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<P> AN ACT For the Admitting of the Six Counties of <HI>NORTH-WALES</HI> TO A General Compo&s;ition For their DELINQUENCY.</P>
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<P>Die Veneris, 10 Augu&s;ti, 1649.</P>
<P><HI>ORdered by the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That this Act be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</HI></P>
<P>Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliament'.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>AN ACT For the admitting of the Six Counties of <HI>North-Wales</HI> to a General COMPOSITION For their Delinquency.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_VVHereas the five Coun|ties of <HI>Northwales; <HI>viz.</HI> Montgomery, Denbigh, Flint, Merioneth</HI> and <HI>Car|narven,</HI> with the I&s;land and County of <HI>Angle|&s;ey,</HI> have been for many years together, &s;ince the beginning of the&s;e late Wars, wholly un|der the power of the late Kings Army and Forces; by rea&s;on where|of, many well-affected per&s;ons to the Parlia|ment within the &s;aid Counties, have been forced through compul&s;ion or fear, for the avoiding of pre&s;ent ruine to them&s;elves and Families, to comply with the &s;aid Forces in unwarrantable acts and Engagements, whereby they are be|come involved in a general guilt and defection from the Parliament, and the authority thereof: The Commons of <HI>England</HI> a&s;&s;embled in Parlia|ment (at the humble and earne&s;t Reque&s;t of di|vers
<PB N="442" REF="3"> of the Inhabitants of the &s;aid counties) taking the &s;ame into &s;erious con&s;ideration; and being willing that &s;ome di&s;tinction may be made between &s;uch per&s;ons as have been eminently active in the rai&s;ing and promoting of the &s;aid War, and tho&s;e that were moved by con&s;traint or fear to a compliance with the Enemy, being under their power, and are now re&s;olved to ad|here to the Intere&s;t of this Commonwealth, as it is now e&s;tabli&s;hed; and being likewi&s;e wil|ling, that &s;uch money as is by any Ordinance or Order of Parliament charged upon the E|&s;tates of new Delinquents in <HI>Northwales,</HI> and payable to per&s;ons well-affected to the Parlia|ment, and to the pre&s;ent Con&s;titution of this Commonwealth &s;hould be paid accordingly, Do Declare and Ordain, and be it Ordained and Enacted by this pre&s;ent Parliament, and by au|thority of the &s;ame, That the Inhabitants of the &s;aid five counties of <HI>Northwales; (viz.) Mont|gomery, Denbigh, Flint, Carnarvon</HI> and <HI>Merioneth,</HI> and of the &s;aid I&s;land and county of <HI>Angle&s;ey,</HI> and every of them (except &s;uch per&s;ons as are hereafter in this Act excepted) be and are hereby admitted to a general Compo&s;ition; and that the &s;um of Four and twenty thou&s;and pounds be rai&s;ed upon the &s;aid Five counties, and the &s;aid I&s;land and county of <HI>Angle&s;ey;</HI> that is to &s;ay, On the county of <HI>Montgomery,</HI> the &s;um of Three thou&s;and pounds; On the county of <HI>Den|bigh,</HI> the &s;um of Three thou&s;and pounds; On the county of <HI>Flint,</HI> the &s;um of Two thou&s;and pounds; On the county of <HI>Carnarvon,</HI> the &s;um of Four thou&s;and pounds; On the county of <HI>Me|rioneth,</HI> the &s;um of Three thou&s;and pounds; On the I&s;land and county of <HI>Angle&s;ey,</HI> the &s;um of Nine thou&s;and pounds, to be paid in maner and
