Service shall may or ought to receive any Clause Article Matter or Thing whatsoever in this present Act mentioned or contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That any Clause Sentence Matter or Thing in this Act or in any other Act or Acts passed or made or to be passed or made in this present Parliament contained mentioned or expressed shall not or may attaint or convict or be otherwise prejudicial unto Dudly Bagnel Esq son and Heir of Walter Bagnel late of Dunlickny in the County of Catherlogh Esq deceased nor to Henry Bagnel Brother of the said Dudly nor to Catherin Corbet alias Bagnel sister of the said Dudly nor to the Heirs or Issues lawfully begotten of the said Walter Bagnel Dudly Bagnel Henry Bagnel or Catherin Corbet alias Bagnel nor of any or either of them and that the said Dudly Bagnel Henry Bagnel and Catherin Corbet alias Bagnel and every of them and the Heirs and Assigns of every of them respectively shall have hold and enjoy their respective Estates and Interests in Law or Equity in all and every the Castles Lordships Mannors Segniories Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders and Hereditaments with their and every of their apportenances which did of right belong or appertain unto the said Walter Bagnel or whereof he was seized as of his Estate of Inheritance in Vse Possession or Remainder on the Three and Twentieth day of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand six hundred Forty one or at any time after any Act or Acts Ordinance or Ordinances Matter or Matters Thing or Things done or to be done in this present Parliament or otherwise at any time since the Three and Twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred Forty one to the Damage Prejudice or Harm of the said Walter Bagnel his Heirs or Assigns to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted That neither this present Act nor nor any thing therein contained do any ways prejudice or tend in any manner to alter any Right Title Interest Mortgage or Lease that Sir John Temple Master of the Rolls in this Kingdom or his late Mother the Lady Temple had in the year One thousand six hundred and forty to any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments belonging to Walter Bagnel Esq late Father of the said Dudly Bagnel lying or being within the County of Catherlogh Saving nevertheless to all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their Heirs Executors Successors and Assigns such Right and Title either in Law or Equity and such benefit and advantage of redemption which they or any of them could or might have had either in Law or Equity as fully and amply as if the Proviso herein last before mentioned had never been had nor made any thing in the said Proviso to the contrary hereof notwithstanding Provided also That so much of the Forfeited Lands in the Towns and Lands of Lispopel Nutstown Wegestown and Cordenstown with their and every of their apurtenances situate in the Barony of Balrothery in the County of Dublin containing according to the Down Survey One thousand two hundred forty nine Acres shall be held possessed and enjoyed by George Rawden Esq his Heirs and Assigns for ever as shall amount unto a full and just satisfaction of the publick Debts due to him by Debentures for Provisions and money disbursed for the use of the Army in Ireland according to His Majesties Gracious Declaration and Instructions which principal Debt with the Interest thereof cast up according to the Rate of six pound per cent amounteth unto Two thousand three hundred twenty four pounds Ten shillings Four pence And that in case the said Lands or so much thereof as will amount unto a full satisfaction of the said sum be not forfeited or if it shall happen that so much thereof shall be restored as that the residue shall not be sufficient to satisfie him the said George Rawden that then he be satisfied and reprized for the same by some other forfeited Lands in the County of Dublin Provided that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend nor be construed to extend to the prejudice of any Protestant or Protestants or Innocent Papists their Innocent Executors or Administrators holding Tythes by Lease or Leases derived from the Crown for or by reason or occasion of any advantage or Forfeiture which may be taken for the Non-payment of the Rents reserved to the Crown by such Leases for the time past but that every such Protestant and Protestants and Innocent Papists their and every of their Executors and Administrators holding any of the said Tythes shall and may have hold and enjoy the said respective Tythes during the respective Terms of years thereof yet unexpired without any advantage to be taken against them or any of them for non-payment of the said Rents for the time past as if this Act had never been made Provided That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall not extend or be expounded to extend to the prejudice of Sir Robert Meredith Knight nor his Son Sir William Meredith Baronet nor their Heirs or Assigns nor any persons possessed or interested in their behalfs in the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments of Green Hills heretofore called Bishops Court near the Lissie in the County of Kildare nor any part member or parcel thereof And Be it further Enacted That all the forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments set out assigned or delivered unto Sir William Petty Knight by the name of Doctor William Petty and by him possessed on the seventh day of May One Thousand Six Hundred Fifty Nine be settled upon and confirmed unto him his Heirs and Assgnes for ever any thing in this Act or in his Majesties Instructions of the Nineteenth of February One thousand six hundred and sixty to the contrary notwithstanding the same to be held according to such Tenures Rules Rents Services under such Limitations and Directions for Reprizal and otherwise as in His Majesties Declaration of the Thirtieth of November One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty set down and expressed concerning such as were then of his Army in Ireland And whereas his Sacred Majesty having under his serious consideration the Present Settlement of this Kingdom is very desirous to confirm and inlarge the designed Bounty and Goodness of his late Royal Father of ever blessed Memory by adding to the Revenue of the Church of this Kingdome Be it therefore Enacted and Ordained by the King Our Sovereign Lord with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That all and every the Manors Lands Tenements and Rents whereof any Arch-Bishop Bishop Dean Dean and Chapter or any other Ecclesiastical person or persons whatsoever in his or their politick Capacity or any of them were actually seized or by themselves or their Tenants possessed in the year of
