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the Indies. He prefented his work to the royal council, and 

 earnellly requefted permiffion to print it. He was refufed, 

 and applied to feme friends in the emperor's court. Las 

 Cafas, who was returned from the Indies, perfuaded that 

 the book, would encourage the cruelties of which he com- 

 plained, oppofcd the printing. The royal council, regard- 

 ing the fubjed; as of a theological rather than as of a poli- 

 tical nature, referred it to the univerfities of Alcala and Sa- 

 lamanca, both of which pronounced that it ouglit not to be 

 committed to the prefs. The author, dctermnied if poffible 

 to carry his point, fent his book to Rome, where it was 

 printed. The emperor, informed of his intention, fent ex- 

 prels orders to prohibit its circulation, and caufed the copies 

 to be feized : fome of them, however, had already readied 

 Spain. Las Cafas thought it npceffary to make a reply in 

 defence of the poor Indians. The emperor at length cited 

 the parties before the council of the Indies, and fent Domi- 

 nic Soto to arbitrate between them. He heard the argu- 

 ments on both fides, and made a report in favour of Las 

 Cafas. The matter, however, remained undecided ; and 

 the good bifhop had not the fatisfadlioii to fee ihe Indiann 

 freed from their tyrants. Sepulveda died at Salamanca, of 

 which he was a canon, in 1572. Befides the works above- 

 mentioned, he was author of various tracts, theological 

 and controverfial, which were printed coUeftively at Cologne 

 in 1602. 



Sepulveda, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Old 

 Catlile, on the river Duraton ; 28 miles N.E. of Se- 

 govia. 



SEPYRA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Syria, upon 

 mount Amanus, of which Cicero made himfelf mailer. 

 I SEQUANA, a river which feparated the country of 



the Gauls from that of the Belgae, according to Cafar. 

 It is the prelent Seine. 



SEQUANI, a people of Gaul. In the time of Csefar 

 they were in Celtica, but Augullus places them in Bel- 

 gica. 



SEQUATUR fub fuo periculo, in Latv, a writ that 

 lies, when a fummons ad warrantizandtim is awarded, and 

 the (heriff returns that the party hath nothing by which 

 he may be fummoned ; then goes forth an alias and a 

 pluries ; and if he comes not on the pliiries, this writ 

 (hall iflue. 



SEQUEANG, in Geography, a town of Pegu, on the 

 Irawaddy, 20 miles N. of Rangoon. 



SEQUEL, Sequela, in Logic, a confequence drawn 

 from fome preceding propofition. 



As if I fay. Tie human foul is immaterial, and therefore im- 

 mortal ; the lall member of the fentence is z fequel of the 

 firlt. 



SEQUENCE, French, from yjjaor, I follow, in Gaming, 

 a feries or fet of cards immediately following each other in 

 the fame fuit or colour. 



We fay, a fequence of four cards, of five, &c. At 

 piquet, thefe are called tierces, quarts, quints, &c. 



SEQUESTRATION, Sequestratio, in Common 

 Laiu, the aft of feparating a thing in controverfy, from 

 the pofl'eflion of both parties, till the right be determined 

 by courfe of law. 



This is of two forts, voluntary and necejfary : voluntary, 

 when it is done by confent of both parties : and necejfary, 

 being that which the judge doth by his authority, whether 

 the parties will or not. 



Sequestration, in the Ci-vil Laiu, is the aft of the 

 ordinary, difpofing of the goods and chattels of one de- 

 L-eafed, whofe eftate no man will meddle v«th. 



A widow is alfo faid to fequejtcr, when Ihc difclaims 

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having any thing to do with the eftate of her deccafed 

 hurt) and. 



Among the Romanifts, in queltions of marriage, where 

 the wife complains of impotency in the hufband, (he is to 

 be fequeitered into a convent, or into the hands of matrons, 

 till the procefs be determined. 



Sequestratio?) is alfo ufed for the aft of gathering 

 the fruits of a benefice void, to the ufe of the next in- 

 cumbent. 



Sometimes a benefice is kept under fequeftration for many 

 years, when it is of fo fmall value, that no clergyman fit 

 to ferve the cure, will be at the charge of taking it by in- 

 Ititution ; in which cafe the feqifsllration is committed 

 either to the curate alone, or to the curate and church- 

 wardens jointly. Sometimes the profits of a living in con- 

 troverfy, either by the confent of the parties, or the 

 judge's authority, are fequeftered and placed for fafety in 

 a third hand, till the fuit is determined, a minifter being 

 appointed by the judge to ferve the cure, and allowed a 

 certain falary out of the profits. Sometimes the profits of 

 a living are fequcltered for iiegleft of duty, for dilapida- 

 tions, or for fatisfying the debts of the incumbent. And 

 this is, where a judgment hath been obtained againft 31 

 clergyman, and upon a fieri facias direfted to the (heriff to 

 deny the debt and damages, he returns, that the defendant 

 is a clerk beneficed having no lay fee. Whereupon a levari 

 facias (fee Levari) is direfted to the bilhop to levy the 

 fame of his ecclefiallical goods, and by virtue thereof the 

 tithes (hall be lequedered. (Watfon. c. 15. ) In this cafe 

 the bifhop may name the fequeftrators himfelf, or grant the 

 fequeftration to fuch perfons as (hall be named by the party 

 who obtained the writ. If the fequeftration be laid and 

 executed before the day of the return of the writ, the mean 

 profits may be taken by virtue of the fequeftration after 

 the writ is made returnable, otherwife not. If an appeal 

 be made againft a fentence of fequeftration, and lawfully 

 prefented, the party fequeftered (hall enjoy the profits pend- 

 ing the appeal. (Lind. 104.) It is ufual for the eccle- 

 fiallicaljudge to take bondof the fequeftrators, welland truly 

 to gather and receive the tithes, fruits, and other profits, 

 and to render a juft account (Watfon. c. 30.) : and thofe 

 to whom the fequeftration is committed are to caufe the 

 fame to be publilhed in the refpeftive churches, in the 

 time of divine fervice. 



The fequeftrators cannot maintain an aftion for tithes in 

 their own name at the common law, nor in any of the 

 king's courts ; but only in the fpiritual court, or before the 

 juftices of the peace where they have power by law to take 

 cognizance. When the fequeftrators have performed the 

 duty required, the fequeftration is to be taken off, and the 

 profits applied according to the direftion of the ordinary, 

 and they (hall be allowed out of the profits a recompence 

 for their trouble, and alfo for the fupply of the cure, and 

 alfo for the maintenance of the incumbent and his family, 

 if they need it. Sequeftrators refufing to deliver up their 

 charge, may be compelled to do it by the ecclefiaftical 

 judge. If the incumient be not fatisfied with the conduft 

 of the fequeftrators in the execution of their charge, his 

 proper remedy is by application to the fpiritual judge ; and 

 if he be not fatisfied with his determination, he may appeal 

 to a fuperior jurifdiftion. 



In the time of the civil wars, fequeftration was ufed for 

 a feizing of the eftates of delinquents, for the ufe of the 

 commonwealth. 



Sequestration, in Chancery, is a commiffion ufually 

 direfted to feven perfons therein named, empowering them 

 to feiase the defendant's perfonal eftate and the profits of 



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