first of September One thousand six hundred sixty and three his or their Heirs Executors Assignee or Assignes who are not by the rules of this Act to be removed have been already removed or kept out from the possession of what they held or ought to have held on the Seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine yet neither by virtue of any Decrees made by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act nor by virtue of any Proviso or Clause in the said Act contained or any other legal proceedings in which words Legal Proceedings Custodiams or any other Grant or Patent not confirmed or otherwise provided for by this Act and the proceedings thereupon are not intended to be comprehended that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners for execution of this Act to order and decree all and every such person and persons so removed or kept out as aforesaid to be again restored and put into their possessions pro tempore until the last and final Decree touching the settlement of such person and persons shall be made and the respective Sheriffs and all other Officers and Ministers of Iustice whom it may concern and to whom any Precept or other Warrant in that behalf shall be directed are hereby required and enjoyned to see the some executed accordingly to the end that all and every person and persons so as aforesaid removed or kept out may by such temporary restitution be enabled to retain so much of the Land whereof they shall be so possessed together with their improvements as their two full third parts according to the aforesaid rules shall or may amount unto And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Adventurer and Adventurers who adventured their money upon certain Ordinances or pretended Ordinances of Parliament made in the years One thousand six hundred forty three and One thousand six hundred forty seven commonly called the Doubling Ordinances shall be esteemed and are hereby declared Adventurers for no more than the principal money bonâ fide paid amounts to and that they their Heirs Executors Assignee or Assignes shall receive satisfaction for the moneys really and bonâ fide paid in and advanced upon the said Ordinances or pretended Ordinances in like proportion and manner as other Adventurers are to have by this Act and no otherwise that is to say by an allotment of so much land as may be sufficient to satisfie full two third parts of the principal money so paid in and advanced as aforesaid and no more to the intent that he and they may be equally gainers or loosers with other Adventurers and in the setting out of this proportionable satisfaction no regard is to be had of the quantity of Land whereof the Adventures upon the doubling Ordinances their Heirs Executors Assignee or Assignes were possessed the seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine but onely of the original money truly paid in as aforesaid in the satisfaction whereof one third part is likewise to be retrenched and onely two full third parts to be satisfied as aforesaid Nevertheless it shall and may be lawful for him or them to continue the possession of so much as the Commissioners shall adjudge to amount unto his or their full two third parts in like manner as other Adventurers by this Act are enabled to do in case so much shall be left in his or their possession not decreed away by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall cause one or more books to be made wherein the portion allotted to each Adventurer or Souldier or the Heir Executor Assignee or Assignes of such Adventurer or Souldier for and towards his and their two full third parts and the several Augmentations of any Archbishoprick or Bishoprick the allotment of Glebes and the provisions made for the Colledge of Dublin the maintenance of the Fort at Duncannon and the Corporation of Bandonbridge shall be particularly and fairly set down and entred and shall cause a Duplicate thereof to be made and returned into the Exchequer there to remain of Record and that upon a Certificate under the hands and seals of the Commissioners or the major part of them containing the lands allotted to any the persons or purposes aforesaid or to any Adventurer or Souldier or to the Heir Executor Assignee or Assignes of any Adventurer or Souldier for his or their two third parts and expressing the name or names of such persons with convenient descriptions and denominations thereof as to the number of Acres the Barony County and Province wherein the same do lie and the rents reservable as also the Tenure and Services and presented unto the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdom for the time being he the said Lord Lieutenant and other chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdom for the time being shall be and are hereby authorized and required upon request of the person or persons so producing and presenting the Certificate aforesaid to cause effectual Letters Patents under the Great Seal of Ireland to be passed in the usual manner of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the persons concerned by advice of His Majesties learned Council in the Law or some of them as the case shall require without expecting any further Letters or Warrants from His Majestie And for so doing this present Act shall be to them and every of them their sufficient discharge And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Letters Patents granted by virtue of this Act shall be and are hereby confirmed unto the several persons therein named according to the several and respective estates therein granted against the Kings Majestie his Heirs and Successors and all other persons claiming by from or under him or them and shall stand and be discharged of and from all forfeitures or pretended forfeitures for non-payment of rent or any sum of money now due or not putting in of Claims or not bringing in Field-books or Surveys and of and from all further inquiries into false admeasurements holding of lands profitable for unprofitable or any other Qualifications whatsoeuer and of and from all Measn profits arrearages and incumbrances not herein after excepted and shall stand and be good against all persons Bodies Politick and Corporate and discharged of all Estates tail and all other Estates of Freehold or Inheritance and all Reversions Remainders Titles and Interests whatsoever not Decreed by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act or in the said former Act already allowed whereby the Patentees can or may be incumbred and discharged of all demands other than what are intended to be preserved by this Act and shall be reserved in the same Letters Patents Nevertheless it is hereby declared to be excepted and is further Enacted That no Letters Patents
Sir Courtney Pool Baronet and other the persons intitled to the said estate so long as the said Lord Vice-count shall have issue male of his body were still to continue their possession Nevertheless His Majestie being desirous that all just interests should be provided for and being willing to extend his mercy unto the said Nicholas Lord Vice-count Nettervill as far as may stand with His Iustice is graciously pleased that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act doe forthwith set out unto the said Edward Smith Esq Sir Courtney Pool Baronet and other the persons intitled to the lands of the said Lord Vice-count their Heirs and Assigns their several and respective two third parts which by the rules of this Act they ought to have and after such two third parts set out shall restore the said Lord Vice-count Nettervill unto the possession of all and singular the Mannors Castles Lands Tenements Reversions Remainders and all other Hereditaments Right Title and Interest whatsoever in the said Kingdom of Ireland with his deceased Father and Grandfather or either of them or any other person or persons in trust for them or either of them or to their or either of their use or uses or any other or others to whom he may or can derive as heir or otherwise had held or enjoyed or of right ought to have held or enjoyed on the Two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one Rectories and Parsonages Impropriated and Appropriate Tythes excepted and that the said Lord Vice-count shall hold and enjoy all and singular the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments so restored according to such Estate Right and Title as he ought to have had in the same in case he had been adjudged innocent and no other and also shall be and is hereby restored in blood to all intents and purposes Any thing in this present Act or the said former Act or any other Act Law Statute Ordinance Order Outlary Attainder Record Provision Sequestration Distribution Allotment Iudgement Conviction or Decree or any other matter clause or thing to the contrary notwithstanding And because the Estate Right and Inheritance of in and unto several Lands Tenements and Hereditaments is by several clauses in this Act vested and settled in or otherwise disposed of unto several persons in the said several and respective clauses particularly named and mentioned whereby great prejudice may arise unto others whose right was not intended to be barred or extinguished if a timely remedye be not provided Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all and every such clauses it shall be understood and so is hereby Declared That all the right title and interest either in law or equity which any person or persons Body Politick or Corporate their Heirs Executors Successors or Assignes or any of them had on the Two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since other than His Majestie His Heirs and Successors and those who shall or may claim by from or under His Majestie His Heirs and Successors or any of them by virtue of this or the said former Act and other than such person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate their Heirs Executors Successors and Assigns whose right is particularly mentioned to be barred and excluded shall be and is hereby preserved unto them their Heirs Executors Successors and Assignes respectively as fully and amply as if a particular saving of Rights had been annexed to and repeated in every such clause any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas in and by the said former Act the fractions of od pounds shillings and pence were to be struck off and deducted out of all sums of money Debentures Certificates