prosecution thereof shall be fully satisfied and discharged but that it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty his Heirs and Successors to use and exercise his and their Power Prerogative and Authority Royal in all and every the Cases aforesaid as fully and amply as he or they might have done if this present Indenture had never been had nor made any thing herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding PROVIDED also and so it is hereby declared and agreed that it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty his Heirs and Successors at any time or times after the date of these presents to issue out such and so many Commissions unto such person and persons as shall be thought fit thereby impowering and authorising them to make such reducements and abatements of the sums of money owing or which hereafter shall grow due unto His Majesty his Heirs or Successors as they shall think fit and hath formerly been accustomed in like Cases so always that all and singular such sum and sums of money which from and after such reducement shall be due and payable to His Majesty his Heirs or Successors or which after such reducements or other lawful deductions and allowances made as aforesaid shall be levied or received by any of His Majesties Officers shall forthwith be answered and paid over unto the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them any thing herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding PROVIDED also and so it is hereby declared and agreed His Majesty may demise or grant for any Estate his Royal Mines and any Messuages Houses Mannors Castles Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in Ireland yet undisposed of or whereunto His Majesties Title shall hereafter appear so as such rent be reserved thereupon as may be at least equivalent to the new Quit-rents or the Ancient Crown Rent if it exceed the Quit-rent and no arrears of Quit-rent or mean profits be discharged that it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty his Heirs and Successors from time to time and at all times hereafter to give grant demise lease or confirm unto any person or persons all and every or any of His Majesties Royal Mines within the said Kingdom of Ireland * 6. and also any Messuages Houses Mannors Castles Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within the Realm of Ireland which are yet undisposed or whereunto His Majesties Right and Title shall at any time hereafter be made to appear for such Estate or Estates as His Majesty his Heirs or Successors shall think fit whether the same be an Estate of Inheritance Free-hold or term of years or any other less Estate so as upon every such Gift Grant Demise Lease or Conformation such Rents may alwayes be reserved as may be at least equivalent and proportionable to the new Quit-rents which by the late Acts of Settlement and Explanation are payable by Adventurers and Soldiers or to the Antient Crown Rents therefore payable where the Antient Crown Rents shall exceed the proportion of the new Quit-rents and so also that no arrears or mean profits due thereupon be any way remitted released or discharged any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding If His Majesty grant any Lands c. to the uses of the Declaration 30th November 1660 other then to such or in trust to such who formerly received the issues and profits thereof the same shall be freed from arrears of Quit-rent and mean profits due before 25th December 1668 and V. R. c. shall not molest the Grantees nor the Lands granted but may take their remedy for the same against the former Enjoyers or Pervors of the profits of such Lands c. And if His Majesty his Heirs or Successors shall at any time hereafter for the better promoting the uses intents or purposes of His Majesties late gracious Declaration of the Thirtieth of November in the year One thousand six hundred and sixty give grant or demise any Messuages Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to any person or persons other then to such person or persons their heirs or assigns or to any in trust for him or them or to his or their use who formerly received the issues and profits thereof Then and in every such case all and every the Messuages Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments so to be given granted demised or disposed as aforesaid shall be freed exonerated and discharged of and from all arrearages of Quit-rent and mean profits grown due incurred or accrued upon or before the Five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty eight AND the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon nor the Survivors nor Survivor of them nor the Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them shall in any sort vex or molest or disquiet any such person or persons to whom any Lands or Tenements shall be granted or disposed as aforesaid nor the Lands or Tenements so granted or disposed for or in respect of any such arrears of Quit-rents or mean profits but shall and may pursue and take such other remedy for recovery thereof in His Majesties Name or in their own Names against the former Tenants and Enjoyers of the said Lands and Tenements or the Pervors of the profits thereof as they shall be advised and by their Council learned in the Law Further Covenants from V. R. c. to His Majesty shall be thought expedient And the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon have covenanted and granted and by these presents for themselves and every of them their and every of their Heirs Executors and Administrators do covenant grant and agree to and with our said Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors That all and every the Farmers of the great Branches of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland The Farmers of the great Branches of the Revenue and those concerned in the Patent of Abatements and all other Farmers by vertue of any Grant under the Great Seal before 25th December 1670 may under their respective Articles Covenants Conditions and Provisoes enjoy their several Farms according to the tenor thereof without any let of V. R. c. by vertue of a Lease thereof made the twelfth day of June in the One and twentieth year of His Majesties Reign and herein before-mentioned And also such of the said Farmers who are again mentioned in His Majesties Letters Patents bearing date the third day of August in the said One and twentieth
Majesties Prerogative to pardon Offendors or to remit or reduce forfeited Recognizances of the Peace good behaviour appearances or other particulars of the Green-Wax or Fines and Forfeitures against the Laws or Outlawries other then what relates to the Revenue unless the duty for which the same shall happen with the Costs and Charges be fully satisfied but His Majesty may exercise his Royal Authority in such Cases as amply as if this Indenture had not been made And His Majesty may issue Commissions for reducement of such sums of Money as hath been accustomed so as the sums due to His Majesty after such reducements or levied by his Officers shall be paid to V. R. c. Page 14 15. His Majesty may demise or grant for any Estate his Royal Mines and any Messuages Houses Mannors Castles Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in Ireland yet undisposed of or whereunto His Majesties Title shall hereafter appear so as such Rent be reserved thereupon as may be at least equivalent to the new Quit-rents or the ancient Crown-rent if it exceed the Quit-rent and no Arrears of Quit-rent or mean profits be discharged Page 15. If His Majesty grant any Lands c. to the uses of the Declarations 30th November 1660 other then to such or in trust to such who formerly received the issues and profits thereof the same shall be freed from Arrears of Quit-rent and mean profits due before 25th December 1668 and V. R. c. shall not molest the Grantees nor the Lands granted but may take their remedy for the same against the former Enjoyers or Pervors of the Profits of such Lands c. Page 16. Further Covenants from V. R. c. to His Majesty Page 16. The Farmers of the great Branches of the Revenue and those concerned in the Patent of Abatements and all other Farmers by vertue of any Grant under the Great Seal before the 25th December 1670 may under their respective Articles Covenants Conditions and Provisoes enjoy their several Farms according to the tenor thereof without any lett of V. R. c. Page 17. V. R. c. shall not demand Defalcations for any sums which are or shall be allowed to such Farmers for the two years ending 25th December 1670 or for or in respect of any other matters or things settled and determined before that time in pursuance of and according to such Grants or for any pretensions of the said Farmers upon the 9th of June 1671 depending in the Exchequer at Dublin for Defalcations for Lands in Certificate and not past in Letters Patents or for the Composition Rents which way soever the same shall be determined Page 17. The Defalcations which may hereafter be pretended unto by the said Farmers shall be only determined in such way as by their several Agreements is appointed Page 17. V. R. c. shall allow the usual Enstallments for payment of First-fruits or Twentieth parts and will be concluded by the values made or to be made by the Commissioners now or hereafter to be appointed under the Great Seal and His Majesty in case any defect of the Commissions will give Order for renewing and rectifying the same and for proceeding thereupon in as ample manner as His Majesty might have done if this Indenture were not made Page 18. Further Provisoes Limitations and Restrictions