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B09033 Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Scotiæ Angliæ Franciæ & Hiberniæ duodecimo at the Parliament begun at Westminster, the five and twentieth day of April, Anno Dom. 1660, in the twelfth year of the reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord Charles, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. England and Wales. Laws, statutes, etc.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). 1660 (1660) Wing E1144B; ESTC R175044 16,585 17

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as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act or Acts of this present Session of Parliament be from henceforth discharged And it is further by the Authority aforesaid Enacted in the second place That all and every the Subjects of these his Majesties Realms of England and Ireland the Dominion of Wales the Isles of Iersey and Garnsey and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and other his Majesties Dominions the Heirs Executors and Administrators of them and every of them and all and singular Bodies in any manner of wise Corporated Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wappentakes Towns Villages Hamlets and Tythings and every of them and the Successor and Successors of every of them shall be and are by the Authority of this present Parliament Acquitted Pardoned Released Indempnified and Discharged against the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and every of them of and from all manner of Treasons Misprisions of Treason Felonies Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Wrongs Deceits Misdemeanors Forfeitures Penalties and sums of Money Intrusions Mean Profits Wardships Marriages Reliefs Liveries Ouster le mains Mean Rates Respits of Homage Fines and Seisures for Alienation without Licence Arrearages of Rents other then the Arrearages of Rents due from the late Farmers or pretended Farmers of the Excize or Customs respectively and other then such Arrearages of Rents or Mean Profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act or Acts of this present Parliament and of and from all Arrearages of Tenths and First Fruits Fines Post-Fines Issues and Amerciaments and all Recognizances Bonds or other Securities given for Payment of them or any of them Concealments of Customes and Excize Arrearages of Purveyance and of Compositions for the same and of and from all Pains of Death Pains Corporal and Pecuniary and generally of and from all other Things Causes Quarrels Suits Judgments and Executions in this present Act hereafter not Excepted nor Foreprized which may be or can be by his Majesty in any wise or by any means Pardoned before and unto the 24. day of Iune in the year of our Lord 1660. to every or any of his said Subjects Bodies Corporate Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wappentakes Towns Villages and Tithings or any of them And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Grants and Patents since the 25. of March 1641. touching the Wardship and Custody of the Body and Lands or touching the Marriage of any Heir within Age and all Mean Profits yet unreceived and demandable by reason thereof shall be and are hereby from henceforth discharged And also the Kings Majesty is contented That it be further Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this his said Free Pardon Indemnity and Oblivion shall be as good and effectual in the Law to every of his said Subjects Bodies Corporate and others before rehearsed in for and against all things which be not hereafter in this present Act excepted and foreprized as the same Pardon Indemnity and Oblivion should have been if all Offenses Contempts Forfeitures Causes Matters Suits Quarrels Judgments Executions Penalties and all other things not hereafter in this present Act Excepted and Foreprized had been particularly singularly especially and plainly named rehearsed and specified and also pardoned by proper and express words and names in their kinds natures and qualities by words and terms thereunto requisite to have been put in and expressed in this present Act of Free Pardon Indemnity and Oblivion And that his said Subjects nor any of them nor the Heirs Executors or Administrators of any of them nor the said Bodies corporate and others before-named and rehearsed nor any of them be nor shall be sued vexed or inquieted by or on the behalf of the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors in their bodies Goods Chattels Lands or Tenements for any manner of Matter Cause Contempt Misdemeanor Forfeiture Trespass Offense or any other thing suffered done or committed before the said 24. day of June 1660. against His late Majestie King Charls or his Majesty that now is His Crown Dignity Prerogative Laws or Statutes but onely for such Matters Causes and Offenses as be excepted and fore-prized by this present Act out of the same any Statute or Statutes Laws Customs or Usages heretofore had made or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And that all and every the Kings said Subjects and all and singular the Bodies Corporate and others before rehearsed may by him or themselves