November 1644
[4 November, 1644.]
Ordinance for fining and banishing Edmond Waller.
Whereas it was formerly intended, that Edmond Waller Esquire,
now Prisoner in the Tower of London, should be tried by the
Commissioners appointed for the hearing and determining of
Causes belonging to the military Cognizance, according to an
Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament made the 26th Day of
August last past; and whereas, since, upon further Consideration,
and mature Deliberation had, of and concerning him, and his
Confessions of the Offence for which he stands committed, and of
his Petition on this Behalf, preferred the 23rd Day of September
last, it hath been and is thought convenient, by the Lords and
Commons in Parliament assembled, that he be put to the Fine
of Ten Thousand Pounds, and Banishment; and that he be not
further proceeded against before the said Commissioners, or
otherwise put to further Question concerning the said Offence;
and whereas the said Edmond Waller hath thereupon paid and
satisfied, to the Use of the Parliament, the said Sum and
Fine of Thousand Pounds (of which he stands hereby fully
acquitted and discharged); Be it therefore Ordained and Established, by the said Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament,
That the said Edmond Waller shall from henceforth stand and be a
person banished out of the Realm of England, and the Dominion
of Wales; and shall be and stand, from and after the 6th Day of
November next coming, wholly discharged and freed from his
Imprisonment aforesaid; and shall, within Eight and Twenty
Days after such his Discharge of Imprisonment, go out of and
leave the said Realm of England; and thenceforth shall continue
and remain under and in the Condition of such Banishment as
aforesaid, not to return into the said Realm or Dominion without
the consent of both Houses of Parliament; and if he shall
return into the said Realm or Dominion without such consent,
he shall incur such Punishment for the same as both Houses of
Parliament shall think fit: And it is further also Ordained and
Established, by the uthority aforesaid, That there shall be no
further Proceedings whatsoever against the said Edmond
Waller, by the said Commissioners, or by any of them,
or by any other Person or Persons whatsoever, for or by
reason of his said Offence, or of any Thing concerning the same;
and that the Sequestration of his Estate, and of every Part
thereof, be wholly taken off, and hereby is wholly taken off and
discharged, from the said 23th Day of September last.