IT is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons assem­bled in Paliament, That whereas his Excellency the Earle of Essex, Lord Generall of the Army, raysed for the defence of King and Parliament, directed a Commis­sion, with Instructions thereunto an­nexed, unto the Right Honourable the [Page] Lords Lieutenants, Deputy Lieute­nants, and some other Gentlemen of the Counties of Essex, Hertford, and Bedford, and to Colonell Walter Long a Mem­ber of the House of Commons, who in particular was commanded by the said Lord Generall to put the said Commis­sion in execution, with any two or more of the said Commissioners, according to the said Instructions therewith given for the disarming of the Popish and ill-affected parties in the said several Coun­ties, as also for the raysing and taking of Horse, Money, and Plate, of such as had not contributed to the Propositions of Parliament, or not proportionable to their Estates; And whereas the said Colonell Walter Long, with other of the said Commissioners, have in part executed the said Commission in some hundreds, within the said County of Essex and not elsewhere, and hath ray­sed in Money and Plate to the value of threé thousand pounds or thereabouts, [Page] besides divers sums of money which do yet remaine in the hands of sundry per­sons in the said hundreds, who have pro­mised to pay the same to the said Colonel Walter Long; And whereas an Ordi­nance of Parliament hath since beéne made, for the rating and taring of such persons mentioned in the said Commis­sion, not exceeding the twentieth part of their Estates, or the fifth part of their yeérly Revenue, which is to be Assessed and gathered by certaine persons; na­med and appoynted by the said Ordi­nance, And for that there may not beé any losse or damage to the Parliament, or distraction in the said County; by raysing and collecting of monies by the said severall wayes: It is therefore Ordained and Declared, that the said Colonell Walter Long, shall take and receive such monies as are behind and unpayd in such hundreds; where the said Commission hath beéne put in exe­cution, that so he may give an exact ac­compt [Page] for the whole, and likewise ma­nifest his just and faire proceédings therein, having promised to leave a booke in every hundred, of what monies he hath received in the said hundred, for his and their better satisfaction and dis­charge, which both Houses of Parlia­ment doe well approve of, the said Co­lonell Walter Long, and other the said Commissioners, not having direction in their said Instructions, to give Tickets unto any as is appoynted in the afore­said Ordinance, which notwithstand­ing he shall doe to such as shall desire them. And for the Residue of the said County of Essex, and other the Coun­ties aforenamed, where the said Com­mission hath not as yet beéne executed, there the persons nominated in the said Ordinance, are to execute the same ac­cording to the Instructions therein gi­ven them: And for those monies which are behind and unpayd in those hun­dreds where the said Commission hath [Page] beéne put in execution, The said Co­lonell Walter Long is appoynted to take and receive the same for compleat­ing and paying his Regiment, and to be accomptable for that, and for the re­sidue, if any shall be remaining; And if any the said severall sums of money, di­rected by this Ordinance, to be payd to the said Colonell Walter Long, shall be taken and received by any other person by vertue of the late recited Ordinance, or by any other way, it shall be forth­with restored to the said Colonell Wal­ter Long to be imployed to the purposes aforesaid. And lastly it is Ordained and Declared, that all such persons who have payd, or shall pay their mo­nies unto the said Colonell Walter Long, by vertue of his said Commission, shall not be rated and taxed againe by vertue of the aforesaid Ordinance, if they have payd according to the Proportions ther­in mentioned.