April 1643
[11 April, 1643.]
Ord. 1 April, 1643.; Additional Sequestrators and Committees in Devonshire.; Their Powers.
Whereas a Declaration and Ordinance of the Lords and
Commons assembled in Parliament lately passed for the seizing
and sequestring of the estates both reall and personall, of certaine
kinds of notorious Delinquents, to the use, and for the maintaining of the Armie raised by the Parliament, and such other
uses as shall be directed by both Houses of Parliament, for the
benefit of the Common-wealth, with the names of the Committees, who are imployed in the severall Counties of this
Kingdome, for the execution of that Ordinance; and it being
found very necessary and expedient, that some more Sequestrators
and Committees be nominated within the County of Devon, for
the speedier, and more effectuall putting the said Ordinance in
execution, it is by the Lords and Commons Ordained, and
Declared, that William Gould, Thomas Boone, Charles Vaughan,
Thomas Gewen, John Champneys, George Peard, and John
Young, Esquires; Charles Ceely, Richard Evonds, and Moses
Goodyer, Merchants; Richard Evans, and Christopher Clarke
the younger, of the City of Exon, shall bee added to the
Sequestrators and Committees in the said Ordinance named, in,
and for the said County of Devon, and shall be likewise
Sequestrators and Committees for the seizing and sequestring of
the estates reall and personall, of such persons, bodyes pollitique
and Corporate, as in and by the said Ordinance are appointed to
be seized and sequestred, and the persons herein before particularly nominated, or any two or more of them, shall have
the same priviledge, power, iurisdiction and authority, and shall
have capacitie, and be enabled to doe and execute, all, and every
matter and thing, in as large and ample manner to all intents
and purposes, as if they had been specially nominated in the
said Ordinance, and as the Sequestrators, and Committees in the
said Ordinance named, or any two or more of them are authorized, or appointed to doe and execute, and for all and every their
doings herein, they shall be saved harmlesse, and kept indempnified by the Authority of both Houses of Parliament.