or by his or their Deputie or Deputies or by his or their Attorney or Attorneys according to the Laws of this Realm plead and minister this present Act of Free Pardon for his or their Discharge of or for any thing that is by virtue of this present Act Pardoned discharged given or granted without any Fee or other thing paying to any person or persons for writing or entry of the Judgments or other Cause concerning such Plea Writing or Entry but onely sixteen pence to be paid to the Officer or Clerk that shall enter such Plea Matter or Judgment for the parties Discharge in that behalf any Law Statute Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding And furthermore the Kings Majesty is contented and pleased That it be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this his said Free Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion by the general Words Clauses and Sentences before rehearsed shall be reputed deemed adjudged expounded allowed and taken in all manner of Courts of His Highness and elswhere most beneficial and available to all and singular the said Subjects Bodies Corporate and others before rehearsed and to every of them in all things not in this present Act excepted or foreprized without any ambiguity question or other delay whatsoever it shall be to be made pleaded objected or alleadged by the King our Soveraign Lord His Heirs or Successors or by his or their General Attorney or Atorneys or by any person or persons for his Highness or any of his Heirs or Successors And furthermore be it Enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord and by the Authority aforesaid That if any Officer or Clerk of any of his Highness Courts commonly called the Chancery Kings-Bench and Common-Pleas or of his Exchequer or any other Officer or Clerk of any other of his Highness Courts within this Realm at any time after the passing of this present Act make out or write out any manner of Writs Process Summons or other Precepts whereby any of the said Subjects or any of the said Bodies corporated or others before rehearsed or any of them shall be in any wise Arrested Attached Distrained Summoned or otherwise Vexed Inquieted or grieved in his or their Bodies Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels or in any of them for or because of any manner of thing pardoned or discharged by virtue of this Act of Free Pardon or if any Sheriff or Escheator or any of their
Bribery Perjuries and the Subornation of Perjury or Witnesses and Offences of Forging or Counterfeiting any Deeds Debentures Bills of Publick Faith Escripts Wills or other Writings whatsoever or of any Examinations or Testimonies of any Witness or Witnesses tending to bring any person or persons in danger of his Life Liberty or Estate and the giving the same in evidence and the compelling or procuring of any such counterfeiting or forging to be had or made And who excepted all Offences in detaining imbesling or purloining any the Goods Money Chattels or Jewels of the late King Queen or Prince or any of the children of the late King and Queen other then Shipping Stores and Ammunitions of War and other then such Goods and Chattels as have been sold or disposed of to any of the Servants or Creditors of his late Majesty in or toward satisfaction of their Debts or Wages And also Excepted out of this Pardon all Issues Fines and Amercements Rents and other Publick Duties being Leavyed Received or collected by any Sheriff under-Sheriff Bayliff Minister or other Officer to or for the use of the late King the Parliament or the said Keepers of the Liberty of England or any other person stiling himself Protector or for his Majesty that now is and not accompted for and discharged And also Excepted out of this Pardon all and every offence and offences committed or done by any Jesuite Seminary or Romish Priest whatsoever contrary to the Tenor or Effect of the Statute made in the 27 year of the Reign of the late Queen Elisabeth Entituled An Act against Jesuites Seminaries Priests and other disobedient Persons or of any part thereof and all Out-lawries Proceedings Judgments and Executions for the same offences or any of them Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every Clerk and other Officer of the Courts at Westminster to award and make Writs of Capias Vtlagatum at the suit of the Party Plaintiff against such Persons Out-layed as be pardoned by this Act to the intent to compell the Defendant or Defendants to make answer to the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs at whose Suit he or they were Out lawed And that every person so Out lawed shall sue a Writ of Scire Facias against the Party or Parties at whose Suit he or they were so Out-lawed before this Pardon in that behalf shall be allowed him or them so Out-lawed Provided and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act of General Pardon shall not in any wise extend to Pardon any Out-lawries upon any Writ of Capias ad Satisfaciendum until such time as the Party so Out-lawed shall satisfy or otherwise agree with the Party at whose Suit the same Person was so Out-lawed or Condemned And also excepted out of this Pardon all Informations and other