May, 1647
[4 May, 1647.]
Whereas the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the
City of London, in Common Council assembled, in Pursuance
of an Ordinance of Parliament, of 16° April, 1647, have nominated, and presented to both Houses of Parliament, the Lord
Mayor and Sheriffs of the City of London for the Time being,
Sir John Wollaston Knight, Thomas Adams, John Langham,
James Bunce, William Gibbs, Samuell Avery, and John Bide,
Aldermen of the said City, and Major-General Skippon, and
Francis West Lieutenant of the Tower, Christopher Pack,
Captain John Jones, Colonel John Bellamy, Lieutenant-Colonel
Nathaniel Camfeild, Captain Richard Venner, Edwin Browne,
Walter Boothby, Colonel Robert Manwaringe, Thomas Arnold,
Tempest Milner, Maurice Gethin, Colonel Thomas Gower,
Colonel Edward Hooker, Richard Glyer, Colonel Richard
Turner, William Kendall, Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence Bromefeild, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Bellamy, and John Grace, as
fit Persons to be a Committee for the Militia of the City of
London and Liberties thereof, and all other Places within the
Line of Communication and Weekly Bills of Mortality: The
Lords and Commons do hereby approve of the said Persons, to
be a Committee as aforesaid; and the said Lords and Commons do hereby Ordain, That the said Persons, or any Nine of
them, whereof Three to be Aldermen and Six to be Commons,
are hereby constituted a Committee for the said Militia, to
order and direct the same, according to the true Intent and
Meaning of the said Ordinance of Parliament.