or Decrees for Arrears Adventures Publick Debts Reprizes or other allowed Interests which according to the said Act were to be ascertained stated or settled and the fractions of od acres roods and pearches were also to be deducted out of the respective proportions of lands which should be granted or settled in satisfaction of any of the aforesaid interests so as such deductions did not exceed the hundredth part of the money or lands out of which such Deductions were to be made which Deductions were appointed to be satisfied as intirely as might be in such convenient proportions and places as the Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being should appoint and reserved to be disposed to such uses as His Majestie His Heirs or Successors should appoint His Majestie is graciously pleased that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no fractions of od pounds shillings or pence or of od acres roods or pearches or any satisfaction for the same be at any time hereafter made or given unto His Majestie His Heirs or Successors or unto any other person or persons claiming the benefit thereof by virtue of any Patent Grant or other Assignment from His Majestie but that the same be for ever released and discharged and that all and every the clauses in the said former Act touching and concerning the giving or reserving such fractions and the satisfaction thereof unto His Majestie His Heirs and Successors shall be and are hereby repealed and made void to all intents and purposes as if the same had never been had nor made Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas the survey admeasurement of certain lands in Ireland was heretofore undertaken and finished by Sir William Petty Knight upon an agreement made with the Souldiers to have for his pains one penny for every acre so surveyed and admeasured as aforesaid whereof part hath been already paid and some doth still remain in arrear to the end therefore that satisfaction be made to Sir William Petty for what remains unpaid by the Souldiers their Heirs or Assigns and for His better encouragement to finish the several Mapps and Descriptions of this Kingdom Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being with any six or more of His Majesties Privy Council shall have power to examine how much of the said penny the acre hath been already paid and for what lands and how much thereof remains behind and unpaid and to give Order or Orders Warrant or Warrants for the levying and receiving one penny per acre out of all the lands in the admeasurement whereof he was imployed that have been or shall be appointed to be set out for satisfaction of arrears out of which such acrige was agreed or ought in justice to be paid and hath not been already paid and to give such further encouragement to the said Sir William for the finishing of the said Mapps as they shall think fit And that it shall and may be lawful to and for Sir
their first sitting wherein the construction of this or the said former Act shall appear doubtfull to them or that the Act it self shall be found defective in some points necessary for the carrying on of the intended final Settlement and not cleerly enough determined and provided for by this Act the Commissioners or any three or more of them shall and may by writing under their hands and Seals acquaint the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour and Governours of Ireland and Council there for the time being with their proceedings and the doubts arising thereupon and the defects appearing in this present Act and such order of amendment inlargement of periods explanation or direction as shall be thereupon made by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council by Act of Council in writing for the better and more easy Execution of this Act and for promoting the ends thereof only shall be as binding to the Commissioners and all other persons and effectual as if the same had been part of this present Act so alwayes that the said Act and Acts of Council be made within the said two years and inrolled in the High Court of Chancery And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the time and space of two years to be computed from the day of the first sitting of the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall be and is hereby allotted unto the said Commissioners for putting this Act in Execution and for performance of the several matters and things hereby intrusted to them And in case the same shall not then be finished it shall and may be lawfull for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Council there for the time being to inlarge the time for the ends and purposes aforesaid to such other and further periods as they by any Act of Council and inrolled in the Chancery of Ireland shall think fit to declare so as such inlargement of time exceed not the space of one year from the expiration of the two former years and that such order as to the inlarging of periods of time shall be as good and effectual in Law as if it had been particularly expressed and enacted by these presents And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Sherriffs Mayors Bayliffs and all other Officers and Ministers of Iustice shall well and truely execute all orders and decrees to be made by the said Commissioners or cause the same to be executed and shall also from time to time obey and execute all such precepts Warrants or other commands as by the said Commissioners to them or any of them shall be directed And that the Commissioners shall have such like power of proceeding in the cases of contempts and misdemeanours committed in open Court or of willfull neglect or disobedience as any of the four Courts at Dublin do or may lawfully use And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all suites and proceedings at Law wherein the Authority of this Act may any way availe the Tenant or Defendant in such suite it shall and may be lawfull to and for such Tenant or Defendant to plead the generall issue and to give this Act and the proceedings thereupon in evidence and if upon the tryall a verdict pass or upon Demurrer Iudgement be given for the Tenant or Defendant or the Plaintiff or Demandant be non suit that in all and every such case the party or parties Tenants or Defendants shall recover his or their double costs and dammages And be it further Enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners appointed or to be appointed by his Majestie for the Execution of this present Act shall and may receive for themselves and for the Sub-Commissioners which they shall choose to attend and assist them therein the Fees hereafter mentioned and no other That is to say two pence for every profitable English acre which by any sentence Iudgement or Decree hereafter to be made by the said Commissioners shall be granted assigned set out restored or confirmed to any Adventurer Souldier old Proprietor or other Irish Papist or to any Parentee or Grantee or any other person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate whatsoever in pursuance of any part of this present Act or of the said former Act or of any provisoe or grant therein made or by the same or these presents ratified or confirmed and such other Fees salaries and rewards for and in recompense of their paines endeavours in the Execution of such other partes of this and the said former Act which are intrusted to them as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour and Governours of this Kingdom for the time being and the Council shall think fit and appoint Be it hereby further provided Enacted by this present Parliament by Authority of the same that no prejudice or dammage whatsoever shall arise to or befall John Paine Esq for or by reason or in respect of his being necessitated to accept of One hundred pounds or thereabouts in the time of the late Vsurpers for the present subsistance of himself Family then residing in Dublin but that as to his full arrears due before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine for service in Ireland the said John Paine his Heirs and Assignes shall be admitted to have aske demand and receive as full and ample satisfaction for the same out of the security 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 he were to that end named provided for and saved in his 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 service shall may or ought to receive any clause Article matter or thing whatsoever in this present Act or any other Act mentioned or contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted That all Arrears of pay grown due before the fifth day of June in the year One thousand six hundred forty nine for which Sir Thomas Gifford Baronet deceased was to have received satisfaction in case he had now been living shall be satisfied unto Dame Martha Gifford the Relict and sole Administratrix of the said Sir Thomas Gifford her Heirs and Assigns in such the same manner as the same should or ought to have been satisfied to the said Sir Thomas Gifford Any thing in the aforesaid Act or this present Act contained or any other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas in and by the said former Act the Mannor Castle Town and Lands of St. Woolstownes alias Allens Court were intended to be settled upon
