value of your Petitioners Husbands Estate, Which amounteth in the
whole but to three hundred thirty eight pounds per annum) Your
Honours were pleased to order your Petitioner the enjoyment of
the said Estate, paying one hundred pound per annum, for the use of
the Parliament, during Sequestration: All which the hath hitherto
in obedience to Your Orders constantly persormed.
But so it is may it please Your Honours, Your Petitioners Husbands
Case being single, and, as she conceives, without President,
having been under Sequestration for the space of six yours and upwards,
and yet himselfe not comprehended within the Ordinance,
as not having done any act against the parliament whereby bee
should be rendred a Delinquent.
And for that (by reason of Your Votes of March 17. 1648. all
persons under Sequestration are ordered (upon penalty or forfeiture
of their who e Estates) to make their Compositions before the
first of June 1649.) Your Petitioner knoweth not but that (notwith
standing she is interessed in her said husband Estate by a Particular
Order of Your Honours) She may be comprized within the
said Vote for Composition, and for default there of) although no
Delinquency be Proved against her said Husband) may run the hazard
of forfeiture, by vertue of the said sore-mentioned Vote.
May it there fore please your Honours to take your Petitioner into
Considerations and in Commiseration of bertedions sufferings for
the space of six years, to accept the Petition of her said Husband
John Lord Finch (remaining in the bands of the honourable William
Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the Parliament of England)
directed to your Honours; as also to free your Petitioners husbands
Estate from Sequestration, or give Such further direction
touching the Premisses as to your Honours Shall seeme meet, to
the intent that Your petitioner may receive so prejudice by reason
of the said Votes of March 17. 1648.
And Your Petitioner shall pray &c.
Mabella Finch.
Tuesday June 5.
THe Act brought in for the reliefe of Poore Prisoners for Debt,
and to give power to the Law to inforce a Satisfaction from those
men who are well able to discharge their debts, but obstinately and
maliciously refuse it. The Act being read was recommitted, and
the speciall care there of referred to Collonel Martm, and Matter