AN ACT For the better Execution of His MAJESTIES GRACIOVS DECLARATION For The SETTLEMENT Of His Kingdome of IRELAND AND Satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other His Majesties Subjects there C R HONI â—OIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT DVBLIN Printed by John Crook Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1662. 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 WHEREAS an unnatural Insurrection did break forth against your Majesties Royal Father of ever blessed Memory his Crown and Dignity in this Your Majesties Kingdome of Ireland upon the 23. of October in the year of our Lord God 1641. and manifest it self by the murther and destructions of many thousands of your said Majesties good and loyal Subjects which afterwards universally spreading and diffusing it self over the whole Kingdome settled into and became a formed and almost National Rebellion of the Irish Papists against Your Royal Father of blessed Memory his Crown and Dignity to the destruction of the English and Protestants inhabiting in Ireland the which Irish Papists being represented in a General assembly chosen by themselves and acting by a Council called by them The Supream Council of the Confederate Roman Catholicks of Ireland did first assume usurp and exercise the power of Life and Death make Peace and War levy and coyn Money and many other Acts of Soveraign Authority treating with forreign Princes and Potentates for their Government and Protection and afterwards acted under a forreign Authority by all the said ways disowning and rejecting your Royal Father and your Majesties undoubted Right to this Kingdom even whilest they treacherously used his and your Majesties Names in the outward forms of their Proceedings withall impiously seeming by words and shows to swear even unto that which by the whole series of their deeds they denied and moreover presuming to pretend his late Majesties most Sacred Authority even for their worst actions all which they did amongst other their evil designs to frighten his good Protestant Subjects from their loyalty to blast his Majesties Honor and to widen the breach between his said Majesty and his seduced Subjects in England The which ends by their said wicked stratagems they did too succesfully and mischievously effect And whereas Almighty God hath given your Majesty by and through your said English and Protestant Subjects absolute Victory and Conquest over the said Irish Popish Rebels and enemies so as they their Lives Liberties and Estates are now wholly at your Majesties disposition by the Laws of this Kingdom And whereas several of your Majesties Subjects by whom as instruments the said Rebels were totally subdued did in the time of your Majesties absence beyond the Seas for supply of the then pressing necessities and to prevent the further desolation of this your Majesties Kingdom enquire into the Authors Contrivers and Abettors of the said Rebellion and War and after much deliberation among themselves and advice from others had thereupon did dispossess such of the said Popish Irish Rebels of their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as they found guilty of and to have been engaged in the said Rebellion or War aforementioned and did withall distribute and set out the said Lands to be possessed by sundry persons their Agents and Tenants who by advancing of their Moneys and Goods or by hazarding of their Lives had contributed unto the said Conquest or who had been otherwise useful as having served or suffered in the suppression of the said Rebellion and War and whereas several of your Majesties Protestant Subjects as soon as with much difficulty and hazard they had gotten the power of this Kingdom into their hands did according to their bounden duty with all humility and chearfulness invite your Majesty into this your Kingdom with a faithful engagement to serve your Majesty with their Lives and Estates and afterwards when your Sacred Majesty their Soveraign Lord and King by your Gracious Letters from Breda bearing date the 4 14 day of April in the Twelfth Year of your Majesties Reign intimated your Royal Intentions of returning to the exercise of your Regal Authority they with others of your Majesties Protestant Subjects did readily and dutifully yield up themselves and the said subdued people with this your Kingdom of Ireland unto your Majesties absolute obedience and disposition who thereupon after many Moneths Consideration and the publick hearing of all parties concerned in and pretending to Lands and Estates in this your Majesties Kingdom as also after the receiving and weighing of expedient upon expedient in order to an universal accommodation and final settlement did at length in your Princely Wisdom Grace and Iustice set forth a Declaration bearing date the 30. day of November in the Twelfth year of your Majesties Reign with several Explanations and Instructions relating thereunto expressing your Royal pleasure concerning the People and Territories of this your Majesties said Kingdom Declaring it likewise to be your pleasure That all the particulars in the said Declaration mentioned should be effectually recommended unto your Majesties chief Governor or Governors Privy Council and Parliament in this Kingdom for the establishing the same by Law Now We the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled having well weighed and considered the nature of the Rebellion and War above mentioned together with the Causes thereof and Motives thereunto and with what Industry and Malice the Regal Authority the Brittish Interest and Protestant Religion were pursued and endeavoured to be eradicated and being withal very sensible of the vast expense of Blood and Treasure and of the unspeakable sufferings which the Brittish and Protestants as well several times heretofore as of late have undergone to reduce this your Majesties Kingdom to a perfect obedience unto the Crown of England do most thankfully acknowledge accept and admire your Sacred Majesties Wisdom Grace and Iustice towards all Interests in that your Majesties said Gracious Declaration and Instructions expressed And forasmuch as the Rapines Depredations and Massacres committed by the said Irish and Popish Rebels Enemies are not only well known to this present Parliament but are notorious to the whole World notwithstanding the many means and artifices which for many years together have been used to murther such witnesses suppress such evidences and also to vitiate and imbezle such Records and Testimonies as might prove the same against particular persons and lastly for that the said Rebels since their throwing off your Royal Fathers and your Majesties Government are become subdued and conquered enemies and have justly forfeited all their Rights Titles and Estates in this Kingdom It is therefore Enacted and be it Enacted by your most Excellent Majesty with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the
