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A82589 A declaration and ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the seizing and sequestring of the estates, both reall and personall, of certaine kinds of notorious delinquents, to the use, and for the maintaining of the army raised by the Parliament; and such other uses as shall be directed by both houses of Parliament, for the benefit of the Common-wealth. With the names of the committees who are employed in the severall counties of this kingdome, for the execution of this ordinance. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Jo. Brown, Cler. Parliamentorum. Hen. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.; Proceedings. 1643-04-01 England and Wales. Parliament. 1643 (1643) Wing E1302A; ESTC R227598 10,984 16

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A DECLARATION AND ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT For the Seizing and Sequestring of the Estates both Reall and Personall of certaine kinds of notorious DELINQUENTS to the use and for the maintaining of the ARMY raised by the Parliament And such other uses as shall be directed by both Houses of Parliament for the benefit of the Common-wealth With the names of the Committees who are employed in the severall Counties of this Kingdome for the execution of this ORDINANCE Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and published Jo. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum Hen. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. LONDON Aprill 1. Printed for Iohn Wright and Iohn Franke. 1643. An ORDINANCE of the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT THE Lords and Commons assembled in Parliamen taking into their serious considerations the heavy pressures and calamities which now lie upon this Kingdome by this unnaturall Warre raised against the Parliament And that notwithstanding all their faithfull and uncessant endeavours for the preserving of His Majestie and the whole Kingdome from the mischievous and restlesse designes of Papists and ill-affected persons whose aime is the extirpation of our Religion Laws and liberties Yet their Counsells and practises are still so prevalent with His Majestie and the hearts of many people so misled and beguiled by their false pretences and insinuations that nothing can be expected but ruine and desolation unlesse God in mercy prevent it and incline His Majesties heart to the faithfull advice of his great Counsell of Parliament which hath ever been and is under God the chiefe support of His Royall dignity and the security of all that wee have or can enjoy And for that it is most agreeable to common Justice that the estates of such notorious Delinquents as have bin the causes or Instruments of the publique calamities which have been hitherto imployed to the fomenting and nourishing of these miserable distractions should be converted and applyed towards the supportation of the great charges of the Common-wealth and for the easing of the good subjects therein who have hitherto borne the greatest share in these burthens Be it therefore Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That the Estates as well reall as personall of the severall Bishops hereafter mentioned that is to say Of William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Iohn Arch-Bishop of York Thomas Bishop of Daresme Robert Bish of Lichfield and Coventry Ioseph Bishop of Norwich Iohn Bishop of Asaph Robert Bishop of Oxford William Bishop of Bath Wells George Bishop of Hereford Mathew Bishop of Ely Godfrey Bishop of Gloucester Iohn Bishop of Peterborough Morgan Bishop of Landaffe Iohn Bishop of Worcester And of all such Bishops Deans Deanes and Chapters Prebends Arch-deacons and of all other person and persons Ecclesiasticall or Temporall as have raised or shall raise Arms against the Parliament or have bin are and shall be in actuall Warre against the same or have voluntarily contributed or shall voluntarily contribute not being under the power of any part of the Kings Army at the time of such contributing any Money Horse Plate Arms Munition or other aid or assistance for or towards the maintenance of any forces raised against the Parliament or for the opposing of any force or power raised by authority of both Houses of Parliament or for the robbing spoyling plundering or destroying of any the Kings Subjects who have willingly contributed or yielded obedience to the commands of both Houses of Parliament and of all such as have joyned or shall joyne in any Oath or Act of association against the Parliament or have imposed or shall impose any Taxe or Assessement upon His Majesties Subjects for or towards the maintenance of any forces against the Parliament or have or shall use any force or power to leavy the same shall be forthwith seized and sequestred into the hands of the Sequestrators Committees hereafter in this Ordinance named and of such other persons as shall at any other time hereafter bee appointed and nominated by both Houses of Parliament for any County City or place within the Realme of England or Dominion of Wales Which said Sequestrators and Committees or any two or more of them in each severall County City or place respectively are hereby authorized and required by themselves their Agents and Deputies to take and seize into their hands and custodies as well all the money Goods Chattells Debts and personall Estate as also all and every the Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents Arrerages of Rents Revenues and profits of all and every the said Delinquents or persons before specified or which they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them or to their or any of their use or uses have hath or shall have and also two parts of all the money Goods Chattells Debts and personall estate and two parts of all and every the Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents Arrerages of Rents Revenues and profits of all and every Papist or which any other person hath in trust for any Papists or to the use or uses of any Papists and to let set and demise the same or any part thereof as the respective Land-Lord or owner thereof may or might have done from yeere to yeere And shall have power to call before them or any two of them all Stewards Bailyffs Rent-gatherers Auditors or other Officers or servants as well of the said Arch-bishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters Prebends Arch-deacons as of all and every other of the said Delinquents or persons before specified and to send for or take any books of Accompts Rentalls Copies af Court Roll or other evidences Writings or memorialls touching the premises or any of them and thereby and by all other wayes and meanes which to the said Sequestrators or any two or more of them shall seeme meete and necessary to informe themselves as well of the said severall Delinquents and every of them as of their severall estates and possessions Rents Arrerages of Rents Revenues and profits Goods and Chattels Estates reall and personall and the true value thereof and of all things concerning the same or any part thereof and to appoint any Officer or Officers or other person or persons under them for their present expediting of this service Which said persons are hereby authorized and enjoyned to performe and execute all and every the commands of the said Sequestrators or Committees or any two or more of them respectively in and concerning the premisses And shall have such allowances for their paines and charges in that behalf as the said Sequestrators or Committees or any two or more of them shall think fit And the said Sequestrators or Committees or any two or more respectively their Agents Deputies within their severall limits shall have power and are hereby authorized and required to enter into all and every such Mannors Messages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of all and every