Proceedings Depending Concerning any Common High-ways or Bridges and all Issues returned upon any Process concerning the same since the 30 day of January 1648 Except also all Recognizances Obligations and other Securities given or Entred into since the 25. of March 1640 by any Receiver Reeve Bailiff Collector or other Accountant in the Court of the Publick Exchequer and their Sureties and their Accounts Respectively Provided always and be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein Contained shall not extend or be Construed to Pardon or Discharge any Recognizance Obligation or Bond which is not yet forfeited And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Acts of Hostilitie and Injuries whether between the late King and the Lords and Commons then in Parliament assembled or between any of the People of this Nation which did arise upon any Action Attempt Assistance Council or Advice having Relation unto or falling out by reason of the late Troubles or in the late Warrs or Publick Differences between the late King and Parliament or between his now Majesty or any of his Subjects and which are not in this Act excepted that the same and whatsoever hath ensued thereupon whether trenching upon the Laws and Liberties of this Nation or upon the Honour of his Majesty or upon the Honour of Authority of the Parliament or to the prejudice of any Particular or Private Person shall in no time from and after the 24. of June in the year of our Lord 1660. be called in question whatsoever be the quality of the Person or of whatsoever Kind or Degree Civil or Criminal the Injury is supposed to be And that no mention be made thereof in time to come in judgment or judicial proceedings And to the intent and purpose that all names and terms of distinction may be likewise put into utter Oblivion Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons within the space of three years next ensuing shall presume maliciously to call or alledge of or object against any other Person or Persons any Name or Names or other words of Reproach any way tending to revive the Memory of the ●●te Differences or the Occasions thereof That then every such person so as aforesaid Offending shall Forfeit and Pay unto the Party Grieved in Case such Party offending shall be of the Degree of a Gentleman or above ten Pounds and if under that Degree the Sum of forty Shillings to be recovered by the Partie grieved by Action of Debt to be therefore brought in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no E●●oign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed or any more than one Imparlance so as the same Action be commenced or prosecuted within six Months next after the Offence Committed And if the Jury sworn to try any Issue or Issues that shall be joyned in such Action shall find for the Plaintiff they shall likewise give to every such Plaintiff forty shllings Damages over and above the Penalty aforesaid Provided always that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or give any Benefit to any Person or Persons who have had any hand in the Plotting Contriving or designing the Great and Heinous Rebellion of IRELAND mentioned in one Act passed in the Parliament begun at WESTMINSTER the 3. day of November In the sixteenth year of King CHARLES Entituled An Act for the speedy and effectual Reducing of the Rebels in his Majesties Kingdom of IRELAND to their due obedience to his Majesty and Crown of ENGLAND Or in Aiding Assisting or Abetting the same other then such as by another Act intended hereafter to be passed shall be therein named mentioned or expressed to be pardoned Nor to enure to restore to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate other then then the Marquesse of Ormond Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold and other the Protestants of IRELAND and their Heirs and such other person and persons as in and by an Act intended hereafter to be Passed shall be therein named mentioned or expressed in that behalf any Estate Liberties Franchises
Deputy or Deputies or any Bayliff or other Officer whatsoever by colour of his or their Office or otherwise after the passing of this present Act do levy receive take or withhold of or from any Person or Persons any thing pardoned or discharged by this Act That then every such Person so offending and thereof lawfully convicted or condemned by any sufficient testimony witness or proof shall yield and pay for recompence thereof to the party so grieved or offended thereby his or their treble damages besides all costs of the Suit and shall also forfeit and lose to the Kings Majesty for every such desault Ten pounds And nevertheless all and singular such Writts Process and Precepts so to be made for or upon any manner of thing pardoned or discharged by this present Act of Free Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion shall be utterly void and of none effect Except and always foreprized out of this Free and general Pardon all Murders done or committed by any Person or Persons other than such which are Pardoned and Discharged in the first Clause of Pardon above mentioned And also excepted and always foreprized out of this General and Free