An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for reliefe of the subiect, who have been prejudiced by stopping and discontinuing of writs of error which said writs are to be sealed with the Great Seale of England, ordeined and estabished by both Houses of Parliament. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83127 of text R212179 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.9[6]). 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 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A83127 Wing E1918 Thomason 669.f.9[6] ESTC R212179 99870825 99870825 161104 2248519298

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A83127) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161104) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f9[6]) An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for reliefe of the subiect, who have been prejudiced by stopping and discontinuing of writs of error which said writs are to be sealed with the Great Seale of England, ordeined and estabished by both Houses of Parliament. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) for Edw. Husbands, Printed at London : 1644. Order to print dated: 15 May 1644, and signed: H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. Steele notation: great under to. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Writs -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A83127 R212179 (Thomason 669.f.9[6]). civilwar no An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for reliefe of the subiect, who have been prejudiced by stopping and disconti England and Wales. Parliament. 1644 1 490 1 0 0 0 0 0 20 C The rate of 20 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
official insignia
AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in Parliament , For reliefe of the Subiect , who have been prejudiced by stopping and discontinuing of Writs of Error , Which said Writs are to be sealed with the Great Seale of England , Ordeined and Established by both Houses of PARLIAMENT .

THe Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament , taking into consideration the great prejudice and inconvenience that may & doth accrue to the subject by the stopping and delay of Writs of Error , and also by discontinuing of Writs of Error by the Courts not sitting in the Exchequer Chamber , and by the not effectuall putting in execution the Commands of the Great Seale of England ordeined and established by both Houses of Parliament ; Doe Order and Ordeine , that all Writs of Error brought in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster , sealed with the said Great Seale and attested under the hands of any three or more of the Commissioners of the said Great Seale , whereof one Lord to be one , shall be signed by such of the Iudges as are or shall be the ancient Iudge then attending the said Courts or any of them respectively , and that such signing by any one of the said Iudges in the absence or vacancy of the Chiefe Iustice , or any other antient Iudges shall be as good and effectuall as if the same had beene signed by the Chiefe Iustice or other antient Iudge , any law , usage or other matter to the contrary thereof notwithstanding . And be it further Ordeined , that whereas divers Writs of Error returnable in the Exchequer Chamber are discontinued by the not coming of the Iudges there without any default of the parties prosecuting the said Writs , Be it Ordeined that new Writs of Error being taken out , the Iudges of the Court to whom they shall be directed shall allow of the said Writs of Error in the same manner as they allowed the former Writs , that so Execution may be stayed till the same can be determined , And that all Iudges , Officers , and Ministers , and other persons shall duly performe , obey and execute all such things as they or any of them shall be commanded or required to doe in their severall offices or places by force and vertue of the said Great Seale , as they should or ought to have done by force or vertue of any Great Seale of England , under paine of answering their Contempt therein to both Houses , and losse of their places .

15 May ▪ 1644.

ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament , That this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published .

H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com.

Printed at London for Edw. Husbands . 1644.