any Warrant shall be made for any other purpose the same shall be void And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid That as the said Treasurers shall receive ready monies by sale of the premises or by receipt of the rents and profits of the same deducting charges and allowances they shall pay and divide the same to the lenders one fourth part of their whole debt that shall be owing to them in course as they did pay their monie with the interest then due and so from time to time till the whole be payed Provided alwayes and it is hereby declared that it shall and may be lawfull for every lender or lenders who shall become a purchaser of any part of the said premises to defalk or retain any monie that shall be due unto him by vertue of this present Ordinance upon every purchase that he or they shall make if the summe by him lent shall not exceed the value of the purchase or so much thereof as the same shall amount unto And the said Treasurers shall allow the same accordingly And be it further ordained that the said Treasurers shall keep true and perfect books of accounts of all their receipts disbursments and payments and shall give their accounts to the Committee for taking the accounts of the whole Kingdome for the time being who are hereby required to take the same every six moneths and thereupon to give just discharges to the said Treasurers And after such discharges the said Treasurers their Heirs Executors and Administrators shall not be further questioned for or concerning any of the matters for which they have had and received such discharges And further the said Treasurers shall have deducted and paid unto them the summe of one penny in the pound for all monies by them to be received and paid And to the intent that according to the true meaning of the said first recited Ordinance the true contents and value of all and singular the premises may be known and the best benefit and advantage of them may be made for the use and benefit of the Commonwealth Be it ordained by the Authority aforesaid that Hen. Elsynge Esq Clerk of the House of Commons shall be Register and Keeper of and shall have the custody and keeping of all Records Charters Evidences Court-Rolls Leiger-books Writings Books of Survey Rentals Certificates and other things of or concerning the Lands and Possessions of the late Archbishops and Bishops or concerning any the Counties-Palatine Honours Manours Castles Lands Tenements Hereditaments or other the premises in the above recited Ordinance and herein mentioned And that all and every the Surveyors of the Premises shall make their Returns of all and every their respective Surveyes by them taken from time to time to the said Henry Elsynge who shall make Entry of all such Surveyes Certificates and other proceedings as shall from time to time be returned or certified by the said Surveyor or Surveyors of the Premises And shall also make forth Rate and Signe all and every particular and particulars of the Premises or any part thereof whereupon any Contract or Contracts for Sale or otherwise shall or is to be had or made And all and every the said Contractors shall certifie all Contracts so by them or any of them made to the said Henry Elsynge accordingly who shall make Entry of all and every such Contract and Contracts and other proceedings thereupon Every which said particular and particulars of the premises so to be made forth under the hand of the said Henry Elsynge shall be from time to time a good and sufficient Authority to and for the said Contractors or any six or more of them to contract agree or proceed thereupon To have hold execute and enjoy the said office or place of Register and Keeper by himself or his sufficient Deputy together with the yearly Fee of One hundred pounds per annum payable out of the Receipts Rents and Revenues arising out of the Premises by the hands of the Treasurers herein before mentioned on the Five and twentieth day of March the Foure and twentieth day of Iune the Nine and twentieth day of September and the Five and twentieth day of December Quarterly by equal portions and other reasonable Fees for writing rating and signing of the said particulars and otherwise in the execution and discharge of the said Place Provided that the said Register and Keeper shall have but Three pence the sheet of all things that are to be copied and to write Fifteen lines in each sheet Which said yearly Fee of One hundred pounds the said Treasurers are hereby required and authorised to pay accordingly and that the Acquittance of the said Henry Elsynge shall be a good Discharge to the said Treasurers and every of them for the payment thereof as aforesaid And it is hereby further Ordered and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the said Trustees or the major part of them the Survivors of them or the major part of them their Survivors and the Heires of the said Survivors shall and may from time to time nominate and appoint under their hands and seals respectively so many persons as they shall think fit to be Surveyors for the putting of this Ordinance in execution touching the surveying of the Premises Who shall have power to go into all and every the Counties Cities and Places within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales or into so many of them as shall be thought fit And it is further ordained by the authority aforesaid that the said Surveyors