any of them their or any of their deputies or servants free of custom of their apparel only and without demand or challenge of any custom subsidy duty sum or sums of money due for the same and shall also at all and every time and times during the continuance of this present demise Presents to Forreign Princes sent by Vs or any company of Merchants to pass custom free permit and suffer all such goods wares merchandizes or jewels which shall happen to be sent for presents or gifts either from the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors or from any Company or Corporation of Merchants within the said Realms of England or Ireland to any foreign King Prince or Potentate every or any of them custom free and without demand of any custom duty sum or sums of money for or by reason of the same And that they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or any of them their or any of their deputies or servants shall not under colour or by pretence of this present demise and grant The Farmers to suffer no prejudice to be done to the Prizage or Butlerage and the Lord Ormond to enjoy the benefit of his Patent paying the usual duties do or suffer to be done or cause to be done or suffered any act or acts thing or things that may be hurtful or prejudicial to the butlerage or prizage of wines or to the Office of the Kings Majesties Butler of the said Realm of Ireland Provided also and the true intent and meaning of all parties to these presents are that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prejudice any Letters Patents or Grant heretofore made under his Majesties great Seal of England or Ireland or either of them unto the Right Honourable James Duke of Ormond or any his Ancestors of the prize wines which shall become due and payable within his Majesties said Kingdom of Ireland during the said Term of six years but that the said James Duke of Ormond his Heirs and Assigns shall and may fully clearly and absolutely paying only the usual duties accustomed to be paid receive the full benefit of all and every such Letters Patents according to the true purport and meaning of them and every of them any thing in these presents contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them and every of their deputies and servants shall and will from time to time during the continuance of this Demise or Lease give unto the Company of Merchants in England trading or which shall trade unto the East or West-Indies or into the Countries newly discovered or hereafter to be discovered and to all other Corporations or Companies of Merchants incorporated or authorized by several Charters under the great Seal of England or Ireland either by the Kings Majesty or by his Noble Progenitors and Predecessors and to the singular members of such Companies and others such reasonable days and times for the payment of their and every of their Customs Time to the companies and their members for payment of their customs upon good security Poundage and other duties upon good and sufficient security as shall be between the said Merchant and the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assign and every of them their and every of their deputies and servants agreed upon or in default of such agreement such days and times upon good and sufficient security as are given to the said Companies and Corporations of Merchants according to their Letters Patents and every of them by the Kings Majesty or any of his Progenitors or Predecessors in his or their several Letters Pattents under the great Seal of England or Ireland severally and respectively made unto the said Companies or Corporations of Merchants and every of them for the payment of their customs subsidies poundage duties and sums of money hereby granted and demised which shall be due and payable at any time within the said Term of six years to be accompted as aforesaid for or by reason of any goods wares or merchandizes by them the said Merchants to be transported out of or brought into the said Realm And the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall do for themselves and every of them their and every of their Executors Administrators and Assigns covenant promise and grant to and with our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors by these presents If any goods whereof the custom shall be compounded for within the Term shall be shipt out after the Farmers shal pay those customs to his Majesty over and above the Rent That if any Merchant alien stranger or denizen or natural born subject within the said Realm shall at any time or times during the continuance of this present demise or lease satisfie and pay to them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknal their Executors Administrators or Assigns or any of them the custom subsidy impost and other duty due for or in respect of the transportation of any goods wares or merchandizes or shall at any time or times during the continuance of this present lease and demise compound and agree with the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their deputies servants and factors or any of them for the custom subsidy impost and other duties of any such goods wares and merchandizes the said goods wares and merchandizes for which such custom subsidy or impost shall be so paid or compounded for as is aforesaid not being shipped or laden into some Ship or other Vessel within the continuance of this present lease and demise to the intent to be from thence transported from the Ports Havens and Creeks aforesaid into the parts beyond the Seas that in every such case upon such proof thereof to be made as the Lord Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer for the time being or any three or more of them whereof the Lord Treasurer of Ireland or Chancellour of the Exchequer for the time being to be one shall allow of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood
discreet and fit persons as they shall humbly desire which Commissions so to be issued out shall sufficiently Authorize and Impower the persons therein to be named to act as His Majesties Officers as shall be found necessary to be done in the managing and for the better and more speedy Levying Collecting Suing for Recovering and Receiving or otherwise Compounding for and Discharging of all and every His Majesties Rents Revenues Profits Duties Incomes Certain and Casual Ordinary and Extraordinary whatsoever in the Kingdome of Ireland not remitted or Pardoned or otherwise granted away and disposed before the Five and Twentieth day of December now last past as well such as upon or before the said Five and twentieth day of December now last past were in arreare and are yet unpaid as such as from and after the said time untill the Six and Twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy and Five were or shall be by any matter of Record or otherwise howsoever due owing or payable to His Majesty or which might or ought to have been or may before the said Six and Twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Five be Taxed Levyed Collected Recovered Answered for Paid or Payable to His Majesty His Heires or Successors out of or for any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in Ireland or all or any the Estates reall or personal of any person or persons Bodies Politique or Corporate or otherwise by reason of any Tax Assessment Subsidy Impositions Contract Covenant Agreement Account Debt Duty Sum or Sums of Money matter or thing imposed made or issued or which did or shall arise or grow due within the said Kingdome of Ireland before the said six and twentieth day of December in the year of Our Lord one Thousand six Hundred Seventy Five including the Rents Duties and Payments which shall be due for the time incurred before the six and twentieth day of December One thousand Six hundred seventy Five though the same may be payable or Installments made or time given for the Payment thereof after that day The said Powers to such Commissioners shall not inable them to interrupt the Farmers of the great Branches in mannaging the Revenue under their charge nor to receive any Money which shall be due to His Majesty by any future Act of Parliament PROVIDED alwayes that the Powers and Authorities to be given unto such Commissioners so to be nominated shall not enable them to give any disturbance or interruption unto the present Farmers of the great Branches of His Majesties Revenue herein before-mentioned or unto any of their Officers or Servants in the Collecting and bringing in those parts of the Revenue which are under their charge nor to receive any sum or sums of Mony or other Annual Rent or Payments which by vertue of any Act of Parliament to be passed after the date of these Presents and before the said six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Five shall or may grow due or payable to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors All which Sums of Money last mentioned must be understood and so are hereby declared to be out of the Covenants and Agreements herein contained wholly excepted and foreprized * 3. PROVIDED also that neither the Moneys called Lapsed Moneys Neither the Lapsed Mony Lands in lieu thereof or the 30000 l. payable for the same nor the English arrears or Lands set out for the same nor the meane profits due for Lands set out on the Dublin Ordinances and already disposed of by the Act of Explanation shall be comprehended in these Agreements nor the forfeited Land in lieu thereof nor the Thirty Thousand pounds payable by the Roman Catholiques of Ireland for the same nor the Moneys called the English-Arreares nor the Land set out for the same nor the Arreares nor Meane-Profits due for Land set out upon the Dublin-Ordinances and already disposed by the late Explanatory Act shall be comprehended in these Covenants or Agreements nor any defalcation allowed for or in respect of the same The said Commissioners shall receive and enjoy all the said arrears growing Revenue which is or shall be in charge or discovered and other the premises subject to the Limitations and restrictions herein expressed and no other AND His Majesty for Himself His Heires and Successors doth further Covenant and Grant to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them their and every of their Heires Executors and Administrators by these Presents that the said Commissioners so to be nominated and appointed as aforesaid shall and may have receive take and enjoy the full benefit and advantage of all the said Arreares now due to his Majesty and all the growing Revenues now in Charge or which hereafter may be in charge or discovered and other the Premises subject to such Limitations and Restrictions as are herein expressed and no other And this Indenture further Witnesseth The chief Covenants in this Indenture from R. V Ranelagh and his Partners to his Majesty and the considerations thereof That in consideration of the Covenants and Agreements herein before mentioned and on the part of his Majesty to be done and performed It is Covenanted Granted Concluded Condescended and Agreed by and between the Parties to these Presents AND the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon for themselves their Heires Executors and Administrators and every of them do Covenant Grant and Agree to and with His said Most Excellent Majesty His Heires and Successors in manner and forme following V. R. c. shall within 14 dayes after Warrants signed and directed to them defray so much of His Majesties expence of Ireland which from the last of Decem. 70 to the 4th of August 71 ought according to the Establishment to have been borne by His Majesty if this Indenture had not been made that is to say that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon shall within the space of fourteen dayes after Warrants duely signed and to them directed fully and duely answer defray satisfie discharge and Pay or cause to be fully and duely answered defrayed satisfied discharged and paid so much of His Majesties whole charge and expence of the Kingdome of Ireland which from the last day of December last past unto the day of the date of these presents ought according to the Establishment to have been born and discharged by His Majesty if this present Indenture had not been made AND MOREOVER shall and will from
time to time VR c. shall from the 4th of August 71 to 26 of Dec. 75 defray all the Expences of Ireland according to the Establishments as otherwise which by His Majesty ought to have been borne if this Indenture had not been made and cause the same to be paid by equall proportions within 40 dayes after the end of every Quarter as the same shall respectively grow due The Monies to be paid for such expences are not in any one year to exceed 171843 l. 5 s. 6 d. out of which the Fees Cheques are to be deducted And there are to be due and legal Warrants signed for the issuing thereof and at all times from and after the date of these Presents untill the six and twentieth day of December which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand Six hundred Seventy Five fully and duely answer defray satisfie discharge and pay or cause to be fully and duely answered defrayed satisfied discharged and paid all and singular the Charges and Expences of His Majesties said Kingdom of Ireland as well in the Payment of the Civill and Military Lists there according to their several and respective Establishments which are or shall be made by His Majesty His Heires or Successors as otherwise which by His Majesty His Heires and Successors ought to have been borne defrayed and discharged if this present Indenture had not been made and shall cause the same from time to time to be satisfied and paid by equal Proportions within forty dayes after the end of every Quarter as the same shall respectively grow due and the Payments thereof to be made in good lawfull and currant money of England or such lawfull and currant money in Ireland as may be equivalent in Ireland to so much English money as shall then be due so alwayes that the money to be paid and Issued out for such Charges and expences as aforesaid do not in any one yeare exceed the sum of One Hundred Seventy one thousand eight hundred forty three pounds five Shillings and six pence out of which the Fees and Cheques are to be deducted and so as that there be due and legall Warrants signed for the issuing and payment thereof from time to time If after 25th December 1670 and before 26th December 1675 any Cheques of Pay made or to be made by reason of absence want or unserviceableness of Horse or Armes or neglect of duty the Chief Governour may lessen or remit any such Cheques so the same be done within three moneths after the Muster Rolls shall be closed and before any Warrants of Pay be issued upon such Muster Rolls Duplicates whereof are to be returned to V. R. c. PROVIDED alwayes that if at any time after the five and twentieth day of December now last past or before the six and twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five any Cheques of Pay have been or shall be made by His Majesties sworn Officers for or by reason of the absence of any Officer or Soldier from his Command want of Horse or Armes or by reason of their being unserviceable or otherwise neglecting their duties then and in every such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being from time to time and as often as he or they shall see cause to reduce and lessen or otherwise totally to remit any Cheques of Pay which have been or shall be made for any the causes aforesaid so as such reducement lessening or remission be within the space of three months next after the Muster Roll are or shall be closed and before any Warrants of Pay be made or issued upon such Muster-Roll Duplicates whereof are from time to time to be returned unto the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon who shall pay and satisfie to every Soldier or other so much pay as by vertue of the said Military List he ought to receive after such reduction or remission made any thing herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon for themselves their Heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them have covenanted and granted and by these presents do covenant and grant to and with our said Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them V. R. c. shall within four years after 25th December 1671 discharge the Arrears which on the 25th of December 1670 were unpaid according to the estabâ—ishment to any in the Military and Civil Lists and to the Train of Artillery or the Heirs Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them shall and will within the space of four years to commence from the five and twentieth day of December next ensuing the date of these presents fully discharge satisfie and pay or cause to be fully discharged satisfied and paid all and every the Arrears of Pay which at or upon the five and twentieth day of December last past before the date hereof were behind and unpaid to any person or persons comprehended in the Martial or Military List according to the Establishment AND also all and every the Arrears of Pay Wages Sallary or Pension then due to any person or persons comprehended within the Civil List according to the said Establishment AND also all Arrears whatsoever then due to His Majesties Train of Artillery in Ireland and shall cause due satisfaction and payment thereof to be made within the time aforesaid And shall cause due payment to be made of the said Arrears within the said time by even and equal portions without composition or deduction the Fees and Cheques excepted the first payment whereof shall begin and be made the 24th of December 1672. His Majesty shall be discharged from all such arrear so as the same deducting the Fees and Cheques exceed not for the Military List 139001 li. 11 s. 4 d. for the Civil List 4000 li. and for the Train of Artillery 1147 li. and by even and equal portions and in good lawful and currant English money or so much lawful and currant money of Ireland as shall be equivalent in Ireland to English money without any composition defalcation or other deduction whatsoever the usual Fees and Cheques only excepted the first payment whereof shall begin and be made at or before the four and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy and two AND
His Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall be for ever acquitted and at all times hereafter exonerated and discharged of and from all such Arrears then due upon the said Civil and Military Lists according to their several and respective Establishments and of and from every part and parcel thereof so as such Arrears of Pay then due upon the Military List and to be hereafter satisfied and discharged within the time and according to the proportions aforesaid do not in the whole exceed the sum of One hundred thirty nine thousand and one pound eleven shillings and four pence deducting the Fees and Cheques and so as the Arrears then due upon the Civil Lists as aforesaid do not in the whole exceed the sum of Four thousand pounds and so as the Arrears then due to the Train of Artillery do not in the whole exceed the sum of Eleven hundred forty seven pounds * 4. AND MOREOVER the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence V. R. c. shall before 25th December 1675 discharge without any abatement except the Fees so much of these sums as on the 4th of August 1671 shall be unpaid unto these persons and uses  li. The present Farmers 70,000 Sir William Bucknall 11,500 Londonderry Customs 4000. Phenix Parke 10,000 Patrick Archer 6294. Armes and Ammunition 6076. Moiety of the Ten moneths arrears 20,394 19 s. Earl Anglesey 2500. Coll. Lanes Daughters 6000. Earl Arlington 6250. Michael Archbishop of Dublin 2500. Fran. and Eliz. Jones 3500. John St. Leger 400. Rachell Vicountess Falkland 3000 George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon for themselves their Heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them have covenanted and granted and by these presents do further covenant and grant to and with our said Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Heirs Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them shall and will before the five and twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and seventy five fully and truly discharge satisfie and pay all and every the debts duties and sums of money hereinafter mentioned or so much thereof as on the day of the date of these presents shall be behind and unpaid that is to say the Seventy thousand pounds advanced by the present Farmers of the great Branches of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland herein before-mentioned And also the moneys lately lent unto His Majesty by Sir William Bucknall Knight and secured by a Patent bearing date at Westminster the five and twentieth day of November in the one and twentieth year of his Reign so as the same for Principal and Interest do not exceed the sum of Eleven thousand and five hundred pounds And also the Four thousand pounds due from His Majesty for the purchase of the Customs of Londonderry And also the moneys due for the purchase made by His Majesty of certain Lands lately enclosed in the Park called the Phenix Parke so as the same do not exceed the sum of Ten thousand pound And also the Six thousand two hundred ninety four pound due to Patrick Archer And also the Six thousand seventy six pound due for Arms and Ammunition sent from England unto Ireland And also that Moiety of the ten months Arrears due to the Army in Ireland during the time of the Government of the late Lord Justices that is to say the late Lord Chancellor Eustace the Earl of Orrery and the late Earl of Mountrath so as the said moiety of ten months Arrears do not in the whole exceed the sum of Twenty thousand three hundred ninety four pounds and nineteen shillings And also the Two thousand and five hundred pounds due to the Earl of Anglesey out of forfeited Recognizances And also the sum of Six thousand pound due to the Daughters of Collonel Lane And also the sum of Six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds being the remainder of Ten thousand pounds heretofore granted by His Majesty unto Henry Lord Arlington one of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State which said sum of Six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds is to be fully and effectually paid unto the said Henry Lord Arlington his Executors Administrators and Assigns without any abatement or defalcation And also the sum of Two thousand five hundred pounds unto Michael Lord Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland And also the sum of Three thousand and five hundred pound unto Francis and Elizabeth Jones Grand-children of Roger late Viscount Ranelagh to be equally divided between them And also the sum of Four hundred pound unto John St. Leger Esquire which last sum of Four hundred pound is to be paid out of the moneys remaining due upon the Ballance of George Carletons account late Clerk of the Hannaper in Ireland And also the sum of Three thousand pound granted by His Majesty unto Rachell Vice-Countesse of Falkland out of the Prize-goods of all and every which debts and sums of money herein before-mentioned due payment and satisfaction is to be made in good and lawful money of England or such lawful and currant money of Ireland as may in Ireland be equivalent thereunto and that without any composition abatement defalcation or other deduction whatsoever the usual Fees therefore payable onely excepted AND His Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall be for ever acquitted and at all times hereafter exonerated and discharged or otherwise saved harmless and indempnified of and from all and every the said Arrears debts and sums of money herein before-mentioned and of and from every part and parcel thereof and of and from all defalcations out of the sums herein agreed to be paid unto His Majesty his Heirs or Successors for or by reason thereof AND WHEREAS the late Farmers of His Majesties Customs in Ireland and of the Excise there for goods imported Whereas the late Farmers of the Customs Excise imported and Inland and Licences of Ale Beer Wine c. demand defalcations by reason of the war with the United Provinces during two years and three quarters of their respective Farms V. R. c. shall either come to an agreement with them for the same or cause their demands in respect thereof to be examined and setled and take upon themselves the whole loss of the defalcations which upon such agreement or examination shall be allowed and discharge His Majesty from the same and also of the Excise arising upon Beer Ale and other Excisable Liquors and of all other the Foreign and Inland Excise there and of the Revenue arising by Licences to retail Ale and Beer and Licences to retail Wine Aqua vitae and Strong-waters there were very much interrupted and hindered
Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall all that the Annual rate duty charge or imposition of two shillings sterling by the year due and payable to His Majesty his Heires and Successors for or in respect of any Fire-hearth or other place used for Firing and Stoves within any House or Edifice and which at any time after the Feast of the Nativity now last past unto the Feast of the Nativity which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five shall or may from time to time during the terme aforesaid become due and payable or are appointed to be paid unto His Majesty His Heires and Successors by virtue of the said late Act Intituled An Act for establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty His Heires and Successors for the better support of His and their Crown and Dignity And of the said other Act Intituled An Additional Act for the better ordering and collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money or otherwise howsoever And also all and every the powers liberties priviledges profits and advantages in and by the said Acts or either of them vested in His Majesty and also all those Rates Charges Duties Impositions Payments and Sums of Mony due and payable to His Majesty by such person or persons who now are or at any time before the Feast of the Nativity which shall be in the year of our Lord 1675 shall be licensed to utter and sell by way of Retaile in their respective houses any Wine or Aqua-vitae Vsquebagh Brandy Balkan or any kind of distilled strong-waters or spirits and all other duties and sums of Money of that nature which by vertue of the said late Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for the better ordering the selling of Wines and Aqua-vitae together with all sorts of strong-waters by retaile or otherwise howsoever have grown due or shall or may at any time after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord now last past unto the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord which shall be in the year of our Lord 1675 inclusive grow due and renew or from time to time during the terme aforesaid ought to become due and payable and are appointed to be paid to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors or any of them and all other the benefits profits and advantages of the said Act and also all those annual Quit-rents and payments of three pence per Acre yearly for every acre of English measure within the Province of Leinster in the Realm of Ireland and of two pence farthing per acre yearly for every acre of English Measure within the Province of Munster in the Realm of Ireland and of one penny half peny per acre yearly for every acre of English measure within the Province of Connaught in the Realm of Ireland and of two pence per acre yearly for every acre of English measure within the Province of Ulster in the Realm of Ireland and of one shilling six pence yearly out of every twenty shillings Rent for which any Houses or Tenements in any the Corporations in Ireland which have been allotted to any person or persons their heirs or assigns in or towards satisfaction of any arrears due to any Commissioned Officers who served his Majesty or his Royal Father in the Wars of Ireland upon or before the fifth of June 1649 have been or shall be let or demised And all and every the Annual Quit-rents and payments of that nature which by vertue of the said late Act entituled An Act for the better execution of his Majesties Gracious Declaration for the settlement of his Kingdom of Ireland and satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other his Subjects there And of the said other Act Entituled An Act for the explaining of some doubts arising upon an Act Entituled An Act for the better execution of his Majesties Gracious Declaration for the settlement of his Kingdom of Ireland and satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers Soldiers and other his Subjects there and for making some Alterations of and additions unto the said Act for the more speedy and effectual settlement of the said Kingdom or by any other Act of Parliament whatsoever or otherwise howsoever From Christmass last untill Christmass 1675 inclusive shall or may at any time after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God now last past and before and untill the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God which shall be in the year of our Lord 1675 inclusive grow due and payable or from time to time during the terme aforesaid ought to become due and payable and are appointed to be paid unto his Majesty his Heires and Successors or any of them by or from all every or any of the Adventurers or Soldiers their Heires or Assignes setled in any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments by vertue of the two Acts of Parliament last before mentioned or either of them and by or from all and every person and persons restored unto and reprized for his and their estate and estates and by vertue of both or either of the Acts aforesaid and by or from such Commissioned Officers who served his Majesty or his Royal Father in the Wars in Ireland at any time before the fifth of June 1649 their heirs or assigns respectively and by or from any other person or persons whatsoever All which said annual quit-rents and payments are by the latter of the said two Acts of Parliament last mentioned commonly called the Explanatory Act charged upon and enacted to be issuing out of all Lands whatsoever which by the said Explanatory Act or by the said former Act commonly called the Act of Settlement were vested in his Majesty or restored by any Decrees in the said Explanatory Act confirmed or setled or mentioned to be disposed restored confirmed or setled unto or upon any person or persons bodies politick or corporate by vertue of any clause in both or either of the said Acts contained and not particularly by plain and express words excepted from quit-rents in the same clause and no other person or persons bodies politick or corporate whatsoever and out of all and singular the Lands appointed to be set out for augmentation of Bishopricks for endowment of Parochial Churches with Gleabe for the better support of the Provost or of the Provost and Fellows of the Colledge of Dublin for the maintainance of the Fort at Duncannon and the benefit of the Corporation at Bandon Bridge and out of all the Lands injoyed by transplanted persons in the Province of Connaught or the County of Clare and out of all other the Lands seized sequestred or set out by reason of or upon account of the late Rebellion or War the Lands of James Duke of Ormond Elizabeth Lady Duchess of Ormond the Earl of Burlington and Cork the Earl of Roscomon and other the Protestants of Ireland heretofore sequestred only excepted AND His Majesty of his further especial grace certain knowledge
their appurtenances whereof no estate is already limitted by these presents except before excepted unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Phillip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns from the Feast-day of the Nativity of our Lord now last past for during From Christmass last for seven years and untill the full end and term of seven years from thenceforth next ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended TO the only proper use benefit and behoof of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns without any account matter or other thing to be yielded made or done for the same other then the rents and sums of money and other things hereafter in and by these presents reserved covenanted or agreed to be paid or performed and in as large ample and beneficial manner as his Majesty may might or ought to have take or injoy the same by force or vertue of any Statute or Statutes Act or Acts of Parliament Custome Vse Vsage or Prescription and as largely amply and beneficially as his Majesty may demise or grant the same or any part thereof or as the same are hereby mentioned meant or intended to be demised or granted Notwithstanding the clause in the Act for Hearth-mony any Law Statute Act or Acts of Parliament and more especially the clause in the late Act of Parliament intituled An Act for establishing an Additional Revenue upon his Majesty his heirs and successors for the better support of his and their Crown and dignity Which enacts That all the Revenues arising by the said Act shall be duly and constantly paid into his Majesties Courts of Exchequer and shall not be charged or chargeable with any Gifts Grants or Pensions whatsoever and that all and every such grant and all and every such Clause of non obstante therein contained should be utterly void and all and every persons to whom such grants should be passed should be accomptants to his Majesty for all Moneys received by pretence of such Grants And also all and every Ordinance Order Custome Proclamation Letters Patents Provision Restraint or any other matter or thing had or made or to be had or made to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And the Farmers covenant to pay YIELDING and PAYING therefore and the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall for them and every of them their and every of their heirs executors and administrators and every of them do by these presents Covenant to and with our said Soveraign Lord the King his heires and successors to yield and pay unto our said Soveraign Lord the King his heires and successors yearly and every year during the said term of seven years mentioned in this present demise at or into his or their receipt of the Exchequer at Dublin or by such other payments and with such deductions Ninety one thousand five hundred pounds abatements and allowances and in such manner as in and by these presents is mentioned the full sum of fourscore and eleven thousand and five hundred pounds sterling of lawfull money of England or so much other lawful and currant money of Ireland as shall be Equivalent to fourscorce and eleven thousand and five hundred pounds of lawful English money At or before four the most usual Feasts That is to say the Feast of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary Quarterly The Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist The Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord by even and equal portions the first payment thereof to begin and to be made upon the Feast of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary now last past before the date of these presents AND for the better enabling the said John Forth VVilliam Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Covenants of the first demise Dannet Forth George Dashwood VVilliam Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators Deputies and Assignes to have enjoy collect levy and receive the said Annual Rents Payments Rates Duties of Hearth-money Duties arising by Licenses for retailing Wine and Strongwaters Revenues Profits and other the Premises hereby demised according to the true intent and meaning hereof His Majesty doth by these presents as much as in him lies and as far as the Laws and Statutes of Ireland will permit nominate constitute and appoint the said Iohn Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators Officers Deputies Substitutes Agents and Assignes and no other person or persons whatsoever to be his Majesties Officer and Officers from and after the Commencement and during the continuance of this present demise for the receiving The Farmers made the Kings Collectors collecting and answering the said Annual rents as also the Duty arising by the Fire-hearths and Stoves by vertue of the said several Acts in that behalf or any of them and for viewing and numbering of the several Chimney-hearths and Stoves and other firing-places mentioned in the said Acts and for the inspecting and examining the several Rolls Certificates and Returnes thereof With power to do those things which the Kings Officers are enabled to do made and to be made from time to time into His Majesties Court of Exchequer in pursuance of the said Act or Acts or any other things belonging to the same and to do and execute all and every other the matters and things touching or concerning the Revenues Duties Profits or other the premises herein demised which are directed and authorized to be done and executed by the said Acts by Officers to be thereunto lawfully appointed And further that the said John Forth VVilliam Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphry Taylor Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators Deputies Agents and Assignes shall and may Collect Receive Levy and enjoy to their own use and benefit such sum and sums of Money or part or parts of the said Rate Duty and Premises hereby demised as by and according to the purport intent and true meaning of these presents shall have accrewed due and payable to them at or before the end or expiration of the terme or time of seven years hereby granted Although this present Demise and the said terme of seven yeares shall be expired and determined And His said Majesty doth hereby give and grant unto the said John Forth VVilliam Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood
William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes or their Deputy and Deputies Officer and Officers Substitute and Substitutes Agent and Agents from time to time and at all times after the Commencement and during the continuance of this present demise full power and authority to do performe and put in execution all and singular the powers and authorities in the said several Acts or any of them mentioned Power to put the Acts in execution for the receiving and collecting the Duty arising by the said Annual Rents Fire-hearths and Stoves and other the duties and premises and to do execute and put in Execution all and every other the matters and things any way belonging to or concerning the same directed and appointed by the said Acts or any of them to all Intents or purposes whatsoever And that they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes or their Deputy and Deputies Substitute and Substitutes Agent or Agents and other Under-Officer or Officers shall and may from time to time and at any time and times during the Continuance of this present demise have power to search view take Notice and Copies of all Returnes Duplicates and Records whatsoever in his Majesties Exchequer or in the hands of any Clerke of the Peace or Custos Rotulorum of any particular County And to search Books and Papers to take Copies of Records and the Custody of Returns c. City or Place or elsewhere or in the hands of any other person or persons touching or concerning the premises or any way relating thereunto or for the Examination finding out and discovering of Parishes Villages Places and Names of Persons for the better improving and managing the hereby demised premises And all and every His Majesties Officer and Officers whom the same doth or may concerne are hereby strictly Commanded and Required to take notice hereof and permit the same to be done accordingly As also to examine compare attest and signe such Constats and Copies of any of the said Records in their respective Custodies as shall be prepared and offered unto them by the said John Forth Returnes and Duplicates to be signed without Fee William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators Deputies and Assignes and that without Demanding any Fee Reward or Recompence for any such search perusal taking of Notes or Copies to be written by the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators Deputies Agents or Assigns and without any other Warrant or Authority in that behalf and without any lett delay denyal or interruption in or about the same AND His Majesty is graciously pleased and by these presents for himself his Heires and Successors doth will command and require that all and singular the said Returnes and Records of and concerning the said annual payments and duties of Hearth-money The said Returnes and Records and other the premises already returned and also those that shall hereafter from time to time be returned into the Court of Exchequer To be placed and put in the Farmers Head-Office during the Continuance of this present demise shall be placed and put in such house or place as the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall from time to time have and appoint for their chief Office in or near the City of Dublin for the ordering and mannaging all the matters and things for or any way concerning the Collecting and Levying of the Duties aforesaid And that the Returnes and Recordes so remaining in the said chief Office shall be in the possession and under the care and inspection of His Majesties Remembrancer his deputy or deputies Yet so as that the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth Geeorge Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors The Farmers may search and take Copies of the same Administrators and Assignes for their more speedy convenient and perfect managing of the several annual payments Rates duties and premises hereby demised may from time to time during the Continuance of this present demise have liberty to view inspect search and examine and take Copies of the same the same Copies to be made by such person or persons Which Copies are to be made by such persons as the Kings Remembrancer shall allow without Fee as His Majesties Remembrancer or his Deputy for the time being shall allow of without any Fee or other Charge to be paid for the same And that all and every the Returnes and Records of and concerning the premises which do or shall hereafter remain in the hands of the respective Clerkes of the Peace Recorders of Cities or Town-Clerkes respectively shall be placed and kept in such convenient house or place in every respective County City or Town where every Vnder-Farmer Deputy or Officer of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes So also of Records and returnes in the hands of the Clerkes of the Peace Recorders Town-Clerks c. without Fee for the same County City Town or Place may have access to the same to view search examine and take Copies of them and that both the said Records in the chief Office and respective places where the Records shall be kept by the Clerks of the Peace Town-Clerks and Recorders of every County City Town or Place they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of their Vnder-farmers Deputies and Agents as they shall appoint shall have Free access to the same at all reasonable and convenient times for the purposes aforesaid without any Fee or Fees or other charge for the same AND for the better enabling the said Iohn Forth William Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood VVilliam Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes to pay the said Rents and to execute and discharge the Trusts and Powers by these presents committed and granted unto them they are hereby authorized and impowered to demand take receive and keep all and every other Bookes They are further to ask demand and receive all other Books Returnes
c. in whose hands soever they be except the Records in the Office of the Remembrancer Clerks of the Peace and Town-Clerks And all persons are commanded to deliver the same except such as have not finished their Accompts A discharge for the delivery of the said Accounts Books c. Returnes Duplicates Rolls Accompts and VVritings any way relating unto the Revenue of the Hearth-money in whose hands soever they be for His Majesties use and service other then such as are to remaine as Records in the Office of his Majesties Remembrancer in the Exchequer or with the respective Clerkes of the Peace Recorders or Town-Clerks as aforesaid and the same to lodge and dispose of where they may be most conveniently made use of for the said service in the said chief Office or Vnder-Offices respectively And all or any person or persons now or formerly imployed in and about the said Revenue and others who have any of the said Writings in their Custody and keeping are hereby commanded and required to deliver up the same accordingly saving onely such persons who have not finished their Accompts may have the use thereof for the perfecting of their Accompts and obtaining their discharges respectively and the Receipt or Receipts of the said Iohn Forth VVilliam Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood VVilliam Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors or Assignes or any one of them shall be to such Officer or Officers and other persons for their so doing a sufficient Warrant and discharge AND our said Soveraign Lord the King doth hereby for Himself his Heires and Successors Covenant promise and grant to and with the said Iohn Forth VVilliam Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Iemmet John Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknal No persons to intermeddle in the Ordering Collecting or receiving of the Duties demised besides the Farmers and who they shall appoint their Executors Administrators and Assignes in manner following that is to say that neither his said Majesty his Heires and Successors nor his Lieutenant or other chief Governor of Ireland and Council there shall or will at any time or times during the said terme unless at their instance and desire authorize and appoint any other person or persons whatsoever besides the said John Forth William Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes in any wise during the Continuance of this present demise to act or intermeddle in the ordering collecting and receiving levying and managing of the said annual payments Rates Duties and premises hereby demised or mentioned to be demised or any part or parts thereof AND his Majesty is pleased further to covenant and by these presents for himself his Heires and Successors doth covenant grant and agree to and with the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them that if at any time during the continuance of this present Terme any of the Duties arising by Hearth-money Duties arising by Licenses for selling Wine Aquavitae or Strong-waters by Retayle Feefarme-rents Quit-rents Rents reserved upon Leases or any other Annual rents Payments or Duties hereby demised or granted or mentioned meant or intended to be demised or granted shall happen to be paid into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer at Dublin If any of these Duties shall be paid into the Exchequer it is to be accepted in part of the Rent if any due that then and in every such Case His Majesty His Heires and Successors shall and will be pleased to accept of the sums of Money so paid in and to retaine the same in part of payment of the Rents reserved by these presents if any shall then be due and if no part of the Rents reserved by these presents shall then be due and owing or not so much as the sums so paid into His Majesties Receipt shall amount unto It shall and may be lawful to and for the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall And if no rent be due or not so much as is paid in the Farmers are to have the same out of the Exchequer without Fee their Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them to aske demand have and receive to their own use and behoofe all and every such Duties Rents and Sums of Money which are hereby demised and at the time of such demand shall have been paid into His Majesties Receipt as before and shall be found to exceed the sums of money then due and owing to His Majesty for Rents without any Fee gratuity reward or other charges whatsoever to be paid for the same AND His Majesty doth hereby strictly charge and command the Lord Treasurer and Vice-treasurer Chancellor and Barons of His said Court of Exchequer and all other the Officers and Ministers of his Revenues now and for the time being that they and every of them upon the sight of these presents or the Enrolment thereof do forthwith pay and deliver or cause to be paid and delivered unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes to their own use VVithout further VVarrant and without any other or further Account all and singular the Duties Rents and Sums of Money which by vertue of this present demise they ought to have and which at the time of their or any of their demand shall be found to be or have been paid unto His Majesties Receipt as aforesaid over and above the Rent then due to His Majesty And for so doing these presents or the Inrolment thereof shall be to them and every of them a sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf And if any Act done or to be done by His Majesty his Heires or Successors or by the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland and Council there for the time being or by the Lord Treasurer the Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer or by any other Officers or Ministers of His Majesties Revenue there now and for the time being or by any of them If the Farmers are or shall be obstructed in having these Duties shall be any obstruction or hinderance unto them the said John Forth VVilliam Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assignes in the having and receiving the full and entire sums of money so as aforesaid paid
into His Majesties Receipt over and above the Rent then due unto His Majesty They are to have defalcation by retainer Then His Majesty is pleased that there shall be an Allowance and Defalcation made by way of Recouper and Retayner of so much of the Rent by these presents reserved as may be sufficient to give recompence and satisfaction for the same together with damages and interest at 10 per cent from the time of detaining thereof VVith interest and damages And his Majesty doth hereby authorize the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland and Council there for the time being and any six or more of them Lord Lieutenant c. upon proof to allow the same whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being to be alwayes one or more upon due proof of such obstruction or hinderance made by any Order or Declaration of Council to be made in Council and signed with their hands to allow the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet Iohn Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood VVilliam Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns to retaine and keep in his and their hands so much of the Rents by these presents reserved as may be sufficient to recompence the loss or damage which shall or may be suffered by not receiving the Duties Rents and Sums of Money so as aforesaid paid into his Majesties Receipt of Exchequer at Dublin or by any obstruction or hinderance therein as aforesaid And His Majesty doth hereby require and command the Barons of His Court of Exchequer The Barons c. commanded also to permit and allow the same and all other the Officers and Ministers of His Revenue there that they permit and allow the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes to have the full benefit of such order of defalcations and for so doing these presents or the enrolment thereof shall be to them and every of them a sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf AND whereas in and by the said Act intituled An Act for the better ordering the selling of Wines and Aqua-vitae together with all sorts of Strong-waters by Retayle it is among other things provided That every person licensed to Retaile according to the forme of the said Act should pay the sums appointed by the said Act to be paid in manner following that is to say one moyety thereof before the person so to be licensed take out his license and the other moyety thereof at the end of six Moneths after the date of such license into the hands of Collectors to be appointed for that purpose of which Collectors the Commissioners for granting the said licenses are to take Recognizances with good security with condition for payment duly into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer all such sum and sums of money which in respect of the said licenses shall be receiv'd by him And in case the said Recognizances shall be forfeited the Commissioners are to returne the same into His Majesties said Court of Exchequer And the Commissioners are farther appointed to take Bonds of the parties licensed for their respective second payments As by the said Act more at large appeares And whereas also his Majesty is informed that several Receivers of his Majesties Fee-farme-rents and other the Annual rents duties and payments hereby demised have entred into several Bonds and Recognizances for the due payment unto his Majesty of all such Rents Duties and Sums of money which they shall respectively receive His Majesty is hereby graciously pleased to covenant and agree And by these presents for himself his Heires and Successors doth covenant and agree to and with the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood If any Securities given by persons licensed to retaile VVines and Strong-waters or by any Collectors of those Duties or by any Receivers of the Fee-farme-rents c. shall become forfeited William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them that if at any time after the commencement of this present terme any such Bonds or Recognizances entred into by Collectors Retaylors Receivers or their sureties shall happen to be forfeited for or by reason of the non-payment of any rent or sum of money which they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes ought by vertue of these presents to have had and enjoyed to their own use if the same had been duely paid or if at any time during the continuance of this present tearm any other Bonds or Recognizances of that nature shall be entred into and also forfeited to His Majesty during the continuance of the said tearm That then and in every such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them to have hold take receive and enjoy to their own proper use benefit and behoof without any Accompt or other matter or thing to be therefore paid or rendred other then the rents by these presents reserved The Farmers are to have the benefit of those forfeitures and of all Executions thereupon the whole forfeiture and benefit that shall be raised gotten or had by all and every such Bonds Recognizances and Securities and of all Judgments Executions and Extents thereupon and Compositions for the same And that it shall be lawful for them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them in the name of our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heires and Sucessors and at their own proper costs and charges to sue prosecute and implead in His Majesties Court of Exchequer all and every person and persons by whom any such Obligation or Recognizance shall be forfeited Power to sue such securities in the Kings name and his and their Sureties and in the name or names of him His Heires or Successors to procure Judgement and sue forth Execution of and for all and every the penalties and forfeitures in the said Obligations or Recognizances contained And our said Soveraign Lord the King doth hereby command the Lord Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the Court of Exchequer for the time being that when and as often as any of the said penalties and
Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland and Council there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being to be alwayes one or more shall have full power and authority by these presents by their order in writing and in manner and forme aforesaid upon the humble Petition of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Iemmet Vpon the Farmers petition to the Lord Lieutenant c. Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assignes to make unto the said John Forth VVilliam Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Aministrators and Assignes such reasonable recompence and defalcation out of the yearly rent hereby reserved for and in respect of such rents so happening to extinguish or cease as aforesaid immediately from and after the time that such Rents shall happen to extinguish or cease as aforesaid They are to have Defalcation from the time that such Rents shall cease for and during such cesser and extinguishment as to them or any six or more of them respectively as aforesaid shall be thought meet and expedient And that these presents or the Enrolment or Exemplification thereof shall be a sufficient warrant and discharge to the said Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor and Governors of Ireland and Council there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being to be alwayes one or more to make the said recompence and defalcation in that behalf accordingly And whereas many rents due and payable to his Majesty have been of long time conceal'd and are not neither have been put in charge in His Majesties Court of Exchequer in Ireland since His Majesties Restauration the discovery and prosecution whereof and the causing the same to be put in charge in his Majesties Court of Exchequer for the future must of necessity occasion great expence and trouble His Majesty therefore for the better encouragement of the said Iohn Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes to undertake the discovery and prosecution of all such Concealements at their own proper costs and charges is graciously pleased to covenant And by these presents for himself his Heires and Successors doth covenant grant and agree to and with the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes that if any conceal'd Rents other then the new Quit-rents made payable to his Majesty by the late Acts of Parliament commonly called the Act of Settlement and the Act of Explanation Concealed Rents other then the new Quit-rents and such rents as shall be discovered within two years which shall not within the space of two years next ensuing the date of these presents be otherwise discovered shall at any time during the continuance of this present grant be discovered by the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assignes or any of them and at their or any of their proper costs and charges in Law shall be so far prosecuted in His Majesties name that they shall be duly recovered and put in charge in his Majesties Court of Exchequer that then and in such case they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes shall have and receive to their own use and behoofe out of the arrears of the rents so to be recovered and not otherwise so much money as three years arrearages of the Rents so to be discovered and put in charge shall amount to The Farmers are to have three years value of the same to be paid out of the arrears of such concealed Rents without any Account or other matter or thing to be therefore rendered And all Officers and Ministers of his Majesties Revenue are hereby required to cause the said three years arrearages to be from time to time paid out accordingly And for so doing these presents or the Enrolment hereof shall be to them and every of them a sufficient Warrant and Discharge CUSTOMES AND Imported Excise AND His Majesty of His more abundant special Grace certain knowledge and meer motion Hath further Demised Granted and to Farme letten and by these Presents for His Highness his Heires and Successors for and in consideration of the sum of 70000 l. so as aforesaid advanced and of other the Covenants and Agreements hereafter mentioned doth further Demise Grant and to Farme let unto the said Iohn Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall all Customes Subsidies and Impositions or Sums of Mony taken or known by the name or in lieu of Customs Subsidies and Impositions Payments Duties and Sums of Money And all manner of Subsidies of Tonnage or Poundage The Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage and the duties of Excise for goods imported and demised now or heretofore taken or known by the name of Tonnage or Poundage and all other Subsidies and Imposts sums of Money rights payments and duties which at any time or times after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Christ now next ensuing unto the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Christ which shall be in the year of Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five inclusive shall may or ought to happen come arise grow renew be due or payable From Christmass next to Christmass 1675. or are appointed to be paid to our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors or to any of them by the said late Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for setling the Subsidy of Poundage and granting a Subsidy of Tonnage and other sums of money unto his Royal Majesty his Heirs and Successors the same to be paid upon Merchandise imported and exported into or out of the Realm of Ireland according to a Book of Rates hereunto annexed According to the late Act or by reason of any Custom usage or prescription or otherwise or by any other the Laws Statutes and Customes of the Realm of Ireland or any of them heretofore made or established or by reason of any Custom usage or prescription or in right of his Prerogative Royal or by any
