WHEREAS the Merchant Strangers residing within the City of London have promised to lend the Sum of Fifty thousand Pounds for One Year, for and towards the Relief and Preservation of the Realm of Ireland; to be repaid again out of the first and next Monies to be granted by Act of Parliament, with Consideration for the Forbearance thereof, after the Rate of Eight Pounds per Cent. for a Year, according to an Order of the Commons House of Parliament, of the 8th of July, 1642: It is Ordered, by the Lords and Commons, in Parliament, That the Chamberlain of the City of London shall pay to Sir Gilbert Gerrard, Treasurer of the Army under Command of the Earl of Essex, out of the said Fifty thousand Pounds, the Sum of Six thousand Five hundred Pounds, for the Affairs of this Kingdom: Which said Sum of Six thousand Five hundred Pounds the Lords and Commons do give the publick Faith to repay the same to the Chamberlain of the said City, out of such Monies as shall be received for the Affairs of this Kingdom, to be employed for the Relief of Ireland, as aforesaid: And this Ordinance shall be a sufficient Warrant to the Chamberlain to pay the same.