AN ACT For the better Execution of His MAJESTIES GRACIOVS DECLARATION For The SETTLEMENT Of His Kingdome of IRELAND AND Satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other His Majesties Subjects there C R HONI â—OIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT DVBLIN Printed by John Crook Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1662. 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 WHEREAS an unnatural Insurrection did break forth against your Majesties Royal Father of ever blessed Memory his Crown and Dignity in this Your Majesties Kingdome of Ireland upon the 23. of October in the year of our Lord God 1641. and manifest it self by the murther and destructions of many thousands of your said Majesties good and loyal Subjects which afterwards universally spreading and diffusing it self over the whole Kingdome settled into and became a formed and almost National Rebellion of the Irish Papists against Your Royal Father of blessed Memory his Crown and Dignity to the destruction of the English and Protestants inhabiting in Ireland the which Irish Papists being represented in a General assembly chosen by themselves and acting by a Council called by them The Supream Council of the Confederate Roman Catholicks of Ireland did first assume usurp and exercise the power of Life and Death make Peace and War levy and coyn Money and many other Acts of Soveraign Authority treating with forreign Princes and Potentates for their Government and Protection and afterwards acted under a forreign Authority by all the said ways disowning and rejecting your Royal Father and your Majesties undoubted Right to this Kingdom even whilest they treacherously used his and your Majesties Names in the outward forms of their Proceedings withall impiously seeming by words and shows to swear even unto that which by the whole series of their deeds they denied and moreover presuming to pretend his late Majesties most Sacred Authority even for their worst actions all which they did amongst other their evil designs to frighten his good Protestant Subjects from their loyalty to blast his Majesties Honor and to widen the breach between his said Majesty and his seduced Subjects in England The which ends by their said wicked stratagems they did too succesfully and mischievously effect And whereas Almighty God hath given your Majesty by and through your said English and Protestant Subjects absolute Victory and Conquest over the said Irish Popish Rebels and enemies so as they their Lives Liberties and Estates are now wholly at your Majesties disposition by the Laws of this Kingdom And whereas several of your Majesties Subjects by whom as instruments the said Rebels were totally subdued did in the time of your Majesties absence beyond the Seas for supply of the then pressing necessities and to prevent the further desolation of this your Majesties Kingdom enquire into the Authors Contrivers and Abettors of the said Rebellion and War and after much deliberation among themselves and advice from others had thereupon did dispossess such of the said Popish Irish Rebels of their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as they found guilty of and to have been engaged in the said Rebellion or War aforementioned and did withall distribute and set out the said Lands to be possessed by sundry persons their Agents and Tenants who by advancing of their Moneys and Goods or by hazarding of their Lives had contributed unto the said Conquest or who had been otherwise useful as having served or suffered in the suppression of the said Rebellion and War and whereas several of your Majesties Protestant Subjects as soon as with much difficulty and hazard they had gotten the power of this Kingdom into their hands did according to their bounden duty with all humility and chearfulness invite your Majesty into this your Kingdom with a faithful engagement to serve your Majesty with their Lives and Estates and afterwards when your Sacred Majesty their Soveraign Lord and King by your Gracious Letters from Breda bearing date the 4 14 day of April in the Twelfth Year of your Majesties Reign intimated your Royal Intentions of returning to the exercise of your Regal Authority they with others of your Majesties Protestant Subjects did readily and dutifully yield up themselves and the said subdued people with this your Kingdom of Ireland unto your Majesties absolute obedience and disposition who thereupon after many Moneths Consideration and the publick hearing of all parties concerned in and pretending to Lands and Estates in this your Majesties Kingdom as also after the receiving and weighing of expedient upon expedient in order to an universal accommodation and final settlement did at length in your Princely Wisdom Grace and Iustice set forth a Declaration bearing date the 30. day of November in the Twelfth year of your Majesties Reign with several Explanations and Instructions relating thereunto expressing your Royal pleasure concerning the People and Territories of this your Majesties said Kingdom Declaring it likewise to be your pleasure That all the particulars in the said Declaration mentioned should be effectually recommended unto your Majesties chief Governor or Governors Privy Council and Parliament in this Kingdom for the establishing the same by Law Now We the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled having well weighed and considered the nature of the Rebellion and War above mentioned together with the Causes thereof and Motives thereunto and with what Industry and Malice the Regal Authority the Brittish Interest and Protestant Religion were pursued and endeavoured to be eradicated and being withal very sensible of the vast expense of Blood and Treasure and of the unspeakable sufferings which the Brittish and Protestants as well several times heretofore as of late have undergone to reduce this your Majesties Kingdom to a perfect obedience unto the Crown of England do most thankfully acknowledge accept and admire your Sacred Majesties Wisdom Grace and Iustice towards all Interests in that your Majesties said Gracious Declaration and Instructions expressed And forasmuch as the Rapines Depredations and Massacres committed by the said Irish and Popish Rebels Enemies are not only well known to this present Parliament but are notorious to the whole World notwithstanding the many means and artifices which for many years together have been used to murther such witnesses suppress such evidences and also to vitiate and imbezle such Records and Testimonies as might prove the same against particular persons and lastly for that the said Rebels since their throwing off your Royal Fathers and your Majesties Government are become subdued and conquered enemies and have justly forfeited all their Rights Titles and Estates in this Kingdom It is therefore Enacted and be it Enacted by your most Excellent Majesty with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the
Service shall may or ought to receive any Clause Article Matter or Thing whatsoever in this present Act mentioned or contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That any Clause Sentence Matter or Thing in this Act or in any other Act or Acts passed or made or to be passed or made in this present Parliament contained mentioned or expressed shall not or may attaint or convict or be otherwise prejudicial unto Dudly Bagnel Esq son and Heir of Walter Bagnel late of Dunlickny in the County of Catherlogh Esq deceased nor to Henry Bagnel Brother of the said Dudly nor to Catherin Corbet alias Bagnel sister of the said Dudly nor to the Heirs or Issues lawfully begotten of the said Walter Bagnel Dudly Bagnel Henry Bagnel or Catherin Corbet alias Bagnel nor of any or either of them and that the said Dudly Bagnel Henry Bagnel and Catherin Corbet alias Bagnel and every of them and the Heirs and Assigns of every of them respectively shall have hold and enjoy their respective Estates and Interests in Law or Equity in all and every the Castles Lordships Mannors Segniories Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders and Hereditaments with their and every of their apportenances which did of right belong or appertain unto the said Walter Bagnel or whereof he was seized as of his Estate of Inheritance in Vse Possession or Remainder on the Three and Twentieth day of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand six hundred Forty one or at any time after any Act or Acts Ordinance or Ordinances Matter or Matters Thing or Things done or to be done in this present Parliament or otherwise at any time since the Three and Twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred Forty one to the Damage Prejudice or Harm of the said Walter Bagnel his Heirs or Assigns to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted That neither this present Act nor nor any thing therein contained do any ways prejudice or tend in any manner to alter any Right Title Interest Mortgage or Lease that Sir John Temple Master of the Rolls in this Kingdom or his late Mother the Lady Temple had in the year One thousand six hundred and forty to any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments belonging to Walter Bagnel Esq late Father of the said Dudly Bagnel lying or being within the County of Catherlogh Saving nevertheless to all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their Heirs Executors Successors and Assigns such Right and Title either in Law or Equity and such benefit and advantage of redemption which they or any of them could or might have had either in Law or Equity as fully and amply as if the Proviso herein last before mentioned had never been had nor made any thing in the said Proviso to the contrary hereof notwithstanding Provided also That so much of the Forfeited Lands in the Towns and Lands of Lispopel Nutstown Wegestown and Cordenstown with their and every of their apurtenances situate in the Barony of Balrothery in the County of Dublin containing according to the Down Survey One thousand two hundred forty nine Acres shall be held possessed and enjoyed by George Rawden Esq his Heirs and Assigns for ever as shall amount unto a full and just satisfaction of the publick Debts due to him by Debentures for Provisions and money disbursed for the use of the Army in Ireland according to His Majesties Gracious Declaration and Instructions which principal Debt with the Interest thereof cast up according to the Rate of six pound per cent amounteth unto Two thousand three hundred twenty four pounds Ten shillings Four pence And that in case the said Lands or so much thereof as will amount unto a full satisfaction of the said sum be not forfeited or if it shall happen that so much thereof shall be restored as that the residue shall not be sufficient to satisfie him the said George Rawden that then he be satisfied and reprized for the same by some other forfeited Lands in the County of Dublin Provided that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend nor be construed to extend to the prejudice of any Protestant or Protestants or Innocent Papists their Innocent Executors or Administrators holding Tythes by Lease or Leases derived from the Crown for or by reason or occasion of any advantage or Forfeiture which may be taken for the Non-payment of the Rents reserved to the Crown by such Leases for the time past but that every such Protestant and Protestants and Innocent Papists their and every of their Executors and Administrators holding any of the said Tythes shall and may have hold and enjoy the said respective Tythes during the respective Terms of years thereof yet unexpired without any advantage to be taken against them or any of them for non-payment of the said Rents for the time past as if this Act had never been made Provided That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not extend or be expounded to extend to the prejudice of Sir Robert Meredith Knight nor his Son Sir William Meredith Baronet nor their Heirs or Assigns nor any persons possessed or interested in their behalfs in the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments of Green Hills heretofore called Bishops Court near the Lissie in the County of Kildare nor any part member or parcel thereof And Be it further Enacted That all the forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments set out assigned or delivered unto Sir William Petty Knight by the name of Doctor William Petty and by him possessed on the seventh day of May One Thousand Six Hundred Fifty Nine be settled upon and confirmed unto him his Heirs and Assgnes for ever any thing in this Act or in his Majesties Instructions of the Nineteenth of February One thousand six hundred and sixty to the contrary notwithstanding the same to be held according to such Tenures Rules Rents Services under such Limitations and Directions for Reprizal and otherwise as in His Majesties Declaration of the Thirtieth of November One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty set down and expressed concerning such as were then of his Army in Ireland And whereas his Sacred Majesty having under his serious consideration the Present Settlement of this Kingdom is very desirous to confirm and inlarge the designed Bounty and Goodness of his late Royal Father of ever blessed Memory by adding to the Revenue of the Church of this Kingdome Be it therefore Enacted and Ordained by the King Our Sovereign Lord with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That all and every the Manors Lands Tenements and Rents whereof any Arch-Bishop Bishop Dean Dean and Chapter or any other Ecclesiastical person or persons whatsoever in his or their politick Capacity or any of them were actually seized or by themselves or their Tenants possessed in the year of
and payable to him by the Adventurers and Souldiers to be held of his Majesty his Heirs and Successors by the tenure of Frank Almoyne or other service and tenures as the same were held before the making of this Act. And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Impropriations or Appropriate Tythes forfeited to or vested in His Majesty his Heirs and Successors by this Act or otherwise forfeited or Escheated to his Majesty in right of his Crown if there be no lease or leases thereof in being unforfeited or otherwise as soon as the unforfeited lease or leases shall be expired or otherwise determined are hereby given to the Church for ever and hereby are and for ever shall be setled and established upon the present and future Incumbents and their Successors which have or shall have actual cure of Souls in those respective Parishes wherein such Impropriations are and such Impropriate Tythes do arise and renew reserving such a proportion of them to be disposed and setled upon the Vicars and Quire-men of each Cathedral Church as an Additional provision for the increase of their Maintenance as to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council for the time being at any time before the First of January One thousand six hundred sixty four shall be thought fit and convenient They the said Incumbents and their Successors paying to His Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the same such Rents Reservations and Duties as formerly were paid for the same with such increase of Rents as by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdome for the time being with six or more of the Council shall be adjudged reasonable and convenient within the space of Two years from the passing of this Act and not after or from the expiration of the said unforfeited leases respectively Provided that neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to the disposing or altering of any Impropriate Rectories or Tythes or Rents now or lately enjoyed or possessed by or setled on the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdome for the time being or which at any time hath been or now is enjoyed possessed or received by the Lords Presidents of Munster and Connaught in the right of their respective places any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And that the Lord Chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench the Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer and the Master of the Rolls or any other of His Majesties Officers of this Kingdome for the time being shall and may have and receive such Port-Corn of the several Rectories which formerly have been formerly paid and reserved And to the end that this present annexation of the said Rectories impropriate unto the several and respective Churches as aforesaid may not be too prejudicial unto those persons who by the Rules of this present Act might otherwise expect to be restored thereunto It is hereby further Declared and Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being to allot assign and appoint unto all and every person and persons who by the Rules of this present Act shall or may be restored thereunto in case no such annexation hath been made such recompence and satisfaction out of the said respective Impropriations as to him or them shall be thought most fit and reasonable which Recompence and Satisfaction so as aforesaid to be assigned shall be by virtue of this present Act received and enjoyed accordingly And whereas by Act of Parliament held at Westminster the Third of November in the Year of Our Lord God One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty Intituled An Act c. as also by His Majesties Gracious Declaration of the Thirtieth of November One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty It was carefully provided amongst other things That care should be had for erecting of Churches and that maintenance for preaching Ministers should be provided In pursuance whereof Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of every one hundred Acres of Forfeited and Escheated Lands vested in his Majesty by this â—ct which are not yet actually disposed and distributed two Acres shall be allowed and set apart for Glebe in every Parish Barony and County as shall be most contiguous and convenient for the several Parish Churches in such places situate or to be situated and that out of all Forfeited and Escheated Lands so vested as aforesaid which are already disposed distributed or assigned and by this Act confirmed to the respective Possessors their Heirs or Assigns the said respective Possessors their Heirs and Assigns shall pay so much moneys as shall be sufficient to purchase such a number of Acres of the aforesaid measure and of the same Quality within the said Parish as the land out of which the said Acres should have been taken and assigned for Glebes at that present shall be adjudged the same Rent to be reserved payable to His Majesty his Heirs and Successors and in the same manner by the respective Incumbents and their Successors enjoying the said Lands so to be assigned to them for Glebes as the said Forfeited or Escheated Lands out of which they are taken shall be and are by this Act ordained for to pay And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of all Forfeited Chauntries and all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments belonging unto the said Chauntries and vested in his Majesty his Heirs and Successors by this Act that are by this present Act set out assigned or intended to be set out or assigned to any Commissioned Officers their Heirs or Assigns who served His Majesty or His Royal Father of ever blessed Memory in the late of Wars of Ireland at any time before the Fifth of June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine and received no satisfaction for the same and which paid any Rent to the Church in the Years One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty and One thousand Six Hundred Forty and One there shall be paid for ever by such Officer or person his Heirs or Assigns so enjoying the said Chauntries or the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments to them belonging the Rent and all other Duties formerly upon or out of them paid or received unto the Church or in lieu and satisfaction thereof Two shillings for every pound of improved value at the Election of the Bishop of the Diocess which Rents are to be ascertained with all convenient speed by the Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being and Six of the Council or whom they shall appoint and the Rent so payable by such Officer or Person his Heirs or Assigns to the Church shall be paid to such Rectory or Vicarage that either is or shall be of the Church wherein such Chauntry was erected or otherwise to such Ministers of