Pardon all and every offences of Piracie and Robbery done upon the Seas not done in relation to the Differences and Wars aforesaid and every procuring or abetting of any such Offenders and the comforting and receiving of them or any of them or any Goods taken by way of such Piracy or Robbery upon the Seas as aforesaid And also excepted the detestable and abominable Vice of Buggery committed with Mankinde or Beast And also excepted all Rapes and carnal Ravishments of Women And also excepted all Ravishments and wilfull taking away or manying of any Maid Widow or Damsel against her will or without the assent or agreement of her Parents or of such as then had her in Custody and also all Offenses of aiding comforting procuring or abetting of any such Ravishment wilfull taking or Marrying had committed or done And also excepted all offences made Felony by a certain Act made and ordained Entituled An Act to restrain all Persons from Marriage untill their former Wives and former Hushands be dead And also excepted all offences of Invocations Conjurations Witchcrafts Sorceries Inchantments and Charms and all offences of procuring abetting or comforting of the same and all persons now attainted or convicted of any the said excepted Offences And also excepted all and singular the Accompts of all and every person and persons appointed by any of the Authorities or pretended Authorities aforesaid to be Treasurer Receiver Farmer or Collector other than the Sub-Collectors of the several Parishes Towns and Hamlets respectively for and concerning their Receipts before the ●4 day of June in the year of our Lord 1659 who have received or collected any Subsidie Custome Subsidie of Tonnage and Poundage Prize-goods Assessment Sequestration New Impost or Excise or of any the Rents and Revenues of any Lands or Hereditaments of or belonging unto the late King Queen or Prince or King that now is or belonging to the late Arch-Bishopricks Bishopricks Deans or Deans and Chapters Canons Prebends and other Officers belonging to any Cathedral or Collegiate Church or Popish Recusants convict or of Persons Sequestered for their Recusancie or other sequestred Estates Received or Collected by or paid unto them since the 30. of January in the year of our Lord 1642 and of all Moneys and other Duties grown due or contracted upon the Sale or Disposition of them or any of them Provided That the Heirs Executors Administrators or Tertenants of the Lands of any Accomptant within this Exception now deceased shall not be charged with nor liable unto any Accompt for the matters in this Exception mentioned Except for such Sum or Sums of Money as remain due upon any of their Accompts already stated and determined and are not yet payd in and that no Accomptant as abovesaid now living shall be liable to make accompt of any Sum or Sums of Money payd or disbursed or otherwise allowed or discharged by virtue or colour of any Order or Ordinances of both or either House or Houses of Parliament or any Convention or Assembly called or Reputed or taking on them the name of a Parliament or of Oliver Cromwell pretended Protector or of Richard his Son while he continued or was stiled or obeyed as Protector or by any Persons acting as a Committee appointed by the said two Houses or either of them or by any such Convention or Assembly or any Order or Direction of such Committee or Committees or any Person or Persons acting as a Publick Council though having no legal Authority so to do or by their or any their Order or Orders or Direction It being further Declared and Enacted and is Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That no person or persons shall be charged for any Moneys by him received for the Fees Salaries and Wages then allowed or for Moneys by him disbursed upon any publick use or pretence though the Direction or Authority whereby the same Money was Issued was not or be not Legal and Warrantable in Law And be it further Provided That no Military or Commissioned Officer of the Armies or Navies or Souldier or Mariner who before the 25. of March 1659. hath received any Moneys for his own Pay or the Pay of other Souldiers or for any other Contingencies of the Souldiers or Guarrisons under his Command or by way of reward shall be called to accompt therefore And that no person whatsoever shall be called to accompt for any the matters in this Exception mentioned after the 24. of June which shall be in the year of our Lord God 1662. now next ensuing And that in case any person who stands accomptable for any moneys received since the first of January 1642 and before the 30. of January 1648 have been robb'd or plundered by Souldiers or others of the monies in their hands or of any Notes or Books of receipt touching their payments or discharge Then the oath or oaths of such party or parties of the same respectively shall be a good discharge for so much of their accompt And that the Oath of every Accomptant in or between the years 1642 and 1648. of what they have paid to any publick use by or according to any publick or pretended Order or Authority whatsoever shall be a good discharge as to so much of the accompt of such person or persons And except all First fruits and tenths in the hands of any Receiver not having disbursed as in the last Exception is expressed Provided That all and every Judgment of Discharge or quietus est had or given at any time upon any accompt in the Publique Exchequer since the year 1648 be allowed and shall not be avoided except all accompts of the Revenues of Churches and Vicaridges in Wales and the County of Monmouth and all Judgments of discharge or quietus thereupon obtained and also Excepted out of this Pardon all offences of
