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act_n	law_n	parliament_n	void_a	3,330	5	9.0049	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82593	A declaration and ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament; touching the Great Seale of England. And that the said Seale is to be put into the hands and custody of such commissioners, as are herein named by both Houses of Parliament. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this declaration touching the Great Seale, be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing E1305; Thomason E75_25; ESTC R15211	2,454	11

A DECLARATION AND ORDINANCE OF The Lords and Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT Touching The Great SEALE OF ENGLAND And that the said SEALE is to be put into the hands and custody of such Commissioners as are herein named by both Houses of Parliament ORdered by the Commons in Parliament That this Declaration Touching the Great Seale be forthwith printed and published H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. Printed for Edward Husbands November 11. 1643. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in Parliament Touching the Great Seal of England WHereas the Great Seal of England which by the Laws of this Realm ought to attend the Parliament being the Supreme Court of Iustice and Iudicature within this Realm for the dispatch of the great and weighty affairs of the Commonwealth which is especially interessed and concerned therein was above a yeer last past that is to say the Two and twentieth day of May Anno 1642. by the then Lord-Keeper thereof Edward Lord Littleton then a Member and Speaker of the House of Peers in Parliament contrary to the great trust in him reposed and duty of his place secretly and perfidiously conveyed away from the Parliament into the Kings Army raised against the Parliament the said Lord-Keeper departing therewith into the said Army without the leave or privity of the said House By means whereof great mischiefs and inconveniencies have ensued to this Kingdom and the Kingdom of Ireland And whereas the said Great Seal ought constantly to remain in the hands and custody of one or more Officer or Officers sworn for that service and to be used and imployed for the weal and safety of His Majesties People which notwithstanding hath been divers times sithence the conveying away thereof as aforesaid put into the hands of other persons not sworn and Popishly and dangerously affected who have had the disposing and managing thereof at their own wills and pleasures and hath been trayterously and perniciously abused to the Ruine and Destruction of the Parliament and Kingdom by granting and issuing out divers Illegall Commissions of Array and other unlawfull Commissions for raising of Forces against the Parliament by issuing out of most foul and scandalous Papers under the Name and Title of Proclamations against both Houses of Parliament and divers Members thereof and others adhering to them and Proclayming them Traytors and Rebels Commissions of Oyer and Terminer to proceed against divers of them as Traytors and other Commissions to seize and confiscate their Estates for no other cause but for doing their duties and services to the Common-wealth as likewise by granting that horrid Commission for executing of that most bloody and detestable Designe of Waller Tomkins and others for the destruction of the Parliament and Citie of London and of the Army raysed for their just Defence and as if Massacres and Assacinations had beene but light and veniall crimes another Commission hath beene granted under the same Seale for a Cessation of Arms with the barbarous and bloody Rebels in Ireland after the effusion of so much innocent blood and slaughter of above one hundred thousand Protestants Men Women and Children by their mercilesse and bloody hands wherupon a Cessation of Arms is accordingly concluded and those brutish Rebels thereby imboldned to prepare themselves not only for a totall Exterpation of the Protestants remaining there but for a Conquest also of this Kingdome And further by granting of severall Commissions and Offices of Trust and Command to notorious Papists who by the Laws and Statutes of this Realme are made uncapable thereof and by conferring of Honours and Dignities and granting of Lands and Estates to divers exorbitant Delinquents who stand legally impeached of high Treason and other high Crimes and misdemeanours in Parliament All which and many other unlawfull and enormous Acts have passed under the said Great Seale since the removall thereof from the Parliament as aforesaid Which the Lords and Commons taking into their consideration and finding all wayes and means obstructed for the procuring of any redresse from His Majestie in the Premisses notwithstanding their long hopes and uncessant Labours for the obtayning thereof are bound in duty and of necessity to provide some speedy Remedy for these insupportable mischiefes BE it therefore Declared and Ordained by the said Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that aswell all and every the said Acts formerly mentioned which have passed under the said Great Seal as also all Letters Patents and Grants of any Lands Goods or Estates of any person or persons whatsoever for adhering to the Parliament all Compositions or Grants of any Wardships or Leases of any Wards Lands Liveries Primer seizins Ouster le maines since the said 22. of May 1642. which have not according to the due course of Law passed through the Court of Wards and Liveries established by Law All grants since the said 22. of May 1642. of any Honours Dignities Mannors Lands Hereditaments or other thing whatsoever to any person or persons which have voluntarily contributed or shall voluntarily contribure any Aid or Assistance to the maintenance of that unnaturall War raised against the Parliament And all pardons granted to any such person or persons And all other Acts or things whatsoever contrary to or in derogation of the Proceedings of both or either of the Houses of Parliament which have passed under the said Great Seal since the removall thereof from the Parliament shall be and are hereby declared to be utterly Invalid void and of none effect to all intents and purposes And that all and every act or thing which after the publication of this Ordinance shall passe by or under the said Great Seal or under any Great Seal of England other then what is hereby appointed and established shall be utterly voyd frustrate and of no effect and every person or persons which shall put the same in use or shall claime any thing thereby shall be held and adjudged a publique Enemy of this State And be it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons that a Great Seal of England already by them made and provided shall be forthwith put in use and shall be and is hereby authorized and established to be of like force power and validity to all intents and purposes as any Great Seal of England hath been or ought to be And that it shall be put into the hands and custody of the persons hereafter named who are hereby Ordained Commissioners for that purpose that is to say John Earl of Rutland and Oliver Earl of Bulling brooke Members of the House of Peers and Oliver St. Iohns Esquire His Maiesties Solicitor Generall Iohn Wilde Sergeant at Law Samuel Brown and Edmund Prideaux Esq Members of the House of Cōmons which said persons or any three or more of them whereof one member or more of the Lords House also one Member or more of the House of Commons shall be present shall have and are hereby Authorized to have the Keeping Ordering and disposing thereof as also all such and the like Power and Authority as any Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper or Commissioner of the Great Seal for the time being hath had used or ought to have H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. FINIS