An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, : that the Committee for the Militia of London shall have power to impose upon persons to finde arms, not exceeding three foot-souldiers for any one man: and to search for papists and suspitious persons, and to disarm them, and to raise horse. Die Jovis, 27. Febr. 1644. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.