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A45967 An act for incouraging Protestant-strangers and others to inhabit and plant in the kingdom of Ireland Ireland. 1662 (1662) Wing I303; ESTC R26813 5,038 14

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AN ACT FOR INCOURAGING PROTESTANT-STRANGERS AND OTHERS To Inhabit and Plant in the KINGDOM OF IRELAND C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT DVBLIN Printed by John Crook Printer to the KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY and are to be sold by Sam. Dancer 1662. AN ACT For Encouraging PROTESTANT-STRANGERS And Others To Inhabit and Plant in the KINGDOM of IRELAND FORASMVCH as the Late Intestine Troubles and cruel Wars have much despoiled and wasted this Your Majesties Kingdome of Ireland whereby the Trade Commerce thereof is much decoyed and lessened for want as well of Merchants Traders and Dealers of Ability to exercize a Traffic as of skilful Artificers Artizens and Workman for the making and working all Sorts of Manufactures there And whereas for this cause many of the Materials and Commodities of the growth of this Kingdom as Wool Flax Hemp Wollen and Linen Yarn Iron and sundry others the the like are usually transported and carried into Forraign Parts there to be wrought and manuf●ctured into sundry Commodities whereby the ●eople of this Your Maiesties Kingdom are de●ived of the benefit which might arise by working those materials themselves and for want of Imployment are necessitated to live idly and poorly and so apt to run into Thefts Robberies Rebellions and all other sorts of Mischiefs and if any of the Materials and Commodities aforesaid do happen to be wrought in this Kingdom either through Vnskilfulness or other indirect practice of the Workmen they are usually so wrought as they are most commonly unfit for wearing at Home or Merchandizing abroad and therefore much Coyn and ready Money is carried out and transported for buying and purchasing of Forraign Manufactures to the great exhausting and diminishing the Treasure of this Kingdom And whereas many Strangers and other● from the consideration of Your Maiesties mos● Princely Wisdom Clemency and Goodness and of the plentifulness of all sorts of useful and pro fitable Commodities with which this Your Majesties Kingdom abounds in a very great measure might be induced and inclined to transport Themselves and Families to the filling and replenishing of this Kingdom as well with people as Trade if such Strangers might be made Partakers of the Advantages Liberties and Priviledges which this Kingdom hath formerly and doth still enjoy under the most Gracious and Benign Government of Your Majesty and Your most Royal Predecessors and have the free Exercize of their Trades Mysteries Crafts and Sciences of buying selling working and manufacturing the said Materials without Interruption and Disturbance May it therefore please Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Enacted And Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority thereof That all and every person and persons born out of Your Majesties Dominions of the Protestant Religion and all Merchants Traders and Dealers in any Goods Wares or Merchandizes Artizans Artificers or others working or manufacturing any Goods or Commodities or any Maririners or Seamen who are at present inhabiting within any part of this Kingdom and all others who shall at any time hereafter within the term of seven Years from the end of this present Parliament transport his or their Stocks and Families into any part of this Kingdom with intention that Themselves and Children after them will inhabit reside and abide in some part thereof shall after his or their arrival with his or their Stock Substance and Family or Families within this kingdom and after his or their taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacie to and of Our Sovereign Lord the King before the Lord Chancellour or the Lords Presidents or Vice-Presidents of the Province of Munster or Connaught respectively for the time being or any Iudge in his Circuit who are hereby authorized to administer the said Oaths unto any such person or persons as aforesaid and thereupon to certifie his or their doing thereof unto His Majesties High Court of Chancery there to remain on Record deemed adjugded and reputed Your Majesties liege free and natural Subject or Subjects of this Your Majesties Kingdom and be adjudged reputed and taken in every respect condition and degree to all Intents Constructions and Purposes Your Majesties natural and liege Subjects of this Kingdom as if they and every of them had been or were born within this Kingdom of Ireland and that they and every of them their Wives and Children in all things and by all lawful ways and means whatsoever shall and may use have and enjoy the full grace and benefit of all and every the Laws Preheminences Iurisdictions and Customs of this Kingdome to all Intents Constructions and Purposes in the Law or otherwise whatsoever in the same manner and form as any natural born Subject hath may or can have use and enjoy and that they and every of them shall answer and shall be answered unto and shall and may implead or be impleaded in whatsoever Court or Courts of Iustice or otherwhere within this Your Majesties Kingdom as the natural born free liege Subjects of this Kingdom of Ireland And that they and every of them by force of this present Act shall have full Licence Freedom Liberty Power and Authority as well to have occupy pos●ess and enjoy retain and keep as to ask demand challenge and have and also to acquire buy and purchase or receive by gift or otherwise by any lawful ways or means to the use of them and of all and every or any of them their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns of all and every or of any of them for ever all any and whatsoever Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Services Offices Hereditaments and other Possessions Goods real and personal whatsoever as well by any of their Ancestors and Predecessors acquired and purchased or to them or any of them made granted enfeoffed conveyed or assured or which at any times hereafter shall and may be made granted enfeoffed given conveyed or assured or shall come as Heir or Heirs to their or any of their Ancestors lineally or collaterally by reason of any Descent Remainder Reversion Right or any other Title Gift or Conveyance whatsoever or which after the first day of this present Parliament shall descend remain revert accrew come or grow unto Your said Subjects or any of them and in the same to inherit succeed and come by Right of Inheritance or otherwise howsoever without the Let and Impediment of Your most Excellent Majesty Your Heirs and Successors any Law Custom Statute Act Provision Ordinance Restraint or Inhibition to the contrary before this time made Enacted Ordained and Provided or ony other Matter Cause or thing whatsoever notwithstanding And also to prosecute pursue maintain avow justifie and defend all and all manner of Actions Suites and Causes and all other lawful things whatsoever to do as lawfully frankly fully liberally surely and