or this present Act contained or any retrenchment order or other matter or thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding so far forth as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom for the time being shall finde the several matters and things herein contained to be consisted with or agreeable unto your Majesties said Declaration the said former or this Act or any of them And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That nothing in the said former or this present Act may or shall in any sort impeach the innocency of or otherwise prejudice Francis Ferrall of Mornine in the County of Longford Esq but that he shall be and he is hereby restored unto all and every the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments claimed by him whereof he was possessed the Three and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one and thereunto rightfully intitled and are particularly recited and mentioned in his Decree from the late Commissioners whereby he is adjudged an Innocent person Notwithstanding his taking of lands in Conaght or any other cause matter or thing to the contrary And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for the execution of this Act shall forthwith set out and restore to Sir Connel Farrell Knight and his Heirs all and singular the Messuages Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which in and by the said former Act were granted and restored or mentioned meant or intended to be granted and restored unto the said Sir Connell Farrell and all other the benefits and advantages of the said former Act And that certificates be thereof granted unto the said Sir Connell Farrell in order to the passing of Letters Patents accordingly And the said Commissioners are likewise to set out to Cornet Robert Meredith and all others who were or are seized or possessed of any of the said Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in satisfaction of any Adventures or Arrears such other forfeited lands as may be equal in quantity of Acres unto two full third parts of the lands so to be restored any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted that the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall forthwith and without staying for any previous reprizal restore unto Colonel John Kelly of Skryne in the Barony of Athlone and County of Roscomon his heirs and Assignes all and every the Mannors Castles lands Tenements reversions remainders and all other hereditaments Right title condition and other interest and estate whatsoever which he the said John Kelly or any other in trust for him or to his use had held possessed or enjoyed or of Right ought to have had held possessed or enjoyed upon the two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one And that after such Restitution and in lieu and satisfaction thereof the Commissioners do likewise with all convenient Speed set out and allot or cause to be set out and allotted unto the Adventurers Souldiers Protestant purchasors of lands in Connaght and Clare before the first day of September One thousand six hundred forty nine or their Trustees and their heirs Executors and Assignes respectively who shall be removed to make way for such restitution their several and respective two third parts or such other satisfaction as will be due to them by the rules of this Act out of some other forfeited and undisposed lands any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas His Majestie in and by certain Letters Patents under the Great Seal of Ireland did give and grant unto Sir Henry Talbott Knight certain lands in Connaght in Exchange of and for certain other lands of his the said Sir Henry Talbott adjoyning to the Castle of Dublin and convenient for His Majesties service It is therefore hereby provided and Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Sir Henry Talbott to have hold and enjoy to him and his heirs all and singular the lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Connaught in and by the said Letters Patents granted according to the tenor and effect of the same Letters Patents any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall forthwith set out and allot unto all and every the Adventurers Souldiers and Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine their heirs and Assignes who now are seized or possessed of any Castles Houses lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents interests and estates whatsoever in this Kingdom which Nicholas Plunkett of Balrath in the County of Meath Esq now Sir Nicholas Plunkett Knight rightfully had and enjoyed upon the two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one so much other forfeited lands as may be equal in value worth and purchase to two full third parts of the lands whereof they are so possest if they shall be willing to accept of such reprize and to be removed from the same And that all and every the messuages lands Tenements and Hereditaments for which they or any of them shall accept of such reprize and from which they or any of them shall be removed as aforesaid and the other third part of the premisses and all other messuages lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents Interests trusts and estates whatsoever which at the time aforesaid did belong to the said Nicholas Plunkett shall be by the said Commissioners set out and allotted and granted unto James Hamilton Esq one of the Grooms of His Majesties Bedchamber his heirs Executors Administrators and Assignes respectively And in case any person or persons seized or possessed of the premisses or any part thereof shall not be willing to be reprized for or removed from the same as aforesaid the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall forthwith set out and allot unto the said James Hamilton and his Heirs so much forfeited lands in some other convenient place as may be equal in value worth purchase to the said lands Tenements and Hereditaments or to so much thereof as the said Adventurers and Souldiers or other persons aforesaid shall be unwilling to be removed from and herein they are required to proceed with all convenient speed any thing in the said former or this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas in and by the said former Act and the Declaration therein recited it was provided that it should and might be lawful to and for his Majestie to restore any innocent Papists who were dispossessed of their Houses in Corporations to their several and respective Houses within the said Corporations His Majestie is graciously pleased that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted That the said clause and the power thereby reserved to His Majestie shall be and is hereby repealed released and discharged Provided
AN ACT For the Explaining of some DOUBTS Arising upon AN ACT INTITULED An Act for the better execution of His Majesties gracious Declaration for the Settlement of His Kingdom of Ireland and satisfaction of the several interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other his Subjects there AND For making some alterations of and additions unto the said Act for the more speedy and effectual settlement of the said Kingdom C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL V â—â—NSE DIEV ET MON DROIT Dublin Printed by John Crook Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie and are to be sold by Samuel Dancer Bookseller in Castlestreet 1665. An o Regni Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae 17 o. At the Parliament begun at Dublin on the eighth day of May Anno Domini 1661. in the 13 th year of the Reign of our Most Gracious Sovereign Lord CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the faith c. And there continued by several Prorogations unto the 26 day of October Anno Domini 1665. and in the 17 year of His Majesties Reign WHereas in the carrying on of that service which was appointed by a former Act intituled 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 several doubts and difficulties have arisen partly from the uncertain and ambiguous penning of divers Clauses in the said Act and partly from other accidents which could not then be foreseen to the great obstruction and hinderance of the Publique ends and aims intended by that Act to be promoted and the very great disappointment of several persons interests which were thereby intended to be secured Insomuch that the first and final settlement of this Your Majesties Kingdom can hardly be attained by any further proceedings upon the said Act as is already manifest by the experience which hath been had in the execution thereof To the end therefore that Your Majesties most gracious and just intentions by that Act declared may still be pursued as far as remains possible the Revenues of the Church settled and increased Your Majesties dutiful and loyal Subjects quieted and secured in their just possessions and the minds of all men so composed that there may be a general and universal care and industry by building planting and all other ways of improvement to repair amend the ruines and desolations of this Your Majesties Kingdom May it please Your Most Excellent Majestie that it may be Enacted be it Enacted by Your Most Excellent Majestie by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all Honors Mannors 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 Recognizances Iudgements Forfeitures Extent right of Action right of Entry Stature or any other Estate of what nature or kinde soever in all and every the Counties Baronies Cities Towns Corporate and walled Towns within this Kingdom which at any time from and after the Three and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty and one were seized or sequestred into the hands or to the use of His late Majestie King Charles the first or of Your Most Gracious Majestie that now is or otherwise disposed of distributed set out or set apart by reason of or upon account of the late horrid Rebellion or War which began or broke out in this Kingdom upon the three and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one 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 Majestie or Your Majestie that now is or any Adventurer Souldier Reprizable person or others respectively had and received the rents issues and 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 Assigns or any other person or persons whatsoever upon account of the said Rebellion or War in this Kingdom were in Seizin possession or occupation by themselves their Tenants Agents or Assigns on the Seventh day of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine 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 reprizal or reprizals 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 Majestie are any ways intituled 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 Chantries and all Mannors Lands Tenements Rents Tithes Pensions Portions and other Hereditaments or other things whatsoever 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 the said Act expressed have not been adjudged innocent persons As also all Leases that have been made by any Ecclesiastical persons of any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments belonging to them in their Politick capacity to any person or persons their Executors Admininistrators or Assigns who by the Qualifications in the said Act expressed have not been adjudged innocent persons As also all Impropriations or appropriate Tithes belonging to any person or persons his or their Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns who by the Qualifications in the said Act expressed have not been adjudged innocent And also all and singular the Messuages Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever whereof John fitz Gerald alias fitz Gerard of Innishmoore commonly called the Knight of Kerry Captain John Magill of the County of Down Geoffry Fanning of Ballingary or any of them or any of their Ancestors whose Heirs they are or any other person or persons in trust for them
