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A82493 An additionall act for sequestrations. Tuesday, February 7. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Thomas St. Nicholas, Clerk of the Parliament. England and Wales. 1660 (1660) Wing E1170; Thomason E1074_29; ESTC R205476 3,858 11

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An Additionall ACT FOR Sequestrations Tuesday February 7. 1659. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith Printed and Published THOMAS St. NICHOLAS Clerk of the Parliament LONDON Printed by John Streater and John Macock Printers to the Parliament 1659. An Additionall ACT FOR Sequestrations VVHereas by an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for Sequestrations Samuel Moyer and others therein particularly named are Constituted and appointed Commissioners for Sequestrations and they or any four or more of them are thereby Authorised and required to nominate and appoint such persons as they shall think fit to seize and secure all the Estates reall and personal of or which any person or persons stands intrusted with for Randall Egerton Robert Werden Sir George Booth and Sir Thomas Middleton or any of them or of or for any other person or persons who since the several and respective times mentioned in the said Act have committed any of the severall and respective Crimes or Delinquencies therein particularly specified or described As in and by the said Act relation thereunto being had more at large amongst other things it doth and may appear Now Be it further Enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authority thereof That the said Commissioners or any four or more of them shall have exercise and put in Execution all such several and respective Powers Authorities and Instructions whatsoever in for or any way concerning the Discovering of and proceeding against all such Persons or new Delinquents and of all such their Estates or in for or any other way concerning any other matter or thing whatsoever and in any Case or Cases whatsoever touching or any way relating unto any of the said Persons or new Delinquents or the Sequestration of their Estates or any such Estate so Sequestred or any of the Rents Issues or Profits thereof As the late Commissioners for Compounding with Delinquents the Nineteenth of April in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty three had or might have exercised or put in execution in for or any way concerning the discovering of or proceeding against old Delinquents or their Estates or in for or any way concerning any other matter or thing whatsoever and in any Case or Cases whatsoever touching or any way relating unto old Delinquents or the Sequestration of their Estates or any such their Estate so sequestred or any of the Rents Issues or Profits thereof and as fully and amply to all Intents Constructions and Purposes whatsoever as the said late Commissioners for Compounding might have done in the same or the like matters things or Cases respectively Provided That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not authorize or impower the said Commissioners for Sequestration to Compound with any of the said Persons or new Delinquents for all or any part of their Estates And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such persons as the said Commissioners for Sequestration or any four or more of them have nominated and appointed or shall Nominate and appoint shall be Committees for Sequestration within such place or places County and Counties as the said Commissioners for Sequestration or any four or more of them have thought fit and appointed or shall think fit and appoint And they the said Committees or any two or more of them according to such Instructions and Orders as in pursuance of this Act or any other Act or Ordinance of Parliament hath been or shall be given unto them by the said Commissioners for Sequestration or any four or more of them shall have exercise and put in execution all such several and respective Powers and Authorities whatsoever in for or any way concerning the discovering of and proceeding against the said persons or new Delinquents and all such their Estates or in for or any way concerning any other matter or thing whatsoever and in any Case or Cases whatsoever touching or any way relating unto any of the said persons or new Delinquents or the Sequestration of their Estates or any such their Estates so sequestred or any the Rents Issues or Profits thereof as the late Commissioners for Sequestration the Nineteenth of April in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty three had or according to Instructions and Orders in pursuance of any Act or Ordinance of Parliament given unto them by the said late Commissioners for Compounding might have exercised or put in Execution in for or any way concerning the Discovering of or proceeding against old Delinquents or their Estates or in for or any way concerning any other matter or thing whatsoever and in any case or cases whatsoever touching or any way relating unto old Delinquents or the Sequestration of their Estates or any such their Estate so sequestred or any the Rents Issues or Profits thereof and as fully and amply to all Intents Constructions and Purposes whatsoever as the said late Commissioners for Sequestration might have done in the same or the like matters things or cases respectively And the said Committees for Sequestration or any two or more of them shall from time to time further Act in and about the Premisses according to such Orders Instructions and Directions as in pursuance of this Act shall be given unto them by the said Commissioners for Sequestration or any four or more of them upon any emergent occasion whatsoever and not otherwise And the said Committees for