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186 Commissions, or Instructions from them directed, under the Seal of the Council, to Authorise and Appoint such person and persons as they shall think fit within the respective Counties of and County of Monmouth, thereby Impowering them, or any three or more of them, to take and receive the Accompts of the Commissioners named in an Act of the two and twentieth day of February One thousand six hundred forty nine, Entituled, An Act for the better Propagation and Preaching of the Gospel in, And to take the Accompts of all other person and persons that have been Instructed and Imployed, or have any ways Intermedled with the Letting, Setting, Receiving, Collecting, Sequestring or Disposing of all or any Church-livings with Care of Souls, Donatives, Rectories, Vicaridges, Impropriations, Rents rescued sine Curis, Colledge Pensions and Portions of Tithes, and other Ecclesiastical Livings, Benefices, Procurations, Promotions, and public Revenues whatsoever, Sequestred or Sequestrable, or in the Disposal of the Parliament, or which did or do any ways belong or appertain to the Commonwealth within the said respective Counties of  and County of Monmouth ever since the two and twentieth day of February One thousand six hundred forty nine: And to examine and certify all Deceipts, Frauds, Under Valuations, Concealments, Mis-imployments, and Breaches of Trust of any person or persons that have had the Letting, Setting, Collecting, Sequestring, Receiving or Disposing of the said Church-Livings, Rectories Impropriations, and other the Premises, or have any ways intermedled therewith.

And for the better discovery of the truth thereof, the said Commissioners, or any three of them are hereby Impowered to send for Persons, Papers, Witnesses, Books and Accompts and to examine the Accomptants, And all such Witnesses as shall be produced before them on Oath, which the said Commissioners or any three of them are hereby Impowered to administer: And to use all other lawful Ways and Means, and execute all such further Powers as were heretofore given to any Committee or Commissioners, for taking the Accompts of the Kingdom, by any former Acts or Ordinances of Parliament, for the better performance and discharge of the Service aforesaid. And the said Commissioners or any three of them are hereby further Authorized and Required to examine and certify the true and real Valuations of the said Rectories, Vicarages, Impropriations, Tithes, Church-Livings and other the Premises within the said respective Counties, as the same were