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A74085	An act for sale of the goods and personal estate of the late King, Queen & Prince. Vicesimo sexto Junii, 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_44; ESTC R10874	9,452	16

AN ACT For Sale of the Goods and Personal Estate Of the late King Queen Prince Vicesimo sexto Junii 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 Parliament of England and are to be sold at his Shop in Fleetstreet at the Sign of the Golden-Dragon near the Inner-Temple 1649. or any of them shall be inventoried and apprised and shall also be sold except such parcels there of as shall be found necessary to be reserved for the uses of State Be it therefore Enacted and it is Enacted by this present Parliament and by the authority of the same That John Humphreys and George Withers of Westminster Esqs Anthony Mildmay Ralph Grafton of Cornhil Michael Lampier John Belchamp Philip Cartwright of the Isle of Jersey Sent Henry Creech John Foach David Powel and Edward Winslow Gentlemen and Citizens of London shall be and are hereby constituted and appointed Trustees for the enquiring out inventorying apprizing and securing of the said Goods and Personal Estate and they or any four or more of them shall be and are hereby authorized to repair to any and every house or place whatsoever where any of the said goods or any part of the said Personal Estate doth lie and to make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory or Inventories thereof and of every part and parcel thereof which they shall or may any way finde out or discover and to make a just and equal apprizement of the same and of every part and parcel thereof according to the true value thereof as they in their judgements and consciences shall think the same may reasonably and probably be sold for expressing in the said Inventory or Inventories the several sums or values at which the several parcels shall be apprized as aforesaid and to secure or cause to be secured the said goods and every part and parcel thereof at such place or places and in the hands and custody of such person or persons as they shall finde most fit and convenient to prevent any spoil or imbezlement thereof of which Inventory or Inventories with the several Apprizements of the premises the said Trustees or any four or more of them shall make three Duplicates certified under their hands and Seals and expressing the several places where and the persons in whose Custody the premises or any part thereof respectively are secured as aforesaid and keeping the Originals in the hands of such Clerk Register as they shall think fit to imploy shall within fourteen days after any such apprizements made return and send one of the said Duplicates to the Councel of State which shall be kept by the Secretary thereof and the other to the other Commissioners hereafter named to be Contractors for sale of the said Goods or to the Clerk-Register whom the said Contractors shall imploy for that purpose which shall by him be Registred and safe kept and the third to the Treasurers hereafter mentioned for the Receipt of the moneys to be made by sale of the premises which shall by them be Registered and safe kept And for the more effectual prosecution of this Service and better discovery of any concealment or imbezlement of the premises or any part thereof Be it further Enacted That the said Trustees or any two or more of them shall be and are hereby authorized to administer an Oath unto and to examine upon Oath every such person or persons as they shall finde able to inform them concerning any other person or persons chargeable with or accountable for the premises or any part thereof And that the said Trustees or any four or more of them shall be and are hereby authorized by warrant under their hands and Seals to summon and call before them all and every such person and persons and the Executors or Administrators of any such person or persons deceased in whose hands Charge or Custody they shall finde or be informed upon Dath that any of the said goods or premises or any Books of Accompts or Writing concerning the same now are or have been or were at any time since the beginning of the late King Charls his Raign or who shall or may be able to inform them concerning the premises or any part thereof and to require every such person or persons to bring before them all such Books of Accompts other Writing as he or they have in their custody or power or may lawfully come by concerning the premises or any part thereof in case of any such persons refusal or neglect of obedience unto such first Warrant then by other Warrant under their hands and Seals to send for such person or persons in safe custody unless the person be a Member of Parliament or of the Councel of State in which case the Parliament or Councel of State respectively is first to be acquainted therewith to the end such person may be ordered and made to appear and do according to the such first Warrant as aforesaid and upon the appearance of any such person or persons as aforesaid in safe custody or otherwise the said Trustees or any four or more of them are hereby authorized to examine and to require an accompt of every or any such person or persons concerning the disposal of the premises or any part thereof either upon Oath Which they are hereby authorized to administer or else without Oath as they shall see cause and in case any such person or persons shall refuse to answer or give such accompt being thereunto required then by Warrant under their hands and Seals to commit such Offendor or Offendors to Prison or safe custody and him or them so to detain until he or they shall answer and give such accompt as aforesaid and in case any such person or persons upon his or their own examinations or other sufficient evidence upon Oath shall be found to have any of the said Goods or personal Estate in his or their hands custody or power and shall detain or shall conceal and refuse or neglect to produce and deliver the same to such person or persons as the said Trustees or any four or more of them shall order and appoint or else to have imbezled purloyned or made away any part or parcel of the premises and shall refuse or neglect to bring or pay in to the Treasury hereafter in this Act appointed the full value thereof in money as upon like evidence as aforsaid the same shall be found to have been worth when last known to have been in his or their hands or custody and as shall thereupon be A warded and Ordered by the said Trustees which they or any four or more of them are hereby authorized and inabled in such case to Award and Order then the said Trustees or any four or more of them are hereby authorized and required to certifie the name and case of every such Offendor