or Hereditaments in England or Ireland sold or disposed of by both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention assuming the Stile or Name of a Parliament or any person or persons deriving Authority from them or any of them or which was approved or confirmed by them or any of them Nor to the Mean Profits Rents or contingencies of advantage of the same And it is further Provided and Enacted That every person or persons hereby pardoned may plead the general issue without special pleading of this pardon and give this Act of Pardon in evidence for his discharge and that the same shall be thereupon allowed and the advantage thereof had as fully to all intens and purposes as if the same had been fully and well pleaded And in such manner as any Justice of the Peace Constable or other Officer questioned for matters acted by them as Officers or in execution of their Offices may have advantage of the matter of their justification upon the general Issue by them pleaded by the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom Provided also That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall Extend or be interpreted to extend to Pardon any Person or Persons whatsoever for any Theft or Stealing of any goods or other Felonies since the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty and nine any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise Notwithstanding Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall Extend to Acquit or Discharge any person or persons from making Restitution of all such Rents Sums of Money Horses Cattle or other Goods which by a certain Act or pretended Act lately made Entituled An Act for Repeal of two Acts for Sequestrations Are required to be restored to those from whom they were taken Nor shall this present Act be construed to Disable or Bar the Respective Owners or Proprietors of and from their Several and Respective Actions or Suits at Law or in Equitie for or by reason of the said or any other Rents Moneys Horses Cattle or Goods which since the Five and twentieth day of July One thousand six hundred fifty and nine have been by any person or persons wrongfully received or taken away and for which the said wrong doers are not in any wise Indempnified by the said or any other Act of Repeal And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons who by virtue of any Order or Warrant mediately or immediately derived from His late Majestie or His Majestie that now is or by virtue of any Act Ordinance or Order of any or both Houses of Parliament or any of the Authorities aforesaid or any Committee or Committees acting under them or any of them have Seized Sequestred Leavied Advanced or paid to any Publick Use or into any Publick Treasury within this Kingdom any Goods Chattels Debts Rents Sum or Sums of Money belonging to any person or persons whatsoever shall hereafter be Sued Molested or Drawn into Question for the same but that they and every of them shall be Discharged against all persons for so much and no more of the said Goods Chartels Debts Rents Sum or Sums of Money as their several and respective Orders of Discharge or Acquittances extend unto Provided also That nothing herein contained shall extend to Discharge any person or persons who have been by private Order or instructions imployed and intrusted or have undertaken the imployment to Receive any Sum or Sums of Money for the Kings Majesties Service or Supply ●nce the Year One thousand six hundred forty and eight from making their Accompts for the same Provided also That this Act shall not extend to pardon or Discharge from Accompt to the Kings Majestie any person or persons for any Sum or Sums of Money received for that illegal Tax of Decimation or upon the Accompt of any Militia settled or acted in since One thousand six hundred forty and eight and not Accompted for or paid over or Discharged to or by any that had Authority or pretended Authority to Discharge the respective Receivers of the same Provided also That if any person or persons being His Majesties Mesnial Servant or Servants or having or pretending to have received particular Intructions or Directions from His Majestie have during the time of such his or their relation unto His Majestie or whilest he or they were acting or pretending to act for His Majesties Interest in pursuance of the said Instructions or Directions Wilfully Malitiously and Traiterously held Intelligence with any Forain Prince or Princes State or States or with any person or persons usurping Supreme Authoritie in this Kingdom or other His Majesties Dominions or with their or either of their Ministers or Agents and without His Majesties licence and to the