An ordinance touching fines. Orders in Council. 1654-09-02. England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74559 of text xxx in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E1064_39). 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 A74559 Thomason E1064_39 ESTC R210374 99869180 99869180 169239 2240931367

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A74559) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 169239) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 159:E1064[39]) An ordinance touching fines. Orders in Council. 1654-09-02. England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) England and Wales. Council of State. aut [2], 689-690 p. printed, by William Du-Gard, and Henry Hills, printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, London : 1654. The final leaf bears an order to print. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Fines and recoveries -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. eebo An ordinance touching fines.: England and Wales. Lord Protector 1654 4 470 1 0 0 0 0 0 21.28 C The rate of 21.28 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2009-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2009-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-06 Sampled and proofread 2009-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

AN ORDINANCE Touching FINES .

blazon of the Commonwealth
Saturday 2 September , 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 Touching FINES .

WHereas by one Act of Parlament , Intituled , An Act for the taking away of Fines upon Bills , Declarations , and Original Writs , It was enacted , that from and after the fift of August , One thousand six hundred fiftie three , no Fines should bee taken upon Bills , Declarations , or Original Writs , but that such Writs should bee from thenceforth issued , and such Bills and Declarations admitted and filed without taking any Fine ; And whereas upon the seventh of November , One thousand six hundred fiftie three , It was resolved , That the general words in the said Act , do extend to take away the Fines upon Writs of Covenant , and Writs of Entrie , but no care or pr●vision is had or made for making good Writs of Covenant , and the Fine and assurance thereupon , notwithstanding the not entring of the Fines heretofore called the Kings Silver , which may caus disputes and differences in after times , and bee very prejudicial to the people of this Common-wealth in their common assurances : For preventing of which danger , and for the better satisfaction of purchasors and others in their assurances , Bee it Declared and Ordeined by His Highness the Lord Protector , by and with the advice and consent of His Council , That such Purchasor or Purchasors as have since the said fift day of August , sued out such Writs of Covenant and Writs of Entrie , may , if they think fit , caus such Writs to bee brought to the Alienation Office , and have Fines there set , and in such cases no new Fees shall be taken for passing the said Writs in those Offices through which they have already passed ; And that from and after the fift day of September , One thousand six hundred fiftie four , Fines shall bee set and taken upon such Writs of Covenant and Entrie , by the Officers who formerly did , or shall bee hereafter authorised to do the same , any thing in the said Act or Vote aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding .

Saturday 2. September , 1654.

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

Hen. Scobell , Clerk of the Council .