other wayes or meanes whatsoever established for Customes Subsidies and Imposts or in lieu of Customes Subsidies and Imposts and other Payments and Duties of for or by reason of all and all manner of Wines Wares Goods and Merchandises whatsoever of whatsoever nature kind quality or condition they are or shall be as well those which at any time or times after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord next ensuing unto the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord which shall be in the year of our Lord 1675 inclusive shall be conveyed imported or brought into the Realm of Ireland or any Port Haven Harbor Creek Road or Place thereunto belonging or duly entred in any Custom-house there or shall be brought into any Warehouse or other places belonging to them or any of them from any forein Island Collony or Plantation whatsoever heretofore made or planted or hereafter to be made or planted or from any other parts beyond the Seas and Realms of England or Scotland or any of them by way of Merchandise Provision Prize taken from Pirates or Enemies or other wayes howsoever As also those which at any time or times between the said Feast of the Nativity of our Lord now next ensuing and the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord which shall be in the year of Lord One Thousand six hundred seventy five inclusive shall be conveyed exported or carried by way of Merchandize out of the said Realm of Ireland or any part thereof or Shipped or put into any Boat Lighter Gabbard Wherrey Crayer Ship or Vessel or any Boats Gabbards Wherreys Crayers Lighters Ships or Vessels within any of the Ports or places of or within the Realm of Ireland or any of them or within any Havens Creeks Roads or Places or members of or belonging to the said Ports or Places or any of them with intent to be from thence carryed or conveyed by way of Merchandize out of the said Realm of Ireland into any parts or places beyond the Seas or into the Realms of England or Scotland or either of them or any part of either of them And also All Customes Subsidies and Imposts Payment and Duties which at any time or times within the terme aforesaid shall grow or be due or payable to His Majesty his Heires or Successors As also the Customes for the Over-lengths of all Woollen Cloaths which shall be transported for the Overlengths of all woollen Cloaths or Kerseys which shall be transported from the Realm of Ireland into any parts beyond the Seas or put into any Ship Boat or other Vessel with intent to be transported or conveyed into parts beyond the Seas And moreover our said Soveraign Lord the King for him his Heirs and Successors Doth also grant and agree to and with the said John Forth William Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes by these presents that they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall have take and enjoy to their own proper uses and behoofes All and all manner of Customes Subsidies and Imposts or sums of mony Duties or payments commonly called known or payable as or in lieu of Customes Subsidies and Imposts or any of them and for all Goods Wares and Merchandizes whatsoever which at any time or times between the feast of the Nativity of our Lord And also the Custome of Goods brought into Ireland by any Ships of His Majesty now next ensuing and the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord which shall be in the year of our Lord God 1675. inclusive shall be brought into the said Realm of Ireland in or by any the Ships or Fleets of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or any other Ships or Vessels employed or to be employed in the service of his Majesty his Heires or Successors Or by His Authority by Letters of Marque or for Pyrates Goods or goods taken from Pyrates or by the Ships or Vessels of any other by Authority from or under his Majesty his Heirs or Successors by Letters of Marque or by any other wayes whatsoever or for Pyrates Goods or Goods taken from Pyrates or Enemies which by any meanes within the times or termes aforesaid shall come into the said Realm of Ireland as if the same Wares Merchandizes and Goods or any of them had been brought into the said Realm of Ireland by any of his Majesties Subjects by way of Merchandize for or upon all or any Goods Wares or Merchandizes whatsoever as well exported as imported or which shall become forfeited to his Majesty his Heirs or Successors by vertue of and according to the late Act of Parliament for the encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation or any the Powers or Clauses therein contained And to the intent that the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes may justly and truly receive have take and enjoy the said Customes Subsidies Imposts Payments Duties or sums of money in lieu of Customes Subsidies and Imposts of all such Goods Wares and Merchandizes according to the true intent and meaning of these presents It is Covenanted and agreed and also our Soveraign Lord the King for Him His Heirs and Successors doth streightly charge and Command and by these presents doth ordain That no part of any such Goods be unladen or any way disposed of That no goods be unladen till a true Entry he made as well by His Majesties Officers as the Farmers untill a true Entry be taken and made of all such Goods as well by His Majesties Officers in those ports where such Goods shall be brought in as by the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes their Deputies and Agents or some of them And our said Soveraign Lord the King for him his Heirs and Successors and of his more especial Grace certain knowledge and meer motion doth further Demise and grant unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall all and all manner of Rates Charges Impositions sums of Money payments and other Duties of Excise whatsoever which at any time or times and from time to time after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord now next ensuing unto the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Foreign Excise demised which shall be in the year of our Lord 1675. inclusive shall may or ought to happen come arise grow renue
be due or payable or are appointed to be paid unto our said Soveraign Lord the King his heirs and successors or any of them for or in respect of any Goods Wares or Merchandizes which within the times aforesaid shall be brought in and imported into the Realm of Ireland from any parts beyond the Seas and for which a Duty or payment of Excise is of right belonging to his Majesty his heirs and successors by vertue of the said late Act of Parliament Entitled An Act for the Setling of Excise or new Imposts upon his Majesty his heires and successors according to the Books of Rates therein inserted Except the Alnagâ— and such other duties of Excise as may hereafter be imposed beyond the present rates and all other the Duties of Excise whatsoever commonly called or known by the name of the foreign and imported Excise excepted alwayes and foreprized and reserved out of this present Demise and Grant the Duty and Subsidy of Alnage And all and all manner of Customes Subsidies Imposts sum and sums of Money Excizes Duties and payments whatsoever which at any time hereafter by any Act or Acts of Parliament to be made and of force and effect in Ireland or by any Letters Patents Commission or otherwayes shall be granted set or imposed upon or otherwise grow due or payable more and other then the Rates Duties and Payments now imposed set or in being for any foreign Commodities Wares or Merchandizes whatsoever of what nature or kind soever imported from any parts beyond the Seas into the Realm of Ireland And all other kinds or branches of Revenue and all improvement or increase of any part of the Revenue demised by Act of Parliament hereafter to be made or into any the Roads Ports Creeks or places thereunto belonging And also except all new and other kinds or Branches of Revenues and Improvement or increase of any part of the Revenue hereby demised which by vertue of any Act of Parliament hereafter to be made shall grow due and payable to his Majesty his heirs or Successors within his or their Realm of Ireland AND also excepted and foreprized out of this present Grant and Demise all and all manner of Customes Subsidies sums of Money and other Duties whatsoever to be perceived taken and had or which shall may or ought to happen come arise grow or be due or chargeable or payable to our said Soveraign Lord the King his heirs or successors Except also Bullion to be imported or to any of them of for or by reason of all and all manner of Bullion whatsoever imported into Ireland And also excepted and foreprized out of this present Grant and Demise all and all manner of Customes Subsidies Impositions Forfeitures and other Duties or Sums of Money whatsoever due or payable or to be due or payable to our said Soveraign Lord the King his heires or successors of for or by reason of all and all manner of Allomes and liquors of Allomes As also Allome Smaults Saffers Smaults Saffers and all matters and things which shall be necessary for the making of Smaults of what nature or by what name or names soever the same be or shall be called or known And which during the terme hereby granted shall be brought from any parts beyond the Seas into the Realm of Ireland And also excepted and foreprized out of this present Grant all Prizage and Butlerage of and for all and all manner Also the Prizage and Butlerage and whatsoever sort of Wines of what nature kind or quality or by what name or names soever the same be or shall be known and also excepted and fore-prized out of this present Grant and Demise all and all manner of Customs Subsidies of Poundage Sums of Money and other Duties whatsoever which at any time or times during the term of and in the Customs and Subsidies hereby granted shall be due or payable to his said Majesty his Heirs or Successors for or by reason of the Importation of any Logwood alias Blockwood As also Logwood and Blockwood forfeited into the said Realm of Ireland And all and all manner of Logwood alias Blockwood whatsoever that shall happen to be forfeited to his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or any of them for or by reason of the non-payment of Customs Subsidies or Imposts due or to be due and payable to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors of and for the same or any part or parcel thereof And all penalties forfeitures and benefits which shall or may happen to come grow or arise to his Majesty his Heirs or Successors for the non-payment of the Customs and Subsidies due and payable or to be due or payable for the same or that may be forfeited for the Importation thereof contrary to a late Act of Parliament for the Incouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation And all and every sum and sums of money and other Duties which shall may or ought to happen come arise renew or be due chargeable or payable to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors or any of them at any time or times during the said term of or for all or any of the said Logwood alias Blockwood And also except the duty commonly call'd or known by the name of Port-Corn Port-Corn also excepted and five shillings per Tonn upon French Shipping And also except the Imposition Duty or Sum of five shillings per Tonn which by vertue of the said late Act for Incouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation and of one other late Act passed in Ireland touching the Rates of Merchandizes and the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage is imposed or set upon any Ship or Vessel belonging to any of the Subjects of the French King which shall come into any Port Harbour or Road of Ireland and shall there lade or unlade any Goods or Commodities or take in or set on shoar any Passengers whatsoever To Have hold receive ask demand take levy perceive retain The Habendum use exercise and enjoy All and singular the said Customs Tonnage Poundage Subsidies Imposts Payments Duties and Sums of Money in lieu of Customs which by vertue of the said late Act of Parliament touching or concerning Tonnage or Poundage or otherwise howsoever are due and payable to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors And also all and singular the Rates Charges Impositions Payments and other Duties of Excise which by vertue of the said late Act of Parliament touching or concerning Excise are due and payable unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for or in respect of any Goods Wares or Merchandizes imported into Ireland and all other the Duties of Excise whatsoever commonly called or known by the name of the Foreign and Imported Excise except before excepted unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns from the
Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknal their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them without any lett disturbance restraint denyal or interruption of any Customers Collectors Comptrollers Searchers Waiters or any other Officers Ministers or Attendants whatsoever of his Highness his Heirs or Successors or any of them of or in respect of the said Ports Places and Creeks and without any Accompt or Accompts Without Accompt other then the Rent reserved or other thing therefore to be paid yielded or done to his Highness his Heirs or Successors other than the Rent and Sums of Money by these presents reserved or appointed to be yielded and paid to his Highness his Heirs and Successors for the same And also that the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them and the Deputies Factors and Servants of them and every of them and all and every the Officers of the Custom-house who are by any Letters Patents thereunto lawfully authorized shall and may from time to time during the continuance of this Demise and Lease at their and every of their wills and pleasures The Farmers and their Servants as well by night as by day may search Ships enter Cellars Shops c. as well by night as by day go on board view search and survey every Ship Vessel or Bottom riding or lying within any of the said Havens Ports Creeks and Places and by day time to enter into any Cellar Vault Ware-house Shop or Place to view search and see whether there be any such Merchandizes Wares or Goods the Custom Subsidie Imposts or other Duties whereof is not nor shall not then be to them or some of them truly answered paid or agreed for or shall not then appear to them to be truly answered paid or agreed for as aforesaid according to the true meaning hereof And also to examine the Shippers Owners To examine Shippers Owners c. and other the Factors Conveyors Carriers and bringers inward or outward of any the same Merchandizes and Goods and every other suspected person and persons in all convenient and lawful manner upon their Oaths Vpon their Oaths without any lett impediment restraint impeachment contradiction or denyal of any of the Customers Collectors Searchers Surveyors Waiters or other Officers of or in the said Ports Creeks and Places or any of them or of any other person or persons whatsoever And further also to adminster any other Oath or Oaths Power to administer Oaths to any other person or persons whatsoever for touching or concerning the premisses as fully and amply to all intents and purposes whatsoever as any the Commissioners of the Customs or Excise Customer or Comptroller in his Majesties Ports in Ireland by vertue of his or their Offices or of any Act of Parliament or otherwise may legally do the Fees and Duties for the Administration of such Oath or Oaths The Fees for the Administration of the Oaths to be paid to whom of right they belong nevertheless to continue and be paid and payable to such Officer Officers or other person or persons to whom the same do or of right ought to belong or are ordered or established to be paid And for the better performance hereof our said Soveraign Lord the King for him his Heirs and Successors doth give full power and Authority unto the Lord Treasurer of Ireland Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer there for the time being or any three or more of them whereof the Lord Treasurer or Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being to be one to make forth under the Seal of the said Court of Exchequer Court of Exchequer to issue out so many Commissions concerning the premisses as the Farmers shall think fit such and so many Commissions concerning the premisses in and by these presents mentioned to be demised or any thing thereunto appertaining or belonging from time to time according to the course of that Court as they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or such other person or persons shall think fit to be directed to such persons as they or any three or more of them as is aforesaid shall in that behalf appoint And that as well all and every the Officers and Ministers which at any time or times during the continuance of these presents in force shall have any Office or Authority from or under the Jurisdiction of the Lord High Admiral of Ireland as also all and every the Customers Comptrollers Collectors Searchers Port-Reeves Waiters Surveyors All the Officers of the Lord High Admiral his Majesty and all other Officers and Ministers of his Highness his Heirs and Successors within any the Ports Creeks or places whatsoever shall from time to time during the continuance of this Demise or Lease be aiding and assisting unto the said John Forth William Bucknall to be ayding and assisting William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them their Deputies Factors and Servants in every such search and in all other the premisses and services in every search c. for the most benefit and advantage of them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and their Deputies Factors and Servants in about and concerning the premisses to them before in and by these presents mentioned to be granted or demised in as ample beneficial diligent manner wise order decree and means whatsoever as they and every of them should and ought to have been or done to our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs or Successors by any manner of means for or concerning the same or any part thereof if this present Lease or Grant had not been had or made upon pain of imprisonment of every such person or persons that shall be so found obstinately faulty Vpon pain of Imprisonment for the first and forfeiture of his or their Offices for the second offence together with further Fine and punishment remiss or negligent therein for his or their first offence to be committed and under the pain and penalty of the loss and forfeiture of the Office of every such person or persons for his or their second offence in that behalf to be committed and also of such further Fine and punishment as to the Lord Treasurer of Ireland Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer for the time being or any three or more of them whereof the Lord Treasurer or Chancellor of
