to them and every of them their sufficient Warrant and Discharge And whereas we not apprehending that we should arrive at a Settlement of Our Kingdom of Ireland so soon and with so general Satisfaction to all Interests as we have done did upon the petitions of several persons asserting their Innocence grant Our Letters for the re-possessing such Petitioners of their former Estates or any part thereof which Letters may possibly not answer to Our said Declaration and Instructions which now We look upon as the positive and fundamental Rule for the Settlement of that Our Kingdome the Chief Governour and Governours of that Our Kingdom for the time being and Our Privy Council there are therefore in executing the contents of such Our Letters to observe the same as they shall fall under Our several Rules in Our said Declaration and agreeable to the same and as in these Our Instructions are more particularly expressed and not otherwise For your pains and labour herein and for the pains and labour of such Sub-Commissioners as you shall imploy as aforesaid We do hereby authorize you to ask demand and receive from every Adventurer Souldier or other persons his or their Heirs or Assigns now in possession or to be put in possession of any Houses Lands Tenements or Hereditaments one penny for every Acre of land as admeasured assigned or set out to him or them for ascertaining their respective possessions and likewise for every one to be reprized an Estate worth Twenty Pounds per annum the sum of Ten Shillings and after the same Rate for greater or smaller Reprizes and for every Certificate for Lands to be possessed the sum of Ten Shillings and one penny in the pound for every Debenture that shall be satisfied by you and for the Clerks and Officers to be imployed by you and the contingent Charges relating thereunto that the same be paid out of the moneys that shall be received of the Rents due and payable out of the Securities appointed for the Officers before One Thousand Six Hundred Forty and Nine In the ascertaining stating and setling of any sum or sums of Money Debentures Certificates or Decrees for Arrears Adventures publick Debts Reprizes or other allowed Interests pursuant unto Our said Declaration You are to strike off and deduct all Fractions of odd Pounds Shillings and Pence and likewise in the ascertaining and setting out of the respective Proportions of Lands which shall be setled or granted in satisfaction of any of the aforesaid Interests You are to strike off and deduct all Fractions of odd Acres Roods and Pearches taking care that there be not above the one hundred part of any such sum or sums of Money or proportions of Lands respectively deducted from any one person without his own consent and that you do keep an exact and particular accompt of all the said Deductions in Money or Lands and cause the same to be satisfied as intirely as may be in such convenient proportions and in such places as the chief Governour or Governours of Our said Kingdom for the time being shall appoint which proportions are to be reserved to be disposed of unto such use or uses as We Our Heirs or Successors shall appoint The aforesaid Adventurers and Souldiers being satisfied and the Reprizes made and the several business finished as before is directed you are to deliver up your Books not before in these Instructions otherwise disposed of unto Our Auditor General of that Our Kingdome of Ireland and Duplicates of the same to Our Surveyor General in their Offices to remain as of Record In the management of which said Trust you are from time to time as the case shall require to give an accompt to Our Chief Governour or Governours for the time being and Our Council in Ireland of your Proceedings and to observe and follow such further directions as you shall from time to time receive from Vs or from them pursuant to this Act. And for the more due and impartial execution of Our said Declaration and these Instructions it is Our will and pleasure That no Commissioner or other person imployed acting in this Service shall till the Work be finished purchase by themselves or others in their behalf or to their Vse or in Trust for them or any of them any of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments that are to be setled confirmed reprized or restored by virtue of Our said Declaration but shall before they enter upon this Trust respectively give in Lists under their Hands of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as they are Intituled to or possest of to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council for the time being who are to take care for the observing this instruction And you are hereby further required to Reprize John Lord Viscount Massareene and his Heirs with an Estate of like yearly Rent in the Province of Leinster to that of which he stands seized in the Barony of Dunluce in the County of Antrim and to cause Our Letters dated the Eighteenth day of December One thousand six hundred and Sixty and the Fourteenth of August One thousand Six hundred Sixty and one to be put into speedy execution for the full satisfaction of the said Lord Massareene to all intents and purposes which being done you are then to cause the said Estate whereof the said Lord Massareene is seized in the Barony aforesaid to be delivered to Daniel O Neil Groom of Our Bed-Chamber in satisfaction for an Incumbrance of a much greater value wherewith the Barony of Dunluce set out to the Adventurers stands charged for the behoof of the said Daniel O Neil And for the better satisfaction of the Lord Massareene for the Estate of Henry O Neil of Killelaugh in the County of Antrim Esq which he is also to part from You are likewise out of the Forfeited Lands in the County of Dublin to Reprize the said Lord Massareene and his Heirs with an Estate of equal value worth and purchase to that which the said Lord Massareene stands now seized of and which did formerly belong to the said Henry O Neil to hold to him the said Lord Massareene and His Heirs which being done you are then to deliver to the said Henry O Neil the Estate formerly belonging to him whereof the said Lord Massareene is seized as aforesaid as an Adventurer Nevertheless the said several Adventurers shall be subject to such Deductions as other lands according to the Rules of His Majesties Declaration and Instructions and this present Act reserving alwayes liberty and licence to the said Lord Massareene to place and be satisfied on the said deductions such sum of Money as the deductions before mentioned shall amount unto out of what shall be due to him for deficiencies Incumbrances or Arrears before the year One thousand Six hundred Forty and Nine the Arrears to be in such case and manner and at such Rates as are allowed to others before the said year One thousand Six hundred
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
such as hereby are to receive twelve Shillings and six pence in the pound as also the arrears due before One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine of such who have received satisfaction for their arrears due since One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine and this to be done without any Priority or Distinction in an equal proportion after that you have first made up the Deficiency of those who have been satisfied in part since One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine but have not yet Lands set out to them to the full of that proportion which they were to have had at the time when the rest of the Lands were set out unto them and others as aforesaid We having by Our said Declaration assigned the Forfeited Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments not already disposed of within any Corporation in Ireland or in the Counties of Wicklow Longford Leitrim and Donegal and within a mile of the River Shannon commonly called or known by the name of Mile-Line for satisfaction of such Officers who served Our Royal Father or Our Self in Ireland before the Fifth of June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine as in Our Declaration is directed In Order thereunto Our Court of Exchequer in Ireland is hereby authorized and required to put the premisses out of Charge from the Three and Twentieth of October last past without Fee or other Charge for the same And towards the carrying on the work hereby appointed and all the contingent Charges thereof the moneys received by Major William Cadowgan and others for the Rents of the Counties of Wicklow Leitrim Longford and Donegal and for the Lands in Connaught and Clare commonly known or called by the name of Mile-Line for several years last past shall be paid into the Hands of such persons as we shall as aforesaid appoint to receive the moneys payable by the Adventurers or Souldiers and the accompts thereof forthwith delivered unto you The which accompts you are hereby required to Audit and Examine All the Rents and Profits of the Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments by Our said Declaration appointed for Satisfaction of the said Officers before the Fifth of June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine until the same be sold as is before directed shall be paid into the Hands of such persons as we shall appoint as aforesaid to collect and receive the same for the Ends and Vses above mentioned as also towards the Satisfaction of such persons as are to receive Satisfaction for their Improvements in building or repairing Houses planting Orchards or Gardens All which said moneys shall be paid by Warrant from You or any five or more of you aforesaid directed to Our said Vice-Treasurer for the Ends and Vses aforesaid Whereas several Lands have been set out for satisfaction of Money lent or publick Debts incurred for Provisions Arms and Ammunition furnished before the year One thousand Six hundred Forty four the which Lands so set out We have by Our said Declaration reserved for that purpose and to the end the persons to whom the said Lands are so set out may receive satisfaction for their said Moneys and Provisions according to the Tenor of Our said Declaration you are to compute the Money that ought to have been paid for the said Provision Arms and Ammunition together with the Interest for the same unto the time the said Lands were set out after the rate of 6. pounds per centum per annum You shall inquire of the Value of the said Lands what improvements there are made since they were set out what worth to be sold when set out at the rate of Ten years purchase and who now in possession and under what Title You shall assign so much of the said Lands so set out as according to Ten years purchase the aforesaid Money for the said provision c. with the Interest thereof as aforesaid will amount unto first deducting the Improvements made on the premisses since they were set out as aforesaid And whereas James Duke of Ormond Lord Steward of Our Household together with Sir Philip Percivall and Sir George Lane Knights and also others at the instance and request of the said Duke of Ormond became bound for certain Moneys lent and publick Debts incurred for Provision Arms and Amunition