AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT Directing the payment of all duties upon the Revenue to be made to the several Receivers, appointed, or to be appointed. Die Sabbathi, 23. Decemb. 1643. WHereas diverse manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments of Papists, Delinquents, and ill affected persons in diverse Counties, Cities, and places within this Realm of England, Dominion of Wales, and Port and town of Berwick, by Ordinances of Parliament, are, and others hereafter may be sequestered, out of which there are sundry fee-farm Rents, farm Rents, and other payments due to His Majesty, the Queen, and Prince▪ And Whereas the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled, upon the one and twentieth of September last, passed an Ordinance for the siezing upon, and receiving for the use of His Majesty and the commonwealth, all His Majesties▪ the Queen and Prince's Revenues, of what nature or quality soever, certain, or casual, within the said realm of England, Dominion of Wales, and Ports and Town of Barwick, together with all the Arrears thereof, and all debts any way due to his Majesty, the Queen or Prince. And to the end that all distractions & confusions of accounts may be avoided and prevented, and that there may be kept an exact & distinct account of all His Majesties, the Queen and Prince's Revenues, or sums of Money which have been, or shall be levied or received by Ordinance of this present Parliament, The said Lords and Commons therefore do declare, and ordain, and be it ordained by the Authority of the same, That all and every the rents, sums of Money, and other duties any way due to His Majesty, the Queen or Prince, chargeable upon or issuing forth of any the manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, that are or shall be sequestered as aforesaid, together with all the arrears thereof, shall be from time to time paid and delivered to the several Receivers, that are, or shall be thereunto appointed by the said Ordinance of Parliament, of the 21 of September last, or the Committee for the Revenue, within the several Counties, Cities or places aforesaid: And the said Lords and Commons do further declare, ordain, and Command, that all and every the Committees of Sequestrations in the several Counties, Cities, and places aforesaid, and all Treasurers and Collectors, and all others whom it may concern, that they give obedience, and conform themselves to this present Ordinance, and out of the moneys raised, or arising of all, every, or any of the said sequestered manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, they forthwith, and so hereafter from time to time, do pay the said several rents, and sums of Money, which are, or shall be due out of the same, unto His Majesty, the Queen or Prince, unto the said several and respective Receivers within the several Counties, Cities and places aforesaid, whose several and respective Acquittance or Acquittances shall be a sufficient discharge to the several Sequestrators, Treasurers, Collectors, and all others, for such sums of Money, as they, or any of them shall pay according to the direction of the Ordinance. John Browne, Cler. Parliamentorum. December 28. Printed for John Wright in the Old-Bailey▪ 1643.