THe Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament , taking into their serious considerations the many heavy pressures and most grievous calamities which now lie upon this Kingdome , by this bloody and unnaturall warre raised against the Parliament , and that notwithstanding all their faithfull and constant endeavours for the preserving of his Maiesty and the whole Kingdome , from the most cruell and endlesse designes of Papists , Delinquents , and ill-affected persons ; yet their counsels and practises are still so prevalent with his Maiesty , and the hearts of many people so misled and beguiled by their false pretences and specious insinuations , that nothing can be expected but the extirpation and finall subversion of our Religion , Laws and Liberties , unlesse God of his infinit mercy prevent it , and incline His Maiesties heart to the faithfull advice of his great Councell of Parliament , which hath ever bin and is under God the chiefe support of his Royall Crown and dignity , and the security of all that we have or can enioy , and for that it is found by wofull experience , that divers il-affected persons by pretence of His Maiesties authority , have and doe still daily feize upon divers and sundry great sums of money , raised and collected in divers parts of this Kingdom by Acts and Ordinances of Parliament , for the reliefe of the poore distressed Protestants in Ireland , the suppressing and subduing of those most barbarous and bloody Rebells , and for the defence of this Kingdom and Parliament , and do divert and employ the same , and likewise His Maiesties Revenue , and all other Monies o● the well affected persons whatsoever , by rapine or violence , they can lay hands on ; to the fomenting , nourishing , and maintaining of these miserable distractions and unnaturall Warre : and the Lords and Commons omitting no opportunity , nor neglecting any fitting meanes which they conceived , might divert the said Warre here , so violently pressed forwards by Papists , Delinquents , ill affected persons , and the rebels in Ireland , did formerly ordaine , that the Officers of the Receipt , Court of Wards , and Liberies , Receivers , and others , should not repaire unto Oxford , but attend their service here in the usuall places : yet in contempt of the same and other Ordinances , some Officers are gone to Oxford , divers convey sundry sums of money thither , and others neglect their service , to the great preiudice and dis-service of the Commonwealth : and to the intent that his Maiesties Revenue might no more be mis-applied , and that the same may be imployed for the good of His Maiesty and the Common-wealth , The Lords and Commons therefore doe Ordaine , and be it Ordained by the said Lords and Commons , that all His Maiesties , the Queens , and Princes Revenue , of what nature or kind soever , certaine or casuall within the view or survey of the Court of Exchequer , Court of Wards and Liveries , Dutchy of Lancaster , Dutchy of Cornwall , or in any other Court or iurisdiction whatsoever , within this Realme of England , Dominion of Wales , and Port and Towne of Barwick , together with all the arrears thereof , and all other debts and sums of money whatsoever , any way due to His Maiesty , the Queene , or Prince , shall be seized upon and received by the persons hereafter named , or such othe●s ●s at any time hereafter shall be appointed , and nominated by the Committee for the Revenue , which said persons or receivers in each severall Countie or Counties , Cities or places for which they are or shall be appointed respectively are hereby authorized and required by themselves , their Agents and Deputies , to take and seize into their hands and custodies all and every His Maiesties , the Queenes and Princes Honours , Mannors , Lands , Tenements , and Hereditaments , Rents , Arrerages of Rents , Revenues , and profits whatsoever , within the said Realme of England , Dominion of Wales , and Port and Towne of Berwicke , and to let , set , and demise the same , or any part thereof , from yeere to yeere ; And shall have power to call before them all Stewards , Auditors , Receivers , Bailiffes or Collectors or any other Officer , or Officers whatsoever , and to send for or take any bookes of Accounts , Rentals , Copies of Court roll , or any other writings touching the premisses , and thereby and by all other waies and meanes which to them shall seeme meet and necessary , to informe themselves of the said Revenues , Debts , and Arreares thereof , and of all things concerning the same , and to appoint any subordinate Officer or Officers , and Ministers under them for the better expediting of this service , which said subordinate Officers and Ministers are hereby authorized , and enioyned to performe and execute all and every their commands respectively in and concerning the premises ; and shall have such allowances for their pains and charges in that behalfe , as the respective Persons or Receivers appointed for the severall Counties , Cities or places , shall thinke fit , the same being approved of by the Committee for the revenue : And that all such Stewards , Auditors , Receivers , Bailiffes , Collectors , or any other Officer or Officers whatsoever , which have not submitted themselves to the Commands and directions of any former Ordinance of Parliament , or to the Committee for the Revenue , and likewise all other such Officers , which shall not yeeld obedience to this Ordinance of Parliament , or to the Committee for the Revenue , shall stand sequestred from their severall Offices respectively , and from the receiving and enioying any profit or benefit of or for the same : And the Committee for the Revenue or any five shall have power and are hereby authorized to nominate and appoint other meet , fit , and trusty persons to supply and execute those Offices and places which are or shall be sequestred as aforesaid . And the said persons or Receivers nominated or to be nominated , as aforesaid , their Agents and Deputies within their severall limits respectively shall have power , and are hereby authorized and required to enter into all and every His Maiesties , the Queens and Princes Honours , Mannours , Lands , Tenements , and Heriditaments , Courts and Offices , and to receive such Rents , Arrerages of Rents , Herriots , Issues , Profits , summes of Money , Debts , and other duties , as are or shall be due and payable for or out of the same : And the Fee-farmers , Farmers , and the Tenants thereof , Officers and all others are required to pay the same accordingly , to the said Persons or Receivers , or to such other Officers or Receivers as shall be thereunto appointed by vertue and according to the direction of this Ordinance , and to no other person whatsoever . And the said Fee-farmers , Farmers , Tenants , and all others which shall pay any Rent , summe of Money or other thing according to this Ordinance , shall be protected and saved harmelesse from any forfeiture , penalty , or damage which he or they may incurre by not payment of his or their said Rent , summe of money or other thing , according to his or their Grant , Lease , Copy or other agreement by the power and authority of both Houses of Parliament . And if any Sheriffe , Receiver , Collector , or any other officer or any court whatsoever shall refuse to pay the Monies from time to time remaining in their hands , any Free-farmer , Farmer , or Tenant , shall refuse to pay his or their Rents , or any others shall refuse to pay their particular Debts to the hands of the said Persons or Receivers in the severall and respective Counties , Cities , and Places , at such times as the same shall become due and payable , or to the Receiver-Generall hereby appointed , then the said Persons or Receivers for the severall Counties , Cities , and places shall have power to distraine for the same , and to take all other advantages for non payment thereof , as His Maiesty the Queene and Prince , their Officers or Ministers might have done , and they shall have power to sue for and recover any debt , summe of Money , or other duty owing to His Maiestie , the Queene or Prince by any person whatsoever , and also to give discharges and acquitances for any Rent , summe of Money , debts , duty , or other thing , which they shall receive by vertue of this Ordinance , and shall be accomptable from time to time for the same , and for all such other things as shall be had , received , or taken by them , their Agents or Deputies , and for all their receipts and payments , and other Acts for or in respect of the Premisses to the Committee for the Revenue , or to such as they shall appoint ; and shall pay in from time to time all such summes of Money as they or any of them shall receive by vertue of this Ordinance , unto Thomas Faulconbridge Esquire , at Westminster ( who is hereby constituted and appointed Receiver Generall of all such summes of money as shall be received or raised by vertue of this Ordinance ) and shall be from time to time subiect to the further Orders and Directions of the Committee for the Reuenue , And the Acquittances of the said Receiuer-Generall and of the said Persons or Receivers in the seuerall Counties , Cities , and Places , Courts and Offices respectively , shall be as good and sufficient discharge for the summes of Money therein contained , as if the same were paid in the receipt of the Exchequer , or into any other usuall Court or Place . And the Barons of the Exchequer , and all other Officers and Ministers of the same , and other Courts and places respectively , are hereby required and authorized to give full allowances thereof , and thereupon to make forth Quietus ests , and other discharges according to the course and custome of the severall Courts and places . And the said Persons or Receivers , their Agents and Deputies , shall have power to call to their aid and assistance the Trained Bands , Voluntiers , or other Forces , and any other Officer or Minister of Iustice , of or within their severall Counties , Cities , or places respectively , or any other person or persons dwelling in or neere the place , to compell obedience to this Ordinance , where any resistance shall be made , or as oft as need shall require , and shall have power to punish such person or persons as they shall finde refractory , negligent , or faulty in the said service by fine and Imprisonment , such Fine not exceeding the summe of twenty pounds , or to certifie their names to the Committee for the Revenue , who shall have power to send for them , or any of them , and commit them to such prisons and places as they shall thinke fit , untill they shall conforme themselves to this present Ordinance of Parliament . And the said Trained Bands , Voluntiers , and other Forces , their Commanders and Officers , and also the severall Constables , Headboroughts , and other Officers and persons within their severall and respective limits , are hereby required and enioyned to be aiding and assisting to the said Persons or Receivers , their Agents and Deputies , as oft as they shall be hereunto required .