<PB N="443" REF="3" MS="y"> form following (that is to &s;ay) the fir&s;t moyety a|mounting to the &s;um of twelve thou&s;and pounds, within ten weeks after the pa&s;&s;ing of this Act, and the other moyety being Twelve thou&s;and pounds, to be paid within ten weeks then next en&s;uing; which &s;aid &s;um of Four &amp; twenty thou|&s;and pounds is to be paid to the Trea&s;urers at Wars for the Army, who are hereby authorized to receive the &s;ame, and any two of them, to give receipts or acquittances under their hands and &s;eals for the &s;ame; which &s;aid receipts or acquit|tances &s;hall be a &s;ufficient di&s;charge, to all in|tents &amp; purpo&s;es, to the &s;aid re&s;pective counties and I&s;land, and unto &s;uch as they &s;hall appoint to pay the &s;ame, according to the true intent of this Act: And to the end the &s;aid &s;um of Four and twenty thou&s;and pounds may be equally and indifferently taxed, proportioned and levied upon the re&s;pective Inhabitants of the &s;aid counties, unto whom the benefit of this Act is to extend; Be it further Enacted by the authori|ty afore&s;aid, That <HI>Thomas Mitton, John Jones, John Carter, George Twi&s;leton, Thomas Ma&s;on, Thomas Ma|drin, Edmund Glyn,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;qs</ABBR>; <HI>Robert Soutley</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Thomas Ball</HI> E&s;q; <HI>John Peck</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Richard Ba&s;snet</HI> Gent. <HI>Ed|ward Wyn</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Thomas Crichley</HI> Gent. <HI>Daniel Lloid</HI> Gent. <HI>Watkin Kyffin</HI> Gent. <HI>William Wyn</HI> Gent. <HI>Gerard Barbour</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Gruffith Glin</HI> Gent. <HI>Ri|chard Anwil</HI> E&s;q; Captain <HI>Thomas Pugh, Lewis Lloid</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Peter Meirick</HI> E&s;q; Major <HI>Edward Moor, Roger Hanmer</HI> <ABBR>E&s;qs</ABBR>; Sir <HI>John Trevor</HI> Knight, <HI>John Pu|le&s;ton</HI> E&s;q; one of the Iu&s;tices of the Common Pleas, <HI>Thomas Raven&s;croft</HI> E&s;q; <HI>John Alder&s;ey</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Luke Lloid, Humphrey Dymmock,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;qs</ABBR>; <HI>Andrew Ellice</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Thomas Dymmock</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Daniel Mathews</HI> Gent. <HI>Hugh Courtney</HI> Gent. Sir <HI>John Wittewrong</HI> Knight, <HI>Evan Lloid, Hugh Price, Richard Price, Ri|chard</HI>
<PB N="444" REF="4"> <HI>Gruffith Robert Gruffith, Rice Vaughan</HI> <ABBR>E&s;qs</ABBR>; <HI>Samuel Big</HI> Gent. <HI>Edward Owen</HI> of <HI>Ca&s;tle-Dail, Owen Salusbury,</HI> E&s;q; <HI>Gruffith Nanney, John Lloyd, Lewis Owen, Robert Vaughan,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;qs</ABBR>; <HI>Robert Owen, Thomas Michael,</HI> Gent. <HI>William Williams</HI> E&s;quire, be and hereby are con&s;tituted and appointed Commi&s;|&s;ioners for the &s;aid &s;everal and re&s;pective coun|ties and I&s;land; which &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners or any five of them, have hereby full power and authority to do all and every &s;uch act and acts as may further the rating and collecting of the &s;aid &s;um of Twenty four thou&s;and pounds upon the &s;aid re&s;pective counties and I&s;land, in the maner and proportion afore&s;aid; and to remove all lets and ob&s;tructions, and determine all dif|ferences that may hinder the effectual pro&s;ecu|tion of this work; and to &s;upervi&s;e and regulate proceedings to the be&s;t of their judgements, ac|cording to the true intent and meaning of this Act.</P>
<P><HI>Provided always, That no welaffected per&s;on in any of the &s;aid Counties and I&s;land, be compelled to pay any Rate or Tax towards the rai&s;ing of the &s;aid &s;ums or any of them. Provided al&s;o, That this Act &s;hall not extend to di&s;charge or pardon any per&s;on excepted from pardon, or from Compo&s;ition for his E&s;tate, by the Propo&s;itions &s;ent to the late King at Newca&s;tle, nor by any Act, Order or Vote of Parliament not yet repealed.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Nor any Member of Parliament, that hath de&s;erted his Tru&s;t, and adhered to the Enemy.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Nor any per&s;on that hath a&s;si&s;ted the Iri&s;h Rebellion, or held corre&s;pondency or Intelligence with the Rebels in Ireland.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Nor any per&s;on that having been in Arms again&s;t the Parliament, doth re&s;ide in France or Ireland, or in any other parts beyond the Seas.</HI></P>