or any of them or to their or any of their uses were seized or possessed upon the Two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one Notwithstanding that the same were not seized sequestred or set apart upon the account of the said late Rebellion or War are and shall be and are hereby declared deemed and adjudged as from the said Three and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one forfeited and to have been forfeited to Your Majesties Royal Father of ever blessed memory and Your Majestie Your Heirs and Successors and they are hereby from the said Three and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty and one deemed declared and adjudged to have been and to be in the real and actual possession and Seizin of Your Majesties said Royal Father and Your Majestie Your Heirs and Successors without any Office or Inquisition thereof found or to be found freed and absolutely discharged of and from all Estates tail and of and from all Feoffments and other Conveyances made before the Three and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one by any person or persons being Tenants in tail where the intail was not legally docked or barred by Fine or Recovery before the Three and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty and one and of and from all Titles and Estates derived by from or under such Conveyances and also of and from all and singular Remainders Reversions Rights Titles Interests Services Chiefries Vses Trusts Conditions Fees Rent-charges and Chattels real Mortgages Rights of Redemption of Mortgages Recognizances Iudgements Extents Rights of Action Rights of Entry Statutes and all other Estates challenges and demands of what nature or kinde soever to the intent that the same may be settled confirmed and disposed of to and for such use and uses as in and by the said former Act were limited and declared and are not by this present Act changed or altered and to and for such other use and uses as in and by this present Act are declared or appointed and not otherwise Saving to Your Majestie Your Heirs and Successors all and singular such Estate Right Title and Interest of in and unto any Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within this Kingdom which Your Majestie hath or ought to have in right of Your Crown in Ireland other than by virtue of the aforesaid Act or this present Act and otherwise than by one or more Inquisition or Inquisitions of Lands in the Province of Connaught or Counties of Limerick and Clare and the County of Tipperary found and returned in the time of the Earl of Straffords Government in this Kingdom which said Inquisition and Inquisitions is and are hereby declared to have been from the time of the taking thereof absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes as if the same had never been had nor taken other than such Right and Title as in and by a certain Act of Parliament passed in England intituled An Act of free and general Pardon Indemnity and Oblivion are mentioned or intended to be barred or extinguished Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithing Provided always That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be deemed construed or taken to forfeit unto or vest in Your Majestie Your Heirs and Successors any Honors Mannors Castles Houses Places Lands Tenements Hereditaments or Chattel real whatsoever in all every or any of the Counties Baronies Cities Towns Corporate walled Towns in this Kingdom on the Three and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one 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 in their Politick capacity or to any other Colledge 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 any other person or persons particularly named in the Proviso contained in the vesting Clause of the said former Act and whose Estate was thereby expresly saved and excepted from being vested in your Majestie Provided likewise that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not vest nor be understood or construed to vest in your Majestie your Heirs or Successors or otherwise be prejudicial unto or take away any Estate Right Title Interest Service Chiefry Vse Trust Condition Fee Rent-charge Chattels 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 Protestant Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns whereof upon the Two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one they were respectively seized or possessed or otherwise interessed or intituled or wherein they had any other Estate Vse Possession Trust Reversion or Remainder other than such Estate and Interest whereof they or any of them stood seized or possessed for the use of or in trust for any Irish Papist or Roman Catholick who by the Qualifications in the said Act hath not been adjudged innocent or any other forfeiting person or persons nor to any Iudgement or Decree which hath been obtained by any Protestant or Protestants in the late Court or pretended Court for Adjudication of Claims or in the Court of Exchequer or any the four Courts sitting at Dublin before the Two and twentieth of August One thousand six hundred sixty three or for which any Iudgement or Decree hath been confirmed had or made by the Commissioners heretofore appointed by his Majestie for the execution of His late gracious Declaration and Instructions or the aforesaid Act Nor to the vesting any the Lands Tenements Hereditaments or Chattels real Right Title Service Chiefry 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 of any Papist who by the Commissioners appointed for the execution of the aforesaid Act hath been adjudged innocent or the Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns of any such Papist who hath been so adjudged innocent And it is hereby declared That no person or persons who by the Qualifications in the said former Act hath not been adjudged innocent shall at any time hereafter be reputed innocent so as to claim any Lands or Tenements hereby vested or be admitted to have any benefit or allowance of any future Adjudications of innocence or any benefit of Articles whatsoever but that they and every of them and all and every person and persons claiming by from or under them or any of them shall be and are hereby barred and excluded of and from
same but subject to the Quit Rents of Eighteen pence per annum to be paid to His Majestie His Heirs and Successors for every Twenty shillings which any House Orchard or Garden-plot within the security aforesaid is worth to be let according to the said former Act and to such other Quit Rents as any of the land within the said security ought by virtue of the said former Act or this present Act to be charged with Saving nevertheless to all and every the Archbishops Bishops and other the Ministers of the Church such right benefit and advantage of in and to the forfeited houses in Cities walled Towns and Corporations as in and by the said former Act is given the said Houses to be set out by the Commissioners for execution of this Act. And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the House chosen by Edward Lord Bishop of Limerick in the City of Limerick and set out to him for seven years according to the Act of Settlement together with that small waste plot of ground and two ruinous Tenements thereon which the present Bishop thereof now rents of the Trustees at Twenty shillings per annum lying on the backside of the said dwelling House equal with the front thereof down to the High-way adjoyning to the wall of the said City being from the said back-side in length threescore and six yards and in breadth twenty and nine yards be annexed unto the See of Limerick for ever and be a Mansion House for William the present Bishop thereof and his Successors And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the benefit and advantage of all forfeitures by false certificates shall be in the first place applyed to and for the satisfaction of the persons aforesaid who ought to be satisfied twelve shillings and six pence in the pound until twelve shillings six pence in the pound be fully satisfied in case the securities aforesaid shall not be sufficient for that purpose and after twelve shillings and six pence in the pound fully satisfied to the persons aforesaid then the whole benefit of the said forfeitures shall be and remain and shall be applyed unto such uses intents and purposes as in and by the said former Act was appointed so as the said false certificates be found out and discovered within three months after the passing of this present Act. And whereas by the said former Act such Officers or their Assignes who shall purchase any Houses Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within any Corporation are enjoyned to give security to satisfie such as by virtue of any Lease or contract for Lease have built or improved any House or Garden either in money or else by granting to such person or persons a Lease at a Rent proportionable to the said improvement so as the said proportion exceed not a fifth part of the value the same are worth to be sold Messuages built from the ground onely excepted Be it Enacted and explained by the Authority aforesaid that no person or persons shall be admitted to have any satisfaction or security for his or their improvements who upon Leases or contracts for Leases made before His Majesties happy Restauration were bound to make such improvements And have actually enjoyed the said Houses Lands and Tenements during the full time and term of years for which they did contract and agree as aforesaid any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And to the end that all and every the Houses in Corporations being part of the aforesaid securities may alwayes continue in the hands of English and Protestant Subjects as neer as may be It is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that no Papist or Popish Recusant shall be admitted to purchase any of the Houses in Corporations from the Commissioners for Execution of this Act nor any other person or persons but such who shall take