An ordinance of the Lodrs [sic] and Commons assembled in Parliament [electronic resource] : that the Committee for the Militia of London, shall have power to impose upon all such persons as have any stocks going in trade, within the line of communication, to find such proportion of armes, and pay such persons as have beene or shall be appointed to beare the same, as the said committee shall thinke fit, not exceeding three foot souldiers for any one man. Also to search in all suspitious places for papists, and other ill affected persons, expell them out of the limits aforesaid, and sieze all armes and ammunition which they shall find in the custody of any such. Die Sabbathi, 15 Iunii, 1644. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance shall be forthwith printed and published. John Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.