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desire your Lordships that the said Commission may be 

 renewed and made returnable at such convenient time whereby 

 the same may be fully executed according to the purport 

 thereof. 



Dated 22 November 1655 

 Signed, Jo. Thorowgood, &c, 



p. 45. TOLLER PORCORUM, NETHERBURY 

 & BEAMINSTER 



18 December 1657 



To the Rt Hon the Lords Com'rs of the Great Seal. 

 May it please your Lordships 



We the Trustees for providing Maintenance for Preaching 

 Ministers and other pious uses appointed by an Act of 

 Parliament intituled An Act for providing Maintenance, &c. 

 and An Ordinance intituled for better maintenance and en- 

 couragement of Preaching Ministers and for uniting of parishes, 

 continued and confirmed by an Act of this Parliament intituled 

 An Act and Declaration touching several Acts and Ordinances 

 made since 20 April 1653 and before 3 September 1654 and 

 other Acts, &c. Doe in pursuance of the trust in us reposed 

 humbly present unto your Lordships the names of such 

 persons to whom a Commission may be directed under the 

 Great Seale of England to enquire after the true yearlie value 

 of the Benefice of the parish churches of Toller Porcorum 

 and Netherbury and Beaminster in the county of Dorset 

 and the chapelries within the said parishes and the convenience 

 of dividing the said parishes and chapels or any of them or 

 any part of them and of uniting any or part of them to or 

 with the parishes of Compton Abbas and Toller Fratrum 

 or any other parish and other things, &c. 



Humbly desiring your Lordships to issue a Commission to 

 the persons hereafter mentioned to enquire and certify 

 according to the tenour of the Act and Ordinance, 



That is to say unto your Lordships and unto Henry 

 Lawrence, Lord President of the Council, William Lenthall, 

 Esq. Master of the Rolls, the Judges of Assize for county of 