the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy which Oathes any of the said Commissioners or any Iustice of Peace hath hereby power to Administer without the Licence and leave of the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours in Ireland and Council there by Act of Council first had and obtained And further that no Commissioned Officer who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty and nine nor the Heir Executor Assignee or Assignes of such Commissioned Officer or other person to whom any of the Houses within the said security shall be allotted or shall hereafter come shall set grant alien demise lease or otherwise dispose any House or Houses within the security aforesaid to any Papist or Popish Recusant or person refusing the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy as aforesaid without Licence as aforesaid under pain of forfeiture of double the value of every such House so conveyed or disposed as aforesaid One moyety thereof the Kings Majestie His Heirs and Successors the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same to be recovered by action of Debt Bill Plaint or information in any of the four Courts of Record at Dublin wherein no Essoin Protection nor wager of Law to be admitted nor any more than one imparlance and the said Houses and Lands in Corporations together with the summ of One hundred thousand pounds herein after mentioned are with all possible expedition to be distributed by the Commissioners for Execution of this Act according to the rules aforesaid that so the daily ruine and decay of the said Houses may be prevented as soon as it is possible And whereas the Lord Lieutenant and Council of this your Majesties Kingdom have at the humble suite of several of the said Officers conceived an order bearing date at the Council Board of Dublin the twelfth of January One thousand six hundred sixty three wherein they have set down several rules and directions for the stating the arrears of the several Armies which were imployed in the service of your Sacred Majesty or your Royal Father of blessed memory in your warrs in Ireland before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine which order by reason of the shortness of the time limited for stating the said arrears and issuing debentures unto the said Officers would not be punctually observed by your Majesties Commissioners appointed for Execution of the said Act Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said order bearing date as aforesaid shall be and is hereby Enacted in as full and ample manner as if the same were particularly set down and recited in this Act and the Commissioners appointed or to be appointed for the execution of this Act are hereby authorized and required before they proceed to the giving out of any satisfaction for any arrears of pay due unto any of the said Officers or their Assigns to take care that all the accompts of the said Officers be made conformable unto the Rules and Directions of the said Order notwithstanding the Debentures issued as aforesaid that
first deducted And the said Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland are hereby required to cause all the moneyes so as aforesaid received to be issued out and paid from time to time to such person or persons as his Majestie already hath appointed or hereafter shall appoint And it is further declared That an acquittance or receipt signed with the sign manual of the said Lord Lieutenant or other chief Gouernour or Governours of Ireland shall be for so much as is therein contained a sufficient discharge unto the said Sir John Percival his heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them And for the more just regulation of proceedings in this Office the Commissioners for Execution of this Act are hereby impowered and required to Administer an Oath to the said Sir John Percival and all others who shall be imployed in any ministerial Office or imployment relating to the service of this Act in these words following You shall sweare that you shall well and truely execute the place of _____ according to the best of your skil 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 And whereas there is one clause contained in the said former Act in these words following 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 Kingdom 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 or 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 day of May One thousand six hundred sixty five 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 wisdom shall think fit so as the penalties for breach of the rules of plantation do not extend further than to treble the Quit-rents due for the lands which shall be planted otherwise than 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 onely payable and so as the penalty for breach of the rules to be made touching Corporations do not extend further than to the removeall or disfranchisement 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 effectuall 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 and by the said Rules Orders and directions shall be limited and appointed And whereas some doubt doth arise whether the Lord Lieutenant Chief Governour or Governours and Council of Ireland for the time being may make and establish Rules Orders and directions for the better regulating of such Cities walled Towns and Corporations as have been anciently incorporated or onely for the better regulating such corporations as shal or may hereafter be created according to the Tenor purport of His Majesties Gracious Declaration for the Settlement of His Kingdom of Ireland and satisfaction of the severall interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other his Majesties Subjects there for the cleering whereof Be it further Enacted and it is hereby declared and Enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same that it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour Governours and Council of Ireland for the time being from time to time and at all times to come during the space of seven years to be accompted from the nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred sixty five to make and establish such Rules Orders and Directions for the better regulating of all Cities Walled Towns and Corporations both new and old and such as shall be created within this Kingdom and the electing of Magistrates and Officers there and to inflict such penalties for the breach thereof as they in their wisdom shall think fit so as the penalties for breach of the Rules Orders and Directions to be made touching such Corporations do not extend further than to the removeall and disfranchisement of such persons as shall be found guilty of the breach thereof and such Rules Orders and directions so to be made as aforesaid shall be as good and effectual in law to all intents and purposes as if the same had been specially and particularly 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 any thing in the said Act or otherwise to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And whereas the Officers and Souldiers who served in Ireland since the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine and the Connaght purchasors for the better furtherance and management of their common interest have by their humble address represented the necessity of raising of monies and supplicated leave for so doing as was formerly granted to the Adventurers and their Assigns in the like case and least some of the said Officers and Souldiers or some of their respective Assigns may prove to be refractory in paying and allowing their just proportions of money for the said ends and for defraying of the publique charge there about it being nevertheless very expedient that a service of such a publique and common advantage should be equally born by all persons concerned therein Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the said Officers and Souldiers and Connaght purchasors their Heirs and Assigns shall allow satisfie and pay such sum and sums of money as Arthur Earl of Anglesey Roger Earl of Orrery the Lord Vice Count Conway Lord Kingston Sir John Skeffington Baronet Sir Thomas Clarges Knight Sir Thomas Stanley Knight Sir Richard Kerle Sir William Petty Doctor Robert Gorges Henry Nicoll John Brett and Miles Cooke Esq or any three or more of them meeting at Dublin the first Thursday in Hillary Term One thousand six hundred fifty and five or any other Term after at the
of this Kingdom for the time being shall and may assess any sum not exceeding three pence per acre in and out of every acre of profitable land of Plantation measure which is by the late Court of Claims or shall be pursuant to this or the former Act decreed or confirmed or set out or delivered unto any person or persons of the Popish Religion in this Kingdom and the same to cause to be levyed by Distress or otherwise and to be paid unto the receivers herein after mentioned to the intent that Five thousand pounds be paid to Milo Power Esq his Executors Administrators and Assigns and that the residue may afterwards be issued out unto such of the Roman Catholicks of this Kingdom who as Agents or otherwise since His Majesties most happy restitution shall by the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours be judged meriting the same and that in such proportions as the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours shall think fit and direct Whereas Colonel Cary Dillon hath been dispossessed of Two thousand and six hundred and four acres of land whereof he was possessed the seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine as being set out unto him for service in Ireland and which were confirmed unto him by the said former Act amounting to Three hundred and fifty pounds per annum And whereas the late Lords Iustices had by their two Orders bearing date the eighteenth and nineteenth of July One thousand six hundred sixty and two assigned certain lands in the County of Galway unto the said Colonel Cary Dillon for his Reprizal of the whole and also for satisfying of him Three hundred and fifty pounds sterling which was one years rent of what he had lost grown due unto him from the time he had been dispossessed but the said Colonel Dillon received no benefit thereby Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners appointed to put in execution this Act shall forthwith set out and allot unto the said Colonel Cary Dillon his Heirs and Assignes for