Entries for the tag ‘Committee for Compounding with Delinquents’
Committee set up by Parliament in 1643, near the start of the English Civil War, which allowed Royalists whose estates had been sequestrated to compound for their estates - pay a fine and recover their estates - if they pledged not to take up arms against Parliament again. 
- 10 November 1653: Thomas Baynes (allegedly) compares Parliament’s sequestrators to an agricultural pest
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