Entries for the tag ‘Sequestration Committee’
Committee set up by Parliament in 1643, near the start of the English Civil War, to confiscate the estates of Royalists who fought against Parliament, absorbed by the Committee for Compounding in 1644. 
- 10 November 1653: Thomas Baynes (allegedly) compares Parliament’s sequestrators to an agricultural pest
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