ever One thousand seven hundred thirty five acres of profitable forfeited lands of twenty one foot to the pearch being two third parts in quantity of what he hath already lost as a Souldier and that the same do in present yield two full third parts of Three hundred and fifty pounds per annum being the value of what he hath lost as aforesaid with as much convenience of building and other advantages thereon as they can in regard of the considerableness of the places and buildings from whence he is removed which shall be granted unto him by like Letters Patents as any other Souldier by this Act are to have And if the said Commissioners shall think it necessary that a Commission be issued for the inquiry into the value of any Lands Castles Tenements or other Hereditaments in order to the setting out of the said Reprize the Chancellour or Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being are hereby required to issue the same Any thing in this Act or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas upon a solemn hearing before His Majestie at His Council Board in England upon a Petition exhibited by several Adventurers and Souldiers against Randall Lord Marquess of Antrim and against the Iudgement and Decree given by the major part of the late Commissioners for execution of the said former Act whereby the said Marquess was adjudged innocent His Majestie after much time spent in the examination of the case declared that he saw no cause why the said Marquess should be adjudged innocent much less that the Commissioners not at all considering the proofs which they heard against the said Marquess should lay the whole weight of their judgement upon His Majesties Certificate the said Certificate being onely to declare that the Marquess was imployed into Ireland to procure what Forces he could from thence to be transported into Scotland for his late Majesties service under the late Marquess of Montross To the end that the conversation of the said Marquess of Antrim in the Rebells quarters which was necessary for that service might not according to the letter of the former Act render him criminal if that had been the onely as it was the least objection against him And therefore His Majestie resolved that the said Marquess of Antrim should undergoe a new tryall to prevent which the said Marquess of Antrim by an humble Petition to His Majestie did acknowledge himself guilty and humbly besought His Majestie That he might be supported by his mercy as being not able to support himself by his own innocence Therefore His Majestie is pleased that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Decree and all and every clause therein contained shall be and so is hereby declared to be null and void to all intents and purposes as if the same had never been had or made Nevertheless His Majestie Reflecting upon the many services heretofore performed by the said Marquess towards his Royall Father of Blessed Memory and some eminent services done by the said Marquess for his Majestie himself the said Marquess having besides assisting him with Arms and amunition when he was in the West furnished him with shipps to make his escape into forraign parts when his Armies were defeated in the West and considering that His Majesties mercy is by this Act extended to some who have as much Demerited Is graciously pleased that it may be further Enacted and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall forthwith and without staying for any previous reprizall set out restore and allot unto the said Marquess of Antrim or cause to be set out restored and allotted unto the said Marquess of Antrim all and singular the Honors Mannors Castles Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all other the estate right title and interest whereof the said Randall Lord Marquess of Antrim or any other person in trust for him or to his use was seized or possessed on the two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty and one the lands in the Barony of Glanarme herein after mentioned to be restored to Alexander Macdonell and also all impropriations and appropriat tithes excepted And that the said Marquess of Antrim shall hold and enjoy all and singular the lands Tenements and Hereditaments so restored unto him the said Marquess of Antrim except before excepted and the Heirs males of his Body begotten any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Subject nevertheless to such Debts and other Incumbrances as the same were or ought to have been Subject unto upon the said two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one and to such Leases and estates thereof made for satisfaction of Creditors as are provided for in and by the said former Act and
said Vice-Treasurer may know what sums of money he is to receive all Acquittances which shall be given as aforesaid are to be entred and signed by the several Officers of the Exchequer according to the accustomed manner of Acquittances All which payments sum and sums of money the said Receiver or Receivers are to accompt for and pay over unto Arthur Earl of Anglesey His Majesties Receiver General and Vice-Treasurer of this Kingdom or to the Receiver General and Vice-Treasurer of this Kingdom for the time being to be diposed of issued and paid out by him to and for the several uses intents and purposes unto which and in such manner as the same are respectively designed limited or appointed and to no other intent use or purpose upon the issuing whereof the said Earl of Anglesey or the Vice-Treasurer for the time being shall take the usual accustomed fees payable for other moneys And the said Collector or Collectors Receiver or Receivers for their pains care and service herein shall have take receive and deduct out of and for the respective payments sum and sums of money which they shall so receive pay over or accompt for such fees as were formerly allowed unto and taken by the former Receivers of the money payable by the Adventurers and Souldiers Any thing in the said former or this present Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Nevertheless it is hereby declared That the Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine shall be and are hereby discharged of and from the payment of any fees due and payable unto the said John Bence and Alexander Bence Receivers aforesaid for or out of any Debentures due to the said Commissioned Officers but that the said John Bence and Alexander Bence shall in lieu of and satisfaction for the same receive such compensation and recompense out of the Rents Issues and Profits of the Security appointed for satisfaction of the said Debentures as the Lord Lieutenant and Council shall think fit Provided alwaies and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act do forthwith and without staying for any previous Reprizal restore unto Theobald Lord Vice-Count Mayo his Heirs and Assigns his and their principal and Capital Messuage with the appurtenances and shall also forthwith restore unto the said Theobald Lord Vice-Count Mayo his Heirs and Assigns all and singular other the Messuages Mannors Castles Lands Tenements Reversions Remainders and all other Hereditaments right title condition and other interest and estate whatsoever which he the said Theobald Lord Vice-Count Mayo or his Father or any Ancestor whose heir he is or any other in trust for them or any of them or for any of their uses had held possessed or enjoyed or ought to have had held possessed or enjoyed on the two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one and whereof no Adventurer or Souldier nor the Heir Executor Administrator or Assignee of any Adventurer or Souldier is now in possession Impropriations or Appropriate tythes onely excepted And that all and every the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof the said Theobald Lord Vice-Count Mayo or his Father or any other Ancestor whose heir he is or any other person or persons in trust for them or any of them were seized or possest on the said two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one and which are now in the possession of any Adventurer or Souldier or of the Heir Executor Administrator or Assignee of any Adventurer or Souldier shall after their several and respective full two third parts to them set out and allotted out of other forfeited and undisposed lands in satisfaction of their several and respective interest be likewise set out and allotted unto and placed in the possession of him the said Theobald Lord Vice-Count Mayo and his Heirs Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That nothing herein contained shall in any sort prejudice the right title or interest of Captain Owen Mac Carthy of Clogheroe in the County of Cork unto any of the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in the said County mentioned or specified in his Claim upon which he was adjudged innocent by the late Commissioners but left to the Law for the recovery of the same And that the Lands so claimed by him shall continue and remain in His Majesties hands undisposed of for the space of twelve moneths next after the passing of this Act to the end that the said Owen Mac Carthy may within that time make out his right and title thereunto if any he have and cause the same to be adjudged and determined by due course of Law And in case the said right and title be not made to appear and be determined as aforesaid within the time aforesaid then all and singular the said Lands shall and may be disposed of as any other forfeited lands by this Act ought to be Any thing in the said former Act or this present Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the arrears due unto the late Marquess of Clanricard for the several times and imployments he had in this Kingdom before the tenth of December One thousand six hundred and fifty be allowed and satisfied to the Executors or Administrators of the said Marquess of Clanricard out of the Securities set apart for satisfaction of the Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine And that the said Executors and Administrators be and are hereby admitted and allowed to state all the said arrears due to the said Marquess of Clanricard before and until the tenth of December One thousand six hundred and fifty before the Commissioners for execution of this Act before any distribution made of the said Securities Any thing in this Act or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding His Majestie taking into consideration the many good and faithful services performed by Charles late Vice-Count Muskry in Forreign parts and particularly that in consequence of the Disposition of Dunkirk the state of His Majesties affairs did not admit the continuance of the pay of the Regiment of Foot commanded by the said Charles Vice-Count Muskry was therefore graciously pleased by His Royal Letters of the sixth of April in the fifteenth year of His Reign to direct and appoint that all the Lands in the Barony of Muskry in the County of Cork forfeited to His Majestie and not set out to Souldiers or Adventurers nor restored to the former Proprietors the greatest part whereof were held of the estate of Donogh Earl of Clancarty the said Charles his Father should be by one or more Grant or Grants passed under the Great Seal of Ireland unto the said Charles late Vice-Count Muskry his Heirs