time being and any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being to be always one or more from time to time to allow unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns full allowance abatement deduction and defalcation of and for all such sums of money to be due by and upon such and so many of the said forfeited bonds without further warrant as they cannot receive by reason of any such former Grants as aforesaid and ought to have and enjoy according to the true intent and meaning of these presents without any further or other warrant from his Majesty his Heirs or Successors to be had procured or obtained AND Our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty is further pleased and contented and by these presents for his Higness his Heirs and Successors doth covenant and grant to and with the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them that neither his Majesty his Heirs or Successors nor any of them will at any time hereafter until the end of this present Demise or Lease His Majesties Covenants to lay no new Imposition upon any wares imported or exported without the Farmers consent impose or lay any new Imposition or Taxation upon any Wares or Merchandizes whereof the Custom Impost or other Duties are granted by these presents to be transported out of the said Realm into any the parts beyond the Seas or to be brought during the continuance of this Lease from any the parts beyond the Seas into the said Realm â—ithout the assent consent and good liking of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns testified under their hands unless a new Imposition be laid by Authority of Parliament and testified under their hand or hands in writing first had and obtained unless such new Imposition shall be set and laid by Authority of Parliament Provided further and the said Kings most Excellent Majesty doth for himself his Heirs and Successors covenant declare and agree to and with the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknal their Executors and Assigns by these presents That in case at any time or times during the Term of six Years hereby granted as aforesaid any new or further Duty Custom or Imposition shall be by his said Majesty his Heirs and Successors If any new Imposition be layd with their consent by and with the consent of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or by authority of Parliament be imposed or set upon or due or payable for any forreigners wares upon any forreigners Wares goods or merchandizes which shall be imported into the said Realm of Ireland or any of them or any parts or places in them or any of them over and besides or more then the Duties Impositions and payments now due and payable for the same If any be the Farmers are to the collection of it that they then the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall during the rest and residue of the said Term of six Years have the collecting and manageing and be collectors and managers of such new imposed duty and duties to and for his Majesties use and benefit and to be Accountants and accountable for the same in such manner and be Accountants for it and to have such sallaries and allowances for their cares and pains therein as by his said Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors or Assigns shall be agreed on and thought fit and convenient in that behalf And whereas by the Laws and ancient usage Merchants paying their Customs and other Duties outward if in their Journies their Goods and Merchandizes have been taken at Sea by Enemies in time of war or by Pyrates have used to have allowance of their Customs and other Duties so formerly paid upon their exportation of their Goods and Merchandizes in lieu and stead of the former so taken as aforesaid Now it is mutually covenanted and agreed by and between the Kings Majesty for himself his Heirs and Successors and the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth Georâ—â— Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall for themselves their Executors Administrators or Assigns That if it shall happen If goods shipt off after Custom paid during the continuance of this present Lease that any such Coods or Merchandizes for which the said Custom or other Duties shall be duely answered and paid to be taken at Sea by any the Enemies of his Majesty be taken by Enemies Pyrates c. other goods may be shipt off Custom free his Heirs or Successors in time of War or by Pyrates or when letters of marque or reprizal shall be so generally or frequently granted that the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns but if the loss in these cases groweth considerable His Majesty is to hear it shall suffer considerable damage thereby that then and in every such case and cases upon due proof of such considerable losses to be made in such manner and form as in other cases of defalcation is directed his Majesty his Heirs and Successors will bear the loss thereof And the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and the Farmers to have Defalcation shall have defalcation and allowance made unto them of and for the same out of the Rent aforesaid in such manner and upon such just and due proof and with such approbation as any other allowances are to be made according to the true meaning of these presents PROVIDED also and it is further agreed covenanted and declared That the said John Forth William
of the said Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland Lord Treasurer Vice-Treasurer or Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being as aforesaid in writing under their or any of their hands to them or any of them in that behalf to be directed and by like warrant to pay the officers of his Majesties Exchequer and not otherwise pay and satisfie or cause to be paid and satisfied unto all and every Officer Minister and Ministers of his Majesty his Heirs and Successors of and in the said Court of Exchequer all such or the like several fees duties and sums of money as heretofore hath been used and accustomed to be paid to them by the several Customers Comptrollers Surveyors and searchers of the Ports aforesaid and every of them or their deputies in such manner and form as the same should or ought to have been done or paid if this demise and grant had not been had or made And shall and will also from time to time during the continuance of this demise or Lease for six years in force content satisfie and pay as also all annuities pensions and usual payments issuing out of the Customs c. or cause to be contented satisfied and paid all and singular annuities or yearly payments payable or issuing out of the Customs Subsidies and other duties before by these presents demised and granted or mentioned or intended to be demised or granted for six years unto all and every such person and persons to whom any such annuities or yearly payments shall be due and payable together with the arrears of such annuities c. by warrant together with the arrearages of such annuities or yearly payments if any such be at the several times and days of payment thereof upon warrant and direction of the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland Lord Treasurer Vice-Treasurer or Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being to the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or assigns by writing under his or their hand or hands to be in that behalf directed AND Our said Sovereign Lord the King is pleased and contented and by these presents of his special Grace certain Knowledge and meer motion for his Highness his Heirs and Successors doth covenant grant and agree to and with the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors administrators and assigns and every of them that for and in consideration of such several duties fees sums of money annuities and payments which the said John Forth William Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Buucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or any of them shall from time to time during the said Term of six years so as aforesaid satisfie content and pay unto all and every the Customers Collectors Comptrollers Surveyor Surveyors General Officers Ministers and other persons respectively accordigng to the true intent and meaning of these presents as is is aforesaid it shall and may be lawful to and for the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them and shall be defalked for such payments from time to time to deduct defaulk and detain so much out of the yearly Rent and sums of money before by these presents reserved or payable as all and every such sum and sums of money duties fees and payments as the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or assigns or any of them shall according to the true intent and meaning of these presents by such warrant or direction as aforesaid satisfie content and pay unto all and every the Customers out of the Rents next due after such payments or at any oter time or times at their election Collectors Comptrollers Surveyors Surveyor General Officers and Ministers and other persons respectively as is afore-mentioned shall amount unto the same and every part thereof respectively to be deducted defaulked and detained out of the next Rent or Rents to grow due next after such respective payments so to be made as aforesaid or at any other time or times after at their election And that the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Covernours of Ireland Lord Lieutenant c. to allow the same upon sight of the enrolment hereof and on certificate under the hands and seals of such persons as shall receive the same and Councel there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being to be always one or more by force of these presents upon sight hereof or of the enrolment constat or explication thereof and upon certificate or other sufficient testimony of payment of the said duties fees annuities payments and sums of money aforesaid in writing under the hands and seals of such persons which shall have received the same as is afore-mentioned shall have full power and authority by an Order in writing under their hands to make and give allowance of the said deduction and defalcation accordingly without any further or other warrant of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors to be had sued for or obtained in that behalf And the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall do for themselves their Executors Administrators and Assigns covenant promise and grant to and with our said Sovereign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors by these presents That they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors administrators or Assigns or any of them for their parts shall not at any time during the continuance of this present demise and grant of six years abate or diminish any Custom Subsidy Excise The Farmer are not to abate or diminish any of the present rates and Customs Rate profits or duty which shall arise grow or be due within any the said Ports or places before in and by these presents mentioned from any Merchant Importer or Retayler of Goods imported or take any less or greater sum or sums to the prejudice of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or of any of his Subjects for the Customs Subsidies Imposts Excise or other duties for any Wares
James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall do covenant promise and grant for them their Executors administrators and Assigns to and with our said Sovereign Lord the King his Heirs or Successors by these presents That they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them their and every of their deputies and servants The Farmers are to allow usual bills of store according to the Rules in the book of Rates shall and will during the continuance of this Grant allow to all and every Merchant Master Shipper and Marriner of any Ship or Vessel such provision favors portage and store as is provided allowed and made by and according to the Rates and Rules set down and expressed in the book of Rates now established And if any variance difference or controversie shall happen to Differences between merchants and the Farmers touching such bills of store to be decided by the Lord Lieutenant and six of the Councel with the advice of the Treasurer Vice-Treasurer and Barons or three of them arise or grow at any time or times during the Term aforesaid between the said Merchants Masters Shippers and Marriners or any of them And the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators Assigns deputies or servants or any of them touching the said provision favors portage and stores so from time to time to be allowed as aforesaid That then the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators Assigns deputies and servants and every of them in all and every such cases shall from time to time stand to perform and abide such order and direction therein as the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Councel there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being to be always one or more shall by and with the advice of the Lord Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer or any three or more of them set down and appoint And further also that they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and assigns and their and every of their deputies and servants shall and will at all and every time and times within the said Term of six years to be accounted as aforesaid permit and suffer all such foaring beer and provision for every Ship and Vessel They are also to allow to Ships outward bound reasonable foaring beer and other provisions with the privity of the Customers and Comptrolers of the Port Custom free which during the said Term shall happen to be bound to pass out of the said Realm into any the parts or places beyond the Seas as they from time to time with the privity of the Customers and Comptrollers of the port from whence it shall pass or their deputies or some or one of them shall in their discretions think fit reasonable and convenient the same to be set down in writing under the hands of them or some of them to remain and be Registred in every Port and creek of the said Realm with the Officers there and without payment of any Custom and without demand or challenge of any Custom subsidy duty sum or sums of money fee or other thing for the same And if any variance or controversie shall happen to arise or grow at any time or times during the Term aforesaid and all differences thereupon to be regulated as in the foregoing covenant between the Merchant Owner or Master of any Ship or Vessel so as aforesaid to be bound to pass out of the said Realm or any other person or persons and the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators deputies assigns or servants or any of them touching or concerning the said foaring beer and provision so from time to time to be allowed as aforesaid That then the said John Forth VVilliam Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators deputies Assigns and servants and every or any of them in all and every such cases shall from time to time stand to and abide such order and direction therein as the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Councel there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland to be always one or more by and with the advice of the Lord Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer for the time being or any three or more of them respectively as is aforesaid shall set down and appoint in that behalf And further also That they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall and will from time to time and at all times during the said Term of six years to be accompted as aforesaid remit and abate unto all and every person and persons that shall build or cause to be built The Farmers are to allow all such as build ships of three decks or two decks and an half to make their first two voyages free from one tenth part of the custome within any of his Majesties Dominions any Ship or Vessel of three decks or two decks and an half with a fore-castle and five foot between each deck mounted with thirty peeces of ordnance at least and other ammunition proportionable for the first two Voyages that the said Ship or Ships shall make from his Majesties Dominions to any forreign parts one tenth part of the customs that shall be paid or payable to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for all such goods and merchandizes as shall be exported or imported in any the said Ship or Ships to and from the said Kingdom of Ireland according to the purport intent and true meaning of the late Act of Parliament passed in England for preventing frauds and regulating abuses in his Majesties Customs and the provisions and clauses therein in that behalf provided and made And without any defalcation or abatement out of the said yearly Rent hereby reserved or any
other allowance or recompence to be therefore or by reason thereof made paid or rendred by his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or any person or persons whatsoever unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or any of them And that they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them The Farmers are to permit Merchant strangers in eight months to transport what they imported custom free their and every of their deputies and servants from time to time during the said Term of six years to be accompted as aforesaid shall and will permit and suffer every Merchant alien or stranger his and their Deputies factors and servants and every of them which have brought any goods wares or merchandizes from any the parts beyond the Seas into the said Realm of Ireland being no goods prohibited to be brought into or carried out of the said Realm by any Statute or Restraint And having there paid the Customs and Subsidies inward due for the same to transport and carry out again the same goods wares and merchandizes the property or nature thereof being not altered or changed out of any the Ports or Creeks aforesaid into any the parts beyond the Seas And every Merchant being subject born the property not being altered to export the same goods at any time within one year next after the first Entry of the same upon the first bringing thereof at any time within eight months next after the first entry of the same into the said Custom-books upon the first bringing thereof into the said Realm free from all custom outward and without demand or challenge of any custom subsidy or duty for any such Transportation outward for the same And likewise shall and will permit and suffer every Merchant being subject born within the said Realm his deputies factors and servants and every of them from time to time during the continuance of this Grant which have brought any wares goods or merchandizes from any the parts beyond the Seas into the said Realm of Ireland being no goods prohibited to be brought into or carried out of the said Realm by any Statute or Restraint and there having paid the custom and subsidy inward due for the same to transport and carry out the same goods wares and merchandizes the property or nature thereof being not altered or changed out of any Ports or Creeks of the said Realm into the parts beyond the Seas at any time within one year next after the first entry of the same into the Custom-house book upon the first bringing thereof into the said Realm free of all Customs outward and without demand or challenge of any Custom Subsidy or Duty for any such Transportation of the same as is aforesaid And that they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Victuals and apparel for his Majesties service by warrant of Lord Lieutetenant Treasurer c. to be custom free Administrators and Assigns and every of them their and every of their deputies servants and factors shall and will permit and suffer from time to time during the continuance of this Demise all manner of victuals and apparel provided or to be provided for any of the Kings Majesties Armies which shall then be within the Realms of England or Scotland or elsewhere and all apparel provided or to be provided for any the Kings Majesties Armies and Garrisons and every of them in any place wheresoever as shall be allowed by warrant in writing under the hand of the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Covernours of Ireland for the time being or under the hand of the Lord Treasurer or Vice-Treasurer of Ireland for the time being to pass and to be transported out of any the said Ports and Creeks into the said several places beyond the Seas respectively whereunto they shall be directed custom free and without demand of any Custom Subsidy Duty Sum or Sums of money for any custom outward for the same victual and apparel and every of them so to be Transported as aforesaid And shall and will permit and suffer also all such necessary provisions as shall be yearly provided within the said Realm for the Service of his Majesties Navies Armies or Garrisons or any Officers Souldiers or Mariners therein being and shall by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour and Governours of Ireland and Councel there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland to be always one or more be limited and set down in writing under his hand or their hand or hands to pass and be transported into every place and places where the same shall be appointed and directed to be carried and unladen without lett impediment or hinderance of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or any of them or of their or any of their deputies and servant custom free and without demand of any Custom Subsidy Duty Sum or Sums of money for the the transportation or for the custom for the same Provided always and it is hereby declared that all apparel victuals and other provisions laden on board by pretence of such warrants what exceeds those warrants and is exported for merchandize to pay and exceeding the quantities in such warrants mentioned if the same be laden on board with intent to be sold and uttered by way of merchandize shall be subject and lyable to the payment of customs any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding And also shall and will in like manner permit and suffer all and every such person and persons as shall have license to pass and depart out of the said Realm Such as have licence to pass beyond Sea are to be suffered to go without exaction and of custom for apparel only into any the parts beyond the Seas by bill signed by the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors or by warrant from the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governors of the Kingdom of Ireland for the time being to pass and depart out of the said Realm according to such licence at any time during the continuance of these presents without the lett hinderance or disturbance of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns or
