and Interests as any other Letters Patents herein before mentioned to be Confirmed are subject unto Provided nevertheless That if his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or any of them shall think it fit or expedient for the better promoting of the Ends of the Declaration and Instructions and this present Act to revoke determine or make void all or any the said Letters Patents granted since the said Thirtieth day of November by vertue of any Warrants or Commands under his Majesties Signet or Sign Manual dated likewise since the said Thirtieth of November shall under the Great Seal of England or Ireland signifie or declare his or their Royal Will and Pleasure to revoke determine or make void them or any of them that then and immediately from and after such signification or Declaration of his or their Royal Will and Pleasure such and so many of the said Letters Patents as shall be therein Declared to be void shall cease and determine and become utterly void and of none effect and all and singular the Lands and Tenements in the said Letters Patents mentioned shall be again vested in his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for and to the same intent and purpose as the other lands hereby vested are vested and setled any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and it is hereby further Declared and Enacted That where any Lands or Tenements shall be disposed of or any person or persons shall happen to be restored unto his or their Lands or Tenements by vertue of this present Act or by vertue of any Order Sentence or Decree made by the Commissioners for the execution thereof that then and in such case all and every the person and persons formerly seized or possessed of any the Lands or Tenements so as aforesaid restored or disposed of shall be and are hereby discharged and indemnified of and from all Suits Actions Prosecutions and Demands whatsoever touching or concerning the mean Rents Issues and Profits of the same this Act or any other Law Matter or Thing to the contrary notwithstanding Saving nevertheless unto all innocent persons their Heirs Executors and Assigns the Right and Title to the mean profits of their respective Lands and Tenements which have been received since the time of their several and respective Claims put in before the Commissioners heretofore appointed Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That the Forfeited Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the Town and County of Galway and elsewhere within the Province of Connaught now or late in the possession of Sir Thomas Clarges Knight or his Assigns shall remain and continue in his Majesty his Heirs and Successors to be disposed of as he or they shall think fit any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it futher Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Adventurers their Heirs and Assigns respectively and all and every other person or persons having or claiming to have any Lands or Tenements for and towards satisfaction of moneyes adventured for Lands in Ireland or having or claiming to have as an Original Adventurer or by from or under any Adventurer his Heirs or Assigns any benefit of Settlement Confirmation or Reprizal or any other advantage whatsoever by vertue of this present Act shall pay or cause to be paid unto the Kings Majesty One full years value of the profits arising out of the lands possessed enjoyed or to be possessed or enjoyed as aforesaid to be paid at two several Payments within the space of two years by even equal payments the first payment thereof to be upon the first day of November which shall be in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two and the second day of payment to be upon the First day of November which shall be in the year of Our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty three And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Souldiers their Heirs and Assigns respectively and all every other person or persons having or claiming to have any Lands or Tenements in Ireland for and towards satisfaction of any Arrears or Debentures or having or claiming to have as a Souldier or by from or under any Souldier his Heirs or Assigns any benefit of Settlement Confirmation or Reprizal or any other advantage whatsoever by vertue of this present Act shall pay or cause to be paid unto the Kings Majesty one full half years value of the profits arising out of the Lands possessed or enjoyed or to be possessed and enjoyed as aforesaid to be paid at one intire payment upon the first day of November which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two And if it shall happen that any Adventurer or Souldier or any other person claiming by from or under them or any of them shall make default of payment of all or any part of the said years value or half years value respectively herein before mentioned to be paid by the space of Twenty dayes after any of the said respective dayes or times wherein the same ought to be paid that then and immediately from and after such default made all and every the benefit and advantage which by vertue of this present Act doth or may accrue unto the person so making default his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall cease determine and be utterly void and of no effect and that it shall and may be lawful to proceed against such person and persons his Heirs Executors and Assigns and against his and their Lands and Tenements whereof he or they stand possessed as fully and amply as if he or they had not been comprized within this present Act any