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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Lunae 8 Februarii 1646.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas the Lords in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, did upon the fir&s;t of this in&s;tant February order&punc; That a Declaration &s;hould be prin|ted and publi&s;hed, wherein among&s;t other things it was decla|red, That the Committees of the &s;everall Counties of <HI>England</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> ought not to obey any Order for the taking off or &s;u&s;pending any Seque&s;trations untill a Committee or Commi&s;&s;ioners for that purpo&s;e &s;hould be &s;etled by Ordi|dinance of Parliament: And whereas &s;ince that time there is an Ordinance pa&s;t upon the &s;ixth of this in&s;tant February, gi|ving power to certaine Lords and Commons Members of Parliament, with &s;ome others therein named, to be Commi&s;&s;ioners to &s;it at Gold&s;miths Hall for compounding with Delinquents, and to act according to &s;everall Ordinances or Orders made before the date of the &s;aid Ordinance by both or either of the Hou&s;es of Parliament concerning the Committee at Gold&s;miths Hall: And that the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hould have pow|er to &s;u&s;pend the Seque&s;tration of &s;uch Delinquents as &s;hould compound with the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners: And that &s;uch Su&s;pentions as have beene already made by the Com|mittee at Gold&s;miths Hall &s;hould &s;tand good. Now the &s;aid Lords in Parliament a&s;&s;em|bled (for the preventing any &s;cruple that may ari&s;e by rea&s;on of the &s;aid Declaration) doe (upon the &s;ettlement made in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, as afore&s;aid, by both Hou&s;es) thinke fit to de|clare, That the Committees in the &s;everall Counties, and all others whom it may concerne, doe give obedience to the &s;aid Ordinance and every part thereof.</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 &s;everall printed Copies of this Declaration; and that they be delivered unto the &s;everall Committees for Se|que&s;trations within the Counties of the Kingdome of <HI>England</HI> and Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> who are to take notice hereof 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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