the Agents and Officers by them to be imployed in this Service and to defray all other charges of the same except for Transportation and Sale of such particulars as shall be sent into any Forreign parts as aforesaid to be there sold the charges whereof shall be allowed and satisfied out of the improvement of the price of such particulars above what they would yield if sold here And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That Humphrey Jones and John Hunt Gentlemen and Citizens of London shall be and are hereby constituted and appointed Treasurers for all and every such sum and sums of money as shall or may be made raised levied and paid by vertue of this Act or any thing therein contained and shall receive and safe keep all such moneys and issue out the same for such uses by such warrant and according to such directions as are in this Act appointed or prescribed or shall further by authority of Parliament be prescribed and appointed and not otherwise and of all the moneys so received and issued out shall keep and when there unto required by authority of Parliament shall render a just and true accompt and faithfully observe and perform all such things as by this present Act or any thing therein contained and according to the true intent and meaning thereof the Treasurers of the moneys aforesaid ought to do observe and perform and for their pains and charges therein and satisfaction of such Clerks or other agent and assistants as they shall finde needful to employ therein shall receive and have the allowance of two pence in the pound out of all and singular the moneys to be received and accounted for by them as aforesaid which allowance it shall be lawful for them out of the said moneys from time to time to detain and keep and the same shall be allowed upon account And although most of the Goods and Premises having been of old belonging to the Crown and not to the persons of King Queen or Prince and now belonging to this Common-wealth the proceed upon the sale of them might justly be disposed of for publique uses yet considering the many debts owing from the persons of the said King and Queen and from their said Son contracted before the late Wars and due unto divers persons that are not Delinquents but have constantly adhered to the Parliament and suffered for the same and many of them so necessitous as that their condition cannot bear the want of their said debts The Parliament hath thought fit and do hereby Ordain That the moneys to be raised by sale of the said goods and premises shall be imployed and disposed for and towards the satisfaction of the debts aforementioned and of such of them especially as were contracted for necessary houshold expences which debts shall be paid out of the moneys to be raised as aforesaid as far as the same will go in such maner and by such proportion as by authority of Parliament shall be hereafter directed Provided always That the sum of Thirty thousand pounds out of the first moneys to be raised by such sale as aforesaid shall by the Treasurers aforementioned be issued and lent unto the Treasurer of the Navy for supply of the present uses of the Navy and the said Trustees or three or more of them shall direct their warrant or warrants for that purpose unto the Treasurers aforenamed which said sum of Thirty thousand pounds shall before the second day of May One thousand six hundred and fifty be restored and reimbursed by the Treasurer of the Navy out of his receipts for the Navy into the hands of the Treasurers named in this Act for the uses therein declared And for the better discovery and ascertaining of the sum and several conditions of those debts for satisfaction whereof the said moneys are designed as aforesaid Be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That the said Trustees or any four or more of them shall be and are hereby authorized and required to receive such Informations and Accompts concerning the debts aforementioned as shal be tendred to them or any persons concerned whom they shall or may examine upon oath touching the truth and condition of the same and also by warrant under their hands to call before them any such person or persons who have any books of Accompts or writings or can give any further Information or Evidence concerning the same and them to examine upon oath touching the truth nature and ground of any the debts so informed of and whether the same or any part thereof hath been paid and what remains due as also to examine concerning the conditions of the creditors time of the debts contracted for what the same were respectively and upon such examination to make certifie to the Parliament or the Councel of State a true list accompt or several lists and accompts of all such of the said debts as they shal finde to be of the condition aforementioned expressing the several sums appearing due and for what and when Contracted and whether the persons to whom the same become due by assignment or otherwise appear to be Delinquents or friends to the Parliament and whether they have lent or advanced any Money Plate horse Arms or furniture upon the Parliaments Propositions before the 24 th day of March 1642. and whether they have constantly adhered to the Parliament or suffered for the same and whether their condition be necessitous so as they cannot bear the want of their said debts and of such debts and to such persons the said Trustees are specially to make a distinct list and certificate as they shall finde to have been Contracted for wages or sallaries to Servants or for other necessary provisions of Chamber houshold or Stables to the end it may thereupon the better be determined which of the said debts shall be paid in what order and by what proportions whereupon the Parliament will determine and take order for the payment of such of the said debts as shall appear most just and equal as far as the proceed of the said goods will extend Vicesimo sexto Julii 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Act be forthwith Printed and Published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti