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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74355	An act for the better ordering and managing the estates of papists & delinquents. Die Veneris, 25 Januarii, 1649. Ordered by the Parliament, that John Field printer, nominated by Mr. Speaker, be joyned with Mr. Husbands stationer, in printing the Act for the better ordering and managing the estates of papists and delinquents, and all other acts and proceedings in Parliament; and that his name be used in printing of the said act, and all other acts and proceedings: and that the said John Field have equal benefit in printing accordingly. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales.	1650 (1650)	Thomason E1060_78; ESTC R208802	6,260	15

such and so many fit and able persons in every county city and place within this Commonwealth being Inhabitants there as have adhered to the Parliament from the beginning of the late Wars unto this day to be Commissioners for Sequestrations within the said several and respectioned as they shall see fit As also such other Officers and Agents as shall be necessary for the carrying on of this service and to remove any of them as they shall see cause which said persons so nominated substituted and appointed to be Commissioners for Sequestrations as aforesaid or so many of them as the Commissiouers for Compounding shall appoint shall according to such Instructions and Orders in pursuance of any Acts or Ordinances of Parliament as they shall from time to time receive from the said Commissioners for Compounding in pursuance of the said Acts and Ordinances Sequester into the hands of the Common-wealth the Estates of all Papists in Arms and other Delinquents and two parts in three parts to be divided of the Estates of all other Papists as are already adjudged to be Delinquents or Papists respectively or shall by the said Commissioners for Compounding be adjudged to be such and enter into and Survey the same Estates and consider how the same Estates may be improved to the best advantage of the Commonwealth and what profits may conveniently be raised by Woodsales or otherwise out of the said sequestred Estates and shall certifie the same to the said Commissioners for Compounding by and according to whose Order and Direction grounded upon such Survey and Certificate as aforesaid The said Commissioners for Sequestrations or so many of them as the Commissioners for Compounding shall appoint as aforesaid shall or may contract for the same sequestred Estates of Delinquents and Papists in Arms or any part thereof to be letten to such fit and able person or persons as will give the best Rent for the same for any term not exceeding the number of Seven years in possession for such yearly Rent as shall be agreed upon if the Estate of such Delinquents or Papists in Arms shall so long continue the said Rent to be paid according to the usual days of payment to the said Treasurers at Goldsmiths-Hall and the said Leases either to be made under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners for Compounding or any seven of them or under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners for Sequestrations as shall be appointed by Order of the said Commissioners for Compounding or any seven of them and that the said Commissioners for Sequestrations or so many of them as the said Commissioners for Compounding shall appoint shall keep or cause to be kept Courts within the several sequestred Manors and grant Copy-hold Estates according to the Customs of the said Manors and assess and receive Fines for the same Estates to be so granted according to the Customs or to the Rules to be therein prescribed by the said Commissioners for Compounding or any seven of them Which said Copyhold Estates so granted shall be good and effectual to the Tenant so admitted against the party sequestred and against all claiming by from or under him or his Estate And that the said Commissioners for Sequestrations shall further act in and about the premises according to such further Instructions and Directions as shall be given unto them in pursuance of this Act by the said Commissioners for Compounding or any seven of them as any occasion or exigent shall require And that the said Commissioners for Sequestrations shall have and retain to their own use for their Salary Twelve pence in the pound of all such Moneys as shall be paid by them into the Treasury at Goldsmiths Hall out of the Profits of the said sequestred Estates in the respective Counties and places And that the other Officers that shall be named by the said Commissioners for Compounding shall have such Salary and Allowance as the said Commissioners for Compounding or any seven of them shall think fit And be it further Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That the said Commissioners for Compounding or any seven of them shall have full power to receive from any person or persons who shall present the same unto them All and every Act Ordinance or Orders of Parliament whereby any charge is laid upon the Sequestrations or sequestred Estate of any such Papist or Delinquent and to examine the grounds and natures of them and to state the cause and make special Report thereof to the Parliament for their Allowance or Discharge or for their further Order and Directions therein as the Parliament shall see cause And shall also examine all Rents Quitrents Outrents and Issues that shall be pretended to be due and payable out of any such Estate and the nature of them as also all Conveyances and Assurances of and all other Charges Incumbrances or Ingagements upon the said Estates or any part thereof and to give allowance thereof if it shall appear that the same were bona fide made or charged before the cause of such Sequestration committed And it is further Enacted That the said Commissioners for Compounding or any seven of them shall have power to allow unto the Wives and Children of such Papists in arms and other Delinquents whose Estates shall remain under Sequestration by vertue of this Act one Fifth part of their said sequestred Estates for their subsistence And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Clerk of the late Committee of the Lords and Commons for Sequestrations shall forthwith certifie unto the said Commissioners for Compounding the Names of all such persons whose Estates or any part thereof having been sequestred either for Delinquency or Recusancy have upon their Appeals had the Sequestrations of their Estates suspended or taken off either by the said Committees of Lords and Commons or by the Barons of the Exchequer and the Names of all such persons as have upon their Appeals been Voted to be Delinquents and to certifie the places of their abodes and the Names of all such persons as now remain before the Barons of the Exchequer upon their Appeals not yet determined and the time when the said parties Appealing did present their several Petitions and Appeals unto the Barons of the Exchequer And the said Barons are hereby required to take care that Certificate be made accordingly before the Five and twentieth day of February One thousand six hundred forty and nine and that all such whose Estates have upon their Appeals been suspended from Sequestration by any Order from the late Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestrations or otherwise whose Cases shall not be determined before the First day of March One thousand six hundred forty and nine The said suspension shall be void and the Sequestration again laid upon their Estates And it is hereby further Enacted That the Rents Issues and Profits of all sequestred Estates remaining in the hands of any Committees Treasurers Sequestrators