paid their purchase money to His Royal Highness or his Commissioners or to the Executors of such Regicides who have since answered the same upon their accompts to His Royal Highness or his Commissioners and other than the lands and Houses granted or intended to be granted unto James Duke of Ormond and the Lady Dutchess his Wife or either of them by this or the said former Act and other than the lands granted unto Michael now Lord Archbishop of Dublin heretofore Lord Bishop of Cork and the lands granted unto Francis Lord Aungier and other than the lands granted to Sir George Lane before and confirmed in and by the said former Act and other than the lands settled upon Hercules Huncks by the said former Act which shall remain to them their Heirs and Assignes accordingly and other than the lands which have been decreed away by the Commissioners for Execution of the late Act shall be and are hereby declared to be and continue vested in his Royal Highness and his Heirs as fully and amply with all the like benefit and advantage as by the said former Act is mentioned discharged of all Rents services and payments by this or the said former Act reserved created or imposed but subject to the same Rents services and payments as other lands by this Act ought to be in case his Royal Highness or his Heirs shall alien or demise the same otherwise than forlives or years reserving the full Moyery of the improved Rent And where any lands formerly set out in satisfaction of any Adventures or arrears or any other lands whatsoever due to the said Regicides or any of them have been evicted or recovered from his Royal Highness his Heirs and Assignes by virtue of any such decrees as aforesaid Be it further Enacted That some other like quantity of profitable and forfeited lands according to the down Survey equal in number of acres to those which have been so evicted and within the Counties of Dublin Lowth Kildare and Cork or some of them if it may be or otherwise elsewhere be forthwith set out by the Commissioners for Execution of this Act and allotted to his Royal Highness and his Heirs to be held as aforesaid And further that all deficiencies which have happened to all or any the persons whose estates by the said former Act or this present Act are vested in his Royal Highness and his Heirs or which have happened to their or any of their estates be fully satisfied and supplyed out of some other forfeited lands to be set out by the Commissioners for Execution of this Act and allotted to his Royal Highness and his Heirs to be held as aforesaid and that all moneys lent or disbursed by any of the said persons or hy any others for them or any of them for Provisions Arms or Ammunition for support of His Majesties Army in Ireland in the beginning of the Rebellion there be likewise satisfied out of the Lands and Houses for that purpose according to His Majesties Declaration in the said Act of Settlement to be set out by the Commissioners for execution of this Act and allotted to his Royal Highness his Heirs and Assignes to be held as aforesaid Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding Saving always unto Arthur Earl of Anglesey such Right and Title of in and to such part of the premisses as he the said Earl of Anglesey hath or ought to have by virtue of the said former Act or this present Act or by virtue of an Indenture of Lease under the hand and seal of his Royal Highness made between his Royal Highness of the one part and the said Earl of Anglesey on the other part bearing date before the passing of this Act Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted That this Act shall not extend or be any ways construed to take away or be prejudicial unto any Estate Right Title or Interest of George Duke of Albemarle his Heirs or Assigns of in or to any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments accrewing to him or them by virtue or in pursuance of the said former Act or one other Act intituled An Act for the securing several Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to George Duke of Albermarle Any thing herein before or after expressed to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And it is further Enacted That the Ferry at Wexford with all the profits and other the Rights and Priviledges thereunto belonging or therewith used and enjoyed shall be and are hereby vested and settled in the said George Duke of Albemarle and shall be held and enjoyed by the said George Duke of Albemarle his Heirs and Assigns And whereas several Lands and Tenements whereof the said George Duke of Albemarle was seized by virtue of one or both the Acts before mentioned have been evicted or recovered from the said George Duke of Albemarle by virtue of certain Decrees lately made by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act and some Incumbrances have likewise by Decree of the said Commissioners been allowed and charged upon the Lands of the said George Duke of Albemarle for redemption whereof the said George Duke of Albemarle hath paid and satisfied the full sum of Eight hundred pounds Be it further Enacted That the Commissioners for execution of this Act do forthwith set out and allot to the said George Duke of Albemarle and his Heirs or Assigns out of the lands in the County of Wexford now or lately held in Custodiam of His Majestie by Sir Richard Clifton Knight so much other land as may be equal in quantity of profitable acres to what hath been so Decreed and Evicted as aforesaid and in value to such Incumbrance as hath been recovered and satisfied as aforesaid which lands so as aforesaid to be allotted shall be held and enjoyed by the said George Duke of Albemarle his Heirs and Assigns as fully and amply as the lands so Evicted and Decreed as aforesaid might have been held in case no such Decree or Eviction had been Any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Right honourable Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord high Treasurer of England Anthony Ashley Lord Ashley Chancellor and Vndertreasurer of His Majesties Court of Exchequer Sir Orlando Bridgeman Knight and Baronet Lord chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas at Westminster and Sir Henry Vernon Knight and Baronet shall have hold and enjoy to them their Heirs and Assignes all that the Castle Mannor and Abbey of Eniscorthy in the County of Wexford and all the Mannors Towns Vills Lands Tenements Territories and Hereditaments late of Robert Wallop late of Farley-Wallop in the County of Southampton called Kilbeg Cloine Tumsalow and Effernock or by what other name or names soever they are known or called with their and every of their