And it is further Ordained and Declared by the said Lords and Commons , That all and every the said Revenues , Rents , Profits , Debts , and sums of Money whatsoever shall be imployed to and for such uses and services , as are or shall be directed by the Committee for the Revenue .

And it is likewise further Ordained , That all and every the said persons or Receivers , Receiver-Generall , Auditors , and other Officers and Ministers imployed in this service by the Committee for the Revenue , or any five of them , shall have such allowances for their necessary charges and paines in and about the Premises as the said Committee shall think fit , and that as well they as all others who shall be imployed in the said service , or shall do any thing in execution or performance of this Ordinance , shal be therein protected and saved harmlesse , by the power & authority of both the said Houses .

And lastly it is Ordained , That the said Committee for the Revenue , or any five of them , shall have power , and be hereby enabled to doe and erecute any other act or acts , thing or things , they shall thinke fit for the better and more speedy collecting , leavying , advancing , and receiving of all and every the said revenues , debts , and summes of money before mentioned .

Provided and be it further Ordained , That all and singular such revenues , rents , issues , fees , profits , and summes , of Money , and allowances whatsoever , as have heretofore beene and now ought to be paid and disposed unto , or for the maintenance of any Colledge or Hospitall ( whose revenues , or any part thereof , have not been imployed for maintenance of the Warre against the Parliament ) Grammar Schoole , or Schollars , or or or towards the reparation of any Church , Chappell , Highway , Cawsey , Bridge , Schoole-house , or other charitable use , which are chargeable upon , or ought to issue out of , or be paid , for or in respect of any the Honours , Mannors , Lands , Tenements , or Hereditaments , revenues , or profits aforesaid , shall be and continue to be paid , disposed , and allowed of , as they were and have beene heretofore .