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 A. D. 1660. Anno duodecimo Caroli II. C. 11. 169 liundred fifty-nine) who have received or colledled any Subfidy, Ciiftom, Subfidy of Tonnage and Poundage, Prize-Goods, Afleffments, Sequeftration, New Import or Excife, or of any the Rents and Revenues of any Lands or Hereditaments, of or belonging unto the late King, Queen or Prince, or King that now is, or belonging unto the late Archbilhopricks, Biiliopricks, Deans, or Deans and Chapters, Canons, Prehends, and other Officers belonging to any Cathedral or Collegiate Church, or Popim Re- cufants convift, or of Perfons fequeftred for their Recufancy, or other fequeftred Eftates received or col- leded by or paid unto them fince the thirtieth of January in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hun- dred forty-two ; and of all Monies and other Duties grown due or contracted upon the Sale or Difpofition of them or any of them. XL Provided, That the Heirs, Executors, Adminiftrators or Tertenants of the Lands of any Ac- Provifoforthe countant within this Exception now deceafed, (hall not be charged with, nor liable unto any Account for [J^jsof ac°^ the Matters in tliis Exception mentioned, except for fuch Sum or Sums of Money as remain due upon countants ex- any of their Accounts already ftated and determined, and are not yet paid in: (z) And that no Ac-cepted. countant as abovefald, now living, fhall be liable to make Account of any Sum or Sums of Money paid or dilburfed, or otherwife allowed or difcharged, by Virtue or Colour of any Order or Ordinance of both or either Houfe or Houfes of Parliament, or any Convention or Affembly called or reputed, or taking on them the Name of a Parliament, or of Oliver Cromwel, pretended Protecflor, or of Richard his Son, while he continued or was ftiled or obeyed as Proteftor, or by any Perfons ailing as a Com- mittee appointed by the faid two Houfes or either of them, or by any fuch Convention or Affembly, or any Order or Direilion of fuch Committee or Committees, or any Perfon or Perfons a^Hiing as a publick Counfel, though having no legal Authority fo to do, or by their or any their Order or Orders, or Direftion. XIL It being further declared and enadled, and it is enaiSed by the Authority aforefaid. That no Fees and Sala- Perfon or Perfons (hall be charged for any Monies by him received for the Fees, Salaries and Wages J,'"^^,^^;^ "°'"' then allowed, or for Monies by him difuurfed upon any publick Ufe or Pretence, though the Di-for, "** region or Authority whereby the fame Money was iffued, was not or be not legal and warrantable in Law. XIII. And be it further provided. That no Military or commiflloned Officer of the Annies or Military Pjy- Navies, or Soldier or Mariner, who before the twenty-fifth of March one thoufand fix hundred fifty-nine ments not lo he hath received any Monies for his own Pay or the Pay of other Soldiers, or for any other Contingencies accounted for. of the Soldiers or Garrifons under his Command, or by Way of Reward, ftiall be called to account therefore. .XIV. And that no Perfon whatfoever (hall be called to an Account for any the Matters in this Ex- No Perfon to be •ception mentioned, after the four and twentieth Day of June which fhall be in the Year of our Lord *'"®'"°,j^"^J^" God one thoufand fix hundred fixty and two now next enfuing ; (2) and that in Cafe any Perfon who j^thofjune ftands accountable for any Monies received fince the firft of January one thoufand fix hundred forty- 1661. two, and before the thirtieth of January one thoufand fix hundred forty-eight, have been robbed or plundered by Soldiers or others, of the Monies in their Hands, or of any Notes or Books of Receipts or Acquittances touching their Payments or Difcharge, then the Oath or Oaths of fuch Party or Parties of the fame refpe6tively, fhall be a good Difcharge for fo much of their Account : (3) And that the Oath of every Accountant in or between the Years one thoufand fix hundred forty-two and one thoufand fix hundred forty-eight, of what they have paid to any publick Ufe, by or according to any publick or pretended Order or Authority whatfoever, fliall be a good Difcharge, as to fo much of the Account of fuch Perfon or Perfons : And except all Firft-fruits and Tenths m the Hands of any Receiver not having difburfed as in the laft Exception is expreffed. .X V. Provided, That all and everjr Judgment of Difcharge, or, ^lieius eft, had or given at any Time Difchargesand Upon any Account in the Publick Exchequer, fince the Year one thoufand fix hundred forty-eight, be m che^Fxcte-^" allowed and (hall not be avoided 5(2) except all Accounts of the Revenues of Churches and Vicarages quer. in IValet and the County of Monmouth, and all Judgments of Difcharge or ^lietus thereupon obtained : ^"ounts of the And alfo excepted out of this Pardon all Offences of Bribery, Perjury and the Subornation of Perjury church" in^ lOr Witneffes, and OfTeiices of Forging or Counterfeiting any Deeds, Debentures, Bills of publick Faith, Wales. Efcripts, Wills or other Writings whatfoever, or of any Examinations or Teftimonies of any Witnefs or 2"^ery, Subor- WitnefTes, tending to bring any Perfon or Perfons in danger of his Life, Liberty or Efliate, and the olbentures^&T giving the fame in Evidence, and the Counfelling or Procuring of any fuch Counterfeiting or Forging to Witneffes. ' be had or made: _ _ ■ XVI. And alfo excepted all Offences in detaining, imbezilling or purloining any the Goods, Money, imbeziiiing and Chattels or Jewels of the late King, Qiieen or Prince, or any of the Children of the late King and King's"GooJs^ Queen, other than Shipping, Stores and Ammunitions of War, and other than fuch Goods and Chattels as have been fold or difpofed of to any of the Servants or Creditors of his late Majefty, in or toward Satif- faftion of their Debts or Wages. XVII. And alfo excepte-d out of this Pardon, all Ifliaes, Fines and Amerciaments, Rents and other ifiues, Fines and publick Duties, being levied, received or colleded by any Sheriff, Under-fherifF, Bailiff, Minifler or Amerciamen Other Officer, to or for the Ufe of the late King, the Parliament or the faid Keepers of the Liberty of ^?|?'^"*''yS'^8' England, or any other Perfon (tiling himfelf Pr<7/^(3tfr, or for his Majefty that now is, and not accounted for and difcharged. XVIII. And alfo excepted out of this Pardon, all and every Offence and, Offences committed or done J^fuits, Semina- by any Jefuit, Seminary or Romijli Prieft whatfoever, contrary to the Tenor or Effedt of the Statute made p'?^"'' ^^^^^ inthefeven and twentieth Year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, intituled, Jn ABagainJiJe- ^■j'^^z^c'^t, Juiu, Seminary Priejis a7id other difobedient Perfons or of any Part thereof, and all Outlawries, Proceed- ings, Judgments and Executions for the fame OflTences, or any of them. 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