alwaies and it is hereby Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for Richard Stephens the younger to hold and enjoy to him and his Heirs all and singular the messuages and lands Tenements and other the Hereditaments situat lying and being in and about the Town and Corporation of Kells in the County of Eastmeath whereof he the said Richard Stephens the younger by himself or his under-tenants was seized or possessed upon the Seaventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine and which lye within the securities set apart for the satisfaction of the Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine he the said Richard Stephens placing thereupon so many Debentures for arrears due for service done before the said fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine for which no satisfaction hath yet been given and which are satisfiable by the rules of this or the said former Act as do amount unto the full summ of three hundred pounds any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Sir Theophilus Jones Knight was heretofore settled in and planted upon a Messuage and certain Lands in and about Lucan and now by virtue of some Decree made by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act and herein confirmed is onely to enjoy the said Messuages and Lands during the life of Patrick Sarsfield who was declared nocent after whose death the said lands are declared to come unto William son of the said Patrick an infant and the heirs males of his body by reason whereof the said Sir Theophilus Jones is likely to sustain great prejudice if due consideration be not had of his improvements Be it declared and Enacted That the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall forthwith set out and allot unto the said Sir Theophilus Jones and his heirs so much forfeited land as may be sufficient in value worth and purchase fully to reprize the said Sir Theophilus Jones for the Messuage Lands and Improvements which have been so evicted and decreed away from him Any clause matter or thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always That it shall and may be lawful to and for Pierce Creagh to hold and enjoy to him and his Heirs all and singular the Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the Province of Connaught and County of Clare or either of them whereof he the said Pierce Creagh is now in possession by himself or his Vnder-tenants and into which the said Pierce Creagh was transplanted by the late Vsurpers Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And because the Adventurers and Souldiers are by this Act exempted from payment of such Fees to the Officers attending both Houses of Parliament and others as in and by the said former Act might have been demanded or pretended to as due Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Council there to assess and impose upon all and every the Adventurers and Souldiers who by the said former Act were lyable or might be pretended to be lyable to the payment of such Fees such further and other sums of money not exceeding Five thousand pounds as they shall think fit and to cause the same to be levyed in such manner as any other the sums herein before imposed are levyable and to be paid to the Receivers aforesaid to the end the same may be issued out unto and distributed amongst such Officers in such manner and according to such proportions as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour and Council after the advice of both Houses of Parliament thereupon had shall direct and appoint Provided always and be it further Cnacted by the Authority aforesaid That Colonel William Leg one of the Grooms of His Majesties Bed-Chamber shall in lieu of what hath been retrenched of his Provisoe in the former Act have hold and enjoy to him and his Heirs for ever all and singular the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments by His Majesties Letters Patents to him granted and passed under the Great Seal of Ireland pursuant to and according to the tenor and effect of His Majesties Letters under His Privy Signet and Sign Manual bearing date at Whitehal the Nineteenth day of January One thousand six hundred sixty and three without any Retrenchment or Defalcation whatsoever Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted That James Fitz Gerald of Laragh in the County of Westmeath and his Heirs shall have the like restitution priviledges advantages and benefits in all respects as any of the fifty four persons provided for by this Act Any thing therein contained or otherwise to the contrary notwithstanding His Majestie being fully satisfied of the constant loyalty and Innocence of Robert Arthur deceased late of Dublin Alderman and of John Arthur his son and heir who were both Inhabitants of Dublin is graciously pleased That it be Enacted be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said John Arthur shall be by the said Commissioners restored unto settled and established in the quiet possession and shall thenceforth have hold possess and enjoy to him and his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively all and singular the Mannors Houses Castles Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Reversions Remainders Leases Rights Titles Interests and Estates whatsoever in the Kingdom of Ireland which the said Robert Arthur or any other person or persons in trust for him or to his use had held or enjoyed on the twenty second of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since Except what thereof is in the hands of Adventurers or Souldiers or is in the City of Dublin for which the said John is to be forthwith reprized elsewhere to the full value thereof as neer and contiguous to the said City as conveniently may be and the said John Arthur is likewise restored unto and is hereby enabled to demand recover and receive to his own use all and singular the debts and sums of money which at any time heretofore were due and owing to him the said Robert Arthur and are still unpaid This present or any other Act Clause matter or thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Randall Marquess of Antrim did on or about the One and twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred thirty seven demise and grant the Barony of Cary the Lordship of Ballycastle and the Island of Rathcline and all the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the said Barony Island and Lordship unto Alexander Macdonnell John Moore Archbald Steward and John Trayleman for the term of ninety nine years from Michaelmas One thousand six hundred thirty seven in trust for payment of certain debts
in a Schedule thereunto annexed for which the said Alexander Macdonnell John Moore Archibald Steward and John Trayleman or some of them were joyntly bound for the said Marquess and for their Counter security against those ingagements which said Lease of ninety nine years was in and by a Clause in the said former Act enacted to be of the effect and force in Law and no other as the same was before the making of the said Act and was also therein and thereby transferred from the said Leasees unto and vested and settled in Martin Noell then Esq now Sir Martin Noell Knight Thomas Carleton Citizen and Mercer of London and John Bradburne of the Middle Temple London Gentleman in trust to dispose the Rents and profits thereof towards the payment of all such Debts as were intended by the said Lease to be secured which Debts are yet but very ill secured in regard the said Marquess was but tenant in taile of the premisses at the time of the making of the said Lease and so still continues by reason whereof the said Lease will become of no force and effect in Law after the Death of the said Marquess nevertheless to the end that some more certain and lasting provision may be made for the payment of such Debts as were thereby intended to be secured in such proportions and upon such terms and conditions as are herein after mentioned Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Reversion and Inheritance of all and singular the premisses shall be and hereby is vested and settled in Martin Noell Esq Sonn and Heir apparent of the said Sir Martin Noell George Blake and John Robinson of the City of London Esquires upon these trusts following that is to say if any person or persons their Executors Administrators or Assignes to whom any Debt is owing which was intended by that Lease to be secured will at any time before the nine and twentieth of September One thousand six hundred sixty seaven accept of one moyety or half of his or their principal money due and have interest for the said moyety from the time of such acceptance at the rate of ten pounds per centum in full satisfaction of his or their whole debt intended by the said Lease to be secured and shall declare his or their acceptance by writing under their hands and Seals to be acknowledged before the Lord Chancellor Master of the Rolls or any Master in Chancery either in England or Ireland and to be registred in the Rolls of either Kingdom and if the said Marquess shall happen to dye after such acceptance declared and before the said moyety of the principal money interest at the rate aforesaid be fully satisfied and paid then the said Trustees of the Reversion and inheritance of the premisses the survivor and survivors of them and the Heir of the survivor shall out of the Rents issues and profits thereof pay or cause to be paid the said Moyetie of the principal with interest as aforesaid or so much thereof as at the time of the said Marquesses Death shall be