of whose Interests we resolve to be very careful We well remember the Cessation and the Peace which Our Royal Father of blessed Memory had been forced during the late troubles to make with the Irish Subjects of that Our Kingdome and by which he was compelled to give them a full pardon for what they had before done amiss upon their return to their Duty and their promise of giving his Majesty a vigorous assistance and that from that time divers persons of Honour and Quality had not that We know or have heard of swerved from their Allegiance towards him or Vs. We could not forget the Peace that Our self was afterwards necessitated to make with Our said Subjects in the time when they who wickedly Vsurped the Authority in this Kingdome had erected that Odious Court for the taking away of the Life of Our dear Father And then no body can wonder that we were desirous though upon difficult conditions to get such an Vnited power of Our own Subjects as might have been able with Gods blessing to have prevented that infamous and horrible Parricide And therefore We could not but hold Our self obliged to perform what we owe by that Peace to those who had honestly and faithfuly performed what they had promised to Vs though We and they were miserably disappointed of the effect of those promises by an unhappy part of them which foolishly forfeited all the Grace which they might have expected from Vs. And in the last place We did and must alwayes remember the great affection a considerable part of that Nation exprest to Vs during the time of Our being beyond the Seas when with all cheerfulnes and obedience they received submitted to Our Orders and betook themselves to that service which We directed as most convenient and behoofeful at that time to Vs though attended with inconveniencie enough to themselves Which demeanour of theirs cannot but be thought very worthy of Our Protection Iustice and Favour And yet all these important considerations and obligations appeared so many contradictions to the present Interest of Our good Subjects in that Our Kingdome who had at this time likewise merited very much from Vs and for whose security and advantage We held Our self obliged to provide as well as for their Indempnity and so the good Settlement of that Our Kingdome appeared much the more difficult unto Vs and even lessened and abated much of that joy of heart We found Our self possessed with for the great blessings We enjoy in the peace and quiet of this our Kingdome of England But We raised Our spirits again with the comfortable assurance that God who had wrought so much for Vs in England would graciously bring his Work to the same perfection in Ireland not suffer Our good Subjects to weep in the one Kingdome whilest they rejoyced in the other And Our satisfaction was much increased when upon conference with several of Our good Subjects of that Nation of Quality and Interest who were concerned both as Souldiers and Adventurers We found that they had a due sense of the Obligations which say upon Our Honour and Iustice and were very willing that We should comply with both and that the Foundations of the Peace and Security of that Kingdom should be raised upon Our discharge of those Obligations and after they had spent much time amongst others who were as much or more concerned than themselves they freely consented to such conclusions as to Our understanding may reasonably take with all just Interests And We cannot doubt but that all who have merited from Vs will confess that We have been so far from being failing to them that We have as well provided for them as after so great Troubles and Confusions and after such blessed Circumstances of Our Restauratâ—on they could reasonably expect and that they will patiently wait for further instances of Our Favour and Kindness towards them from the Peace Vnity and Settlement of that Kingdome and from their contributing to it by a full submission to these Our determinations herein and hereafter more particularly expressed and declared And therefore in the first place in Order to a Settlement of that Interest claimed by the Adventurers although the present Estates and Possessions they enjoy if they were examined by the strict Letter of the Law would prove very defective and invalid as being no wayes pursuant to those Acts of Parliament upon which they pretend to be founded but rather seem to be a structure upon their subsequent assent both to different Mediums and Ends than the observance of those Yet We being alwayes more ready to consult where the prejudice can only reflect upon Our self with Our natural inclinations to mercy We praise God We can say so than with the positive Reason of Law We do hereby declare That all the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of which all or any of the Adventurers were possessed the Seventh day of May One thousand Six hundred Fifty nine having been allotted or set out to them or enjoyed by them as Adventurers in satisfaction of and for their Adventures shall be confirmed and made good to them their Heirs and Assigns for ever with allowance or correction of the Admeasurement according to the Tenor Directions of the respective Acts of Parliament of XVII and XVIII Caroli as to English or Plantation Measure except as is hereafter excepted and that the deficient Adventurer either in part or in whole shall be satisfied out of the Moiety of the Counties of Limrick Tipperary and Waterford in the Province of Munster the Kings County the Queens County and the Counties of East-Meath and West-Meath in the Province of Leinster and the Counties of Down Antrim and Armagh in the Province of Ulster not yet set out to the said Adventurers as also the Forfeited Lands in the County of Lowth except the Barony of Atherdee in the said County and said Province of Leinster such Adventurers claiming and making their difficiencies appear before the First day of May next and in case the said Lands so for supply of deficiencies set forth shall not be sufficient We will appoint some other convenient Forfeited Lands for their satisfaction so that all their deficiencies shall speedily be supplied And whereas the Officers and Souldiers now of Our Army in Ireland and that have been formerly of the Army in Ireland have had also Lands set out to them respectively in satisfrction of their arrears of Pay for their Service in that Our Kingdome and are accordingly possest of the same by former pretended Orders and Powers then in being And although the incompetency of such Powers may justly render such Possessions and Estates liable to question to Our very great advantage if We should measure such advantage rather by the increase of Our Revenue then by the free and unbounded influence of Our Mercy and Favour Yet in regard of Our Letter to General Monk from Breda in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign and of Our several