and furnished and delivered in Provisions and other Necessaries in Order to the carrying on of the War in that Our Kingdom whereby they have made themselves their Heirs Executors and Administrators lyable to Suit Hazard and Loss if not provided for and satisfaction set out for the same which in all equity ought to be done you are therefore required forthwith to set out Forfeited Lands in the Counties of Kildare and Dublin or one of them for satisfaction of the said Debts Provisions and other necessaries according to the last fore-going Rules and that in the mean time neither the said Duke of Ormond nor any other bound for the said Debts at his instance and request their Heirs Executors or Admistrators be sued molested or troubled for or concerning the same And if any of the said Lands already set or which shall be set out be restored to former Proprietors you are forthwith to assign other Lands of equal Value Worth and Purchase in lieu thereof You are likewise after the same rate of Ten years purchase to assign set out some convenient Forfeited lands unto Major George Rayden in satisfaction of Debentures for Arrears and Moneys paid by him for Provisions furnished as aforesaid and for which no satisfaction as yet hath been assigned as also to Doctor William Petty for his deficient Debentures according to the direction of Our Letter of the Second of January One thousand Six hundred and sixty Whereas there is a Rent payable to Vs out of every Acre of Land assigned or to be assigned to any Adventurer Souldier or other person as by Our Declaration appears in order to the ascertaining thereof you are to observe these following directions viz. Where there is no certain Record of the Lands assigned or set out to the Souldiers or other persons so that the Rent payable to Vs cannot be ascertained in all such cases you are to cause Proclamation to be made and Certificates to be returned of all such respective Possessions Debentures and Debts for which the said Lands were set out to them in way and manner as by Our aforesaid Instructions is directed with respect unto the Method to be observed concerning the Lands assigned unto the Adventurers wherein you are expresly to distinguish betwixt what Lands are set out for satisfaction of Arrears grown due in England from what is set out for satisfaction of Arrears grown due in Ireland you are out of the said Certificates and out of the Surveys and Books of Debentures or Books of Distributions or Subdivisions of Lands to any Office or place in Ireland forthwith to cause fair Books to be made up of all the Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments set out to the Adventurers Souldiers and
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
who have been for Publick security dispossessed of their Estates within any Corporation shall be forthwith Reprized in Forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments neer the said Corporations to the full Value Worth and Purchase of such Estate as he was dispossest of within such Corporation And that particularly the Popish Inhabitants of Cork Youghall and Kingsale shall have undisposed Forfeited Lands set out to them in the Baronies of Barrimore and Muskerry in the County of Cork according to their respective Decrees past in that behalf Provided that in the case of innocent Papists within the said respective Corporations that were dispossessed as aforesaid it shall remain in His Majesties Power to grant restitution in like manner as is provided in the case of other innocent Papists We are also graciously pleased that the Lands and Houses set out to any person or persons for satisfaction of any Money lent or publick Debts incurred for Provisions Armes or Ammunition furnished for support of Our Army in Ireland in the beginning of the Rebellion shall be and remain disposeable for the satisfaction of such of the said Debts and Debentures for such Debts as upon examination of the respective Cases shall appear most deserving consideration and satisfaction in such proportions as shall be thought most equal and just We are likewise graciously pleased to declare That the Lands set out to George Duke of Albermarle Captain General of Our Armies of England Scotland and Ireland for his Arrears and Service in Ireland as also the Lands being for Arrears purchased by him and whereof he is now possessed and the Lands setled upon Roger Earl of Orrery Charles Earl of Mountrath Richard Lord Baron of Caloony Chidley Coote and Thomas Coote Esquires the Relict and Heirs of Sir Simon Harcourt Sir William Penn and the Relict and Children of Col. George Cook Sir Theophilus Jones Sir George Ayscough and the Orphans of Colonel Owen O Connelly for their Service and Sufferings in the War of Ireland As also the Lands set out to Richard Urial and Thomas Crostthwart of One hundred Pounds per annum As also all such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as Arthur Lord Viscount of Valentia hath purchased from any persons in actual possession thereof by virtue of any Grant Order or disposition of the late Vsurped Powers or any of them shall be setled and confirmed unto them their Heirs and Assigns respectively And also that Lands be set out to Major George Rawdoh in satisfaction of Debentures due to him for Arrears and Provisions furnished for Ireland Provided alwayes and We do hereby declare that it is not Our intention thereby to weaken or avoid the Iust and Legal Citie of any Person that is restoreable by this Our Declaration But that if any of the said Estates shall be accordingly restored to the former Proprietor that then a Reprize of equal Value Worth and Purchase shall forthwith be assigned in lieu thereof And as We cannot but with extraordinary sadness of heart remember and even at present behold the desolate and distracted condition that Our Kingdome of Ireland hath been and is reduced unto by the unnatural Insurrection begun in the Year One thousand Six hundred Forty one and consequently abhor and detest the Contrivers and obstinate Promoters of the same against Vs Our Crown and Dignity So We cannot upon the considerations formerly exprest in this Our Declaration deny all Iust and Reasonable Provision that may stand with the present Iuncture of Our Affairs unto such of the Irish Nation who not onely gave early Evidences of their Repentance for their Crimes but also persevered in their Loyalty to Vs and Our Commands And that as near as We can Our Iustice and Our Mercy in accommodating this Interest might not justle each other We are in a different manner to consider of such of them as are justly Entituled to the Benefit of those Articles of Peace formerly mentioned and such who did not submit unto the same or after a submission made a departue from the same which two latter sorts have justly forfeited that Favour which otherwise they might have received We are also further to consider of those who embraced the said Articles and submitted to the said Peace without any Apostacy in a different notion as of those who remained in that Our Kingdome who sued out Decrees and received Lands in satisfaction of their ancient Estates and those who being Transported into Forreign parts through many difficulties Vnited Rendevouzed and served under Our Obedience So that upon these considerations We think fit and declare and accordingly do declare That as to those who imbraced the said Articles and submitted to the said Peace and constantly adhered thereunto and remaining at home sued out Decrees and obtained possession of Lands in the Province of Connaught or County of Clare that they are to stand bound by them and not to be relieved against their own Act who contented themselves to enjoy a part of satisfaction for their own rather than to attend our Restitution or submit themselves to Our Command in Forreign parts as others did And yet if the conditions of those seem hard they can no more reasonably expect that We should further relieve them than Our friends in England and Ireland can expect that we should pay back to them all the Moneys they were compelled in the evil Times to pay for their Compositions which they would have avoided had it been in their power And in case any justly Entituled to the said Peace have obtained Decrees for Lands in the Province of Connaught or County of Clare in lieu of their former Estateâ— and have not been possest of lands according to such their respective Decrees We further declare That if by the First day of November One thousand Six hundred Sixty one they shall not be possest of such Decreed lands they shall immediately after the said day he otherwise satisfied for the same And as to those who continued with Vs or served faithfully under Our Ensignes beyond the Seas We think fit and accordingly declare That they shall be restored to their former Estates if they by themselves or Agents Authorised by them have not prosecuted and obtained Decrees and lands in the Province of Connaught or County of Clare in compensation of their former Estates a Reprize being first assigned and legally set out of the remaining Forfeited lands undisposed of to such Adventurer or Souldier or other person before named of equal Value Worth and Purchase to the Estate out of which such Adventurer or Souldier or other person aforesaid shall be so removed Yet so that if any Charge Debt or other legal incumbrance have been due upon or out of any such lands so to be restored which by law or good Conscience ought to be discharged by the party so to be restored And that the said Charges Debts or Incumbrances have been discharged or satisfied by the party his Heirs or Assigns from whom such lands are now to be Reprized
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-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