behind and unpaid And if the said Marquess or his Heirs shall at any time before the nine and twentieth of September Which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seaventy five pay or cause to be paid all and every such Creditors their Executors or Assignes who before the nine and twentieth of September One thousand six hundred sixty seaven shall compound as aforesaid their full composition money with interest as aforesaid then the Reversion and Inheritance of the premisses shall be and is hereby transferred unto and vested and settled in the said Marquess and his Heirs Nevertheless it is hereby declared and Enacted That no settlement of the Reversion and inheritance by this Act nor any fine Recovery or other Act or thing done or suffered or to be done or suffered by the said Trustees of the Reversion and inheritance of the premisses without the privity and consent of him the said Marquess shall any wayes extend or be construed to give any strength or continuance to the said lease for ninety nine years further than during the life of the said Marquess but that the said Lease from and after the Death of the said Marquess shall be and so hereby is declared to be fully determined both in Law and equity to all intents and purposes And it is further declared that no Creditor who shall refuse to come in and compound as aforesaid shall be admitted to have any benefit in or by the trust of the reversion and inheritance as aforesaid And where any Debts secured by the said Lease shall be compounded and agreed at one moyety of the principal with interest as aforesaid to the end that such composition may not availe or profit such other Creditors who shall refuse to compound as aforesaid It is further declared and Enacted That the other moyety of the said principal Debt with the interest thereof shall be and is hereby vested in and made payable to the said Marquess and that he the said Marquess shall have the like benefit for the payment and satisfaction thereof out of the Lease of ninety nine years as any other Creditor refusing to compound can or may have and the Trustees of the said Lease shall pay and satisfie the said Marquesses Executors and Administrators the other Moyety of the said Debt so compounded with the interest thereof equally and in like manner and proportion as the not compounding Creditor can or may be satisfied this Act or any other Law to the contrary notwithstanding And it is further Declared by the Authority aforesaid That the said Alexander MacDonnell John Moore Archibald Steward and John Trayleman Suerties for the said Marquess and counter secured by the said Lease for ninety nine years until the same was transferred as aforesaid and every of them their and every of their Heirs Executors and Administrators shall be and are hereby discharged of and from all actions suites executions and demands which can or may be had against them or any of them their or any of their Lands Tenements Goods or Chattells for or in respect of any of the said Debts intended by the said Lease to be secured as aforesaid His Majestie taking notice of the Barbarous and uncouth names by which most of the Towns and places in his Kingdom of Ireland are called which hath occasioned much damage to diverse of his good Subjects and are very troublesome in the use thereof and much Retards the reformation of that Kingdom for Remedy thereof is pleased that it be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Lieutenant and Council shall and may advise of settle and direct in the passing of all Letters Patents in that Kingdom for the future how new and proper names more suitable to the English tongue may be inserted with an alias for all Towns Lands and places in that Kingdom that shall be granted by Letters Patents which new names shall thenceforth be the onely names to be used any Law Statute Custome or usage to the contrary notwithstanding FINIS
Hugh Earl of Mount-Alexander and his Hiers with benefit of reprizal in case of restitution as Adventurers by the said former Act ought to have had as in and by the said former Act more at large appears since which time the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act have by their Decree adjudged James Allen to be innocent and restored the said Lands to the said James Allen and his Heirs against which Decree an appeal was made to His Majestie by a Petition exhibited by William Montgomery Esq on the behalf of the now Earl of Mount-Alexander an Infant Sonn Heir of Hugh late Earl of Mount-Alexander on hearing of which case and on the defence made by Colonel Richard Talbot to whom part of the lands restored by the said Decree were for good and valuable considerations and by sufficient assurances in Law legally conveyed by the said James Allen His Majestie thought not fit to alter the said Decree or weaken any of the said assurances His Majestie is therefore graciously pleased that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall set out and allot or cause to be set out and allotted unto the now Earl of Mount-Alexander his Heirs and Assignes so much other undisposed forfeited lands as may be equal in quantity of acres unto two full third parts of the lands so evicted and recovered by Decree as aforesaid and that Letters Patents shall be thereof passed in like manner and shall be of like effect as any other Letters Patents granted by virtue of this Act are or ought to be And whereas in and by certain Letters Patents passed under the Great Seal of Ireland and bearing date the Seaventh day of March in the twelfth year of the Raign of His Majesties Royal Father the Territories and precinct of Feartry in the County of Wicklow and certain other Mannors lands and Tenements in the said Letters Patents contained were thereby given and granted unto Sir John Coke knight and his Heirs his late Majesties principal Secretary of Estate And whereas Thomas Coke late of Grayes-Inn in the County of Middlesex His Majesties Sollicitor Generall sonn of the said Sir John Cooke Deceased was in his life time lawfully seized of or otherwise intitled unto the said Territory and precinct of Feartry and other the lands and Tenements in the said Letters Patents contained the Inheritance whereof after the Death of the said Thomas Coke Deceased did descend and come or of right ought to have descended and came unto _____ Coke an infant onely Sonn and Heir of the said Thomas Coke Deceased Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no sequestration or allotment of any of the lands or Tenements in the said Letters Patents contained to any Adventurer or Souldier shall any way Barr or weaken the right or title of him the said _____ Coke in or the said lands or Tenements but that he the said _____ Coke shall and may hold enjoy the same to him and his Heirs according to the tenor and effect of the said Letters Patents any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas in this and the said former Act great care is taken of the relict and Heirs of Sir Simon Harcourt Knight Deceased upon whom his Majesties Royall Father did by Letters under his Privie Signet appoint that lands of the value of four hundred pounds per annum to be taken out of the forfeited estate of Luke Nettervill should be settled part of which estate together with certain Houses in Dublin were set out accordingly and the relict and Heirs of Sir Simon Harcourt thereof possessed at the time of His Majesties late Gracious Declaration and so still are which lands and Houses together are as is alleaged still short of the value of four hundred pounds per annum intended to be settled as aforesaid It is therefore Explained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for Sir Philip Harcourt Knight son and heir of Sir Simon Harcourt Knight to hold and enjoy to him and his heirs the houses in the City of Dublin so as aforesaid set out and possessed so as the houses and lands together do not exceed the value of Four hundred pounds per annum Any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Thomas Cunningham and Captain Lewis Dick in the year One thousand six hundred forty two pretended to have performed acceptable services against the then Rebels in Ireland by hindering provision coming to them by Sea and by relieving the English Garrisons which were in distress wherein they so far gained belief as that they obtained from the Treasurer for the Irish Adventurers and acknowledgement that they paid in Seven thousand pounds as money adventured and for which they likewise had a certificate from the Committee of Adventurers sitting at Grocers-Hall in London And howbeit the said Thomas Cunningham or Captain Lewis Dick never did any service on the coast of Ireland according to the said undertaking nor paid in any money as other Adventurers did yet by colour of the said certificate there were set out for the said Seven thousand pounds the number of fifteen thousand five hundred fifty and five acres of Land in the County of Tipperary and Limerick whereof they the said Thomas Cunningham and Captain Lewis Dick or their Assigns were possessed the seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine Now least by the general rule of the present settlement the said number of acres or two third parts thereof so unduly obtained as aforesaid should be secured to the said Thomas Cunningham and Captain Lewis Dick or their Assigns His Majestie is graciously pleased that it be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said fifteen thousand five hundred fifty five acres so set out as aforesaid for and on pretence of the said Seven thousand pounds shall be remain and continue and are hereby vested in his Majestie His Heirs and Successors for ever Provided nevertheless That if the said Thomas Cunningham and Captain Lewis Dick their Heirs or Assigns shall within two months after the Royal Assent shall be actually given to this present Bill make it appear by full and clear proof before the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council of Ireland that the said Adventure money of Seven thousand pounds was really and bona fide issued and paid in pursuant to the several Acts made by His late Sacred Majestie for reducing the Rebels of Ireland then they shall have the like benefit and advantage by the said Adventure and out of the said fifteen thousand five hundred fifty five acres as other Adventurers are to have by virtue of this present Act. Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours