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<P><GAP DESC="missing" EXTENT="1+ pages">and commanded by the Malignant party, who are enemies to God our King, and his Maje&s;ties well affected Subjects, this A&s;&s;embly is nece&s;&s;itated during this warre, in &s;ome formalities and circum&s;tances, to deviate from the proceedings pre&s;cribed by the &s;aid Lawes and Statutes; Neverthele&s;&s;e, reteining the &s;ub&s;tance and e&s;&s;ence thereof, &s;o far forth as the endle&s;&s;e malice and cruelty of their enemies the &s;aid malignant party doth permit, who &s;hut the &s;aid places and other pa&s;&s;ages and wayes to his Maje&s;ties ju&s;tice and mercy, from his Maje&s;ties well affected Subjects of this Kingdome. For the exaltation therefore of the holy Romane Catholique Church, for the advancement of his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, and the pre&s;er|vation of the lives, e&s;tates, and liberties of his Maje&s;ties true Subjects of this King|dome, again&s;t the inju&s;tice, murthers, ma&s;&s;acres, rapes, depredations, robberies, burnings, frequent breaches of publique faith and quarter, and de&s;truction daily acted and perpetrated upon his Maje&s;ties &s;aid Subjects, and advi&s;ed, contrived, and daily executed by the malignant party, &s;ome of them managing the Govern|ment and affaires of State in <HI>Dublin,</HI> and &s;ome other parts of this Kingdome, to his Highnes great di&s;&s;ervice, and complying with their confederates the malig|nant party in <HI>England,</HI> and el&s;e-where, who as it is manife&s;t to all the world, doe complot and practice to di&s;honour and de&s;troy his Maje&s;tie, his royall Con&s;ort the Queene, their children, and Monarchicall Government; which is of mo&s;t dangerous con&s;equence to all the Monarches and Princes of Chri&s;tendome.</P>
<P N="5">5. The &s;aid A&s;&s;embly doth order and e&s;tabli&s;h a Coun&s;ell by the name of a Supreame Councell of the confederate Catholiques of <HI>Ireland,</HI> who are to con|&s;i&s;t of the number of 24 to be forthwith named, &s;hall re&s;ide in this Citie, or where el&s;e within this Kingdome they &s;hall thinke expedient, and the members of the &s;aid Councell &s;hall have equall votes; and two parts of 3. or more concurring, pre&s;ent votes to conclude, and no fewer to &s;it in Coun&s;ell then 9. whereof 7. at lea&s;t are to concurre; and of the 24. a Pre&s;ident &s;hall be named by this A&s;&s;embly, who is to be one of the &s;aid 12. re&s;ident. And in ca&s;e of his death, ab&s;ence, or &s;ick|nes, the re&s;t of the&s;e who &s;hall be re&s;ident, may name a Vice-Pre&s;ident to the 24. And this A&s;&s;embly is forthwith to name a Secretary and Clerk of the &s;aid Coun|&s;ell, the Secretary to be of the &s;aid 24. And the Coun&s;ell &s;hall have the power and preheminencies following; <HI>viz.</HI> The Lords, Generalls, and other Comman|ders of Armies, and civill Magi&s;trates, and Officers in the &s;everall Provinces &s;hall ob&s;erve their orders and decrees, and &s;hall doe nothing contrary to the&s;e dire|ctions, and &s;hall give them &s;peedie adverti&s;ements and account of their proceed|ings and actions, with as much expedition as may be, that the &s;aid Coun&s;ell &s;hall have power to order and determine all &s;uch matters as by this A&s;&s;embly &s;hall be left undetermined, and &s;hall be recommended unto them. And their orders therein to be of force, untill the next A&s;&s;embly, and after untill the &s;ame be revo|ked. That the &s;aid Coun&s;ell &s;hall have power &amp; authoritie to que&s;tion and inflict condigne puni&s;hment upon all Commanders of Armies, exempted from the power of the Generalls, and upon the Generalls them&s;elves, and upon all Go|vernours, Magi&s;trates, and other per&s;ons of what degree or qualitie &s;oever; and upon any of them&s;elves in cau&s;es of delinquency.</P>
<P N="6"><PB N="3" REF="1" MS="y"> 6. That the &s;aid Coun&s;ell &s;hall have power and authoritie to doe and execute all manner of arts and things conducing to the advancement of the Catholique cau&s;e, and good of this Kingdome, and concerning this warre, as if done by this A&s;&s;embly, and &s;hall have power to heare and ordaine all matters capitall, crimi|nall, or civill, excepting the right or title of Land.</P>
