An ordinance for further suspending the proceedings of the judges named in an act, intituled, An act for the relief of creditors and poor prisoners. Tuesday 18th April, 1654. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector and the Council, that this ordinance bee forthwith printed and published. Hen. Scobel, Clerk of the Council. England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74519 of text xxx in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E1063_33). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A74519 Thomason E1063_33 ESTC R209587 99868455 99868455 169199 2240967041

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AN ORDINANCE FOR Further Suspending the proceedings of the Judges named in an Act , Intituled , An ACT for the Relief OF Creditors and poor Prisoners .

blazon of the Commonwealth
Tuesday 18th April , 1654.

ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the Council , that this Ordinance bee forthwith Printed and Published .

Hen. Scobel , Clerk of the Council .

LONDON , Printed , by William Du-Gard , and Henry Hills , Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector . 1654.

blazon of the Commonwealth
AN ORDINANCE For further Suspending the proceedings of the Judges named in an Act , Entituled , An Act for the Relief of Creditors and poor Prisoners .

WHereas in regard of many doubts arising upon an Act of the late Parlament , for the Relief of Creditors and poor Prisoners , and several inconveniencies and mischiefs like to grow from thence , not onely to the Creditors & Prisoners themselvs , but to divers other persons , without som explanation and further direction to bee given to the several and respective Iudges authorized in and by the said Act ; It is by an Ordinance of the 31 of March last Ordeined , that the said several and respective Iudges should not proceed to sale or disposition , nor otherwise intermeddle in the execution of the said Act , or of any the powers and authorities given by the same , until the twentieth day of April instant ; and whereas the way for prevention of those evils , and the better accomplishing the ends intended by the said Act , is now under consideration , which will necessarily require som longer time to perfect the same : Bee it Ordeined by His Highness the Lord Protector , by and with the consent of his Council , That the said several and respective Iudges mentioned in the said Act , or any of them , shall not proceed to the sale or disposition of any the estates real or personal , of any of the said prisoners , or of any other person or persons whatsoever , mentioned or intended in or by the said Act , nor shall otherwise intermeddle in the execution of the said Act , or of any the powers or authorities given by the same , until the fifteenth day of May next coming ; And bee it further Ordeined , that all acts and things to bee don by the said several and respective Iudges , or any of them , by virtue , color , or pretence of the said Act from henceforth and before the said fifteenth day of May aforesaid ( saving onely in such cases , and according to such limitations , as by the said Ordinance they had power to do , before the said twentieth day of April ) shall bee and are hereby declared to bee utterly null and void .

Tuesday the 18. of April , 1654.

ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the Council , That this Ordinance bee forthwith Printed and Published .

Hen. Scobel , Clerk of the Council .