or other persons to be authorized as aforesaid or any three or more of them shall have full power and authority to enter into and survey all or any of the premises or any part thereof and they or any three or more of them shall also have full power and authority as well by the Oaths ' of good and lawfull men as by all other good and lawfull waies and meanes to inquire and finde out what County Palatine Honours Manours Lordships Granges Messuages Lands Tenements Medows Leasaws Pastures Woods Rents Reversions Services Parks Annuities and other possessions priviledges liberties immunities and hereditaments whatsoever of what nature or quality soever theâ— be lying or being within every such county or City as aforesaid did at any time belong or appertain unto all every or any such Archbishops or Bishops in right of Archbishopricks Bishopricks Dignities or places respectively or to any other person or persons in trust for them or any of them as aforesaid in right of the said Archbishopricks and Bishopricks and what and how much of the same is in possession and the true yearely value thereof and what and how much thereof is in Lease and for what estate and when and how determinable when such Leases or Estate was made and whether antidated and what Rents Services and other duties are reserved and payable during such Estate or issuing out of the same As also what Rents Pensions Charges or
for the same for the time that the said Rents are to continue by any Leases now in being And that the said Trustees appointed by Order of Parliament for the Bishops Lands and the Surviver and Survivers of them their Heires and Assignes shall dispose of the said Messuage with the appurtenances from time to time as by the said Judges and Serjeants for the time being shall be directed and appointed saving to all and every person and persons other then the said Bishops and their Successors all such Right Title and Interest as they or any of them have or ought to have to and in the premises Provided further and be it Ordained That the said Serjeants Inne shall be in the disposing of both Houses of Parliament after the expiration of any Lease now in being saving to all and every person and persons other then the said Bishops and their Successors all such Right Title and Interest as they or any of them have or ought to have to and in the premises Provided alwaies that this Ordinance shall not extend to the puting out of any Stewards of any Liberties or Courts formerly appointed and made by vertue of any Ordinance of Parliament but that they shall continue and be during such time as the said Liberties and Courts shall remaine and be in the hands of the aforesaid Trustees and that they shall have and receive all such Fees Profits and allowances as formerly were allowed them this Ordinance or any other Ordinance Act or thing to the contrary notwithstanding Instructions for a Comptroll upon the Accompts of all Moneyes to be received and payed by or to the Treasurers appointed by this present Ordinance I. THat the Comptroller by himselfe or his sufficient Deputies attend daily according to the usuall times and be present at all Receipts and Payments made within the said Treasurers Office and make Duplicates or Entries of the same in fitting Bookes to be provided and kept for that purpose II. That every Tenant of the Premisses or any part thereof and every Purchasor of the Premisses or any part thereof upon every payment of any summe of Moneyes that he shall make to the Treasurer shall enter his acquittance with the Comptroller which the Comptroller shall enter without fee III. That the said Treasurers or their Clerke to the Cash shall weekly upon every Monday morning deliver the Comptroller or his Deputy a Copy of all Receipts Payments and disbursements and to whom during the preceding weeke which the Comptroller is hereby required to enter in a booke to be kept for that purpose and that no payment to be made by the said Treasurers shall be allowed upon their Accompt unlesse an Accompt thereof be weekly given as aforesaid IIII. That the Register shall weekly from time to time make Certificate to the Comptroller of all Rents and of all rates of particulars and of all Moneyes payable upon any such Particulars Contracts or Bargaines made by vertue of this Ordinance which shall be forborne upon security and how and by whom the same is secured and at what time payable which certificate the Comptroller shall enter in a Booke to be by him kept for that purpose Instructions for Contractors for the sale of the late Archbishops and Bishops lands THat the Contractors shall be sworne before the Trustees or any three of them according to their best skill and knowledge faithfully to discharge the trust committed to them and that they shall not for favour affection reward or hope of reward breake the same trust which said Trustees or any three of them are hereby authorized to administer the said Oath accordingly That the Demesne Lands of the late Arch-Bishops and Bishops in possession shall not be sold under ten yeares purchase of the full values they were at in the yeare 1641. The same rule to be observed proportionably in the sale of Reversions expectant upon Estates for lives or yeares That the due respect to be had by the Contractors to the immediate Tenants of any of the late Arch-Bishops or Bishops shall be in admitting them to the pre-emption of those