WHereas it appeareth by an humble Petition this day Read , That the distressed Clergy of the Kingdome of Ireland , were at the beginning of the Rebellion there despoyled of their Personall Estates , and have beene ever since deprived of their respective Livings by the barbarous Rebells , and are now ready to perish with their Wives and children , for want of present lively-hood : The Lords and Commons now Assembled in Parliament , having taken the same into their charitable considerations , doe thinke fit that there shall be a Collection made in and throughout the Cities of London and Westminster , and the severall Counties of Middlesex , Essex , Kent , Surrey , and Hertford , for their Reliefe .

Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled , That all and every the Church-Wardens and Over-seers of the poore , within all and every the severall places and Parishes of the Cities of London and Westminster , and Burrough of Southwarke , and of the severall Counties of Middlesex , Essex , Kent , Surrey , and Hertford aforesaid , shall & may forthwith , and before the twenty sixt day of November next , within their respective Parishes and places aforesaid , aske , take , receive , and gather the severall gifts and charitable benevolences , of all and every person and persons , to and for the reliefe of the said distressed Clergy and their Wives and Children , And the summes so received and gathered in each severall place or Parish , which shall be within the distance of ten miles to the City of London , to set downe in a Note in writing , in words at large , and not in figures , the same to be subscribed by the Minister , Parson , Vicar , or Curate of the said place or Parish , and by the said Church-Wardens or one of them , and to be payd and delivered unto Doctor William Gouge , Minister of Black-Fryers London , Doctor Ioshua H●●le , M 〈…〉 ter of Stepney ; D 〈…〉 Minister of Battersey , M. Joseph Carrill , Preacher of Lincolns-Inne ; M. William Brice , Minister of Mild●ed 〈…〉 , M. Cheynell , M. Wilkinson junior , or any three of them , who by this Ordinance are appoynted Receivers and Treasurers of the same , or to such deputy Receiver as they shall appoynt , at Doctor Gouges house in Black-Fryers aforesaid , at or before the thirtieth day of November aforesaid ; Which said Receivers , or one of them , or their deputy Receiver , are to give severall Accquittances for the same : And the summes so received and gathered in each severall place and Parish , which shall be above tenne miles distant from the City of London , to be kept in the hands of the Church-wardens , till they be demanded of them by a person as shall be designed by the aforesaid Ministers ( and that designation made knowne under the hands of the Knights and Burgesses which serve for the said Counties , or any seven of them ) from whom they shall receive Accquittances for their discharge .

Be it further Ordained by the Authoritie aforesaid , That the said Receivers , or any two of them , immediately after the Receit of the severall summes of Money from the Church-Wardens of the respective places or Parishes within the severall Cities and Counties aforesaid , shall call to their assistance William Newman and Griffith Perse , Ministers and Agents for the said distressed Clergy , or one of them , who are to advise concerning the sending over the said Moneys ( the necessary Charges of the said Agents , and of such others as shall be necessarily imployed in the execution of this Ordinance being first discharged ) unto faithfull and trustie Persons in Dublin , and other places of Ireland , to be by them disposed of to such of the Clergy there as are in distresse , according to their merit , and proportionable to the Exigencies of them and their Families .

Be it further Ordained by the Authoritie aforesaid , That the Ministers , Parsons , Vicars and Curates of all and every the Cities of London and Westminster , and Counties aforesaid , shall publish this Ordinance in their severall Parish Churches and Chappels respectively , upon any Lords day after the same shall come to their hands , within the aforesaid time limitted , and shall use their best endeavours to move and perswade their Parishioners liberally to contribute to so good a Worke . And that if any Minister , Parson , Vicar , Curate , Church-Warden , or Over-seer of the Poore within the severall places or Parishes of the Cities , Burrough , and Counties aforesaid , or any of them , shall neglect his or their dutie in the due execution of the premisses , That he or they shall be accomptable in Parliament for such his or their neglect . Provided alwayes , That this Ordinance shall not be put in execution touching any such Collections as aforesaid , longer then or from or after the thirtieth day of November next .