reason he or they did not satisfie or pay in their full proportions or sums of money respectively subscribed by them according to the Tenor of the said respective Acts of Decimo Septimo and Decimo Octavo Caroli But that all such forfeited Subscriptions be and they are here by vested and settled in your Majesty your Heirs and Successors and be set out and satisfied according unto the respective Rates in the said Acts mentioned within the aforesaid Security set apart or designed for Satisfaction of the Adventurers immediately after the other Adventurers who have duely paid in the respective sums by them subscribed in pursuance of the said Acts are satisfied and that the same be granted and disposed of by your Majesty unto such uses and in such manner as your Majesty shall think fit any thing in this or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted That those Adventurers and Souldiers their Heirs or Assigns whose Adventures or Lots were set out of the Lands of James Duke of Ormond and have been since removed from the same and have had by his Majesties Commissioners for Executing his Gracious Declaration other Lands set out ordered or appointed in the County of Catherlogh towards their Reprizal and Satisfaction be and are hereby confirmed in so much of the said lands in their respective Orders named as shall be equal in value worth and purchase with those from which they have been removed as aforesaid and shall hold and enjoy the same to them their heirs and assigns for ever which said lands shall be immediately put out of charge in his Majesties Court of Exchequer in Ireland reserving the chief Rents according to his Majesties Declaration any thing in this present Act contained or otherwise to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Whereas Lands in the County of Lowth have been appointed by the Lords Iustices of Ireland to Erasmus Smith Esq towards satisfaction of his Adventures for Lands in Ireland and the possession thereof ordered accordingly Be it Enacted That the Lands so ordered and appointed be setled confirmed and established to and upon him the said Erasmus Smith his Heirs and Assigns with all Advantages and Priviledges allowed by this Act to Adventurers any thing in this Act contamed to the contrary notwithstanding Provided nevertheless that if any of the said Lands be restored pursuant to the Rules of this Act or otherwise to any person restorable the said Erasmus Smith his Heirs and Assigns shall be first reprized for such Lands so restored by other Lands in the said County of Lowth and for want thereof by other forfeited lands in some other convenient place of equal value worth and purchase Provided that by colour hereof no more lands be setled and confirmed to the said Erasmus Smith his Heirs and Assigns then according to the Rates for satisfying of Adventurers Provided alwayes and it is hereby further Enacted That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to vest in his Majesty his Heirs or Successors any the Honours Castles Messuages Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof Oliver Cromwel deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Jones deceased Daniel Axtel deceased Gregory Clement deceased Isaac Ewer deceased John Bradshaw deceased Thomas Andrews deceased Thomas Hamond deceased Sir Hardress Waller John Hewson Miles Corbet Thomas Wogan Edmond Ludlow Edward Dendy John Lisle William late Lord Mounson Cornelius Holland Henry Smith Owen Row Edmond Harvy Nicholas Love Edward Whaley Thomas Pride deceased William Say Valentine Walton John Berkstead Sir Michael Livesey John Okey William Gouffe Thomas Challinor William Cawley John Dixwel Andrew Braughton Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroop John Carew Thomas Scot Hugh Peters Francis Hacker Isaac Pennington Henry Martin Gilbert Millington Robert Tichburn Robert Lilborn John Downs Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Mayne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wait Sir John Danvers John Blackston Sir William Constable Richard Dean Francis Allyn deceased Peregrine Pelham John Aldred alias Alured Humphrey Edwards John Vynn Anthony Stapely Thomas Horton John Frey James Challiner Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps or any of them were at any time heretofore seized or possessed in their own Right or any other in Trust for them or to their use or which at any time heretofore were given and granted alloted assigned distributed disposed or conveyed to them or any of them or any other in Trust for them or any of them or to any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them in satisfaction of any Adventures or Arrears due unto them or any of them or for any other Recompence or Reward whatsoever but the same and every of them other than the Lands and Tenements given and granted unto Michael Lord Bishop of Cork and other than the Lands and Tenements hereafter disposed to Francis Lord Anger shall be and are hereby vested and setled in and upon his Royal Highness James Duke of York and Albain Earl of Ulster c. to have and hold to his said Highness his Heirs and Assigns freed exempted and discharged so long as the same remain in the possession of his Highness or his Heirs of and to from any new or increased Rent Services and Payments in and by this Act assessed imposed and reserved but with like benefit and advantage of Reprizal in case of restitution as any Adventurer or Souldier by virtue of this present Act may or ought to have and also with further and other benefit of Reprizal for so much of the premisses as by virtue of the Declaration and Instructions or this present Act shall be held or enjoyed by any Adventurer or Souldier And if his Royal Highness or his Heirs shall grant or alien all or any the lands or premisses herein before mentioned otherwise than by lease or leases for lives or years upon which the full moyety of the improved Rent shall be reserved then so much as shall be aliened or granted shall be subject to and charged with such Tenures Rents Services and other Payments as other Lands by this Act ought to be subject to and charged with Provided and it is Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances and all and every the Estate Right Title and Interest therein which were heretofore set out in the said Kingdome of Ireland to John Lord Kingston Baron of Kingston or to Sir Robert King his late Father deceased or which were purchased by them or either of them from any Adventurers Souldiers Transplanted or Transplantable persons their Heirs and Assigns and set out unto or possessed by them or any of them on the Seventh day of May One thousand six hundred Fifty nine shall be and are hereby ratified and confirmed unto the said Lord Kingston his Heirs and Assigns lyable to such Rules and Directions as are hereby prescribed for restoring of Lands to former proprietors Provided and it is declared That such part
Authority thereof That all Honors Manors Castles Houses Places Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Right Title Service Chiefry Vse Trust Condition Fee Rent-Charge Chattels real Mortgage Right of Redemption of any Mortgages Recognizance Iudgements Forfeitures Extent Right of Action Right of Entry Statute or any other Estate of what nature or kind soever in all and every the Counties Baronies Cities Towns Corporate and walled Towns in this Kingdom which at any time from and after the said 23. day of October in the year of our Lord 1641. were seized or sequestred into the hands or to the use of his late Majesty King Charles the First or of your most Gracious Majesty that now is or otherwise disposed of distributed set out or set apart by reason of or upon account of the said Rebellion or War or which were allotted assigned given granted ordered distributed disposed demised set out or set apart to or for any person or persons use or uses for Adventures Arrears Reprizals or otherwise or whereof his late Majesty or your Majesty that now is or any Adventurer Souldier reprizal person or others respectively had and received the Rent Issue or Profits by reason or upon account of the said Rebellion or War or whereof the Adventurers Officers or Souldiers now or formerly of the English Army in this Kingdom or transplanted or transplantable persons or any of them or their or any of their Heir Heirs or Assignes or any other person or persons whatsoever upon account of the said Rebellion or War were in seizin possession or occupation by themselves their Tenants Agents or Assigns on the Seventh day of May 1659 or which were assigned given granted laid out set apart or reserved for or towards the satisfaction of any the said Adventurers Souldiers or other persons for or in consideration of any money or provisions advanced lent or furnished or for Arrears of pay or in compensation of any Service or reputed Services or other account whatsoever or reserved or mentioned to be reserved for or in order to a Reprisal or Reprisals for such Incumbrances as then were now are or shall be adjudged due to any person or persons out of the said Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or for any other use intent or purpose whatsoever or whereof any Custodiam Lease for year or years or other Disposition or Grant whatsoever hath been made or unto which your Royal Father or your Majesty that now is are any ways entituled by reason of or upon account of the said Rebellion or War or which are wrongfully detained or concealed by any person or persons whatsoever as also all Chanteries and all Manors Lands Tenements Rents Tythes Pensions Portions and other Hereditaments or things whatsoever belonging to them or any of them which were in the seizin possession or occupation and out of which any Rent Duty Tenure or other Service was reserved of any person or persons who by the Qualifications in this Act shall not be adjudged innocent persons as also all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments belonging to any Ecclesiastical person or persons in his or their politick capacity and that have formerly by them or any of them been let in Fee-farm the right whereof or Title thereunto or Interest therein was in any person or persons his or their Heirs or Assigns who by the Qualifications in this Act expressed shall not be adjudged innocent persons as also all Leases that have been made by any Ecclesiastical persons of any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments belonging unto them in their politick capacity to any person or persons their Executors Administrators or Assigns who by the Qualifications in this Act expressed shall not be adjudged innocent persons as also all Impropriations or appropriate Tythes belonging to any person or persons his or their Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns who by the Qualifications in this present Act expressed shall not be adjudged innocent are and shall be and are hereby declared deemed and adjudged as from the said 23. day of October 1641. forfeited and to have been forfeited to your Majesty your Heirs and Successors and they hereby are from the said 23. day of October 1641. vested and settled in the real and actual possession and seizin of your Majesty your Heirs and Successors without any Office or Inquisition thereof found or hereafter to be found notwithstanding that the persons who were the former Proprietors or reputed Proprietors of the said Estates or any of them are not hereby or have not been heretofore attainted for and by reason of the said most hainous and unnatural Rebellion and War Provided That this Act shall not extend to the avoiding of any Contract Conveyance Assurance or disposition of for or concerning any of the said forfeited Lands Tenements or Hereditaments made since the 23. day of October 1641. by any Protestant Adventurer or Souldier or other person of or from such persons whose Estates if they had not so as aforesaid disposed them would have been confirmed unto them by the Rules in this Act herein after limited or appointed nor to the avoiding of any Contract for Lands in Connaught or Clare set out by virtue of Decrees made by Protestants or others that purchased any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments from persons transplanted into the Province of Connaught or County of Clare or their Assignes nor to intitle your Majesty to the mean Profits of any of the said forfetied Castles Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments since the 23. of Oct. 1641. allotted assigned enjoyed or set out to any Adventurer for adventures or to Souldiers for arrears to persons transplanted into the Province of Connaught or County of Clare or their Assignes or let by the late Vsurpers for yearly Rents or granted by the late usurped powers confirmed by your Majesties said Declaration of the 30. of November 1660. and by this present Act other than such of the Rents reserved on the premisses as were not paid to the late Vsurpers or to your Majesty since your Majesties happy restauration but are yet in arrear and unpaid and other than forfeited Lands Tenements or Hereditaments concealed Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be deemed construed or taken to forfeit or vest in your Majesty your Heirs and Successors any Honors Manors Castles Houses Places Lands Tenements and Hereditaments or Chattels real whatsoever in all every or any of the Counties Baronies Cities Towns Corporate and walled Towns in this Kingdom on the 23. day of October 1641. belonging in Possession Reversion or Remainder unto the Vniversity of Dublin or to any Archbishop Bishop Dean Prebend Dean and Chapter or other Ecclesiastical person or persons in his or their politick capacity or to any other College Hospital Church Collegiate or Parochial or to the Church-wardens and Parishioners of any Parish-Church for the use of the said Church or to any Guild Corporation or Fraternity Ecclesiastical or Lay or to any Parson Rector or Vicar of any Parish-Church or to the most
respectively given for or concerning any matter Cognizable by them against His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and all and every other person or persons whatsoever their Heirs or Assigns any thing in the said Declaration or Instructions or in this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons who shall at any time hereafter be nominated and appointed by His Majesty His Heirs and Successors to serve in the place of a Commissioner for the putting in execution the said Declaration and Instructions and this present Act shall before they Act any thing in the execution of the said Commission take an Oath before the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper or Commissioners for the Custody of His Majesties Great Seal of this Kingdome or before the Lord Chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Chief place of this Kindome for the time being or before the Lord Chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas of this Kingdome for the time being or before the Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer of this Kingdome which Oath they or any of them have hereby power from time to time as there shall be occasion to administer in these words following YOu shall swear That you shall to the best of your skill and knowledge truly and impartially administer Justice between His Majesty and the Subject and between Party and Party in the place of a Commissioner for putting in Execution His Majesties Gracious Declaration and Instructions for the Settlement of IRELAND according to an Act Intituled An Act for the better Execution of His Majesties Gracious Declaration for the Settlement of His Kingdome of Ireland and satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other His Subjects there so long as you shall continue in that Imployment So help you God in Christ Jesus And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the persons who shall be appointed to serve in the Offices or Imployments of Register Clerk Surveyor or any of them or in any other ministerial Office or Imployment relating to the Service of His Majesties Commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid shall before they enter upon any of the said Offices or Imployments take an Oath before some of the Commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid which Oath the said Commissioners or any two of them have hereby power to administer in these words following YOU shall swear That you shall well and truly execute the place of _____ according to the best of your skill and knowledge and therein you shall spare no person for favour and affection nor any person grieve for hatred or ill will So help you God in Christ Jesus And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every the Registers Clerks Surveyors and other the ministerial Officers which at any time hereafter shall be used or imployed in the Service of His Majesties Commissioners to be appointed for Execution of the Declaration and Instructions and this present Act to take as a Recompence for their respective Pains and Industries such Fees Salaries or Rewards onely and no other as by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours for the time being shall be limited and appointed And whereas by the said Declaration of the Thirtieth of November One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty the time limited for Adventurers claiming and making their Deficiencies appear is the first day of May now last past Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted That that time be inlarged to the Nine and Twentieth day of September One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Two And whereas by the said Declaration the time limited for discovering Bribery Forgery Subornation of Witnesses and False or undue Admeasurement is the Twentieth day of December One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty One Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted that the time being be inlarged to the Three and Twentieth day of October which shall be in the year One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty Three And whereas by the said Declaration legal Incumbrances resting upon Lands set out to Adventurers and Souldiers are to be satisfied out of Forfeited Lands in the County of Kildare except as in the said Declaration is excepted such Incumbrances being made appear by the Three and Twentieth of October One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty One Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted That that time be inlarged to the Three and Twentieth day of October One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty Two And whereas all Commissioned Officers before One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine whose Arrears were not stated on the Thirtieth day of November One thousand Six hundred and Sixty are by the said Declaration to have their Arrears stated before the Nine and Twentieth day of September One thousand Six hundred Sixty one Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted That that time be inlarged to the first day of May One thousand Six hundred Sixty three And whereas by the said Declaration all innocent Papists are to be restored to their Estates by the Second of May One thousand Six hundred Sixty one Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted That that time be inlarged to the First day of August One thousand Six hundred Sixty two And whereas by the said Declaration it is declared That in case any justly Intituled to the Peace in the said Declaration mentioned have obtained Decrees for Lands in the Province of Connaught or County of Clare in lieu of their former Estates and have not been possessed of Lands according to their respective Decrees That if by the First day of November One thousand Six hundred Sixty one they shall not be possessed of such Decreed Lands they shall immediately after the said day be otherwise satisfied for the same Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted That that time be inlarged to the First day of August One thousand Six hundred Sixty three And whereas as to those who continued with His Majesty and served faithfully under His Ensigns beyond the Seas who were by the said Declaration to be restored to their former Estates a Reprize being first assigned and legally set out of the remaining Forfeited Lands undisposed of to Adventurer or Souldier or other person as in the said Declaration is mentioned And that the furthest time for such Restaurations and Reprizes is by the said Declaration limited to be by the Twenty third day of October One thousand Six hundred Sixty one Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted That that time be inlarged to the Three and Twentieth day of April One thousand Six hundred Sixty three And be it further Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all other persons Bodies Politick and Corporate who have not already put in their Claims before the Commissioners heretofore appointed for execution of the said Declaration do put in the same within
