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<P>AN ORDINANCE OF THE <HI>LORDS</HI> and <HI>COMMONS</HI> A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT: For the relieving of all per&s;ons over rated by the Ordinance for Weekly A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments.</P>
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<P><HI>Ordered by the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That this Ordinance be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed:</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>ALSO, <HI>An ORDER of the Commons in</HI> Parliament, Prohibiting the Printing or publi&s;hing of any lying Pamphlet &s;candalous to His Maje&s;tie, or to the proceedings of both or either Hou|&s;es of Parliament.</P>
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<P><HI>Ordered by the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That this Order be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed:</HI> H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>March</HI> 10. 1642.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Edw. Husbands,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his &s;hop in the Middle-Temple.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Die Sabathi</HI> 4^o <HI>Martii,</HI> 1642.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas it is ordained in the Or|dinance for the weekly a&s;&s;e&s;&s;|ment, That if any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall find him, or them&s;elves a|grieved, that he, or they is, or are over rated, &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons at any time, before di&s;tre&s;&s;e taken of his, or their goods, may complain to the re&s;pective Committees, who have executed this Or|dinance within the Divi&s;ion or Limit, where any &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons over rated &s;hall be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, which &s;ayd re&s;pe|ctive Committees, or any two of them, &s;hall have power upon Examination to
<PB N="4" REF="3"> relieve &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as they &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e; yet the true intent and meaning of the &s;ayd Ordinance is, And it is further ordered by the Lords and Commons, that if any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o finding them&s;elves agrieved, be &s;uch as have not formerly contributed upon the Propo&s;itions, or not proportionably to others of their e&s;tates, nor have bin ra|ted and payd upon the Ordinance of a&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ment, Entituled, an Ordinance for the a&s;&s;e&s;sing and rating of &s;uch as have not contributed at all, or not contributed according to the proportions of their E|&s;tates: Then the &s;ayd parties if they be not a&s;&s;e&s;&s;'d above a proportionable part of &s;uch &s;um or &s;ums as other men of their abilitiy have paid upon the Propo&s;itions, or have bin a&s;&s;e&s;&s;'d, and have payd upon the &s;ayd Ordinance of not exceeding the
<PB N="5" REF="3"> twentieth part; The &s;ayd Rates to &s;tand, and not to be altered, Provided neverthele&s;&s;e, that no per&s;on be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed above the &s;umme of Ten pounds the Week.</P>
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<P>Ordered by the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;em|bled in Parliament, That this Ordi|nance be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H: El&s;ynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>Die Jovis</HI> 9^o <HI>Martii,</HI> 1642,</HEAD>
<P>_IT is this day Ordered by the Commons Hou&s;e of Parli|ament, That the Committee for examinations, or any four of them, have power to appoint &s;uch per|&s;ons as they thinke fit, to &s;earch in a|ny hou&s;e or place where there is ju&s;t cau&s;e of &s;u&s;picion, that Pre&s;&s;es are kept and employed in the printing of Scanda|lous and lying Pamphlets, and that they do demolli&s;h and take away &s;uch Pre&s;&s;es and their materials, &amp; the Printers Nuts and Spindles which they find &s;o employ|ed, and bring the Ma&s;ter-Printers, and
<PB N="7" REF="4"> VVork-men Printers before the &s;ayd Committee; And that the Committee or any four of them, have power to com|mit to pri&s;on any of the &s;ayd Printers, or any other per&s;ons that do contrive, or publikely or privately vend, &s;ell, or pub|li&s;h any Pamphlet, &s;candalous to his Ma|je&s;ty or the proceedings of both or either Hou&s;es of Parliament, or that &s;hall re|fu&s;e to &s;uffer any Hou&s;es or Shops to be &s;earched, where &s;uch Pre&s;&s;es or Pam|phlets as afore&s;ayd are kept: And that the per&s;ons imployed by the &s;ayd Com|mittee, &s;hall have power to &s;eize &s;uch &s;candalous and lying Pamphlets as they find upon &s;earch, to be in any Shop or VVarehou&s;e, &s;old, or di&s;per&s;ed by any per&s;on whom&s;oever, and to bring the per&s;ons that &s;o kept, publi&s;hed; or &s;old the &s;ame, before the Committee; And that
<PB N="8" REF="5"> &s;uch per&s;ons as the Committee &s;hall com|mit for any of the offences afore&s;ayd, &s;hall not be relea&s;ed till the parties im|ployed for the apprehending of the &s;ayd per&s;ons, and &s;eizing their Pre&s;&s;es &amp; ma|terials, be &s;atisfied for their paines and charges. And all Iu&s;tices of the peace, Captains, Officers, and Con&s;tables, are required to be a&s;si&s;ting in the apprehen|ding of any the per&s;ons afore&s;ayd, And in &s;earching of their Shops, Hou&s;es, and VVarehou&s;es; And likewi&s;e all Iu&s;tices of peace, Officers, and Con&s;tables, are hereby required from time to time to ap|prehend &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall publi&s;h, vend, or &s;ell the &s;ayd Pamphlets. And it is further ordered, That this Order be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed, to the end that notice may be taken hereof, that the contemners of this Order may be left inexcu&s;able for their offence.</P>
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