Mannours Lands Tenements and Hereditaments wherein they have any interest so as the said Tenants doe come within thirty daies after the returne of the Certificates by the Surveyors and agree to Purchase the same and in case they doe not agree within the said thirty daies that then the Contractors doe sell the same to any other Person or Persons that shall desire to purchase them so as such sale be made at a higher rate then was offered by the said Tenants That upon the sealing of the Assurance the Purchasor shall pay halfe his Purchase money downe and the other halfe within six Moneths and for the last payment the Contractors shall take care that they take good security either by the Land it selfe or else by Personall security The same security to be given to the Treasurers That in all cases where any Person or Persons that have lent any Monies upon this Ordinance shall be Purchasors their monies so lent shall be esteemed as so much paid towards their Purchase if it exceed not the moiety of the Purchase money and for what exceeds the moiety that every such Purchasor shall be allowed Interest for it untill the end of six Moneths wherein the remainder or totall of the Purchase money is to be paid Instructions for the Surveyors of the late Arch-Bishops and Bishops Lands which are to be surveyed THat the Trustees as aforesaid shall have power to nominate one two three or more Surveyors to survey the Premisses or any part of them as they shall thinke fit and that the surveyes and returnes made by any such one two three or more Surveyors shall be good and effectuall to be proceeded upon notwithstanding any Clause in any Ordinance of Parliament to the contrary That the Surveyor or Surveyors appointed or to be appointed by the Trustees shall survey and inquire what Timber buildings open Quarries or Mines are upon any of the Premisses and certifie the condition and values thereof That no Surveyor or any his Childe or Children or any in trust for him or them shall be admitted to be a Purchaser of any part of the Lands surveyed or to be surveyed by himselfe upon paine of losing his or their Purchase Money and the Purchase to be void Provided that nothing in the Instructions Oath or in this present Ordinance shall be construed to compell the Surveyors to make any admeasurement of the Land or any particular Survey of the number of Acres unlesse they iâ— their discretion shall thinke fit the intention of the Houses being That the said Surveyors should make a speedy returne of their severall surveyes to the end that a speedy sale may be made thereupon Instructions to be observed by the REGISTER I. THat he do receive all Surveyes and Certificates to be returned by the Surveyors and immediately after the receipt thereof fairely enter and Register the same in Books to
AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT For the selling of the Lands of all the Bishops in the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales for the service of the Common-wealth WITH The Instructions and names of all the Contractors and Trustees for the speedy execution of the same Corrected according to the Originall Die Lunae Novemb. 16. 1646. ORdered by the Lords assembled in Parliament that this Ordinance with the Instructions be forthwith printed and published John Brown Cler. Parliamentorum LONDON Printed for John Wright at the Kings-head in the Old Baily Novemb. 18. 1646. Die Lunae Novemb. 16. 1646. An Ordinance of the LORDS and COMMONs Assembled in Parliament for appointing the sale of the Bishops Lands for the use of the Common-wealth WHereas by an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons made the ninth of October one thousand six hundred forty six the name title stile and dignity of Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop of Yorke Bishop of Winchester Bishop of Duresme and of all other Bishops of any Bishopricks within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales from the fifth of September one thousand six hundred forty six is wholy abolished and taken away and all and every person and persons are disabled to hold the place function or stile of Archbishop or Bishop of any Church See or Diocesse within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales by any Authority whatsoever And all Counties Palatine Honours Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the premises in the said Ordinance mentioned were and are vested and setled adjudged deemed to be in the reall and actuall possession and seisin of Thomas Adams Alderman then Lord Major of the City of London Sir John Wollastone Knight Sir George Clerke Knight John Langham Alderman John Fowke Alderman James Bunce Alderman William Gibs Alderman Samuel Avery Alderman Thomas Noell Christopher Packe John Bellamy Edward Hooker Thomas Arnold Richard Glyde William Hobson Francis Ashe John Babington Laurence Brumfield Alexander Jones John Jones Richard Venner Stephen Estwicke Robert Mead and James Story their heires and assignes upon trust and confidence that the said persons before named their heires and assignes should have and hold the premisses and every of them subject to such trust and confidence as both Houses of Parliament should appoint declare and dispose of the same and the rents and profits thereof as the said Houses should order and appoint And whereas the said Lords and Commons the thirteenth of October one thousand six