<P N="7">7. That the Generalls or other Commanders of Armies, and all Governours and civill Magi&s;trates, and all other per&s;ons within this Realme, &s;hall obey the orders and decrees of the &s;aid Councell, touching the pre&s;ent &s;ervice: that the &s;aid Coun&s;ell &s;hall have for their Guard the number of 500. foot and 200. hor&s;e, to be equally extracted out of the Armes of the foure Provinces. It is further ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that in every Province of this Kingdome, there &s;hall be a Provinciall Councell, and in every Countie a Countie Councell; the Provinci|all Councell to be compo&s;ed of the number of two of each Countie, and the &s;aid Provinciall Councell &s;hall choo&s;e a Pre&s;ident of them&s;elves.</P>
<P N="8">8. That the Provinciall Councell &s;hall &s;it foure times a yeare, and oftner if there be cau&s;e for it; that they &s;hall have power and authoritie to renew or re|ver&s;e the Judgements of the County coun&s;els, the partie complaining entring &s;e|curity <HI>(de adjudicant &s;eluendum)</HI> and &s;hall, during the troubles, have power to heare and determine all matters of the Crown as Judges of Oyer and Terminer, Jayle Delivery, were wont to do; &s;o that no &s;peciall per&s;on be pre&s;ent at the de|termining of matters of blood, and &s;hall have power to heare and determine all Civill cau&s;es, and to e&s;tabli&s;h rents, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, &s;o they meddle not with Tithe of land other then in ca&s;e of Dower or Joynture; and the Sheriffes Provinciall Generals, and all Commanders of the Armies in ca&s;e of di&s;obedience are re&s;pe|ctively required to execute their Decrees and Orders: and in ca&s;e of debts and Accounts, great con&s;ideration is to be had of the di&s;abilitie of Creditors occa&s;i|oned by the warre.</P>
<P N="9">9. <HI>Item,</HI> in every Countie there &s;hall be a County Coun&s;ell con&s;i&s;ting of one or two of each Barrony at the election of the County; and where there are no Barronies, the Coun&s;ell of &s;uch Countie to be of the number of 12. and the &s;aid Countie Coun&s;ell &s;hall have power and authoritie in all points of Ju&s;tices of the Peace to hear and determine all matters concerning the offices of Ju&s;tice of Peace, and all matters of the Crown, hapning within every &s;uch County; and the De|linquent being a Free, holder may, if he plea&s;e, have his triall in the Province, and heare and determine debts, tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, and per&s;onall demands, and to do all things as Ju&s;tices of the Peace were accu&s;tomed for to do, and to re&s;tore and e&s;tabli&s;h po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions taken by force or fraud &s;ince the&s;e troubles. And likewi&s;e to take a &s;peciall care that Tenants Farmers be kept to their Farmes where they were u&s;ed, and to be pre&s;erved from extortion and oppre&s;&s;ion; and that Trades, Trade&s;men, Manufactures, Agritculture and husbandry be maintained, and Mar|kets daily kept.</P>
<P N="10">10. <HI>Item,</HI> In every County there &s;hall be Coroners, high Sheriffes, high Con|&s;tables, petty Con&s;tables, and Goaler, who are to do their re&s;pective offices as ac|cu&s;tomed; the high Sheriffe to be confirmed or nominated by the &s;upreame
<PB N="4" REF="2">Coun&s;ell out of 3. to be pre&s;ented by the Coun&s;ell and high Sheriffe, is requi|red to execute the commands, Orders, and Decrees of the Provinciall and Countie Councell.</P>
<P N="11">11. <HI>Item,</HI> In Cities and Towns corporate, Ju&s;tice is to be done, and the Laws executed as accu&s;tomed.</P>
<P N="12">12. <HI>Item,</HI> In every Countie the high Sheriffe &s;hall be Prove&s;t Mar&s;hall, and &s;hall have power to execute a Layman not worth 5. l. and none other, for mur|der, man&s;laughter, burglary, thefts, robbery, or other capitall offence. Provided the per&s;on to be executed may have 24. houres times to prepare his &s;oule, and that the &s;upreame Councell or Provinciall Councell &s;hall and may name more Prove&s;t Martia's as they &s;hall think expedient, qualified with the like authority.</P>
