1680. Mr. Reading Petitioned the House of Lords, setting forth the

20 Dec. same ; and thereupon their Lordships Ordered that the said Agreement,
as it stands Particularized and expressed in the Decree made by the
said Commissioners comprizing the same : Whereunto the Royal Assent
is given, and which stands Filed among the Records in Chancery^



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is hereby confirmed, so that he may be enabled to put the said
Agreement in Execution; unless any cause shall be shew'd to their
House fo the contrary within one Month next after the Date of
their Order. And the said Commissioners for the time being were
Ordered to give him their Assistance therein : And to examine what
Charges he hath been put to by their not performing the said
Agreement, and to pay the same to him in such manner as they
had payed their own.
The Clause of (unless Cause was) inserted upon the motion of
the Earl of Alisbury, supposing that the Earl of Devonshire, (who
was not in Town) might be concern'd therein. And Mr. Reading
fearing lest it should make the Order less absolute, immediately gave
the Earl of Alisbury satisfaction. And thereupon his Lordship with
great Honour offer'd to move to have it left out, but the House
being entred upon great business, and several of the Lords, assuring
Mr. Reading that they would, not fail of remembring both why his
Lordship moved it, and how he would afterward have had it left out.
And that it was against Sense to fear that the Commissioners who
had desired their Lordships to confirm their Agreement, should
pretend from thence to shew any Cause against it, the House was
not moved therein.
