134 PROCEEDINCJS FOR COMPOUNDING. 



Plate, Arms, Munition or other Aid or Assistance to the maintenance of 

 any force which is hostile to the Parliament or which is to rob spoil 

 plunder or destroy any persons who have willingly submitted to Parliament ; 

 and of those who associate themselves against Parliament, or who have 

 taxed or assisted in forcibly taxing anyone for the maintenance of forces 

 hostile to parliament, shall be siezed and sequestred into the hands of 

 Sequestrators and Committees appointed by both Houses of Parliament for 

 any county, city, or place in England or Wales. The sequestrators, or 

 their agents two or more in each county etc, are required to sieze the 

 personal and the real estate of all the above specified Delinquents, and 

 also two parts of the personal and of the real estate of every papist. 

 The sequestrators, & their agents to have power to let and demur the 

 same as their Landlords might have done, to take verbal evidence and to 

 sieze accounts etc. and to appoint and remunerate estate agents. The 

 tenants debtors etc of the delinquents are required to pay their rents etc 

 to the sequestrators who on account of the hardness of the times are to 

 have power to grant a full and sufficient receipt. 



The sequestrators & their agents to have power to distrain for rent, to 

 pay rents to the Treasurer at Guildhall London, to keep accounts, to have 

 power to call to their aid the train bands, to punish those who are 

 refractory or negligent in assisting them to compel obedience to this 

 ordinance by a tine not exceeding 20 pounds, or to report their names to 

 the committee of Lords 'and Commons appointed for the purpose. 



It is declared and ordained that all the sums profits etc. shall be 

 employed to the use and for the maintenance of the army and forces 

 raised by Parliament or for such uses as may be directed by Parliament. 



The Sequestrators etc to have allowances for their necessary charges and 

 pains in & about the premises. Aggrieved persons to appeal to Parliament 

 or to the above mentioned committee of Parliament. This ordinance not 

 to be put in execution in places where any former ordinance has been 

 made for siezing estates of Delinquents. 



The estates ©f the said Delinquents shall be liable for their proportionate 

 part of any public charges just as if this ordinance had not been passed, 

 and also for all charges payable to persons other than the Delinquents. 



The ordinance is not to interfere with any sums paid to Colleges or 

 Hospitals (whose revenues have not been employed for the maintenance of 

 war against Parliament) Grammar Schools, Scholars, or for the repair of 

 Churchs, Chapels, Highways, Cawseys, Bridges, Schoolhouses, or for any 

 other charitable use. 



The Committee appointed for the cotinty of Derby in the 

 schedule of this Act consisted of '-Sir John Curson Baronet, Sir 