the said Delinquents or persons before specified and to receive such Rents Arrerage of Rents Herriots Issues profits sums of money debts and other duties as aforesaid to them or any or them due or payable by their or any of their severall and respective Tenants or other person or persons Which said Tenants and other persons are hereby required to pay the same to the said Sequestrators or Committees or any two or more of them accordingly and not to or to the use of the said Delinquents or any of them yet so nevertheles That in respect of the hardnes of the times and the great charges which otherwise lie upon the said Tenants and others by occasion of this present War every such tenant which shall pay to the said Sequestrators or Committees or any two of them s aforsaid shall upon their obedience conformity to this order be considered out of the said Rents Revenues Profits shall be discharged of his whol rent against his Land-lord or any other to a whom the same is due being such Delinquents as aforesaid and as well they the said tenants as every other person or persons which shall pay any Rent sum of mony or other thing according to this Ordinance shall be protected and saved harmeles from any forfeiture penalty or dammage which he or they may incurre by not payment of his or their said Rent sum of Money or other thing according to his or their lease Coppy or other agreement by the power and authority of bo h Houses of Parliament And i● any such Tenant or Tenants shall refuse to pay his or their Rent or Rents The said Sequestrators or Committees their Agents or Deputies according to this Ordinance at such times and places as the same shall become due and payable The said Sequestrators or any two or more of them by themselves their Agents or Deputies shall have power to distrain for the same and to take all other advantages for non-payment thereof as the Land-Lord might have done And the said Sequestrators or any two or more of them shall have power to sue for and recover any debt sum of Money or other duty owing to the said Delinquents or persons before specified or any of them As also to give discharges and Acquittances for any Rent sum of Money debts duty or other thing which they shall receive out of the Estates of the said Delinquents or any of them and shall be accomptable from time to time for the same and for all such other things as shall be had or taken by them their Agents or Deputies and for all their receipts and payments and other Acts for or in respect of the premises to both Houses of Parliament or to such as they shall appoint and shall pay in all such sums of Money as they or any of 〈◊〉 shall receive out of the said Estates unto the Treasurers at Guil●●● London and shall keep Books of accompts and shall be from time to time subject to the further Orders and directions of both Houses of Parliament for allowance to the said Delinquents or otherwise as cause shall require of all their receipts and payments And the said Sequestrators or Committees or any two or more of them their Agents and Deputies shall have power to call to their Ayd and Assistance the Trained-Bands Voluntiers or other forces of or within their severall Counties Cities or places respectively or any other person or persons dwelling in or neer the place to compell obedience to this Ordinance where any resistance shall be made or as oft as need shall require And shall have power to punish such person or persons as they shall finde refractory negligent or faulty in the said service by fine and imprisonment such fine not exceeding the sum of twenty pounds or to certifie their names to the Committee of Lords and Commons appointed for this service who shall have power to send for them or any of them and to commit them to such prisons and places and for so long time as they shall thinke fit And the said Trained-Bands Voluntiers and other forces their Commanders and Officers and also the severall Constables Headboroughs and other Officers and persons within their Limits are hereby required and enjoyned to be Ayding and Assisting to the said Sequestrators or any two or more of them as oft as they shall be thereunto required And it is further Declared and Ordained by the Lords and Commons That all and every of the said Sums Rents Revenues and Profits Estate Reall and Personall of all and every the said Delinquents or persons before specified shall be imployed to the use and for the maintaining of the Army and forces raised by the Parliament and such other uses as shall be directed by both Houses of Parliament for the benefit of the Common-wealth Lastly it is Ordained That all and every the said Sequestrators and Committees shall have allowances for their necessary charges and paines in and about the premisses as they shall be allowed by both Houses of Parliament And that aswell they as all others who shall be employed in the said service or shall doe any thing in execution or performance of this Ordinance shall be therein protected and saved harmlesse by the power and Authority of both the said Houses And if any person or persons shall finde him or themselves agrieved with any Act done by the said Sequestrators their Agents or Deputies or any of them concerning the premisses and shall not be therein relieved by the said Sequestrators upon complaint made to them or any two or more of them then upon information thereof given to both Houses of Parliament or to the said Committee of Lords and Commons before mentioned such further order shall be taken therein as shall be agreeable to justice Provided that where any former Ordinance hath bin made by both Houses of Parliament for the seizing or sequestring of the Estates of any of the Delinquents before specified within any County Citie or place and accordingly executed there this present Ordinance shall not be put in execution till further order be taken by both Houses of Parliament Provided also that all and every the said estates of the said Delinquents shall be chargeable and lyable for their proportionable part of such other publique charges or duties to be set or allowed of by both Houses of Parliament as they ought to pay if this Ordinance had not been made And to all such other charges duties payments or other rights which are or shall be due or payable or of right belonging to any other person or persons out of the premisses other then to such Delinquents as aforesaid the same to be payd and disbursed by these Sequestrators or any two of them respectively Provided also that where no Committees are named by this Ordinance in any City or Town which is a County of it selfe there the Committees for the County at large next adjoyning may execute this Ordinance within every such Citie