hundred forty six have declared they intending to raise the sum of two hundred thousand pounds for the present service of the State that for the encouragement of such who should advance any summe for and towards the same and to the intent they might have notice thereof that every person who hath advanced any Money Plate or Horses with their furniture and arms upon the publique faith may for every summe of money he shall further lend for the advancement of the said summe be secured a like summe more out of the receipt of the grand Excise in course and the sale of the Bishops Lands except Advousons and Impropriations which shall first happen together with all the Interest after the rate of eight pounds per cent per annum to be paid every six Moneths out of the receipts of the Excise till principall and interest be fully discharged as for example if there be owing to any person a hundred pounds principall which with Interest due thereupon for three yeeres past will make a hundred twenty foure pounds he adventuring a hundred twenty foure pounds more may be secured for the whole two hundred forty eight pounds as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser summe and according to the Interest due thereupon And for the more speedy reimbursing of the said money secured and lent for the purpose aforesaid that the said Lands of the Bishops except before excepted are estated and made over to such Feoffees for the speedy sale thereof and such Treasurers for the receipt of the moneys as may give satisfaction to the lenders And have thereby further declared that it shall and may be lawfull for any person or persons to assigne his right and interest in any summe or sums of money owing to him upon the publique faith as aforesaid to any person or persons that shall advance the like sum in manner as is before expressed And therefore for and towards the satisfying of the said two hundred thousand pounds to be raised or so much thereof as shall be raised and of such money as according to the said Declaration the said lenders are to be repaid for Money Plate Horses with their furniture and armes advanced upon the Publique faith with Interest for the same after the rate aforesaid The said Lords and Commons have declared and ordained and doe hereby declare and ordaine That the said Thomas Adams and other the persons before named and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the Heires of the Survivor of them shall stand and be seized of all and singular the said premisses so vested and setled in them their Heires and Assignes except Parsonages appropriate Tithes Tithes appropriate oblations obventions portions of Tithe Parsonages Viccariages Churches Chappels Advowsons Donatives Nominations Rights of Patronage and Presentation and shall take all the Rents Revenues issues and profits which were due and payable after the first of November one thousand six hundred forty six notwithstanding any Sequestration of the same all other the Rents Revenues Issues and Profits that shall at any time hereafter become due and payable for the said premisses or any part of them untill sale shall be made of the same to the uses intents and purposes herein and hereafter declared And be it ordained that the said Trustees or the Major part of them shall have Power and Authority and are hereby Authorised to take into their Assistance such Counsell Learned and to appoint such Stewards of Mannors and all other Officers and Persons as they or the Major part of them should hold fit and necessary for the putting of this Ordinance in Execution and to give such Fees and make such allowance to the said Councell Stewards of Mannors Officers and persons as they shall hold fit and necessary And to make Warrants to the Treasurers for the payment of the same who are hereby required to pay the same accordingly untill Sale shall be made of the premisses to the uses intents and purposes herein and hereafter declared as aforesaid That is to say that out of the Money raised by the Sale of the said Premisses or any part of them that shall be sold and out of the said Rents Revenues Issues and Profits of the said premisses or any part of them there shall be paid and satisfied the severall summes of Money with Interest at the rate aforesaid that by this present Ordinance are or are intended to be paid and satisfied together with all
Charges to be paid or borne for or by reason of the Execution of the trust in them reposed and after the full and due payment of the same that they their Heires Executors and Administrators respectively shall stand seized and possessed of such of the said Counties Palatine Honnors Mannors Lands and Premisses remaining unsold And of the Moneys raised by Sale of the Premisses or of any part of them remaining undisposed for the use and benefit of the Common-wealth as shall be limited and appointed by both Howses of Parliament And be it also ordered and ordained by the Authority aforesaid that Iohn Blackwell senior of Moreclacke in the County of Surrey Esquire Sir William Roberts of Wisden in the County of Middlesex Knight Alderman Vyner Colonell Richard Turner Iames Russell William Methold Thomas Ayres of London Esquire William Prinne of Lincolnes Inne Esquire Robert Fenwicke of London Esquire Timothy Middleton of Standsteed in the County of Essex Esquire Edward Cresset of London Esquire shall have full Power and Authority and hereby