intent to betray His Majesties Person or Counsels or have received any Sum or Sums of Money or Pension for such Treachery That then such person and persons as to the Offence in this Proviso mentioned shall be and is hereby Excepted out of this Act any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding so as such Person or Persons be Outlawed or otherwise legally Convicted of such Offence or Offences within the space of Two years from the Five and twentieth day of April One thousand six hundred and sixty Provided That this Act of General Pardon or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the Pardoning or Discharging of any Debts or Sums of Money due to or for the Excize of any Goods or Merchandise whereof any Entries have been made in the Custom House which have grown due since the Twenty fifth day of March One thousand six hundred fifty and eight or to the Pardoning or Discharging of any Debts or Sums of Money due to the Farmers or pretended Farmers of Excize since the Twenty fifth day of March One thouand six hundred fifty and seven Provided also That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to Pardon Discharge or give any other Benefit whatsoever unto John Lisle William Say Sir Hardress Waller Valentine Wauton Thomas Harrison Edward Whalley William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin John Barkstead Gilbert Millington Edmund Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey Robert Titchborn Owen Row Robert Lilburn Adrian Scroop John Okey John Hewson William Goff Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner John Carew John Jones Miles Corbet Henry Smith Gregory Clement Thomas Wogan Edmond Harvey Thomas Scot William Cawley John Downs Nicholas Love Vincent Potter Augustine Garland John Dixwell George Fleetwood Simon Meyn James Temple Peter Temple Daniel Blagrave Thomas Wait John Cook Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy William Hewlet Hugh Peters Francis Hacker Daniel Axtel nor any of them nor to those Two persons or either of them who being Disguised by Frocks and Vizors did appear upon the Scaffold erected before Whitehall upon the Thirtieth of Ianuary One thousand six hundred forty and eight All which Persons for their Execrable
Treason in Sentencing to death or Signing the Instrument for the Horrid Murther or being instrumental in taking away the precious Lise of Our late Soveraign Lord CHARLES the First of Glorious Memory are left to be proceeded against as Traitors to his late Majeny according to the Laws of England and are out of this present Act wholly Excepted and Foreprized But in regard the said Owen Row Augustine Garland Edmond Harvey Henry Smith Henry Martin Sir Hardress Waller Robert Titchborn George Fleetwood Iames Temple Thomas Wait Simon Meyn William Heveningham Isaac Penington Peter Temple Robert Lilburn Gilbert Millington Vincent Potter Thomas Wogan and Iohn Downs have personally appeared and rendred themselves according to the Proclamation bearing Date the Sixth day of Iune One thousand six hundred and sixty to Summon the Persons therein named who gave Judgment and Assisted in the said Horrid and Detestable Murther of our said late Soveraign to appear and render themselves and do pretend thereby to some favor upon some conceived doubtful Words in the said Proclamation Be it Enacted by this present Parliament and the Authority of the same upon the humble desires of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That if the said Owen Row Augustine Garland Edmond Harvey Henry Smith Henry Martin Sir Har●ress Waller Robert Titchborn George Fleetwood Iames Temple Thomas Wait Simon Meyn Willtam H●veningham Isaac Penington Peter Temple Robert Lilburn Gilbert Millington Vincent Poeter Thomas W●gan and Iohn Downs or any of them shall be legally Attainted for the Horrid Treason and Murther aforesaid that then nevertheless the Execution of the said Person and Persons so Attainted shall be suspended until His Majesty by the Advise and Assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament shall Order the Execution by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose Except also out of this present Act Oliver Cromwel deceased Henry Ireton deceased Iohn Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to Discharge the Lands Tenements Goods Chattels Rights Trusts and other the Hereditaments late of the said Oliver Cromwel Henry Ireton Iohn Bradshaw and Thomas Pride or of Isaac Ewer deceased Sir Iohn Danvers deceased Sir Thomas Maleverer Baronet deceased William Purefoy deceased Iohn Blakiston deceased Sir William Constable Baronet deceased Richard Dean decealed Francis Al●ya deceased Peregrin Pelham deceased Iohn Moor deceased Iohn Aldred alias Alured deceased Humphrey Edwards deceased Sir Gregory Norton B●r●●et deceased Iohn Venn deceased Thomas Andrews Alderman deceased Anthony Stapely deceased Thomas Horton deceased Iohn Fry deceased Thomas Hamond deceased Sir Iohn Bourchler deceased of and from such Pains Penalties and Forfeitures as by one other Act of Parliament intended to be hereafter Passed for that purpose shall be Expressed and Declared And also Except out of this present Act William Lord Mounson