is hereby further Enacted and Declared That it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every the Adventurers upon the said Ordinances their Heirs and Assignes to receive so much of the Over-plus of those Lands which have been allotted to them in Satisfaction of their said Adventures and shall be sufficient to satisfie and make good any Deficiencies of other Adventures any Right of Recompence or Satisfaction for Incumbrances intended to be satisfied out of the County of Kildare or any Arrears of pay before the year One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine due by Debentures for the aforesaid British Army to the said Adventurers their Heirs or Assigns or any of them or purchased by them or any of them and to be satisfied according to the same Rules and Rates with the other Arrears before One Thousand Six Hundred Forty Nine And be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That if it shall happen that any Adventurer or the Heir or Assignee of any Adventurer shall be possessed of any Lands by Concealment false Admeasurement or by pretence of the Doubling Ordinances over and above what will satisfie the principal moneys advanced upon the said Ordinances according to Irish measure as aforesaid and shall not have any Deficiencies Incumbrances or Arrears to place thereupon or be otherwise intituled to retain the same That then and in such case the Lands to be cut off or taken away from such person or persons shall as near may be be taken away and cut off in such Parts and Proportions as lie most contiguous and so as the person or persons to be removed from such Over-plus as aforesaid may still retain and keep the benefit of his and their respective Improvements And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners to be appointed by his Majesty for the Execution of the Declaration and Instructions and this present Act to proceed in the Execution of their Commission from time to time against all and every person and persons now having or in this or in any other Parliament hereafter to be held claiming to have any Priviledge and against all and every the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the premisses whatsoever hereby vested in his Majesty his Heirs and Successors or charged or chargeable with any yearly Rent or other sums or payments whatsoever to be issuing out of the same and all Rules Orders Iudgements and Decrees of the said Commissioners made in pursuance of and according to the Declaration and Instructions and this present Act and all other Process and Proceedings whatsoever for the better leavying of any Rents or sums of money charged or chargeable as aforesaid shall be obeyed and executed forthwith as fully and amply against all and every person or persons and all and every their Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels as the same ought to have been if no Parliament had been then sitting and all Officers and Ministers of Iustice and all other persons whatsoever any way aiding and assisting in the Execution thereof shall be and are hereby indemnified and saved harmless any priviledge of Parliament or other immunity or exemption to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted and Ordained That the several Grants and Letters Patents made unto Sir Maurice Eustace Knight Lord Chancellor of Ireland Edward Vernon Esq Michael Lord Bishop of Cork and Sir George Lane and all and singular other the Letters Patents whereby any of the premisses hereby vested have been given or granted by his Majesty unto any other person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate under the Great Seal of England or under the Great Seal of Ireland before the Thirtieth day of November One thousand six hundred and sixty or since the 30. day of November One thousand six hundred sixty by vertue of any Bills Warrants or other Commands under his Majesties Signet or Sign Manual dated before the said Thirtieth day of November One thousand six hundred and sixty shall be and are hereby ratified and confirmed and shall be deemed taken to be good valid and effectual in the Law according to the tenor and purport thereof against the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and against all persons Bodies Politick and Corporate whose rights are not saved by this Act any thing in this Act contained to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Nevertheless it is hereby Enacted and Declared That all and singular the Lands and Tenements given and granted or mentioned to be given and granted in and by the several Letters Patents herein before confirmed shall be and remain and continue subject to such Rents and Payments and shall be held by such tenures and services as any other lands intended to be confirmed by his Majesties gracious Declaration or Instructions or by this present Act ought to yield pay render or perform And in case any of the aforesaid Grants or Demises be made at a less Rent than such a proportion of Acres ought to pay according to this direction then a Survey being first taken an addition is to be made to the reserved Rent of so much as will equal it therewith and make it agreable to this Rule without any further prejudice to the said Grants or Demises Saving to all and every person and persons Bodies politick and Corporate their Heirs Executors Successors and Assigns other than to the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and other then to such person or persons Bodies politick and Corporate who by the Qualifications in this Act expressed shall not be adjudged innocent and other then to such person or persons who shall or may claim to the use of or in trust for them or any of them and other then to John Blackwell his Heirs and Assigns and those claiming by from or under him them or any of them any Estate or Interest of in or to the Manor Town or Island of Clantraffe or any part thereof All such Estate Right Title and Interest of in or to the several Lands and Tenements in and by the said Letters Patents respectively granted or mentioned to be granted as they or any of them have or ought to have the same as fully and amply to all Intents and Purposes as if this Act had never been had nor made And Be it further Enacted That all Letters Patents whatsoever whereby any of the premisses hereby vested have been given or granted under the Great Seals of England or Ireland respectively since the Thirtieth of November One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty by vertue of any Bills Warrants or other Commands under his Majesties Signet or Sign Manual Dated since the said Thirtieth day of November One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty shall be and are hereby Ratified and Confirmed and shall be held and enjoyed in like manner and under the like Rents and Payments Tenures and Services and subject to the like Saving of Rights