<P N="13">13. <HI>Item,</HI> It is further ordered, that no temporall government or juri&s;diction &s;hall be a&s;&s;umed, kept, or exerci&s;ed in this Kingdome, or within any Countie or Province thereof during the&s;e troubles, other then as is before expre&s;&s;ed, except &s;uch juri&s;diction and government as is or &s;hall be approved by this generall A&s;&s;embly, or the &s;upreame Councell.</P>
<P N="14">14. <HI>Item,</HI> It is further ordered, that who&s;oever hath entred &s;ince the 1. of Octob. 1641. or &s;hall hereafter during the continuance of the warre in this Kingdome, enter into the lands, tenements, or hereditaments of any per&s;on or per&s;ons, who hath been in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of &s;uch lands, tenements, or hereditaments, at, or imme|diately before the 18 day of Octob either by him&s;elf or his under tenants, or by the renewing the rents, i&s;&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">s, or profits thereof, &s;hall immediately upon de|mand re&s;tore the &s;aid po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion to the partie or parties &s;o put out, with &s;uch rea|&s;onable damages as the Councell Provinciall or &s;upreame Councell &s;hall think fit; or if the partie refu&s;e to re&s;tore the &s;aid po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion gained as afore&s;aid, upon demand of the partie &s;o put out, his heires or a&s;&s;ignes made to the &s;aid po&s;&s;e&s;&s;or his &s;ervants or adherents in the premi&s;&s;es or publication of this Order, within the Pari&s;h where &s;uch lands lieth, that upon his or their denyall thereof, or default therein, he, his heires and a&s;&s;ignes &s;hall be for ever after debarred and &s;ecluded from all and every right, title, intere&s;t, and demand, which he or they may make or pretend to all or any the &s;aid lands, tenements, or hereditaments, and if after &s;uch deniall or default made, the &s;aid partie his heires or a&s;&s;ignes &s;hall not immediately re&s;tore the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid lands, tenements and hereditaments to the party grieved, his heires or a&s;&s;ignes that he, and they, and his and their adherents in the premi&s;&s;es &s;hall be declared and proceeded with as enemies. Pro|vided, and &s;o it is meant, that if any of the &s;aid parties &s;o put out, and be declared a neuter or enemy by the Provinciall and &s;upreme Councell, that the partie who gained the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion as afore&s;aid, &s;hall give up the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion to &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;hall be named either by the &s;aid County Provinciall or &s;upreame Councell, to be di&s;po&s;ed of towards the maintenance of the generall cau&s;e, upon the paine and penaltie afore&s;aid; And as for the rents and main profits of the &s;aid lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all kind of rents, and the goods and chattels taken or detained from any Catholique as afore&s;aid, due &s;atisfaction is to be made of the &s;ame to the parties from whom the &s;ame goods, rents, or chat|tels were or &s;hall be taken or be&s;towed, &s;ince the&s;e troubles began, as the Pro|vinciall
<PB N="5" REF="2" MS="y">councell or countie councell &s;hall re&s;pectively order.</P>
<P N="15">15. <HI>Item,</HI> it is further ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, for the removall of evill di&s;or|der and enmitie, and to the end that all men may bend their thoughts and acti|ons to the common cau&s;e, that all po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of lands and tenements &s;hall con|tinue and remaine unto &s;uch as have already joyned in this union, as they have been for three yeers pa&s;t next before the beginning of the&s;e troubles, and that no title of land &s;hall be drawn into any debate or que&s;tion untill the next A&s;&s;em|bly, other then in ca&s;e of Mortgages, Lea&s;es, and particular e&s;tates, <HI>de facto,</HI> determined or determinated by effluction or other determination thereof.</P>
<P N="16">16. <HI>Item,</HI> For the avoiding Nationall di&s;tinction between the Subjects of His Maje&s;ties Dominions, which this A&s;&s;embly doth utterly dete&s;t and abhorre, and which ought not to be endured in a well governed Common-wealth, it is ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that on paine of the highe&s;t puni&s;hment which may be inflicted by the authoritie of this pre&s;ent A&s;&s;embly, that every Romane Catholique, as well Engli&s;h, Wel&s;h, or Scots, who was of that profe&s;&s;ion before the&s;e troubles, and who will come and plea&s;e to re&s;ide in this Kingdom, and joyne in this pre|&s;ent Union, &s;hall be pre&s;erved and cheri&s;hed in his life, goods, and e&s;tates, by the power, authority and force, if need require, of all the Catholiques of Ire|land, as full and freely as any native born therein, and &s;hall be acquitted and ea&s;ed of one third part in 3. parts to be divided, of publique charges and leavies rai&s;ed, or to be rai&s;ed for the maintenance of this holy warre.</P>
<P N="17">17. <HI>Item,</HI> It is further ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that there &s;hall be no di&s;tinction or compari&s;on betwixt old Iri&s;h and old or new Engli&s;h; or betwixt &s;exe or fa|milies, or betwixt Citizens or Town&s;men and countreymen joyning in this Uni|on, upon paine of the highe&s;t puni&s;hment that can be inflicted by any of the Coun&s;ell afore&s;aid, according to the nature and qualitie of the offence and divi|&s;ion like to &s;pring from thence.</P>
<P N="18">18. <HI>Item,</HI> It is further ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that all new converts born in any of His Maje&s;ties Dominions, or el&s;e where without manife&s;t occa&s;ion given by the per&s;ons converted to the coritry and joyning in this cau&s;e, &s;hall be accoun|ted as Catholiques and natives to all intents and purpo&s;es.</P>
<P N="19">19. <HI>Item,</HI> It is further ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that all the Artificers, Artians, Navigators and Marriners, not being denizons, who &s;hall plea&s;e to re&s;ide in this Kingdom, &s;hall during their re&s;idence in this Kingdom, after &s;uch time as they and their families &s;hall be here &s;etled, have and enjoy the free liberties and privi|ledges of nature in all re&s;pects.</P>
<P N="20">20. <HI>Item,</HI> It is further ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that in regard of the pre&s;ent e&s;tate and condition of the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> no native of this Kingdome; e&s;pecially if he be a Catholique, or any other Catholique, is permitted to con|tinue in the Innes of Court: And to the end the laudible Laws of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> may not die amid&s;t the di&s;a&s;ters of the&s;e times, one Inne of Court &s;hall be erected in &s;uch place of the Kingdome, as to the &s;upreame &s;hall be thought fit for the training of the Gentry of the Kingdom to the knowledge of the&s;e Laws.</P>
<P N="21">21. <HI>Item,</HI> It is further ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, for the advancement of learning,
<PB N="6" REF="3" MS="y">that in every Province in this Kingdom, Free-Schools &s;hall be erected and main|tained, &s;o many and in &s;uch places, and in &s;uch manner and forme, as to the Me|tropolitane and Ordinary of the Dioce&s;&s;e in their re&s;pective Provinces &s;hall be thought fit.</P>
<P N="22">22. <HI>Item,</HI> It is further ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that no Lord, Gentleman, or other per&s;on, &s;hall rai&s;e or keep any company of &s;ouldiers, but &s;uch as &s;hall be authori&s;ed by the &s;upreame Councell, Provinciall Councell, or County Councell, or Magi&s;trate within their own corporate Towns. And that the Statutes again&s;t Se&s;&s;e Coynees, or Livery be duely put in execution: and that no company of &s;ouldiers what&s;oever &s;hall be payed or relieved by the countrey, excepting &s;uch as are or &s;hall be enrolled in the Martials Li&s;ts; and none &s;hall be billited but by the Con&s;table.</P>
<P N="23">23. <HI>Item,</HI> It is further ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that Church-lands and tithes, impropriate in the hands of Catholique owners before the&s;e troubles, &amp; joyning in this cau&s;e, may be left to them according to their &s;everall e&s;tates, untill the &s;ame be di&s;po&s;ed of by Parliament, they in the intrim an&s;wering their rents as accu&s;tomed.</P>
<P N="24">24. <HI>Item,</HI> It is further ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that the Kings cu&s;tomes, rents, revenewes, arreares and dues, and the rents, i&s;&s;ues, and profits of the lands, here|ditaments, and goods and chattels of the enemies, which are or &s;hall be declared by the Provinciall or Supreame Coun&s;ell, or by the generall A&s;&s;embly, to be re|ceived and collected and be di&s;po&s;ed for his Maje&s;ties u&s;e and &s;ervice.</P>
<P N="25">25. <HI>Item,</HI> It is further ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that in every Countie there be Collectors and Receivers to be appointed by the Countie Coun&s;ell, and that they be accountable to the &s;aid County Coun&s;ell for the &s;ame, which Countie Coun|&s;ell &s;hall be accountable to the Provinciall therein halfe yearely, and Provinciall Coun&s;ell to the Supreame Councell yearely, to the end the &s;ame may not be con|cealed or un&s;upplyed.</P>
<P N="26">26. <HI>Item,</HI> It is ordered and agreed, that where any Archbi&s;hop, Bi&s;hop, or o|ther dignitary, or any other per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever, hath or enjoyed any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, tythes, or Church-livings in one Countie or Province, or doth or &s;hall keepe his or their re&s;idence in another Countie or Pro|vince, or hath his or their relation or nomination in another Countie or Pro|vince, that in all &s;uch ca&s;es the profits accrewing out of all &s;uch lands, tenements, or hereditaments, tythes, or Church-livings, to the generall u&s;e, &s;hall be imploy|ed in the &s;aid Countie and Province where the &s;aid lands, tenements, and heredi|taments, tythes, or Church-livings doe lye, as by the &s;everall Countie Coun&s;ell re&s;pectively &s;hall be thought fit for the publique cau&s;e.</P>
<P N="27">27. <HI>Item,</HI> It is ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed by the &s;aid Generall A&s;&s;embly, that any woman being a Romane Catholique, and wife of any Prote&s;tant or Catholique that hath for&s;aken his hou&s;es, e&s;tate and wife, and adhere unto the enemy, that every &s;uch wife may enter into her Joynture, if any be conveyed unto her, or may recover her thirds of her &s;aid husbands e&s;tate, as if her &s;aid husband were actually dead, and that every &s;uch wife &s;hall be in &s;uch condition or capacitie to
<PB N="7" REF="3" MS="y">&s;uc and be impleaded, as if her &s;hid husband had exiled or abjured the Realme by Judgement of Law, except the Provinciall or Supreame Councell in particu|lar ca&s;es order the contrary.</P>
<P N="28">28. <HI>Item,</HI> It is ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of Prote&s;tants, Arch|bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Deanes, Dignitaties, and Par&s;ons; in the right of their re&s;pe|ctive Churches, or their tenements in the beginning of the&s;e troubles, &s;hall be deemed, taken and con&s;trued as the then po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Catholique Archbi|&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Deanes, Dignitaties, Pa&s;tors, and their Tenants re&s;pectively; to all intents and purpo&s;es, and that tho&s;e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions are intended within the pre|cedent order for &s;ettlement of po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P N="29">29. <HI>Item,</HI> It is ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that no man being pri&s;oner by autho|ritie of any the Councells afore&s;aid, &s;hall be enlarged without the order of the &s;aid Councells, re&s;pectively; and that no Protection be given to &s;ervants or o|ther men of the enemies partie, without the like order of the chiefe Commander of the Armie in the &s;everall Provinces or Counties.</P>
<P N="30">30. <HI>Item,</HI> That whereas abu&s;es have been committed in &s;ome parts of this Kingdome, in taking of Armes, Ammunition, and other Merchandi&s;es from &s;everall Merchants arrived in Creekes or Harbours, farre from their intended Port. By rea&s;on of Tempe&s;t, or the danger of the enemy, to the great di&s;cou|ragement of the Merchants; it is therefore ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that where any Ship or Shippes, or other Ve&s;&s;ell, &s;hall come or arrive in any Harbour, Key, or Creeke, within this Kingdome, Loaden with Armes, Ammunition, or other Merchandi&s;es, that in &s;uch Ca&s;es all tho&s;e who are or &s;hall be in Command in the adjacent Counties re&s;pectively, &s;hall protect and defend the &s;aid Merchants, their goods and &s;ervants, and &s;hall at the charges of the &s;aid Merchants, pro|cure carriage for the &s;aid goods, and &s;afely convey the &s;ame to the &s;aid Mer|chants intended Port, and not to &s;uffer the &s;ame, or any of the &s;ame, under co|lour of paying for the &s;ame, or otherwi&s;e to be di&s;po&s;ed of or taken before the &s;ame come to the intended Port, and be entered into the Li&s;ts of the Commi&s;|&s;ioners, or the expre&s;&s;e direction or writing of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners; any that &s;hall rob, &s;teale, or violently take away any of the &s;aid goods, contrary to this order, &s;hall be deemed and puni&s;hed as enemies to the publique good of this Kingdome, and &s;uffer death therefore.</P>
<P N="31">31. That certain Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall be appertained in every Port Towne of the Freemen and Re&s;idents therein, by the Provinciall or &s;upreame Councell, for the viewing of all the Armes and Ammunition that &s;hall be hereafter impor|ted into this Realme from beyond the Seas, and to certifie the &s;ame to the &s;u|preame Councell with all &s;peed; and to prevent abu&s;es in the &s;ale, or i&s;&s;uing, or di&s;po&s;ing of them.</P>
<P N="32">32. <HI>Item,</HI> It is ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that where &s;ouldiers do run from other Garri&s;ons or Commanders unto other countreys and Provinces; That the com|manders or chief Governours of the &s;aid County or Province, upon complaint made thereof, &s;hall &s;end back the &s;aid fugitive &s;ouldiers to their Commanders, to be dealt with according to ju&s;tice.</P>
<P N="33"><PB N="8" REF="4" MS="y"> 33. <HI>Item,</HI> It is ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that the debts and other duties owing to creditors of this Union, being Neuters and Enemies, &s;hall be payed out of the goods, lands, tenements and hereditaments of the &s;aid Neuters and Enemies re|&s;pectively, before any other publique charge be an&s;wered thereout.</P>
<P N="34">34. <HI>Item,</HI> it is ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that no &s;ouldiers or other per&s;ons without command from the county coun&s;ell, meddle with the goods or lands of Neuters or Enemies.</P>
<P N="35">35, <HI>Item,</HI> It is ordered and e&s;tabli&s;hed, that to prevent the &s;pringing up of all Nationall di&s;tinctions, the Oath of a&s;&s;ociation Union be taken &s;olemnly after confe&s;&s;ion, and receiving the Sacrament in the Pari&s;h churches throughout the Kingdome; and the names of all the per&s;ons of ranke and qualitie in every Pari&s;h that takes the &s;ame be enrolled in parchment, and be returned, &s;igned and &s;ealed by the Pari&s;h Prie&s;t, to the Ordinatie of every Dioce&s;&s;e, who is to keep the &s;ame in his Trea&s;urie, and to certifie a copie thereof under &s;eale to the Metropolitane; who is to keep that, and to certifie a true copy thereof under his Metropoliticall &s;eale, to the Rolls of the Kingdom, where the &s;ame is to be enrolled.</P>
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