AN ORDINANCE for the reviving of an Act of Parliament, ENTITULED, An Act for Probate of Wills, and Granting Administrations.

[blazon of the Commonwealth]
Saturday the 24. of December 1653.

Ordered by His Highness the Lord Pro­tector, and His Council, That this Ordi­nance be forth with Printed and Published.

HEN. SCOBELL, Clerk of the Council.

London, Printed by Hen. Hills, Printer to His Highness the Lord Protector, MDCLIII.

[blazon of the Commonwealth]


AN ORDINANCE For the reviving of An Act of Parliament, Entituled, An Act for Probate of Wills, and Granting Administrations.

WHereas the late Act Entituled, [An Act for Probate of Wills, and granting Admini­strations] had Con­tinuance onely until the first day of Octo­ber, one thousand six hundred fifty and three, It is hereby Ordained by His Highness the LORD PRO­TECTOR, with the Consent of his Council, That the said Act, and the Authorities, Mat­ters and Things therein Contained, shall stand and be revived to continue in full Power and [Page 20] force until the first day of April next, to all in­tents and purposes.

And it is hereby further Ordained, that Ri­chard Lucy, John Hildesley, Nathaniel Barton, Jervas Bennet, Anthony Rous, Joachim Mathewes, Edward Cludd, Thomas Wood, Esqs and Robert Tichburn, Alderman of London, be added to the Iudges mentioned in the said Act, to execute all and every the Powers given by the said Act, as fully as any of the Iudges therein named may do.

Saturday the 24. of December 1653.

Ordered by his Highness the Lord Protector, and his Council, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.

Henry Scobell, Clerk of the Council.

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