lyable to the Satisfaction of such Arrears in the County of Kildare and elsewhere in the Kingdom of Ireland lying most convenient unto the Estate of the said Earl of Kildare which he the said Wentworth Earl of Kildare shall make choice of all which said Satisfactions are to be made at the same Rates and Proportions and according to the same Rules as are directed by this Act in Cases of the like Nature any thing in this present Act or any clause therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided always and be it further Enacted That all such Adventurers who are or shall be removed from any of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments belonging to Theobald Purcell of Loghmoe in the County of Tipperary lately deceased shall be only reprized out of Surplusage Lands within the Security of the Adventurers any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes That nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice the Right Title or Interest of Martin Noel or John Arthur in any the forfeited houses tenements or hereditaments in the Town of Wexford And it is hereby Enacted That such of the said Houses Tenements and Hereditaments in the said Town of Wexford as shall be found to be forfeited and already set out unto the said Martin Noel and John Arthur shall be and are hereby vested in and setled upon the said Martin Noel and John Arthur their Heirs and Assigns for ever under such Rents and according to such respective Rules as were set down in his Majesties said Declaration and Instructions Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate any Manors Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Services or Hereditaments which did belong unto any Hospital Almes-house Lepers or Lazars or other charitable Vse within the said Kingdom of Ireland on the Two and Twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Forty one but that all such Manors Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Hereditaments and every of them shall be restored setled and disposed to the respective Hospitals Almes-houses Lepers Lazars or other charitable Vse to which they or any of them did belong before the said year One Thousand Six Hundred Forty and One and that to be done by the Inspection Direction and Regulation of the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour Governours and Council for the time being any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted That Arthur now Earl of Anglesey and Lord Viscount Valentia his Heirs and Assigns in his and their respective Settlements and Satisfactions pursuant to this Act shall and may enjoy the ful benefit and advantage of his Majesties respective Gracious Letters in the behalf of the said Lord Viscount Valentia under his Majesties Royal Signet Inrolled in his Majesties high Court of Chancery in Ireland so far forth as the same are consistent with his Majesties said Declaration any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to any Manors Castles Towns Villages Messuages Houses Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whereof Simon Luttrel of Luttrelstown in the County of Dublin Esq deceased or Thomas Luttrel Son of the said Simon or either of them were or was seized in Fee or Fee Tail in Vse Possession Remainder or Reversion on the Two and Twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty and one or whereof they or either of them or their or any of their Tenant or Tenants was or were dispossessed expulsed or removed by or under colour of any Actings of the late Vsurped Power in the Kingdome of Ireland but that the said Thomas Luttrel his Heirs and Assigns shall and may from henceforth have hold and enjoy all and singular the said Manors Castles Towns Villages Messuages Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with appurtenances without and before any previous Reprizals and at the ancient Rents and Tenures any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof notwithstrnding Provided alwayes and be it hereby enacted That John Bellew of Castletown in the County of Lowth Esq his Heirs and Assigns shall have hold possess and enjoy all the Houses Lands Tenements Rents Services and Hereditaments whatsoever which did belong in Possession Reversion or Remainder to Sir Christopher Bellew late of Castletown aforesaid Knight Father to the said John on the Two and Twentieth of October in the year of Our Lord God One thousand six hundred forty and one in as large and ample manner as the said Sir Christopher or any other in his Right or to his Vse enjoyed the same subject nevertheless to such Charges and Incumbrances as were justly laid upon or issuing out of the said Estate before the said Two and Twentieth day of October One thousand Six hundred forty and one any Clause Proviso matter or thing in this Act whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes That John Morrish and Robert Clayton and their Heirs Executors and Assigns shall have hold and enjoy all and singular the forfeited Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the County of Wexford in Ireland whereof they or One of them stand seized or possessed in Trust for Sir John Cutler Knight and Baronet Sir Edward Heath Knight of the Bath Thomas Yate Doctor in Divinity Robert Abbot Gentleman Didier Fouchant Gentleman and Timothy Stamp Esquire and whereon or on some part whereof Iron-works and other necessary Improvements have been erected and made and which were formerly purchased or taken in Lease in the Names of any of the parties above-named from Officers Souldiers or others to whom the same were set out or allotted in satisfaction of Adventures or Arrears or did otherwise of right appertain according to the effect and purport of the several and respective Deeds of Purchase and Demise and with such benefit of Reprizal in case of restitution or incumbrance and with such other Advantages as any Adventurer or Souldier their Heirs or Assigns within the Province of Leinster ought to have any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it further enacted That the Lands and Estate formerly set out in the County of Cork unto Hercules Huncks Esq for his Arrears due for his Service in Ireland be established on and confirmed unto Edward Adams of London Merchant his Heirs and Assigns for ever according to such Tenures Rents and Services and under such Limitations and Directions for Reprizal as are set down and expressed for any other Officer or Souldier in this present Act any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas several of the Inhabitants and Proprietors of the City of Dublin and Town of Drogheda who constantly adhered unto the Royal Authority until the withdrawing
of the Lands aforesaid as were set out upon the Ordinance commonly called The Doubling Ordinance over and above the money paid thereon are not intended to be hereby confirmed to the said John Lord Kingston and his Heirs without delivering up or discharging such Receipts or Certificates of deficient Adventurers or such part of his own his late Fathers Arrears or other Debentures for Service in Ireland before the Fifth day of June One thousand six hundred forty and nine provided for by this Act as shall amount unto the value or sum for which such proportion of Lands were or are to be set out to Adventurers in the Province of Leinster but that upon delivering up or discharging such Certificates Receipts or Debentures amounting to such sum or value the said Lands and every part thereof are hereby ratified and confirmed as aforesaid and shall stand remain and be unto the said Lord Kingston his Heirs and Assigns for ever And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for all such Lands and Tenements claimed by the said Lord Kingston set out to or possessed by Adventurers Souldiers Transplanted or Transplantable persons their Heirs or Assigns on the said Seventh day of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine whereof George Lord Baron of Strabane Sir Henry Talbot Sir William Dungan and Thomas Harman Esq or any other former or other proprietor is are or shall be possessed or restored unto he the said Lord Kingston his Heirs and Assigns shall be speedily and effectually reprized for the same out of such Lands and Hereditaments of the like yearly Rents and Profits in the Counties of Dublin Cork and Kildare or some of them as the said lands so possessed restored or to be restored are now worth to be letten any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to vest in his Majesty his Heirs and Successors the forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the Counties of Westmeath and the Kings County whereof Sir Hardress Waller Isaac Ewer or any of them or any other person or persons in Trust for them or any of them or claiming by from or under them or any of them were on the Seventh of May One thousand six hundred Fifty nine seized or possessed but that the same and every of them shall be and are hereby vested in Francis Lord Angier and his heirs subject to the like Tenures Rents Services and Payments as any Adventurers within that Province wherein the Forfeited Lands hereby granted do lie are subject unto and with like benefit of Reprizal in case of Restitution or Incumbrance as any Adventurer ought to have any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted That all and every sum and sums of money due unto John Lord Kingston Richard Lord Baron of Coloony Sir Theophilus Jones Sir Oliver St. George Sir John Cole and Chidley Coote Esq for their respective Arrears for Service in Ireland before the Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine shall be stated and satisfied unto them their Executors or Assigns respectively out of the Security in this Act appointed for satisfying Arrears before One thousand six hundred forty nine in the same manner and by the same Rules and Rates as before in this Act is provided for such as have Arrears due to them before One thousand six hundred forty nine and received no satisfaction for any Arrears since that time although the said persons or any of them have received Lands for Arrears since the said Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and it is hereby Enacted That Sir Paul Davys Knight shall have hold and enjoy to him and his heirs and assigns for ever all and every the Towns and Lands of Londonstown formerly belonging to William Fitz-gerrald attainted Barretstown formerly belonging to Christopher Eustace attainted Johnstown formerly belonging to James Flatsburry attainted and Palmerstown formerly belonging to the said James Flatsburry all situate lying and being in the County of Kildare with their and every of their Members and Appurtenances whereof the said late Proprietors respectively were seized or any other persons were seized for their uses or in trust for them respectively on the days of their respective Attaintures or at any time since the said Sir Paul Davys his heirs and assigns yielding and paying therefore yearly to Your Majesty your Heirs and Successors such and the like Rents as are appointed to be paid by Adventurers for Lands in the Province of Leinster by the Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster on the third day of November One thousand six hundred and forty Intituled An Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the Rebels in his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland to their due Obedience to his Majesty and the Crown of England unless the Rents formerly reserved on the premisses to the Crown on the Three and Twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one did exceed that Rent in which case the Rent to be the same it was on the Three and Twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one and the premisses to be held of your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors by the same Tenure which by the said Act is appointed for Adventurers for Lands in Ireland any thing in this Act contained to the contrary or any other Act matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding Whereas several Officers in Munster who ingaged themselves in his Majesties Army in the Kingdom of Ireland under the Command of his Excellency the Lord Duke of Ormond in the year One thousand six hundred forty eight were afterwards instrumental in the betraying of several considerable Towns and Garisons into the Vsurpers hands or his Forces Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such Betrayers and their actual Assistants the Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns of them or any of them shall be wholly excluded from any benefit from this Act of Parliament as to their enjoyment of any lands for their Arrears before June One thousand six hundred forty nine or any part of them other than such who within twenty four moneths after the date of this Act shall make it appear to the Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom or the Chief Governour or Governours thereof with six of the Council that they made some repair for their former faults by their timely and seasonable appearance for Our Restitution in the year One thousand six hundred and sixty And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this present Act shall forthwith set out or cause to be set so much of the Forfeited Lands as do amount unto the clear yearly value of three hundred pounds per annum and are nearest adjacent and
Reverend Father in God John Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland or to James Duke of Ormond or the Lady Elizabeth Dutchess of Ormond his Wife or to any of their Children or to James late Earl of Roscomon William Earl of Strafford Murrough Earl of Inchiquin Sir George Hamilton Sir Richard Lane Sir George Lane Sir James Montgomery or his Heirs or Thomas Radcliffe Esquire Provided likewise that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not vest nor be understood or construed to vest in your Majesty your Heirs or Successors or otherwise be prejudicial unto or take away any Estate Right Title Interest Service Cheifry Vse Trust Condition Fee Rent-Charge Chattel Real Mortgage Right of Redemption of Mortgage Recognizance Iudgement Forfeiture Extent Right of Action Right of Entry Statute or any other Estate of what nature or kinde soever from any Protestant or Protestants their Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns who did not joyn with the said Rebels before the 15th day of September 1643. whereof upon the said 22. day of October 1641. they were respectively seized or possessed or otherwise interested or Entituled or wherein they had any other Estate Vse Possession Trust Reversion or Remainder other then such Estate Interest whereof they or any of them stood seized or possessed for the use of or in trust for any of the Rebels aforesaid nor unto any Iudgement or Decree which hath been obtained by any such Protestant or Protestants in the late Courts or Pretended Courts for Abjudication of Claims or in the Court of Exchequer or any other of the four Courts sitting at Dublin or for which any Iudgement or Decree is or shall be confirmed had or made by the Commissioners heretofore appointed by His Majesty for the execution of His late Gracious Declaration and Instructions herein after recited or at any time hereafter to be appointed by His Majesty for the executing of the said Declaration and Instructions and this present Act who are hereby enabled and Authorized to receive hear and determine the same Nor to the vesting any of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments or Chattels real Right Title Service Cheifry Vse Trust Condition Fee Rent-Charge Chattel real Mortgage right of Redemption of Mortgage Recognizance Iudgement Forfeiture Extent Right of Action Right of Entry Statute or any other Estate of what nature or kinde soever or any innocent Papist or their innocent Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every such Person or Persons his and their Executors Administrators and Assigns to whom any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments belonging unto such Protestant or innocent Papist have been assigned or distributed set out or enjoyed shall forthwith and before any other Reprizals whatsoever to be set out be reprized any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That no Person or Persons their Heirs Executors or Administrators who enjoyed all or any of the said Lands Tenements or Hereditaments which by this present Act are vested or setled in your Majesty your Heirs or Successors shall be accountable for any the Rents Issues or Profits of the same from the said 23. Day of October 1641. until the time of the passing of this present Act other then such Rents Issues and Profits as by new Contracts stand charged in His Majesties Court of Exchequer since the year 1650. or the profits of concealed Lands enjoyed without Title allowed and confirmed by this present Act. And whereas Your Sacred Majesty hath by your said Gracious Declaration Instructions declared your Royal pleasure and Intentions how the said Honors Manors Castles Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all other the Estates and Interests hereby forfeited unto and vested in Your Majesty your Heirs and Successors should be disposed of and also by Commission under your Great Seal of this Your Kingdome bearing date the 30th Day of April in the 13th year of your Majesties Reign appointed certain Commissioners for putting in execution all the matters and things in the said Declaration and Instructions contained Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the said Honors Manors Lands Castles Houses Tenements Hereditaments and all other the Estates and Interests hereby vested and setled in Your Majesty your Heirs and Successors except before excepted or provided for as aforesaid shall be and remain in your Sacred Majesty your Heirs and Successors to the intent to be setled confirmed restored or disposed to and for such use and uses and in such manner as in and by the said Declaration and Instructions hereafter following and by this present Act and the true intent and meaning thereof is declared limited meant intended or appointed His Majesties GRACIOUS DECLARATION FOR The Settlement of His Kingdome of Ireland and satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other His Subjects there CHarles the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all Our loving Subjects of Our Kingdome of Ireland of what degree or quality soever Greeting It having pleased Almighty God out of his great mercy and compassion towards Vs and all Our Subjects to restore Vs in so wonderful a manner to each other and with so wonderful circumstances of affection and confidence in each other as must for ever fill Our Hearts if We are in any degree sensible of such Blessings with an humble and grateful acknowledgement of the Obligation We owe to His Divine Providence That he would vouchsafe to work that miracle for Vs himself which no endeavours of Our own could bring to pass We think it agreable to the just sense We have and ought to have of the good affection of all Our good Subjects who have contributed so much in bringing this unspeakable Blessing upon Vs themselves that We acknowledge that our good Subjects in Our Kingdome of Ireland have born a very good part in procuring this happiness that they were early in their dutiful Addresses to Vs and made the same professions of a resolution to return to their Duty and Obedience to Vs during the time of Our being beyond the Seas which they have since so eminently made good and put in practise However it was not easy for us to make any publick Declaration with reference to that Our Kingdome there being many difficulties in the providing for and complying with the several Interests and Pretences there which We were bound in Honour and Iustice in some degree to take care of and which were different from the difficulties We were to contend with in this Kingdome We well knew the Acts of Parliament which had formerly past for the security of the Adventurers in that Kingdom had heard of the proceedings which had been thereupon by which very many Officers Souldiers and others as well of this as that Our Kingdome were in possession of a great part of the Lands of that Our Kingdom and
