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A74297	An act prescribing certain times to delinquents for perfecting their compositions effectually, under several penalties. Die Lunæ, 9 April, 1649. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliament'.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1649 (1649)	Thomason E1060_20; ESTC R205486	6,296	15

Tythes for which they have had allowance and abatement in their said fines shall within eight weeks after the seventh day of April 1649. setle the same upon such Trustees as the said Commissioners shall appoint for such uses as the Parliament shall hereafter direct And in default thereof such of the said Delinquents as have paid any part of their fines and have thereupon obtained Letters to suspend their Sequestrations shall be forthwith resequestred until they respectively shall setle the said Rectories or Maintenance respectively as aforesaid and pay such Arrerages as have grown due since the time the same were ordered to be setled by the said Commissioners And that all such persons as shall from henceforth be Ordered to setle any Rectory Parsonage or Tythes or any Allowance out of them to the use aforesaid shall within eight weeks after the date of the said Order setle the same under the same penalties as is last aforesaid And forasmuch as the great businesses of the Commonwealth do as yet hinder the making of Reports from Goldsmiths-Hall It is therefore Enacted That the said Commissioners for Compositions or any five or more of them upon the Compounders paying in of the Moyety of his fine or satisfying the same by settlement of any Rectories or Tythes or any allowance out of them and not otherwise shall or may grant to such Compounder an Order to suspend the Sequestration of his Estate And upon his paying in or like satisfying as aforesaid the whole fine to discharge the Estate from Sequestration Which said Orders respectively shall be effectual to suspend or discharge from Sequestration so much as he hath compounded for And whereas divers persons being sequestred or questioned for Delinquency have made their Appeals unto the late Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestrations and have procured a suspension of their Sequestrations and thereby enjoyed the benefit of their Estates and by reason thereof do not effectually prosecute their said Appeals It is therefore Enacted and Declared That the Barons of the Court of Exchequer shall and are hereby constituted and appointed Commissioners for Appeals in case of Sequestrations before whom such persons as aforesaid may prosecute their Appeals And the said Commissioners for Appeals or any two or more of them shall have the same power and authority to all intents and purposes to take cognizance of such Appeals already made and to receive any new Appeals of like kinde and to examine hear and determine the same and to proceed in all things in relation thereto as the late Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestrations lawfully had or might have exercised for that purpose by vertue of any Ordinance of Parliament in that behalf made And that all such persons that have already made such Appeals as aforesaid and yet have not effectually prosecuted the same they and every of them are hereby required effectually to prosecute such their respective Appeals before the said Commissioners for Appeals hereby constituted within two moneths next after the seventh day of April 1649. or otherwise in case of failer thereof through wilful default or neglect of such person appealing then every such suspension of his or their Sequestration procured as aforesaid respectively shall from thenceforth be taken off be Null and void And the Committees for Sequestrations in the respective counties of England and Wales are hereby enjoyned thereupon to resequester the Estate of every such Delinquent which if they shall neglect to do or take effectual order for then the said Commissioners for Compositions or any five or more of them are hereby authorized to do or to take order for the same And that this work may the more certainly and speedily be done the said Commissioners for Appeals are enjoyned from time to time to certifie or cause their Clerk to certifie to the several Committees for the respective counties the Names of such Delinquents and every of them making such default or neglect as aforesaid And it is further Enacted That this present Act be forthwith printed and published and that the Commissioners aforesaid do forthwith send the same to the respective Sheriffs of the several counties of England and Wales who are hereby required to publish the same in the chief Market Towns of the said counties on the next Market day after the receipt hereof and the day of Publication hereof to certifie to the said Commissioners at Goldsmiths-Hall Die Lunae 9 April 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti

AN ACT Prescribing certain Times to DELINQUENTS For perfecting their Compositions Effectually under several Penalties Die Lunae 9 April 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliament ' London Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons and are to be sold at his Shop in Fleetstreet at the Sign of the Golden-Dragon near the Inner-Temple April 12. 