Page 18. His Majesty may alter the payments in the Civil and Military Lists of the Establishments so as the whole yearly charge do not in any one year exceed 171843 li. 5 s. 6. d. and may appoint the method and precedency of the payment of His Majesties debts so as those for which Interest is payable be first satisfied Page 18. If His Majesty shall not renue any Pension or Temporary Payment in the Establishment which shall cease or be determined V. R. c. shall pay His Majesty so much as the same would have amounted unto if it had not been determined Page 19. His Majesty may dispose of 7155 li. 4 s. 10 d. ½ due on the Ballance of the Earl of Anglesey's Account until second July 1667 And of 19491 li. 5 s. 4 d. due on the Ballance of the Account of Sir Geo. Carteret until 20th January 1669 without allowing of any defalcations for the same Page 19. So much of the 50000 li. payable to the Duke of Ormond by the Act of Explanation as is yet behind And the yearly summe of 5000 li. per annum granted to him out of the Quit-rents for a term unexpired And 30000 li. granted to James E. Suffolke shall be paid unto them respectively out of the several Fonds on which the same are charged as the same would have been if this Indenture had not been made without any Defalcations Page 19. If His Majesty remit unto E. Anglesey the mean profits and Quit-rents of the Lands in Beare and Bantry mentioned in his Certificate reserving the Antient Crown rents from the date of the Certificate until the 25th December 1670 reserving onely the yearly Rent of one half peny out of every Acre of the said Lands V. R. c. shall have no defalcations for the same Page 20. If His Majesty shall pardon or discharge Sir James Shaene and his Estate from any suits or demands concerning any Moneys received from His Majesty towards the Purchase of the Customs of Londonderry or any other debts duties or arrearages whatsoever other then the arrears of Quit-rent Crown-rent the years value or reapplotment of the deficiency thereof V. R. c. shall have no defalcation in respect thereof Page 20. If V. R. c. shall sue in their own or His Majesties name and thereupon cause any Lands to be seized or extended for the Payment of Arrears the same shall be so done that no interruption shall be given to the present Farmers contrary to His Majesties Covenants with them and they will bear the whole loss without any defalcations for the same Page 20. His Majesty further Covenants That all the Moneys which are or shall grow due or be payable unto His Majesty before the 26th of December 1675 shall during the term be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer at Dublin in the usual manner to the end the same may be applied to the Vses herein mentioned Page 21. His Majesty will commissionate R. V. Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood to be His Majesties Officers and Commissioners to have the sole custody of all Moneys so brought in and sole power to receive give discharges for and issue the same to the Vses of this Indenture with clauses therein totally to prohibit any other from intermedling therein during the said time Page 22. All Warrants for payments of any money from the 4th of August 1671 to the 26th of December 1675 shall be so made and signed by the Chief Governour of Ireland and directed to the said R. V. R. Sir A. B. Sir J. H. J. B. and G. D. onely to the intent they may wholly apply the
forfeitures of the said Obligations or Recognizances shall be levied or paid into the Court of Exchequer And when the forfeitures are levyed they are to be delivered to the Farmers without further account so often all and every the said penalties and forfeitures be delivered unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes to their onely use and benefit without any other or further account And for so doing these Presents And the Officers discharged Commissioners for licenses to sell VVine c. not take Securities but such as they will answer for without the Farmers consent or the Enrolment thereof shall be to them and every of them and to all other Officers and Ministers to whom it shall appertain a sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf And our said Soveraign Lord the King doth further charge and command all and every the Commissioners for granting of Licenses to persons to sell Wine Aquavitae or Strong-waters by Retaile that they presume not to take any Bonds or Recognizances by vertue of the said Act but of such sufficient persons for whom they will undertake if the parties prove unable unless the said Bonds and Recognizances be taken with or by the consent and good liking of the said John Forth William Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood VVilliam Muschamp Vnder their hands or the hands of some of them Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes or some of them thereunto first had by writing under their or some of their hands And that they do not deliver cancel or make void the said Bonds or Recognizances or any of them unless it be after notice first given to and with the consent and good liking of the said John Forth VVilliam Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes or some of them in writing first had and obtained And if any act done or to be done by His Majesty his Heires or Successors or by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland and Council there for the time being or by the Lord Treasurer the Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer or by any other Officers or Ministers of his Majesties Revenues there for the time being or by any of them shall be any obstruction or hinderance unto them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp If they are hindred in receiving the forfeitures Fees of the Court excepted they are to have Defalcation by retainer Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assignes in the having or receiving the full benefit of such forfeited Obligations and the penalties thereof or of the Iudgments and Executions thereupon had the due and lawful Fees of the Officers of the said Court onely excepted Then his Majesty is pleased that there shall be an allowance and Defalcation made by way of recouper and retainer of so much of the rate by these presents reserved as may be sufficient to give recompence and satisfaction for the same And his Majesty doth hereby authorize the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor and Governors of Ireland VVhich the Lord Lieutenant c. upon proof are to allow of without further VVarrant and Council there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being to be alwayes one or more upon due proof thereof made to grant unto them an Order in writing for the allowance of such Defalcations without any other or further Warrant from his Majesty to be therefore had or obtained And his Majesty for himself his Heires and Successors is further pleased to covenant and grant to and with the said Iohn Forth William Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood VVilliam Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall and every of them that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Iohn Forth VVilliam Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them from time to time and at all times during the continuance of this present Demise to sue for distreyne levy prosecute and recover all and every the Quit-rents and Annual payments hereby demised Power to sue in the Kings name and to have the benefit of all Process seizure execution c. of which all Iudges and Officers are to take notice and the arrearages thereof in his Majesties name or in their own names as they shall be advised And further that they and every of them shall have the full benefit and advantage of all such Process seizure execution power and prerogative as his Majesty might have used and exercised for the due and legal recovery of the premises or any part thereof if this present Demise had not been made And hereof all Iudges Officers and Ministers of His Majesties revenue are required to take notice and to be aiding and assisting to them accordingly And his said Majesty doth hereby further for him his Heirs and Successors covenant promise and grant to and with the said Iohn Forth William Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Iemmet Iohn Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood VVilliam Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes that if any Lands tenements or hereditaments within the said Realme of Ireland charged or chargeable with any Rents If Rents by the Kings seizing of Land Quit-rents or other payments hereby demised shall at any time hereafter come into the possession of his Majesty his Heires or Successors by vertue of any Grant Surrender or other Conveyance or of any Attainder of Treason Misprision of Treason Felony Premunire or otherwise howsoever whereby or by reason whereof any of the Rents Quit-rents or other payments hereby granted or any of them shall cease determine or otherwise be extinguished or if any Iudgment hath been or shall hereafter be given in his Majesties Court of Exchequer or any other of his Courts at Dublin whereby any Lands which were vested in his Majesty or restored by any Decrees which are confirmed by the Explanatory Act or setled by any Clause or Proviso without a particular exemption from Quit-rents in the same clause expresly mentioned shall be discharg'd from payment of quit-rents the quit-rents of all such Lands whether they be the Lands of innocent Papists or others being hereby intended to be demised then in all and every such case and cases the said
