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 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 , 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 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 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 .