Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911.
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'August, 1659: An Act for holding an Assize for the County of Lancaster.', in Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, ed. C H Firth, R S Rait( London, 1911), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp1344-1345 [accessed 31 October 2024].
'August, 1659: An Act for holding an Assize for the County of Lancaster.', in Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. Edited by C H Firth, R S Rait( London, 1911), British History Online, accessed October 31, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp1344-1345.
"August, 1659: An Act for holding an Assize for the County of Lancaster.". Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. Ed. C H Firth, R S Rait(London, 1911), , British History Online. Web. 31 October 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp1344-1345.
August, 1659
[5 August, 1659.]
Assize and gaol-delivery at Lancaster on 27th inst; Francis Thorpe and John Parker to be Justices.; All proceedings pending 20 April, 1653, revived.
Be it Enacted by Authority of Parliament, and it is hereby Ordained and Appointed, That an Assizes and Gaol-delivery for the County of Lancaster, shall be holden and kept at Lancaster in the said County, the Seven and twentieth day of this instant August, in this present year One thousand six hundred fifty nine; And that Francis Thorpe one of the Judges of the Commonwealth, and John Parker one other of the Judges of the Commonwealth, shall be Justices of the said Assizes, and of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol-delivery for the said County: And that all Actions as well Real as Personal, and all other Actions mixt or otherwise, and all Pleas, Precepts, Writs, Process, Demurrers, Recognizances, Fines, Recoveries, and all other Proceedings, Matters and Things, which were depending in any of the Courts, within the said County of Lancaster, upon the Twentieth day of April, One thousand six hundred fifty three, or at any time since, shall be and stand revived, continued, and as of full force and effect in Law to all intents and purposes, as they were the said Twentieth day of April, One thousand six hundred fifty three, or at any time since, and may be proceeded in at the same Assizes according to Law, as if the same had been taken and proceeded in before lawful Justices; And that the Seal of that County heretofore appointed by this Parliament, and now in the Custody of John Bradshaw, Serjeant at Law, shall and may be made use of for the carrying on the said Assizes, Oyer and Terminer, Gaol-delivery, and Matters aforesaid, and all and every the proceedings concerning the same, until the first day of November now next coming and no longer.