Statute Recognizance Process Order Course or Suite of our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heires or Successors as also all and every the foresaid Pains and Penalties which shall so likewise be recovered and which the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet Iohn Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood VVilliam Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns are or ought to have according to the intent of these presents shall immediately after the recovering or levying thereof from time to time be delivered by the said Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the said Exchequer or some of them to the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or some of them to their and every of their own proper uses and behoofs without any Account or other thing to our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs or Successors to be had paid or done of or for the same or any part or parcel thereof other than the said several and respective yearly Rents and Sums of Money and other Things and Duties before in these presents respectively reserved and agreed to be paid to his Highness his Heirs and Successors according to the tenor purport Or else shall be retained by the King in part of the Rent and true meaning of these presents or else shall be retained towards or for or in part of payment of the said Rent and Sums of Money to His Highness his Heirs and Successors reserved or payable by force of these presents which then shall be due if to the said Lord-Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the Court of Exchequer or the more part of them for the time being it shall be thought meet and convenient for his Majesties service and surety in the premises And also that our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors shall from time to time as occasion shall be make or cause to be made unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors The Farmers are to have such Grants of the Forfeitures recovered as they desire and the Extents thereupon Administrators and Assigns and every or any of them under the Great Seal of England or Ireland or under the Seal of the Court of Exchequer there or otherwise as by the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assignes or any of them their or any of their Councill learned in the Law shall be reasonably devised or required and at their or any of their proper Costs and Charges in the Law such and so many Grants Conveyances and Assurances of and for the said annual Rents Excizes Customes Subsidies Imposts Debts Duties Revenues and Profits Forfeitures Pains Penalties and Sums of Money and of all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods and Chattels extended or seized thereupon or for or by reason thereof which by our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors or by any of them shall be had recovered levyed or paid by vertue of any such Process Order Course or Suits if the said Lord-Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons or the more part of them shall not think good so to retain the same And his Majesty doth hereby for him his Heirs and Successors authorize and straitly charge and command as well the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland for the time being as the said Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the said Court of Exchequer for the time being or some of them to perform do and execute or cause to be performed done and executed his Highness said pleasure herein according to the true intent and meaning of these presents And these Presents or the Enrollment Constat or Exemplification of the same shall be from time to time a sufficient warrant to the said Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the said Court of Exchequer for the time being and to all other Officers and Ministers whatsoever of our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors for the time being to whom it shall appertain for the making forth Process suing for recovering and levying of the said Annual Rents Excizes Customes Subsidies Imposts Debts Duties Revenues Profits and Sums of Monyes and every of them and of all the said Forfeitures Pains and Penalties and for the Payment and delivery over to the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or to any of them the said annual Rents Excizes Imposts Customes Subsidies Debts Duties Revenues Profits Forfeitures Pains Penalties and Sums of Money and other things whatsoever which by vertue of such Process Order Course or Suits as is aforesaid shall be levyed or paid and for to accept the same so recovered as in part of payment of the Rent and Sums of Money above reserved or payable according to the tenor of these presents then next due to be paid in case it shall be thought meet to retain the same as aforesaid and also for the making of such Grants and Assurances of the said annual Rents Excize Customes Subsidies Impositions Debts Duties Revenues Profits Forfeitures Pains Penalties and Sums of Money and other things that shall be so recovered levyed or paid as is aforesaid under the Great Seal of Ireland and under the Seal of the said Court of Exchequer or either of them or otherwise as by the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Iemmet John Breedon Iames Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or any of them or by their or any of their Counsel learned in the Law shall be reasonably according to the true intent and meaning of these presents devized and required without any other Warrant or Declaration of the pleasure of his Highness his Heirs or Successors to be obtained or had in that behalf And that they the said John Forth William Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them shall and may from time time during the said several and respective termes of years to be accounted as aforesaid The Farmers power to take Bonds in the Kings name take Bonds Obligatory in the name of the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors or in the names of the said John Forth William Bucknall
William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assignes or any of them as well of all and every Merchant and Merchants and Owners of the said Goods Wares and Merchandizes whereof the Customes Subsidies Impositions and other Duties are in and by these presents mentioned to be demised or any of them as of any other Person or Persons for any other Debt Duty or Cause whatsoever with Surety or Sureties as otherwise for Payment of the said Customes Subsidies Impositions and Duties and other the Debts and Duties whatsoever and every or any of them in such sort and manner and at such dayes and times as to them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns or any of them shall seem meet and convenient and to detain and keep the said Bonds and every of them in their or some of their hands And to have the benefit of them and to have and take the full benefit and advantage of the same and every of them to their own proper use by way of Suite at their own Cost and Charge in the name of our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heires or Successors or otherwise and upon satisfaction and payment thereupon or otherwise to deliver up or cancel the same or otherwise to dispose thereof for their best advantage and benefit or profit or otherwise as they shall think fit And also that they the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them shall have full power liberty and authority in the name of our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heires and Successors or any of them or in the name or names of them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every or any of them at their pleasure to implead And at their charge to prosecute sue and prosecute all and every such Person and Persons his and their Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes and every or any of them which shall so become bound to his Majesty his heires or Successors or otherwise indebted of and for all and every such Sums of money Penalties or Forfeitures as shall grow or become due or payable by reason or means of any such Bonds or Debts as also all and every other Person and Persons their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns that shall or may by any meanes be found to be indebted chargeable or answerable to His Majesty his Heires or Successors or to the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall or any of them for and in respect of the said Annual Rents Payments Excizes Customes Subsidies Impositions Revenues Profits and Duties and all and every part or parcel of the same or other Debts or Duties or for not payment of the same and the Sum and Sums of Moneys Penalties and Forfeitures Arrearages of Rents Profits Payments Excizes Customes Subsidies Impositions Revenues Profits and Duties and all and every part and parcel of the same which shall be recovered or had of the Bodies Goods Chattels Lands Tenements and Hereditaments or any of them of the said Person or Persons their Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them to levy hold and take Execution thereof to the use of them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them and further to do make take and prosecute in such like manner and forme as his Majesty his Heires or Successors of his or their Royal Prerogative power and Authority in his or otherwise in their own proper Names or by any whatsoever Right or Title should or might have done according to the true intent and meaning of these presents And also that these presents Without further warrant to the Treasurer c. or