Declaratione and Proclamations concerning the Army and of the full assurance of the forwardness and readiness of the said Army and loving Subjects in Ireland to contribute as in Duty bound all that in them lay for Our Restauration We are pleased of Our special Grace and Favour to Declare and do hereby Declare That all Officers and Souldiers their Heirs and Assigns who have been and are of the said Army in Ireland and to whom Lands have been given out in satisfaction of their Arrears for their Service in that Our Kingdome and have by the general Convention of Ireland or by any other publick Act declared submission and obedience to Vs according to Our said Declaration of the 4 14 of April last dated at Breda shall enjoy their respective Estates conferred on them for their Arrears for Service in the Kingdome of Ireland according to their respective Possessions on the said Seventh Day of May One thousand Six hundred Fifty nine in full satisfaction of all such Arrears for which Lands were set out to them respectively as aforesaid so that they and every of them having received an equal proportion with others in the like case are and shall be for ever barred from demanding or receiving any further satisfaction therefore although they had allowance but for Thirteen shillings in the Pound or thereabouts Excepting alwayes out of all such Settlements to the said Adventurers and Souldiers all and every such Estate and Estates wherein or in procuring whereof any Bribery Forgery Perjury Subornation of Witnesses hath been used or practised as also such part of any Estate hereby declared to be setled as aforesaid which by false or undue Admeasurement hath been set forth such Offence and Crime being discovered before the Twentieth day of December One Thousand Six hundred Sixty one Excepting also the Estate of all and every such person or persons that is or are excepted in one Act past this present Parliament at Westminster Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion Excepting also all such Lands as are commonly called Church-Lands whether the same belong to Arch-Bishops Bishops or other Ecclesiastical persons whatsoever that have been set out to Adventurers Souldiers or others Neither shall this extend to give any benefit to such person or persons as have or shall by any overt Act proveably done or to be done by him or them subsequent to Our Restauration endeavour the disturbance of the publick Peace or have manifested any aversion to Our Restauration and Government it being but very reasonable that the Abusers of so much Mercy held forth by Vs should not be partakers thereof And excepting all such Estates statutes Mortgages Iudgements Leases Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other profits and advantages which have been decreed to any of Our Subjects by the respective Courts of Claims and Court of Exchequer in Ireland and the said Decrees not since reversed although the premisses are yet possest or witheld from those who have obtained the said Decrees by Adventurers Souldiers or others to whom the same were set out who are to be reprized in like manner as others provided for by this Declaration And whereas several legal Incumbrances do and may rest upon the Lands set out to Adventurers and Souldiers as aforesaid We are pleased further graciously to declare That the said Adventurers and Souldiers shall receive satisfaction out of the forfeited Lands in the County of Kildare saving the Lands and Estate of Christopher Eustace commonly called Mad-Eustace in the said County or elsewhere which it is Our Will and Pleasure be forthwith restored to him and his Heirs for all Statutes Recognizances Iudgements Mortgages Dowers Ioyntures Lease for Life or Lives or for Years Rent-Charge or other such Incumbrances charged on their Estates such Incumbrances being made appear by the 22. of October 1661. before such as shall be thereunto Commissioned with all convenient speed after this Declaration Being sensible That several Officers who were engaged in Our Service in Ireland and eminently acted and suffered therein have by the partiality and injustice of the Powers then in being received no satisfaction for the same We are therefore further pleased graciously to declare That all Commissioned Officers their Heirs or Assigns who were in Regiments Troops or Companies raised in Ireland or transported out of England and served Our Royal Father or Our Self in the Wars in Ireland at any time before the Fifth of June 1649. other then those who have received Lands or Money for their pay due unto them since the Fifth Day of June 1649. shall be satisfied their respective personal Arrears out of the particulars following viz. Out of the forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments undisposed of to Adventurers or Souldiers in the Counties of Wickloe Longford Leytrim and Donnegal Out of all the Forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments undisposed of in the Province of Connaught and County of Clare lying within one mile of the River Shanon or of the Sea commonly called the Mile-Line Out of all the Houses and Tenements Forfeited in Ireland in the several Walled Towns and Corporations and Lands thereunto belonging not already set out to the Adventurers or Souldiers in satisfaction of Adventures and Arrears satisfaction being first made to such Protestants who on Leases or Contracts for Leases have built or repaired Houses or planted Orchards or Gardens except the Houses Tenements and Hereditaments in the Town of Wexford already set out unto Martin Noel and John Arthur and now in their possession which shall be confirmed to them their Heirs and Assigns out of the benefit arising from the Redemption of Mortgages Statutes Staples and Iudgements where the Lands are not already disposed of to Adventurers or Souldiers Excepting alwayes hereout such Mortgages Statutes Iudgements as any Forfeiting persons of Ireland hath or had on the Estate of James Lord Marquess of Ormond Lord Steward of Our Houshold or the Lady Marchioness his Wife out of one Years Rent and Profits of the Lands set out to the Officers and Souldiers for their Arrears in the Year 1653. And likewise of the Army now in being according as those respective said Estates yielded in the Year 1659. As also out of one year and a halfs Rent and Profits arising out of the Lands for the Arrears of those Officers and Souldiers who were ordered or received satisfaction for their said Arrears in the Years 1655 1656 and 1657. according as the Estates yielded in the Year 1659. And it is further Declared That all Commissioned Officers before One thousand Six hundred Forty nine who have had no satisfaction in Lands or otherwise set out to them for Services since One thousand Six hundred Forty nine shall be immediately out of the whole Security that is above assigned for satisfaction of Arrears before One thousand six hundred Forty nine satisfied Twelve shillings Six pence in the Pound of what is due to them And then the remaining part of all the said respective Securities to
to be settled with them in that Our Kingdome And least any Ambiguity or controversy might arise for precedency in restitution to their former Rights We do Declare That first all innocent Protestants and those persons termed innocent Papists who never took out any Decree or had lands assigned to them in Connaught or Clare be first restored In the next place That those innocent Protestants and Papists who took out Decrees and had lands allotted to them in pursuance thereof in Connaught or Clare shall be restored And that such transplanted persons as shall be dispossest of their Decreed Estates in Connaught or Clare by virtue of this Our Declaration shall be Reprized out of other Forfeited lands of equal value worth and purchase in the said Province of Connaught or County of Clare or elsewhere before they be dispossest of their said Estates And that then such of the Irish Papists who constantly served under Our Ensigns abroad having right to the Articles of Peace are to be restored of which if any dispute shall be of their Capacity of Priviledge herein We shall by further intimation of Our pleasure to Our Chief Governour or Governours in that Our Kingdome and Council there give a final Resolve and Determination therein Yet this is alwayes so to be understood That whatsoever person or persons in the next precedent Qualifications shall find any part of his or their Estates not already disposed or not designed to be disposed to the ends aforesaid exprest in this Our Declaration That such person or persons their Heirs or Assigns shall be respectively restored to his or their said Estates And We further declare That in respect many have contracted very just Debts for furnishing Armes Ammunition and other necessary provisions for carrying on the War in Ireland before One thousand Six hundred Forty nine for which they have given security and so made themselves liable to suit and hazard which in all equity ought to be provided for That after such Reprizals made as aforesaid satisfaction shall be set forth out of the remaining lands in Our disposal to such persons their Heirs and Assigns And We are graciously pleased further to Declare That every Adventurer and Souldier their Heirs and Assigns setled in lands Tenements and Hereditaments as aforesaid And every person restored unto or Reprized for his Estate as is formerly mentioned shall pay unto Vs Our Heires and Successors yearly for ever the Rents following viz. For every Acre in the Province of Leinster Three pence For every Acre in the Province of Munster Two pence Farthing For every Acre in the Province of Connaught One penny Half penny And for every Acre in the Province of Ulster One penny accounting as to the payment of the said Rent only One hundred and Sixty Pearches to the Acre and Sixteen Foot and a half to the Pearch And all such as receive satisfaction for their Arrears out of the Houses and Tenements in the several corporations in Ireland one shilling six pence yearly out of every Twenty shillings Rent so that the Rent formerly reserved on such Estates so to be restored exceed not the Rent hereby reserved But if the said Rent formerly reserved do exceed the Rent hereby to be reserved the said former Rent only shall be paid and the said Estates respectively shall be discharged from payment of the Rent or Rents hereby reserved And it is Our further pleasure and We do hereby declare That all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments thus settled and to be settled upon Adventurers shall be held of Vs Our Heirs and Successors in Free and common Soccage as in the Statute of the Seventeenth Caroli is limited and appointed And that all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments setled or to be setled on the Souldiers who are out of the said Act and not provided for by it shall be held of Vs Our Heirs and Successors by Knights service in Capite All other particulars above mentioned being fully effected we trust through the goodness of God that that near ruined Kingdom will be restored to peace plenty And that by such signal evidences of our justice favor mercy the wicked will be deterred from their wickedness the good encouraged confirmed in resolutions of loyalty towards us and peace among one another And as in this Our Declaration we have made choice of those means which in Our Wisdome and Iudgement We have esteemed most conducible to the Quiet and Settlement of that Our Kingdome so We esteem it necessary further to declare That it is Our firm intention forthwith to call a Parliament in that Our Kingdom and effectually to recommend unto Our Chief Governour or Governours Privy Council and Our said Parliament the establishing by Laws there all the particulars mentioned in this Our Declaration and such others as shall be found necessary for the good of Our People there and after such Bills are past that then an Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivâ—on shall be granted to all Our Subjects of and in Ireland notorious Murderers only excepted And because We are too credibly assured That in the Decrees and Iudgements given for Forfeited lands in the Province of Connaught and County of Clare much injustice and fraud hath been used We shall recommend the whole review of that business to Our Chief Governour or Governours for the time being and Our Privy Council and Commissioners or some of them to the end that whatever irregularity shall be found in those proceedings may by their Care and Wisdome be rectified and the Iust part thereof confirmed As also that a suitable Act for Ireland for confirming Iudicial proceedings there in the four Courts may be there past And another Act for ratifying all Decrees and Iudgements in the Court of Claims and Exchequer of Dublin and the Claims of Our Protestant Subjects of Ireland that so all Our Subjects being legally setled and confirmed in their lives properties and Estates they may without fear for the Future betake themselves to mend the Ruines and Desolations of so long and bloody War and live in comfort and unity And We more than hope that by Our thus proceeding the World will believe nothing of Our own Advantage can come in competition with the Peace and Good of Our Subjects for We reserve little to Our Self but the satisfaction of contenting all Interests at the price of freely parting with almost all the great Forfeitures vested in Vs by Law in that Our Kingdom And if by this Indulgence We shall attain that desired end it will be much more considerable unto Vs than the rate at which We purchase it And We further Declare That whereas several of the Adventurers and Souldiers having made a thankful estimation of our grace and favour expressed by this our Declaration in settling them in a peaceable possession and right of what they enjoy by Our waving those many advantages devolved upon us by law have voluntarily exprest their own willingness and confidence of the
forwardness of all the rest of their Brethren in contributing One half years full value of the profits arising of the said lands as aforesaid set out for their respective Adventures and Arrears to be paid in One year towards the Relief and Reparations of the losses of such as We shall judge have most eminently acted for and suffered with Vs And that several of the Adventurers having expressed their own willingness and confidence of the forwardness of the rest of the Adventurers to bestow upon Vs as a further evidence of that thankfulness in consideration of Our Grace and Favour in the aforesaid Settlement One other half years Rent more of full value to be paid in One other year We cannot but declare Our Acceptance of such their free and kinde offer and when a Bill shall be tendred unto Vs upon the accompt and for the ends aforesaid it shall be received by Vs as graciously as such an evidence of their affection and respect doth deserve And We do lastly declare That Protestant Plantations shall be settled Corporations created Churches erected Maintenance for Preaching Ministers provided within the limits and precincts of the land so to be settled on the Adventurers and Souldiers in such manner as by the Commissioners to be nominated and directed by Vs shall be set down Provided always That this Our Declaration shall not extend to any person or persons who have had any hand in the plotting and contriving the Surprisal of Our Castle of Dublin in the year One thousand six hundred forty one nor to any person or persons that sate as Iudges in the pretended High Court of Iustice upon the life of Our Royal Father of blessed memory or who sentenced Him or signed or sealed the Warrant for Execution or who were of the Guard of Halbertiers assisting to put the Bloody Sentence of Death in Execution upon the 30. of January One thousand six hundred forty eight Provided lastly and it is hereby declared That this Declaration or any thing therein contained shall not extend to confirm the disposition or setting out to any Adventurer Soldier or other person any of the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments belonging before the 23. of October 1641. to any City or Sea-Town Incorporated but that the same shall be and remain in Our own hands to be restored to such of the said Corporations as shall be found fit for that Our Grace and Favour and the Adventurers Souldiers or others who have any of the said Lands Tenements or Hereditaments set out unto them shall be Reprized in like manner as is provided for them in other cases by this Declaration Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 30. day of November 1660. In the Twelfth Year of Our Reign Signed CHARLES R. INSTRUCTIONS for Our right trusty and right well beloved Cousin and Counsellour Richard Earl of Cork Lord High Treasurer of Our Kingdome of Ireland Our right trusty and right well beloved Cousins and Counsellours Edward Lord Viscount Conway and Kilulta Arthur Lord Viscount Valentia Our Vice-Treasurer and General Receiver of Our said Kingdome Hugh Lord Viscount Montgomery of the Ardes Master of Our Ordinance in Our said Kingdome and John Lord Viscount Massereene Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellour Francis Lord Angier John Lord Kingston Richard Lord Baron of Caloony Sir James Barry Knight Lord Chief Justice of Our Court of Chief Place James Donelan Esq Lord Chief Justice of Our Court of Common Pleas John Bysse Esq Lord Chief Baron of Our Court of Exchequer Sir Henry Tichburn Knight Sir Robert Forth Knight Sir James VVare Knight Thomas Pigot Esq Master of Our Court of Wards and Liveries Col. Arthur Hill and Col. Marcus Trevor Our trusty and well beloved Sir Francis Hamilton Knight and Baronet Sir Arthur Forbes Baronet Sir Oliver St. George Knight and Baronet Sir John Cole Baronet Sir Richard Lane Baronet Sir Paul Davys Knight Sir George Lane Knight Sir John Stephens Knight Sir VVilliam Domvile Knight Our Atturney General Sir Allen Brodericke Knight Our Surveyor General Sir Audley Mervin Knight Our chief Serjeant at Law John Temple Esq Our Solicitor General Col. John Ponsonby Henry VVarren and Dudley Cooley Esqs Serjeant Major George Rawden Dr. VVilliam Petty James Cuffe and Thomas Browne Esquires Our Commissioners appointed by Us for the Execution of Our Declaration of the Thirtieth of November One thousand six hundred and sixty C. R. WHEREAS by Our said Declaration of the thirtieth of November One thousand six hundred and sixty We have made provision for the Settlement of Our Kingdome of Ireland and Satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers Souldiers and others Our Subjects there which we are minded to put in effectual Execution We have therefore hereby nominated you or any five or more of you whereof two of the persons following to be alwayes present viz. Our Trusty and Right well beloved Cousin and Counsellour Arthur Lord Viscount Valentia Our Vice-Treasurer and General Receiver of Our said Realm Our Trusty and well beloved Counsellour Sir James Barry James Donelan Esq and John Bysse Esq Sir James Ware Our Atturney and Solicitor General Our Commissioners for the putting in Execution the matters and things therein contained according to the Tenor of these following Instructions You are to cast up the whole Debt and Demand of the Adventurers as well those that are satisfied as those that are in part or in whole deficient as also all the forfeited Lands assigned to or for the said Adventurers according to the Survey commonly called Doctor Petty's Down Admeasurement And the said Demands and Lands you are to compare together and what the said Lands fall short of satisfying the said Adventurers according to the Rates Measures and Proportions of which all or any of the Adventurers were possessed the Seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine so much of the forfeited Lands in the County of Lowth in the Province of Leinster except the Barony of Atherdee you are to set apart for satisfaction of the said Adventurers And if the said forfeited Lands shall fall short of satisfying the said Adventurers you are then to add the forfeited Lands undisposed by Our said Declaration in the County of Catherlogh And if those shall fall short then the Lands remaining undisposed of in the County of Kildare to supply all the said Adventurers deficiencies And if those Lands fall short then you are apart other forfeited Lands in some convenient place for the end aforesaid And in order to the more particular apportioning or dividing the said Lands amongst the said Adventurers and satisfying their deficiencies ascertaining their respective proportions You are to cause publick Proclamation to be made within the respective Counties Cities Baronies and places in Ireland thereby directing each Adventurer his Assignee or Assignees or his or their Agent or Agents sufficiently authorized that hath received any satisfaction in Land for his Adventure within forty dayes after such Proclamation to deliver unto you in
