A Committee was appointed, consisting of all the Councillors, with Sir Christopher Pack and other eminent citizens, and also some ministers, to organize a general collection of money throughout England and Wales in behalf of the suffering Vaudois.

The collection, as arranged June 1, was to take the form of a house-to-house visitation by the ministers and churchwardens in every city, town, and parish on a particular Lord's day, for the receipt of whatever sum each householder might freely give, every such sum to be noted in presence of the donor, and the aggregates, parish by parish, or city by city, to be remitted to the treasurers in London, who were to enter them duly in a general register.

The subscription, which lagged for a time in some districts, produced at length a total of L38,097 7_s._ 3_d._--equal to about L137,000 now.

Of this sum L2000 (equal to about L7500 now) was Cromwell's own contribution, while London and Westminster contributed L9384 6_s._ 11_d._, and the various counties sums of various magnitudes, according to their size, wealth, and zeal, from Devonshire at the head, with L1965 0_s._ 3_d._, Yorkshire next, with L1786 14_s._ 5_d._, and Essex next, with L1512 17_s._ 7_d._, down to Merionethshire yielding L3 0_s._ 1_d._ from her eight parishes, and Radnorshire L1 14_s._ 4_d._ from her seven.

Cromwell's own donation of L2000 went at once to Geneva for immediate use; and L10,000 followed on the 10th of July, as the first instalment of the general subscription.