the enrollment thereof from time to time shall be as well to the Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of his Majesties said Court of Exchequer for the time being and all other Officers and Ministers of the same Court as also to the Barons Justices Officers and Ministers of his Highness his Heires and Successors of the said Court of Exchequer for the time being or of any other his Majesties Courts of Record and to every of them sufficient warrant and discharge to hear determine sue prosecute grant levy and make execution against all and every Person and Persons their Heires Executors Administrators and Assigns by and upon whom any of the said Sums of money penalties or forfeitures due or payable upon or by reason of any such Bonds or any of the said Customes Subsidies Imposts Impositions and Duties before by these presents demised or granted or mentioned to be demised or granted or any part or parcel thereof be or shall be charged due or levyable in the name of our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heires or Successors or in the name or names of them the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes or any of them to the proper use and behoof of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet Iohn Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood VVilliam Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns or any of them in manner and forme aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of these presents without any Account or other profit or thing whatsoever to his Highness his Heirs or Successors therefore to be had paid or done the said yearly Rent or Sums of money by these presents reserved and covenanted to be paid as aforesaid onely excepted and foreprized And whereas in and by the several laws and statutes touching the Customes Excize Duties of Hearth-money Duties arising by Licences of Retaylers and other the Duties and Profits hereby respectively demised several Fines and Penalties are imposed upon offenders and variously distributed And whereas in all cases where any Fines or Penalties are imposed or other Forfeiture incurred for non-payment of any Duties of Excize there the Duty it self is wholly lost as to the present Farmers thereof His Majesty is therefore graciously pleased to declare and doth hereby covenant and agree to and with the said
or for any of the said annual Rents or Payments Duties arising by Licenses for retailing Wine or Strong-waters Duties of Hearth-money of or for any of the said Customes Subsidies Imposts Sums of Money Duties of Excize for Goods imported Duties of Excize for Beer and Ale or other Duties for In-land Excize or any Duties arising by Licenses for retailing of Beer and Ale or any other Duties by these presents respectively demised or granted or mentioned to be demised or granted to the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet Iohn Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood VVilliam Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators or Assigns And the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood The Farmers may sue and prosecute in their own or His Majesties name Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them shall have full power and authority either in their or any of their name or names or in the name of his Highness his Heirs or Successors or any of them at the pleasure of the said John Forth VVilliam Bucknall VVilliam Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them to implead sue and prosecute as well all and every such Person and Persons their Heires Executors and Assigns and every or any of them as shall or may by any means be found not to have paid or to be indebted charged or answerable to our said Lord the King his Heires or Successors or to the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes or any of them for the annual Rents Payments Duties of Hearth-money Duties arising by Licenses Customes Subsidies Imposts Sums of Money Duties of Excize for goods imported Duties for Inland Excize and other Duties in and by these presents respectively demised and granted or mentioned to be demised and granted unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes as is aforesaid or any part or parcel of the same in the Court of Exchequer of his Highness his Heires or Successors or in any other Court or Courts of Record whatsoever And the said several annual Rents Payments Revenues Customes Subsidies Imposts Sums of money Duties and other things before in these presents demised or granted or mentioned to be demised or granted as aforesaid and every part and parcel thereof for so much and such part thereof as by the true intent and meaning of these presents the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns ought to have take or receive to their own uses to take recover and levy upon the Bodies Goods Chattels Lands Tenements or Hereditaments of them or any of them their or any of their Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them from whom any of the Sums of money Revenues or Duties aforesaid shall be due or payable and to take Execution thereof to the proper use of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assignes and every of them and to do make and prosecute for and concerning the same respectively in such and in the like manner and form as our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heires or Successors of his or their Regal power Prerogative and Authority as by the Laws of the Realm of Ireland in his or their Name or Names should or might have done if the said several and respective Demises or Leases had never been had nor made And that these presents or the enrollment of the same from time to time shall be as well to the Lord Treasurer of Ireland Chancellor and Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland for the time being and all other Officers and Ministers of the same Court as also to the Barons Justices Officers and Ministers of his Majesty his Heires and Successors of the same Court for the time being or of any other Court or Courts of Record and to every of them a sufficient warrant in that behalf without any accompt or other profit or thing whatsoever to our said Sovereign Lord the King his Heirs or Successors thereof or therefore to be had paid or done other than the said several and respective yearly Rents which in and by these presents are mentioned to be reserved and covenanted to be paid as aforesaid and other than such as are hereby excepted reserved or saved to our said Lord the King his Heirs and Successors And that they the said John Forth William Bucknall And paying their Rents and performing their Covenants are quietly to enjoy William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall their Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them well and truly paying and satisfying the several and respective yearly Rents and Sums of Money hereby reserved as aforesaid and performing fulfilling and keeping all and singular the Covenants Provisoes and Agreements in these presents mentioned which on their parts ought to be performed shall and may at all times during the continuance of the several and respective Demises or Leases hereby granted fully and freely have levy take use receive and enjoy all and every the said Annual Rents or Payments Duties of Hearth-money Duties arising by Licences for Retailing Wine or Strong-waters Customs Subsidies Imposts Sums of Money and Duties of Excize for Goods imported Duties of Excize for Ale and Beer and other the Duties of In-land Excize Duties arising by Licences for Retailing Ale and Beer and all other the Duties Revenues and Premises by these presents respectively granted or demised or mentioned to be granted or demised as aforesaid except before excepted to their own proper uses and benefits and that all and every the Covenants Articles and Clauses in these Presents contained on the behalf of our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors to be performed in all things and from time to time shall be most strongly and largely construed taken and expounded against the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and largely beneficially and favourably for the avail benefit and advantage of the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall
it stands And that I would besides give Your Majesty Fourscore thousand pounds sterling to be paid in two years from the end of the Farm by equal Portions half yearly Your Majesty superceding the Commission of Enquiry lately issued and impowering me to Receive the Benefit of all that is or shall be due or payable to You until the 26 of December 1675. excepting any Addition to Your Revenue that shall hereafter be made by Act of Parliament and excepting 7000 l. being the Ballance of the Earl of Anglesey's Account and about 20000 l. being the Ballance of Sir George Carteret's Account This I do now Humbly offer to Your Majesty that my Proposal may not be either forgotten or mistaken whilst I am preparing to put it into better form TO THE KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTY The Humble Proposals of Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh THat the Charge of His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland not exceeding what it is computed to be in a Paper styled The State of Your Majesties Revenue delivered in by your Vice-Treasurer shall from the 25 of December 1670. until the 26 of December 1675. be fully and duely answered and discharged excepting what ought to be deducted for Cheques made by your Majesties sworn Officers That all arrears of Pay due to your Martial and Civil Lists at or on the last day of December last past according to the establishment and all other Debts mentioned in the aforesaid State which your Majesty is obliged to pay shall before the 25 of December 1675. be fully paid and discharged and that without any Composition or Defalcation except the Fees and Cheques usually and duely made and except what shall be found to be still due of the Ten months Arrears in the Lords Justices time which hath all along been compounded for one half and so much every body concerned therein shall have That all such Defalcations as shall appear to be justly due unto the late Farmers of your Majesties Customs Imported Inland Excize Licenses for Ale and Beer Licenses for Wine Aquavitae and Strong-waters during the two years and three quarters of the late War with the Dutch shall be adjusted and setled in such manner as your Majesty shall be wholly freed and discharged from any Demand for or concerning the same That the present Farmers of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland may continue their Farms under the Articles Covenants Conditions and Provisions mentioned in their several Grants and that any pretence of Defalcation by them shall be solely determined in such manner as by their several Agreements is and was appointed without any Lett or Interruption therein That your Majesty shall have and dispose of as you shall think fit the Ballances of the Earl of Anglesey's Account and the Ballance of Sir George Carteret's Account being 20000 l. or thereabouts That as to any addition which shall hereafter be made to your Majesties Revenue by Act of Parliament the Proposer will in no wise pretend thereunto or intermeddle therewith That the Proposer over and above the Payments and Discharges to be made as aforesaid will be engaged to pay your Majesty 80000 l. sterling within the space of two years to commence from the 25 of December 1675. by four equal Portions half yearly That Your Majesty may continue the Excize of Your Royal Prerogative and Power to Suspend Mitigate Reduce or Pardon any Particulars under the survey of the Greenwax and any Fines and Forfeitures upon Penal Laws other then such as relate to your Revenue and for appointing Commissioners for reducements thereof But that all such Moneys which after such reducements shall be Payable Levied or Received by Your Majesties Officers shall belong to the Proposer That as for any payment due to Your Majesty from the Clergy for First Fruits or Twentieth Parts the Proposer will be concluded by such Returns as shall be made by the Commissioners lately impowred for that purpose under the Great Seal of Ireland That to the end Your Majesties Revenue may not be diverted out of its proper and usual Channel The Proposer Declares That all Moneys due and payable to Your Majesty whither upon the account of the present Farms Arrears or otherwise shall be answered and brought into the Receipt of Your Majesties Exchequer in the same manner as formerly to be there ready to answer the Vses herein undertaken That all Warrants for the issuing out of any of Your Majesties said Revenue shall be Signed and Ordered as formerly by your Majesty or Chief Governor and directed to the Proposer who will forthwith answer the same according to the intent of these Proposals That the 30000 l. Granted by Your Majesty to the Earl of Suffolk shall be satisfied out of the proper Fond whereon it is Charged That it is not intended hereby to abridge Your Majesty from Granting Leasing or Confirming unto any Person or Persons c. any Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within Your said Kingdom which are yet undisposed of or to which Your Majesties Title hereafter shall be made appear so that the Quit-Rents or the Crown-Rents which shall be found most for Your Majesties profit be reserved and no Arrears or mean Profits due thereon be remitted That to prevent and avoid the many and sad consequences which may happen by a speedy and rigid Levying and bringing in of Your Majesties Debts and Dues and to secure and ease Your Subjects from any unnecessary trouble unjust vexations or double payments It is Humbly Proposed 1. THat all Persons in Arrears for Quit-Rents shall have the full benefit and effect of a Covenant for Instalments already made between Your Majesty and the present Farmers of Your Revenue 2. That a Power may be given to Your Governors and such others whom Your Majesty shall think fit to appoint for Installing all other the Debts Arrears c. due to Your Majesty on or before the 25 of December 1670. where they shall see cause upon consideration had upon every respective Case so that none of them be installed for above eight half yearly Payments of which none to extend beyond the 24 day of June 1675. And that the payment so Installed be sufficiently secured But this Power not to extend to any Farmers Receivers or Collectors who either are or have been of Your Majesties Revenue nor to any small or inconsiderable Sums except the Debtors be found very unable nor to any who shall not own the Debts or will not consent to secure the Payments thereof by such Installments without Suits at Law 3. That nothing which is not now in charge shall be sued for or Levied until satisfaction be first given to the chief Governor and such others whom Your Majesty shall please to appoint that there is good grounds for so doing and that Your Majesty is justly entituled thereunto 4. That the chief Governour may be directed to issue out Proclamations as occasion shall require whereby all Collectors Receivers and Accomptants may be warned within a reasonable time to come in
discreet and fit persons as they shall humbly desire which Commissions so to be issued out shall sufficiently Authorize and Impower the persons therein to be named to act as His Majesties Officers as shall be found necessary to be done in the managing and for the better and more speedy Levying Collecting Suing for Recovering and Receiving or otherwise Compounding for and Discharging of all and every His Majesties Rents Revenues Profits Duties Incomes Certain and Casual Ordinary and Extraordinary whatsoever in the Kingdome of Ireland not remitted or Pardoned or otherwise granted away and disposed before the Five and Twentieth day of December now last past as well such as upon or before the said Five and twentieth day of December now last past were in arreare and are yet unpaid as such as from and after the said time untill the Six and Twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy and Five were or shall be by any matter of Record or otherwise howsoever due owing or payable to His Majesty or which might or ought to have been or may before the said Six and Twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Five be Taxed Levyed Collected Recovered Answered for Paid or Payable to His Majesty His Heires or Successors out of or for any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in Ireland or all or any the Estates reall or personal of any person or persons Bodies Politique or Corporate or otherwise by reason of any Tax Assessment Subsidy Impositions Contract Covenant Agreement Account Debt Duty Sum or Sums of Money matter or thing imposed made or issued or which did or shall arise or grow due within the said Kingdome of Ireland before the said six and twentieth day of December in the year of Our Lord one Thousand six Hundred Seventy Five including the Rents Duties and Payments which shall be due for the time incurred before the six and twentieth day of December One thousand Six hundred seventy Five though the same may be payable or Installments made or time given for the Payment thereof after that day The said Powers to such Commissioners shall not inable them to interrupt the Farmers of the great Branches in mannaging the Revenue under their charge nor to receive any Money which shall be due to His Majesty by any future Act of Parliament PROVIDED alwayes that the Powers and Authorities to be given unto such Commissioners so to be nominated shall not enable them to give any disturbance or interruption unto the present Farmers of the great Branches of His Majesties Revenue herein before-mentioned or unto any of their Officers or Servants in the Collecting and bringing in those parts of the Revenue which are under their charge nor to receive any sum or sums of Mony or other Annual Rent or Payments which by vertue of any Act of Parliament to be passed after the date of these Presents and before the said six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Five shall or may grow due or payable to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors All which Sums of Money last mentioned must be understood and so are hereby declared to be out of the Covenants and Agreements herein contained wholly excepted and foreprized * 3. PROVIDED also that neither the Moneys called Lapsed Moneys Neither the Lapsed Mony Lands in lieu thereof or the 30000 l. payable for the same nor the English arrears or Lands set out for the same nor the meane profits due for Lands set out on the Dublin Ordinances and already disposed of by the Act of Explanation shall be comprehended in these Agreements nor the forfeited Land in lieu thereof nor the Thirty Thousand pounds payable by the Roman Catholiques of Ireland for the same nor the Moneys called the English-Arreares nor the Land set out for the same nor the Arreares nor Meane-Profits due for Land set out upon the Dublin-Ordinances and already disposed by the late Explanatory Act shall be comprehended in these Covenants or Agreements nor any defalcation allowed for or in respect of the same The said