thing in this Act herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And to the end a due care may be had for the assessing and ascertaining the several and respective sums which ought to be paid by the Adventurers and Souldiers and those who claim by from or under them or any of them and likewise for the safe and orderly receipt collection thereof Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for his Majesty at any time hereafter according to His good pleasure to issue out such other Commission and Commissions to be directed to such other persons not being any of the Commissioners for execution of the Declaration and Instructions and this present Act as his Majesty shall think fit which said other Commissioners so as aforesaid to be appointed or so many of them as in the said Commission or Commissions shall be directed shall have Power and Authority by vertue of this Act to impannel Iuries and examine Witnesses to administer Oathes to the parties concerned to cause the Lands to be viewed and surveyed and by alâ— or any of these wayes or by any other lawful way or means whatsoever to inquire into and inform themselves
to be ingrossed And in case Our chief Governour or Governours for the time being in Ireland shall judge it for Our Service he or they shall Order the issuing forth Commissions under Our Great Seal of that our Kingdom of Ireland for the ends and to the persons so to be nominated and appointed as aforesaid That in order to the discovering the full value of the premisses every such Adventurer Officer or Souldier or other person the confirmation of whose Estates is held forth by Our said Declaration shall within Forty dayes after publick notice by you to be given deliver in Writing under his Hand and Seal to the persons to be imployed in the respective Counties Baronies Cities and Places a particular of their Estates with the respective Names of their Tenants and the Rents they were to pay in the said year One thousand Six hundred Fifty nine and the respective Tenants to every such adventurer Souldier or other person shall also deliver to the said persons a particular of the Lands and Tenements held by them with the Names of the Land-lords and the Rent they were to pay for the said year One Thousand Six hundred Fifty Nine That if any adventurer Officer or Souldier or other persons so returning the Value and Profits of his said Estate shall fail to return the full value thereof or any part thereof that for such Offence he shall forfeit half a years Rent of the Estate so concealed one fourth part to the person discovering the same and the other three parts towards the Relief and Support of such as have suffered for Our Royal Father or Our self And for the better Discovery of the Truth in the premisses Our Chancellour of Ireland for the time being is hereby authorized and required to issue forth Commissions from time to time as occasion shall require to impower and Authorize you or such as shall be by the Chief Governour or Governours of that Our Kingdom for the time being and Our Council there nominated thereunto in the respective Counties Baronies Cities and Places as aforesaid to administer an Oath or Oaths as often as it shall be needful And You and such as shall be imployed as aforesaid shall as often as occasion shall require send for Persons Leases Papers and Records that any way tend to the Discovery of the full Value of the said Estates or any other matter or thing hereby committed to your trust and then you are to return Duplicates fairly ingrossed under your hands and Seals or the Hands and Seals of the major part of you of the aforesaid Rents and to such persons as we shall nominate to be the Receivers of the several Rents and sums of mony payable by Our said Declaration and also to Our said Vice-Treasurer and Receiver General You are also to prepare a particular of all the Forfeited Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Counties of Wicklow Longford Leitrim and Donegal as also of the forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments not already disposed of in the Province of Connought and County of Clare lying and being within a Mile of the River of Shannon or of the Sea commonly called the Mile-Line and within any Corporation in Ireland except as in Our said Declaration is excepted and by Inquest or other lawful means put a reasonable and just value on all and every the said Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments first deducting what shall be made appear to have been laid out by any Person on Leases or Contracts for Leases in any Corporation in building or improving Houses or in planting Orchards or Gardens all which said Improvements shall be ascertained in a moderate way either by the Surveys formerly taken of them or that shall hereafter be taken where you shall see cause to appoint the same That you do with all possible speed prepare an Accompt of the Personal Arrears of such Officers or their Assigns serving before the said Fifth day of June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine and who have not received any lands or moneys in satisfaction for their Arrears before or since the said Fifth day of June One thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine as also an Estimate of the respective Securities appointed by our said Declaration for satisfying the said Arrears In Order whereunto you are to value the Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments at eight years purchase deducting the value of such Improvements as shall appear as aforesaid to have been made on Houses