THe pressing necessities of this Kingdome , caused , and daily multiplyed by the trayterous and bloody counsels and attempts of those pernicious and desperate Counsellors , still about the King , and protected by him , while they more and more manifest their implacable enmity to our religion , the Parliament , and peace of all his Majesties good Subjects and Dominions , have beene such , and so many , as have compelled Us the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament , to borrow moe and far greater sums of money , upon the Publique Faith , ( besides those which we our selves advanced for the preservation of our Religion , the being ( as well as the just and undoubted power and priviledges of Parliament , our Lawes and Liberties , from most apparent destruction ) then at first we intended , and to be longer in repaying the same ( which we still unanimously resolve shall be fully paid backe with interest ) then heretofore we promised . And albeit we be now preparing and expediting sundry propositions to be humbly and speedily presented to his Majesty for an honourable and firme setling of the Publique Peace , without more effusion of Christian blood , yet no rationall man can be ignorant of the further necessity of providing more Treasure , as well for support of the army raised by authority of Parliament , untill the King shall vouchsafe graciously to condescend to our just and necessary requests ; as for the full payment of all such sums of mony as already are , or further may be due , and arrere for the necessary provision of Armes , Ammunition , and pay of the said Army , untill their dis-banding and returne home to their severall Countries ( according to the times to be limited for that purpose ) that so they may not be occasioned through want of pay to plunder , rob , or pillage by the way homewards , after their discharge and dismission .

Upon these grounds alone , we might very well recommend to the good affections and zeale of all good men within the City of London and throughout the Kingdome a new advance and loane of a very large and considerable sum of money , lest ( while all we have is now in more imminent danger than ever ) not onely all the moneyes already lent , but all those Treasures of our Religion , Lawes , and Liberties ( which ought to be more precious to us then our whole estates and lives , which we have solemnely devoted to the defence of this cause ) be utterly lost for want of some further supply , to close and perfect the worke in a safe and honourable way , whereby all these may be saved , and the moneyes already advanced for this service be in due time fully repaid .

But when we consider further , that ( notwithstanding all his Majesties protestations , Declarations , and Proclamations to the contrary ) not onely a great number of known papists are entertained , and imployed in his Majesties army , who have actually levied war against the King and Parliament : but Commissions have issued under the great Seale of England , to the Earle of Worcester , and to the Earle of Newcastle ; by meanes whereof many thousands of professed papists ( whose very principles of religion do ingage them to rebellion and shedding the blood of all protestants ; and therefore ought not by the lawes to be entrusted with armes in their own houses , nor to come within the verge of his Majesties Court ) are gathered into great bodies , and do actually beare armes against the King , Parliament , and Kingdom , and have plundred , robbed , pillaged , and murthered very many of his Majesties good protestant Subjects in the Northern parts , besides sundry other places of this Kingdom ; which armies of papists do daily encrease by the accession of many armes and popish Commanders from forraign parts , arriving at Newcastle , and other ports , and joyning themselves with those professed enemies to our religion , & to the lawes made to guard it , & to suppresse or prevent their frequent treasons and rebellions ; and that it is notoriously known , that the rebels in and about Newcastle , under the command of the Earle of Newcastle , do lay very great impositions upon every ship-lading of Coles exported thence for th● use of the C●●y of London & other places of this Kingdom ; and if these impositions be not paid , stay is made of their Cole-ships , a●d some of them are compelled oversea , to fetch in more men , armes , and ammunition , to furnish the said popish army , against us , and our religion ; by which meanes a great de●rth of Coles must inevitably befall the poore people in and about London , that probably may occasion many dangerous tumults and commotions , while the said Popish army is advancing toward London , with hope that by this and other their divellish artifices they may find all in combustions here , whereby they may with lesse resistance pillage and sacke this Citie , cut the throats of all men of estates , and ravish their wives and daughters without difference ( for papists , in such cases , never make difference between friends and enemies : ) yea , so insolent and barbarous are these bloody enemies become , that ( while some men in these parts do causelesly murmur and complain if any thing , although it amount not to the thirtieth part of their estates , be required of them for their own preservation as well as for the publique safetie ) these popish rebels violently seize upon the persons of so many men of quality and wealth as they can , although no enemies to their cause , and compell them to redeem themselves , some at 1000. l. some at 2000. l. some at 3000. l. a man , inforcing others to bring in large contributions to the supply of their army , even to the one half & more of some of their estates , and exacting the same with such rigour , that the miseries under which their friends as well as others do grone and mourn , without the least ease or pity , cannot be sufficiently expressed . Upon all which considerations we cannot but declare , that we have just cause to suspect that however they abused his Majesty so far , as to obtaine such illegall Commissions to levy forces upon pretence of assisting his Majesty ; yet having gotten power and strength into their hands , they will not lay downe their armes , even when his Majesty shall have laid down his , unlesse