Sequestration are hereby impowred required according to such Instructions and Directions as they shall from time to time receive from the said Commissioners for Sequestration or any four or more of them to pay all such Rents Revenues Issues Profits and other summs of money as shall be raised upon the sequestred Estates of the said persons or new Delinquents unto Richard Wareing Esquire and Richard Barton Esquire who are hereby Constituted and appointed Treasurers-General for this service and are hereby impowred and required to receive all such Rents Issues Profits and other Summs of money and to give Acquittances for the same which Acquittances shall be unto such Committee or Committees for Sequestration sufficient Discharges for so much so paid respectively But before any such Rents Revenues Profits or other Sums of money shall be so paid unto the said Treasurers the same shall be duly entred with Praise-God Barbone Esquire who is hereby Nominated and appointed to be Comptroller or Checque upon the said Treasurers touching all such Receipts who is hereby appointed the summ of three hundred pounds by the Year for his Salary and pains in the said service To be paid by the said Treasurers without further order And the said Treasurers are hereby impowred to take and retain in their hands to their own use as a reward for their service two pence in the pound for all such Rents Revenues Issues and other summs of Money so received by them as aforesaid And for the better carrying on of this service the said Commissioners for Sequestration
or any four or more of them are hereby impowred and required to nominate and appoint such Persons to be Councel Register Sollicitor Examiner Auditor and all other Officers and to give and allow unto them such Sallaries as they the said Commissioners for Sequestration or any four or more of them shall think fit and reasonable on that behalf the said Sallaries being first approved of by the Committee of Parliament for Inspection of the Treasury And also from time to time to issue their Warrants directed unto the said Treasurers for payment of all such Sallaries and for payment of all other incident Charges whatsoever and also for repayment of all moneys deposited or unduly received And the said Treasurers are hereby Impowred and required to pay the same accordingly and such Warrants together with the Acquittances of the persons concerned shall be unto them a sufficient discharge in that behalf And the said Treasurers are hereby further impowred and required from time to time to pay into the Receipt of the Exchequer at VVestminster all the rest and residue of all such Rents Issues Profits and other summs of money which shall be so received by them as aforesaid and to take such acquittances or other discharges for the same as hath usually been given in the same or the like case or cases which Acquittances or other Discharges shall be sufficient to acquit and discharge them the said Treasurers on that behalf And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Sequestration and every of them before he or they do intermeddle in the execution of any of the Powers given unto them in and by this Act or by the said Act first above mentioned shall take the Oath herein after expressed before the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal or any two of them who are hereby Authorized and Required to Administer the same That is to say I A. B. do swear That I will according to my best skill and knowledge truly and faithfully Perform and Discharge the Trust Reposed in and Committed unto me in Relation unto two Acts of Parliament the one Entituled An Act for Sequestration The other Entituled An Aditional Act for Sequestrations And that I will not for Love or Hate Favour or Affection Gift or Reward or hope thereof or for any other Cause or Motive whatsoever voluntarily break or infringe my said Trust in any matter or thing whatsoever So help me God And the said Treasurers Comptroller or Checque and every Person that shall be Nominated and Appointed by the said Commissioners for Sequestrations or any four or more of them to be any of such Committée for Sequestration and every Person that shall be Imployed by or under the said Commissioners for Sequestration or by or under the said Committees for Sequestration as Councel Register Solicitor Cheeque Examiner Auditor or otherwise are heredy Required before any such Person Act farther in any thing touching the Premises to take the same Oath Mutatis Mutandis before one or more Iustices of the Peace for such County or Place where such Person is to Act or be Imployed which Oath such Iustices are hereby Impowred and Required to Administer accordingly And Lastly Be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners and every of them Respectively shall have and Receive for their pains and care in the Management of this business of Sequestration the Yearly sum of Three Hundred Pounds to be paid by the said Treasurers unto them the said Commissioners and every of them Respectively by even and Quarterly Payments the Receipt of which under the Hand of the said Respective Commissioners shall for such Respective Commissioners Sallarie be from time to time a sufficient Discharge to the said Treasurers And also that the said Committees in the Respective Counties and Places shall have and Retain to their own Vse for their Sallary one shilling six pence in the Pound of all such moneys as shall be paid by them unto the said Treasurers out of the Profits of the said Sequestred Estates in the Respective Counties and Places Tuesday February 7. 1659. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith Printed and Published THOMAS St NICHOLAS Clerk of the Parliament Printed by John Streater and John Macock Printers to the Parliament 1659.