❧ A Declaration of the Lords in Parliament Assembled: Concerning the Committee sitting at goldsmith's Hall for Composition of Delinquents Estates.  
Die Lunae 1 Februarii 1646.  
WHereas divers Delinquents have formerly, and still do address themselves unto some persons sitting at goldsmith's Hall, and there have and do daily enter into agreements for the taking off such Sequestrations as are duly laid upon them by Ordinance of Parliament. The Lords in Parliament do declare, That all such Compositions made by those persons sitting at goldsmith's Hall with such as are under Delinquency, are not authorized by any Ordinance of Parliament; and that the Committees for Sequestrations within the several Counties of England and Dominion of Wales ought not to obey any Order from those persons sitting at goldsmith's Hall for the taking off or Suspending any Sequestrations upon the pretence of the Delinquents having made his Composition with them, until such time as a Committee, or Commissioners to that purpose be settled by Ordinance of Parliament; and the Composition made with such Committee or Commissioners be likewise ratified by Ordinance of Parliament.  

ORdered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, That this Declaration shall be printed and published; and that the sheriffs or their under-sheriffs shall take care to carry down the said Declarations, and that they be delivered unto the several Committees for Sequestrations within the Counties of the kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, who are to take notice of the said Declaration accordingly.  
Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.    

London printed for John Wright at the King's Head in the Old Bayley. 1646.