Messuages or lands which by virtue of this Act shall be restored or given unto any person or persons herein before or after named may not wholy loose the benefit and charges of their respective improvements Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Protestants so to be removed shall be and are hereby enabled to demand and shall upon their requests have Leases made to them of all and singular the Messuages and lands in their manual occupations for three lives or one and twenty years at a moderate Rent not exceeding three fourthes of the true value of the lands in satisfaction of their improvements except it be a capital messuage and then the party to be restored shall either make such Lease as aforesaid or pay unto the person to be removed in ready money the full value of such improvements and in case of default or refusall to make such Lease as aforesaid upon request or to give such satisfaction in money shall be and are hereby enabled to reenter and to retain the said lands untill such Lease made or satisfaction given as aforesaid And to the end there may not be any difference touching the values of the lands so to be demised or of the improvements to be satisfied as aforesaid The Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council for the time being are hereby enabled upon the Petition of the parties concerned to appoint such Commissioners from time to time as they shall think fit to settle the difference aforesaid Provided alwayes and it is Enacted That nothing herein contained shall enable any of the four and fifty persons herein before mentioned to demand or have or to be restored unto any Impropriations or Appropriate tythes or to any Glebe Lands parcel of any Rectory impropriate but that the same shall remain and be to such uses as they would have been by this and the said former Act if the said fifty and four persons or any of them had not been named Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That those who were in possession of any lands or houses upon the two and twentieth day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and three to which they were restored by virtue of any His Majesties Letters if they or any of them their or any of their Ancestors or any other in trust for them or any of them were thereof seized or possessed upon the Two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty and one and thereunto rightfully intitled and are not otherwise provided for by this Act shall by the Commissioners for execution of this Act be restored unto and put in possession of such houses and so much of the lands lying contiguous and thereunto adjoyning as shall not exceed the quantity of two thousand acres in the doeing whereof the Commissioners are to proceed by the same rules orders and directions and in like manner and form as they ought to proceed in the settlement and restitution of any of the four and fifty persons herein before named and not otherwise And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That nothing in the said former Act or in this present Act herein before or after contained shall be understood to give restore or confirm to any Irish Papist or Popish Recusant or any other person seized or possessed in trust for any such Irish Papist or Popish Recusant any Advowson or Right of Patronage of or in any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion or any Right of Nomination Presentation or Collation to or Donation of any such Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion but that all and every such Advowsons and Rights of Patronage and the Rights of Nomination Presentation or Collation to or Donation of any such Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion but that all and every such Advowsons and Rights of Patronage and the rights of Nomination Presentation Donation or Collation of or to any such Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion shall vest remain and continue and so are hereby adjudged to vest remain and continue in His Majestie His Heirs and Successors until such Irish Papist or Popish Recusant or the right heir of such Papist or Recusant shall come to Church and receive the Sacrament according to the Rites of the Church of England and from and after such conformity shall be again revestel in the person so conforming and his heirs Any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Sir Edward Smith Knight Chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas Sir Edward Dering Baronet Sir Allen Broderick Sir William Churchill Knights and Edward Cook Esq and such others as upon the death or removal of them or any of them shall be appointed by His Majestie from time to time shall be Commissioners and that they or any three or more of them shall have power to put in execution all and every the matters of this present Act and of the said former Act which remain still in force and are directed to be done by Commissioners or are not particularly entrusted to some others by the said Acts and that they and every of them shall before they act any thing in execution of the said Commission take an Oath before the Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland or before the Lord Chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Chief Place or the Lord Chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas or be-before the Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer for the time being which Oath they or any of them have hereby power to administer as there shall be occasion in these words following YOu shall swear That you shall to the best of your skill and knowledge truly and impartially execute the place and duty of a Commissioner for putting in execution an Act intituled An Act for the explaining of some doubts arising upon an Act intituled An Act for the better execution of His Majesties gracious Declaration for the settlement of His Kingdom of Ireland and satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other His Subjects there and for making some alterations of and additions unto the said Act for the more speedy and effectual settlement of the said Kingdom And of so much as is still in force and remains to be executed of an other Act intituled An Act for the better execution of His Majesties gracious Declaration for the settlement of His Kingdom of Ireland and satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other His Subjects there so long as you shall continue in that imployment and therein you shall spare no person for favour and affection nor any person grieve for hatred or ill will So help you God And that in all cases which shall happen before the Commissioners within the space of two years next after