and Interests as any other Letters Patents herein before mentioned to be Confirmed are subject unto Provided nevertheless That if his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or any of them shall think it fit or expedient for the better promoting of the Ends of the Declaration and Instructions and this present Act to revoke determine or make void all or any the said Letters Patents granted since the said Thirtieth day of November by vertue of any Warrants or Commands under his Majesties Signet or Sign Manual dated likewise since the said Thirtieth of November shall under the Great Seal of England or Ireland signifie or declare his or their Royal Will and Pleasure to revoke determine or make void them or any of them that then and immediately from and after such signification or Declaration of his or their Royal Will and Pleasure such and so many of the said Letters Patents as shall be therein Declared to be void shall cease and determine and become utterly void and of none effect and all and singular the Lands and Tenements in the said Letters Patents mentioned shall be again vested in his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for and to the same intent and purpose as the other lands hereby vested are vested and setled any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and it is hereby further Declared and Enacted That where any Lands or Tenements shall be disposed of or any person or persons shall happen to be restored unto his or their Lands or Tenements by vertue of this present Act or by vertue of any Order Sentence or Decree made by the Commissioners for the execution thereof that then and in such case all and every the person and persons formerly seized or possessed of any the Lands or Tenements so as aforesaid restored or disposed of shall be and are hereby discharged and indemnified of and from all Suits Actions Prosecutions and Demands whatsoever touching or concerning the mean Rents Issues and Profits of the same this Act or any other Law Matter or Thing to the contrary notwithstanding Saving nevertheless unto all innocent persons their Heirs Executors and Assigns the Right and Title to the mean profits of their respective Lands and Tenements which have been received since the time of their several and respective Claims put in before the Commissioners heretofore appointed Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That the Forfeited Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the Town and County of Galway and elsewhere within the Province of Connaught now or late in the possession of Sir Thomas Clarges Knight or his Assigns shall remain and continue in his Majesty his Heirs and Successors to be disposed of as he or they shall think fit any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it futher Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Adventurers their Heirs and Assigns respectively and all and every other person or persons having or claiming to have any Lands or Tenements for and towards satisfaction of moneyes adventured for Lands in Ireland or having or claiming to have as an Original Adventurer or by from or under any Adventurer his Heirs or Assigns any benefit of Settlement Confirmation or Reprizal or any other advantage whatsoever by vertue of this present Act shall pay or cause to be paid unto the Kings Majesty One full years value of the profits arising out of the lands possessed enjoyed or to be possessed or enjoyed as aforesaid to be paid at two several Payments within the space of two years by even equal payments the first payment thereof to be upon the first day of November which shall be in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two and the second day of payment to be upon the First day of November which shall be in the year of Our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty three And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Souldiers their Heirs and Assigns respectively and all every other person or persons having or claiming to have any Lands or Tenements in Ireland for and towards satisfaction of any Arrears or Debentures or having or claiming to have as a Souldier or by from or under any Souldier his Heirs or Assigns any benefit of Settlement Confirmation or Reprizal or any other advantage whatsoever by vertue of this present Act shall pay or cause to be paid unto the Kings Majesty one full half years value of the profits arising out of the Lands possessed or enjoyed or to be possessed and enjoyed as aforesaid to be paid at one intire payment upon the first day of November which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two And if it shall happen that any Adventurer or Souldier or any other person claiming by from or under them or any of them shall make default of payment of all or any part of the said years value or half years value respectively herein before mentioned to be paid by the space of Twenty dayes after any of the said respective dayes or times wherein the same ought to be paid that then and immediately from and after such default made all and every the benefit and advantage which by vertue of this present Act doth or may accrue unto the person so making default his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall cease determine and be utterly void and of no effect and that it shall and may be lawful to proceed against such person and persons his Heirs Executors and Assigns and against his and their Lands and Tenements whereof he or they stand possessed as fully and amply as if he or they had not been comprized within this present Act any thing in this Act herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And to the end a due care may be had for the assessing and ascertaining the several and respective sums which ought to be paid by the Adventurers and Souldiers and those who claim by from or under them or any of them and likewise for the safe and orderly receipt collection thereof Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for his Majesty at any time hereafter according to His good pleasure to issue out such other Commission and Commissions to be directed to such other persons not being any of the Commissioners for execution of the Declaration and Instructions and this present Act as his Majesty shall think fit which said other Commissioners so as aforesaid to be appointed or so many of them as in the said Commission or Commissions shall be directed shall have Power and Authority by vertue of this Act to impannel Iuries and examine Witnesses to administer Oathes to the parties concerned to cause the Lands to be viewed and surveyed and by alâ— or any of these wayes or by any other lawful way or means whatsoever to inquire into and inform themselves
