AN ORDINANCE OF THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT, That all Delinquents shall forthwith bring in their Fines due upon Bond, to the Commissioners sitting at Goldsmiths Hall, or else their Estates to beseque­stred till payment be made.

WHereas it appeares by information from the Commissioners for compounding with Delinquents sitting at Goldsmiths Hall, That thexe is due in Arreares upon Bond from seve­rall persons who have been fined for their Delinquencies, and whose Reports have long since passed both Houses, and their severall Fines allowed by them, the summe of forty thousand pounds, or thereabouts; yet notwithstanding nothing hath been done by any of the said Persons, Delinquents, for dis­charging of their severall summes due upon Bond, although their Reports have been passed as aforesaid; but that they do still continue obstinate and peremptory in their resolutions, and do not pay the same; It is therefore Ordered and Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Par­liament Assembled, That the Committees and Sequestrators in the severall and re­spective Counties wherein any part of the estate of such Delinquent or Delinquents shall lye, who have failed and do refuse to pay in the remainder of their Fines, accor­ding to their [...]onds, shall forthwith sequester the Estates of all such persons whose names shall be returned unto them from the said Commissioners sitting at Gold­smiths Hall, and proceed thereupon as formerly before any such Composition made, untill they shall fully satisfie the remainder of their Fines, and shall make the same ap­peare by certificate from the said Commissioners.

ORdered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled, That this Ordinance con­cerning Delinquents Composition be forthwith printed and published.

Jo. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.

Printed at London for John Wright, at the Kings Head in the Old Bayley. 1647.

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