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Severall ordinances of the Lords & Commons assembled in Parliament concerning the sale of bishops-lands.; Proceedings. 1646-11-30
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England and Wales. Parliament.
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SEVERALL ORDINANCES OF THE LORDS COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Concerning the Sale of Bishops-Lands LONDON Printed by R. Cotes for John Bellamy at the three golden Lions in Cornhill near the Royall Exchange 1647. 30 Novembr 1646. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for explanation and better putting in execution the late Ordinance Entituled An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament For appointing the sale of Bishops Lands for the use of the Common-wealth THe Lords and Commons assembled Col. Manwaring to ascertain the principall and interest of Monies Plate c. advanced in Parliament do hereby Declare and Ordain That Colonell Robert Manwaring appointed to be Register Accomptant by the former Ordinance for the sale of Bishops Lands is and be hereby authorized upon the Receipts or Certificates given by the former Treasurers Receivers or Collectors of Mony Plate Horse furniture or Arms advanced upon the Publick Faith to ascertain the Principall and Interest thereof and that his Certificate And upon his Certificate the Treasurers to receive the Money and give Receipts to the Treasurers appointed by the said former Ordinance shall be a sufficient Voucher for them to proceed thereupon to the receiving of the Money and giving their Receipts according to the former Twenty shillings per day allowed to the Treasurers Clerks for a year Ordinance And that Twenty shillings per diem shal be allowed to the Treasurers for their Clerks and Tellers the said allowance to continue for a year and to be distributed among them according to the discretion of the said Treasurers And that all other And all other charges incident to the Treasury to be allowed by the Committee hereafter named charges incident to the Treasury which shall be discharged and paid by the said Treasurers shall bee allowed to them by the Committee hereafter named or any five of them And that the Comptroller appointed by the said former Ordinance shall The Comptroller to give acknowledgment thereof upon the weekly account given unto him by the said Treasurers give a receipt or acknowledgment thereof in writing under his or his Deputies hands to the said Treasurers for their justification therein And further that the certificate of the Commissaries and Certificate of the Commissaries for Horses shall bee accepted others authorized for the listing of horses furniture or Arms who have power to give the publick Faith for the same shall be accepted and allowed for as good and sufficient as the Receipts or Certificates of the Treasurers Collectors or Receivers of Mony or Plate And for the settling and determining of any further doubt which may arise concerning the For determining of doubts concerning the validity of any Warrant made to the Treasurers a Committee of Parliament is appointed validity of any warrant made by the Trustees of the Bishops Lands to the said Treasurers for the issuing out of any Money That the Earl of Northumberland Earl of Kent Earl of Rutland Earl of Pembrook Earl of Lincoln Earl of Nottingham Earl of Suffolk Earl of Salisbury Earl of Warwick Earl of Denbigh Earl of Middlesex Earl of Manchester Earl of Mulgrave Earl of Stamford Viscount Hereford Viscount Say and Seale Lord Berkley Lord Dacres Lord Wharton Lord Willoughby Lord North Lord Hunsdon Lord Mountague Lord Gray of Warke Lord Roberts Lord Maynard Lord Howard and Lord Bruce Mr. Hollis Mr. Francis Allen Sir Philip Stapleton Mr. Iohn Ash Sir Iohn Clotworthy Sir Symonds D'ewes Mr. Walter Long Sir Iohn Temple Sir William Lewis Sir William Spring Sir Iohn Hobart Col. Harvey Mr. Got Mr. Recorder Sir Hen. Vane senior Mr. Leigh Mr. Reynolds Mr. Tate Sir Iohn Evelin of Surrey Mr. Roll Sir Samuel Roll Mr. Bond Mr. Ball Mr. Nicoll Mr. Wilson Mr. Blackiston Mr. Pierpoint Sir Peter Wentworth Sir Iohn Curson Sir Walter Erle Sir Robert Harley Mr. Crew Sir Gregory Norton Lievtenant Generall Cromwell Sir Robert Pye Sir Edward Hungerford Mr. Knightly Sir Iohn Burgoyne Mr. Rous Mr. Strode Sir Anthony Irby Mr. Humphrey Edwards Mr. Drake Mr. Prideaux Mr. Alderman Atkin Sir Thomas Soame Alderman Pennington Mr. Vassall Colonel Ven or any five of them shall be and are hereby constituted a Committee of Parliament for the purposes aforesaid and shall have power and authority to hear and determine the same in case the said Trustees or Treasurers shall desire it And that a warrant under any Five of the hands of the said Committee shall be a sufficient authority to them and every of them to proceed accordingly in the execution of the said Ordinance And it is hereby lastly Declared and All persons as well those who have formerly lent upon the Publick Faith as others shall have the same repaid with Interest Ordained by the authority aforesaid That all persons aswell those who have lent upon the publick Faith as those who have that shall advance or lend any sum of Money for the purposes in the said Ordinance mentioned untill the 200000 l. intended by the said Ordinance to be raised shall be brought in shall have the same security for the repayment thereof together with interest for the same after the rate of Eight per centum as those who having formerly lent upon the publick Faith as aforesaid and do now lend upon the said Ordinance are to have H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. Die Veneris 15 Martii 1646. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament For the lessening of the number of the Trustees for the sale of the BISHOPS-LANDS WHereas by vertue of an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Recitall of the Ordinance vesting the bishops-Bishops-Land in the Trustees assembled made the 9 day of October Anno Dom. 1646. All Counties Palatine Honors Mannors Lordships Scites Circuits Precincts Castles Granges Messuages Mills Lands Tenements Medows Pastures Parsonages appropriate Tithes Oblations Obventions Pensions Portions of Tithes Parsonages Vicarages Churches Chappels Advowsons Donatives Nominations Rights of Patronages and Presentations Parks Woods Rents Reversions Services Annuities Franchises Liberties Priviledges Immunities Rights of actions and entry Interest Titles of entry Conditions Commons-Court Courts-Leete and Courts-Baron and all other Possessions and Hereditaments whatsoever with all and every of their appurtenances of what nature or quality soever they be which then were or at any time within ten years before the beginning of this present Parliament were belonging to any Archbishop or Bishop within this Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales or which they or any of them had held and enjoyed in the right of their Archbishopricks or Bishopricks Dignities Offices or Places respectively with all Charters Deeds Books of Accompts Rolls and other Writings whatsoever concerning the same belonging unto them were vested and settled in the reall and actuall possession and seisin of Thomas Adams Alderman then Lord Major of the City of London Sir George Clarke Knight Iohn Langham Alderman and Iohn Iones among others in
values they were at in yeare 1641. The same rule to bee observed proportionably in the sale of Reversions expectant upon Estates for lives or yeares The said Lords and Commons The Contractors to proceed to sale according to such particulars as shall be delivered to them by the Register doe hereby declare and Ordaine that the said full value upon which the said Contractors shall proceed to sale shall be according to such particulars as shall be made and delivered to the said Contractors under the hand of Henry Elsynge Register in the said Ordinance named and that such particulars so made and delivered to them shall be a sufficient justification for them to proceed to sale accordingly And further that the said Register shall And the Register to appoint a Clerk to attend the Contractors And to enter all Orders cause one faithfull able and sufficient Clerke to bee attending on the said Contractors at all their meetings and to enter all their Orders and proceedings and to observe and obey all such commands and directions concerning the Premisses as they or any six or more of them shall direct and appoint And that the said Bookes of Entries shall remaine in the custody of the said Contractors or such of them as they or the major part of them shall appoint Provided that no Copies of the said Entries bee made had or taken out of the said No Copies of Entries to be made by any but the Register or his Clerk Bookes by any others then the said Register or his Deputy or the said Clerk who are to have the use of them for that purpose And that the said Register and his Deputy and the said Clerke The Oath of the Register his Deputy and Clerk shall severally and respectively take an Oath before the Trustees or any three of them which they are hereby authorized and required to administer to them accordingly to execute the said respective Offices and places according to the Ordinances and instructions of both Houses of Parliament in that behalf made and not for any feare favour malice or reward to violate the said respective trusts in them reposed And whereas by the afore recited Ordinances it is Ordained That the said Contractors shall receive two pence in the Pound for every Summe that shall bee paid to the Treasurers upon all and every Contract or Contracts The Contractors to have two pence per pound for all such Lands as shall be Contracted for and sold by them made The said Lords and Commons doe hereby Declare and Ordaine that they shall in stead thereof receive two pence in tehe Pound for all such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the late Arch-Bishops and Bishops which shall be contracted for and sold by them according to the rates for which they shall bee sold And further the said Lords and Commons doe hereby Declare and Ordaine That all such who All persons which have lent moneys shall have like advantage for all other monyes due by the Ordinance as for the monyes lent have advanced and lent Moneys upon the aforesaid recited Ordinance shall be allowed and have all the same advantages and benefits for and concerning any Moneys otherwise due unto them by the afore recited Ordinance as fully and amply to all intents and purposes whatsoever as for and concerning any ready Moneys lent and advanced upon the said Ordinance Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. Diae Lunae 23. August 1647. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for regulating the sale of Bishops Lands and expediting the Conveyances thereof BE it Ordered and Ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament That whereas in the late Ordinance of Parliament made the 16. of November Anno Dom. 1646. it is appointed that the Purchasers of Bishops Lands shal pay the latter moity of Purchase money within six moneths aâ—ter the sealing of the Assurance And whereas divers purchasers have before the sealing of the assurance obtained the possession of the said purchased Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in all such cases the said six moneths wherein the latter moyety of the Purchase money ought to be payed shall be reckoned from the time of the Contract and not from the sealing of the Assurance and that in lieu thereof the Purchaser shall have and injoy all the meane profits which he hath had or received in the meane time And that the Treasurers for Bishops Lands shall allow and rebate to any Purchaser who hath any money due by the said Ordinance the interest which shall be due unto him together with the principall the same to be defaulked at the times of payment of his Purchase money and that all Assignes of any monies due by the said Ordinance may defalke the same upon Purchasers in like manner as the lenders themselves might doe And the Contractors Trustees Treasurers and all others imployed in the sale of Bishops Lands are hereby required and enjoyned to perfect and seale the respective Conveyances or Assurances with all possible expedition Jo. Browne Cler. Parliament