William Pen shall be forthwith reprized to the full yearly value worth and purchase of the Lands by him heretofore possest and according to the value of the said Lands in the Barony of Muskry whereof he hath been dispossest in order to the Restitution of the Earl of Clancarty at the time of his Surrender and his Improvements of the same and for the Arrears of Rents quitted to the said Earl as also for the Rent that would or might become due until the said Sir William Pen shall be possest of a full Reprize as aforesaid out of such forfeited Lands and Possessions as he now holdeth as Tenant to His Majesty in the said County of Corke so far as the same will extend thereunto and in case of Defect or Restitution of any of the said Lands the same to be made up out of other forfeited Lands of a good and clear Title and unincumbred with the first that shall be reprized And if the Title of any of the Lands by which he shall be so reprized shall be defective or that the said Lands be liable to Incumbrances that forthwith upon Discovery of the same his Reprize shall be made up fully by other forfeited Lands of a clear Title and free from Incumbrances and so from time to time till the said Reprize be compleated as aforesaid And whereas there was formerly intended to be setled on the Orphans of Colonel Owen O Connely particularly mentioned in the Declaration Lands to the value of Two Hundred Pounds per annum as a Recompence for the Fathers Services performed in the Discovery of the Rebellion which begun the Three and Twentieth of October One Thousand Six Hundred Forty One Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners to be appointed for the Execution of this Act shall and are hereby impowered to set out for the use of Arthur and Martha O Connely Orphans of the said Owen O Connely their Heirs and Assigns out of the Forfeited Lands of Murragh Leestown Westperstown Bernonstown Artaine Bremore alias New Haven in the Baronies of Balruddery and Conlocke or elsewhere in the County of Dublin an Estate of the value of Two Hundred Pounds per annum which Estate of Two Hundred Pounds per annum so to be set out for their use shall be chosen out of such of the aforesaid Lands as are Forfeited for the best conveniency of the Orphans under the like Rents and Tenures and with the like Benefit of Reprizals in case of Restitution Removal or Incumbrance as Adventurers are to have by virtue of this present Act Which Lands so to be set out as aforesaid are to be setled upon the said Orphans their Heirs and Assigns in such manner and proportions and according to such Rates and Values as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being shall direct and appoint Provided always That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall be construed or extend to prejudice Anne Marchioness Dowager of Clanrickard her Right unto any the Lands or Hereditaments setled upon her for her Ioynture but that the said Marchioness of Clanrickard her Tenants and Assigns shall forthwith enter into possess and enjoy the said Lands and Hereditaments according to her Title unto the same in the same manner and form as she and they might have done if this Act had not been had nor made this Act or any thing therein contained notwithstanding Provided always That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall be construed to prejudice the Grant made by his Majesties late Father of ever Glorious Memory unto George Lane Esq in Trust for Sir George Hamilton of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof John Draycot of Mornonstown in the County of Meath Esq attainted of High Treason and since deceased was seized or some other person or persons in trust for him or to his use in the Year One Thousand Six Hundred Forty One but that the same shall be of such and no other effect as if this Act had not been made Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Captain William Hamilton of Lough Currine in the County of Tyrone his Heirs and Assigns be forthwith satisfied for all such Arrears as upon stating thereof shall appear to rest due unto him either in his own Right or as Heir Executor Administrator or Assigne to others for his or their respective Services in the War of Ireland Out of the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments lately belonging or reputed to belong unto Sir Phelim O Neile of Kinard Knight lying and being in the Barony of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone according to the Rates of Ten Years purchase free Rent over and above all Incumbrances and Reprizes whatsoever subject nevertheless to the like Rents Payments Tenures and Services as either the Lands of Officers who served before June One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty Nine are subject unto within that Province And if in case the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments belonging unto the said Phelim O Neile at the Rate aforesaid shall not amount to a full Satisfaction of the said Arrear or Arrears then the remaining part of such Arrear or Arrears shall be satisfied and set forth to him the said William Hamilton his Heirs or Assigns out of the Forfeited Lands Tenements and Hereditaments lying and being in the Baronies of Ardagh and Grannard in the County of Longford at the like rate and in like manner as aforesaid any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes That such forfeited and unrestorable lands within and contiguous to the Mile-Line in the County of Clare that were set out unto Sir Richard Ingoldsby Kt. of the Bath and Sir Henry Ingoldsby Baronet or either of them in satisfaction of one thousand five hundred and fifteen pounds eleven shillings and two pence with their now dwelling Houses and Gardens in Limrick of which they or either of them were possessed by themselves or Tenants the Seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine in consideration of their great Expence by improvement on the premisses be hereby vested setled and assured in and upon them their Heirs and Assigns for ever they or either of them delivering up to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland who is hereby impowered to receive the same so many Debentures for Pay due to Officers before One thousand six hundred forty nine as at the rate of Twelve shillings Six pence in the Pound shall amount unto the full sum of Two thousand Pounds in lieu of the said One thousand five hundred and fifteen pounds the same to be held and enjoyed by such Tenures Rents and Services as other Lands and Houses set out for Services in the year One thousand six hundred forty and nine are or shall be held by this present Act. And in case they shall be dispossessed of any of the said Houses or Lands by virtue of the Declaration
