In the same year, 1692, constables are instructed to look-up all loose
seamen and watermen, and bring them before one of the justices of the
peace; and to collect 4s. in the £, towards carrying on a vigorous war
with France. An order (September, 1693), signed “George Weld, Bart.,”
addressed to Mr. Brooke, of Madeley, calls upon the constables to summons
the Militia to appear at Shrewsbury &c., &c. Under the act passed for
collecting 4s. in the £, for carrying on the war, constables were
instructed to charge papists and all who had not taken the oaths of
supremacy double.