Iames Challoner Sir Henry Mildmay Sir Iames Harrington Iohn Phelps and Robert Wallop All which persons did Act and Sit in that Traiterous Aslembly which in the Month of Ianuary 1648 acted and proceeded against the Life of our late Soveraign King CHARLES the First of blessed Memory and are therefore reserved to such Pains Penalties and Forfeitures not extending to Lise as by another Act intended to be passed for that purpose shall be imposed on them And also Except Sir Arthur H●silrigg for and in respect onely of such Pains Penalties and Forfeitures not extending to Life as by one Act intended to be hereafter passed for that purpose shall be Inflicted and Imposed Provided always That Iohn Hutchinson Esq and Francis Lassells shall be and are hereby made for ever incapable to Execute any Place or Office of Trust Civil or Military within this Kingdom And that the said Franeis Lassells shall pay unto our Soveraign Lord the King One ●ul● years value of his Estate Any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the Pardoning or to give any other benefit whatsoever unto Sir Henry Vane Iohn Lambert or either of them but that they and either of them are and shall be out of this present Act wholly Excepted and Foreprized Provided that if William Lenthall VVilliam Burton Oliver St. Iohn Iohn Ireton Alderman Col VVilliam Sydenham Col. Iohn Desborow Iohn Blackwel of Moreclack Christopher Pack Alderman Richard Keeble Charles Fleetwood Iohn Pyne Richard Dean Maj. Richard Creed Philip Nye Clerk Iohn Goodwyn Clerk Sir Gilbert Pickering Colonel Thomas Lister and Col. Ralph Cobbet shall after the First day of September 1660 accept or exercize any Office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or any other Publique Employment within this Kingdom of England Dominion of VVales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed that then such Person or Persons as do to accept or execute as aforesaid shall to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he or they had been totally excepted by name in this Act. Provided likewise That all those who since the Fifth of December One thousand six hundred forty eight did give Sentence of Death upon any Person or Persons in any of the late Illegal and Tyrannical High Courts of Justice in England or VVales or signed the Warrant for Execution of any Person there condemned except Colonel Richard Iugoldsby and Colonel Matthew Thomlinson shall be and are hereby made incapable of bearing any Office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of VVales or of serving as a Member in any Parliament after the First day of September One thousand six hundred and sixty Provided also and it is Enacted That all and every the Persons appointed Trustees in a late pretended Act or Ordinance made in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty nine for and concerning Tithes appropriate Oblations Obventions Pensions Portions of Tithes appropriate Offerings Fee-farm Rents issuing out of the Tithes therein mentioned First-fruits and other things and Enacted or mentioned to be Enacted to be vested settled adjudged or deemed to be in the actual Seisin or possession of such Person and Persons in the said pretended Act or Ordinance mentioned and their Heirs shall account for and be responsible for all Rents and Profits of the Premises which came to their hands and have not been by the said Trustees or their Order disbursed disposed or imployed for the maintenance of Ministers or other uses according to the said pretended Act or Ordinance or some other Act. Order or Ordinance made in the years of our Lord 1650 1654 and 1656. by any Assemlby called or reputed a Parliament or assuming the power of Parliament according to the intention of such Act Acts or Ordinances and the Agents and Receivers under the Order of the said Trustees and the Occupiers and Tenants of the Premisses who have taken the premisses or profits thereof into their hands without agreement to pay Rent therefore and 〈◊〉 made no account or satisfaction to the Trustees aforesaid
or to some other by their Order 〈◊〉 also the Persons who have held the same or taken the profits thereof under any agreement to pay Rent or Money for the same and have not paid the same shall respectively account pay and make satisfaction for so much of the Premisses and profits of the premisses as are unsatisfied or unaccounted for as aforesaid and pay such Arrearages of Rents or Money as by such Agreement remaineth unpaid by them all which payments and accounts shall be made to such 〈◊〉 and in such maner as in Parliament shall be directed Nevertheless it is not hereby 〈◊〉 That any Minister Schoolmaster or other Person for whose benefit or maintenance the said pretended Acts or Ordinances were made shall be accountable or lyable to make satisfaction for any Profits Rents or sums of Money paid to or taken by them respectively by virtue or colour of any Order or Appointment of the said Trustees or any of them or otherwise Provided also That this Act do not extend to Pardon any Bond taken in his late Majesties Name before the Month of May One thousand six hundred forty two for securing the proper debt of any Servant or Receiver of