May 1643
[2 May, 1643.]
Additional Commissioners for seising malignant goods.; Their Powers.
Whereas Authority was formerly given by Ordinance of both
Houses of Parliament to Colonell Oliver Cromwell, and others
for the Seising of the Persons, Horses, Armes, Money and Plate
of Malignants and ill-affected persons within the County of
Cambridge, the Isle of Ely, and other Counties, Cities, and
Places in the said Ordinance mentioned: It is now further
Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, That the
said Colonell Cromwell, and other the Committees and Deputy
Lieutenants in the said Ordinance mentioned, as also Captain
Charles Fleetwood, Captain Edward Whalley, and Captain John
Disborough, or any two, or more of them: Together with any of
the said Committees, or Deputy Lieutenants formerly appointed,
shall have the like power and authority, for the seising as well
of the Corne, Cattle, and other Goods and Chattels of the said
Malignants, or any of them, as by the said Ordinance is given
for the seising of Horses, Armes, Moneys, or Plate, the same to
bee disposed of, used, and imployed to the same uses, as in the
said Ordinance isspecified, upon accompt thereof to be made to both
Houses of Parliament, or such as they shall appoint: and that they,
and every of them for so doing, shall bee protected and saved harmlesse by the Power and Authority of both Houses of Parliament.