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<HEAD>By the Commi&s;sioners for Charitable U&s;es.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Hertf. &s;&s;.</NOTE>WHereas there is a &s;pecial Commi&s;&s;ion directed to Us, under the great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> by his High|ne&s;&s;e  <HI>Oliver</HI> Lord Protector of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Dominions thereto belonging, for the redre&s;&s;ing of the mi&s;imployment and concealing of Lands, Goods, and Stocks of Money hereto|fore given to Charitable u&s;es, as well by Kings and Queens of <HI>England,</HI> as by other well-di&s;po&s;ed per|&s;ons. Some for relief of aged impotent and poor people; Some for maintenance of &s;ick and maimed Souldiers, and Mariners, Schools of Learning, Free-Schools, and Schollers in Univer&s;ities; Some for repair of Bridges, Ports, Havens, Cau&s;e-wayes, Churches, Sea banks, and High-wayes: Some for education and preferment of Orphans; Some for or towards relief, Stock or maintenance for hou&s;es of Correction; Some for Marriages of poor Maids; Some for &s;up|portation, aid and help of young Trade&s;men, Handicrafts-men, and Per&s;ons decayed: And others for relief or redemption of Pri&s;oners or Captives, &amp; for aid or ea&s;e of any poor Inhabitants concerning payment of Fifteens, &s;etting out of Souldiers and other Taxes: We do therefore in con&s;cience of our duty towards God and Man, hereby order &amp; declare, That if any poor per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever, under any the qualifications before &s;pecified, do or &s;hall find them&s;elves ju&s;tly grieved with fraud or violence, in the concealment, detention, or abu&s;e of any (though never &s;o rich and great Oppre&s;&s;ors) of any thing that is or &s;hall be due to them, or any of them by the gift, appointment or a&s;&s;ignment of any well di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons, and &s;hall make their grievances appear before us to be reall; That they and every of them &s;o grieved, &s;hal have and receive &s;ufficient remedie in the &s;ame both for what hath been formerly concealed or detained, as al&s;o for what is at pre&s;ent concea|led or detained from them among&s;t &s;uch cruel oppre&s;&s;ors, their heirs, executors, and admini&s;trators, if they or any of them have A&s;&s;ets in Law or Equity, with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed, and without any fear of their Adver&s;aries malitious power or great|ne&s;s, either for the pre&s;ent or for time to come; And al&s;o that if any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall out of a due &s;ence and apprehen|&s;ion of the oppre&s;&s;ed and peri&s;hing condition of the Poor, make any ju&s;t complaint of any concealment or detention of any Gift, Appointment, or A&s;&s;ignment of any Lands, Rents, or Monies belonging to any Poor by whom&s;oever, and &s;hal or can make a clear and full di&s;covery thereof, every &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o doing &s;hall and may recover the &s;ame before us for the u&s;e of the &s;aid Poor, together with all the arrears, again&s;t any &s;uch unju&s;t dealers whom&s;oever, their heirs, executors, or admini&s;trators, if they or any of them have A&s;&s;ets either in Law or Equity. And for their further encouragement herein, the &s;aid Di&s;coverers &s;hall have and receive a fourth part of the dammages awarded again&s;t &s;uch Delinquents to be allowed them for their charges, care and pains herein; and we do hereby further will and require all Church-wardens, Over|&s;eers of the poor, and all other Officers authorized by Law, to &s;ue for and recover &s;uch rights to &s;uch u&s;es, to accompt for and pay what they have recovered to the u&s;e of any poor concerned therein, And to &s;ue for where none el&s;e will or can pro|&s;ecute what they have not recovered, being due, upon penalty to pay dammages for their neglect herein, being found guilty thereof by due Inqui&s;ition; And that none may be ignorant how to perform what they would or &s;hould do herein, We do appoint all that are or may be concerned in what is by us required as afore&s;aid, to repaire to Mr. <HI>Clement Farnham</HI> Clerk of the Commi&s;&s;ion, at his chamber in <HI>Grayes-Inne,</HI> in the <HI>Garden Court</HI> up the &s;ix &s;tone Steps, who &s;hall and will be ready to receive their pre&s;entments, and to direct and in&s;truct them at all convenient times. For the better effecting where|of, we do hereby will and require all and &s;ingular the Mini&s;ters of the County of <HI>Hertford,</HI> as well within liberties, as without, to make publication hereof in their &s;everall congregations, both in the forenoon and afternoon of the next Sab|bath-day after his or their receipt of the &s;ame, and afterwards to cau&s;e it to be fixed on the Church-Doors, where it may be ea&s;ily &s;een and read by all people: And that no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever pre&s;ume or attempt either to deface or take it off from thence, upon their perils, to be proceed again&s;t as contemners of his Highne&s;s Authority and Com|mi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<CLOSER><DATE><HI>June</HI> 26. 1656.</DATE>
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<P>The Commi&s;&s;ioners fir&s;t &s;itting will be at the <HI>White-Hart</HI> in <HI>Ware,</HI> on
Wedne&s;day the 16 of <HI>July,</HI> 1656.</P>
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