writing under his Hand and Seal a particular of the Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments possessed by him together with the content or number of Acres both profitable and unprofitable in each Town-Land Village Balybo or Quarter of Land as the same were admeasured to him or for his use and in the Right of whom he claimeth such Adventure And if such Adventure be for Houses in any city such Adventurer is to deliver in not onely the particular Houses Tenements and Hereditaments by him possessed but also the value of them respectively as set out to him or any other for his use And if any Adventurer or the Assignee or Assignees of such Adventurers as aforesaid shall neglect to return a Certificate as above-said or shall wittingly make and deliver a false Certificate of the sums he was to be satisfied according to the several Acts past in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred and Forty and in the sixteenth Year of the Reign of Our Royal Father entituled An Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the Rebels in his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland to their due obedience to his Majesty and the Crown of England An Act for adding unto and explaining of certain clauses in another Act made this Parliament intituled An Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the Rebels in his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland to their due obedience to his Majesty and the Crown of England An Act for the further advancement of an effectual and speedy reduction of the Rebels in Ireland to the obedience of his Majesty and the Crown of England An Act for a speedy Contribution and Loan towards the relief of his Majesties distressed Subjects of the Kingdom of Ireland An Act to enable Corporations and Bodies Politick to participate of the benefit of an Act lately passed intituled An Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the Rebels in his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland to their due obedience to his Majesty and the Crown of England Or shall neglect to return a Certificate as aforesaid or willingly make and deliver a false Certificate of the Town-Lands Villages Balyboes Quarters or other Denominations of Land assigned or given out for satisfaction of the said Debt or Demand or of the content or number of Acres according as the same was set out to him or them such Adventurer or his Assignee shall forfeit for three years the Rents and Profits that such Houses Lands Tenements Hereditaments shall yeild that he shall so omit to certifie or that he shall not rightly certifie such Forfeiture to be one Moyety to Vs and the other to be for and towards the defraying the charges in executing this Our Commission Provided a Discovery be made thereof before the three and twentieth of October One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty Three That such of the said Adventurers and Souldiers as have taken Surveys of their Lands do at or before the nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred sixty two bring in to you the said Surveys or Duplicates thereof together with the Field-Books if in their possessions the which you are carefully and exactly to compare with the Surveys taken by Order of the late pretended Powers And if you shall find any considerable difference between the said Surveys you are to ascertain such Adventurers and Souldiers possessions by such of the Surveys as shall appear most for Our advantage and furtherance of this Service Yet so that if such Adventurer or Souldier shall think himself aggrieved thereat You shall appoint one or more sworn Surveyors to re-survey the said Lands in question such Surveyor returning his Field-Book to some other sworn Surveyor to examine cast up and make up the same such Adventurer or Souldier paying the said Surveyor for their said work and in the mean such Adventurer and Souldier to be continued in possession according to the Survey which shall appear as aforesaid most for Our Advantage and if any one shall without cause complain and obtain a re-survey he shall as a penalty for so doing forfeit so much land as he claims to want and shall not be found wanting And if any suggestion or information shall be made to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being That profitable lands are held and possessed as unprofitable the same shall be inquired of by a Iury and such lands as were surveyed and set out to Adventurers and Souldiers or their Assigns as unprofitable and shall by such inquiry be found profitable shall be re-assumed to supply Deficiencies or make Reprisals Out of which said Certificates and Surveys and by such other lawful ways and means as you shall think fit you are to make up Books of what is due to each Adventurer and to ascertain the possession of such to whom lands are assigned therein expressing who was the former Proprietor who forfeited the same the three and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one or since the Town-land Village Balyboe Quarter or other Denomination of Land the content or number of Acres the Parish Barony County and Province in which such Lands do lye respectively and where you shall find any Adventurer or his Assign to have more Lands than will satisfie his Adventure and that such Adventurer be in any other place deficient or shall buy the Right of any deficient Adventurer that such Over-plus Lands shall be assigned unto him towards satisfaction of such deficiencies and having brought things to this certainty you are to set out Lands to the deficient Adventurer in such way as shall be most indifferent and impartial and pursuant to the Acts of Parliament Whereas We have been graciously pleased to appoint the Forfeited Lands in the County of Kildare for satisfaction of Incumbrances on the Estates of Adventurers and Souldiers according to Our said Declaration in the satisfying thereof you are to observe these following Directions viz. To examine in the Books and Records of the late Court of Claims or Exchequer or other Courts what Decrees or Iudgements were passed and allowed to be satisfied out of the Estates of the said Adventurers and Souldiers the Adventurer and Souldier claiming satisfaction for such Incumbrance shall make it appear that the said Decreed Lands are set out unto him as part of his lot and he thereby Entituled to the Reprize for the said Incumbrance If such Incumbrance be by Mortgage Statute Staple Iudgement Recognizance or of any sum of Money on the payment whereof the Land so Incumbred is to be free and discharged you are then to set out Lands in the said County of Kildare for satisfaction of the said Incumbrance after the rate of Ten years purchase to be ascertained by inquiry in way and manner as is hereafter directed for the Reprize of such Adventurers and Souldiers as shall be removed from off their present Estates or according to such other particular
other persons whose Estates are confirmed by Our said Declaration together with the Rents and Profits payable unto Vs according to Our said Declaration by such Adventurers Souldiers and others And you are carefully and exactly to reduce the measure of such Lands as were set out by Plantation-measure of Twenty one Foot to the Pearch and One hundred and Sixty Pearches to the Acre to Sixteen Foot and an half to the Pearch and One hundred and Sixty Pearches to the Acre and accordingly to ascertain the Rent payable to Vs the which you are likewise to do of all the Estates we are graciously pleased to restore unto any Papist whose Estates were formerly disposed of or remained undisposed of in Our Hands Provided such Estates did not formerly pay unto Our Royal Father a greater Rent in which case the said greater Rent is to be reserved and paid to Vs for the Future which Books so made up you are to lodge as Our Court of Exchequer shall direct with some Officer of Our Revenue that the Rents may be given in Charge And that no prejudice may be to Vs or uncertainty in Our Revenue You are also to prepare Duplicates of the said Books to be kept in the Office of Our Chief Remembrancer and Treasurers Remembrancer And whereas in the Execution hereof it will be necessary to imploy several persons for the inquiry into and preparing several matters hereby committed to your Trust you are therefore hereby Authorized and Impowered from time to time to nominate and appoint such person or persons as you shall finde necessary for Our Service herein unto whom Our Chancellor for the time being for that Our Kingdom is hereby required and authorized to grant One or more Commissions under Our Great Seal of that Our Kingdom for the purposes aforesaid And whereas We have by Our said Declaration provided that Protestant Plantations shall be setled Corporations created Churches erected Maintenance for Preaching Ministers provided within the limits and precincts of the Lands to be setled on the Adventurers and Souldiers the same being subject to many intricacies and of universal concernment to that Our Kingdome We do therefore refer the whole consideration thereof unto Our Parliament for their Advice therein And you are hereby strictly required to take special care that the Decrees and the Estates in Lands set out in satisfaction of the same in the Province of Connaught and County of Clare to any Transplanted or Transplantable person and purchased from them or any of them by Charles Earl of Mountrath John Lord Baron of Kingstown Richard Lord Coot Baron of Coloony Carey Dillon Esq Sir George Bingham Baronet Sir Oliver St. George Knight and Baronet Sir John Cole Baronet Sir James Shaen Knight Major Arthur Gore Sir George St. George Sir James Cuffe John Eyres Esquire Henry Waddington Esq Captain Robert Parks Captain Robert Morgan and Captain Owen Lloyd be confirmed unto them and every of them their Heirs and Assigns respectively they paying one full years Value of the Profits of such Estates to Vs Our Heirs and Successors in two years space in such manner and for such Vses as in Our late Declaration is offered to be contributed by the Adventurers and Souldiers and accepted by Vs and that they be not removed from any such Estates in Lands they have so purchased by virtue of such Decrees untill they be duely reprized out of other Forfeited Lands of equal Value Worth and Purchase in the said Province of Connaught or County of Clare or elsewhere as in Our said Declaration is directed for Adventurers and Souldiers Provided that this shall not be construed to confirm the Decree of any person for so much thereof as was obtained by injustice fraud irregularity or oppression in the proceedings but especially of any person who had no Right nor Title by the Rules given for making those Decrees to the Estate in compensation whereof such Decree was granted if the same shall be made appear unto you before the Five and Twentieth day of March One Thousand Six hundred Sixty and Three And in such case it is Our pleasure that any of the aforesaid persons who hath purchased Lands upon any such insufficient Decree shall or may place some other unsatisfied or reprizable Decree upon such Lands Provided also That this Clause shall not extend to confirm unto the said persons any Lands that are restorable by Our Declaration to the former Proprietors Reprizals being given in lieu thereof as in the Declaration is appointed Provided also That such Transplanted Persons who being within Rules of Reprizal have been removed from the Lands to which they have been transplanted without any Reprize therefore first given be forthwith Reprized in the first place and before all other Reprizable persons And that the Lands set out unto Sir Thomas Herbert and Benjamin Worsley Esq for their Salaries in Ireland in relation to their Imployments about the Satisfaction of the Souldiery in stating their Arrears or surveying or setting out Lands be confirmed unto them and their Heirs and Assigns severally and respectively And if the said Lands or any part thereof shall be restored to the former Proprietors That a Reprize be forthwith assigned and set out unto them their Heirs and Assignes severally and respectively in lieu thereof in like manner as is provided for such Adventurers and Souldiers as shall be removed from off their present Estates And whereas some Ambiguity or Doubt may arise under what Qualifications such persons may be comprehended who submitted unto Our Articles of Peace and inviolably observed the same yet neither attended Vs in Forreign Parts nor sued out Decrees for Lands in Connaught or County of Clare You are in order to their Settlement to proceed in the same way and method as by Our Declaration is held forth for those that submitted to Our Articles and inviolably observed the same and attended Vs in Forreign parts And for the better quieting setling and securing the several persons and their Interests for whom provision is made in Our said Declaration and Instructions and this present Act the Lord Lieutenant Lord Deputy Lords Iustices or their Chief Governour or Governours of that Our Kingdom for the time being upon Certificate signed by you or any Five or more of you as aforesaid expressing the Name or Names of such persons the quality of their Estates the number of Acres the Barony County and Province in which such Estates are and the â—ents reservable as also the Tenure and Services are hereby authorized and required upon request by the person or persons so concerned to cause effectual Letters Patents under the Great Seal of that Our Kingdome to be passed in the usual manner of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the persons aforesaid by advice of Our Learned Council in the Law for that Our Kingdom or some of them as the case shall require without expecting any further Letters or Warrants from Our Self and for so doing these Our Directions shall be
the space of One and Thirty dayes next and immediately after the day which shall be appointed by a Proclamation made or caused to be made in the City of Dublin by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being which Proclamation shall not be made until such time as the Commissioners appointed by His Majesty for the execution of the Declaration and Instructions and this present Act shall be arrived at Dublin and shall have assembled and met for the execution of their Commission but shall be made as soon after as conveniently may be And that after the said time shall be expired no Claims shall be received but the Parties left without remedy and debarred for ever without His Majesties special Order in that behalf upon accidents or emergencies where Iustice shall require the same And whereas in the respective Securities herein and hereby designed and allotted unto the several Officers serving before the Fifth of June One thousand Six hundred Forty and nine who have received no satisfaction for their said Services there is allotted to them satisfaction out of all the Forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the Counties of Wicklow Longford Leytrim and Donnegal and out of the Lands forfeited and undisposed of in the Province of Connaught and County of Clare lying within one Mile of the River Shannon or of the Sea commonly called the Mile-Line and out of the Houses and Tenements forfeited in Ireland in the several Walled Towns and Corporations and Lands thereunto belonging not already set out to Adventurers and Souldiers And out of the benefit accrewing out of the Redemption of Mortgages Statute Staples and Iudgements where Lands are not so given out to Adventurers and Souldiers and out of One years Rent and Profit of the Lands set out to the Officers and Souldiers for their Arrears in the year One thousand Six hundred Fifty three And likewise of the Army then viz. on the Thirtieth of November One thousand Six hundred and Sixty in being according as those respective said Estates yielded in the year One thousand Six hundred Fifty Nine As also out of one year and a halfs Rent and Profits arising out of the Lands for the Arrears of those Officers and Souldiers who were ordered or received satisfaction for their said Arrears in the year One thousand Six hundred Fifty five One thousand Six hundred Fifty six and One thousand Six hundred Fifty seven according as the Estates yielded in One thousand Six hundred Fifty nine whereupon some doubt have been made concerning the words Forfeited and Vndisposed and concerning the words several Walled Towns and Corporations and concerning the words Lands thereunto belonging and concerning the words Mortgages Statute Staples and Iudgements and some Doubts have also risen concerning the Limitation of Time from whence the said Year and the said Year and a half shall commence It is therefore hereby Declared and Enacted that the said word Forfeited shall be deemed and taken not only of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as are already Forfeited by Iudgement Confession Verdict or Out-lawry but such as by reason of any Act or Acts of the said Rebellion already committed by the several and respective Proprietors hereof shall or may be Forfeitable And that the word Vndisposed shall be intended and taken for Vndisposed by this Act And that the several words Walled Towns and Corporations shall be construed to extend to all Cities and Corporate Towns within the Kingdome of Ireland and that the words Lands thereunto belonging shall be construed to extend to all Lands Forfeited or reputed to be Forfeited in manner as aforesaid lying and being within the said Cities Walled Towns or Corporations or within the Suburbs and Liberties thereof and not set out to Adventurers or Souldiers or other Protestants mentioned to be preserved in the said Declaration And that the words Mortgages Statutes Staples and Iudgements shall be construed to extend to Statutes Marchant Recognizances Elegits and all Conditional and Deseazable Estates and to all Incumbrances whatsoever within the Kingdome of Ireland not otherwise disposed of according to the said Declaration And it is further Declared and Enacted That the said year and the said year and a half shall commence from the Nine Twentieth day of September One thousand Six hundred Sixty and Two as to such as shall then enjoy the lands set out to them for their Adventuers and Arrears And for such as shall be removed and not Reprized by the said Nine and Twentieth day of September One thousand Six hundred Sixty two The said year and the said year and a halfs Rent shall commence within Six Moneths after such time as such persons shall be reprized respectively the said Payments to be paid half yearly at Easter and Michaelmas by even and equal portions And whereas it doth remain in His Maiesties power to grant restitution to such of the innocent Papists who have been dispossessed for publick security of houses and Lands within any of the said Corporations And whereas also other innocent Papists are by His Maiesties said Declaration restoreable to their Estates part of whose Estates may fall within the said Securities And whereas liekwise his Majesty in the said Declaration hath appointed certain persons by Name to be restored to their ancient Estates part of whose Estates may likewise happen to fal within the said securities of the said Officers whereupon some Doubt hath arisen concering the Reprizals which in cases of restitution are to be given to the said Officers Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any such person or persons shall be so restored whose Estate or Estates or any part thereof lies within the said Securities that the like courses shall to all intents and purposes whatsoever be taken for the Reprizals of the said Officers as in the said Declaration is prescribed for the Reprizal of the said Adventurers and Souldiers And be it further Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Charles Earl of Mountrah who hath so eminently merited in the late Transactions in this Kingdom shall be paid his Arrears due for Service in Ireland before the Fifth day of June One thousand Six hundred Forty nine equally with the said Officers before One thousand Six hundred Forty nine out of the Security aforesaid so as the said Arrears exceed not the sum of Six thousand Pound any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas His Majesty is graciously pleased to Declare That the Forfeited Lands and Houses already set out for satisfaction of Money lent or publick Debts incurred for Provisions Clothes Armes Amunition and all other Necessaries for the Support of the Army in Ireland shall remain disposeable for satisfaction of the said Debts And in case they shall fall short then to have satisfaction allotted to them out of the remaining Lands and Houses set out for satisfaction of the Arrears of the Commission-Officers due before
One thousand Six hundred Forty nine in the Counties of Wicklow Longford Donnegal Leytrim the Mile-Line in Connaught and Clare and the Houses in the Cities Walled Towns and Corporations in Ireland It is Enacted and be it Enacted That all such persons and all and every the Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns of such persons who have lent Mony or furnished any Provisions Clothes Armes or Ammunition for the Support of the Army in Ireland before the Sixteenth of September One thousand Six hundred Forty three shall be satisfied their just Debts of the aforesaid Securities And be it further Enacted That all such Persons their Heirs Executors and Administrators who have entred into Bonds or given any Security by Bills of Exchange or otherwise for the Debts afore-mentioned shall be in the mean time till Satisfaction be made and granted as aforesaid saved discharged and kept harmless and not liable to any Suit or Prosecution against them or any of them their Heirs Executors Administrators or Assignes respectively Provided alwayes and it is hereby Enacted That the Town and Lands of Ballyanin Garriduff East Ballivodicke West Ballivodicke and West Ballintobride in the Barony of Barrimore and County of Corke set out and disposed to Sir St. John Brodericke Knight in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Fifty Four and now in his possession shall be and are hereby vested in and settled upon the said Sir St. John Brodericke his Heirs and Assignes for ever by and under such Tenures Rents and Services as are appointed by Your Majesties said Gracious Declaration and this Act for Lands set out in the Province of Munster in Satisfaction of Arrears for Service in Ireland Provided nevertheless and it is hereby Declared and Enacted That Your Majesties Lieutenant Deputy Iustices or Iustice or other chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom for the time being shall and may and hereby are impowred and authorized to apportion and divide from time to time the cost and charges which have been or shall be necessarily expended by the Commissioners or others in for and concerning the Execution of the said Declaration that the same shall be equally satisfied by the whole Adventurers Officers and Souldiers that have or shall have Lands for Adventures or Arrears either before One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine or since without any Distinction and that the Officers who served in Ireland before the Fifth of June One thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine or their Securities he not charged with more then their â—ateable Shares and due Proportion any thing herein formerly mentioned to the contrary thereof notwithstanding And whereas the Committee of Adventurers sitting at Grocers Hall London for the better management of their affairs in relation to their Adventures are necessitated in Order thereunto to endeavour the raising of a considerable sum of money of and from the said respective Adventurers as well for paying of the Debts already contracted as for the defraying the publick Charges for the better carrying on of the said Service for the future and for as much as some of the said Adventurers may prove to be refractory in paying and allowing their reasonable proportions of money towards the Charges aforesaid It being nevertheless expedient that a Service of such publick and common advantage should be equally born and paid by all persons concerned therein according to their respective