September, 1647
[16 September, 1647.]
Estates of delinquents that fail to pay in fines due upon bond to be sequestered until satisfaction given.
Whereas it appeares by information from the Commissioners
for compounding with Delinquents, sitting at Goldsmiths Hall,
That there is due in Arreares upon Bond from severall persons
who have been fined for their Delinquencies, and whose Reports
have long since passed both Houses, and their severall Fines
allowed by them, the summe of, Forty thousand pounds, or
thereabouts; yet notwithstanding nothing hath been done by
any of the said persons, delinquents, for discharging of their
severall summes due upon Bond, although their Reports have
been passed as aforesaid, but they do still continue obstinate and
peremptory in their resolutions, and do not pay the same; It is
therefore Ordered and Ordained by the Lords and Commons in
Parliament Assembled, That the Committees and Sequestrators
in the severall and respective Counties wherein any part of the
estate of such Delinquent or Delinquents shall lye, who have
failed and do refuse to pay in the remainder of their Fines,
according to their Bonds, shall forthwith sequester the Estates or
all such persons whose names shall be returned unto them from
the said Commissioners sitting at Goldsmiths Hall, and proceed
thereupon as formerly before any such Composition made, untill
they shall fully satisfie the remainder of their Fines, and shall
make the same appeare by certificate from the said Commissioners.