have full Power and Authority to Treat Contract and Agree with any person or persons for the Sale of the said premisses or any of them in such manner as is hereafter limited And that the said Iohn Blackwell and other the said persons last before named shall receive of the Tresurers herein named two pence in the pound for every summe that shall be paid to the said Tresurers upon all and every such Contract and Contracts for the Sale of the premisses or any part thereof And that the said Trustees or any five of them shall have full power and are hereby required to convey the premisses or any part thereof by Bargaine and Sale Inrolled according to the Statute or otherwise by any good sufficient Conveyance and Assureance in the Law to any person or persons whatsoever according to such Contract or Contracts as shall be made by the said Contractors or any six or more of them and entred and certified to the said Trustees as aforesaid by the Register herein or hereafter to be named by both Houses of Parliament And the Money that shall be raised by the Sale thereof to be imployed according to the trusts and directions herein declared And that all Bargaines of Sale Conveyances and Assurances made of any Estate or Estates in Fee-simple according to such contracts as shall be agreed upon between the Purchasors and the said Contractors before named shall be good and effectuall in Law And be it likewise ordained that none of the said Trustees shall be Contractors nor none of the Contractors nor any of them nor any other to their or either of their use or uses or in trust for them or any of them directly or indirectly shall or doe purchase the said Lands or any part of them And if any Contractors or any in trust for them or any of them shall buy any Lands contrary to this Ordiance he or they shall forfeit the estate and money paid so for it And every purchasor of any part of the premisses his Heires and Assignes shall have hold and enjoy the premisses that shall be by him purchased discharged of all trusts accompts whereunto the said Trustees are or may be lyable by vertue of this present or the said recited Ordinance And of all Suites and Questions that may arise or be moved upon pretence of sale at under values or upon pretence that the sums by this Ordinance intended to be payed were satisfied before such sale made and all other claimes and demands whatsoever saving the Rents and Interests saved by the said recited Ordinance and of all incumbrances made by the said Trustees or by any clayming under them or any of them And for the discharge of the Trustees and contractors It is further declared and ordained by the authority aforesaid That all and every the said Trustees and contractors shall be and are hereby discharged and saved harmelesse for whatsoever they or any one or more of them shall doe in pursuance of this Ordinance And that if any action shall be brought against them or any of them for any Act done by them or any of them in execution of this Ordinance or Instructions herein mentioned then they are hereby inabled to plead the generall issue and to give this Ordinance in evidence and if a judgement passe for them they shall recover double costs And it is further ordained and declared that the said Lordships Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments vested in the said Trustees by the said Ordinance of Parliament intituled An Ordinance of Parliament for the abolishing of Archbishops and Bishops within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales and for setling of their Lands and Possessions upon Trustees for the use of the Common-Wealth shall not be lyable unto but stand and shall bee free and discharged of and from all and all manner of Statutes Judgements Recognizances Dowers Joyntures And other Acts and Incumbrances whatsoever had made done or suffered or to be had made done or suffered by from or under the said Trustees other then such conveyances and assurances as shall be by them had made done or suffered in performance or pursuance of the sales and contracts by them to be respectively made according to the intent of this present Ordinance and saving unto all and every person and persons bodies politique and Corporate their Heires Successors Executors and Administrators all such Right Title and Interest as by the said Ordinance intituled An Ordinance of Parliament for the abolishing of Archbishops and Bishops within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales and for setling of their Lands and Possessions upon Trustees for the use of the Common-Wealth is or are thereby saved Provided and it is further declared and ordained That whereas the late Bishop of Durham and other his predecessors Bishops of Durham have hitherto exercised and enjoyed as Count Palatines sundry great Franchises Liberties and Jurisdictions commonly esteemed and called Jura Regalia that this Ordinance nor any thing therein contained extend not nor be construed to extend to give power or authority to the persons herein named or any of them to sell dispose or any way to contract for the said Jura Regalia belonging unto the said Bishop or his predecessors as Counts Palatine or any of them but that the same shall remaine in the said Trustees named in a late Ordinance intituled An Ordinance for the abolishing of Archbishops and Bishops within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales and for setling their Lands and Possessions upon Trustees for the use of the Common-Wealth to be disposed of as both Houses of Parliament shall thinke fit and appoint any thing in this present Ordinance to the contrary thereof contained in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes and it is further declared and Ordained That whereas the late Bishop of Ely and other his predecessors Bishops of Ely have hitherto exercised and enjoyed sundry great Franchises Liberties and
