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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Die Martis xxx. Ianuarii</HI> 1643&punc;</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD>AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
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<P>Authorizing the Commi&s;sioners of the great Seale of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> to call before them all Officers, Mini&s;ters, and other Attendants on the great Seale, or Court of Chancery, Kings Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer, and Court of Wards and Liveries, and to tender unto every of them, the &s;olemne League and Covenant for Refor|mation, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And for making voyd a&s;well the Places and Offices of &s;uch as &s;hall refu&s;e or neglect to take the &s;ame. As al&s;o for re&s;trayning of all Lawyers, Attour|neys, Clerks or Solicitors, to practi&s;e or &s;olicite in any of the &s;aid Courts, before they &s;hall have taken the &s;aid &s;olemne League and Covenant.</P>
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<P>_IT is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, That the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the great Seale of <HI>England</HI> be Authorized, and are hereby re|quired, to call before them all and every the Officers and Mini&s;ters, and all other Attendants on the Great Seale or Court of Chancery, Kings Bench, Common Pleas&punc; Exchequer, and Court of Wards and Lyveries, and to tender unto every of them the &s;olemne League and Cove|nant for Reformation and defence of Religion. the Ho|nour and happine&s;&s;e of the King, and the Peace and &s;afe|ty of the three Kingdomes of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ire|land;</HI> And &s;uch as &s;hall either refu&s;e or neglect to take the &s;ame, and all &s;uch as &s;hall not make their appearance, and give their per&s;onall attendance in their &s;everall Places and Offices before the la&s;t day of this Terme, not having a ju&s;t excu&s;e for their ab&s;ence, &s;hall forfeit their &s;everall and re&s;pective Offices and Places, and the &s;ame &s;hall be determined, and become ab&s;o|lutely voyd to all intents and purpo&s;es, as if &s;uch Per&s;ons, Officers and Mini&s;ters were natu|rally dead. And it is further Ordered by the &s;aid Lords and Commons, That no Serjeant at Law, or other Lawyer, Attourney, Clerke, or Sollicitour, &s;hall be admitted to practi&s;e before the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners in the Court of Chancery, or in the Kings Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer, or Court of Wards and Lyveries, or to pro&s;ecute or Sollicit any Cau&s;e in any of the &s;aid Courts before he &s;hall have taken the &s;aid &s;olemne League and Covenant, which the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners are hereby likewi&s;e Authorized and required to tender, and Admini&s;ter unto them.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Browne Cler. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London</HI> Printed for <HI>Humphrey Tuckey</HI> at the Black &s;pread Eagle in Fleet-&s;treet, 1644.</P>
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