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All the ordinances and orders of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the indempnity or saving harmlesse all those that have acted or done any thing by sea or land by the authority and for the service of the Parliament.; Laws, etc.
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England and Wales.
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1647
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Wing E1200A; ESTC R26101
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All the ORDINANCES AND ORDERS OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT For the Indempnity Or saving harmlesse all those that have Acted or done any thing by Sea or Land by the Authority and for the Service of the PARLIAMENT ORdered by the Lords Assembled in Parliament That these Ordinances and Orders for Indempnity be forthwith printed and published Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum Imprinted at London for John Wright at the Kings Head in the old Bayley 1647. Die Veneris 21 Maii 1647. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT For the Indempnity or saving harmlesse all those that have acted or done any thing by Sea or Land by Authority of Parliament THe Lords and Commons taking notice That divers well-affected persons have beene sued indicted prosecuted or molested and others are likely to be sued indicted prosecuted or molested for such acts and things which they have acted and done by Authority of this present Parliament or for the service and benefit thereof during these late Warres and Troubles doe hereby Ordaine and Declare and be it by authority of Parliament Ordained and Declared That no person or persons whatsoever who have since the beginning of this present Parliament acted or done or commanded to be acted or done any act or thing whatsoever by authority of this present Parliament or for the service or benefit thereof by Sea or by Land ought to be sued indicted prosecuted or molested for the same and that every such person or persons whatsoever are and shall be hereby fully acquitted and discharged of all Actions Suits Indictments Informations Prosecutions Judgements Executions and Molestations whatsoever for or concerning the same and all Judges Justices Sheriffes Mayors Bailiffes Jurors Officers and Ministers of Justice whatsoever are hereby required to take notice thereof and duly to observe the same And for the ease of all such persons who are or shall be sued Indicted Prosecuted or Molested for any such Act or thing as is aforesaid It is hereby Declared and Ordained That in every Action Suit Indictment Information or Prosecution whatsoever wherein or whereby they shall bee so sued indicted prosecuted or molested as is aforesaid contrary to this Ordinance It shall be lawfull to and for all persons aforesaid their Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes to plead the generall issue that they are not guilty or any other generall issue as the case shall require and shall and may give in evidence to the Jury that shall try the same That the matter in question was an Act or thing acted or done or commanded to be acted or done by authority of this present Parliament or for the service or benefit thereof which Evidence being proved shall be admitted and allowed by the respective Judges Judge or Justice or Justices Jury before whom it shall be tried as sufficient to maintaine the said generall issue And if the Verdict shall passe with the Defendant or Defendants in any Action Bill Plaint or Suit as is aforesaid or the Plaintiffe or Plaintiffs shall be nonsuit therein or suffer any discontinuance thereof the respective Judges or Justices shall award unto the said Defendant or Defendants treble costs for which the said Defendant or Defendants shall have the like remedy as in the like Cases they ought to have by the Lawes of this Realme And what any Judges Justices Sheriffes Mayors Bayliffes Jurors Officers and Ministers of Justice shall doe according to this Ordinance or in pursuance thereof they shall be justified and saved harmelesse by Authority of Parliament for and concerning the same And because such persons who have acted or commanded to be acted or done any such act or thing as is aforesaid may be poore and not able to defend a Suit at Common Law or may finde themselves agrieved in the proceedings thereof now for a further and certaine reliefe of all such persons It is hereby Ordained and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That any such persons so sued indicted prosecuted or molested as is aforesaid may at any time hereafter when as often as they shall be sued indicted prosecuted or molested for any such act or thing as is aforesaid either before or after a tryall at the Common Law make their complaint to ALgernon Earle of Northumberland Henry Earle of Kent Iohn Earle of Rutland Philip Earle of Pembroke and Montgomery Theophilus Earle of Lincolne Charles Earle of Nottingham James Earle of Suffolke William Earle of Salisbury Robert Earle of Warwicke Bazell Earle of Denbigh James Earle of Middlesex Edward Earle of Manchester Edmond Earle of Mulgrave Henry Earle of Stamford Walter Lord Viscount Hereford William Lord Viscount Say and Seale Charles Lord De-la-War George Lord Berkley Philip Lord Wharton Francis Lord Willoughby Dudley Lord North John Lord Hunsdon William Lord Grey of Warke John Lord Robartes Edward Lord Howard of Esc Thomas Lord Bruce Members of the House of Peeres Master Holles Colonell Birch Master Swynfen Master Maynard Master Bois Colonell Purefey Colonell Harvey Master Recorder Master Solicitor Sir Philip Stapleton Colonell Morley Sir William Allenson Colonell Massey Master Whitlocke Sir Gilbert Gerrard Sir William Waller Master Edwards Master Challener Lieutenant Generall Cromwell Master Tate Sir William Massam Sir Samuel Luke Master Lisle Field Marshall Skippon Master Francis Allen Colonell Walton Master Rigby Sir John Maynard Master Selden Master Gott Sir William Brereton Master Grimston Master Darley Master Dove Sir John Bampfield Lord Menson Sir Michael Livesey Sir Thomas Widdrington Sir Arthur Hasilrig Master Bainton Master Necholas Master Weaver Master Nathaniel Fiennes Colonell Rainsborough Major Harrison Master Walter Long Master Hallowes Master Myles Corbet Colonell Tompson Master Drake Sir Thomas Middleton Master William Pierpoint Members of the House of Commons or any five of them who are hereby constituted a Committee of Parliament for the releife of all such persons in such cases as is aforesaid And the said Committee or any five of them are hereby authorized and required to receive heare and determine such aforesaid Complaints and to that end to examine Witnesses upon Oath and to commit to safe custody if they shall see cause all such person or persons who shall so sue indict prosecute or molest any person or persons whatsoever for acting or doing any such Act or thing as is aforesaid And also to order and award to every such person or persons so sued indicted prosecuted or molested treble so much as they shall make appeare to the said Committee that they have been dampnified by any such Suit Indictment Prosecution or Molestation as is aforesaid if they have not before recovered the same by the proceedings at Common Law according to this Ordinance And that when the said Committee or any five of them shall have made any Order or Award in such aforesaid cases respectively that the said person or persons ought not to be sued indicted prosecuted or molested for such Act or thing respectively then upon shewing the said Order or Award to the