City or place for sequestrations in any cause of this kinde till the matter hath first beene certified under the hands of two or more of the said respective Committees by whose Agents and Ministers the goods or estate of the Delinquent were seized Or in case the said Committees refuse to certifie the speciall matter or that otherwise Certificate cannot bee had And bee it ordained that honest able and sufficient Collectors bee appointed in every County City and place for this service and their neglects or defaults be certified to the Houses or to the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestrations And that all and every person and persons who shall be employed in this service or shall doe any thing in pursuance of this or the said former Ordinance for Sequestrations shall therein have the protection of both Houses of Parliament for their Imdempnity and bee held and esteâ—med as persons doing an acceptable service to the Common-wealth And it is further ordained that every Collector within every County City and place respectively who shall receive any moneys in kinde or make sale of any goods shall deliver the moneys so received or raised by sales to the Committee for sequestrations within the said County City or place where such moneys shall be received or to such Treasurer as they shall appoint or other person authorized to receive the same within seven dayes next after the said Collectors receit thereof upon paine of forfiture of twelfe pence for every twenty shillings received or levied by sale as aforesaid and remaining in his or their hands which Committee or Treasurer shall take order for the safe sending of all and every summe so received to the Treasurer at Guild-Hall in London appointed for this purpose Monthly or more often as they shall bee thereunto required by the said Treasurors at Guild-Hall or by the said Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestrations or by the Committee of Lords and Commons for advance of moneys and that the severall Committees Collectors and Treasurers respectively shall have power to give acquittances and discharges for the severall sums by them received which shall bee sufficient discharges to the parties concerned in that behalfe And it is further ordained and declared That Master Hobson Master Bernardiston Master Hill and Master Samuel Avery Citizens of London shall bee and are hereby appointed and authorized to be Treasurers at Guild-Hall London to receive all moneys raised and to be raised upon or by vertue of this or the said former Ordinance for Sequestrations and shall make entries thereof in faire books â—o be provided for that purpose as also of the names of the persons from whom and the time when they receive the same and of their disbursements and payments out for which their paines and service they shall have three pence in every pound which they shall so receive to be debated out of the said summes received And it is further ordained that no Treasurers trusted with any part of the said moneys shall issue out any of the said moneys by way of payment loane or otherwise except as in this Ordinance is appointed otherwise then and in such manner as is directed by former Ordinance for issuing out of moneys and for the more exact and perfect keeping of all accompts touching the premisses it is yet further ordained that every Collector shall from time to time make and keep a sure and perfect Inventary of all and every the moneys goods and estates by him seized another of the sale or other disposall thereof both of which shall be subscribed under the hands of two or more persons of credit that were present at the said seizures or sales besides his own and that he make and ingrosse a duplicate thereof in parchment fairly written one part wherof he shall leave with the particular Committee under which he is employed and the other part after examination thereof he shall deliver to the Sollicitor for that place who shall transmit the same to the Committee of Lords and Commons for advance of money subscribed by the said Sollicitor and Collector and two of the said particular Committee of the place from whence it is transmitted all which accounts and duplicats shall be made and sent up to London in such manner and so often as the said Committee of Lords and Commons for advance of money shall from time to time order and appoint Provided always and be it ordained that it shall be lawfull for the respective Committes for sequestrations or any two or more of them to accept of ready mony for the goods of the said Delinquents or Papists or any of them which shall or are to be seized according to the value thereof in leiw and satisfaction of the said goods and thereupon the seizure and sequestration as to the same to be discharged And bee it ordained that if any person shall wittingly or willingly conceale and harbour any of the goods of any Delinquents within this or the said former Ordinance he knowing such person to be a Delinquent that then such persons shall forfeit treble the value thereof to be levied upon his or their goods and estates by the said respective Committee or Sequestrators or any two or more of them or their agents to the uses appointed by the said Ordinances for Delinquents Estates FINIS
AN ORDINANCE OF EXPLANATION AND Further Enlargement of a former ORDINANCE Made by the Lords and Commons in Parliament for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates With an Oath for renouncing of POPERY August 19. 1643. ORdered by the Commons in Parliament assembled That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. LONDON Printed for Laurence Blaikelocke and are to be sold at his Shop neer Temple-Bar Aug. 21. 1643. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament for explanation of a former Ordinance for sequestration of Delinquents estates FOr explanation and enlargement of an Ordinance lately made by the Lords and Commons in Parliament for Seizing and Sequestring the Estates both Reall and Personall of certain kindes of notorious Delinquents Be it now Declared and Ordained by the said Lords and Commons assembled That in the number of such Delinquents and Papists who shall come within the compasse of the said former Ordinance and to all Intents and Purposes to be proceeded against as notorious Delinquents or Papists expresly described in the said Ordinance shall be reckoned and accounted all such as voluntarily absenting themselves from the usual places of their abodes or dwellings Trade Offices or Imployments and have gone or shall go to any of the Kings Armies or other Forces raised without consent of both Houses of Parl. and have there continued or shall there continue and shall not within ten days after Seizure or Sequestration of their severall goods or estates or stay made of their Rents by force of the said Ordinance which said Sequestrators are hereby required to do shew sufficient cause to be allowed by the Committee of the County City or Place in which the said Seizure or Sequestration or stay of Rents is or shall be made of such their absence going and continuing in any of the said Armies or Forces And all such as shall fraudulently imbezle conceal or convey away all or any part of their goods money or estate without valuable consideration or not bonâ fide thereby preventing or avoiding the paymeÌ„t of any taxes or Assesments laid upon them by any Ordinance of both Houses of Parl. or any distresse or seizure in case of non-payment thereof or that after any such Tax or Assessment laid on them convey themselves away or refuse to be spoken with whereby any Tax or Assessment laid upon them by Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament cannot be executed upon them or their estates according to the true meaning and purport thereof or that wittingly or willingly conceal or harbour any goods or persons of Delinquents within this or the said former Ordinance or that have had any hand in the late horrid and desperate Conspiracy and Treason of Waller Tompkins Challinor and their Confederates whether they be already or hereafter shall be Convicted to be privie or consenting thereunto except such as being not yet convicted shall discover and confesse all that they know thereof within the time limited by both Houses of Parliament to such person or persons as are or shall be appointed to take such discoveâ—â—â—s and Confessions or that shall sue or molest any person or persons who shall have yeelded obedience or conformitie unto the Orders Ordinances or Commands of both Houses of Parliament or have been or shall be imployed by authority of both the said Houses for or by reason of any thing done or to be done in execution or performance thereof or that have willingly harboured any Popish Priests or Jesuites in their houses or dwellings since the 29 of November 1642. or that shall hereafter so harbour any And all and every person or persons which at any time heretofore have been convicted of Popish Recusancy and so continue or that have been or shall be thereof Indicted and such their Indictwents removed by Certiorary or being not removed shall not by appearance and Traverse be legally discharged before Seizure or Sequestration made of their goods or estates or stay of their Rents by force of this or the said former Ordinance or that have been at Masse at any time within one whole yeer before the 26 day of March 1643. or shall hereafter be at Masse or whose Children or Grand-children or any of them living in house with them or under their or any of their Tuition and Government shall be brought up in the Popish Religion and all such persons as being of the age of 21 yeers or above shall refuse to take the Oath hereafter expressed which Oath any two or more of the said Committees for Sequestration in every Countie City or place respectively or any 2 Justices of the Peace or the Major Bailiffs or other head-Officer of any City or Town Corporate shall have â—â—wer to administer to any such person or persons The Tenor of which Oath followeth in hac verba viz. The Oath I A. B. Do abjure and renounce the Popes Supremacie and Authority over the Catholike Church in Generall and over my Selfe in Particular And I do beleeve that there is not any Transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper or in the Elements of Bread Wine after Consecration thereof by any person whatsoever And I do also beleeve that there is not any Purgatory Or that the Consecrated Hoast Crucifixes or Images ought to be worshipped or that any worship is due unto any of them And I also beleeve that Salvation cannot be Merited by Works and all Doctrines in affirmation of the said Points I do abjure and renounce without any Equivocation Mentall-Reservation or secret Evasion whatsoever taking the words by me spoken according to the common and usuall meaning of them So help me God Shall forfeit as Papists within this and the said former Ordinances and Seizure and Sequestration of two third parts of all their goods and estates Reall and personall and sale of such proportion of their goods so Seized and Sequestred shal be made and their Rents and estates disposed of in such manner and proportion and by such persons as by the said Ordinance of Sequestrations is appointed for Papists And for the better discovery of such Delinquents and Papists in this and the said former Ordinance described and of their estates Be it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That over and besides the former power given by the said Ordinance of Sequestration to the persons trusted and imployed in the said Service the said Committees for Sequestrations or any two or more of them respectively shall have power further hereby to examine by Oath or otherwise all and every person or persons other then the parties themselves so declared to be Delinquents that probably may be able to discover such Delinquents and Papists or that may be trusted with or privy to the keeping or concealing of the goods or estates of any such delinquent or Papist or that shall owe any thing to any such delinquent or Papist and such as shâ—ll refuse so to be examined or to declare the whole trueth therein
