SEVERAL VOTES OF THE COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT, Concerning Delinquents.

ORdered by the COMMONS assembled in Parliament, That these Votes be forthwith printed and published.

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LONDON: Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons. Dec. 17. 1646.

Die Martis, 10 Novem. 1646. Several VOTES of the Commons assembled in Parliament, concern­ing Delinquents.

Resolved, &c.

THat the Committee of Se­questrations in the several Counties, do return to the Committee at Goldsmiths-Hall, all the Names of Papists and Delinquents, which are or have been Sequestred by them respectively in their several Counties; and a particu­lar List of all the Estates of such per­sons, and to whom they have been let during the Sequestration thereof, and [Page 4] what the values thereof were before the VVar.

Resolved, &c. That the Estates real and personal of all Papists and Delin­quents within the Ordinances of Se­questrations, not yet sequestred, and not compounded for at Goldsmiths-Hall, be speedily sequestred, and the Names of such Delinquents sent up to the Committee at Goldsmiths-Hall,

Resolved, &c. That the Lands and Estates of such persons as are excepted in the first three qualifications of the Propositions, or any part thereof, shall not be let or demised to the Owners thereof, or to their Bailiffs or Ser­vants, or to any person or persons [Page 5] in trust for them, or to their use or behoof.

Resolved, &c. That the Lands and Estates of other Delinquents capable to be admitted to Composition, se­questred, or which shall be sequestred, in the several respective Counties, or any part thereof, shall not in any case be let or demised unto the Owners thereof, or to their Bailiffs or Servants, or to any other persons in trust for them, or to their use or behoof, unlesse such Delinquents shall by Certificate from the Committee at Goldsmiths-Hall make it appear, that they are in their actual prosecution of their Com­positions, and do proceed therein with­out delay on their parts.

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Die Martis, 8. Decemb. 1646.

Resolved, &c. THat no Committee man, Seque­strator, Collector or other Offi­cer imployed in the Sequestrations in the several respective Counties, shall by himself, or any other in trust for him, or to his use, take to Farm or Rent, any Lands or Estates seque­stred, or to be sequestred in the said se­veral Counties where he is a Com­mittee▪ man, Sequestrator, Collector or other Officer imployed in the Se­questrations as aforesaid.

Resolved, &c. That all the Lands and estates of Papists and Delinquents sequestred, and to be sequestred in the several and respective Counties [Page 7] shall be let out at the utmost improved yearly values that any man will give for the same: And that all Leases and Grants made to any Delinquents or Papists, the owners of the said Lands and Estates, or to their Servants, or any in trust for them, at a lower rate and value then the same were tru­ly worth, and might have been demised for to others, at the time the said Lease shall be void.

Resolved, &c. That all persons in the several and respective Counties who have been in Arms, or left their Habitations, and resided in the Ene­mies Garisons, and are liable to Se­questrations, and have not tendred themselves to a Composition for their Estates, and prosecuted it with [Page 8] effect at Goldsmiths Hall, and are at liberty, and not comprised within any Articles, whereby they are protected, shall be forthwith apprehended and committed to safe Custody by the Committee of Parliament residing in the several Counties, and their names certified to the Committee at Gold­smiths Hall. Provided, That such persons whose Estates real or personal are not worth Two hundred pounds, be hereby pardoned and discharged from Sequestration, they coming in acco [...]ding to the time limited in the Propositions, and taking the Negative Oath and Covenant.

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