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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>&leaf;A Declaration of the Lords in Parliament
A&s;&s;embled:
Concerning the Committee &s;itting at Gold&s;miths Hall for Compo&s;ition of
Delinquents E&s;tates.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Lunae 1 Februarii 1646.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas divers Delinquents have formerly, and &s;till doe addre&s;&s;e
them&s;elves unto &s;ome per&s;ons &s;itting at Gold&s;miths Hall, and
there have and doe dayly enter into agreements for the taking
off &s;uch Seque&s;trations as are duly laid upon them by Ordi|nance
of Parliament. The Lords in Parliament doe declare,
That all &s;uch Compo&s;itions made by tho&s;e per&s;ons &s;itting at
Gold&s;miths Hall with &s;uch as are under Delinquency, are not
authorized by any Ordinance of Parliament; and that the
Committees for Seque&s;trations within the &s;everall Counties
of <HI>England</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales</HI> ought not to obey any Order from tho&s;e per&s;ons
&s;itting at Gold&s;miths Hall for the taking off or Su&s;pending any Seque&s;trations upon
the pretence of the Delinquents having made his Compo&s;ition with them, untill &s;uch
time as a Committee, or Commi&s;&s;ioners to that purpo&s;e be &s;etled by Ordinance of Parlia|ment;
and the Compo&s;ition made with &s;uch Committee or Commi&s;&s;ioners be likewi&s;e
ratified by Ordinance of Parliament.</P>
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<P>ORdered by the Lords a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That this Declara|tion
&s;hall be printed and publi&s;hed; and that the Sheriffes or their
&V;nder-Sheriffes &s;hall take care to carry downe the &s;aid Declarations, and that
they be delivered unto the &s;everall Committees for Seque&s;trations within the
Counties of the Kingdome of <HI>England</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> who are
to take notice of the &s;aid Declaration accordingly.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>London printed for <HI>John Wright</HI> at the Kings Head in the Old Bayley. 1646.</P>
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