Interests Be it therefore further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every of the said Adventurers their Heirs or Assignes whose Estates are to be confirmed pursuant to your Majesties said Gracious Declaration shall allow satisfie and pay such sum and sums of money as the said Committee or any five or more of them shall think sit and appoint for the carrying on of the said Service such sum and sums of money not exceeding Two Pence in every Twenty Shillings adventured by such Adventurer and in default of such appointment That Two Pence in every Twenty Shillings adventured by such Adventurer be raised and levied and that the same shall be paid to Erasmus Smith Esq Martin Noel of London Esq William Barker of London Esq Thomas Gower of St. Mary Woll Church of London Esq Edward Smith of St. Mary Overies Esq and Hugh Ratcliffe of St. Martins Esq or to such person or persons as they the said Committee of Adventurers sitting at Grocers Hall or any five or more of them from time to time shall direct and appoint and in default of payment thereof it shall and may be lawful to and for the persons aforesaid or any of them or such other person or persons as they shall direct or appoint to leavy by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of such persons so making default double the sum in arrears rendering the Over-plus to the party distrained And whereas Sir Francis Willoghby Knight lately deceased by the Tyranny and Oppression of the late Vsurpers was in his life time cast out of all Commands in this Kingdome and enforced to give up all his Debentures and Warrants of full pay for his Service in Ireland before the year One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine they assigning him only Two Thousand Acres in the County of Clare for Two Thousand Pounds in full Satisfaction of his whole arrears Be it hereby further Provided and Enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authority of the same that no less prejudice or damage whatsoever shall arise to or befall Dame Elizabeth Willoghby the Relict and sole Executrix of the said Sir Francis Willoghby for or by reason or in respect of her said Husbands necessitated accepting of the said Lands in the County of Clare in Satisfaction of all his said Debentures or Warrants of full Pay in manner as aforesaid other than the abating out of his whole arrears the aforesaid sum of Two Thousand pounds and the Issues of Profits of the said Lands and Tenements since the time of the said abatement and acceptance had and received But as to the residue of the said arrears due unto the said Sir Francis Willoghby before the Fifth of June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine for his Service in Ireland the said Dame Elizabeth Willoghby and her Assigns according to Your Majesties Gracious Intentions declared by Your Letters of the Thirtieth of March One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty One in her behalf shall be admitted and accepted to have ask demand and receive as full and ample Satisfaction for the same out of the Securities by this Act set apart for satisfying the arrears of the Commissioned Officers before the Fifth of June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine to all intents and purposes as if she were to that end named provided for and saved in Your Majesties Declaration of the Thirtieth of November One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty and as any Commissioned Officer or Officers whatsoever who served in Ireland before the year One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine and hath hitherto received no part of satisfaction for such his
the said Diocess as the Bishop thereof shall judge most convenient and such Rents payable as aforesaid are to be in lieu of all Crown-Rent and other Challenges and Acknowledgements whatsoever payable by the said Officers out of such Chauntries or Lands belonging to them And Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of all and every the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments set in Fee Farm by the Bishop of the Diocess wherein such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments are upon which any Rent was paid unto the Church in the Years One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty or One Thousand Six Hundred Forty and One and which are Forfeited and Vested by this Act in His Majesty his Heirs and Successors and that are by this present Act set out assigned or intended to be set out and assigned unto any Commissioned Officer or Officers that served his late Majesty before the Fifth of June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine as aforesaid his or their Heirs or Assigns there shall be paid for ever by such Commissioned Officer or Officers his or their Heirs or Assigns in lieu of all Crown-Rents and all other Acknowledgements whatsoever due or payable out of the said Lands the sum of Two Shillings in the Pound at the improved value to be ascertained as aforesaid of such Lands and Tenements so possessed and enjoyâ—d by him or them his or their Heirs or Assigns of which they were or shall be respectively holden And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of the several houses forfeited and vested in his Majesty by this Act being in several walled Towns Cities Corporations and Burroughs in this Kingdome and by this Act are set out assigned and allotted for the satisfaction of the Commissioned Officers their Heirs and Assigns as aforesaid That all and every Archbishop and Bishop and Minister whose Houses in any of their respective Sees or Church-Livings within the said Town or Suburbs are wasted or not habitable shall have set out unto them an handsome convenient House Rent free other than the Rent payable to his Majesty which by the said Archbishop Bishop his or their Successors and by the Ministers aforesaid is hereby payable to his Majesty during the said Term at and according to the same values that shall be set upon the yearly Rent of such Houses set out and given into the possession of such Archbishop or Bishop his or their Successors as also to such Ministers as abovesaid for the space of Seven Years to begin from the day such possession is given such House or Houses to be in the most convenient place for the Ministers residence and every Archbishop or Bishop to have his own choice of the best Forfeited House and Garden within the City or Suburbs where his Cathedral is during the aforesaid time And if such Archbishop or Bishop or other Minister have no House or House-stead belonging to their Sees or Rectories lying within the said Town That then a convenient House out of the Houses aforesaid or House-stead at the Election of the Bishop or Minister shall be set out to such Archbishop Bishop or Minister his or their Successors for ever under the rent reservable to his Majesty out of such house or houses by this Act to be paid to his Majesty by such Archbishop Bishop or Minister his or their Successors for ever And also be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners to be appointed by his Majesty for the execution of the said Declaration and Instructions and this present Act shall have full Power and Authority by Virtue of this Act and of the said Commission with the greatest indifference that may be to all persons therein concerned to do and execute all and every Act and Acts Thing and Things as may conduce to the manner of executing all and every Clause or Câ—auses contained in this Act that have express reference to the Settlement of the Interests of the Church and that all manner of Proceedings and Orders to be made by the said Commissioners in pursuance of their Commission and according to the said Declaration and Instructions and this present Act shall by Virtue of this Act be as good and effectual in the Law to all intents constructions and purposes as though the same had been particularly and distinctly mentioned or set down by Authority of this present Parliament And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the recompence or satisfaction to be made or given by any of the Protestant Officers who served in the Irish Wars before the Fifth day of June One thousand six hundred forty nine for or in respect of any Buildings or Reparations of any Messuages or Tenements herein before appointed as a security for their respective Arrears shall not exceed a Fifth part of that sum which is the true and real value of such messuages and Tenements in case the Inheritance thereof were to be sold messuages new built from the ground onely excepted nor shall any recompence or satisfaction be made or given for or in respect of any Buildings or Reparations which have been begun since the Thirtieth day of November One thousand six hundred and sixty And it is hereby further Enacted That where choice or particular lands or houses within the said Security are or shall be appointed for satisfying Arrears of any Officers the same may be set out to them in all other things according to the Valuation and Rules given by your Majesty for setting the rest of the Security not otherwise excepting the houses and lands granted to Sir George Lane Knight And whereas there have been several Baronies reserved to reprize such Inhabitants and Natives of Cities and Walled Towns in Ireland as were excluded from their Proprieties in the said Towns or Cities some of whom may perhaps be restorable by this Act to their ancient proprieties Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any such shall be restored to their ancient proprieties that then so much of the Lands reserved in those Baronies of equal value worth and purchase to the lands and houses so to be restored to the said Inhabitants and Natives be and shall be reprized to the said Officers serving before the Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine for and in lieu of what lands and houses shall be so restored back to the said former Proprietors And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any Burroughs Corporations or Towns being and continuing actually Incorporated in the year One thousand Six Hundred Forty One and were allotted and set out to Adventurers or Souldiers not as Burroughs Corporations or Towns Corporate but measured as part of their Land assigned them the said Burroughs Corporations and Towns Corporate respectively are hereby assigned towards the satisfying the Arrears of the said Offâ—cers before the Fifth of June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine And be it hereby further Declared and Enacted by the Authority
or any Clause in this Act That they shall have reprizal for the same in such manner as other persons are reprizable by this Act any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted That out of the several parcels of Land of and in Cloenogrha Lackleenagh Clenefore Capprogge and Cloonederage with their members and appurtenances in the County of Longford Lands to the clear yearly value of fifty Pounds per annum be setled upon and granted unto John Ferral Esq your Majesties Servant and his Heirs to be held in Capite and by the yearly Rent of Twenty shillings a year any Grant Clause matter or Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding And forasmuch as Captain John Bartlet and Captain Thomas Bartlet have been eminently serviceable in and upon the Coast of Ireland to your Majesty and your Royal Father of blessed memory Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said John Bartlet and the Heir of the said Thomas Bartlet their Heirs and Assigns be equally satisfied and paid whatsoever is due unto them or their Heirs or Assigns for their or either of their Disbursements in the said Service before the first day of June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine according to such Accompts and stating thereof as shall be allowed by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland out of the Lands Houses and other the Security appointed or set apart for Satisfaction of the Commission-Officers that served in Our Kingdom of Ireland before the said Fifth day of June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty and Nine and in such manner as they or any of them are appointed to be satisfied and paid in or by his Majesties Gracious Declaration of the Thirtieth of November One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty or any Act or Acts made pursuant thereunto any thing herein before mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and Be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to any Manors Castles Towns Villages Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments which are or were of Sir Andrew Aylemer of Donnada in the County of Kiidare Knight and Baronet but that he the said Sir Andrew Aylemer his Heirs and Assigns shall and may have hold and enjoy all and every such Manors Castles Towns Villages Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof he was so seized or possessed the two and twentieth of October One Thousand Six Hundred Forty One according to such Right and Title therein as he or they respectively then had any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Provided always and Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act or any thing or matter therein contained shall not extend to any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whereof James Lord Audley Earl of Castle-Haven was seized or possest of in this Kingdom on the Two and Twentieth of October One Thousand Six Hundred Forty One nor to prejudice or avoid any Right Title or Interest that the said Earl his Heirs or Assigns had or might have to or in any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in this Kingdom but that the said Earl his Heirs Executors or Assigns may be are hereby restored to all and singular such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof he or they were lawfully seized or possest and that all and every person or persons their Heirs Executors or Assigns that have had all or any part of such Lands Tenements or Hereditaments set out unto them are hereby immediately to be removed and that such who shall be so removed and are justly capable of Reprize be Reprized as others in like cases are to be reprized any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Colonel John Fitz-Patrick of Castle-Town in the Queens County shall be and is hereby restored in Blood and enabled to make and derive his Pedigree from any Ancestor Lineal or Collateral and shall also be restored unto and vested in the Real and Actual possession and seizin to him and his Heirs of all and every the Castles Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Reversions and Remainders and Leases whereof the said Colonel John Fitz-Patrick or his Father or any other in Trust for them or either of them or to their use were at any time before the Two and Twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one lawfully seized or possessed any thing in this Act or otherwise notwithstanding And that all and every the persons to be removed from any of the premisses shall be forthwith reprized for the same according to the merit of his case Provided always That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to prejudice his Majesties Grant under the Great Seal unto Sir George Preston Knight and his Heirs of the forfeited Mills Wares and Fishings upon the River of Shannon or upon any part thereof and upon the Sea Coast in the Province of Connaught and in the County of Leitrim but that the same shall be of such and no other force and effect than as if this Act had not been made And whereas Thomas Cooper and William Row are Purchasers of certain Lands in the Barony of Denifore in the County of Westmeath for which they paid Five thousand Pounds or thereabouts to Edward Carey late of the Middle Temple Esq who had formerly purchased the same of divers other Adventurers And the said Thomas Cooper and William Row their Heirs or Assigns being in possession upon the Seventh day of May in the year One thousand six hundred fifty and nine may happily expect according to some general words in His Majesties Declaration and those His Majesties former Instructions contained that their Estates should be made good to them as well as to any other Adventurers or their Assigns Nevertheless his Majesty being well assured that the purchase made by the said Thomas Cooper and William Row was only in trust for the Wife and Children of Archibald Hamilton then newly executed for Treason in Scotland and the moneys laid out in that purchase for the Wife and Children were given by Cromwel as a Reward of those Treasons hath thought fit to distinguish this Case from the Case of other Adventurers and their Assigns Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Thomas Cooper and William Row be removed from the possession of the premisses and all other persons claiming by from or under them and that the same be delivered unto Thomas Pigot Esq Master of Our Court of Wards and Liveries in Ireland and unto Matthew Lock Esq To Have and to Hold to them and their Heirs subject nevertheless to the payment of the like Rents and Services as the Adventurers for Lands in the Province of Leinster are and granting to them the like Benefit of Reprizals in cases of Restitution as the Adventurers or their Assignes should have had in case they had
still enjoyed the same Provided always and Be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That one Grant or Lease made by Randal now Marquess of Antrim on or about the One and Twentieth day of November in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Thirty Seven of the Barony of Carey the Lordship of Bally Castle and the Island of Rachlins and all his Lands and Hereditaments within the said Barony Lordship and Island or any of them unto Alexander Mac Donnel John Moore Archibald Stewart and John Trayleman for ninety nine years from Michaelmas One Thousand Six Hundred Thirty Seven which Lease was made in Trust for payment of and Counter-Security against his Debts shall be and remain of the like effect and force in Law and no other as the same was before the making of this Act any thing in this Act before contained to the contrary notwithstanding And that the said Estate and term of years of and in the said demised premisses shall be and is hereby transferred from the aforesaid Lessees unto and vested and setled in Martin Noel Esq Thomas Carleton Citizen and Mercer of London and John Bradborne of the Middle Temple London Gentleman who shall hold and enjoy the said demised premisses from henceforth for and during such Interest as they legally have by the said Lease upon this Trust reposed in them the said Martin Noel Thomas Carleton and John Bradborne that they their Executors and Administrators shall from time to time dispose and imploy such moneys as they shall raise or receive by or out of the said Premisses for and towards the Satisfaction and Payment of all such Debts of the said Marquess as are yet unpaid and were intended by the said Lease or Ninety nine years to be secured and that all and every person and persons now seized or possessed of any part of the premisses and reprizable by the Rules of the Declaration and Instructions and this present Act shall be forthwith reprized for so much as shall be Adjudged from Them by Virtue of the said Lease Provided always and Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England Anthony Ashley Lord Ashley Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Baronet Lord Chief Iustice of his Majesties Court of Common Pleas and Sir Henry Vernon To Have Hold and enjoy to them and their Heirs and Assigns all that the Castle Manor and Abby of Eniscorthy in the County of Wexford and all those Manors Townships Lands Tenements Territories and Hereditaments late parcel of the possessions of Robert Wallop commonly called or known by the name of Kilbeck Clony Turnesallough and Effernock and also all that the Priory or Rectory and Church Impropriate of Salsker in the said County of Wexford late parcel of the possessions of the said Robert Wallop with all Tythes Oblations Obventions and all other Profits whatsoever thereunto belonging and all other the Messuages Lands Tenements Tythes Rents Reversions and Hereditaments whatsoever in the Kingdom of Ireland granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said Earl of Southampton Lord Ashley Sir Orlando Bridgman and Sir Henry Vernon and their Heirs in and by certain Letters Patents bearing Date the Six and Twentieth day of September in the Thirteenth year of his Majesties Reign which said Letters Patents shall be and are hereby ratified confirmed and approved according to the Tenor and Purport thereof any thing in this present Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided always and Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for Sir Richard Ingoldsby Knight of the Bath to receive and take to his own use the Rents Issues and Profits of all and singular the Messuages Lands and Tenements formerly belonging to Sir Hardress Waller and now forfeited by the Attainder of the said Sir Hardress Waller for High Treason and also all and singular the Goods and Chattels formerly belonging to the said Sir Hardress Waller and now forfeited wheresoever the same shall be found in the Kingdom of Ireland until the said Sir Richard Ingoldsby shall out of the Rents and Profits or by reason of the said Goods and Chattels be fully satisfied and paid the sum of Two Thousand Pounds with the Interest thereof since the year One thousand Six hundred Fifty eight or so much thereof as remains yet unsatisfied he the said Sir Richard Ingoldsby accompting for and paying the full Overplus thereof if any shall be unto Our Sovereign Lord the King any thing in this Act before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for Sr. George Lane Knight his Heirs and Assignes to have hold possess and quietly enjoy to the use of him the said Sir George Lane Knight his Heirs and Assigns all the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments wherein the said Sir George Lane had any Estate in Possession Reversion or Remainder on the Fifteenth day of September One thousand six hundred and fifty And also all the Castles Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which he the said Sir George Lane or any other person or persons in Trust for him the said Sir George Lane or to his Vse hath or have purchased of or from Thomas Dutton Esq Son and Heir of Sir Thomas Dutton Kt. deceased and also of and from Sir John Norton of Rotherfield in the County of Southampton Baronet situate lying and being in the Counties of Longford and Leitrim containing by Estimation Two Thousand Six hundred Acres of profitable land be it more or less And also all other the Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof John Cook and Philip Hore lately attained for High Treason or either of them or any other person or persons to the use of or in Trust for them or either of them was or were seized or possessed on the Day they the said John and Philip respectively committed their several Treasons or at any time since and which were given and granted or mentioned to be given and granted by his Majesties Letters Patents under the Great Seal of Ireland unto the said Sir George Lane and his Heirs according to the purport and meaning of the said Letters Patents all which said Manors Castles Lands Tenements and Hereditaments are to be held and enjoyed by the said Sir George Lane his heirs and assigns with like benefit of Reprizal in case of Restitution as any Adventurers ought to have Saving to all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their Heirs Executors Successors and Assigns other then to the Kings Maiesty his Heirs and Successors and other then to the said Thomas Dutton Sir John Norton John Cook and Philip Hore or any of them or the Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns of them or any of them and other than such person