Directions as you shall receive herein from Vs or from Our Chief Governour or Governours and Council of that Our Kingdome for the time being agreable to Our said Declaration If such Incumbrance be a Rent-charge or Yearly Rent issuing or payable out of the Estates of the said Adventurers or Souldiers for ever or for years or for life You are then to put a Rate or Value on such Rent-charge not exceeding Ten years Purchase for an Estate for ever or Six years Purchase if for life or for any term under Ten years or Seven years Purchase if for Two lives or any term above Ten years and under Twenty one years or Eight years purchase for any term above Twenty one years and under Thirty one years and Nine years Purchase for all above Thirty one years which shall be satisfied out of the said Forfeited lands in the said County of Kildare after the Rate afore-going If such Incumbrance be by Lease or Leases for term of years or for life or lives you shall as is before directed inquire after the damage such Adventurer or Souldier sustains by virtue of such Lease and if the said term shall not exceed seven years or the damage be not one third part of the full value of the said Lands set out to him you shall not assign any recompence or Reprize but if such damage be for above Seven years or above one third part of the profits of such Estate satisfaction is to be given in way and manner as in the preceding Instructions is directed The which Lands being thus set out allotted and distributed to the said Adventurers and Reprized to the said Adventurers and Souldiers you are to give unto them respectively a Certificate of what Lands are so set out unto them with the number of acres Denominations of the said Lands the Parish Barony and County such Lands are in and who Forfeited the same which Certificate the said Adventurers Souldiers are forthwith to Record in Our Court of Exchequer upon which Our said Court is to give Order to Our respective Sheriffs to put the said Adventurers and Souldiers their Assigns or Agents into the possession of such Lands so allotted divided and set out or reprized as aforesaid Whereas by Our said Declaration the Estates of every person or persons that sate as Iudges in the pretended High Court of Iustice upon the Life of Our Royal Father of blessed Memory or who Sentenced him or who Signed or Sealed the Warrant for Execution or who were of the Guard of Halberteers assisting to put the Bloody Sentence of Death in execution upon the Thirtieth of January One thousand Six hundred Forty eight are not confirmed You are therefore to inquire what Estates any of the said persons had and to return Certificates thereof into Our Court of Exchequer which Court is hereby required to sieze the same to Our use and for the increase of Our Revenue except so much of the same lands Tenements and Hereditaments lately belonging to John Cook as by Our Letters of the Twenty fourth of November last was granted by Vs to Sir George Lane Knight for his faithful Service which it is Our will and pleasure shall be confirmed to him his Heirs and Assigns accordingly and that all proceedings necessary for the finding Our Title thereunto and to the lands Tenements and Hereditaments of Philip Hoare of Kilsalchan in the same letter to the said Sir George Lane granted be speedily made by Our Officers and Ministers intrusted in that behalf and that thereupon letters Patents be past thereof or of any other Forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments given or granted by Our said letters in lieu thereof under Our Great Seal of Ireland to the said Sir George Lane his Heirs and Assignes according to the direction of Our said letters in the most large favourable and benigne acceptation thereof You are by the best way and means you can to inquire after all Forged Debentures or Bills on which any lands have been set out either to Adventurers or Souldiers and forthwith certifie such Forgeries into Our Court of Exchequer that such persons may be proceeded against according to law The like you are to do after the Estates of such as have procured or obtained the possession of any Estate by Perjury Bribery or Subornation of Witnesses or false or undue admeasurement to Our prejudice To the end such Estate or Estates so unjustly obtained may be seized according to the Tenor of Our said Declaration And whereas many being conscious of their own guilt or evil intentions with respect to the most heinous Rebellion begun the Three and Twentieth of October One thousand Six hundred Forty and One have made private Settlements of their Estates and many of Our Protestant Subjects having formerly Mortgaged their Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments unto such as have Forfeited the same in these evil and unsetled Times have notwithstanding entred upon and keep possession of Our Right You are therefore in the best way and manner you can to make a Discovery of all such or any other concealments to Our prejudice In Order whereunto Our Officers in Our Four Courts of Dublin or in the Office for Probat of Wills are required to be aiding and assisting to you herein and from time to time to search after such matters or things as you shall judge for Our Service to inquire after and to attend you with such Records as you shall judge needful Whereas by Our said Declaration several innocent Protestants and Papists are to be restored to their Estates and a Reprize of equal value worth and purchase is to be assigned to such Adventurers and Souldiers and other persons as do possesse the same in the doing thereof you are to observe these following directions viz. Not to restore any as an innocent Papist that at or before the Cessation which was made upon the Fifteenth day of September One thousand Six hundred Forty and three were of the Rebels party nor any who being of ful Age and sound Memory enjoyed their Estates Real or Personal in the Rebells Quarters Provided that where any Citizen or Inhabitant of the City of Cork or of the Town of Youghal or any other person or persons were not permitted to live in the English Quarters but were expelled from thence and driven into the Quarters of the Rebels that than and in such case such inhabiting in those Quarters and there receiving any benefit of their Estates shall not be construed or adjudged any bar or impeachment of their Innocence nor such as entred into the Roman-Catholick Confederacy at any time before the Articles of Peace concluded One thousand Six hundred Forty and eight nor such as at any time adhered to the Nuncioes or Clergies party or Papal power in opposition to the Kings Authority nor such as have been Excommunicated for adhering to the Kings Authority and afterwards owned their Offences for so doing and were relaxed thereupon from their Excommunication nor such who
give unto them others for the remaining part not satisfied the which Debentures so delivered upon the said Purchase shall at the making of the Contract be fairly entred in books for that purpose to be kept And if any such Purchaser or Purchasers shall fail so to deliver up Debentures according to his Purchase as aforesaid such Sale or Purchase shall not be good or allowed unto such Purchaser or Purchasers nor such Officers Debentures admitted in any other Purchase Provided alwayes That where any Purchaser shall purchase with Money he shall pay down one fifth part of the Money at the making the said Contract and the remaining part within Eight and twenty dayes and failing of the said payment within Eight and twenty dayes he shall forfeit the said Fifth part paid and the Purchase shall be void and the Money so paid in Purchase shall be towards satisfaction of the Arrears of the said Officers The said Purchase being fully perfected in manner as aforesaid you are to give unto such purchaser or purchasers a Certificate of the particulars thereof which Certificate such persons shall forthwith Record in Our Surveyor Generals Office whereupon Our Court of Exchequer shall forthwith grant an Order for the quiet possession of the Premisses For your more full information as well of the particulars aforesaid as in the Value Worth Quantity Quality Scituation of such Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments so to be sold you are to have recourse to the Surveyes taken of them and where you shall suspect such Surveys faulty you are to appoint fit persons to Re-survey and Certifie the same unto you Whereas the Corporation of Bandon-Bridge having formerly issued several sums of Money and Provisions for the Pay and Support of the Army in Ireland to whom in consideration of the said Moneys and Provisions Lands have been assigned and set out upon the Receipt of which Lands they have delivered up their Vouchers you are therefore to examine what Lands have been assigned and set out to them and to settle so much thereof upon the said Corporation as shall amount unto the clear yearly value of One hundred pound by the year You are also to take care that the Lands set out to Susanna Bastick and her Children be accordingly confirmed to them And whereas We have by Our said Declaration assigned the benefit arising from the Redemption of Mortgages Statute Staples and Iudgements where the Lands are not already disposed of to Adventurers or Souldiers for and towards the satisfaction of such Officers who received no satisfaction for their Arrears before the Fifth day of June One thousand Six hundred Forty nine you are therein to observe these following Directions You are to have recourse to the Records of the late Court of Claimes and Our Court of Exchequer or other Courts the better to ascertain your knowledge what Lands were so incumbred as also if you shall see cause you are to make inquiry in all places within Our Kingdom of Ireland for the Discovery of such Mortgages Statute Staples Iudgments and other Incumbrances And after such particular knowledge of the premises obtained on the remaining term you are to make a just Estimate according to the Rates currant of what the Fee-simple of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments lying under the said Incumbrances are worth alwayes deducting the Moneys to be paid in order to discharge the said Incumbrance and the same particularly and distinctly to enter into one or more Books fitted for that purpose and if the person Entituled to the Incumbrance will pay what the Land amounts to in value above the Moneys payable in discharge of the said Incumbrance then such person is to have the absolute Estate of the said Lands legally setled to him and his Heirs But if such person shall refuse to pay the said Over-plus then if any Officer interested in the said Security will purchase any part thereof he shall after discharge of the Incumbrance out of the common Stock of the said Security enjoy the same as far as his Debenture or so much thereof as he shall place thereupon shall reach And for such part of the benefit arising out of such Incumbred Lands which shall not be purchased by any Officer as aforesaid it shall be put to Sale and the Moneyes by such Sales shall be for the satisfaction as is in Our Declaration expressed And whereas We have assigned a years Rent and a year and a halfs Rent payable by the Souldiery in Ireland towards the satisfaction of such as in our said Declaration are expressed you are therefore to take care that the said Moneys and Rents be paid unto such persons as We shall particularly appoint to receive the same who are hereby Authorized and impowered from time to time by Proclamation or otherwise to cause publick notice to be given to the respective Adventurers Souldiers and others who are to pay the said moneys of the manner place for payment thereof And if any Adventurer Souldier or other person shall refuse or neglect to pay his or their moneys in way or manner and at the place so to be appointed the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of such person so failing shall be seized into Our Hands and so continue for Security and Satisfaction of the said several Rents And the said Souldiers are to pay the said moneys unto such persons as We shall appoint to collect and receive the same who are to pay over the same unto Our Right Trusty and well Beloved Cousin and Councellour Arthur Lord Viscount Valentia Our Vice-Treasurer of that Our Kingdom who is hereby required to issue forth the same according to such Warrants or Orders as he shall from time to time receive from any five or more of You as aforesaid for and towards the Satisfaction of the aforesaid Arrears And to the end Our said Vice-Treasurer may know what sums of Money he is to receive all Acquittances given by those appointed to collect and receive as aforesaid are to be entered and signed by the several Officers of the Exchequer in the accustomed manner for Acquittances You are also from time to time to take a perfect Accompt from such persons so to be imployed of all the particular Receipts payments relating to the premisses which Accompts so taken are to be kept in a fair Book and returned into Our Court of Exchequer that so they may be ready to be produced for the Satisfaction of such as may be concerned therein Before you admit any Deventure of any Officer who hath Arrears satisfied since June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine You shall satisfie such whose Arrears You shall state and such whose arrears are stated and have not received Satisfaction for their Service before or since June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine twelve Shillings and six Pence in every Pound of their said arrears and then out of the remaining Security as far as it will extend you are to satisfie the remaining part of the arrears of