so farre as he shall be so required shall be committed to safe Custodie by the said Committee or any two or more of them imployed for their exâ—minations till he or they shall conform him her or themselves And that such person or persons as shall first finde out and discover to one or both Houses of Parliament or to any Committee authorized for this Service or to any of their Agents or Officers any such moneys goods debts or estates if the same be imbezelled eloyned concealed or conveyed away as aforesaid shall do therein an acceptable service to the Common-wealth and shall have and receive for his pâ—ins therein 12. d. in every twenty shillings so discovered after Seizure or sale thereof made and receipt of the money arising thereupon or out of the Rents or estate so discovered the same to be paid unto him by the respective Committees or Treasuâ—ers trusted with the moneys that shall be received upon the Sale or Proceed thereof without any further or other Warrant and shall further receive such other reward for his extraordinary service therein as by the said LORDS and COMMONS shall be further appointed and Ordered And for the more speedie and effectuall Seizure and obtaining possession of all such Debts Goods and estates as aforesaid discovered or to be discovered It is further Ordained That over and besides the Power given by the said former Ordinance for Sequestration the severall and respective COMMITTEES appointed for this Service or any two or more of them shall hereby have Power to authorize their severall Collectours and Agents imployed herein to breake open all Locks Bolts Barres dores or other strength whatsoever where any such estates moneys or goods are or shall be upon probable grounds made appeare to the said Committees or any two of them and by them allowed in writing under their hands to be provided that some or one of the said Committee or the Sollicitor or Constable or some other known Officer of that County or Place and one other person or persons of credit and trust be present at the doing thereof and it is further ordained that an exact Inventory subscribed by all their hands be taken of all particulars whatsoever which shall be seized by vertue of these Ordinances and one part of the said Inventory in writing so subscribed delivered to the owner or owners of the said money goods or estates or other things so Inventoried or to some person trusted with the keeping thereof And that where any Rents Debts or Estate pertaining to any Delinquent or Papist within this or the said former Ordinance for sequestration shall be found due and the Debtor refuseth or neglecteth to pay the same upon any pretence whatsoever reasonable time being given to provide it after it be come payable and demand thereof made the said Committees their Collectors or other Agents whom they shall authorize thereunto under their hands in writing shall hereby have power to distraine seize carry away and sell so much of the goods and estate of every such person so refusing or neglecting as aforesaid as may fully satisfie the said Rents or other Debts together with all charges of seisure removall and sale of goods for satisfaction of the said Rents or Debts And if any person or persons shall stand out or forbeare to make payment of any summe or summes of money which he or they ought to pay by vertue of this or any other Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament whatsoever made for the raising of moneys untill a distresse bee taken for the same that then he or they so standing out or forbearing shall pay such double charges for all such seizures removeall and sale of their goods as the Committee or any two or more of them respectively shall allow or appoint the same to bee levied and taken out of the goods and estates of such persons so standing out or forbearing by such as shall be employed to distraine for and seize the principall summe And if any person or persons shall undertake for the forth comming of any goods or estate at any time seized by force of this or the said former Ordinance all and every the said goods or estate shall be particularly Inventoried and the Inventory thereof signed and subscribed by three or more persons of credit and after given in to the Committee under whom the persons making the seizure shall bee employed and if it shall after happen that any of the said goods or estate bee imbezilled or wanting or be denied or refused or not delivered to the said respective Committee or to their Collectors requiring the same by order of the said Committee or any two or more of them respectively that then the said Committee or such as they shall authorize thereunto shall have power to seize carry away and sell so much of such undertakers goods or personall estate and profits of his Lands and Tenements as may fully satisfie for the goods or estate so wanting imbezilled or not delivered and also so much double charges for the seizure carriage and sale of the said undertakers goods or estate so to be seized and sold as the said Committees or any two or more of them shall allow And for the better enabling of the said severall Committees and their Agents to make sale of all such goods and estates as are and shall be by them seized and are appointed to be sold by this or the said former Ordinance It is further declared and ordained that after the apportioning and setting out of some necessary maintenance if it be desired for the wives and children of such Delinquents whose goods and estates are and shall be seized which allowance or maintenrnce the said severall and respective Committees or any two or more of them respectively shall hereby have power to make so as they allow not the wife and children of one Delinquent above one fifth part of his goods and estate so seized they shall authorize and require their Collectors and Agents to make sale of the residue or remainder of the said goods by the Candle for ready moneys to bee paid at the delivery of the goods so sold within ten dayes after the seizure thereof giving notice of the said sale in writing upon some posts or walles in the most open and eminent places neare the place of sale two dayes before the said sale due appraisment being first made thereof by two skilfull appraisors being men of some quality and known integrity from time to time to be chosen with the advice of the Sollicitor for sequestrations by the Committee trusted with the seizure and sale of the said goods which appraisment shall be made in the presence of some of the said Committees Sollicitor or Treasurer of the same County City or place respectively and not otherwise And for the more speedy dispatch hereof it is further ordained that the Committee of Lords and Commons for sequestrations shall receive no information against the particular Câ—mmittee of any County