Note 650 — Chapter XXIII
Reading edition
1648, 26th of April.—"It is thought fit and agreed that Tuesday next shall be set apart and kept as a solemn day of thanksgiving for God's deliverance of this city from the rebellious company of people that did rise against them upon Monday last, and that Mr. Carter be desired to preach in the forenoon, and Mr. Collings in the afternoon, both at the Cathedral, and that they shall have 20s. a piece, and that the great guns shall be shot off, and that the aldermen shall be in scarlet and attended with the livery, and that the churchwardens and overseers of every parish do go from house to house to take the benevolence in writing of every person that will give for the relief of the poor who are in want, to be delivered unto the Court of Mayoralty, to be by them distributed."—Corporation Records.