AN ORDINANCE Appointing who shall be Justices of Assize FOR THE County Palatine of Lancaster.   blazon of the Commonwealth 

Wednesday 21 June, 1654.  
ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the Council, that this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Hen. Scobel, Clerk of the Council.   
LONDON, Printed, by William Dugard, and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector. 1654.   

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AN ORDINANCE Appointing who shall be Justices of Assize for the County Palatine of Lancaster.  
WHereas by an Ordinance of His Highness the Lord Protector and his Council, for reviving the jurisdiction of the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for holding of Assizes there, Matthew Hales, one of the justices of the Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster, and Hugh Windham Sergeant at Law, were appointed justices of Assize and Goal delivery within the said County Palatine; Be it Ordained by His Highness the Lord Protector, by the advice of His Council, That from hence forth such of the justices of the Court of the Upper Bench, or of the justices of the Conet of the Common-Pleas, or of the Barons of the Court of the Public Exchequer, or Sergeants at Law, or one or more of them, as from time to time are or shall be appointed judges for the time being, for the Northern Circuit, shall be justices of Assizes & Goal delivery within the said County Palatine, in the room & place of the said Matthew Hales, & Hugh Windham, and the said justices or either of them that are or shall be from time to time so appointed, shall and may act, do, and perform all matters and things, as well concerning Criminal as Common-Pleas: And all other Pleas and Process whatsoever, in such manner and form as any other justice or justices of Assizes at Lancaster have lawfully acted, done and performed at any time heretofore. And the Commissioner for keeping the Seal of the said County Palatine of Lancaster (for the time being) is hereby authorized and appointed from time to time, to issue forth to the said justices that are or shall be so appointed for the execution of the premises, such Commission or Commissions as in such cases have been heretofore in the said County Palatine used and accustomed.   

Wednesday 21 June, 1654.  
ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and his Council, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and published.  
Hen. Scobell, Clerk of the Council.