An ordinance of the Lodrs [!] and Commons assembled in Parliament

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 ... Also to search in all suspitious places for papists, and other ill-affected persons ...