other persons whose Estates are confirmed by Our said Declaration together with the Rents and Profits payable unto Vs according to Our said Declaration by such Adventurers Souldiers and others And you are carefully and exactly to reduce the measure of such Lands as were set out by Plantation-measure of Twenty one Foot to the Pearch and One hundred and Sixty Pearches to the Acre to Sixteen Foot and an half to the Pearch and One hundred and Sixty Pearches to the Acre and accordingly to ascertain the Rent payable to Vs the which you are likewise to do of all the Estates we are graciously pleased to restore unto any Papist whose Estates were formerly disposed of or remained undisposed of in Our Hands Provided such Estates did not formerly pay unto Our Royal Father a greater Rent in which case the said greater Rent is to be reserved and paid to Vs for the Future which Books so made up you are to lodge as Our Court of Exchequer shall direct with some Officer of Our Revenue that the Rents may be given in Charge And that no prejudice may be to Vs or uncertainty in Our Revenue You are also to prepare Duplicates of the said Books to be kept in the Office of Our Chief Remembrancer and Treasurers Remembrancer And whereas in the Execution hereof it will be necessary to imploy several persons for the inquiry into and preparing several matters hereby committed to your Trust you are therefore hereby Authorized and Impowered from time to time to nominate and appoint such person or persons as you shall finde necessary for Our Service herein unto whom Our Chancellor for the time being for that Our Kingdom is hereby required and authorized to grant One or more Commissions under Our Great Seal of that Our Kingdom for the purposes aforesaid And whereas We have by Our said Declaration provided that Protestant Plantations shall be setled Corporations created Churches erected Maintenance for Preaching Ministers provided within the limits and precincts of the Lands to be setled on the Adventurers and Souldiers the same being subject to many intricacies and of universal concernment to that Our Kingdome We do therefore refer the whole consideration thereof unto Our Parliament for their Advice therein And you are hereby strictly required to take special care that the Decrees and the Estates in Lands set out in satisfaction of the same in the Province of Connaught and County of Clare to any Transplanted or Transplantable person and purchased from them or any of them by Charles Earl of Mountrath John Lord Baron of Kingstown Richard Lord Coot Baron of Coloony Carey Dillon Esq Sir George Bingham Baronet Sir Oliver St. George Knight and Baronet Sir John Cole Baronet Sir James Shaen Knight Major Arthur Gore Sir George St. George Sir James Cuffe John Eyres Esquire Henry Waddington Esq Captain Robert Parks Captain Robert Morgan and Captain Owen Lloyd be confirmed unto them and every of them their Heirs and Assigns respectively they paying one full years Value of the Profits of such Estates to Vs Our Heirs and Successors in two years space in such manner and for such Vses as in Our late Declaration is offered to be contributed by the Adventurers and Souldiers and accepted by Vs and that they be not removed from any such Estates in Lands they have so purchased by virtue of such Decrees untill they be duely reprized out of other Forfeited Lands of equal Value Worth and Purchase in the said Province of Connaught or County of Clare or elsewhere as in Our said Declaration is directed for Adventurers and Souldiers Provided that this shall not be construed to confirm the Decree of any person for so much thereof as was obtained by injustice fraud irregularity or oppression in the proceedings but especially of any person who had no Right nor Title by the Rules given for making those Decrees to the Estate in compensation whereof such Decree was granted if the same shall be made appear unto you before the Five and Twentieth day of March One Thousand Six hundred Sixty and Three And in such case it is Our pleasure that any of the aforesaid persons who hath purchased Lands upon any such insufficient Decree shall or may place some other unsatisfied or reprizable Decree upon such Lands Provided also That this Clause shall not extend to confirm unto the said persons any Lands that are restorable by Our Declaration to the former Proprietors Reprizals being given in lieu thereof as in the Declaration is appointed Provided also That such Transplanted Persons who being within Rules of Reprizal have been removed from the Lands to which they have been transplanted without any Reprize therefore first given be forthwith Reprized in the first place and before all other Reprizable persons And that the Lands set out unto Sir Thomas Herbert and Benjamin Worsley Esq for their Salaries in Ireland in relation to their Imployments about the Satisfaction of the Souldiery in stating their Arrears or surveying or setting out Lands be confirmed unto them and their Heirs and Assigns severally and respectively And if the said Lands or any part thereof shall be restored to the former Proprietors That a Reprize be forthwith assigned and set out unto them their Heirs and Assignes severally and respectively in lieu thereof in like manner as is provided for such Adventurers and Souldiers as shall be removed from off their present Estates And whereas some Ambiguity or Doubt may arise under what Qualifications such persons may be comprehended who submitted unto Our Articles of Peace and inviolably observed the same yet neither attended Vs in Forreign Parts nor sued out Decrees for Lands in Connaught or County of Clare You are in order to their Settlement to proceed in the same way and method as by Our Declaration is held forth for those that submitted to Our Articles and inviolably observed the same and attended Vs in Forreign parts And for the better quieting setling and securing the several persons and their Interests for whom provision is made in Our said Declaration and Instructions and this present Act the Lord Lieutenant Lord Deputy Lords Iustices or their Chief Governour or Governours of that Our Kingdom for the time being upon Certificate signed by you or any Five or more of you as aforesaid expressing the Name or Names of such persons the quality of their Estates the number of Acres the Barony County and Province in which such Estates are and the â—ents reservable as also the Tenure and Services are hereby authorized and required upon request by the person or persons so concerned to cause effectual Letters Patents under the Great Seal of that Our Kingdome to be passed in the usual manner of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the persons aforesaid by advice of Our Learned Council in the Law for that Our Kingdom or some of them as the case shall require without expecting any further Letters or Warrants from Our Self and for so doing these Our Directions shall be
and payable to him by the Adventurers and Souldiers to be held of his Majesty his Heirs and Successors by the tenure of Frank Almoyne or other service and tenures as the same were held before the making of this Act. And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Impropriations or Appropriate Tythes forfeited to or vested in His Majesty his Heirs and Successors by this Act or otherwise forfeited or Escheated to his Majesty in right of his Crown if there be no lease or leases thereof in being unforfeited or otherwise as soon as the unforfeited lease or leases shall be expired or otherwise determined are hereby given to the Church for ever and hereby are and for ever shall be setled and established upon the present and future Incumbents and their Successors which have or shall have actual cure of Souls in those respective Parishes wherein such Impropriations are and such Impropriate Tythes do arise and renew reserving such a proportion of them to be disposed and setled upon the Vicars and Quire-men of each Cathedral Church as an Additional provision for the increase of their Maintenance as to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council for the time being at any time before the First of January One thousand six hundred sixty four shall be thought fit and convenient They the said Incumbents and their Successors paying to His Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the same such Rents Reservations and Duties as formerly were paid for the same with such increase of Rents as by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdome for the time being with six or more of the Council shall be adjudged reasonable and convenient within the space of Two years from the passing of this Act and not after or from the expiration of the said unforfeited leases respectively Provided that neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to the disposing or altering of any Impropriate Rectories or Tythes or Rents now or lately enjoyed or possessed by or setled on the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdome for the time being or which at any time hath been or now is enjoyed possessed or received by the Lords Presidents of Munster and Connaught in the right of their respective places any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And that the Lord Chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench the Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer and the Master of the Rolls or any other of His Majesties Officers of this Kingdome for the time being shall and may have and receive such Port-Corn of the several Rectories which formerly have been formerly paid and reserved And to the end that this present annexation of the said Rectories impropriate unto the several and respective Churches as aforesaid may not be too prejudicial unto those persons who by the Rules of this present Act might otherwise expect to be restored thereunto It is hereby further Declared and Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being to allot assign and appoint unto all and every