{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-pardon-act-1672/section-XI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-pardon-act-1672/section-XI.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/25/5",
  "legislation_title": "General Pardon Act 1672",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-pardon-act-1672",
  "path": "section/XI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XI",
  "heading": "Estreats of Fines, &c. hereby pardoned already estreated to be delivered into the Pipe Office.",
  "text": "Sheriffs and other Accountants may petition for Allowance of Fines, &c. without Fee.\nAnd yet neverthelesse all Estreats of such Fines, Issues and Amerciaments as be now pardoned by this Act and which be already estreated forth of the Court of Exchequer, and be remaining in the hands of the Sheriffe, Under Sheriffe, or Bayliffe for collecting of the same Fines, Issues and Amerciaments shall upon the Returne of the same Estreats be duely and orderly charged and delivered by Scrowes into the Office of the Pipe in the Court of the Exchequer as heretofore hath beene accustomed, to the intent that thereupon order may be taken that his Majestie may be truely answered all such Fines, Issues and Amerciaments not by this Act pardoned and which any Sheriffe, Under Sheriffe, Bayliffe or other Officer or Minister hath received or ought to answere by force or colour of any such Estreate, Processe or Precept to him or them made for the leavying thereof. And yet that notwithstanding all and every Sheriffe and Sheriffes and other Accomptant upon his or their Petition, or Petitions to be made for the allowance of any such Fines Issues and Amerciaments as by this Act are pardoned shall have all and every such his and their Petition allowed in his and their Accompt and Accompts without paying any Fee or Reward to any Officer Clerke or other Minister for the makeing, entering or allowing of any such Petition or Petitions Any Usage or Custome to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "O. omits."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/25/5/section/XI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:33.521370+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}