four Courts in Dublin between two and five of the Clock in the afternoon shall think fit and assess which said sum or sums so to be assessed and raised shall not exceed two pence for every profitable Acre which shall be by virtue of this Act confirmed unto them their Heirs and Assignes now in their possessions or at any time hereafter shall be confirmed upon them respectively and shall be paid unto the Receivers herein after mentioned and shall be disposed by them or any three or more of them for and toward the end aforesaid and not otherwise Provided alwayes that of the three there be alwayes one of the Peers and two of the Commoners before specified and for default of payment of any summ or summs so assessed it shall and may be lawful to and for the persons aforesaid or any three or more of them or such other person or persons as they shall direct and appoint to levy by distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of such person or persons so making default double the summ that shall be upon him or them assessed and in arrears rendering the overplus to the partie distrained And whereas amongst several Bils certified and transmitted under the Great Seal of Ireland unto his Majestie in his High Court of Chancery in England by a certificate bearing date at Dublin the thirteenth day of May in the sixteenth year of His Majesties Raign a Bill is transmitted intitled an Act for settling of Certain lands of Erasmus Smith Esq for charitable uses Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the said Bill mentioned and thereby intended to be disposed for charitable uses and not already Decreed away by the Commissioners for Execution of the said former Act shall be continued applyed unto and preserved intirely for such pious and charitable uses and that the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall not allot or distribute the said lands or any part thereof or suffer the same to be allotted or distributed to any Adventurer or Souldier in pursuance of this Act And where any of the lands set out by the said Erasmus Smith to pious or charitable uses have been evicted recovered or charged by any Decrees which are confirmed by this Act the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall cause a like quantity of forfeited and profitable Acres within the County of Lowth if so much can there be found or otherwise elsewhere to be set our and allotted to the same pious uses as may be sufficient to recompence the loss which hath hapned by such Decrees as aforesaid any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding and Whereas several lands and Tenements in the County of Tipperary heretofore in the possession of Erasmus Smith upon the Seaventh day of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine and claimed by him as an Adventurer according to the rules of His Majesties late Gracious Declaration and the said former Act were after the said Declaration and before the passing of the said Act granted by His Majesties Letters Patents unto Sir John Stephens and his Heirs as lands concealed which grant nevertheless might at any time by the rules of the said former Act have been revoked by His Majestie if His Majestie had not been pleased since the passing of the said Act to release his power of Revocation by reason whereof great suits and controversies are likely to arise between the said Erasmus Smith and the said Sir John Stephens and such as do or may hereafter claim under them respectively to the end therefore that speedy right and justice may be done and the said controversies appeased and determined Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall examine the right and title of the said Erasmus Smith and of the said Sir John Stephens in and to the said lands and Tenements and if they shall find that the said Erasmus Smith or those under whom he claims were on the Seaventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine seized or possest of all or any the said lands as an Adventurer or Adventurers or as the Heir or Assignee of any Aduenturer then they shall forthwith restore the possession to the said Erasmus Smith to be held by him and his Heirs and Assignes in like manner and proportion as other Adventurers ought to enjoy their several and respective proportions according to this Act in which case the said Erasmus Smith is hereby enabled to sue for and recover the Measne profit thereof received but if they shall find the said lands to have been held by the said Erasmus Smith without any such title as aforesaid and that the same were concealed from his Majestie at the time of the passing of the said Letters Patents then they shall adjudge the said lands or so much thereof as they shall find to be so concealed to Sir John Stephens and his Heirs to be held by him and his Heirs according to the tenor of his said Letters Patents and such judgement and Decree as the said Commissioners shall make touching the premisses shall be and is hereby made concluding to the said Erasmus Smith and the said Sir John Stephens their Heirs and Assignes any thing in the said Letters Patents or in the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas William Mountgomery of Rosemound in the County of Down Esq did purchase of several persons certain Debentures which were due for service done in Ireland since the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty and nine and placed the same in and upon the purchase of a part of his own Estate called or known by the name of the Mannor of Florida in the County aforesaid then set out or set a part by reason of or upon accompt of the said late Rebellion or warr since which time the said William Mountgomery hath by the Commissioners for the Execution of the said former Act been declared adjudged an innocent Protestant and thereupon the said Mannor of Florida together with the rest of the Estate of the said William Mountgomery hath been decreed unto him by reason whereof the Debentures so purchased and placed thereupon as aforesaid do remain wholy unsatisfied Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall set out or cause to be set out unto the said William Mountgomery so much forfeited Land as may be sufficient to satisfie the said Debentures in like manner and form and according to such Rates and proportions as any other like Debentures ought by the Rules of this Act to be satisfied as fully amply as any other purchaser or Assignee of the said Deventures ought to have been satisfied in case the same had been placed on the said Mannor so evicted or decreed as aforesaid And whereas in and by a certain Clause in the said former
