DIE SABBATTI. SEPTEMBER, 24. 1642.

WHereas, this Kingdome and Common wealth hath beene put to a great and vast Charge by Delinquents and an ill affected Partie which if it be not discharged by them and their Estates, must necessarily lye as a Burthen upon the good Subjects that have no way deserved it. It is therefore thought fit and ordered by the Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT, That the Houses of De­linquents or ill affected Persons shall not be plunderd, pulled downe or destroyed; but reserved for the benefit and advantage of the Common­wealth, they being now considered rather as the Houses of the Common­wealth then of Delinquents; and accordingly to be so preserved, as they yeeld more profit and advantage to it.

Ordered by the House of Commons that this be forthwith printed and published.

Hen: Elsinge, Cleric. Parliament. D. Com.

Imprinted at LONDON by L. N. for E. Husbands and Iohn Frank, and are to bee sold at their Shops in the Middle Temple, and next dore to the Kings Head in Fleetstreete. MDCXLII.

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