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A74489 Further instructions unto Charles Fleetwood Esq; Lieutenant General of the Army in Ireland, Edmund Ludlow Esq; Lieutenant General of the horse, Miles Corbet Esq; and Iohn Iones, Esq; England and Wales. Council of State. 1653 (1653) Thomason E1062_4; ESTC R209621 3,923 8

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FURTHER INSTRVCTIONS Unto Charles Fleetwood Esq Lieutenant General of the Army in Ireland Edmund Ludlow Esq Lieutenant General of the Horse Miles Corbet Esq and Iohn Iones Esq YOV are authorized and required either by Proclamation or otherwise as you shall think fit to publish and declare That for the better security of all those parts of Ireland which are now intended to be planted with English and Protestants and to the end that all persons in Ireland who have right to Articles or to any favour and mercy held forth by any the Qualifications in the Act of Parliament intituled An Act for settling of Ireland may enjoy the benefit intended unto them and every of them respectively by the said Act it is thought fit and resolved That all every the persons aforesaid shall before the first day of May which shall be in the year 1654. remove and transplant themselves into the Province of Connaght and the County of Clare or one of them there to inhabit and abide and shall have set forth unto them and every of them respectively such Proportions of Land and for such Estates or terms and under such Conditions Reservations and Covenants as shall be answerable in value unto so much of his and their Estates as by such Articles or Qualification respectively he or they were to enjoy in such place and manner as you or such as shall be authorized by you shall appoint and direct And that whatsoever person or persons aforesaid shall after the said first day of May 1654. be found inhabiting or remaining in any part of the Provinces of Lemster Munster or Ulster except in the said County of Clare or without a passe from you or any one of you or under the Hand and Seal of such person or persons as shall be authorised by you to that purpose travelling in any of the said Provinces except the said County of Clare he and they shall be reputed as Spies and Enemies and shall for the same Offence suffer death And that all and every person and persons aforesaid who shall at or before the said first day of May 1654. quietly and peaceably remove into the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare shall be pardoned all Offences except all and every person and persons both principall and accessaries who since the first day of October 1641. have or shall kill or slay or otherwise destroy any person or persons in Ireland which at the time of their being so killed slain or destroyed were not publickly entertained and maintained in Arms as Officers or private Souldiers for and on the behalf of the English against the Irish And all and every person and persons both Principal and Accessaries who since the first day of October 1641. have killed slain or otherwise destroyed any person or persons entertained or maintained as Officers or private Souldiers for and on the behalf of the English against the Irish the said persons so killing slaying or otherwise destroying not being then publiquely entertained and maintained in Armes as Officers or private Souldiers under the Command and pay of the Irish against the English and shall be no more molested for the same Provided that none of the persons aforesaid shall be admitted to live in or enter into any Port Town or Garrison within the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare without license from you or any one of you or such person or persons as you shall authorise thereunto nor shall have or keep any Arms used in War or Ammunition But that all and every person and persons offending in either of the premisses shall be tryed by Martial Law and being convicted shall suffer death Provided also that this shall not extend to the Pardoning Tollerating or Admitting any Popish Priest Iesuite or other person in Orders by authority from the See of Rome Provided also that this shall not extend to the removal of any person who did not adhere unto or join with the Rebels before the fifteenth day of September 1643. and who did at that time and ever since profess the Protestant Religion Nor to any Woman who before the second day of December 1650. was married to any English Protestant Provided that such Woman do renounce Popery and profess the Protestant Religion Nor to any Male child or children under the age of fourteen years or Females under the age of twelve years whom any of the English have already or shall be willing hereafter to entertain as Servants and to instruct and train up in the true Protestant Religion which said persons and children shall be suffered to live in any of the Places allotted for the habitation of the English And you are further to declare That in case any person or persons of the English nation or any other person or persons professing the Protestant Religion hath during the late Wars in Ireland constantly adhered to the English against the Rebells who hath or have Land within the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare and hath not forfeited the same by Rebellion or Delinquency shall desire to exchange the same or any part thereof or remove themselves into such Counties or Provinces as are inhabited by the English that just Surveys shall be taken of the Lands and estate of such person and persons and so much or the value thereof shall be set out unto them in lieu thereof out of the forfeited Lands in some other Province or County as shall be thought fit 2. You are hereby authorised and impowered to nominate Commissioners and to authorise them to allot unto any person or persons who by Articles granted unto them or by vertue of the Qualifications in the said Act were to enjoy any part of their estates a like proportion of Land by measure or in value in the Province of Connaght or the County of Clare of the like estate of Inheritance of Free-hold or for the like term of years or number of lives to be by them held and enjoyed in lieu or satisfaction of such part of their estate which by such Articles or Qualifications he or they were to enjoy And also to grant unto such of the said persons or others as you shall think fit to be Lease-holders from the Commonwealth such convenient parcels of Land in the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare as by the said Commissioners shall be judged fit for any term not exceeding one and twenty years or three lives reserving to the use of the Commonwealth upon every such demise such reasonable rents as with respect to the values of the said Lands in the year 1640. shall be by you thought fit 3. You are hereby authorised to give order and direction for the speedy removal of all or any the persons aforesaid unto the Lands so allotted unto them in such numbers and proportions as may consist with safety and security of the rest of the Inhabitants So as all the said persons be so removed before the first day of May 1654.