the Revenue of His said late Majestie that hath not been paid to or by Order of some lawfull or pretended Authority And whereas by an Order of the six and twentieth day of May in the year One thousand six hundred forty one the then House of Commons in Parliament did accept the sum of One hundred and fifty thou and pounds as a Composition from the Farmers of several Customs Voted to be Illegally taken and some of the said Farmers did procure and pay the said whole sum of One hundred and fifty thousand pounds at the desire of the said House of Commons and upon their Declaration that such of the said Farmers as did not pay their proportions should not be Pardoned but proceeded against and out of their Fines Satisfaction should be made to those who had paid the aid One hundred and fifty thousand pounds and in pursuance thereof did on the First of June then next following Resolve That the Estates of such Persons living or dead as have by colour of any Patent received moneys from the Subject under pretence of such Cus●o●ns or have been under-sharers with the Patentees ought to be made liable to Restitution It is therefore Provided That this Act shall not extend nor be construed to extend to Pardon or Indem●nifie any Person or Persons their Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns who have not paid their proportions of the said One hundred and fifty thousand pounds or ought to have been contributary thereunto from or against Misdemeanors or Offences relating to the said Customs or from payment of their Proportions But that the Estates of the dead aswell as of the living of such who ought to have been Contributary in whose possession soever Purchasers Bona fide and upon valuable considerations onely excepted shall continue and be charged and chargeable with the payment of their Proportions to all intent and purposes as if this Act had not been made any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to Pardon or Discharge any Sum or Sums of Money due and in Arrear for Excise of Beer Ale or other Native or Inland Commodity since the Twenty fourth day of Iune One thousand six hundred fifty and nine Provided also That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to the Pardoning or Discharging of any Sum or Sums of money due from any Officers or Souldiers to any of the Subjects of this Kingdom for Free quarter since the Second day of Iuly One thousand six hundred fifty and nine or to Discharge any moneys borrowed by any Officers for preventing of Free quarter Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Conveyance Assurance Grant Bargain Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants and Surrenders by Copy of Court-Roll Estate Interest Trust or Limitation of any use or uses of any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not being the Lands nor Hered taments of the late King Queen Prince or of any Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans or Chapters nor being Lands or Hereditaments Sold or given or appointed to be Sold or given for the Delinquencie or pretended Delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever by virtue or pretext of any Act Order or Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance since the First day of Ianuary 1641 nor any Statute Judgment or Recognizance had made acknowledged or suffered to any person or persons Bodies politick or Corporate before the Nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred fifty and nine by any of the persons before in this Act by name excepted or their Heirs or by any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them other than the Wife or Wives Childe Children Heir and Heirs of such person and persons or any of them for money Bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent nor any Conveyance Assurance Grant or Estate made before the Five and twentieth day of April One thousand six hundred and sixty by any person or persons to any 〈◊〉 person or persons excepted by name as aforesaid in Trust and for the Benefit of any other person or persons Bodies politick or Corporate not excepted by name as aforesaid shall be Impeached Defeated made void or frustrated hereby or by the attainder or conviction of any such excepted person or persons but that the same shall be held and enjoyed by the Purchasers Grantees Leslees Assignees Cestuy que use Cestuy que trust and every of them their 〈◊〉 Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively as if this Act had not been made 〈…〉 if the said person or persons had not been excepted attainted or Convicted any Law Stature Usage or Custom to the contrary thereof in any w●●e notwithstanding Provided always That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not extend to Indemnifie any person or persons whatsoever who have entered into any Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called Fabrick Lands or possest themselves of any Rent or Revenues given for the repair of any Cathedral or other Church or who have Sacrilegiously enriched themselves by converting the Plate or Utensils and Materials of or belonging to such Churches to their own private use and advantage for or in respect of the said Crimes onely