<P N="5"><PB N="445" REF="4" MS="y"> 5. <HI>Nor any per&s;on that hath given Intelligence to, or held corre&s;pondency in any thing again&s;t the Parliament, with CHARLS STUART the late Kings Son, or his Adhe|rents, in any of the parts beyond the Seas.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. <HI>Nor any Delinquent, or otherwi&s;e &s;candalous Mini|&s;ter or Clergyman (as to Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Promotions onely) that is already duly Seque&s;tred or Seque&s;trable, nor at all to pardon &s;uch of them as have plotted or contrived the Revolt of the &s;aid I&s;land of Angle&s;ey.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. <HI>Nor any Papi&s;ts in arms, nor any other Papi&s;ts for the two Thirds of their E&s;tates Seque&s;tred or Seque&s;tra|ble, according to former Orders or Ordinances of Parlia|ment for their non-conformity.</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. <HI>Nor any per&s;ons that are now Pri&s;oners of War.</HI></P>
<P N="9">9. <HI>Nor any per&s;on that hath publique Money in his hands, for which he ought to accompt, and &s;hall not di&s;|cover and pay the &s;ame to the Trea&s;urers for the Army, for the u&s;e of the Commonwealth, within three moneths after the pa&s;sing of this Act. Provided further, That this Act &s;hall not extend to di&s;charge any per&s;on that hath his Fine &s;et at Gold&s;miths Hall, from the payment of the &s;ame to the Trea&s;urers there accordingly. Provided al&s;o, That this Act &s;hall not extend to make any per&s;on capa|ble to bear any Office in the Commonwealth, contrary to any former Act or Ordinance of Parliament, without con&s;ent of Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>Provided likewi&s;e, and be it further Enacted by the authority afore&s;aid, That all per&s;ons within the &s;aid re&s;pective counties and I&s;land, that have been engaged again&s;t the Parliament (not compri&s;ed within the former Exceptions, Qualifications or Crimes, to the di&s;charging or pardoning whereof this Act is not to extend) that are not worth in Lands four pounds <HI>per annum,</HI> or in per&s;onal e&s;tate Forty pounds, and &s;hall declare unto the &s;aid Commi&s;sioners or
<PB N="446" REF="5"> any five of them, their firm re&s;olutions, faith|fully to adhere to the intere&s;t of this Com|monwealth, &s;hall not be taxed or compelled to pay any part of the &s;aid &s;um of Twen|ty four thou&s;and pounds, but are hereby freely pardoned and di&s;charged of their De|linquency: And be it further Enacted by the authority afore&s;aid, That all the Inhabitants in the &s;aid &s;everal and re&s;pective counties of <HI>Montgomery, Denbigh, Flint, Merioneth</HI> and <HI>Carna|von,</HI> and in the &s;aid I&s;land of <HI>Angle&s;ey</HI> (that have E&s;tates above the values afore&s;aid in the &s;aid re&s;pective counties) or any of them (except the per&s;ons before excepted, and compri&s;ed in the &s;aid former Qualifications, unto whom the be|nefit of this Act is not to extend) and &s;hall duly pay their proportions of the &s;aid &s;um of Twenty four thou&s;and pounds, according to the true meaning of this Act, and con&s;tantly and faith|fully adhere to the pre&s;ent e&s;tabli&s;hed intere&s;t of this Nation, be and are pardoned and ac|quitted of and for any act of Delinquency or offence committed or done by them, or any of them, again&s;t the Parliament, to the time of the pa&s;sing of this Act; and are hereby permitted to enjoy all their &s;everal and re&s;pective e&s;tates, without mole&s;tation, to all intents and purpo&s;es what&s;oever, free from any act done or to be done again&s;t them, or any of them, by vertue, colour or pretence of any Act, Ordinance or Order of Par|liament, for Seque&s;tration of Delinquents e&s;tates. Provided moreover, and be it Enacted and Ordained by the authority afore&s;aid, That if any per&s;on or per&s;ons that have complyed with the late Kings Forces, or are lyable to Seque|&s;tration within the &s;aid &s;everal and re&s;pective counties, and I&s;land of <HI>Angle&s;ey,</HI> or any of them,