person and persons who by the Rules of this present Act shall or may be restored thereunto in case no such annexation hath been made such recompence and satisfaction out of the said respective Impropriations as to him or them shall be thought most fit and reasonable which Recompence and Satisfaction so as aforesaid to be assigned shall be by virtue of this present Act received and enjoyed accordingly And whereas by Act of Parliament held at Westminster the Third of November in the Year of Our Lord God One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty Intituled An Act c. as also by His Majesties Gracious Declaration of the Thirtieth of November One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty It was carefully provided amongst other things That care should be had for erecting of Churches and that maintenance for preaching Ministers should be provided In pursuance whereof Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of every one hundred Acres of Forfeited and Escheated Lands vested in his Majesty by this â—ct which are not yet actually disposed and distributed two Acres shall be allowed and set apart for Glebe in every Parish Barony and County as shall be most contiguous and convenient for the several Parish Churches in such places situate or to be situated and that out of all Forfeited and Escheated Lands so vested as aforesaid which are already disposed distributed or assigned and by this Act confirmed to the respective Possessors their Heirs or Assigns the said respective Possessors their Heirs and Assigns shall pay so much moneys as shall be sufficient to purchase such a number of Acres of the aforesaid measure and of the same Quality within the said Parish as the land out of which the said Acres should have been taken and assigned for Glebes at that present shall be adjudged the same Rent to be reserved payable to His Majesty his Heirs and Successors and in the same manner by the respective Incumbents and their Successors enjoying the said Lands so to be assigned to them for Glebes as the said Forfeited or Escheated Lands out of which they are taken shall be and are by this Act ordained for to pay And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of all Forfeited Chauntries and all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments belonging unto the said Chauntries and vested in his Majesty his Heirs and Successors by this Act that are by this present Act set out assigned or intended to be set out or assigned to any Commissioned Officers their Heirs or Assigns who served His Majesty or His Royal Father of ever blessed Memory in the late of Wars of Ireland at any time before the Fifth of June One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine and received no satisfaction for the same and which paid any Rent to the Church in the Years One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty and One thousand Six Hundred Forty and One there shall be paid for ever by such Officer or person his Heirs or Assigns so enjoying the said Chauntries or the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments to them belonging the Rent and all other Duties formerly upon or out of them paid or received unto the Church or in lieu and satisfaction thereof Two shillings for every pound of improved value at the Election of the Bishop of the Diocess which Rents are to be ascertained with all convenient speed by the Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being and Six of the Council or whom they shall appoint and the Rent so payable by such Officer or Person his Heirs or Assigns to the Church shall be paid to such Rectory or Vicarage that either is or shall be of the Church wherein such Chauntry was erected or otherwise to such Ministers of
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
aforesaid That James Duke of Ormond the Earl of Inchiqueene the Executors of Sir Philip Percivall Knight deceased late Commissary of the Victuals in Ireland who are to be satisfied for what Disbursements were made to the other Commissaries and Officers in the Establishment belonging to the said Imployment by the said Sir Philip Percivall and others who were General Officers Staffe-Officers Officers of the Train Colonels and Majors of Dragoons and Lieutenant Colonels of Horse Be and are hereby intended according to the several Commissions for Satisfaction of their said respective Arrears for Service as aforesaid before the Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine among the rest of the said Officers out of the aforesaid security and are equally to enjoy all benefits and advantages in all particulars whatsoever with any other Commission-Officers serving before the Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine mentioned in this Act according to their respective establishments And be it further Enacted by the Authorized aforesaid That in the Stating of the said Arrears no Officers be allowed for Service in Ulster but such as were of the Army called The Brittish Army and within the establishment of the said Army And that no Company or Troop be allowed but those that were Regimented or Mustered by the Commissary of the Musters as a non-Regimented Company or Troop and actively served during the whole time they pretended unto and received Pay and Quarters with the rest of the Army And be it hereby further Enacted That James Duke of Ormond the Earl of Inchiqueen and such Protestant Officers as served faithfully under his Majesties Lord Lieutenant of Ireland at any time between the Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine and the Tenth of December One thousand six hundred and fifty and never served in any Army since but under his Majesties Authority may have their Arrears stated for that time also and may be allowed satisfaction for the same as for the rest of their respective Arrears and that the Debentures to them respectively for those Arrears be for the whole time without distinction And be it also Enacted That all Adventurers Souldiers their Heirs and Assigns whose Adventures and Lots were set out of the Lands of James Duke of Ormond and who have not been yet reprized shall be satisfied out of the remaining forfeited lands in the County of Catherlogh and also out of the respective moyeties of the ten Counties appointed for satisfaction of Adventurers and Souldiers And further That such Adventurers or Souldiers their Heirs or Assigns as have been or shall be removed upon or by reason of the restitution of the Earl of Roscommon shall be reprized in such sort as deficient and other Adventurers are by this Act intended to be satisfied And be it Enacted That the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Essex Son and Heir of the Right Honourable Arthur late Lord Capel who in his life time subscribed and paid in his money as an Adventurer for Lands in Ireland and the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Culpeper Son and Heir of the Right Honourable John late Lord Culpeper who also in his life time subscribed and paid in his money as an Adventurer on certain propositions for lands in Ireland and all and every other person or persons their Heirs or Assigns who subscribed and paid in their moneys as Adventurers for lands in Ireland according to the Act or Acts passed in the Parliament begun and held at Westminster on the Third day of November in the sixteenth year of the Reign of Our late Sovereign Lord Charles the First of ever blessed memory and have not yet had Certificates from any Five or more of certain persons late sitting at Grocers-hall shall upon the producing the Original Receipts of the moneys so paid in or making good and sufficient proof therein before the Commissioners to be appointed for execution of the Declaration and Instructions and this present Act be enabled and Intituled to Ask Demand Receive and Have his and their respective satisfaction for their Moneys by a full and equal proportion of Lands out of the moyeties of the ten Counties heretofore set out for Adventurers or elsewhere as fully and amply as any other Adventurer can or may justly claim by vertue of any Certificate or Certificates whatsoever unless he or they have received or accepted satisfaction for the Original moneys so adventured out of Church-lands Crown-lands or other Lands formerly exposed to sale in England And be it further Enacted that where any Adventurer hath delivered up his Original Receipt and taken Certificates from any Five or more of certain persons late sitting at Grocers-Hall such Certificates shall be as effectual in the Law and as available to all intents and purposes as if the Original Receipt had been produced and all and every person and persons having and producing such Certificates shall be and are hereby enabled to have receive possesse and enjoy so much and no more forfeited Lands out of the moyeties of the Ten Counties aforesaid or elsewhere and such number of Acres English or Irish measure respectively as by vertue of the said Certificates shall be certified to be due to him or them respectively Provided alwayes That if it shall be clearly proved before the said Commissioners that the said Certificates do contain a greater quantity of Acres than ought to be given and allowed for the Original money paid that then such Certificates shall not Intitle them to any more Lands then are justly due for the Original subscription and money paid Provided alwayes That nothing in the Declaration Instructions or this present Act herein before or after mentioned shall be expounded construed or taken to give any Right or Title to any Adventurer or Adventurers who adventured their moneys upon certain Ordinances or pretended Ordinances of Parliament made in the years One thousand Six hundred Forty three and One thousand Six hundred forty and seven commonly called The Doubling Ordinances nor to the Heirs or Assigns of any such Adventurer or Adventurers to have hold or enjoy any further or other satisfaction out of the forfeited Lands aforesaid than according to the moneys really and Bona Fide paid in and advanced upon the said Ordinances or pretended Ordinances which moneys shall be satisfied with the like proportion of forfeited Lands according to Irish measure as other Adventurers their Heirs or Assigns who advanced their moneys upon the Act passed in the Parliament held at Westminster the first day of November in the Sixteenth year of the Reign of Charles the First Intituled 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 may and ought to have any Certificate Allotment Distribution or other possession thereof upon the Seventh of May One Thousand Six Hundred Fifty Nine or any other matter or thing to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Nevertheless It
of the true yearly value of all and every the Messuages Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments possessed by any Adventurer or Souldier or any other person claiming by from or under them any benefit by vertue of this present Act as the same were worth in the year One thousand six hundred Fifty nine and to Order and Declare the true and full yearly value of the same which Declaration and Order of the said Commissioners or of so many of them as shall be thereunto Impowered shall be entred in a Book to be kept for that purpose and a Duplicate thereof shall be returned into his Majesties Court of Exchequer there to remain as a Record and shall be and is hereby made a Charge upon all and every the Messuages Lands and Tenements therein mentioned described or referred unto and shall be sufficient to Intitle his Majesty to have and receive a years value or a halfe years value according to that rate and in such manner as is herein before limited which several and respective sums so ascertained as aforesaid shall under the Penalties herein before mentioned be paid unto the Right Honourable Roger Earl of Orrery and John Lord Viscount Massareene whom his Majesty hath appointed to be his Receivers of the same or to such other persons as his Majesty shall hereafter appoint for that purpose who shall accompt for and pay unto his Majesty in his Court of Exchequer all and every the sums of money by them received And it is hereby further Declared and Enacted that the Receivers for the time being shall observe and follow such Directions and Instructions as his Majesty hath heretofore given or at any time hereafter shall give Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted That all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which are or shall be before the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and two setled or conveyed by Erasmus Smith Esq for any pious or charitable use shall be and are hereby exempted and freed from paying the years Rent or full years value of the profits herein before assessed imposed or reserved any thing in this present Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and it is hereby further Enacted That where any Lease or Leases of any Messuages Manors Lands or Tenements whereof the next or immediate reversion or remainder doth or shall appertain to any innocent Protestant or Papist not exceeding the time and term of One and Thirty years or Three lives from the Three and Twentieth day of October One thousand Sir hundred Forty one or other sooner time of making thereof are forfeited to and vested in his Majesty It shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governors for the time being by any Dâ—ed under his or their Hands and Seals to grant the rest and residue of such lease or leases unto such innocent person or persons as are or shall be Intituled unto the next or immediate reversion or remainder which Grants shall be sufficient to Intitle the persons to whom they shall be respectively made to enjoy the said lease or leases against Vs Our Heirs and Successors and against all and every other person And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Donnough Earl of Clancarthy and Charles Viscount Muskry his Son and both of them respectively shall be and are hereby restored unto their Blood and Honour and shall and may derive their Pedigree and Descent from their and every of their Ancestors Lineal and Collateral and shall be and are hereby restored unto and shall and may have hold possess and enjoy unto them and their Heirs respectively all and singular the Titles of Honour Dignities Honours Manors Castles Lordships Lands Tenements Reversions Remainders and all other Hereditaments Right Title and Interest whatsoever in the said Kingdome of Ireland which he the said Donnough Earl of Clancarthy or the said Charles Viscount Muskry 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 had held or enjoyed or of right ought to have held or enjoyed on the Two and Twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since according to by and under the same Tenure Rents and Services as the same were then held and by and under no other Tenure Rents or Services this present or any other Act Law Statute Ordinance Order Outlaâ—y Attainder Record Provision Sequestration Distribution Allotment Iudgement or Conviction or any other Cause Matter or Thing to the contrary notwithstanding Saving to all and every person or persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their Heirs and Successors other than to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and those who shall or may claim by from or under his Majesty his Heirs and Successors or any of them all such Right Title or Interests which they or either of them had before the passing of this Act. And be it further Enacted That all such persons as are or shall be dispossessed of any part of his or their Estates in order to the said Earl of Clancarty and Lord Viscount Muskry's restitution who are reprizable by the rules of his Majesties Declaration shall be forthwith reprized in lands of equal worth and value Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Sir Connel Farrel Knight for his faithful and eminent Services and constant adherence to Vs in the Parts beyond the Seas be and hereby is restored to and setled in so much of the Manors Towns and Lands of Tulickin Lackin Kiltaffery Lisanisky in the County of Longford the Towns and Lands of Rosmore and Ferry-Glass in the County of Leytrim the Towns and Lands of Loghil Ederagh Creagh Carromoare Linnen Derryartwood Ballyglaslan Mullacorny alias Mullaghwerny and Larach in the said County of Longford as were belonging to John Farrel Father to the said Sir Connel and unto him the said Sir Connel or either of them the Two and Twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since to have and to hold unto the said Sir Connel Farrel his Heirs Assigns for ever under such Rents Tenures and Services as they were formerly held And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Cornet Robert Meredith and such others to whom the premisses were set out for Arrears be forthwith reprized for the same by other forfeited lands of equal value worth and purchase by Our Commissioners appointed or to be appointed for putting Our Gracious Declaration and Instructions in execution and that the lands so to be set and given for reprizals unto the said Cornet Robert Meredith and the others interested in the lands aforesaid be by the Authority aforesaid on the setting out thereof vested and setled in the said Robert Meredith and the rest of the said persons to be reprized and their Heirs respectively And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Sir
still enjoyed the same Provided always and Be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That one Grant or Lease made by Randal now Marquess of Antrim on or about the One and Twentieth day of November in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Thirty Seven of the Barony of Carey the Lordship of Bally Castle and the Island of Rachlins and all his Lands and Hereditaments within the said Barony Lordship and Island or any of them unto Alexander Mac Donnel John Moore Archibald Stewart and John Trayleman for ninety nine years from Michaelmas One Thousand Six Hundred Thirty Seven which Lease was made in Trust for payment of and Counter-Security against his Debts shall be and remain of the like effect and force in Law and no other as the same was before the making of this Act any thing in this Act before contained to the contrary notwithstanding And that the said Estate and term of years of and in the said demised premisses shall be and is hereby transferred from the aforesaid Lessees unto and vested and setled in Martin Noel Esq Thomas Carleton Citizen and Mercer of London and John Bradborne of the Middle Temple London Gentleman who shall hold and enjoy the said demised premisses from henceforth for and during such Interest as they legally have by the said Lease upon this Trust reposed in them the said Martin Noel Thomas Carleton and John Bradborne that they their Executors and Administrators shall from time to time dispose and imploy such moneys as they shall raise or receive by or out of the said Premisses for and towards the Satisfaction and Payment of all such Debts of the said Marquess as are yet unpaid and were intended by the said Lease or Ninety nine years to be secured and that all and every person and persons now seized or possessed of any part of the premisses and reprizable by the Rules of the Declaration and Instructions and this present Act shall be forthwith reprized for so much as shall be Adjudged from Them by Virtue of the said Lease Provided always and Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England Anthony Ashley Lord Ashley Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Baronet Lord Chief Iustice of his Majesties Court of Common Pleas and Sir Henry Vernon To Have Hold and enjoy to them and their Heirs and Assigns all that the Castle Manor and Abby of Eniscorthy in the County of Wexford and all those Manors Townships Lands Tenements Territories and Hereditaments late parcel of the possessions of Robert Wallop commonly called or known by the name of Kilbeck Clony Turnesallough and Effernock and also all that the Priory or Rectory and Church Impropriate of Salsker in the said County of Wexford late parcel of the possessions of the said Robert Wallop with all Tythes Oblations Obventions and all other Profits whatsoever thereunto belonging and all other the Messuages Lands Tenements Tythes Rents Reversions and Hereditaments whatsoever in the Kingdom of Ireland granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said Earl of Southampton Lord Ashley Sir Orlando Bridgman and Sir Henry Vernon and their Heirs in and by certain Letters Patents bearing Date the Six and Twentieth day of September in the Thirteenth year of his Majesties Reign which said Letters Patents shall be and are hereby ratified confirmed and approved according to the Tenor and Purport thereof any thing in this present Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided always and Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for Sir Richard Ingoldsby Knight of the Bath to receive and take to his own use the Rents Issues and Profits of all and singular the Messuages Lands and Tenements formerly belonging to Sir Hardress Waller and now forfeited by the Attainder of the said Sir Hardress Waller for High Treason and also all and singular the Goods and Chattels formerly belonging to the said Sir Hardress Waller and now forfeited wheresoever the same shall be found in the Kingdom of Ireland until the said Sir Richard Ingoldsby shall out of the Rents and Profits or by reason of the said Goods and Chattels be fully satisfied and paid the sum of Two Thousand Pounds with the Interest thereof since the year One thousand Six hundred Fifty eight or so much thereof as remains yet unsatisfied he the said Sir Richard Ingoldsby accompting for and paying the full Overplus thereof if any shall be unto Our Sovereign Lord the King any thing in this Act before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for Sr. George Lane Knight his Heirs and Assignes to have hold possess and quietly enjoy to the use of him the said Sir George Lane Knight his Heirs and Assigns all the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments wherein the said Sir George Lane had any Estate in Possession Reversion or Remainder on the Fifteenth day of September One thousand six hundred and fifty And also all the Castles Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which he the said Sir George Lane or any other person or persons in Trust for him the said Sir George Lane or to his Vse hath or have purchased of or from Thomas Dutton Esq Son and Heir of Sir Thomas Dutton Kt. deceased and also of and from Sir John Norton of Rotherfield in the County of Southampton Baronet situate lying and being in the Counties of Longford and Leitrim containing by Estimation Two Thousand Six hundred Acres of profitable land be it more or less And also all other the Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof John Cook and Philip Hore lately attained for High Treason or either of them or any other person or persons to the use of or in Trust for them or either of them was or were seized or possessed on the Day they the said John and Philip respectively committed their several Treasons or at any time since and which were given and granted or mentioned to be given and granted by his Majesties Letters Patents under the Great Seal of Ireland unto the said Sir George Lane and his Heirs according to the purport and meaning of the said Letters Patents all which said Manors Castles Lands Tenements and Hereditaments are to be held and enjoyed by the said Sir George Lane his heirs and assigns with like benefit of Reprizal in case of Restitution as any Adventurers ought to have Saving to all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their Heirs Executors Successors and Assigns other then to the Kings Maiesty his Heirs and Successors and other then to the said Thomas Dutton Sir John Norton John Cook and Philip Hore or any of them or the Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns of them or any of them and other than such person
and persons their Heirs Executors or Assigns as do or may claim to the use of or in trust for them or any of them and other than to such person and persons their Heirs Executors and Assigns who shall not be adjudged innocent according to the Qualifications of this present Act all such Estate Right Title and Interest either in Law or Equity as they or any of them had before the making of this Act any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That the Lands Tenement and Hereditaments now in the possession of George Duke of Albemarle or his Assigns which are or shall be confirmed to him his Heirs and Assigns by or in pursuance of this or any other Act of this Parliament or any other Grant from his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall be continue and remain to him his heirs and assigns for ever to be held in free and common Soccage as of his Majesties Castle of Dublin by Fealty and the yearly Rent of Ten pounds payable at the Two most usual Feasts in the Year viz. Saint Michael the Arch-Angel and our Lady Day by Two most equal Portions at his Majesties Receipt of the Exchequer and freed and discharged from all other Rents Accompts or other Services to his Majesty his Heirs or Successors any thing in this or any other Law Statute or Ordinance to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted That the Town of Mollingar in the County of Westmeath with all the houses Castles Tenements Lands and Commons thereunto belonging and forfeited to his Majesty be and they are hereby settled upon Sir Arthur Forbess Baronet and his heires for ever according to a Grant thereof passed unto him by Letters Patents under his Majesties Great Seal of Ireland bearing Date the Seven and Twentieth day of July in the Thirteenth year of his said Majesties Reign And whereas some doubt may arise upon the words of that Clause relating to the satisfaction of such Commissioned-Officers their heirs or assigns who were in Regiments Troops or Companies raised in Ireland or Transported out of England and served his late Royal Majesty of Glorious memory or his now Majesty in the Wars in Ireland at any time before the Fifth day of June One thousand six hundred forty nine whether provision be thereby made for satisfaction of the Arrears due to James Duke of Ormond Robert Earl of Leicester according to their several Commands they bore in the said Kingdom of Ireland Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and several Arrears due to the said James Duke of Ormond and Robert Earl of Leicester or either of them by or upon all or any their Entertainments or Allowances according to their Commands aforesaid be and shall be satisfied out of the lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other securities by this present Act laid out and ascertained for the satisfaction of such Officers unto the said Duke and Earl their Heirs or Assigns according to the same rate and in the same manner as such Arrears by this present Act are to be satisfied any Clause or thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And for the better satisfaction of Robert Southwel of Kingsale in the Kingdom of Ireland Esq the sum of Seven hundred pounds by him heretofore furnished for the supply of Our Fleet in the year One thousand six hundred forty eight being then in the Port of Kingsale aforesaid Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Forfeited Lands late the freehold and inheritance of Philip Barrioge lying in the Liberty of Kingsale and Barony of Kinalea in the County of Cork in the said Kingdome of Ireland situate lying and being in the several Plow-lands and Places herein after mentioned One Plow-land called Rincorran One Plow-land called Raghmore and one Plow-land called Preehaus lying in the liberty of Kingsale one half of a Plow-land called Toghermeshim half a Plow-land called Currentry Leshane half a Plow-land called Knocknenaffe half a Plow-land called Ballineclashy and one quarter of a Plow-land called Ballinvallin lying and being in the Barrony of Kinelea in the County of Cork all containing by estimation One thousand Three hundred Seventy and two Acres as also parcel of the forfeited lands of James Melliphont videl One Plow-land called Southwaters land wherein is the place called Cilly and Bensons Cow containing about One hundred and Sixty Acres and lying and being in the said liberty of Kingsale be held and emoyed by the said Robert Southwel His Heirs and Assigns in satisfaction and full recompence of his said Debt to hold the same to the said Robert Southwel his Heirs and Assigns for ever subject nevertheless to the like Rents and Services and with like benefit of Reprizal in case of restitution as any adventurer ought to have and also with like benefit or reprizal in case the same be due to any Adventurer or Souldier by virtue of this Act any thing in this present Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authority of the same That the Lord ships of Templetown Mooretown and Mouclogh in Cowly in the Diocess of Ardmagh the Lordship of Kilsaran the Rectories of Monasterboies Desert Clougegan and the Lands and Hereditaments of Terman Feigham Doulier and Downam or by what other Name or Names they or any of them are known or called with their and every of their appurtenances shall be and are hereby settled and vested in William Legge Esq one of the Grooms of his Majesties Bed-Chamber his Executors and Assigns for the term of Ninety nine Years to be accompted from the determination of one or more lease or leases heretofore made unto Sir Thomas Plunket Lord of Lowth or to any other person or persons under such Yearly Rents and services as any Adventurers ought to pay within the Province where the premisses do lye unless the Rent formerly reserved were greater in which case the highest Rent is to be paid And whereas there was set out and assigned unto Colonel Carey Dillon certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Mile-line of Connaught and Clare in satisfaction of a small part of his Arrears due unto him for Service in Ireland before the Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine and by the Declaration confirmed unto him Be it therefore hereby further Provided and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Carey Dillon his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assignes shall and may receive for the remainder of his Arrears unsatisfied for Service in Ireland before the Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine farther and equal satisfaction with other the Commissioned Officers that shall or are to receive satisfaction for their respective Arrears due before the said Fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine by virtue of this Act any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in
thereof from the Kingdome of Ireland in the year One thousand Six hundred Forty seven were since expulsed from their Habitations and Estates in the time of the Vsurped Power Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such of the Inhabitants and Proprietors of the said City and Town as constantly adhered to the Royal Authority until their respective deaths or withdrawing of the same Royal Authority from the said Kingdome in the year One thousand six hundred forty seven and did not at any time after adhere to the Papal Clergy or other the Irish Rebels in opposition to the Royal Authority and the Heirs and Widows of such of them as are dead shall be restored unto and have and enjoy as of their former estates all and every their and every of their Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Freedomes and Immunities respectively in the said City of Dublin and Town of Drogheda and elsewhere any thing in this Act or in any other Act contained to the contrary or any other matter or proceedings against them or any of them at any time since the said withdrawing of the Royal Authority until his Majesties restitution notwithstanding And for the better prevention of all future Rebellions and to the end Our good Subjects of Ireland may be likewise secured against all Insurrections or Attempts for the time to come and the said Kingdome be the better planted and improved Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour and Governours and Council of Ireland for the time being from time to time and at all times hereafter during the space of Seven years to be accompted from the first of May One thousand six hundred sixty two to make and establish such Rules Orders and Directions for the better planting with Protestants the Lands by this Act vested in his Majesty and not appointed to be restored to innocent persons And for the better Regulation of Cities Walled Towns and Corporations and the electing of Magistrates and Officers there and to inflict such Penalties for the breach thereof as they in their wisdome shall think fit so as the Penalties for breach of the Rules of Plantation do not extend further then to treble the Quit-rents due for the Lands which shall be planted otherwise then those Rules shall direct the said Penalties to continue and be yearly paid to the King his Heirs and Successors till the said Rules of Plantation be performed and thenceforth the Rent by this Act reserved to be only payable and so as the Penalties for breach of the Rules to be made touching Corporations do not extend further then to the removal and disfranchizment of such persons as shall be found guilty of the breach thereof which Rules Orders and Directions so as aforesaid to be made shall be as good and effectual in Law to all intents and purposes as if the same had been established by Authority of this present Parliament and shall remain continue and abide in force for such and so long time as in the said Rules Orders and Directions shall be limited and appointed Provided nevertheless That no undisposed nor unconfirmed Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in the Province of Ulster which are or shall come unto your Majesties hands shall be set out in satisfaction of deficient Adventures but that the same may be wholly reserved and disposed of for Reprizal according to the full value worth and purchase of the same unless the forfeited Lands in other Provinces shall not be found sufficient to satisfie those deficiencies And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the Lands and Tenements in Ireland given and granted by his Majesty under his Great Seal of England or Ireland and any way ratified confirmed or approved by this present Act shall stand charged and be chargeable with a years Rent or a year and a halfs Rent and such like other Quit-rents and annual Payments wherewith any the Lands of Adventurers or Souldiers stand respectively charged to be raised levied and paid in like manner as other the like Rents and Payments by this Act before mentioned are appointed Provided alwayes That where any greater Rent is reserved upon any such Grants and Letters Patents as aforesaid than the Quit-rents reserved by this Act would amount unto that then and in such case the Rent reserved by the said Letters Patents shall be duely answered and paid and no other Quit-rents any thing before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Saving to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all and singular the Estate Right Title and Interest of in and to any Honours Manors Castles Lands and Tenements which his Majesties Royal Father had upon the Two and Twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred Forty and one in Right of his Crown of Ireland and which were then or at any time within ten years before in charge in his Majesties Court of Exchequer otherwise then by any Inquisition of Lands in Connaught found and returned in the time of the Earl of Straffords Government and which have not since been granted or disposed by his Majesty or his Royal Father by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England or Ireland and other then such Rights and Titles as in and by a certain Act of Parliament pasted in England Intituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indemnity and Oblivion are mentioned or intended to be barred or extinguisht any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Theobald Earl of Garlingford and Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon shall be and are hereby restored unto and vested in all and singular the messuages manors lands tenements and hereditaments respectively whereof they or either of them or any other person or persons to the use of or in trust for them or either of them were seized or possessed upon the Two and Twentieth day of October One thousand Six hundred Forty one or at any time since and that such persons and their heirs and assigns to whom any of the lands belonging to the said Earl of Carlingford and Lord Viscount Dillon or either of them have been set out and who are by this Act reprizable for the same be forthwith reprized out of the first Lands that shall come unto his Majesty in the Province of Connaught or County of Clare either by the restoring of any persons to their Estates who weâ—e formerly transplanted or otherwise any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided Nevertheless and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to settle upon or give or be construed to settle upon or give unto all or any of the said Adventurers any benefit part or portion of such sum or sums of money as have been forfeited by any Adventurer or Adventurers by
reason he or they did not satisfie or pay in their full proportions or sums of money respectively subscribed by them according to the Tenor of the said respective Acts of Decimo Septimo and Decimo Octavo Caroli But that all such forfeited Subscriptions be and they are here by vested and settled in your Majesty your Heirs and Successors and be set out and satisfied according unto the respective Rates in the said Acts mentioned within the aforesaid Security set apart or designed for Satisfaction of the Adventurers immediately after the other Adventurers who have duely paid in the respective sums by them subscribed in pursuance of the said Acts are satisfied and that the same be granted and disposed of by your Majesty unto such uses and in such manner as your Majesty shall think fit any thing in this or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted That those Adventurers and Souldiers their Heirs or Assigns whose Adventures or Lots were set out of the Lands of James Duke of Ormond and have been since removed from the same and have had by his Majesties Commissioners for Executing his Gracious Declaration other Lands set out ordered or appointed in the County of Catherlogh towards their Reprizal and Satisfaction be and are hereby confirmed in so much of the said lands in their respective Orders named as shall be equal in value worth and purchase with those from which they have been removed as aforesaid and shall hold and enjoy the same to them their heirs and assigns for ever which said lands shall be immediately put out of charge in his Majesties Court of Exchequer in Ireland reserving the chief Rents according to his Majesties Declaration any thing in this present Act contained or otherwise to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Whereas Lands in the County of Lowth have been appointed by the Lords Iustices of Ireland to Erasmus Smith Esq towards satisfaction of his Adventures for Lands in Ireland and the possession thereof ordered accordingly Be it Enacted That the Lands so ordered and appointed be setled confirmed and established to and upon him the said Erasmus Smith his Heirs and Assigns with all Advantages and Priviledges allowed by this Act to Adventurers any thing in this Act contamed to the contrary notwithstanding Provided nevertheless that if any of the said Lands be restored pursuant to the Rules of this Act or otherwise to any person restorable the said Erasmus Smith his Heirs and Assigns shall be first reprized for such Lands so restored by other Lands in the said County of Lowth and for want thereof by other forfeited lands in some other convenient place of equal value worth and purchase Provided that by colour hereof no more lands be setled and confirmed to the said Erasmus Smith his Heirs and Assigns then according to the Rates for satisfying of Adventurers Provided alwayes and it is hereby further Enacted That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to vest in his Majesty his Heirs or Successors any the Honours Castles Messuages Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof Oliver Cromwel deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Jones deceased Daniel Axtel deceased Gregory Clement deceased Isaac Ewer deceased John Bradshaw deceased Thomas Andrews deceased Thomas Hamond deceased Sir Hardress Waller John Hewson Miles Corbet Thomas Wogan Edmond Ludlow Edward Dendy John Lisle William late Lord Mounson Cornelius Holland Henry Smith Owen Row Edmond Harvy Nicholas Love Edward Whaley Thomas Pride deceased William Say Valentine Walton John Berkstead Sir Michael Livesey John Okey William Gouffe Thomas Challinor William Cawley John Dixwel Andrew Braughton Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroop John Carew Thomas Scot Hugh Peters Francis Hacker Isaac Pennington Henry Martin Gilbert Millington Robert Tichburn Robert Lilborn John Downs Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Mayne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wait Sir John Danvers John Blackston Sir William Constable Richard Dean Francis Allyn deceased Peregrine Pelham John Aldred alias Alured Humphrey Edwards John Vynn Anthony Stapely Thomas Horton John Frey James Challiner Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps or any of them were at any time heretofore seized or possessed in their own Right or any other in Trust for them or to their use or which at any time heretofore were given and granted alloted assigned distributed disposed or conveyed to them or any of them or any other in Trust for them or any of them or to any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them in satisfaction of any Adventures or Arrears due unto them or any of them or for any other Recompence or Reward whatsoever but the same and every of them other than the Lands and Tenements given and granted unto Michael Lord Bishop of Cork and other than the Lands and Tenements hereafter disposed to Francis Lord Anger shall be and are hereby vested and setled in and upon his Royal Highness James Duke of York and Albain Earl of Ulster c. to have and hold to his said Highness his Heirs and Assigns freed exempted and discharged so long as the same remain in the possession of his Highness or his Heirs of and to from any new or increased Rent Services and Payments in and by this Act assessed imposed and reserved but with like benefit and advantage of Reprizal in case of restitution as any Adventurer or Souldier by virtue of this present Act may or ought to have and also with further and other benefit of Reprizal for so much of the premisses as by virtue of the Declaration and Instructions or this present Act shall be held or enjoyed by any Adventurer or Souldier And if his Royal Highness or his Heirs shall grant or alien all or any the lands or premisses herein before mentioned otherwise than by lease or leases for lives or years upon which the full moyety of the improved Rent shall be reserved then so much as shall be aliened or granted shall be subject to and charged with such Tenures Rents Services and other Payments as other Lands by this Act ought to be subject to and charged with Provided and it is Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances and all and every the Estate Right Title and Interest therein which were heretofore set out in the said Kingdome of Ireland to John Lord Kingston Baron of Kingston or to Sir Robert King his late Father deceased or which were purchased by them or either of them from any Adventurers Souldiers Transplanted or Transplantable persons their Heirs and Assigns and set out unto or possessed by them or any of them on the Seventh day of May One thousand six hundred Fifty nine shall be and are hereby ratified and confirmed unto the said Lord Kingston his Heirs and Assigns lyable to such Rules and Directions as are hereby prescribed for restoring of Lands to former proprietors Provided and it is declared That such part
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
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