William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns shall within ten days next after such proof so to be made as aforesaid satisfie content and pay or cause to be satisfied contented and paid Within ten days after proof to pay to his Majesty over and above the rent unto our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs or Successors into the Receipt of the Exchequer of his Highness his Heirs and Successors at Dublin so much money as the customs subsidies and impost of such goods wares and merchandizes so to be paid or compounded for and not shipped before the end of the said Term of six years to be accounted as aforesaid shall duly and truly amount unto over and above the yearly Rent and sums of money in and by these presents reserved and payable And to the intent and purpose that the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns may be the fuller impowred and the better enabled to their own proper use and behoof to discover demand levy collect recover and take during the Term aforesaid all and every the customs subsidies and duties of Excise and new Impost and all other sums and duties whatsoever hereby granted and also may be the better assured to enjoy the same according to the true intent and meaning of these presents His said Royal Majesty doth for himself his Heirs and Successors covenant promise grant and agree to and with the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralp Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns in manner and form following that is to say That the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of his Majesties said Kingdom of Ireland or the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours and Privy Councel there for the time being respectively shall and will from time to time during the continuance of this present Lease so far as they are impowred by Law constitute and appoint the said John Forth That the Farmers or such persons as they shall appoint shall be Commissioners and collectors of the customs and excise and no other William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall or such other person or persons as the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall nominate and appoint and no other Commissioners and Collectors of and for said Customs and Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage and Commissioners and Governours of and for the said imported duties of Excise and new Impost with full power and authority so far as the Laws shall permit to nominate and appoint such Sub-Commissioners Deputies Waiters Collectors and other Officers respectively in the several and respeective Ports and places of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland and the Islands and Territories thereto belonging from time to time during the said Term of six years as fully as the late Commissioners of the Customs and Excise or the said Treasurer of the Kingdom are impowred by the said Acts of Parliament herein before particularly recited or either of them and as is therein declared limited and appointed so as such person or persons so to be nominated by the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns be persons of Integrity and honest conversation and not be disabled by the said Acts or either of them or by any other Law or Statute in the said Kingdom of Ireland to execute the same Offices and Imployments And whereas by the thirteenth Rule order and direction annexed unto and following the said Act of Tonnage and Poundage the said Lord Lieutenant Deputy or other chief Governour or Governours and Councel of the said Kingdom of Ireland for the time being are authorized to appoint one certain Port in each Province of the said Kingdom of Ireland where Merchants strangers or others importing goods or merchandize into the said Realm of Ireland with the intent to export the same again may make composition or compound for the duties of goods And whereas Rules and Instructions for the regulating the Ports so to be appointed as aforesaid are to be approved of by the chief Governour or Governours and Councel of the said Kingdom of Ireland for the time being Therefore the said Governour or Governours and Councel for the time being shall from time to time Such one Port and no other in each Province to be appointed for a free Port As the Lord Lieutenant c. shall think and may consist with publick safety The Farmers are to observe all rules in the Act for Tonnage and Poundage during the said Term of six years hereby granted appoint such one Port and no other in each Province and ratifie approve and allow of such Instructions and Rules for the regula ing thereof so far as the same is lawful and may consist with publick safe as they the said chief Governour and Governours and Councel there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the chief Governour or Governours to be always one or more shall think fit And further that they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall and will during the said Term of six years duely observe such Rules Orders and Directions for Advancement of Trade and Encouragement of Merchants as are prescribed and laid down in the Act for settling the Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage on his Majesty his Heirs or Successors herein formerly mentioned and also all other Acts now in force prohibiting the Exportation of Wool Leather or any other thing whatsoever And the Act prohibiting the exportation of Wool Leather and other goods prohibited to be exported out of the said Kingdom of Ireland except as herein is excepted and provided for and shall not nor will not do or willingly suffer to be done any thing or things whatsoever contrary to any of them or the Rules Orders and directions in them or any of them prescribed except as herein is excepted and provided for nor shall not nor will not do or willingly suffer or permit any Goods or Merchandize to be shipped or landed Notice to the Kings Officer upon goods landed but in the presence of or after due notice given at his place of Office unto such Officer or Officers as by his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or
by the Lord Lieutenant Deputy or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Councel of the said Kingdom of Ireland for the time being shall be appointed to that purpose or some of their Deputies nor shall not within the space of six Months They shall not towards the end of the Term fill the Markets immediately next before the Expiration or other Determination of the said Term of six years directly or indirectly design or contrive to anticipate the Receipt of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors by inviting treating or compounding with any Merchant or Importer to Import Goods to fill the Markets THE IN-LAND EXCIZE AND ALE and BEER LICENCES AND His Majesty of his more abundant special grace certain knowledge and meer motion hath demised and granted and by these Presents for his Highness his Heirs and Successors for and in consideation of the 70000 l. so as aforesaid advanced and of the Covenants and Agreements herein also contained Demise of all the In-land Excize doth demise and grant unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall all and all manner of Rates Charges Impositions Sums of Money Payments and Duties of Excize whatsoever which by vertue of the Act aforesaid or otherwise howsoever shall at any time after the 25th day of March 1671. unto the 25th day of December 1675. inclusive grow due and renew and from time to time during the term aforesaid ought to become due and payable and are appointed to be paid unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for or in respect of any Beer Ale Strong-Waters or other Excizeable Liquors brewed or made vended spent or consumed within the said Realm of Ireland or for or in respect of any the Goods Merchandizes or Commodities whatsoever which are of the Native Growth Production or Manufacture of the said Realm of Ireland and all other the Duties of Excize whatsoever commonly called or known by the name of the In-land Excize and also that Duty or Sum of Twenty Shillings And the duty of Twenty shillings for Ale and Beer Licences which shall grow due and payable annually to his Majesty by such Persons who shall yearly be Licenced to sell Ale and Beer in their Houses by Retail for and in respect of such Licence and all other Duties of that nature which by vertue of the said late Act of Parliament entituled An Act of the Improvement of His Majesties Revenue upon the granting of Licences for the selling of Ale and Beer or otherwise howsoever shall or may at any time after the 25th day of March which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy and one unto the Five and twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five inclusive grow due and renew or from time to time during the term aforesaid ought to become due and payable and are appointed to be paid unto our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs or Successors or any of them Habendum TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all and singular the Rates Charges and Impositions Sums of Money Payments and Duties of Excize whatsoever which by vertue of the said late Act of Parliament touching or concerning the Excize are due and payable unto His Majesty his Heirs and Successors for or in respect of any Beer Ale Strong-Waters or other Excizable Liquors brewed or made in the Realm of Ireland or for or in respect of any Goods Wares or Merchandizes of the growth production or manufacture of Ireland and all other the Duties of Excize whatsoever commonly called or known by the name of The In-land Excize And also all that Duty of Twenty Shillings which by vertue of the said late Act of Parliament touching or concerning Licences for selling Ale and Beer will be yearly due and payable to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors from every Person and Persons taking or renewing any Licence for selling Ale and Beer by Retayl except before excepted unto the said John Forth VVilliam Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns from the Twenty fifth day of March From the4 25th day of March 1671 for Four years and three quarers which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy one for during and until the full end and term of Four years and three quarters of a year from thenceforth next ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended to the onely proper use benefit and behoof of John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns without any Account Matter or other thing to be yielded made or done for the same other than the Rents and Sums of Money and other things herein before or hereafter in and by these presents reserved and covenanted or agreed to be paid or performed and in as large and ample manner as his Majesty may might or ought to have take or enjoy the same by force or vertue of any Statute or Statutes Act or Acts of Parliament Custom Use Usage or Prescription and as largely amply and beneficially as his Majesty may demise or grant the same or any part thereof or as the same are hereby mentioned meant or intended to be demised or granted Any Law Statute Act or Acts of Parliaments and more especially the Clause in the said late Act of Parliament Non obstante the Clause in the Act for Ale and Beer Licences intituled An Act for the Improvement of his Majesties Revenues upon the granting of Licences for selling Ale and Beer which enacts That all the Sums of money due and payable by the said Act shall be duly and constantly paid into his Majesties Court of Exchequer and shall not be set or let to Farm his Majesty intending to retain the same in his own hands and not to interest any private Person whatsoever with the profits thereof and that all and every such Lease and every Clause of Non obstante therein contained should be utterly void And that all such Lessees or Farmers should be Accountants unto His Majesty for all profits received by pretence of any such Grant or farme And also the Clause in the said late Act of Parliament intituled An Act for setling of the Excize And also the Clause in the Act for Excize or new Impost upon His Majesty His Heirs or Successors according to the Book of Rates therein inserted which prohibits any Lease to be thereof made during the space of seven years next ensuing the said Act or after the said seven years without the Advice of the Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland or six or more of the
William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assignes or any of them as well of all and every Merchant and Merchants and Owners of the said Goods Wares and Merchandizes whereof the Customes Subsidies Impositions and other Duties are in and by these presents mentioned to be demised or any of them as of any other Person or Persons for any other Debt Duty or Cause whatsoever with Surety or Sureties as otherwise for Payment of the said Customes Subsidies Impositions and Duties and other the Debts and Duties whatsoever and every or any of them in such sort and manner and at such dayes and times as to them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or any of them shall seem meet and convenient and to detain and keep the said Bonds and every of them in their or some of their hands And to have the benefit of them and to have and take the full benefit and advantage of the same and every of them to their own proper use by way of Suite at their own Cost and Charge in the name of our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heires or Successors or otherwise and upon satisfaction and payment thereupon or otherwise to deliver up or cancel the same or otherwise to dispose thereof for their best advantage and benefit or profit or otherwise as they shall think fit And also that they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them shall have full power liberty and authority in the name of our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heires and Successors or any of them or in the name or names of them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every or any of them at their pleasure to implead And at their charge to prosecute sue and prosecute all and every such Person and Persons his and their Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes and every or any of them which shall so become bound to his Majesty his heires or Successors or otherwise indebted of and for all and every such Sums of money Penalties or Forfeitures as shall grow or become due or payable by reason or means of any such Bonds or Debts as also all and every other Person and Persons their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns that shall or may by any meanes be found to be indebted chargeable or answerable to His Majesty his Heires or Successors or to the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall or any of them for and in respect of the said Annual Rents Payments Excizes Customes Subsidies Impositions Revenues Profits and Duties and all and every part or parcel of the same or other Debts or Duties or for not payment of the same and the Sum and Sums of Moneys Penalties and Forfeitures Arrearages of Rents Profits Payments Excizes Customes Subsidies Impositions Revenues Profits and Duties and all and every part and parcel of the same which shall be recovered or had of the Bodies Goods Chattels Lands Tenements and Hereditaments or any of them of the said Person or Persons their Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them to levy hold and take Execution thereof to the use of them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them and further to do make take and prosecute in such like manner and forme as his Majesty his Heires or Successors of his or their Royal Prerogative power and Authority in his or otherwise in their own proper Names or by any whatsoever Right or Title should or might have done according to the true intent and meaning of these presents And also that these presents Without further warrant to the Treasurer c. or the enrollment thereof from time to time shall be as well to the Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of his Majesties said Court of Exchequer for the time being and all other Officers and Ministers of the same Court as also to the Barons Justices Officers and Ministers of his Highness his Heires and Successors of the said Court of Exchequer for the time being or of any other his Majesties Courts of Record and to every of them sufficient warrant and discharge to hear determine sue prosecute grant levy and make execution against all and every Person and Persons their Heires Executors Administrators and Assigns by and upon whom any of the said Sums of money penalties or forfeitures due or payable upon or by reason of any such Bonds or any of the said Customes Subsidies Imposts Impositions and Duties before by these presents demised or granted or mentioned to be demised or granted or any part or parcel thereof be or shall be charged due or levyable in the name of our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heires or Successors or in the name or names of them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes or any of them to the proper use and behoof of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet Iohn Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood VVilliam Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns or any of them in manner and forme aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of these presents without any Account or other profit or thing whatsoever to his Highness his Heirs or Successors therefore to be had paid or done the said yearly Rent or Sums of money by these presents reserved and covenanted to be paid as aforesaid onely excepted and foreprized And whereas in and by the several laws and statutes touching the Customes Excize Duties of Hearth-money Duties arising by Licences of Retaylers and other the Duties and Profits hereby respectively demised several Fines and Penalties are imposed upon offenders and variously distributed And whereas in all cases where any Fines or Penalties are imposed or other Forfeiture incurred for non-payment of any Duties of Excize there the Duty it self is wholly lost as to the present Farmers thereof His Majesty is therefore graciously pleased to declare and doth hereby covenant and agree to and with the said