and persons their Heirs Executors or Assigns as do or may claim to the use of or in trust for them or any of them and other than to such person and persons their Heirs Executors and Assigns who shall not be adjudged innocent according to the Qualifications of this present Act all such Estate Right Title and Interest either in Law or Equity as they or any of them had before the making of this Act any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That the Lands Tenement and Hereditaments now in the possession of George Duke of Albemarle or his Assigns which are or shall be confirmed to him his Heirs and Assigns by or in pursuance of this or any other Act of this Parliament or any other Grant from his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall be continue and remain to him his heirs and assigns for ever to be held in free and common Soccage as of his Majesties Castle of Dublin by Fealty and the yearly Rent of Ten pounds payable at the Two most usual Feasts in the Year viz. Saint Michael the Arch-Angel and our Lady Day by Two most equal Portions at his Majesties Receipt of the Exchequer and freed and discharged from all other Rents Accompts or other Services to his Majesty his Heirs or Successors any thing in this or any other Law Statute or Ordinance to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted That the Town of Mollingar in the County of Westmeath with all the houses Castles Tenements Lands and Commons thereunto belonging and forfeited to his Majesty be and they are hereby settled upon Sir Arthur Forbess Baronet and his heires for ever according to a Grant thereof passed unto him by Letters Patents under his Majesties Great Seal of Ireland bearing Date the Seven and Twentieth day of July in the Thirteenth year of his said Majesties Reign And whereas some doubt may arise upon the words of that Clause relating to the satisfaction of such Commissioned-Officers their heirs or assigns who were in Regiments Troops or Companies raised in Ireland or Transported out of England and served his late Royal Majesty of Glorious memory or his now Majesty in the Wars in Ireland at any time before the Fifth day of June One thousand six hundred forty nine whether provision be thereby made for satisfaction of the Arrears due to James Duke of Ormond Robert Earl of Leicester according to their several Commands they bore in the said Kingdom of Ireland Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and several Arrears due to the said James Duke of Ormond and Robert Earl of Leicester or either of them by or upon all or any their Entertainments or Allowances according to their Commands aforesaid be and shall be satisfied out of the lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other securities by this present Act laid out and ascertained for the satisfaction of such Officers unto the said Duke and Earl their Heirs or Assigns according to the same rate and in the same manner as such Arrears by this present Act are to be satisfied any Clause or thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And for the better satisfaction of Robert Southwel of Kingsale in the Kingdom of Ireland Esq the sum of Seven hundred pounds by him heretofore furnished for the supply of Our Fleet in the year One thousand six hundred forty eight being then in the Port of Kingsale aforesaid Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Forfeited Lands late the freehold and inheritance of Philip Barrioge lying in the Liberty of Kingsale and Barony of Kinalea in the County of Cork in the said Kingdome of Ireland situate lying and being in the several Plow-lands and Places herein after mentioned One Plow-land called Rincorran One Plow-land called Raghmore and one Plow-land called Preehaus lying in the liberty of Kingsale one half of a Plow-land called Toghermeshim half a Plow-land called Currentry Leshane half a Plow-land called Knocknenaffe half a Plow-land called Ballineclashy and one quarter of a Plow-land called Ballinvallin lying and being in the Barrony of Kinelea in the County of Cork all containing by estimation One thousand Three hundred Seventy and two Acres as also parcel of the forfeited lands of James Melliphont videl One Plow-land called Southwaters land wherein is the place called Cilly and Bensons Cow containing about One hundred and Sixty Acres and lying and being in the said liberty of Kingsale be held and emoyed by the said Robert Southwel His Heirs and Assigns in satisfaction and full recompence of his said Debt to hold the same to the said Robert Southwel his Heirs and Assigns for ever subject nevertheless to the like Rents and Services and with like benefit of Reprizal in case of restitution as any adventurer ought to have and also with like benefit or reprizal in case the same be due to any Adventurer or Souldier by virtue of this Act any thing in this present Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authority of the same That the Lord ships of Templetown Mooretown and Mouclogh in Cowly in the Diocess of Ardmagh the Lordship of Kilsaran the Rectories of Monasterboies Desert Clougegan and the Lands and Hereditaments of Terman Feigham Doulier and Downam or by what other Name or Names they or any of them are known or called with their and every of their appurtenances shall be and are hereby settled and vested in William Legge Esq one of the Grooms of his Majesties Bed-Chamber his Executors and Assigns for the term of Ninety nine Years to be accompted from the determination of one or more lease or leases heretofore made unto Sir Thomas Plunket Lord of Lowth or to any other person or persons under such Yearly Rents and services as any Adventurers ought to pay within the Province where the premisses do lye unless the Rent formerly reserved were greater in which case the highest Rent is to be paid And whereas there was set out and assigned unto Colonel Carey Dillon certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Mile-line of Connaught and Clare in satisfaction of a small part of his Arrears due unto him for Service in Ireland before the Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine and by the Declaration confirmed unto him Be it therefore hereby further Provided and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Carey Dillon his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assignes shall and may receive for the remainder of his Arrears unsatisfied for Service in Ireland before the Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine farther and equal satisfaction with other the Commissioned Officers that shall or are to receive satisfaction for their respective Arrears due before the said Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine by virtue of this Act any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in
thereof from the Kingdome of Ireland in the year One thousand Six hundred Forty seven were since expulsed from their Habitations and Estates in the time of the Vsurped Power Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such of the Inhabitants and Proprietors of the said City and Town as constantly adhered to the Royal Authority until their respective deaths or withdrawing of the same Royal Authority from the said Kingdome in the year One thousand six hundred forty seven and did not at any time after adhere to the Papal Clergy or other the Irish Rebels in opposition to the Royal Authority and the Heirs and Widows of such of them as are dead shall be restored unto and have and enjoy as of their former estates all and every their and every of their Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Freedomes and Immunities respectively in the said City of Dublin and Town of Drogheda and elsewhere any thing in this Act or in any other Act contained to the contrary or any other matter or proceedings against them or any of them at any time since the said withdrawing of the Royal Authority until his Majesties restitution notwithstanding And for the better prevention of all future Rebellions and to the end Our good Subjects of Ireland may be likewise secured against all Insurrections or Attempts for the time to come and the said Kingdome be the better planted and improved Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour and Governours and Council of Ireland for the time being from time to time and at all times hereafter during the space of Seven years to be accompted from the first of May One thousand six hundred sixty two to make and establish such Rules Orders and Directions for the better planting with Protestants the Lands by this Act vested in his Majesty and not appointed to be restored to innocent persons And for the better Regulation of Cities Walled Towns and Corporations and the electing of Magistrates and Officers there and to inflict such Penalties for the breach thereof as they in their wisdome shall think fit so as the Penalties for breach of the Rules of Plantation do not extend further then to treble the Quit-rents due for the Lands which shall be planted otherwise then those Rules shall direct the said Penalties to continue and be yearly paid to the King his Heirs and Successors till the said Rules of Plantation be performed and thenceforth the Rent by this Act reserved to be only payable and so as the Penalties for breach of the Rules to be made touching Corporations do not extend further then to the removal and disfranchizment of such persons as shall be found guilty of the breach thereof which Rules Orders and Directions so as aforesaid to be made shall be as good and effectual in Law to all intents and purposes as if the same had been established by Authority of this present Parliament and shall remain continue and abide in force for such and so long time as in the said Rules Orders and Directions shall be limited and appointed Provided nevertheless That no undisposed nor unconfirmed Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in the Province of Ulster which are or shall come unto your Majesties hands shall be set out in satisfaction of deficient Adventures but that the same may be wholly reserved and disposed of for Reprizal according to the full value worth and purchase of the same unless the forfeited Lands in other Provinces shall not be found sufficient to satisfie those deficiencies And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the Lands and Tenements in Ireland given and granted by his Majesty under his Great Seal of England or Ireland and any way ratified confirmed or approved by this present Act shall stand charged and be chargeable with a years Rent or a year and a halfs Rent and such like other Quit-rents and annual Payments wherewith any the Lands of Adventurers or Souldiers stand respectively charged to be raised levied and paid in like manner as other the like Rents and Payments by this Act before mentioned are appointed Provided alwayes That where any greater Rent is reserved upon any such Grants and Letters Patents as aforesaid than the Quit-rents reserved by this Act would amount unto that then and in such case the Rent reserved by the said Letters Patents shall be duely answered and paid and no other Quit-rents any thing before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Saving to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all and singular the Estate Right Title and Interest of in and to any Honours Manors Castles Lands and Tenements which his Majesties Royal Father had upon the Two and Twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred Forty and one in Right of his Crown of Ireland and which were then or at any time within ten years before in charge in his Majesties Court of Exchequer otherwise then by any Inquisition of Lands in Connaught found and returned in the time of the Earl of Straffords Government and which have not since been granted or disposed by his Majesty or his Royal Father by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England or Ireland and other then such Rights and Titles as in and by a certain Act of Parliament pasted in England Intituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indemnity and Oblivion are mentioned or intended to be barred or extinguisht any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Theobald Earl of Garlingford and Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon shall be and are hereby restored unto and vested in all and singular the messuages manors lands tenements and hereditaments respectively whereof they or either of them or any other person or persons to the use of or in trust for them or either of them were seized or possessed upon the Two and Twentieth day of October One thousand Six hundred Forty one or at any time since and that such persons and their heirs and assigns to whom any of the lands belonging to the said Earl of Carlingford and Lord Viscount Dillon or either of them have been set out and who are by this Act reprizable for the same be forthwith reprized out of the first Lands that shall come unto his Majesty in the Province of Connaught or County of Clare either by the restoring of any persons to their Estates who weâ—e formerly transplanted or otherwise any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided Nevertheless and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to settle upon or give or be construed to settle upon or give unto all or any of the said Adventurers any benefit part or portion of such sum or sums of money as have been forfeited by any Adventurer or Adventurers by
lie most contiguous unto the Fort of Duncannon which lands so as aforesaid to be set out shall be reserved unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors to the intent that the Rents Issues and Profits thereof may for ever be imployed for and towards the better support and maintenance of the Fort aforesaid and all and every the Adventurers and Souldiers and other reprizable persons to whom any of the said Lands so as aforesaid to be set out have been heretofore allotted or disposed shall be forthwith reprized out of some other forfeited lands of an Estate of equal value worth and purchase any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted That all and singular the forfeited Messuages Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof Henry Jones Lord Bishop of Meath or any other person or persons in Trust for him or to his Vse were seized or possessed on or before the Nine and Twentieth day of May One thousand six hundred and sixty shall be and are hereby vested and setled in and confirmed unto the said Henry Lord Bishop of Meath in his natural capacity and shall be held and enjoyed by him the said Henry Lord Bishop of Meath and his Heirs subject to the like Rents Tenures and Payments as any Adventurer for lands in the Province of Leinster ought to be and in case any of the forfeited lands hereby vested in the said Lord Bishop of Meath did heretofore belong to any restorable person other than innocent persons that then and in such case no restitution shall be made until the said Henry Lord Bishop of Meath be first reprized with an estate in value worth and purchase equal to that which ought to be restored any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to the disposal of any lands tenements or hereditaments whereof the Provost Fellows and Scholars of the holy and individed Trinity near Dublin of the Foundation of Queen Elizabeth were seized in Fee in the year One thousand six hundred forty one and are now in their actual possession but that the said lands tenements and hereditaments together with the Right Title and Interest of all and every person and persons to any of the said lands tenements and hereditaments which they held by virtue of any Grant Lease or Fee-farm from the Provost Fellows and Scholars of the said Colledge and which is forfeited to his Majesty by the late Rebellion shall remain and are hereby granted and confirmed to the said Provost Fellows and Scholars and their Successors for ever paying for the same such Rents as Adventurers ought to pay for lands within the Provinces where the lands hereby granted and confirmed lye any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And whereas there are Fees claimed to be due to Sir Audley Mervyn Knight Speaker of the House of Commons Sir George Lane Knight Clerk of the House of Lords Philip Fernly Esq Clerk of the Houss of Commons and other Attendants on either of the said Houses out of every Bill past in Parliament wherein or whereby any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate receive any Grant of or restitution to any forfeited lands tenements or hereditaments to them or any of them their Heirs and Successors being particularly Named or included in the said Bill Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the ascertaining the respective Fees payable by the said persons Bodies Politick and Corporate not particularly named by this Act though included therein both as to the sum and sums and the way time manner and paying thereof be and is hereby left to the consideration of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council of Ireland for the time being after Advice therein had with both Houses of Parliament there and what Order or Orders shall be by them after such Advice resolved upon and recorded in the High Court of Chancery shall be as good effectual and binding to all intents and purposes for the demanding Levying and Payment of the said Fees to the persons aforesaid their and every of their Executors and Assigns as if the said Order or Orders were particularly and distinctly set down and expressed in this present Act. Provided also that any thing in this Act contained shall not avoid the grant of a Remainder of a term of years in certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments lying in the Parish of Finglasse and County of Dublin forfeited by William Hewlet and passed by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of this Kingdome to Sir Timothy Terril Knight but the same are hereby confirmed for and during the term aforesaid to the said Sir Timothy Terril his Executors Administrators and Assigns Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That neither this Act nor the Act enabling Ecclesiastical persons to make Leases for Sixty years for the encouragement of Planters nor any matter or thing contained in either of them shall prejudice the Right Title or Interest of Richard Earl of Cork or of Michael Lord Bishop of Cork in or unto the Town and Lands of Ballymulcask in the County of Cork but that the same may continue and be in such state and no other as if the said Acts or either of them had never been made any thing in this Act or the said other Act notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that Randal now Marquess of Antrim shall be restored to all and singular the Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof he or any other in Trust for him stood seized or possessed upon the Three and Twentieth day of October in the year of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred forty one in such manner and form and according to such order and method and no other as the Lord Viscount Nettervil and the Lord Viscount Galmoy and the rest with them in the Declaration herein before mentioned ought by virtue of the said Declaration and this present Act to be restored to their respective Estates any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the sum of Eight thousand Pounds Sterling shall be fully satisfied and paid at such times and in such way as your Majesty or your Successors shall appoint or direct unto Sir James Shane Knight his Executors Administrators or Assigns for and in recompence of his Estate in the half Barony of Irris which by this Act is absolutely vested and continued in your Majesty your Heirs and Successors and that in the mean time until the same be fully satisfied Arthur Earl of Anglesey you Majesties Vice-Treasurer and Receiver General or any other Vice-Treasurer or Receiver General of this Kingdome that hereafter shall be and is hereby Authorized and required