Inquisition in the time of his Royal Father for vesting Land in the Province of Connaught or any other matter or thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Maurice Keating Esq Son and Heir of Edmond Keating of Norraughmore in the County of Kildare Esq shall and may have hold and enjoy to him and his heirs all and every the Manors Towns Villages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the Kings County purchased by or in trust for his said Father before the three and twentieth day of October One thousand Six hundred Forty one from John Carrol Esq if the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Council thereupon hearing the parties concerned shall think fit to adjudge the same accordingly any thing in this Act or in any other Act contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Provided always and be it further Enacted That Theobald Lord Viscount Taaff Earl of Carlingford shall have hold possess and enjoy to him and his Heirs all those the Lands Manors Tenements and Hereditaments in the County of Lowth whereof the said Theobald upon the first day of August in the year One thousand six hundred sixty one was possessed or were set out assigned or granted to the said Theobald by way of Custodium or otherwise in Order to a further Settlement thereof to and on the said Theobald and his heirs for and in lieu of the Estate of Coloony in the County of Sligo and also that the said Theobald shall have and enjoy to him and his heirs the Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof Christopher Taaff of Bragganstown and Theophilus Taaff of Cookestown or either of them or any of their Ancestors or any other person or persons to their use or in trust for them or any of them stood seized or possessed upon the two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one all and singular which premisses the said Theobald Lord Viscount Taaff Earl of Carlingford shall hold to him and his heirs at and under the same or like Tenures Rents and Services as the Officers and Souldiers by this Act are to hold any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Your Majesty by your Letters Patents under Your Great Seal of England bearing date the eight day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two and in the Fourteenth year of Your Majesties Reign was graciously pleased to grant to Richard Earl of Clanrickard and his Heirs the Honours Castles Lordships Seigniories Abbeys Abbey-lands and Impropriate Tythes Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments to the uses and in such manner as is therein mentioned Provided therefore That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to or be construed to extend to vest in Your Majesty Your Heirs or Successors any Honours Castles Manors Lordships Seigniories Abbeys Abbey-Lands Impropriate Tythes or other Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whatsoever which are granted or intended or mentioned to be granted by the said Letters Patents any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the Honours Castles Manors Lordships Seigniories Abbeys Abbey-Lands Impropriate Tythes Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments whatsoever which are granted or intended or mentioned to be granted in or by the said Letters Patents shall be immediately without any previous Reprizal or other Incumbrance whatsoever vested setled and established and are hereby vested setled established in the said Richard Earl of Clanrickard his heirs to and for the uses intents purposes in such manner as is expressed set forth in by the said letters Patents to no other use intent or purpose or in any other manner whatsoever that the said Richard Earl of Clanrickard and his Heirs shall and may have hold occupy and enjoy the same to the Vses Intents and Purposes and by and under the Rents and Services in and by the said Letters Patents mentioned and reserved and by no other Rents or Services any thing in this Act or any other Act Law Statute Ordinance Order Attainder Record Provision Sequestration Distribution Allotment Iudgement Conviction or any cause matter or thing had made transacted or done to the contrary notwithstanding Saving to all manner of persons Bodies Politick and Corporate other then Your Majesty your Heirs and Successors and such as shall or may claim from by or under Your Majesty and other then such whose Estate would have vested or been in Your Majesty by the general scope words or intent of this Act if the above-Proviso were not had made inserted or mentioned in this Act and other then such who had held or were possessed of any of the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments by the said Letters Patents granted by or under any defeazable Right Title or Estate and other then such as shall or may pretend or claim any Right or Title thereunto in prejudice of any the Vses limited in and by the said Letters Patents by descent or by virtue of any Estate or Remainder in Tail from any the late Earls of Clanrickard all and every the Right Title Estate and Interest Nevertheless it is hereby declared and enacted That such persons their Heirs and Assigns to whom any of the lands belonging to the said Earl of Clanrickard have been set out and who are by this Act reprizable for the same be forthwith reprized out of the first lands that shall come unto his Majesty in the Province of Connaught and County of Clare either by restoring of any persons to their Estates who were formerly Transplanted or otherwise any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdome for the time being by and with the consent of the Privy-Council shall have full power and Authority to erect another College to be of the Vniversity of Dublin to be called by the Name of The Kings College out of all and every the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments vested by this Act in his Majesty and which shall be setled or restored by vertue thereof to raise a yearly allowance for ever not exceeding Two thousand Pounds per annum by an equal charge upon every One thousand Acres or lesser quantities proportionably and therewith to endow the said College which said College so as aforesaid to be erected shall be setled regulated and governed by such Laws Statutes Ordinances and Constitutions as his Majesty his Heirs or Successors shall under his or their Great Seal of England or Ireland declare or appoint Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Robert Boyl Esq his Executors Administrators and Assignes shall and may for and during the term of Thirty one years have hold and enjoy all and singular the impropriations