paid in shall be suffered to remain and continue in his Majesties hand untill the end of the terme of seven years hereby granted then and in such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of the Survivor of them to retain and keep in his and their own hands the last half years Rent which shall be due and payable for the Premisses that is to say the several and respective quarterly Rents which shall grow due and payable at or upon the feast of St. Michael the Arch-angel which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five and the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Christ which shall be in the said year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five then next ensuing being the two last quarterly payments during the several and respective terms herein befor granted to the intent they may be thereby fully satisfied re-imbursed and paid the whole several and respective Sums of Threescore and ten thousand pounds so as aforesaid advanced together with the Interest thereof then due rendring the over-plus if any be to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors And if it shall happen by reason of any Accidents or other Interruptions or by reason of any just and necessary defalcations then due and unsatisfied that the two last quarterly payments so as aforesaid intended to be retained shall not be sufficient to re-imburse the said Threescore and ten thousand pounds so as aforesaid advanced together with the Interest thereof which shall be then behind and unpaid His Majesty is pleased further to declare that the same shall be satisfied and paid out of some part of his Majesties Revenue in Ireland which shall grow due after the expiration of the said several and respective terms whereof the Lord Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of his Majesties Court of Exchequer in Ireland and all other Officers and Ministers of his Majesties Revenue there And also all and every the respective Farmers Collectors Commissioners or Receivers for the time being are hereby required to take notice and to see the same paid accordingly and for so doing these presents or the enrollment thereof shall be to them and every of them a sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf And His said Majesty doth hereby further for himself The Farmers impowered to recover all Arrears at the end of their terms his Heirs and Successors covenant and agree to and with the said John Forth William Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall and the Survivors and Survivor of them their Executors Administrators and Assigns That from and immediately after the expiration or other determination of the said several and respective terms of years hereby granted they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall and the Survivors or the Survivor of them their Executors Administrators and Assigns or such other Person or Persons as he or they shall nominate shall be sufficiently impowered to levy raise recover and receive to their own proper use and behoof all such Arrears of Rents Payments Duties Impositions Customs Subsidies Excizes Sums of Money Profits and Premises hereby granted as aforesaid as shall become due unto them at any time during the said several and respective terms of years hereby granted If any Plague or War happen or Act of Parliament pass to lessen or suspend any of the Duties then to be a defalcation Provided alwayes That it is hereby intended declared and agreed and His Majesty for Himself his Heirs and Successors doth covenant grant and agree to and with the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns by these presents that if at any time or times during the continuance of all or any the several and respective demises herein before granted any spreading Infection of Plague Pestilence or any great Mortality depopulation or destruction of Houses by fire or otherwise or any forraign invasion or any publick open or domestick War Rebellion or Insurrection shall be or happen within his said Realm of Ireland or any the Counries Cities Towns or Places of or within the same Or if Authority of Parliament Proclamation or any other Act of State Or if His Majesty his Heirs or Successors shall at any time during the said several terms pass any General Act of Pardon or Oblivion or make any other particular Pardon or Release or shall pass any other Act of Parliament or hath done or shall cause to be done any other Act whereby or by reason or occasion whereof the said Customs Impositions Excizes Hearth-moneys Annual Payments Rents or Duties or any other the Revenues Profits and Premises hereby severally and respectively demised or any Arrears thereof which shall incurr and grow due during the said several and respective Demises or any part thereof other than what is herein before expresly excepted or prohibited shall be pardoned suspended lessened diminished or taken away or whereby or by means whereof the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall be hindred or obstructed in or from the having levying receiving or collecting thereof then they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall from time to time and in every or any the said Cases have such proportionable recompence abatements defalcations and allowances by and out of the said several and respective Yearly Rents hereby reserved as upon consideration had of the nature of the several branches of the Revenue hereby demised and of the damage which may arise by reason of such suspension diminution or obstruction as aforesaid and of the proofs thereof which shall be produced by the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators Deputies or Assigns shall be thought reasonable The said allowances abatements and defalcations to be made by and with the approbation and order in writing of the Lord Lieutenant and other Chief Governour and Governors of Ireland and Council there for the time being or any Six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour
or Governors of Ireland for the time being to be alwayes one or more And these Presents or the enrollment thereof shall be unto the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor and Governors of Ireland and Council there for the time being or to any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governors of Ireland for the time being to be alwayes one or more a sufficient warrant and authority in that behalf without any further or other warrant or declaration of the pleasure of his Majesty his Heires or Successors in that behalf to be had or obtained Nevertheless it is declared and agreed But his Majesty may receive such Duties for which defalcations are made that it shall and may be lawful to and for his Majesty his Heires and Successors to recover and receive to his and their own use and uses such parts and proportions of the Sums annual Payments and Duties for which allowances and defalcations shall be had or made to the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes the said several and respective demises or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding And also that the said John Forth William Bucknall The Farmers may have Duplicates of their Patent or any clause therein William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them shall and may at their proper costs and charges from time to time during the continuance of the several and respective demises and grants herein before made at their and every of their wills and pleasures and at their own costs and charges have all and as many Constats Exemplifications and Duplicats of these presents or of any Covenant Article or Sentence therein contained and of every and such part and parcel of the same and when and as often as to them or any of them shall seem meet and these presents or the Enrollment of the same shall be unto the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland for the time being as also to the Lord Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer and to all and every Officer and Minister in England or Ireland to whom it shall or may appertain a sufficient warrant and authority for the allowing granting and passing of the same and that without any further or other grant or warrant from his Highness his Heirs or Successors to be had procured or obtained in that behalf And to the end the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and their Deputies Agents and Factors immediately attending this service may have the better opportunity to attend the managing thereof And that they may not be distracted from this their service And shall be discharged from publick Offices and Taxes which is of so great weight and so much concerneth his Majesty and themselves his Majesty is well pleased and doth by these presents for him his Heires and Successors grant covenant and agree to and with them and every of them and willeth and ordaineth that they and every of them as much as his Majesty may lawfully and by the Orders and Customes of those places where they and every of them inhabit tolerate and dispence with shall be freed and discharged from all publick Offices and Services which would require their personal attendance and might withdraw them or any of them from their necessary attendance on this service And that they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns their and either of their Deputies and other Officers shall be from time to time and at all times during the continuance of the said several and respective demises freed acquitted exonerated and discharged of and from all payments or answering of Taxes Impositions or other things whatsoever as well publick as private that may or shall be imposed taxed or assessed upon them or any of them for or in respect of this present Farme or Demise or any thing therein contained or of the said Office or Offices of Collectors or Receivers of the Duty aforesaid by vertue of any Act of Parliament now in force or at any time hereafter to be made And if it shall happen that they or any of them shall be so taxed or assessed contrary to the true intent and meaning of these presents That then upon producing or shewing forth these our Letters Patents or the enrollment or exemplification or constat thereof or of so much thereof as shall be thought necessary His Majesty for Himself his Heires and Successors doth hereby will require and strictly command all Commissioners or Officers and Ministers whatsoever that shall be imployed either in imposing such Taxes or Assessemnts or in collecting or levying of the same That they desist and forbear to proceed upon the execution of their Offices and Duties against the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively and their Deputies and other Officers in or for imposing or in collecting such Taxes Charges or Assessements his Majesties pleasure and full intent and meaning being that they and every of them shall be and are hereby freed and discharged of and from the same Clause of assistance commanding all Sheriffs c. to be aiding and assisting And our said Soveraign Lord the King doth by these presents for him his Heires and Successors streightly charge and command all and every Justices of Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables Head-Boroughs and other Officers of and within every City Borough Town and all other His Majesties Officers and Ministers whatsoever whether Civil or Military that they and every of them shall from time to time during the said terme be aiding and assisting unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and their and every of their Deputies Factors and Servants and every of them in the due Execution of all and every the aforementioned Premisses according to the true intent and meaning of these presents whether it be in and about the levying or recovering of the said Quit-rents and other annual Rents and Payments or any of them or any Arrears thereof by distress seizures entries and due proceedings thereupon or otherwise in the due recovery thereof or of any other the
Revenue hereby demised or any part thereof in as large ample beneficial and diligent wise order and manner whatsoever as they and every of them should or ought to have been to our said Sovereign Lord the King his Heirs or Successors by any manner of means if these several and respective Demises or Grants had not been had or made upon pain of his Majesties indignation or displeasure and of such pains and penalties and imprisonments as by the Laws or Statutes of the said Realm can or may be inflicted upon them for their negligence and contempt in that behalf And his Majesties will and pleasure is That the Lord Treasurer of Ireland Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer there for the time being or any three or more of them whereof the Lord Treasurer Chancellor or Chief Baron of the Exchequer for the time being to be one shall have by force of these Presents full power and authority to make forth and award Writs under the Seal of the said Court of Exchequor for that purpose according to the order and course of the said Court and the Contemners of the said Writs to punish in such sort as by the course of the said Court hath been accustomed And in an especial manner his Majesty's will and pleasure is Clause for better collecting and levying the Duties c. That the Lord Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of his Exchequer there or any three of them whereof the said Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor or Chief Baron to be one do strictly require and enjoyn all and every the Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables and other Officers who are or shall be authorized imployed or directed to levy any the Rents Annual Payments or Duties aforementioned or any of them or otherwise to execute any Process concerning the same That they do in their several places from time to time with diligence and faithfulness do and perform the same without partiality and delay and after Execution or Receipts otherwise hereof either make speedy returns or such speedy payment thereof as they ought and as shall be in that behalf requisite And His Majesty doth hereby declare and agree That He his Heirs and Successors shall and will from time to time during the continuance of the said several and respective Demises upon humble suit in that behalf give such further and other power and authority for the ordering bettering collecting and levying the said Annual Rents or Payments Duties of Hearth-money Duties arising by Licences for retailing Wines or Strong-waters Customs Subsidies Imposts Sums of Money and Duties of Excize for Goods imported Duties of Excize for Ale and Beer and other the Duties of In-land Excize Duties arising by Licences for Retailing Ale and Beer and all other the Duties Revenues and Premises respectively demised as aforesaid and like aid and assistance from His Majesty and his Privy Council his Majesties Court of Exchequer and the Officers thereof and all other His Majesties Courts of Justice and all other his Officers and Ministers whatsoever as any Commissioners Receivers Collectors Farmers and other Ministers of any other part or parts of his Majesties Revenue in England or Ireland now have or hereafter may have and as in this case shall be thought fit and reasonable Clause for further Assurance And further That His said Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall and will from time to time and at all times hereafter during the continuance of all or any the respective Demises or Grants herein before made or mentioned to be made upon application to him or them to be by the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns in that behalf made and at their Costs and Charges give and grant such further and other Assurance and Assurances Priviledge and Priviledges Powers and Authorities for the better security and sure making of the Annual Payments Rates Duties and Premises to them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns with under and subject unto the Provisoes Reservations and Agreements herein contained and such others as by his Majesties Council learned in the Law for the time being and the Council learned in the Law of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall be reasonably devised advised or desired And for recovery of the Arrears at the end of the several terms And that from and after the several and respective expirations of the said several and respective terms of years His Majesty his Heirs and Successors or the Lord Lieutenant or Deputy or other Chief Governour or Governours of the said Kingdom of Ireland for the time being respectively shall and will sufficiently authorise the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or such as they shall nominate and appoint as far as the Laws and Statutes of Ireland will permit to demand collect levy recover receive and take all such Arrears of Customs and Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage and all such Arrears of the said Duties of Excize and New Impost And all such Arrears of the Duties arising by Hearth-money Duties arising by Licenses to retaile Wine Aqua-vitae Strong-waters Beer or Ale and all such Arrears Rents Annual payments Revenues Profits and Premises as are granted by these Presents and which shall become due unto them at any time during the said several and respective termes of years hereby granted and which at the several and respective ends and expirations of the said several and respective termes of yeares shall so remain in arreare and unsatisfied And our said Soveraign Lord the King for himself His Majesty will not pardon any of the Duties his Heires and Successors doth further covenant grant and agree to and with the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns that neither our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heires or Successors nor any of them shall and will at any time or times hereafter before the end of the several and respective Demises and Leases herein before made pardon and release to any Person or Persons or compound or agree with any Person or Persons other than unto and with the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes or of
Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall for themselves their Executors and Administrators do covenant promise grant and agree to and with his Majesty his Heirs and Successors by these presents in manner and form following that is to say that the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall and the Survivor and Survivors of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor The Farmers are to keep dictinct Books and Entries of all Profits Fines Forfeitures and Defalcations shall and will from time to time and at all times during the several and respective terms hereby granted make and keep distinct fair written Books containing due and true Entryes of all and every the rates duties sum and sums of money by them or any of them their or any of their Executors or Administrators or their or any of their Officers Substitutes or Servants had received levied and raised by vertue of these presents for or by reason of any duties arising by Hearth-money for or by reason of any duties arising by Licensing of persons to Retail VVine Aqua-vitae or Strong-waters or for or by reason of any Fee-farm-rents Quit-rents or other Annual Rents and payments herein before demised or for or by Reason of any Customs Subsidies Impositions or duties of Excise for goods imported or for or by Reason of any Excise due and payable for any Beer Ale Strong-waters or other Exciseable Liquors or for any other commodities of the Growth production or manufacture of Ireland commonly called Inland Excise or for or by reason of any duties arising by Licensing of persons to Retail Beer Ale or Strong-waters in his or their houses except before excepted or for fines forfeitures or penalties relating to or any way touching ot concerning the premises herein before demised or granted respectively or any part or parcel thereof which by them or any of them shall be received And of all Compositions and abatements of any the duties aforesaid by them or any of them made and of all deductions or defalcations to them or any of them allowed in some Book or Books to be by them for that purpose separately and distinctly kept and shall and will also submit to such comptrol upon their Receipts and payments and such yearly Audit of their accompts as his Majesty shall thing fit to appoint And also shall and will at or before the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord which shall be in the year of our Lord 1673. unless the several and respective terms hereby granted shall sooner determine permit and suffer all and singular their Books of accompts touching or concerning these present Farmers And suffer such Books to be viewed and Copies thereof taken c. Or shall render an accompt thereof upon Oath if required or the receipts and payments thereof to be viewed and Copies thereof to be taken at his Majesties charge by such person or prrsons as his Majesty hath appointed or shall think fit to appoint or shall otherwise upon his or their corporal Oaths if thereunto required by the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Councel there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being to be always one or more render a true and full account of the yearly value of the premises during every year of the said several and respective Terms then incurred And they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Rasph Bucknall for themselves and every of them and the Heirs Executors Administrators and assigns of them and every of them do covenant and grant to and with his Majesty If any Duties by Act of Parliament increase the Rent to increase and the Farmers to accompt for the over-plus his Heirs and Successors that if at any time hereafter during the said several respective Terms of years any of the rates or duties of Hearth-money Lycenses to retayl Customs or Excise or any other the rents duties or revenues so as aforesaid demised shall be by authority of Parliament raised or if at any time hereafter any Act of Parliament shall be passed whereby the rates and duties aforesaid shall or may be more generally imposed or extended to any other persons or made demandable levyable or receivable in more places or of more persons then by the present Laws and Statutes they are or ought to be Then and in such case they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall and the Survivor and Survivors of them his and their Executors administrators and Assigns shall thenceforth during the residue of the respective Terms hereby granted receive and by all lawful ways and means recover the same and shall therefore yield and pay such further increase of Rent as shall be protionable to the increase or extent of the said Rates and as by the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor and Governors of Ireland and Councel there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being to be always one or more shall be thought reasonable or in default thereof shall truly and faithfully Collect gather and receive all and singular the rates and duties so as aforesaid increased and a true account thereof shall render and pay what shall be due thereupon unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors at his and their Receipt of Exchequer at Dublin and at the four usual Feasts over and above the Rents by these presents reserved PROVIDED always and upon this condition nevertheless If any Rent reserved on the demise for 7 years and four years and 3 quarters be behind 90 days The Farmers shall forfeit a quarters Interest of the said 70000l. advanced And it is hereby covenanted concluded and agreed upon by and between all the said parties to these presents that if at anytime hereafter during the said several and respective terms of seven years and four years and three quarters hereby granted the said several and respective yearly Rents therein mentioned and thereupon reserved to be quarterly paid at the four usual Feasts or any part or parcel thereof shall be behind and unpaid in part or in all contrary to the true intent and meaning of these presents by the space of fourscore and ten days next after any of the said Feasts or days of payment on which the same ought respectively to be paid as aforesaid the Defalcations duly allowed being first deducted Or if default shall be made in the payment of any other sum or sums of
