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not only our clergy, but many of our nobility,gentry, and other our loving subjects, andespecially the citizens and inhabitants of oursaid royal City of London , (to whom we domost earnestly recommend the advancement ofthis work,) will be ready to follow our exampleby cheerful and bountiful supplies to the carry-ing on and finishing the said work: we dohereby give and grant unto you the said Hum-phrey Lord Bishop of London , and to the Bishopof that see for the time being, and to you thepresent Dean, and others, residentiaries of oursaid Cathedral Church, and to your successorthe Dean, and other the residentiaries there forthe time being, full power and authority to ask,demand, receive, and take the free and voluntarycontributions of all such of our nobility, bishops,judges, serjeants and counsellors at law, officers,and others of quality and ability, and of allsuch our subjects as shall willingly contributeto the said work: and also to provide and keepbooks or registers (such as have been formerlykept upon the like occasion,) and to ask, procure,and in the said books or registers, or some ofthem, to take the several subscriptions of anysuch person or persons before mentioned, forsuch several sum and sums of money, as theyshall out of their Christian charity freely bestowin that behalf: All which money already sosubscribed or given, raised, collected, or received,as well for the former repairs, as for the worksat present in hand, or so to be hereafter sub-scribed or given, raised, collected, or received,we require all persons concerned to pay accord-ingly, for the carrying on and perfecting of thepresent design of rebuilding the said Cathedral,into the receipt of the Chamber of our said City of London , (the said Chamber having been withour good liking and approbation rightly chosen,and appointed according to our former Com-mission to be the receipt and treasury of all themoney due, and payable to that work,) or untosuch person or persons, as by any six or more ofyou our said Commissioners (whereof the LordBishop of London , or the Dean of St. Paul’s forthe time being, to be one) shall be from time totime chosen and appointed to receive the same:which said receiver or receivers for the timebeing, so constituted as aforesaid, are herebyauthorized to receive the same, and to give

acquittances and discharges for it to such personor persons as shall pay it in as aforesaid; andare hereby required not to issue out any moneyso received, but by order and warrant under thehands of six or more of our said Commissioners;(whereof the Lord Bishop of London , or Deanof St. Paul’s for the time being, always to beone).

And our farther will and pleasure is, and we dohereby straitly charge and command the judges ofthe prerogative courts of both provinces, and thevicars general, commissaries, and officials, and allothers having and exercising ecclesiastical juris-diction within this our kingdom and dominion ofWales , that from henceforth they take especialcare that out of such money as shall from timeto time fall into their power for or by reason ofcommutations of penance, or upon any otheroccasion whatsoever, (being designed or properto be bestowed to pious or charitable uses,) someconvenient proportion be assigned or set aparttoward the supply of this work: and hereof theBishops also in their several dioceses are herebyrequired to take notice and effectual care, and tomake certificate at the end of every six monthsto the Bishop of London for the time being,what hath within their respective jurisdictionsbeen done herein, and what hath been neglectedto be done, and by whose default; and withalto cause all the monies so assigned and reserved,to be sent up and paid to the receiver, or trea-surer of this w'ork for the time being, rightlyconstituted and appointed as aforesaid.

And for a farther supply to this great andchargeable work, which will necessarily require ageneral and liberal contribution of all our ablesubjects of this kingdom; we do hereby g* v " eunto you our said Commissioners, or to any sixor more of you, (whereof the Lord Bishop °fLondon , or the Dean of St. Paul's for the timebeing to be one,) full power and authority fr ointime to time to consult, advise, and agree ofsuch form or forms of letters-patents, to bedrawn in a more special manner than ordinalybriefs are wont to be, according to the extra-ordinary nature of this case, for public collectionsto be made throughout our said realm of Eng'land, and dominion of Wales , of the charityof our loving and well-disposed subjects, towardsthe present work, and for the bringing in of the