April, 1648
[4 April, 1648.]
Repeal of a Proviso in an Ordinance of 8 Nov. 1644.; All Ordinances concerning tythes shall extend to the City of London and Liberties.; This Ordinance not to extend to any other kind of Tythes or Duties, then such as have been paid since the beginning of this Parliament, or two years before.
Whereas by an Ordinance of Parliament of the eighth of
November, Anno Dom. 1644, entituled, an Ordinance of the
Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the true payment of Tythes and other such Duties, according to the Laws
and Customes of the Realm, there is a Proviso, That the said
Ordinance, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to
any Tythes, Offerings, Yearly payments, or other Ecclesiastical
Duties, due or to be due for any Houses, Buildings, or other
Hereditaments within the City of London, or the Liberties
thereof, which be otherwise provided for by Act of Parliament:
And whereas some doubt and scruple hath been made, whether
the Lord Mayor of the said City of London be sufficiently
authorized to relieve such Ministers within the said City or the
Liberties thereof, as have been put into any Benefice or
Ecclesiastical Living by way of Sequestration by both or either
Houses of Parliament, or by the Committee for Plundered
Ministers, or any other Committee of Parliament; Be it therefore
Ordered and Ordained by the Lords and Commons in this
present Parliament assembled, That the said Proviso in the
before-mentioned Ordinance of the Eighth of November, 1644.
be hereby Repealed, and wholly made Null and Void; And that
the said Ordinance of the Eighth of November, 1644. and the
Ordinance of the Ninth of August 1647, entituled, An additional
Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament,
for the true payment of Tythes and other Duties; and the
Ordinance of the Three and twentieth of August, 1647. entituled,
An Ordinance for keeping in Godly Ministers, placed in Livings
by Authority of Parliament; And all other Ordinances of
Parliament, concerning the payment of Tythes, Rates for Tythes,
Rents, or other Duties, do extend unto the said City of London,
and the Liberties thereof, and be put in Execution by the Lord
Major of the said City for the time being, or by any two Justices
of Peace within the said City or Liberties thereof, who are
hereby authorized and required respectively, to require and
command the Aid of all Constables and other Officers, that shall
be by the said Lord Major or Justices of Peace as aforesaid
appointed for their assistance in the due execution of this
Ordinance, as well within their several Parishes or Precincts, as
without, as well in cases of Sequestration as otherwise, to all
intents and purposes, and in the like manner, as in and by the
said Ordinances is Ordained, Limited, and Appointed to be
executed and done in any other Place or Places within the
Kingdome of England, by the respective Justices of Peace, and
other Officers in the said Ordinances mentioned.
Provided, That this Ordinance, or any thing therein contained,
shall not be construed to extend to the payment of any other
kind of Tythes, Payments, Rents or Duties, then such as have
been paid at any time since the beginning of this Parliament, or
two years before.