Committee for Compounding with Delinquents
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Committee for Compounding with Delinquents
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In 1643, near the start of the English Civil War, Parliament set up two committees: the Sequestration Committee which confiscated the estates of the Royalists who fought against Parliament, and the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents 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. The size of the fine they had to pay depended on the worth of the
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