An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament directing the payment of all duties upon the revenue to be made to the severall receivers appointed or to be appointed.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in Parliament, Directing the payment of all duties upon the Revenue to be made to the severall Receivers, appointed, or to be appointed.

Die Sabbathi 23 Decemb. 1643.

WHereas diverse Mannors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments of Papists, Delin∣quents, and ill affected persons in diverse Counties, Cities, & places within this Realm of England, Dominion of Wales, and Port and Towne of Barwicke, by Ordinances of Parliament, are, and others hereafter may be sequestred, out of which there are sun∣dry Fee-Farme Rents, Farme Rents, and other payments due to his Majesty, the Queen, and Prince: And Whereas the Lords and Common in this present Parlia∣ment Assembled, upon the one and twentieth of September last, passed an Ordinance for the siezing upon, and receiving for the use of His Majesty and the Common-wealth, all His Majesties, the Queene and Princes Revenues, of what nature or quality soever, certaine, or casuall, within the said Realm of England, Dominion of Wales, and Ports and Town of Barwick, together with all the Arrears thereof, and all debts any way due to His Majesty, the Queen or Prince, And to the end that all distractions and confusions of accounts may be avoyded and prevented, & that there may be kept an ex∣act and distinct account of all His Majesties, the Queen and Princes Revenues, or summes of Mony which have bin, or shall be leavied or received by Ordinance of this present Parliament, The said Lords and Com∣mons therefore doe declare, and Ordeine, and be it Ordeined by the Authority of the same, That all and eve∣ry the rents, summes of Mony, and other duties any way due to His Majesty, the Queen or Prince, charg∣able upon or issuing forth of any the Mannors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, that are or shall be sequestred as aforesaid, together with all the Arreares thereof, shall be from time to time paid and delive∣red to the severall receivers, that are, or shal be thereunto appointed by the said Ordinance of Parliament of the 21 of September last, or the Committee for the Revenue, within the severall Counties, Cities or pla∣ces aforesaid: And the said Lords and Commons doe further Declare, Ordaine, and Command, that all and every the Committees of Sequestrations in the severall Counties, Cities, and places aforesaid, and all Treasurers and Collectors, and all others whom it may concerne, that they give obedience, and con∣forme themselves to this present Ordinance, and out of the moneys raised, or arising of all, every, or any of the said sequestred Mannors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, they forthwith, and so hereafter from time to time, doe pay the said severall Rents and sums of Money, which are or shal be due out of the same unto His Majesty, the Queen, or Prince, unto the said severall and respective Receivers within the se∣verall Counties, Cities, and places aforesaid, whose severall and respective Acquittance or Acquitances shall be a sufficiennt discharge to the severall Sequestrators, Treasurers, Collectors, and all others, for such sums of money, as they, or any of them shall pay according to the direction of the Ordinance.

Io. Browne Cler. Parliament.