Commissioners shall receive and enjoy all the said arrears growing Revenue which is or shall be in charge or discovered and other the premises subject to the Limitations and restrictions herein expressed and no other AND His Majesty for Himself His Heires and Successors doth further Covenant and Grant to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them their and every of their Heires Executors and Administrators by these Presents that the said Commissioners so to be nominated and appointed as aforesaid shall and may have receive take and enjoy the full benefit and advantage of all the said Arreares now due to his Majesty and all the growing Revenues now in Charge or which hereafter may be in charge or discovered and other the Premises subject to such Limitations and Restrictions as are herein expressed and no other And this Indenture further Witnesseth The chief Covenants in this Indenture from R. V Ranelagh and his Partners to his Majesty and the considerations thereof That in consideration of the Covenants and Agreements herein before mentioned and on the part of his Majesty to be done and performed It is Covenanted Granted Concluded Condescended and Agreed by and between the Parties to these Presents AND the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon for themselves their Heires Executors and Administrators and every of them do Covenant Grant and Agree to and with His said Most Excellent Majesty His Heires and Successors in manner and forme following V. R. c. shall within 14 dayes after Warrants signed and directed to them defray so much of His Majesties expence of Ireland which from the last of Decem. 70 to the 4th of August 71 ought according to the Establishment to have been borne by His Majesty if this Indenture had not been made that is to say that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon shall within the space of fourteen dayes after Warrants duely signed and to them directed fully and duely answer defray satisfie discharge and Pay or cause to be fully and duely answered defrayed satisfied discharged and paid so much of His Majesties whole charge and expence of the Kingdome of Ireland which from the last day of December last past unto the day of the date of these presents ought according to the Establishment to have been born and discharged by His Majesty if this present Indenture had not been made AND MOREOVER shall and will from
and Baronet his heirs executors or administrators or any of them their or any of their Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels of and from any Suits and Demands touching or concerning any sums of Money received from His Majesty for and towards the payment of and for the Purchase of the Customes of London-derry or any other Debts Duties or Arrearages whatsoever other then the Arrears of Quit-rents Crown-rents the Years-value or Reapplotment of the deficiency thereof that then and in such case the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon nor any of them shall have any Abatement or Defalcation whatsoever for or in respect of any such Release or Discharge any thing herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon have covenanted and granted and by these presents for themselves their heires executors and administrators and every of them do further Covenant and Grant to and with His Majesty His Heires and Successors that if they or any of them or any claiming by from or under them or any of them shall at any time hereafter sue and prosecute in His Majesties Name or in their own names and upon such Suit or Prosecution shall cause any Lands to be seized or extended for the payment and satisfaction of any the arrears which they or any of them or any person or persons claiming by from or under them ought to receive that then and in every such case the said Suites Prosecutions Seizures and Extents shall be in such manner and forme that thereby no interruption or disturbance may be given to the present Farmers of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland contrary to the tenor and effect of His Majesties Covenants with them nor they thereby become entitled to any Defalcation from His Majesty but the whole Loss and Damage of such Defalcations if any shall be thought fit to be allowed for or in respect of such Suites Prosecutions Seizures or Extents shall be sustained and born by the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon the survivors and survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them and His Majesty His Heires and Successors shall be thereof and of every part and parcel thereof from time to time and at all times hereafter acquitted exonerated and discharged or otherwise saved harmless and indempnified AND HIS MAJESTY for Himself His Majesty further Covenants His Heires and Successors doth further Covenant Grant and Agree to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them their and every of their Executors All the Moneys which are or shall grow due or be payable unto His Majesty before the 26th of December 75 shall during the terme be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer at Dublin in the usual manner to the end the same may be applyed to the uses herein mentioned Administrators and Assignes that all and every the sums of Money now due or which any time after the date of these presents and before the six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five shall grow due or payable to His Majesty His Heires or Successors whether for Rent reserved upon the Farme of the great Branches of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland or for any Arrears or otherwise howsoever shall from time to time during the said terme be answered and brought into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer at Dublin in such manner as the same were heretofore used to be paid and would and ought still to be paid if this present Indenture had not been made to the end that His Majesties Treasure so brought in and remaining in His Majesties Exchequer there may from time to time be issued out from thence and applyed to such uses intents and purposes as are herein before-mentioned and by this present Indenture are undertaken to be done executed and performed His Majesty will Commissionate R. V. Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood to be His Majesties Officers and Commissioners to have the sole custody of all Monys so brought in and sole power to receive give discharges for and issue the same to the uses of this Indenture with clauses therein totally to prohibit any other from intermedling therein during the said time AND That for the better effecting hereof and more orderly and legal proceeding herein His Majesty shall and will forthwith and in due forme of Law Constitute Authorize Commissionate and Appoint them the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood to be His Majesties Officers or Commissioners and to have the sole care and Custody of all Monyes so brought in and the sole Power to receive the said Monyes from time to time and to give Acquittances and Discharges for the same and to issue out the said moneys and pay the same to the ends and uses in this present Indenture mentioned with such clauses to be inserted therein as may be sufficient totally to prohibit and restraine any other person or persons from Acting or any way intermedling therein upon any other pretence of Authority whatsoever during the continuance of this present undertaking AND His Majesty doth further Covenant Grant and Agree to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelgah Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood that all Orders Warrants Directions and Commands which at any time after the date of these presents All Warrants for Payments of any Money from the 4th of August 71 to the 26th of December 75 shall be so made and Signed by the Chief Governour of Ireland and directed to the said R. V.R. Sir A. B. Sir I.H. I. B. and G. D. only to the intent they may wholly apply the same to the uses of this Indenture and before the six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five shall be * 8 made and signed touching or concerning the issuing out of any Moneys or paying any part of His Majesties Revenue shall be so made and Signed by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being and be directed unto them the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood only to the intent that they may wholly apply the said Moneys to the uses and intents of this present Indenture and to the execution and performance