1649. AN ACT Prescribing certain Times to DELINQUENTS For perfecting their Compositions Effectually under several penalties VVHereas by Ordinance of Parliament of the sixth of February 1646. it is Ordained That the Commissioners for compounding with Delinquents have power to suspend the sequestration of the Estates of such Delinquents as shall compound with them the Delinquents having paid the moyety of the Fines compounded for and given Security to the said Commissioners for the remainder thereof according to the proportion to be set by both Houses of Parliament Provided That every such person so compounding do within six weeks pay the remainder of his said Fine and sue forth his Pardon under the Great-Seal after his Composition shall be allowed by both Houses of Parliament otherwise the suspension to be void Yet many whose Compositions have been set and allowed by both Houses of Parliament have not paid in the second moyety of their said Compositions according as by the said Ordinance is appointed by reason whereof the Commonwealth hath been disappointed of those moneys which were intended from the said Treasury for the publique service to supply which the Treasurers at Goldsmiths-Hall have been necessitated to take up at Interest great sums of money upon the credit of the said Compositions for which the said Treasury stands ingaged The Commons assembled in Parliament being very sensible how much the said Compounders have abused the said Act of Grace Do therefore Enact and Declare That this Clause onely in the said proviso of the said Ordinance viz. That every such person so compounding do pay in the remainder of his said Fine within Six weeks after the Compositions shall be allowed by both Houses of Parliament shall be and is hereby Repealed and made void And to the end that a present supply of Moneys may be brought in to the said Treasury It is Enacted and Ordained by the Commons assembled in Parliament That all such persons whose Compositions have been set or allowed by both Houses of Parliament shall pay or cause to be paid in to the said Treasury before the Sixth day of May in the year of our Lord God 1649. the full sum or sums remaining due upon their said Compositions respectively and in default thereof shall pay Interest for the same after the Rate of Eight pounds per cent from the time or times at which the same became due and payable respectively together with one fourth part more of the whole sum of their respective Compositions as an additional Fine And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such persons whose Fines or Compositions have been set by the said Commissioners and allowed of by the House of Commons onely shall pay or cause to be paid in to the said Treasury before the twentieth day of May 1649. the full sum of their said Fines or so much thereof as remains due upon their said Compositions respectively and in default thereof to pay Interest for the same after the rate of Eight pounds per centum from and after the said twentieth day of May 1649. together with one fourth part more of the whole sum of their respective Compositions as an additional fine And that all such persons whose fines for Compositions have been set by the said Commissioners before the seventh day of April 1649. but before the same day have not been reported unto or allowed by the Commons assembled in Parliament shall pay or cause to be paid in to the said Treasury the one Moyety of their respective fines before the sixth day of May 1649. if such Moyety be not already paid and the other Moyety thereof within six weeks after their said fines respectively shall be allowed by the said Commons or by such as by their authority shall be authorized and appointed thereunto or otherwise in default of such payment of the said several Moyeties or either of them shall pay Interest for the same at the rate aforesaid from the time or times at which the same shall be become payable by vertue of this Act together with the like penalty as aforesaid of one fourth part more of the whole sum of their respective Compositions as an additional fine And that all such persons whose fines for Compositions shall after the said seventh day of April 1649. be set by the said Commissioners or by such others as shall be by the Commons in Parliament assembled authorized thereunto shall pay or cause to be paid in to the said Treasury the one Moyety of such their respective fines within fourteen days after the setting thereof and the other Moyety within six weeks after such their several fines shall be allowed of by the Commons in Parliament assembled as aforesaid or by such as by their Authority shall be authorized and appointed thereunto or otherwise in default of such payment of the said several Moyeties or either of them shall pay Interest for the same at the Rate aforesaid from the time or times at which the same shall become due and payable by vertue of this Act together with the like penalty as aforesaid of one fourth part more of the whole sum of their respective Compositions as an additional fine And it is further Enacted and Ordained That in case any of the persons above-mentioned that make default in paying in his or their full Compositions within such time and times as are above limited that then the Real and Personal Estates of such Defaulters shall be forthwith Sequestred until they respectively conform thereunto And the said Commissioners at Goldsmiths Hall or any five or more of them are hereby authorized and enabled to Sequester or to take order for the Sequestring of the Real and Personal Estates of such Delinquents and defaulters and to direct to the respective Committees for Sequestrations in the several counties or such other Committees for Sequestrations as shall be appointed by Parliament a Warrant for the purposes aforesaid and for the removing of every such person and persons out of the possession of his or their house or houses who are hereby required to obey and perform the same And all Governors of Garisons and other Officers and Soldiers in the service of Parliament are hereby required to be ayding and assisting unto them in the execution thereof for the purposes aforesaid And for the more effectual prosecuting of the said Sequestrations It is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners or any five or more of them shall and may nominate and appoint and authorize by Warrant under their Hands a