<PB N="447" REF="5" MS="y"> &s;hall refu&s;e to pay his or their proportion, as the &s;ame &s;hall be rated or taxed, and approved of by the &s;aid Commi&s;sioners, or any five of them (towards the rai&s;ing of the afore&s;aid Fine) with|in the time herein limited for the payment of the &s;ame, &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons &s;o refu&s;ing, are not to have any benefit or immunity by this Act, but are left to be effectually proceeded again&s;t, according to the &s;everal Ordinances of Seque|&s;trations. And be it further Enacted by the au|thority afore&s;aid, That &s;uch &s;um and &s;ums of Money as are by any Ordinance or Order of Parliament charged upon the e&s;tates of New Delinquents in <HI>Northwales,</HI> and payable to per|&s;ons well-affected to the Parliament, and to the pre&s;ent Con&s;titution of this Commonwealth (not exceeding in the whole the &s;um of Four thou|&s;and pounds) be according to the true intent and meaning of the &s;aid &s;everal Ordinances and Orders, paid and di&s;charged out of the &s;aid &s;um of Twenty four thou&s;and pounds. And the Trea&s;urers at Wars are authorized and required to pay and di&s;charge the &s;ame accord|ingly; and to the end this pre&s;ent Act, and the &s;everal former Ordinances of Seque&s;trations may be the better put in execution, Be it fur|ther Enacted by the authority afore&s;aid, That the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Mitton, John Jones, John Carter, George Twi&s;leton, Thomas Ma&s;on, Thomas Madrin, Edmond Glyn, Robert Sontley, Thomas Ball, John Peck, Richard Ba&s;&s;net, Edward Wyn, Thomas Crichley, Daniel Lloyd, Watkin Kyffin, William Wyn, Gerard Barbour, Griffith Glyn, Richard Anwyl,</HI> Captain <HI>Thomas Pugh, Lewis Lloyd, Peter Meirick,</HI> Major <HI>Edward Moor, Roger Hanmer,</HI> Sir <HI>John Trevor, John Pule&s;ton, Thomas Raven&s;croft, John Alder|&s;ey, Luke Lloyd, Humphrey Dymmock, Andrew</HI>
<PB N="448" REF="6"> <HI>Ellice, Thomas Dymmock, Daniel Mathews, Hugh Courtney,</HI> Sir <HI>John Wittewrong, Evan Lloyd, Hugh Price, Richard Price, Richard Gruffith, Robert Gruffith, Rice Vaughan, Samuel Big, Edward Owen</HI> of <HI>Ca&s;tle-Dail, Owen Salusbury, Gruffith Nanney, John Lloyd, Lewis Owen, Robert Vaughan, Robert Owen, Thomas Michael, William Williams,</HI> or any three or more of them, &s;hall be and hereby are con&s;tituted and appointed to be a Committee, for the putting in execution all and every the Ordinances of Se|que&s;trations of Delinquents &amp; Papi&s;ts e&s;tates, according to the true intent and meaning of this Act, and of the &s;aid &s;everal Ordinances; which &s;aid Committee, or any three or more of them, are hereby authorized and required to Seque|&s;ter, or cau&s;e to be &s;eque&s;tred the e&s;tates Real and Per&s;onal of all and every per&s;on and per|&s;ons (being Delinquents or Papi&s;ts) within the &s;aid &s;everal Counties and I&s;land, who&s;e e&s;tates by the true meaning of this Act ought to be &s;e|que&s;tred, and unto whom the benefit of this Act is not extended; and the &s;aid e&s;tates &s;o &s;eque|&s;tred, to di&s;po&s;e of as by the &s;everal Ordinances or Orders of Parliament in that behalf is re|quired; ob&s;erving in the execution of the premi|&s;es, &s;uch further Orders and Directions as they &s;hall from time to time receive from the Com|mittee of Gold&s;miths-hall. And be it further Enacted by the authority afore&s;aid, That the &s;aid Commi&s;sioners or any five of them, &s;hall have and hereby have full power and authority to hear and examine Complaints, as well touch|ing the inequality of A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments of former and future Taxes levyed, or to be levyed in the &s;aid re&s;pective Counties, or any of them for the Service of the Parliament: As al&s;o touching allowance to be made by Landlords