Sir Courtney Pool Baronet and other the persons intitled to the said estate so long as the said Lord Vice-count shall have issue male of his body were still to continue their possession Nevertheless His Majestie being desirous that all just interests should be provided for and being willing to extend his mercy unto the said Nicholas Lord Vice-count Nettervill as far as may stand with His Iustice is graciously pleased that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act doe forthwith set out unto the said Edward Smith Esq Sir Courtney Pool Baronet and other the persons intitled to the lands of the said Lord Vice-count their Heirs and Assigns their several and respective two third parts which by the rules of this Act they ought to have and after such two third parts set out shall restore the said Lord Vice-count Nettervill unto the possession of all and singular the Mannors Castles Lands Tenements Reversions Remainders and all other Hereditaments Right Title and Interest whatsoever in the said Kingdom of Ireland with his deceased Father and Grandfather or either of them or any other person or persons in trust for them or either of them or to their or either of their use or uses or any other or others to whom he may or can derive as heir or otherwise had held or enjoyed or of right ought to have held or enjoyed on the Two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one Rectories and Parsonages Impropriated and Appropriate Tythes excepted and that the said Lord Vice-count shall hold and enjoy all and singular the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments so restored according to such Estate Right and Title as he ought to have had in the same in case he had been adjudged innocent and no other and also shall be and is hereby restored in blood to all intents and purposes Any thing in this present Act or the said former Act or any other Act Law Statute Ordinance Order Outlary Attainder Record Provision Sequestration Distribution Allotment Iudgement Conviction or Decree or any other matter clause or thing to the contrary notwithstanding And because the Estate Right and Inheritance of in and unto several Lands Tenements and Hereditaments is by several clauses in this Act vested and settled in or otherwise disposed of unto several persons in the said several and respective clauses particularly named and mentioned whereby great prejudice may arise unto others whose right was not intended to be barred or extinguished if a timely remedye be not provided Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all and every such clauses it shall be understood and so is hereby Declared That all the right title and interest either in law or equity which any person or persons Body Politick or Corporate their Heirs Executors Successors or Assignes or any of them had on the Two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since other than His Majestie His Heirs and Successors and those who shall or may claim by from or under His Majestie His Heirs and Successors or any of them by virtue of this or the said former Act and other than such person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate their Heirs Executors Successors and Assigns whose right is particularly mentioned to be barred and excluded shall be and is hereby preserved unto them their Heirs Executors Successors and Assignes respectively as fully and amply as if a particular saving of Rights had been annexed to and repeated in every such clause any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas in and by the said former Act the fractions of od pounds shillings and pence were to be struck off and deducted out of all sums of money Debentures Certificates or Decrees for Arrears Adventures Publick Debts Reprizes or other allowed Interests which according to the said Act were to be ascertained stated or settled and the fractions of od acres roods and pearches were also to be deducted out of the respective proportions of lands which should be granted or settled in satisfaction of any of the aforesaid interests so as such deductions did not exceed the hundredth part of the money or lands out of which such Deductions were to be made which Deductions were appointed to be satisfied as intirely as might be in such convenient proportions and places as the Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being should appoint and reserved to be disposed to such uses as His Majestie His Heirs or Successors should appoint His Majestie is graciously pleased that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no fractions of od pounds shillings or pence or of od acres roods or pearches or any satisfaction for the same be at any time hereafter made or given unto His Majestie His Heirs or Successors or unto any other person or persons claiming the benefit thereof by virtue of any Patent Grant or other Assignment from His Majestie but that the same be for ever released and discharged and that all and every the clauses in the said former Act touching and concerning the giving or reserving such fractions and the satisfaction thereof unto His Majestie His Heirs and Successors shall be and are hereby repealed and made void to all intents and purposes as if the same had never been had nor made Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas the survey admeasurement of certain lands in Ireland was heretofore undertaken and finished by Sir William Petty Knight upon an agreement made with the Souldiers to have for his pains one penny for every acre so surveyed and admeasured as aforesaid whereof part hath been already paid and some doth still remain in arrear to the end therefore that satisfaction be made to Sir William Petty for what remains unpaid by the Souldiers their Heirs or Assigns and for His better encouragement to finish the several Mapps and Descriptions of this Kingdom Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being with any six or more of His Majesties Privy Council shall have power to examine how much of the said penny the acre hath been already paid and for what lands and how much thereof remains behind and unpaid and to give Order or Orders Warrant or Warrants for the levying and receiving one penny per acre out of all the lands in the admeasurement whereof he was imployed that have been or shall be appointed to be set out for satisfaction of arrears out of which such acrige was agreed or ought in justice to be paid and hath not been already paid and to give such further encouragement to the said Sir William for the finishing of the said Mapps as they shall think fit And that it shall and may be lawful to and for Sir