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<DIV1 TYPE="Parliamentary ordinance">
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<HEAD>AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, For reliefe of the Subiect, who have been prejudiced by &s;topping and di&s;continuing of Writs of Error, Which &s;aid Writs are to be &s;ealed with the Great Seale of England, Ordeined and E&s;tabli&s;hed by both Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, taking into con&s;ideration the great prejudice and inconvenience that may &amp; doth accrue to the &s;ubject by the &s;topping and delay of Writs of Error, and al&s;o by di&s;continuing of Writs of Error by the Courts not &s;itting in the Exchequer Chamber, and by the not effectuall putting in execution the Commands of the Great Seale of <HI>England</HI> ordeined and e&s;tabli&s;hed by both Hou|&s;es of Parliament; Doe Order and Ordeine, that all Writs of Error brought in any of His Maje&s;ties Courts at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> &s;ealed with the &s;aid Great Seale and atte&s;ted under the hands of any three or more of the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the &s;aid Great Seale, whereof one Lord to be one, &s;hall be &s;igned by &s;uch of the Iudges as are or &s;hall be the ancient Iudge then attending the &s;aid Courts or any of them re&s;pectively, and that &s;uch &s;igning by any one of the &s;aid Iudges in the ab&s;ence or vacancy of the Chiefe Iu&s;tice, or any other antient Iudges &s;hall be as good and effectuall as if the &s;ame had beene &s;igned by the Chiefe Iu&s;tice or other antient Iudge, any law, u&s;age or other matter to the contrary thereof notwith&s;tanding. And be it further Ordeined, that whereas divers Writs of Error returnable in the Exchequer Chamber are di&s;continued by the not coming of the Iud|ges there without any default of the parties pro&s;ecuting the &s;aid Writs, Be it Ordeined that new Writs of Error being taken out, the Iudges of the Court to whom they &s;hall be directed &s;hall allow of the &s;aid Writs of Error in the &s;ame manner as they allowed the former Writs, that &s;o Execution may be &s;tayed till the &s;ame can be determined, And that all Iudges, Officers, and Mini&s;ters, and other per&s;ons &s;hall duly performe, obey and execute all &s;uch things as they or any of them &s;hall be commanded or required to doe in their &s;everall offices or places by force and vertue of the &s;aid Great Seale, as they &s;hould or ought to have done by force or vertue of any Great Seale of <HI>England,</HI> under paine of an&s;wering their Contempt therein to both Hou&s;es, and lo&s;&s;e of their places.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>15 May&punc; 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Commons A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That this Ordinance be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;inge Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> for <HI>Edw. Husbands.</HI> 1644.</P>
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