they may give lawes to the King and Parliament , for toleration of their superstition and idolatry and the abrogation of all lawes made against it , but will proceed with fire and sword to root out our religion , and all that professe it , as they have already begun and still proceed to do in Ireland , if there be not a good provision of Treasure to maintaine and support our army , not onely during the time of treaty , but untill such time as the said popish army be dissolved , and the papists sufficiently secured from ability and opportunity to disturbe that blessed peace and setling of our religion and lawes , which now through Gods blessing may be happily obtained , as it is unfainedly and earnestly desired by us : We therefore the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament , for the more speedy and effectuall provision of moneys to be imployed in quenching this unnaturall and bloody war now kindled , not onely in the heart , but in almost all parts of this Kingdom at once , by those papists , persons popishly affected , Traytors , and delinquents , about his Majesty , ( who have already made this flourishing Nation to become a field of blood ) have in the first place begun a new subscription , and again assessed our selves towards the raising of such a considerable sum of money , as of necessitie must be forthwith advanced , for the purpose aforesaid , albeit many of us be exceedingly prejudiced in our estates , by plundering , pillaging , and forced contribution to those enemies of the King and Kingdome in places where any of our estates lie , and our respective Lands are situated , besides the great charge and losses sustayned by our long attendance upon the publike service of the King and Kingdome : And having by this our example recommended this work to be further advanced and carried on by all others , who are touched with any sence of pietie to God , and their native Country , now in a flame , or of zeale to the true religion professed amongst us , or of conscience in making good their solemn protestation and vow already made to Almighty God . Wee doe further order and require : That the severall persons hereunder named or any three or more of them , doe forthwith summon all the inhabitants and other resiants within 〈…〉 which they , or any three , or more of them shall thinke fit to be summoned : and doe likewise repaire unto the severall houses or places of abode of all the inhabitants , and other resiants or sojourners within the said 〈…〉 which they , or any three or more of them shall thinke fit to be repaired unto : And in the name of both Houses of Parliament doe give hearty thankes to so many of them ( whether summoned or repaired unto ) as have already contributed by way of loane or gift , any money , plate , horse , or armes , according to the propositions of both Houses of Parliament , heretofore published in that behalfe , or otherwise , assuring all and every of them , that the said Houses are very sensible of their alacrity and duty therein ; and doe resolve to be as carefull of their safety , welfare , and reimbursment , as of their owne , and to live and dye with them in this cause : And likewise , that the said persons hereunder named , or any three or more of them , doe acquaint not onely those , but especially the rest of the said Inhabitants , who have not yet contributed , with the further urgent necessity of new subscriptions for plate and money , still pressing beyond former expectation , and accordingly desire and stirre up them and every of them to under-write in a booke provided for that purpose ( and wherein their names shall be registred whether they underwrite or no ) such summes of money and plate , as may testifie their reall and further performance of their late Protestation and sacred vow to Almighty God , and of their readinesse to joyne with the rest of the well-affected party of the Kingdome , and with us the Lords and Commons , who are resolved to pursue this worke with our lives , persons , and estates , for their preservation as well as for our owne : And because the successe of this further levy of money depends much upon the speedy bringing in thereof ; It is therefore further ordered , that all such persons as shall hereupon subscribe as aforesaid , be desired by the parties imployed to take their subscriptions , instantly to bring in one fourth part of the said money and plate subscribed by each of them respectively , to the Treasurers for money and plate formerly appointed in the Guild-hall London , who shall thereupon give receipts for the same in manner and forme already used . And that the second fourth part of their said Subscriptions be likewise brought in , to the persons and places aforesaid at the end of one moneth next after their subscriptions ; And the third fourth part be accordingly brought in , at the end of the second moneth after their said Subscriptions , and the last payment at the end of the third moneth next after their said Subscriptions . And for the ease of such men so subscribing whose occasions will not permit them to make their severall payments at Guild-Hall at the times aforesaid , it is further ordered , that the said parties imployed to take their said Subscriptions , or any two or more of them shall demand and receive of the said persons subscribing , the severall and respective sums so subscribed , and in arrere and unpaid by the space of six daies after the severall times of payment , shall be respectively commenced , and expired , and shall give acquittances for the same in manner and forme appointed and used upon the former subscriptions of money and plate : For all which both Houses of Parliament doe hereby ingage the Publike Faith of the Kingdome ; that they shall be repaid with eight pounds per cent . allowance for the same , according to the said former Propositions . And if any thing not mentioned in this Declaration and Order may conduce to the more effectuall promoting of this new Subscription , and the receipt thereof , the same is hereby referred to the wisdome and care of the Committee of Lords and Commons for advance of money and other necessaries for the Army , to be prosecuted and improved with effect . And lastly it is Ordered that this Declaration and Order be Printed and published .