Orchards or Gardens And if by the said Estimate you shall find the said Security will not extend to satisfie twelve shillings six pence in every pound of the said arrears you are to proportion the said satisfaction according to the said Security with equality indifferencie You shall then expose all such Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to sale first giving publick notice of the time place of such sale to the end that all persons concerned may give their attendance In which sale You are to make special provision that such Officer or Officers or their Assignes who shall so purchase any of the said Houses Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within any Corporation do enter Security before you grant to him or them any Certificate as is hereafter directed to satisfie such as by vertue of any Lease or Contract for Lease have built or improved any house or planted any Orchard or Garden either in money or else by granting unto such person or persons a Lease or Leases of the premisses at a Rent proportionable to the said Improvements and that if any Controversie shall happen therein the same shall be determined by You or such as the Chief Governour or Governours of that Our Kingdom for the time being and Our Council there shall appoint upon the place to hear and determine the same You are to sell all the said Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments publikly and at the time and place appointed to such person or persons who will give most for the same which being sold You shall forthwith enter such Sales in Books for that purpose to be prepared and provided Nevertheless that no such sale shall be good or allowed where the purchase shall not amount unto eight years purchase or upwards according to the Rates set by you on such Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Deductions or Allowance being made for the improvements as aforesaid Provided alwayes that there be for every Twenty Shillings that such House Orchard or Garden-plot is worth to be let Eighteeen pence yearly reserved to Vs Our Heirs and Successours for ever And you are to return Duplicates of Our said Books to Our Vice-Treasurer and Receiver-General You are to take care that all such Officers who shall purchase any of the said Houses Lands Tenements or Hereditaments do within Fourteen dayes after the Contract or Bargain for the same deliver up unto you so many Debentures as such Purchase doth amount unto which Debentures you shall cancel and if any thing remain above the Purchase-Money
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
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
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
be equally divided amongst all and every the said Commissioned Officers who have any Arrears due for Services in Ireland before One thousand Six hundred Forty nine All which Rents above said and profits shall be paid in such way and manner as shall be by Vs appointed And also the said Houses Lands and Tenements distributed and set out in such way and manner as we shall appoint for the ends and uses aforesaid the said Years Rent to be paid in the space of Two Years by even and equal proportions half yearly And the said Year and a halfs Rent in three years by even and equal portions half yearly For which Service as also for stating the Arrears of the Commissioned Officers aforesaid not yet stated fit persons shall be speedily by Vs Authorized All which said Arrears so to be stated shall be stated before the Twenty nineth day of September One thousand Six hundred Sixty one And the several particulars for the above security for Officers serving before One thousand Six hundred Forty nine shall be immediately put out of Charge in Our Court of Exchequer Whereof Our Chief Baron and other Our Ministers of the said Court are hereby required to take notice and put the same in execution accordingly And the said Securities are hereby committed and intrusted into the hands of such persons for the uses aforesaid As the Duke of Albermarle General of all Our Armies and the Lord Marquess of Ormond Lord Steward of Our Houshold by Vs hereby thereunto Authorized shal appoint to be by them Let and set for the best advantage and to the ends aforesaid And they are also to Assign sit and convenient Salaries for such persons as shall be imployed therein The said Salaries to be assigned unto them out of the Profits of the said Securities That such Protestants whose Estates have been given out for satisfaction of Adventurers or Souldiers or otherwise disposed of to any other persons shall be forthwith restored to their former Estates and a Reprizal of equal Value Worth and Purchase forthwith Assigned to such Adventurers or Souldiers as shall be removed out of their said Estates Provided no person or persons shall have the benefit hereof who were in the Rebellion before the Fifteenth of September One thousand Six hundred Forty and three and have taken out Decrees for Lands in the Province of Connaught or County of Clare in recompence of their former Estates And that such Adventurer Souldier or other persons who have been or shall be removed from the Estate of James Lord Marquess of Ormond Lord Steward of Our Houshold for what he possest therefore for Adventure or Arrears shall be Reprized in the County of Catherlaugh for the same every person so to be removed shall not be accomptable for the Profits he received whilest he or they enjoyed such Estates Provided alwayes That this Our Declaration or any thing or matter therein contained shall not extend to any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments which James Lord Marquess of Ormond Lord Steward of Our Houshold or any of his Ancestors Barons of Arckloe Viscounts of Thurles or Earles of Ormond or Ossory did at any time heretofore Mortgage Grant or Demise unto any person or persons in Fee Fee-Farm Fee-Tail for Life or for Years or for any other Estate or Interest nor to any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments held of the said James Lord Marquess of Ormond mediately or immediately as of any of his Manors whereby the Forfeited or Forfeitable Interest of any person or persons in such Lands Tenements or Hereditaments as aforesaid may be setled in any Adventurer Souldier or any person whatsoever other than the said James Marquess of Ormond and his Heirs Provided that this shall not extend to any of the Lands held of James Marquess of Ormond or the Lady Marchioness his Wife as of any their Manors but that all such Lands shall be held of the said James and the Lady Marchioness and their Heirs by the same Tenure and at the same Rents and Services as heretofore any thing in this Our Declaration to the contrary contained notwithstanding And whereas the Earl of Inchequin hath been dispossessed of his Estate for his eminent Service and adhering unto Vs and is now by Act of Parliament ordered to be restored to his said Estate We are graciously pleased hereby further to Declare That he be accordingly restored to his said Estate and that such who shall thereby â—e removed and are justly capable of reprize that they shall be reprized as others in lâ—ke cases are to be reprised And whereas we understand that by the â—â—te usurped Powers during the Distempers of these Tiâ—â—â— several Irish Proprietors of the Popish Religion have been dispossessed of their Estates meerly for being Papists and have shed out Decrees and are possessed of Lands in the Province of Connaught and County of Clare in compensation of their former Estates which being an Act of their own We might without any injustice deny to relieve them in yet so willing We are that any Interest intituling in self to Equitable mercy mâ—ght not be disappointed that We declare That all innocent Papists being such as shall prove themselves to have been Faithful and Loyal unto and never acted against Our Royal Father or Our Self since the two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one though they have sued out Decrees and are possessed of Lands in the Province of Connaught or County of Clare in lieu of their former Estates shall notwithstanding be restored to their said Estates by the second of May One thousand six hundred Sixty one Provided that the said Lands in Connaught and Clare so allotted to the said Papists be restored unto Vs to Reprise others or for satisfaction of such Irish Proprietors thereof so far as this Declaration excludes them not or if the said Lands in Connaught and Clare or any part thereof have been sold by any such Papist that the said Papist out of his Estate to which he is to be restored shall pay the Purchase-Money to the said Purchaser his Heirs or Assigns and whosoever either by Reprize or Restauration shall enjoy the said Lands shall make satisfaction to the said Purchaser for all necessary Reparations and Improvements upon the said Lands before he be admitted to the possession of them Provided also That whatsoever Adventurer or Souldier that shall be removed from his present possession to make room for any such Papist shall forthwith have a Reprize of equal value worth and purchase in other Forfeited Lands Provided alwayes That whereas the Corporations of Ireland are now planted with English who have considerably improved at their own Charges and brought Trade and Manufacture into that Our Kingdom and by their Settlment there do not a little contribute to the Peace and Settlement of that Country the disturbing or removal of which English would in many respects be very prejudicial That all such of the Popish Religion of any Corporations in Ireland
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
derived their Titles to their Estates from any who dyed guilty of any the aforementioned Crimes nor such as pleaded the Articles of Peace for their Estates nor such as being in the Quarters which were under the authority of Our Royal Father or Our Self held correspondency with or gave Intelligence to such as were then in opposition against Our said Royal Father or Our Self in Ireland nor such as before any of the Peaces in One thousand Six hundred Forty and six or One thousand Six hundred Forty and Eight sate in any of the Confederate Roman-Catholick Assemblies or Councils or acted upon any Commissions or Powers derived from them or any of them nor such as impowered Agents or Commissioners to treat with any Forreign Papal power beyond Seas for bringing into Ireland Forreign Forces or were persons which acted in such Negotiations nor such persons as have been Wood-kernes or Tories before the Marquess of Clanrickards leaving the Government of that Kingdome You are to take care that the Adventurers and Souldiers in the Possessions of the Estates of any innocent Protestant or Papist restored to his said Estate by Our said Declaration be forthwith Reprized as in Our said Declaration is directed therein observing the signification of Our pleasure in Our said Declaration for the Reprizing such as shall be removed from the Estates of innocent Protestants or Papists at the time they shall be so removed In the next place you are to take care That the Adventurers Souldiers or other persons possessed of any of the Estate or Estates of such persons to whom we have by Our said Declaration assigned a particular favour and are in a distinct Branch thereof by name expressed be Reprized as in Our said Declaration is directed and the said persons restored to their former Estates from the time that such Adventurers or Souldiers shall be so Reprized observing alwayes the further cautions and provisions in Our said Declaration expressed referring to the said persons restauration If any who by Our said Declaration are to be restored to their former Estates have or shall without Order molest disturb or unquiet any of the Adventurers Souldiers or other persons in the possession of their respective Estates or for the mean profits thereof contrary to what is directed and provided for in Our said Declaration such person or persons untill they shall surcease such disturbance or having taken possession shall redeliver the same to the person so dispossessed and account and satisfie unto him the Damages sustained thereby shall have no benefit of the Grace and Favour held forth by Our said Declaration to him or them respectively And in case any person or persons that hath so disturbed or dispossessed any Adventurer or Souldier or their Assigns of any Houses Lands or Tenements formerly Assigned for Adventurers or Arrears and by such Adventurers or Souldiers quietly enjoyed shall not as aforesaid quietly resign the possession of such Lands to such Adventurers or Souldiers or their Assigns That you do then forthwith give Order to Our respective Sheriffs to put such Adventurers Souldiers or their Assigns into quiet possession of such Estates which Orders of yours Our said respective Sheriffs are hereby required strictly to observe accordingly Provided nevertheless That where such person or persons so dispossessed and to be restored to his or their former estates by the next preceding instruction shall be contented to submit to a reprize that in such cases you are forthwith to set out lands in some convenient place for the Reprizing him or them accordingly You are to take care that all that by Our said Declaration are to be restored to their former Estates do before such restauration to their said Estates under their Hands and Seals exhibit unto you the ground upon which he or they claim the benefit of Our said Declaration and a particular of their respective Estates in which you are to take care that they claim no other Lands than what did rightfully belong to them and was in their Real possession the Two and Twentieth day of October One thousand Six hundred Forty and one And if any one so to be restored shall make a claim that he or they are not Entituled unto or make and deliver unto you a false particular of his said Estate and therein include other Lands than what he or they so Entituled unto and possessed of as aforesaid or having to any Irish Papist or person excepted from confirmation of his Estate in Our said Declaration Morgaged or otherwise incumbred his or their said Estates either before the said Two and twentieth of October One thousand Six hundred Forty and one or since that day or have sold the same to any such Irish Papist or excepted person and shall not particularly express the same in the said particular so to be delivered in all such cases such person or persons offending herein for such offence shall forfeit the full value of the Land so endeavoured to be gained out of any other Lands to be restored to him by vertue of Our said Declaration You are forthwith to Reprize such Adventurers Souldiers and other persons who are now in the possession of the Estate of the Earl of Clancarty As also to satisfie Erasmus Smith Esq his deficiency as an Adventurer in some convenient Forfeited Lands in the County of Lowth that he may be better inabled and incouraged to answer those publick pious Vses in incorporating Five Free-Schools within that Our Kingdome for which he hath petitioned for Our License and to Reprize him the said Erasmus Smith such Lands now or lately in his possession that are restored or restorable to the former Proprietors And to accept from Peter Wallis Esq a surrender of the great Island near Ross in the County of Wexford and Reprise him the same in the County of Cork on the Lands now in the said Peter Wallis his possession not exceeding the yearly value of what the said Island may be set for And to the end you may the more readily proceed in Reprizing such as in Our said Declaration are to be Reprized being to be removed from off the Estate of any person or persons to be restored to their former Estates you are forthwith to make up Books of all the Forfeited undisposed Lands in Ireland and not before Assigned for satisfaction of the deficient Adventurers or Reprizing the Adventurers and Souldiers the Incumbrances on their Estates in which you are carefully to set down all the Forfeited Lands in the County of Catherlagh by themselves and all the Forfeited Lands in the Baronies of Barrimore and Muskry by themselves the one being apppinted for the Reprizal of such as are removed from ost the Estate of James Lord Marquess of Ormond Lord Steward of Our Houshold and the other to satisfie Decrees of the innocent Papists inhabitants of Cork Youghal and Kingsale In the doing whereof you are to appoint what quarter or point of the said County of Catherlagh and the said Baronies of Barrimore
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
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
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
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