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<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT.</P>
</FIGURE> At a Court holden the 8^t^h day of <HI>January,</HI> 1662. at the Court Hou&s;e of the Pari&s;h of S^t <HI>Clement Danes</HI> without <HI>Temple-Barr</HI> in the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> by the Commi&s;&s;ioners for Charitable U&s;es for the &s;aid County and City of <HI>We&s;tminster.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas there is a Commi&s;&s;ion Directed to The Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> the Right Honourable <HI>William</HI> Lord <HI>Craven,</HI> Sir <HI>William Wilde</HI> Sir <HI>Henage Finch,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Adams,</HI> Sir <HI>Ri|chard Brown,</HI> Sir <HI>John Robin&s;on,</HI> Sir <HI>James Bunce,</HI> Knights and Baronets, Sir <HI>Reginald For&s;ter</HI> Baronet, Sir <HI>John Bram&s;ton</HI> Knight of the Bathe, Sir <HI>Edward Turner,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Allen,</HI> Sir <HI>William Bateman,</HI> Sir <HI>Lancelot Lake,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Bird,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Ingram,</HI> Sir <HI>George Symon,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Player,</HI> Sir <HI>John Babor,</HI> Knights; The Chancellor to the &s;aid Bi&s;hop for the time being; <HI>Cheyney Roe, Thomas Smith, John Stent, Richard Proctor, Nathaniel Snape, Ralph Hawtrey, John Hawtrey, George Day, Chri&s;topher Abdey, Jo&s;eph Aloff, Simon Role&s;tone, Thomas Lucie, Robert Harle&s;ton, George Charnocke, Charles Pitfeild, Thomas Stringer, Richard Abel, Thomas Warner, Edward Ded&s;on, John Robin&s;on, Edward Hore, Richard Sidenham,</HI> E&s;quires; <HI>William Goodman, Obadiah Haywerton, Samuel Eames, Thomas Fowell, Walter Lapp, Robert Stanhope, Thomas Ewen, Jo&s;eph Surbutt, Thomas Martin, William Rudd, William Sanckey, William Burrows, Richard Mills, William Cotton,</HI> and <HI>Peter Mills,</HI> Gentlemen; Commi&s;&s;ioners authorized by the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, under the Great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> According to the Statute of the 43. of <HI>Eliz.</HI> for the Inquiry and Finding out of all Lands, Goods, and Stocks of money heretofore given to Charitable V&s;es. And having &s;pecial tru&s;t and confidence in their fidelities; Have authorized and appointed them Commi&s;&s;ioners and doth give unto them, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ny four or more of them, full power and authority to enquire by all lawfull ways and means, according to the purport <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nd true meaning of the &s;aid Statute, What Lands, Tenements, Rents, Annuities, Profits, Hereditaments, Goods, Chattels, Money, or Stocks of Money, have at any time heretofore been given by any King, or Queen of <HI>England,</HI> or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ny other well di&s;po&s;ed per&s;on, or per&s;ons, for relief of aged, impotent, or poor People, maintenance of &s;ick and maimed Souldiers, or Mariners, Schools of Learning, Free-Schools, or Scholars in Vniver&s;ities, repair of Bridges, Havens, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">aw&s;wayes, Churches, Sea-banks, or High-wayes, education or preferment of Orphans, relief, &s;tock, or maintenance, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">or Hou&s;es of Correction, marriages of poor Maids, &s;upportation of Trade&s;men, or Per&s;ons decayed, redemption of Pri|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oners, or Captives, &s;etting out of Souldiers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> within the &s;aid County and City; And of all abu&s;es, breaches of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ru&s;t, mi&s;imployment, or mi&s;government of the &s;ame Lands, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> heretofore given to, or for, any of the Charitable and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">odly V&s;es before rehear&s;ed</P>
<P>It is this day declared by the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, That it &s;hall be taken as a good and acceptable &s;ervice of any per|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">n or per&s;ons within the County and City afore&s;aid, and in the &s;everal Pari&s;hes thereof, to acquaint the &s;aid Com|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;&s;ioners, of all &s;uch Sums of Money given for the relief of the Poor, and all other the Charitable and Godly V&s;es, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">bove-mentioned; And if any per&s;on, or per&s;ons, can inform the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners of any the afore&s;aid Abu&s;es, let <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">em repair to the Hou&s;e of <HI>John Bennet</HI> Gent. at the <HI>Starr-Inn</HI> in <HI>Newington-Butts</HI> neer <HI>Southwark,</HI> or to the hou&s;e of <HI>John <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ell</HI> Gent. Clerk of <HI>Clarks-hall</HI> neer the <HI>Three-Cranes</HI> in the <HI>Vintrey</HI> in <HI>Thame&s;treet, London,</HI> any Fryday between the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ours of Ten and Two, who will receive all your Pre&s;entments, and perfect them accordingly: upon which Pre&s;ent|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ents, care will be taken, that the Moneys &s;hall be made good, with &s;ufficient damages for the u&s;e and benefit of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oor, That the Donors Will &s;hall be in all things performed, according to the true intent and meaning thereof.</P>
<P>And it is further de&s;ired, by the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, That all Mini&s;ters in their Churches and Chappels within <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;aid County and City, for the furthering of &s;o good a work, read this Order the next Lords-day after the receipt <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hereof in their &s;everal Congregations, and that it be fixed upon the Church-Doors in the &s;aid Pari&s;hes, That all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er&s;ons may take notice hereof.</P>
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