the deficiency of the years value allowing his Subjects four years time for the payment thereof with several Provisoes Restrictions and Qualifications herein particularly expressed viz. inter alias That his Majesty notwithstanding may pardon Criminal or Capital Offences forfeited Recognizances Fines or Forfeitures upon Penal Laws or Outlawries That his Majesty may appoint Commissioners for Reducements as formerly but the moneys due thereupon to belong to the Grantees That his Majesty may let Leases of any his Royal Mines Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in Ireland yet undisposed or to which his Majesties Title hereafter may be made appear under such Rents as shall be equal to the Quit-rents payable by Adventurers or else the Old Crown Rents and in case his Majesty dispose of any his Lands to the uses of his Declaration of the 30th of November 1660 to any but such their heirs or assigns who received the profits thereof then the arrears of Quit-rents due thereupon before the 25th of December 1668 not to be charged on the Lands but to be recovered of the former Enjoyers and Pervors of the Profits thereof That the present Farmers of his Majesties Revenue in Ireland may continue their Farms without interruption by the Grantees who are to have no abatement for Defalcations to be allowed the said Farmers for the years ended the 25th of December 1670 and the Defalcations hereafter to be made the said Farmers to be determined onely as by the several agreements relating thereunto is appointed That the Grantees upon payments of First-fruits and twentieth parts by the Clergy shall allow usual installments and be concluded by the returns of the Commissioners for that purpose but if their Commissions shall be found defective his Majesty covenants to give order for the rectifying thereof That his Majesty may renew alter or encrease any annuity temporary payments or entertainments in his Majesties Establishments so as the yearly charge exceed not 171843 li. 5 s. 6 d. and also regulate and appoint the method of payment of his Majesties debts so as such for which Interest is payable be first satisfied That if his Majesty shall not think fit to renew any such annuity or payment the Grantees to pay his Majesty his Heirs and Successors such sum as the same will come to over and above the payments aforesaid All moneys are to be brought into the Treasury and the Lord Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood are to be commissionated to have the sole Custody thereof during the continuance of their Undertaking All Warrants for issuing out of moneys are to be directed to them and they covenant with his Majesty to pay the Vice-Treasurer for the time being his usual Fees quarterly or 40 days after The Covenants with the Farmers for installment of arrears of Quit-rents are to continue and the Chief Governour of Ireland and such others whom his Majesty shall appoint are to have power to enstall any other debts or arrears under certain qualifications Nothing which is not now in Charge on Record can be sued for without first satisfying the Chief Governour of Ireland of the grounds of the proceedings A just account is to be given from time to time of all the proceedings in the managing of the Revenue and the directions of the Chief Governour to be observed No Defalcation is to be expected for any pardon or release which may be made to the Earl of Anglesey or Sir James Shaen In case of Plague War Fire or other unavoidable Calamity there is to be defalcation and they are to be enabled to levy what shall appear due upon Record at any time within two years after the term expired and the Patent is to be expounded most beneficial for the Undertakers and to enable them to perform their Contract And these are the Clauses of Assistance and other beneficial Clauses fit and proper Subscribed by Mr. Attorney General by Warrant under his Majesties Sign Manual and Procur ' by Mr. Secretary Trevor LETTERS PATENTS GRANTED BY HIS MAJESTY CONTAINING A Demise of His Revenue OF IRELAND FOR SEVEN YEARS Bearing Date the Twelfth day of July 1669. AS ALSO LETTERS PATENTS Granted by His MAJESTY CONTAINING AN ABATEMENT OF RENT Bearing Date the Third day of August 1669. TOGETHER WITH MARGINAL NOTES and an ALPHABETICAL TABLE Prosperè succedant Regi Vobisque C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT In the SAVOY Printed by Tho. Newcomb 1672. THIS INDENTURE made the Twelfth day of July An. Dom. 1669. and in the One and twentieth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. BETWEEN the said Kings Most Excellent Majesty on the one part and John Forth Alderman and now one of the Sheriffs of the City of London William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet and John Breedon of the City of London Esquires Iames Hayes of Lincolns-Inn in the County of Middlesex Esq Dannet Forth and George Dashwood of the City of London Esquires William Muschamp and Humphry Taylor of Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland Esquires and Ralph Bucknall of the City of London Esq on the other part WHEREAS in our Parliament begun and held at Dublin upon the eighth day of May in the thirteenth year of His Majesties Reign and there continued by several Proroguations unto the twenty sixth day of October in the seventeenth year of His Majesties Reign several Acts of Parliament were passed during the several Sessions of the said Parliament for the better ascertaining setling establishing and declaring of His Majesties Revenue in His said Kingdom of Ireland and amongst others one Act was passed Entituled A recital of the Acts touching the Kings Revenue in Ireland from the 8. of May in the 13 to the 6th of Octo. in the 17 year of His Reign An Act for setling the Subsidie of Poundage and granting a Subsidie of Tunnage and other sums of Money unto His Royal Majesty His Heirs and Successors the same to be paid upon Merchandizes imported and exported into or out of the Kingdom of Ireland according to a book of Rates hereunto annexed And also one other Act Entituled An Act for the setling of the Excise or New Impost upon his Majesty his Heires and Successors according to the book of Rates therein inserted And also one other Act Entituled An Act for the Improvement of his Majesties Revenues upon the granting of Licenses for the selling of Ale and Beer And also one other Act Entituled An Act for establishing an additional Revenue upon his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the better support of his and their Crown and Dignity And also one other Act Entituled An Additional Act for the better ordering and collecting the revenue arising by Hearth-mony And also one other Act Entituled An Act for the better ordering the selling of Wines and Aqua-vitae together with all
Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall all that the Annual rate duty charge or imposition of two shillings sterling by the year due and payable to His Majesty his Heires and Successors for or in respect of any Fire-hearth or other place used for Firing and Stoves within any House or Edifice and which at any time after the Feast of the Nativity now last past unto the Feast of the Nativity which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five shall or may from time to time during the terme aforesaid become due and payable or are appointed to be paid unto His Majesty His Heires and Successors by virtue of the said late Act Intituled An Act for establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty His Heires and Successors for the better support of His and their Crown and Dignity And of the said other Act Intituled An Additional Act for the better ordering and collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money or otherwise howsoever And also all and every the powers liberties priviledges profits and advantages in and by the said Acts or either of them vested in His Majesty and also all those Rates Charges Duties Impositions Payments and Sums of Mony due and payable to His Majesty by such person or persons who now are or at any time before the Feast of the Nativity which shall be in the year of our Lord 1675 shall be licensed to utter and sell by way of Retaile in their respective houses any Wine or Aqua-vitae Vsquebagh Brandy Balkan or any kind of distilled strong-waters or spirits and all other duties and sums of Money of that nature which by vertue of the said late Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for the better ordering the selling of Wines and Aqua-vitae together with all sorts of strong-waters by retaile or otherwise howsoever have grown due or shall or may at any time after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord now last past unto the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord which shall be in the year of our Lord 1675 inclusive grow due and renew or from time to time during the terme aforesaid ought to become due and payable and are appointed to be paid to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors or any of them and all other the benefits profits and advantages of the said Act and also all those annual Quit-rents and payments of three pence per Acre yearly for every acre of English measure within the Province of Leinster in the Realm of Ireland and of two pence farthing per acre yearly for every acre of English Measure within the Province of Munster in the Realm of Ireland and of one penny half peny per acre yearly for every acre of English measure within the Province of Connaught in the Realm of Ireland and of two pence per acre yearly for every acre of English measure within the Province of Ulster in the Realm of Ireland and of one shilling six pence yearly out of every twenty shillings Rent for which any Houses or Tenements in any the Corporations in Ireland which have been allotted to any person or persons their heirs or assigns in or towards satisfaction of any arrears due to any Commissioned Officers who served his Majesty or his Royal Father in the Wars of Ireland upon or before the fifth of June 1649 have been or shall be let or demised And all and every the Annual Quit-rents and payments of that nature which by vertue of the said late Act entituled An Act for the better execution of his Majesties Gracious Declaration for the settlement of his Kingdom of Ireland and satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other his Subjects there And of the said other Act Entituled An Act for the explaining of some doubts arising upon an Act Entituled An Act for the better execution of his Majesties Gracious Declaration for the settlement of his Kingdom of Ireland and satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers Soldiers and other his Subjects there and for making some Alterations of and additions unto the said Act for the more speedy and effectual settlement of the said Kingdom or by any other Act of Parliament whatsoever or otherwise howsoever From Christmass last untill Christmass 1675 inclusive shall or may at any time after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God now last past and before and untill the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God which shall be in the year of our Lord 1675 inclusive grow due and payable or from time to time during the terme aforesaid ought to become due and payable and are appointed to be paid unto his Majesty his Heires and Successors or any of them by or from all every or any of the Adventurers or Soldiers their Heires or Assignes setled in any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments by vertue of the two Acts of Parliament last before mentioned or either of them and by or from all and every person and persons restored unto and reprized for his and their estate and estates and by vertue of both or either of the Acts aforesaid and by or from such Commissioned Officers who served his Majesty or his Royal Father in the Wars in Ireland at any time before the fifth of June 1649 their heirs or assigns respectively and by or from any other person or persons whatsoever All which said annual quit-rents and payments are by the latter of the said two Acts of Parliament last mentioned commonly called the Explanatory Act charged upon and enacted to be issuing out of all Lands whatsoever which by the said Explanatory Act or by the said former Act commonly called the Act of Settlement were vested in his Majesty or restored by any Decrees in the said Explanatory Act confirmed or setled or mentioned to be disposed restored confirmed or setled unto or upon any person or persons bodies politick or corporate by vertue of any clause in both or either of the said Acts contained and not particularly by plain and express words excepted from quit-rents in the same clause and no other person or persons bodies politick or corporate whatsoever and out of all and singular the Lands appointed to be set out for augmentation of Bishopricks for endowment of Parochial Churches with Gleabe for the better support of the Provost or of the Provost and Fellows of the Colledge of Dublin for the maintainance of the Fort at Duncannon and the benefit of the Corporation at Bandon Bridge and out of all the Lands injoyed by transplanted persons in the Province of Connaught or the County of Clare and out of all other the Lands seized sequestred or set out by reason of or upon account of the late Rebellion or War the Lands of James Duke of Ormond Elizabeth Lady Duchess of Ormond the Earl of Burlington and Cork the Earl of Roscomon and other the Protestants of Ireland heretofore sequestred only excepted AND His Majesty of his further especial grace certain knowledge
and meer motion HATH demised and granted and by these presents for his Highness his heires and successors doth demise and grant unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphry Taylor and Ralph Bucknall all and all manner of chief-rents rents service of Inheritance rents of Assize And also all other rents rents charge rents seck or dry rents fee-farm rents rents reserved upon Leases which were made for 21 years or more Assart rents rents due for Purprestures arented Copyhold-rents and all other certain and ancient Crown-rents yearly payable unto His Majesty his Heirs or Successors within the said Realm of Ireland and which at any time after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord now last past and before Payable to His Majesty His Heires and Successors from Christmass last to Christmass 1675. or untill the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord which shall be in the year of our Lord God 1675 inclusive shall or may grow due and payable or from time to time during the terme aforesaid of right ought to be paid unto his Majesty his Heirs or Successors by any person or persons bodies politick or corporate by reason of any Tenure Charter Patent Lease Demise or Grant made for the Terme of 21 years or more or to be made of any Messuages Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or of any Rights Royalties Liberties Priviledges Except all annual quit-rents whereof any grant or release hath been made by His Majesty bearing date before Michaelmass last past Franchises and Immunities whatsoever Except and alwayes reserved out of this present Demise all and every such annual quit-rents and payments of three pence per acre in the Province of Leinster two pence farthing per acre in the Province of Munster two pence half peny per acre in the Province of Connaught and two pence per acre in the Province of Vlster and of one shilling six pence out of every 20 shillings yearly for which any Houses in Corporations which have been allotted towards satisfaction of any arrears due to any Commissioned Officers who served His Majesty or His Royal Father before the 5 of June 1649 in the Wars of Ireland have been or shall be let or demised whereof any Grant or Release hath been made by His Majesty to any person or persons by vertue of any Letters patents under the Great Seal of England or under the Great Seal of Ireland bearing date before the Feast of S. Michael the Arch-angel now last past and next and immediately preceding the date of these presents And also except and alwayes reserved out of this present Demise all and every the yearly rents duties and sums of mony heretofore reserved and which of right still are and ought to be due and payable unto His Majesty his Heirs and Successors for or in respect of one or more Lease or Leases heretofore made and yet in being of all and singular the Customes and Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage And the present farm of the Customes and all other sums of Mony due and payable in lieu of Custome and of all those Rates and Duties of Excise due and payable to His Majesty his Heirs and Successors for or by reason of any Goods Wares or Merchandizes imported into the Realm of Ireland And also for and in respect of one or more Lease or Leases heretofore made and still in being of all and singular the Rates and Duties of Excise due and payable to His Majesty his Heirs or Successors And also of the Excise for or by reason of any Beer Ale Aqua-vitae and other liquors Exciseable for or by reason of any Goods Wares Merchandizes or other commodities of the growth production or manufacture of the Realm of Ireland commonly called The Inland Excise And of all other rates and duties due and payable unto His Majesty his Heirs or Successors for or in respect of any Licenses granted or to be granted for selling of Ale and Beer by retaile all which rates and duties And Ale and Beer Licenses or the rents thereupon reserved during the continuance of the said several and respective termes and Leases shall remain and be payable unto His Majesty his Heirs and Successors any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all and every the Rates Charges The Habendum Duties and Impositions of two shillings sterling by the year which by vertue of the said late Act for the establishing an additional Revenue upon His Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the better support of His and their Crown and Dignity and by vertue of the said late additional Act for the better ordering and collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-mony are due and payable or may grow due and payable unto His Majesty his Heirs or Successors for or by reason of any Fire-hearth or other place used for firing and Stoves within any House or Edifice or other place within the Realm of Ireland except before excepted And also all those Rates Charges Duties Impositions and sums of Mony which by vertue of the late Act for the better ordering the selling of Wines and Aqua-vitae together with all sorts of strong waters by retaile are due and payable or may grow due and payable by such person or persons who now are or hereafter may be licensed to utter or sell by way of Retaile in their respective houses any Wine Aqua-vitae Vsquebagh Brandy Balkan or any kind of distilled strong-waters or spirits except before excepted and also all and every the several and respective annual Quit-rents and payments of three pence per acre for every Acre in the Province of Leinster and two pence farthing per acre for every acre in the Province of Munster and one penny half-penny per Acre for every acre in the Province of Connaught and two pence per acre for every acre in the Province of Vlster and of one shilling and six pence yearly for every twenty shillings rent for which any houses in any Corporation in Ireland allotted to any person his heirs or assigns in satisfaction of any arrears hath been or shall be let or demised and all other the annual Quit-rents and payments which by vertue of the said two late Acts of Parliament commonly called The Act of Settlement and The Act of Explanation or either of them are or may grow due and payable unto his Majesty his Heirs or Successors and are charged upon and made to be issuing out of the several and respective Lands therein specified and declared except before excepted and also all manner of chief rents rents service of Inheritance rents of assize rents charge rents seck or dry rents fee-farm-rents and all other ancient Crown-rents yearly payable unto his Majesty his Heirs or Successors within the Realm of Ireland except before excepted and all other the premises herein before mentioned with their and every of