other summes of mony are issuing due or payable out of the premises or any part thereof And what Lands or premises are subject or chargeable to and with any good pious and charitable use or uses and the certainty of the same and to make one or more exact and particular survey or surveyes and certificates of their proceedings which certificate and surveyes shall be recorded and all Charters Evidences Court-rolls and other writings belonging to all or any the Archbishops Bishops Archbishopricks or Bishopricks or concerning any of the Counties Palatine Honours Manours Castles Lands Tenements Hereditaments or any other the premises before mentioned shall be kept in such place in London or Westminster as the said Trustees or the major part of them shall think fit and appoint And that the said Surveyours or any three or more of them shall have power and authority so often as they shall be thereunto appointed by the said Trustees or the major part of them to keep Courts of Survey within any of the Counties-Palatine Honours Mannors and Premises And to call before them any of the Tenants or other persons whom they shall conceive to have any interest in any of the Premises to shew their Writings and Evidences and discover what right title or interest they oâ— any of them have or may claim of into or out of the same or any part thereof And also to examine by oath or otherwise any person or persons other then such as have or claim to have interest or title therein for or concerning the discovery of the Contents Metes Bounds Extents Titles Rents Improvements Valuations and Jurisdictions of all or any of the Premises And for the discovering of any Records Evidences Writings or Memorandums concerning the same and that as well the said Trustees or any three of them as the said severall Surveyours so authorized or any three or more of them as aforesaid are hereby authorized to administer an Oath concerning the Premises to any person or persons other then such as have or claime to have interest or title concerning such the Premises as shall be in question And also to commit to prison any person or persons other then such as have or claim to have any interest or title as aforesaid that shall refuse to take such an Oath or discover his knowledge concerning the estate title or evidences of any the lands hereby intended to bee sold and disposed of or refuse to deliver such evidences and Writings concerning the same which are in his custody or power and doe not concerne the maintenance or defence of his interest or such rents or profits as hee had title unto And all Justices of Peace Sheriffs Mayors Bayliffs and other persons are hereby required to be aiding and assisting to the said Surveyours or any of them in the executing of this Ordinance provided that it shall not extend to the imprisoning of any Peere of this Realme And be it further Ordered and Ordained by the authority aforesaid That the Commissioners of Excise and new Impost for the time being are hereby charged and required upon the Certificate of the said Treasurers certifying what summe or summes of money are due and payable to any Person or Persons bodies Politick or Corporate by vertue of this present Ordinance to pay interest after the rate of eight pounds in the hundred for the same to every such Person or Persons bodies Politicke and Corporate their Executors Administrators Successors or Assignes at the end of every six Moneths during the time that the said summe and summes of money or any part thereof shall remaine unpaid which Certificate the said Treasurers are hereby Authorized and required to make accordingly And in case the whole two hundred thousand pounds or so much thereof as shall be lent and the interest thereof and such other summe and summes as are payable by this present Ordinance for Money Plate Horses with furniture and Armes formerly advanced with the interest thereof shall not be satisfied by the Treasurers aforesaid before all summes of Money charged upon the said Excise or new Impost by vertue of any Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament made before the twentieth day of September last except the two Ordinances of Parliament for ten thousand pounds and foure hundred pounds for the Widowes shall be by the said Commissioners of Excise payed and satisfied that then the said Commissioners of Excise upon the like Certificate from the said Treasurers as aforesaid shall be and are hereby charged and chargeable to pay the same with interest as aforesaid or so much thereof as shall be then due and unpaid and shall begin to pay the same when they have in ready money one fourth part of the whole Debt that shall be owing to the Lenders in course as they did pay their money with the interest then due and so continue untill the whole money hereby secured to be paid and then unpaid shall be fully payed and satisfied in such manner as the Treasurers before mentioned were appointed to pay the same and the said Certificates of the said Treasurers with the Receipt of the respective Lenders shall be a good discharge to the said Commissioners of Excise and every of them for their payment of any summe or summes of money by vertue of this present Ordinance And to the end a just and true Accompt and Registry may be made and kept of all and singular the Debts and Monies owing by the Parliament to such Person and Persons as shall advance or lend any summe or summes of Money upon the secuâ—ity of the Bishops Lands and the Grand receipt of the Excise in course or which of them shall first be enabled to furnish Monies for the repayment thereof as also of all Payments and disbursements which shall be made or issue out of the same Be it Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for and during the pleasure of both Houses of Parliament there be and shall be one Register accomptant who shall keepe a true and plaine accompt or accompts of all and every Debt and Debts due or owing by the Parliament for Plate Money Horse or their Furniture to any Person or Persons which shall have advanced or lent Monies as aforesaid and also of all such Interest as is or shall be due upon or for the same which said Register Accomptant shall have full power and is hereby authorized to view peruse and take Copies of all and every Bookes Writings and entries in whose hands or custody soever they or any of them are or shall be wherein are or ought to be Registred or entred any Monies Plate or Horses with their Furniture which have been lent or set forth for the service of the Parliament to the end he may be the better enabled to discover and finde out whether according to the notes entries and Accompts as shall be brought in upon the foresaid advance the Plate Monies Horses and Furniture mentioned therein were at the daies and times therein
be kept by him for that purpose and in an orderly manner fyle bundle up and safely lay up and keepe the Originals II. That he do weekly or oftner certifie unto the Contractours what Surveyes and Certificates are returned to him and of what Manours or otherwise as the case shall require III. That upon Warrant and Direction from the Contractors he do make forth and fairely ingrosse in Parchment particulars of all such Manours Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Buldings Woods or other things surveyed and certified into his Office by the Surveyors whereupon the Contractors are to proceed or intend to make any sale and that he do examine and signe the same particulars and deliver them to the Contractors IIII. That upon Contract or Agreement made by the Contractors for any Manours Lands Tenements Hereditaments Buildings Woods or other thing contained in any particular made forth signed and delivered unto them by the Register the said particular be returned to the Register together with the Order of Agreement or Contract made with the Purchasor thereupon That upon returne thereof he do forthwith rate the particular and ascertaine the purchase Money how much it comes to at how many yeares Purchase the parliculars contracted for are sold and enter the same upon the said particular together with such other proceedings as shall be required by the Contract That he do returne the particular thus rated and ascertained to the Contractors who are to signe the same to attest the Agreement and thereupon to desire and give Warrant to the Trustees to draw up and seale conveyances thereof to the Purchasors accordingly That all particulars thus finished together with all proceedings thereupon be fairely entred or registred by the Register and be safely kept by him as Records and that after such entring and registring thereof the Register do deliver the said particulars unto the Trustees to perfect the sale as aforesaid And to the end this service may be performed in such manner as the Register may be able from time to time to give an accompt of all proceedings if he shall be required to the Parliament himselfe or one 〈…〉 are to attend upon and enter all Orders and Proceedings before the Contractors That he do weekly make Certificate to the Treasurers Comptroller and Register accomptant of all Rents and all Rates of particulars and of all Moneyes payable upon any Contract upon any particular how much thereof is to be paid in hand and how much to be forborne and for what time and how and in what manner the sum or sums to be forborne are to be secured That he do methodize and put in good order all Charters Evidences and Writings belonging to the late Archbishops and Bishops and all Books of Survey and other things to be delivered to his care and custody to be kept by him as Records and make Catalogues of them and fit them in such manner as the Subject may readily see and have Copies if he desire it of whatsoever shall be brought into the Registers Office and be under his charge and custody 17. November 1646. ORdered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament That there be an additionall allowance of three hundred pounds per annum allowed and paid unto Master Alderman Fowke for his salary for his execution of the place of Comptroller of the Receipts of Monies mentioned in the Ordinance for the appointing the sale of the late Bishops Lands over and above the two hundred pounds per annum appointed by the said Ordinance Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum FINIS