receivers before menc[i]oned for the said respective Cities who shall give severall acquittances for the same All which acquittances shall be a sufficient Warrant for the persons producing the same to receive the severall su[m]ms of money soe by them lent as aforesaid with interest for the forbearance thereof after the rate of eight pound per centum for a yeare out of such moneys as shall be raised by an act of Parliament to be made for that purpose for the well and true payment whereof this present act doth give publique faith and security