from time to time out of the acâ—ruing Rents Issues Fines and Profits which shall come into the Receipt of your Majesties Exchequer for or by reason of the licencing or permitting the Sale of Wine Aqua-vitae or Strong-waters or any of them by Retail in this Kingdome pay or cause to be paid without further delay Order or Directions unto the said Sir James Shane his Executors Administrators or Assigns half yearly every Michaelmas and Easter the currant Interest of the said Eight thousand Pounds or so much thereof as shall remain unsatisfied the first payment of the said Interest money to be made at Michaelmas One thousand six hundred sixty two and that the said Sir James Shane his Heirs and Assigns shall have and enjoy the full benefit and advantage and effect of your Majesties Gracious Letters under your Royal Signet bearing date the Twenty fifth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty two in the Fourteenth year of your Reign for granting of several houses and lands unto him his heirs and assigns in satisfaction of Adventures and other Interests according to the Rules of the said Declaration so far forth as the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdome for the time being shall judge the several matters and things therein contained to be consistent with your Majesties said Declaration excepting only what relates unto his said Estate in Irris any clause proviso sentence matter or thing whatsoever in this Act contained in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom for the time being by and with the consent of the Privy Council shall have full power and authority out of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments vested by this Act in his Majesty and which shall be setled or restored by virtue thereof to settle such a yearly allowance for ever not exceeding one Thousand Pounds Per Annum for the founding erecting and endowing of Hospitals and Work-houses for Souldiers maimed or wounded in the Service of Ireland and in case of deficiency of such persons then towards other publick and pious Vses in such manner and in such places as they shall think most equal and fit Provided also That whereas such Papists as by special Grace are restorable unto their Estates by this Act ought in some measure to manifest their gratitude unto Your Majesty for the Happiness and advantage which they enjoy by Your Majesties wonderful Restauration and thereby the better enable your Majesty to restore or satisfie divers persons who have suffered much in Your Majesties Service and for want of Reprizals may not be restored to their Estates Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council for the time being to charge for the use of Your Majesty the Estates of the persons so restorable not exceeding the proportions following viz. All Papists who took no lands in Connaught one half years value and such as took lands in Connaught one years value of the Estates unto which they are or shall respectively be restored what they shall be so charged with to be paid in the same manner and proportion as the respective sums payable by the Adventurers or Souldiers are made payable by this Act and that the same shall be paid unto the Receipt of his Majesties Exchequer to be disposed of for satisfying the said unrestored persons or for the buying and purchasing of Reprizes Adventures Arrears Incumbrances or other allowed Interest confirmed by this Act from such person or persons as shall be willing to sell their respective Rights thereunto whereby the Lands designed for Reprizals may the better hold out to answer the ends of Your Majesties said Declaration any thing in this Act notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case Reprizals shall fall short whereby persons mentioned and appointed in the said Declaration and this Act to be restored without being put to any further proof cannot or shall not obtain or receive the full Benefit intended them then it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council for the time being and they are hereby authorized to order appoint and make distribution amongst them of the Satisfaction or Restitution allotted them in such proportions and method as they shall judge most equal and just consideration being had of the conditions and pretences of the several persons concerned nevertheless according to the Rules and Directions of the Declaration concerning them in all other points and particularly in that of previous Reprize or Reprizals which Order and Appointment of theirs shall be final and observed by the Commissioners appointed or to be appointed for the Execution of this Act any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided always and be it hereby further Enacted That all such Castles Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the County of Sligo as have been purchased by Sir Philip Percivall Knight deceased or any other person or persons in trust for Thomas late Earl of Strafford and Sir George Ratcliffe Knight deceased or either of them and their Heirs or the Heirs of either of them and whereof they or either of them or any other person or persons to their or either of their uses or in trust for them or either of them were seized or possessed at any time before the Three and Twentieth day of October One thousand Six hundred Forty one shall be and are hereby vested in his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and so remain and continue until the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being and the Council there shall upon hearing of the said Purchasers their Heirs or Assigns and the Heirs and Assigns of the said late Earl of Strafford Sir George Ratcliffe and also upon hearing of the persons their heirs or assigns who sold the premisses or any part thereof declare and adjudge whether the same do belong to Sir Philip Percivall his heirs or assigns in trust for William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Ratcliffe or either of them or to any other person or persons his or their heirs or assigns of whom the same are pretended to be purchased as aforesaid which Declaration and Iudgement shall be as good and effectual in Law to all Intents and Purposes on behalf of the person or persons for whom the same shall be made as if the same had been particularly Enacted by these presents any Distribution or Allotment thereof during the late times of Vsurpation to any Adventurer or Souldier any defect of Conveyance or Assurance to the said Sir Philip Percivall or other the Trustees of the late Earl of Strafford and Sir George Ratcliffe any Right or Title in his Majesty by virtue of the Office or
Inquisition in the time of his Royal Father for vesting Land in the Province of Connaught or any other matter or thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Maurice Keating Esq Son and Heir of Edmond Keating of Norraughmore in the County of Kildare Esq shall and may have hold and enjoy to him and his heirs all and every the Manors Towns Villages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the Kings County purchased by or in trust for his said Father before the three and twentieth day of October One thousand Six hundred Forty one from John Carrol Esq if the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Council thereupon hearing the parties concerned shall think fit to adjudge the same accordingly any thing in this Act or in any other Act contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Provided always and be it further Enacted That Theobald Lord Viscount Taaff Earl of Carlingford shall have hold possess and enjoy to him and his Heirs all those the Lands Manors Tenements and Hereditaments in the County of Lowth whereof the said Theobald upon the first day of August in the year One thousand six hundred sixty one was possessed or were set out assigned or granted to the said Theobald by way of Custodium or otherwise in Order to a further Settlement thereof to and on the said Theobald and his heirs for and in lieu of the Estate of Coloony in the County of Sligo and also that the said Theobald shall have and enjoy to him and his heirs the Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof Christopher Taaff of Bragganstown and Theophilus Taaff of Cookestown or either of them or any of their Ancestors or any other person or persons to their use or in trust for them or any of them stood seized or possessed upon the two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one all and singular which premisses the said Theobald Lord Viscount Taaff Earl of Carlingford shall hold to him and his heirs at and under the same or like Tenures Rents and Services as the Officers and Souldiers by this Act are to hold any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Your Majesty by your Letters Patents under Your Great Seal of England bearing date the eight day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two and in the Fourteenth year of Your Majesties Reign was graciously pleased to grant to Richard Earl of Clanrickard and his Heirs the Honours Castles Lordships Seigniories Abbeys Abbey-lands and Impropriate Tythes Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments to the uses and in such manner as is therein mentioned Provided therefore That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to or be construed to extend to vest in Your Majesty Your Heirs or Successors any Honours Castles Manors Lordships Seigniories Abbeys Abbey-Lands Impropriate Tythes or other Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whatsoever which are granted or intended or mentioned to be granted by the said Letters Patents any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the Honours Castles Manors Lordships Seigniories Abbeys Abbey-Lands Impropriate Tythes Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments whatsoever which are granted or intended or mentioned to be granted in or by the said Letters Patents shall be immediately without any previous Reprizal or other Incumbrance whatsoever vested setled and established and are hereby vested setled established in the said Richard Earl of Clanrickard his heirs to and for the uses intents purposes in such manner as is expressed set forth in by the said letters Patents to no other use intent or purpose or in any other manner whatsoever that the said Richard Earl of Clanrickard and his Heirs shall and may have hold occupy and enjoy the same to the Vses Intents and Purposes and by and under the Rents and Services in and by the said Letters Patents mentioned and reserved and by no other Rents or Services any thing in this Act or any other Act Law Statute Ordinance Order Attainder Record Provision Sequestration Distribution Allotment Iudgement Conviction or any cause matter or thing had made transacted or done to the contrary notwithstanding Saving to all manner of persons Bodies Politick and Corporate other then Your Majesty your Heirs and Successors and such as shall or may claim from by or under Your Majesty and other then such whose Estate would have vested or been in Your Majesty by the general scope words or intent of this Act if the above-Proviso were not had made inserted or mentioned in this Act and other then such who had held or were possessed of any of the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments by the said Letters Patents granted by or under any defeazable Right Title or Estate and other then such as shall or may pretend or claim any Right or Title thereunto in prejudice of any the Vses limited in and by the said Letters Patents by descent or by virtue of any Estate or Remainder in Tail from any the late Earls of Clanrickard all and every the Right Title Estate and Interest Nevertheless it is hereby declared and enacted That such persons their Heirs and Assigns to whom any of the lands belonging to the said Earl of Clanrickard have been set out and who are by this Act reprizable for the same be forthwith reprized out of the first lands that shall come unto his Majesty in the Province of Connaught and County of Clare either by restoring of any persons to their Estates who were formerly Transplanted or otherwise any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdome for the time being by and with the consent of the Privy-Council shall have full power and Authority to erect another College to be of the Vniversity of Dublin to be called by the Name of The Kings College out of all and every the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments vested by this Act in his Majesty and which shall be setled or restored by vertue thereof to raise a yearly allowance for ever not exceeding Two thousand Pounds per annum by an equal charge upon every One thousand Acres or lesser quantities proportionably and therewith to endow the said College which said College so as aforesaid to be erected shall be setled regulated and governed by such Laws Statutes Ordinances and Constitutions as his Majesty his Heirs or Successors shall under his or their Great Seal of England or Ireland declare or appoint Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Robert Boyl Esq his Executors Administrators and Assignes shall and may for and during the term of Thirty one years have hold and enjoy all and singular the impropriations
Lieutenant Edmond O Molloy Ensign Alexander Mac Donnel Captain Edward Sartfield Lieutenant James Enis Ensign Phellem Dempsey Captain Bryan Fitz-Patrick Lieutenant Jeffery Fitz-Patrick Lieutenant Miles Bremmingham Ensign Connor Mac Gwier Captain Hugh O Conner Dun of Balin Tober Lieutenant Robert Misser Ensign John Ferral the Lord Viscount Iveagh Lieutenant Henry Tute Ensign Phellim Curtane Captain Walter Phillips of Clunmore Ensign Hugh O Conner Captain Dudley Costello Lieutenant Roger O Conner Captain Gerald Dillon of Portleck Lieutenant John Dillon Ensign Robert Dillon Captain Mathew Moony Lieutenant John Flanelly Ensign Owen Sullivane Adjutant Roger Brenane Adjutant John Dillon Anthony French Iudge Advocate Sir Uillick Bourk Knight and Baronet of Glinsk in the County of Galway Captain Fran Berne of Rodin in the County of Roscomon Captain Hugh Oneile of the Province of Ulster Captain Phelim Mac Genis of the said Province Captain Hugh Omeignine Captain Theobald Dillon of Bracklon in the County of Roscomon Captain Mâ—â—tagh Clanchy of Castlekeale in the County of Clare Captain Cun O Neile of Ardgonel in the County of Armagh Lieutenant William Bourke of Turlagh in the County of Mayo Lieutenant John Mac Donough of Cusca in the County of Sleigo Captain John Caesy Lieutenant Brian Mac Genis of the Province of Ulster Ensign Brian Mac Genis of the said Province Ensign Lowys Mac Dowel of the County of Roscomon Ensign Thomas Birne of the said County Ensign William Talbot of Hagertown in the County of Lowth Ensign Roger O Malreanin of Tully Mulreanin in the County of Roscomon Ensign Owen O Keny of Clanboren in the County of Galway Lieutenant Patrick Clenton of the County of Lowth Lieutenant Michael Mac Donagh of Coloony in the County of Sleigo Charles O Flyne of Celtabar in the County of Roscomon Nicholas Walsh Esquire of Traly in the County of Kerry Francis Coghlane of Belclare in the Kings County Henry Birne of Dangan in the County of Roscomon Patrick Mac Gwire of Balykilcuny in the County of Ineskilyn John Brady of the County of Cavan Colonel Richard Grace Lieutenant Colonel Charles Molloy Colonel Wil. Bourke Captain Stephen Molloy Captain Edmund Fitz Patrick Captain Art Mac Terlogh Molloy Capt. John Caroll Capt. Neal Morris Capt. William Dullany Capt. Edmund Bourke Captain Owen Flattery Captain Walter Walsh Captain Walter Butler Capt. Teige Carol Capt. Gerrot Aylmer Capt. William Mac Redmund Bourke Capt. Theobald Butler Capt. William Stapleton Capt. Philip Kennedy Capt. James Devin Capt. Art Molloy Lieute Patrick Dallachanty Lieut. John Molloy Lieut. Brian Flattery Lieut. Alexander Dalton Lieut. John Mac Gerrot Molloy Lieut. Symon Coghlane Lieut. Daniel Kennedy Lieut. Edward Molloy Lieut. Nicholas Sweetman Lieut. James Hynane Lieut. Oliver Grace Lieut. James Cummerford Lieut. Thurlogh Carrol Lieut. John Molloy Lieut William Fogurthy Ensign Anthony Gosse Ensign Fanagh Molloy Ensign William Tute Ensign Christopher Russel Ensign Owen Gilmer Ensign Richard Coddy Ensign Daniel Higgen Ensign Will. Carrol Ensign John Fitz Patrick Ensign Eneas Reardan Ensign _____ Kelly Ensign Piers Walle Ensign John Pyndergast Ensign Teige Carrol Ensign Thomas Butler Col. Hoyle Walsh of Ardery in the Barony Iverke in the Countie of Kilkeny Col. Wil. Brown of Balrankan in the County of Wexford Major Oliver Fitzharryes in the County of Limreik Capt. Robert Walsh of Borredstown in the Barony of Knocktofer in the Countie of Kilkeny Captain Therlagh Molloy in the Barony of Balyboy in the Kings County Capt. Nicholas Plunket of Dunsoghly Lieut. John Meagher of Grange in the Barony of Ikerin in the County of Tipperary Henry Rochford of Kilbred in the County of Kildare Col. Lewis O Farrol Sir Connel Farrol of Tirlickin in the County of Longford Kt. Lieut. Col. Capt. Terence Feral of the County of Longford Capt. Faghna Feral of the said County Capt. Charles Kelly of Skryne in the County of Roscomon Capt. John Mac Rory Farel of the County of Longford Charles Feral of the said County Capt. Jasper Tute of the County of Westmeath Lieut. Farriagh O Hanly of Slewbane in the County of Roscomon Lieut. Morogh O Flaherty of Uma in the Barony of Balenehenzey in the County of Galway Capt. Bryan Lennan of Fale in the County of Antrim Lieut. Con Mac Gennis of Iveagh in the County of Down Ensign Andrew Fallon of Miltown in the County of Roscomon Capt. Tiege O Flaherty Col. George Cusack Col. Piers Lacy of the Broof in the County of Limrick Capt. James Weldon Lieut. John Talbot of Belgard in the County of Dublin Mr. Christopher Russel of Seaton in the same County Mr. Wil. Talbot of Hagerstown in the County of Lowth Mr. Thomas Cusack of Carick in the County of Kildare Mr. Harald of Kilnekeuge in the County of Dublin Capt. Wil. Skelton Terence Molloy of Gortachutrey in the Kings County James Eustace of Culadain in the County of Wexford Owen Waddrick of Kilchecle in the County of Wexford Arthur Linch of _____ in the County of Meath Roger Duygin of Corr in the Kings County Lawrence Bellew of _____ in the County of Lowth And though some not sensible of the great perplexities We have laboured under to reconcile these Iarring Interests may infer That where We judge persons sitting to be restored to their Estates yet the limitation of a previous Reprizal may Eclipse much of Our Grace To this We say That the laying of the Foundations is not now before Vs when We might design the Model of the Structure answerable to Our own thoughts And how hard it would be that the English after so many expensive difficulties in Suits of Law and finding several Officers in Order to get the present possession they enjoy And that after so many thousands of Families who have sold their Interests in England have transported and settled themselves in Ireland and have made great improvements in Buildings and otherwise should in the Interval of these accommodations Reprisal not being first provided for be dispossessed of their Houses and their Stocks the sole subsistance of them and their Families exposed to certainty of loss though greater inconveniencies We pretermit may easily be judged To this We might adde That since the persons of the Irish for whom we do hereby intend satisfaction are such who have been abroad with Vs who probably being not furnished with Stock and other Provisions may with less inconveniencies wait for a Reprizal than to dispossess others especially since we are fully assured that a very short time may and will Assign them their respective Reprizals there being so good and large a proportion of undisposed Forfeited lands in Our Power reserved for this purpose and We doubt not but the persons most concerned in this supposed prejudice throughly weighing these inconveniencies and that they will be but of a short duration and how great and reasonable a dissatisfaction a contrary acting in Vs will produce will acquiesce therein by such a forbearance lay the Foundation of a good Vnderstanding between themselves those other their fellow-subjects who are