Die Martis xxx. Ianuarii 1643▪  
AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT.  
Authorising the Commissioners of the great seal of England, to call before them all Officers, Ministers, and other Attendants on the great seal, or Court of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer, and Court of Wards and Liveries, and to tender unto every of them, the solemn League and Covenant for Reformation, &c. And for making void aswell the Places and Offices of such as shall refuse or neglect to take the same. As also for restraining of all Lawyers, attorneys, Clerks or Solicitors, to practise or solicit in any of the said Courts, before they shall have taken the said solemn League and Covenant.  
IT is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled, That the Commissioners of the great seal of England be Authorized, and are hereby required, to call before them all and every the Officers and Ministers, and all other Attendants on the Great seal or Court of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas▪ Exchequer, and Court of Wards and Lyveries, and to tender unto every of them the solemn League and Covenant for Reformation and defence of Religion. the Honour and happiness of the King, and the Peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland; And such as shall either refuse or neglect to take the same, and all such as shall not make their appearance, and give their personal attendance in their several Places and Offices before the last day of this term, not having a just excuse for their absence, shall forfeit their several and respective Offices and Places, and the same shall be determined, and become absolutely void to all intents and purposes, as if such Persons, Officers and Ministers were naturally dead. And it is further Ordered by the said Lords and Commons, That no sergeant at Law, or other Lawyer, attorney, clerk, or solicitor, shall be admitted to practise before the said Commissioners in the Court of Chancery, or in the King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer, or Court of Wards and Lyveries, or to prosecute or solicit any Cause in any of the said Courts before he shall have taken the said solemn League and Covenant, which the said Commissioners are hereby likewise Authorized and required to tender, and Administer unto them.  
John Browne Cler. Parliamentorum.   

London Printed for Humphrey Tuckey at the Black spread Eagle in Fleetstreet, 1644.