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 A. D. 1660. Anno duodecimo Caroli IL C. ir. 173 other A(5V Order or Ordinance made in the Years of our Lord onethoufand fix hundred fifty, one fhoufand ' -- - ' ' .- J t-— J— J ciT... r... 1 A/r.^ui ii„j --"-Parlia- Ordi- nances • (z) And the Agents and Receivers under the Order of the faid 1 ruftees, and the Occupiers and i Tenants of the Premifles, who have taken the Premifies or Profits thereof into their Hands without i Agreement to pay Rent therefore, and have made no Account or Satisfadtion to the Truftees aforelaid-, lorto ibme other by their Order; (3) andalfothe Perfons who have held the fame, or taken the Profits i thereof under any Agreement to pay Rent or Money for the fame, and have not paid the fame, fiiall i refpedi'vely account, pay and make Satisfadtion for lb mich of the PremiOes, and Profits of the Pre- 1 miffes as are unfatisfied or unaccounted for, as aforefaid, and pay fuch Airearages of Rents or Mo- iney as by fuch Agreement remaineth unpaid by them ; (4) all which Payments and Accounts flnall be mad'e to fuch Perfons, and in fuch Manner as in Parliament fliall be direded 1(5) Neverthelefs, it is 1 not hereby intended that any Minifter, School-mafter or other Perfon, for whofe JBenefit and Mainte- I nance the faid pretended Aits or Ordinances were made, Ihall be accountable or liable to make Satis- ifaftion for any Profits, Rents or Sums of Money paid to or taken by them refpetStively, by Virtue or i Colour of any Order or Appointment of the faid Truftees, or any of them, or otherwife. I XL VI Provided alfo. That this AS: do not extend to pardon any Bond taken in his late Majefty's Bonds taken in Name before the Month oi May one thoufand fix hundred forty-two, for fecuring the proper Debt of ^^^fj-J^^y'! 'any Servant or Receiver of the Revenue of his faid late Majefty, that hath not been paid to, or by Order ^zy 1642. for !of fome lav/ful or pretended Authority. ' And whereas by an Order of the fix and twentieth Day of May Securities of i' in the Year one thoufand fix hundred forty-one, the thenHoufe of Commons in Parliament did accept fXl'sp'^/eiver* ' paid the faid one hundred and fifty thoufand Pounds ; and in Purfuance thereof did on the firft of XLVIL It is therefore provided. That this Aa (hall not extend, nor be conftrued to extend to par- pay„,ent3 upe* don or indemnify any Perfon or Perfons, their Heirs, Executors, Adminiftrators or Afllgns, who have Proportions of not paid their Proportions of the faid one hundred and fifty thoufand Pounds, or ought to have been con- '5°°o°'- "pon tributory thereunto, from or againft Mifdemeanors or Offences relatmg to the faid Cuftoms, or from. '"* 'Payment of their Proportions : But that the Eftates of the Dead, as well as of the Living, of fuch who 1 ought to have been contributory, in whofe Pofleffion foever (Purchafers bona fide, and upon valuable Con- ' fiderations only excepted) fhall continue and be charged and chargeable with the Payment of their Pro- i portions, to all Intents and Purpofes as if this Adt had not been made; any Thing herein contained to ' the contrary notwithftanding. ^ .,..,/,„ -, , XLVIII Provided alfo, That this Adl, or any Thing therein contained, fhall not extend or be con- Arrears of Ebt- ftrued to pardon or difcharge any Sum or Sums of Money due and arrear for Excife of Beer,^ Ale, or |;['"?°"^"'' •and nine. . , „ „ » , , . ,-,.,
 * the Sum of one hundred and fifty thoufand Pounds, as a Compofition from the Farmers of feveral notpardontd,
 * Cuftoms voted to be illegally taken, and fome of the laid Farmers did procure and pay the faid whole &c.
 * Sum of one hundred and fifty thoufand Pounds at the Defire of the faid Houfe of Commons, and upoa
 * their Declaration, That fuch of the faid Farmers as did not pay their Proportions, Ihould not be par-
 * doned but proceeded againft, aid out of their Fines Satisfaction fhould be made to tliofe who had
 * June then next following, refolve. That the Eftates of fuch Perfons, living or dead, as have by Colour
 * of any Patent received Monies from the Subjea:, under Pretence of fuch Cuftoms, or have beeii Un-
 * der-lharers with the Patentees, ought to be made liable to Reftitution :'
 * other native or inland Commodity, fmce the twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand fix hundred fifty
 * XLIX. Provided alfo. That nothing in this Adt contained (hall extend to the pardoning or difcharg- Moni-s duefos

, ing of any Sum or Sums of Money due firom any Officers or Soldiers to any of the Subjeds of this King- Free Q£.arters. dotn for Free Quarter, fince the fecond Day of July one thoufand fix hundred fifty and mne, or to dif- charge any Monies borrowed by any Officers for preventing of Free Quarter. i L. Provided always, and be it enaded by the Authority aforefaid. That no Conveyance, AfTurance, Purchafers bona. .{Grant, Bargain, Sale, Charge, Leafe, AflTignment of Leafe, Grants and Surrenders by Copy of Court- fideof Lands, Roll, Eftate, Intereft, Truft, or Limitation of any Ufe or Ufes of any Manors, Lands, Tenements gf";^"^"^'he { or Hereditaments, not being the Lands nor Hereditaments of the late Kmg, Queen, Prince, or of any enjoy their Pur- i Archbilhops, Bifhops, Deans, Deans or Chapters, nor being Lands or Hereditaments fold or given, chafes. ! or appointed to be fold or given, for the Delinquency, or pretended Delinquency of any Perfon or Per- fons whatfoever, by Virtue or Pretext of any Adt, Order or Ordinance, or reputed Adt, Order or Ordi- nance, fince the firft Day of January one thoufand fix hundred forty and one ; (2 ) Nor any Statute, Judg- ment or Recognizance, had, made, acknowledged or fuffered to any Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, before the nine and twentieth Day of Septe7nber one thoufand fix hundred fifty and nine,. ! Perfons claiming by, from or under them or any of them, other than the Wife or Wives, Child, , Children, Heir or Heirs of fuch Perfon and Perfons, or any of them, for Money bona fide to them or i any of them paid or lent, nor any Conveyance, AflTurance, Grant or Eftate made before the five aud twentieth Day of April one thoufand fix hundred and fixty, by any Perfon or Perfons to any fuch Perfon or Perfons excepted by Name, as aforefaid, in Truft and for the Benefit of any other Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, not excepted by Name, as aforefaid, fliall be impeached, defeated, made void, or fruftrated hereby, or by the Attainder or Convidion of any fuch excepted Perfon or Perfons ; (3) but that the fame ftiall be held and enjoyed by the Purchafers, Grantees, LeflTees, Afiigns, Cejluy que ufe, Ceftuf f^^rra/?, and every of- them, their Heirs, Executors, Adminiftrators and AflTigns refpeaively, as if this- Aa had not been made, and as if the faid Perfon or Perfons had not been excepted, attainted or con- viaed i any Law, Statute, Ufage or Cuftom to the contrary thereof many wife notwithfianding. Li» Pro—
 * by any of the Perfons before in this Adt by Name excepted, or their Heirs, or by any other Perfon or