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A84447 By the Committee of Safety of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. A proclamation declaring the continuance of justices, sheriffs, and other officers. England and Wales. Committee of Safety. 1659 (1659) Wing E743; Thomason 669.f.21[85]; ESTC R211299 1,410 1

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❧ By the Committee of Safety of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. A PROCLAMATION Declaring the continuance of Justices Sheriffs and other Officers FOr the continuance of the Administration of Iustice preservation of the publick Peace and the better carrying on the Affairs of the Commonwealth we being intrusted with the care thereof have thought fit to Publish and Declare and do hereby Publish and Declare That all such person and persons as on the first day of October One thousand six hundred fifty nine were Iustices of the Peace in any Counties Cities Precincts Liberties or Places in England Wales or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed by Force and Vertue of any Commission or Commissions under the Great Seal of England and had by such Commissions Power and Authority to Enquire of Hear and Determine Felonies Trespasses and other Offences and to do other things in the same Commissions more at large expressed And all such person and persons who on the said First day of October by Force of any Commissions or Letters Patents under the said Great Seal were Sheriffs of the several Counties Precincts and Places in England Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed be and are hereby continued Iustices of the Peace Iustices of Oyer and Terminer and Sheriffs respectively of and in their and every of their several respective Counties Cities Precincts Limits Iurisdictions and Places respectively from and after the said First day of October and shall so continue and be until there shall be new Commissions and Letters Patents or Commissions under the Great Seal of England for the constituting of Iustices of the Peace and Oyer and Terminer and of such Sheriffs of and in the said several Counties Places and Precincts respectively made and duely published And they and every of them shall have and may lawfully Vse Exercise and Enjoy all and every the Iurisdictions Powers and Authorities whatsoever which by the Laws and Statutes Iustices of Peace of Oyer and Terminer or Sheriffs respectively may or might lawfully Vse Exercise or Enjoy and they and every of them respectively are hereby required and enjoyned to do the same And all and every the said Sheriffs have hereby Power and Authority and are enjoyned to execute and make return according to usual course of all Writs issued or to be issued And all and every Act return of any Writs or other thing whatsoever Had Made Done Vsed or Exercised or to be Had Made Done or Exercised by the said Iustices and Sheriffs respectively or by any other Officers or Ministers or other person or persons whatsoever by command or authority by or derived from by or under them respectively is hereby Declared to be good and effectual And all Commissioners for the monethly Assessments Collectors Receivers and Receivers General of the said Assessments Auditors and Receivers and other Officers of the publick Revenue in the several Counties and Precincts Commissioners of the Customes and their Officers in the respective Ports and Commissioners of Excise and every of them and the subordinate Officers of them and every of them are hereby authorized and required to proceed in the execution of their several and respective Duties and to put in ure all and every the Powers and Authorities committed unto them and every of them in their respective places and to do all and every Act and Thing incident thereunto as fully as they did or might have done on or before the said First day of October And all and every person and persons whatsoever are hereby required to conform themselves in payment of their respective Duties of Custome and Excise and of the said monethly Assessments and all other Revenues belonging to this Commonwealth accordingly as they tender the preservation of the publick Peace and to the end that free Quarter and other mischiefs and inconveniences that may happen by their neglect or failer therein may be avoided Given at Whitehall the 31. day of October 1659. ORdered That this Proclamation be forthwith Printed and Published William Robinson Clerk of the Committee of Safety London Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers to the Committee of Safety