Money in and by these presents covenanted and agreed to be paid in part or in all by the space of fourscore and ten days next after any of the days of payment herein appointed for the payment thereof contrary to the true intent and meaning of these presents That then and in every such case and for every such default the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors administrators and assigns shall forfeit and lose so much money as the interest of seventy thousand pounds for one quarter of a year after the rate of ten pounds per Cent. for one whole year shall amount unto Or if at any time hereafter during the said term of six years hereby granted Or if any Rent reserved on the Demise for six years be behind twenty days to forfeit a months Interest of the said 70000 l. the yearly Rent therein mentioned and thereupon reserved to be paid by several proportions and at several times amounting in the whole to twenty four several payments in the time and space of twelve months or any part or parcel thereof shall be behind or unpaid in part or in all by the space of twenty days next after any of the said days or times of payment the Defalcations duly allowed being first deducted That then and in every such case and for every such default the said Lessees and Farmers their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall forfeit and lose so much money as the interest of 70000 l. for one month after the rate of ten pounds per Cent for one whole year shall amount unto Provided also And if the Rent reserved quarterly be behind fourty days after the ninety days or the Rent reserved on the Demise for six years other twenty days after the former twenty days Then the farme to be seized that if the said yearly Rents in and by the said several demises for seven years and four years and three quarters of a year reserved or any part or parcel thereof shall be behind and unpaid by the space of fourty days more next ensuing the fourscore and ten days in the former proviso mentioned that is to say by he space of one hundred and thirty days after any the Feasts or days of Payment in the said several demises limited Or if the said yearly Rent in and by the said demise for six years reserved shall be behind and unpaid by the space of twenty days more next ensuing the twenty days in the said former Proviso mentioned that is to say by the space of fourty days after any of the days of payment in the said demise for six years limited That then and from thenceforth in every or any such case it shall and may be lawful to and for his said Majesty his Heirs and Successors to seize the said several and respective Farms and all the said duties hereby granted and demised as aforesaid into his and their hands and the same to demise and let to Farme to any other person or persons who will contract and agree for the same And if the Lord Lieutenant c. or any six of them c. discharge the Farmers by order in Writing their several demises to be voyd And that in case the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Councel there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors for the time being to be always one or more shall after failer of payment as aforesaid by any Order in writing to be left at the receipt of his Majesties Exchequer in Ireland or to be sent thither by any Messenger summon or cause to be summoned the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall or any of them the Survivor or Survivors of them or any of them their or any of their Executors or Administrators to appear before them to shew cause if they can why the said several and respective Farms or either of them should not be seized and disposed as aforesaid And having heard his or their Allegations or in default of their appearance shall under their hands and seals signifie unto them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall and the Survivor and Survivors of them their Executors administrators and Assigns their pleasure that the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall or the Survivor or Survivors of them or his or their Executors Administrators or Assigns shall forbear to act or intermeddle any further in the mannagement or administration of the said several and respective Farms or any of them and shall leave such signification at any of the Custom-houses or at the Office of Excise or any other chief Office or dwelling-place to them or any of them belonging wheresoever the same shall be kept That then and immediately from thenceforth these present several demises and grants or such of them which in the said writing under hand and seal shall be particularly mentioned and all and every clause article and thing therein contained which on the part of his Majesty ought to be performed shall cease determine and be utterly void and of none effect as if these presents had not been made without any Office Inquisition or Seizure Scire-fatias Process or other matter or thing whatsoever whereby to avoid or determine the same any thing in these presents contained to the contrary notwithstanding NEVERTHELESS the Revenues and profits of all or any the respective Farmers so as aforesaid to be avoided or determined But the profits received between the last Rent paid and such avoydance shall be answered to his Majesty which shall have been received by the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors administrators or Assigns or any of them between the last Feast-day next preceding such breach of the Condition and the time of seizing avoiding or determining such Farm or Farms shall be duly and truly answered and paid unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors PROVIDED always If the Farme be seized the 70000 l. advanced or so much as remains in his Majesties hands is to go towards the arrears The residue and Interest to the Parmers that if at any time hereafter the said several and respective Farms or any of them shall happen to be seized and the Estate and Interest in them or any of them avoided or determined in manner aforesaid for non-payment of the said respective
to begin upon our Lady day last past before the date hereof And whereas we have by the same Indenture likewise demised to the said John Forth and other the Farmers first above named the Customes and Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage and the Duties of Excize for Goods imported as fully as they have been or may be granted except the Alnage and such other Duties of Customes and Excize as may hereafter be imposed beyond the present Rates And except the Customes of Bullion Allome Smaults Saffers and also the Prizage and Butlerage and the Customes of Logwood and Logwood forfeited and except the Duty of five shillings per Tonne upon French Shipping To have and to hold from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God next ensuing for Six years under the yearly rent of Threescore and fifteen thousand pounds but payable in several proportions and according unto several Monthly distributions therein more particularly mentioned and expressed And whereas also We have by the same Indenture demised unto the said Farmers the Excize of Beer and Ale and Strong-waters and other Excisable Liquors within our said Realm of Ireland commonly called the Inland Excize and Duties arising upon Licenses to retail Ale and Beer To have and to hold from the Five and Twentieth day of March 1671. for the terme of Four years and three quarters from thence next ensuing Yielding and paying during the First four years of the said term Fifty three thousand pounds yearly by four quarterly payments and during the Last three quarters of a year Thirty nine thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds by three equal and quarterly payments The first payment of the Fifty three thousand pounds to be upon the Feast of St. John the Baptist 1672. And the first payment of the Thirty nine thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds to be upon the Feast of St. John the Baptist 1675. As by the same Indenture and the several demises thereby made or mentioned to be made amongst divers other Powers Provisoes Covenants and Clauses therein contained more fully and at large it doth and may appear By reason of which several and respective demises so as aforesaid made There will be due and payable to Us during the First year of the said Seven years ending at the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord next ensuing only the Rent of Fourscore and Eleven thousand and five hundred pounds And after the said Feast of the Nativity of our Lord next ensuing unto the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord which shall be in the year of our Lord 1675. there will be due and payable unto us as a further encrease of Rent the yearly Sum of threescore and fifteen thousand pounds which being added unto the former Sum amounts to One hundred threescore and six thousand and five hundred pounds yearly and after the Feast of the Annuntiation of the blessed Virgin Mary which shall be in the year of our Lord 1671. unto the said Feast of the Annuntiation in the year of our Lord 1675. there will be due and payable as a further Encrease of Rent the yearly Sum of Fifty and three thousand pounds and from thence untill the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord 1675. the Sum of Thirty nine thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds in all the Sum of Two hundred and nineteen thousand and five hundred pounds yearly Which Rent was first undertaken to be given by the said William Muschamp and Humphrey Taylor alone who did also contract and agree to advance the Sum of Threescore and ten thousand pounds And whereas the Covenants Reservations and Agreements aforesaid were of too great weight and value to rest upon the security of the said William Muschamp and Humphrey Taylor onely insomuch that We did in no sort think fit to make or perfect any Grant of the Premisses untill John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood and Ralph Bucknall were willing to contract with Us and to become Tenants and Farmers of the Premisses who have also submitted to Our further pleasure that all Quit-rents which have by Us been granted or released before the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch-angel now last past should stand excepted out of the Demise to them made to their no small loss and detriment We therefore for the better Encouragement of them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood and Ralph Bucknall in the management of the said Farm and in consideration of their many and acceptable Services to us heretofore done and hereafter to be done and performed and as a mark of Our especial favour to them shewn and for divers other good Causes and Considerations Us thereunto especially moving of Our especial grace certain knowledge and meer motion have given and granted and by these Presents for us Our Heirs and Successors do give and grant unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Abâ—â—emeâ—â— of 623â— l. out of the Rent of 91500 l. per Annum due between the 25 Dec. last and 25 Dec. next And out of the 2 Rents or sums of 91500 l. and 75000 l. due between 25 Dec. 1669. and 25 Dec. 1670. 11378 l. Administrators and Assignes out of the several Rents in and by the aforesaid Indenture to Us reserved and payable as aforesaid the several Sums of Money and in the proportions and manner following that is to say out of the aforesaid Rent or Sum of Fourscore and eleven thousand and five hundred pounds per Annum due and payable to Us by the aforesaid Indenture between the Five and twentieth day of December last past and the Five and twentieth day of December next ensuing the date hereof the Sum of Six thousand two hundred fifty and two pounds And out of the said two several yearly Rents or Sums of Fourscore and eleven thousand and five hundred pounds and Threescore and fifteen thousand pounds per Annum to Us due and payable by the aforesaid Indenture between the Five and twentieth day of December 1669. and the Five and twentieth day of December 1670. the Sum of Eleven thousand three hundred seventy and eight pounds And out of the several Rents or Sums of Money to Us due and payable by the aforesaid Indenture And out of the other Rents due between 25. Dec. 1670. and 25. Dec. 1671. 14773 l. 10 s And out of the Rents due between 25 Dec. 1671. and 25 Dec. 1675. during the last four years 15000 l. Habendum to the onely benefit of these Patentees betwen the Twenty fifth day of December 1670. and the Twenty fifth day of December 1671. the Sum of Fourteen thousand seven hundred seventy three pounds and ten shillings And also out of the several Rents or Sums of Money to Us due and payable by the aforesaid
Merchandizes or Goods that shall be brought into or transported from any of the said Ports or places at any time during the said Term by any Merchant Alien Stranger Denizen or Natural Subject other than such as by the Laws Statutes and Customs of the said Realm of Ireland have or ought to have been used to be taken for the same and every part thereof without the assent of his Majesty without his Majesties consent under the great Seal or Privy Seal nor shall the Farmers do any act to hinder or damnifie his Majesty of or for any Custom subsidy c. his Heirs or Successors in writing under the great Seal or Privy Seal nor shall nor will willingly do or suffer to be done any other act or thing whatsoever whereby the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors shall or may in any wise be hindred or damnified of or for any Custom Subsidy Impost or other profit after this present demise or grant ended or expired in any the Ports or places aforesaid and that the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall and will at all times during the continuance of this Grant be ordered and directed by the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Councel there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being to be always one or more or by the Lord Treasurer Vice-Treasurer In all doubtful cases the Farmers are to be ordered and directed by the Lord Lieutenant and Councel or by the Treasurer Vice-Treaserer and Barons of the Exchequer Chancellor and Barrons of the Exchequer there for the time being in cases proper for the determination of the said Court of Exchequer for or concerning any question or doubt which shall hereafter arise or happen upon or by Reason of any matter or thing which shall be done by the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns their or any of their deputies or servants in or about the execution of these presents or any other clause or article herein contained And that they or any of them their or any of their deputies factors or servants shall not at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of these presents They shall not willingly permit any Merchant to trade to the prejudice of any corporations c. licence or wittingly or willingly permit or suffer any Merchant or Merchants their factors or servants to Trade or Traffick in any manner of way which shall or may be prejudicial or hurtful to any Corporations or bodies Politique of any Merchants incorporated by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England or Ireland by the Kings most Excellent Majesty that now is or any of his Highness progenitors or Predecessors or contrary or repugnant to the liberties and priviledges to them or any of them by any such Letters Patents given or granted under colour or pretence of any clause sentence matter or thing in these presents given granted or specified any thing in these presents contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding The moderation of all forfeitures And moreover whereas heretofore it hath happened and many times hereafter it may fall out and happen that some forfeitures may be had made and committed by some Merchant or Merchants their servants or sactors of their Goods wares or Merchandizes by the strict penalties of the Laws and Statutes of the said Realm concerning Customs and some act or things may by them or some of them be done perpetrated committed or omitted whereby their wares goods and merchandizes may be seized as forseited by the strict Rules of the said Laws and Statutes of the said Realm is to be submitted to such order as the Lord Lieutenant and Councel or Treasurer Vice Treasurer ard Chancellor of the Exchequer by the advice of the Barons shall make whereas nevertheless in equity and conscience heretofore in such like cases the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Councel there for the time being or some of them or the Lord Treasurer Vice-Treasurer and Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland for the time being have used according to his and their wisdom and conscience sometimes by the advice of the Barons of the Exchequer for the time being and sometimes by the advice of the Officers of the said Ports to make some moderation thereof and to give redress therein the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall do therefore covenant promise and grant for them and every of them their and every of their Executors administrators and assigns to and with the Kings most Excellent Majesty his Heirs and Successors by these presents that in every such case and when and as often as any such case of Equity or Conscience shall happen That they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and assigns which orders c the Farmers are to fulfill perform and abide by shall stand unto perform fulfil and abide all and every such order direction and ordinance therein as the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Councel there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being to be always one or more or the Lord Treasurer or Vice-Treasurer of Ireland for the time being the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the advice of the Barons of the said Court of Exchequer for the time being or any three of them shall set down and appoint And whereas heretofore in every of the said Custom-houses in every of the said Ports and creeks within the said Realm there hath been usually made unto Merchants Factors Masters Shippers and Mariners sundry allowances and divers wares and merchandizes in cases reasonable have been permitted and suffered heretofore to pass both into the said Realm and out of the said Realm Custom free whereof and for which not Custom of late hath been demanded yielded or paid according to a large continued usage heretofore accustomed and used in that behalf which notwithstanding this present demise and grant were fit and convenient to have coutinuance during the continuance of this grant for the better encouragement of all Merchants in the Trade of merchandize Now therefore the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon