April 1643.
[29 April, 1643.]
Whereas by a late Declaration and Ordinance of the Lords
and Commons assembled in Parliament for the seizing and
sequestring the estates both reall and personall of severall
Bishops in the said Ordinance mentioned, Deans, Deans and
Chapters, Prebends, Archdeacons, Papists, and others notorious
Delinquents, therein particularly declared and expressed to the
use and for the maintenance of the Army raised by the Parliament, and other uses as shall be directed by both Houses of
Parliament, for the benefit of the Common-wealth. And for
asmuch as Sir Ralph Hopton with divers of the County of
Cornewall, and others his Adherents, Rebells, and Traitors, by the
invitation and incouragement of an ill affected and Malignant
party in the County of Devon, and County and City of Exon
have already in a hostile manner actually entred the said County
of Devon, and did beseige, rob, plunder, murder, and kill divers of
his Maiesties best Subiects, and them have utterly wasted and
destroyed, and the said Rebels, and Traitors haveing lately withdrawne themselves into Cornewall aforesaid; now in pursuance
of this horrid, wicked and unnaturall Rebellion, are in preparation, and doe already threaten the good people of the said
County of Devon, and County and City of Exon againe to invade
and annoy with a greater strength than before.
Money, etc., sequestered, to be paid to Treasurers.; And by them paid out.
The Lords and Commons considering the tyrany, pressures,
and calamities, which lye upon the good people of the said
County of Devon, and County and City of Exon, and the
dangers now threatning them; doe hereby Order, declare, and
Ordaine, that all and every sum and sums of money, rents, revenues, tithes, pentions, Estates, Goods, chattles, Debts, and other
profits whatsoever, which by virtue of the said Declaration and
Ordinance shall bee raised within the said County of Devon, and
County and City of Exon, and seized and sequestred into the
hands of the Sequestrators, and Committees by the said Ordinance nominated and appointed for the said Counties and City
shall bee paid unto Charles Vaughan Esquire, Treasurer hereby
appointed for the City of Devon, and Christ. Clarke, now Maior
of Exon hereby appointed Treasurer for the said City and
County, who are to receive the said sum so respectively
raised and leavyed as aforesaid upon the said Ordinance; and
that the said monyes so raised in the said County and City
shall bee issued out by the respective Treasurers hereby appointed,
by warrant to them made by the said respective Committees
appointed by the said Ordinance of and for the said County and
City, or any three or more of them respectively under their
hands and seales, and not otherwise: and that the warrant and
warrants, of the persons aforesaid, or any three or more of them
in manner as aforesaid, for the issuing out of monyes together
with the acquittance or acquittances, from the person or persons
which shall bee appointed by the persons aforesaid or any three
or more of them respectively, for receipt of any sum or sums of
money according to this Ordinance, shall bee a sufficient discharge
to the respective Treasurers hereby named, for so much as
shal bee comprehended in such acquittance or acquittances.
Payment to Treasurers at Guildhall to be good discharge.
And further it is Ordered and declared that the Treasurers
appointed by the said Ordinance who are hereby required to pay
or cause to bee paid, the said monyes by them received to the
Treasurers of the Guild-Hall London, for so much of the said
monyes as they shall pay to the Treasurers hereby nominated
and appointed for the County of Devon, and City and County of
Exon, as aforesaid haveing their and every of their respective
acquittances shall bee discharged, any Ordinance, act, thing, or
things heretofore to the contrary notwithstanding.
Additions to Committees for Devon and Exon.
And it is lastly Ordained that Sir John Bamfield Barronet,
Anthony Nicholl Esquire, bee added as Committees for the
execution of the Ordinance aforesaid in the County of Devon:
And Adam Bennet, and Richard Crossing of Exon, bee added as
Committees for the said Ordinance for the said County and City
of Exon.