<PB N="449" REF="6" MS="y"> to their Tenants in re&s;pect of Taxes, and to order &s;uch relief therein as &s;hall be agreeable to Equity and Iu&s;tice, and to the true intent and meaning of the &s;everal Ordinances of Parlia|ment in that behalf made: And be it further En|acted by the authority afore&s;aid, That the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, or any five of them, in the &s;aid re&s;pective counties, &s;hall have power, and are hereby authorized to collect and receive of the per&s;ons that are to have benefit by this Act, &s;o much money as &s;hall defray the nece&s;&s;ary charge of pro&s;ecuting this &s;ervice: Provided, That the &s;ame exceed not the &s;um of One hundred pounds in each county: And that no one Com|mi&s;sioner be allowed for his charges, in attend|ing the &s;aid &s;ervice, above the rate of Five &s;hil|lings <HI>per diem,</HI> for every day that he &s;hall be actu|ally imployed in the &s;aid &s;ervice: And be it fur|ther Enacted by the authority afore&s;aid, That all former &s;u&s;pen&s;ions of Seque&s;trations, made by Sir <HI>Thomas Middleton,</HI> by vertue of an Ordi|nance of Parliament, authorizing him &s;o to do, or made by any other per&s;on or per&s;ons imployed in the &s;ervice of the Parliament in the &s;aid coun|ties, not authorized thereunto by any Act, Or|dinance or Order of Parliament, be from hence|forth void and of none effect. And be it further Declared and Enacted by the authority afore|&s;aid, That the payment of any part of the &s;aid Fine, or of any other &s;um of money by any of the Inhabitants of the &s;aid counties, in pur&s;uance of this Act, &s;hall not be con&s;trued, or taken to be a &s;ufficient matter of evidence or confe&s;sion, for the conviction of &s;uch per&s;on to have acted any thing again&s;t the Parliament: And where|as Col: <HI>Thomas Ma&s;on,</HI> Capt. <HI>Richard Price,</HI> Capt. <HI>Thomas Ball,</HI> and <HI>Richard Cheadle</HI> E&s;q; have done
<PB N="450" REF="7"> very good and faithful &s;ervice to the Common|wealth, &s;ome of them having had their hou&s;es burnt, and their whole e&s;tates kept from them for divers years by the enemy (to their total ruine) for their affection to the Parliament; by rea&s;on whereof they are become incapable of &s;erving the Commonwealth, according to the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them, unle&s;s they receive &s;ome &s;ea&s;onable &s;upply and reparation towards their Arrears, Disbur&s;ements and &s;ufferings; Be it therefore enacted by the authority afore&s;aid, That the &s;um of Two thou&s;and pounds out of the fir&s;t money that &s;hall be rai&s;ed by Seque&s;tra|tion of, or Compo&s;ition with any new Delin|quents in the &s;aid counties, not pardoned by this Act, &s;hall be di&s;po&s;ed of towards &s;atisfaction of the Arrears, Disbur&s;ements, and Repara|tion of the lo&s;&s;es and &s;ufferings of the &s;aid per|&s;ons, as the Parliament &s;hall hereafter order and appoint: And likewi&s;e, That the debts and engagements of <HI>William Lloid</HI> E&s;q; late High Sheriff of the county of <HI>Carnarvon,</HI> now decea&s;ed, not exceeding One thou&s;and pounds, be accord|ing to a Vote of the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, of the tenth of <HI>June,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred forty eight, di&s;charged out of the Rents, Fines or Compo&s;itions of the &s;aid new Delinquents not pardoned by this Act.</P>
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<P>ORdered by the Commons in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, That this Act be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
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