September, 1654
[2 September, 1654.]
Act of Pardon, 24 February, 1651.;
No Admission shal be given to Ministers ejected for Delinquency, until a signification from His Highness and the Council.
Whereas by an Act of Parliament, Entituled, An Act of
general Pardon and Oblivion, it is amongst other things provided
and declared, That the said Act or any thing therein contained,
should not extend to the admitting or restoring of any person
or persons to the exercise, having or enjoying of any Profession,
Office or Place of Trust, Power, Authority or Government
within this Commonwealth, who on the eight and twentieth day
of January, One thousand six hundred fifty one, did stand or
were disabled, or made uncapable or restrained under a penalty
of or for the execution, exercise, having or enjoying of such
Profession, Office or Place of Trust, Power, Authority or Government by any Act, Order or Ordinance of Parliament, until by
Experience of their conformity and submission to the present
Establisht Government, and of their readiness and endeavor to
further the Peace and Setlement of this Commonwealth, the
Parliament should receive satisfaction whereby to be induced
to extend further favor unto them; And whereas divers persons
who having for Delinquency been ejected out of several Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions, have by color of the aforesaid
Act of General Pardon and Oblivion, or otherwise regain'd the
possession of such place, whence they were ejected, or have
gotten and do endeavour to get Admission into other places, and
thereby to enjoy the Publique Maintenance, without giving any
satisfaction of their conformity and submission to the Government; Be it therefore Ordained by His Highness the Lord
Protector, by and with the advice and consent of His Council,
That the Commissioners for Approbation of Publique
Preachers shall not give Admission to any person or persons
who have been sequestred from any Ecclesiastical Benefices or
Promotion for Delinquency, until by experience of his and their
Conformity and Submission unto the present Government, His
Highness and His said Council shall receive satisfaction of his
fitness to be admitted into Ecclesiastical Promotion within this
Commonwealth, and the same shall be signified to the said
Commissioners.
Commissioners added.
And be it further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That
Master John Row, Mr. John Bond, Mr. George Griffith of the
Charter-house, Master John Turner, and Godfrey Bosvile
Esquire, be and are hereby added to the Commissioners for
Approbation of Publique Preachers, and are hereby authorized
and impowered to do and put in Execution all and every the
Powers in the said Act, as fully as any person named in the said
Act is impowered to do.