of or belonging to the respective Abbies late dissolved Monasteries Religious Houses Priories or Parishes of Ballytabber in the County of Mayo Knockmoy Kilcreulta Oran alias St. Maries Athenry and Dunmore in the County of Galway and Tyhone in the County of Tipperary or any of them together with all the Impropriate Tythes and Rectories and appurtenances of the said Impropriations Tythes and Rectories or belonging thereunto which belong unto or by this Act are vested in your Majesty to any of the aforesaid Vses according to the tenor and effect of such grant or grants as hath or have been or hereafter shall be past unto him thereof by your Majesties letters Patents in that behalf he or they paying yearly for the same double the Exchequer or Crown Rent reserved thereupon in the year One thousand six hundred forty One Provided alwayes and it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all cases of grants of lands made since the date of his Majesties Declaration and Instructions or in case of Provisoes in this Act which give Reprizals to any person or persons of meer Grace that could not claim Reprizals by virtue of the said Declaration or Instructions and not as Adventurers or Souldiers the person or persons concerned in such grants or provisoes shall not have benefit of Reprizals till after such persons and Interests Reprizable by the said Declaration and Instructions be first reprized And whereas during the passing of this present Act Charles Earl of Mountrah died whereby some Questions have arisen between the Countess Dowager of Mountrath and the Heirs and Younger Children of the said Charles Earl of Mountrah concerning the Settlements and Dispositions of the said Charles Earl of Mountrath and his Intentions to dispose of his new acquired Estate be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the Manors lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all benefits of Reprizals and other the advantages by this Act intended to be given granted or confirmed unto the said Charles Earl of Mountrath shall accrue unto and remain be and continue in his Majesty his Heirs and Successors until such time as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being and the Privy Council there shall upon Examination of the Settlement and the last Will and Testament of the said Charles Earl of Mountrath if any such Will there be and of any other matters or things whereby the Intentions of the said Charles Earl of Mountrath in disposing of his said Estate may appear and according to such dispositions as the said Charles Earl of Mountrath did make in his life time make a final judgement and determination therein and that such judgement and determination and all Grants and Letters Patents that shall be thereupon made shall be as good and as effectual in Law to all intents and purposes as if the same had been particularly mentioned in this present Act. Provided alwayes That if such iudgment and determination shall not be made within Two Moneths after the sitting of the Commissioners for execution of this Act in Ireland that then all and singular the manors lands tenemens and hereditaments and all other the benefits and advantages by this Act intended to be given granted or confirmed unto the said Charles Earl of Mountrath shall go and enure according to the general purport provision and meaning of this Act herein before expressed to such person or persons as by this Act can make best Title thereunto and that in such case the foregoing Clause shall be of no effect and utterly void and that in the mean time the possession of and in the premisses hereby vested in his Majesty shall not be disturbed but be and remain where it now is And that the Arrears of Rent and mean profit of the same shall and may be received by those that are in possession thereof subject to the said final judgement and determination any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments lying in the Baronies of Dunboyne and Rathtooth and County of Meath whereof Henry Cromwel was by himself his Tenants or Assigns possessed the Seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine be setled upon and confirmed unto Sir William Russel of Laughorn Baronet and Doctor Jonathan Goddard their Heirs and Assigns for ever And that the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments lying in the Province of Connaught whereof the said Henry Cromwel was in the like manner possessed on the said Seventh of May be setled upon and confirmed unto John Russel of Chipuham Esq his Heirs and Assigns for ever any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding the same together with all Arrears of Rent to be had and held by and according to such Rents Tenures and Directions for restitutions Incumbrances and Reprizals as by his Majesties Declaration of the Thirtieth of November One thousand six hundred and sixty is expressed concerning such as were then of his Army in Ireland and moreover That Eight hundred and Fifty Pounds be satisfied unto the said John Russel as an Adventurer in such manner as by this Act is appointed in the case of any other Adventurers Provided also and it is Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Heirs of Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Sir Robert Talbot Baronet the Heirs of Sir Valentine Blake Baronet Sir Richard Blake Knight Doctor Gerrald Fennel Geoffry Brown John Brown of the Neal John Walsh Thomas Terril Edmond Dillon John Talbot of Mallahide Francis Coghlan of Kilcolgan in the Kings County Robert Nugent of Cartlanstown Sir John Bourk of Derry Maclaghney Thomas Arthur Esq Doctor in Physick Gerrald Flemming of Castle-Fleming Luke â—ath of Ackarne and Bartholomew Stackpoole Esqs who or their respective Fathers have eminently suffered for their adhering to the Authority of his Majesty or his late Father of blessed memory in this Kingdom against the Nuntio and his party shall be forthwith restored to their former respective Estates Houses Manors Lands Tenements Hereditaments Rents Priviledges and Services by them claimed as respective Inheritors and Proprietors or as Heirs to their respective Fathers and whereof they or any of their said Fathers were dispossessed by the late Vsurped Power and be therein setled and quieted in possession to them and their Heirs respectively as fully freely and beneficially and with the same Advantages Benefits and Assurances to all intents and purposes as the Lord Viscount Nettervil and the Lord Viscount Galmoy and the rest with them in the Declaration herein before-mentioned ought by virtue of the said Declaration and this present Act to be restored to their respective Estates any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always That as to all and every the Clauses and Provisoes herein before-mentioned wherein or whereby the Estates or Interests of any private persons are setled and confirmed and the several and respective Grants thereby made to any person or persons It shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council of Ireland for the time being at any time before the first day of December One thousand six hundred sixty two to suspend the Execution thereof or of any of them till they have examined and informed themselves concerning the same and such of them as they shall finde contrary to or inconsistent with the aforesaid Declaration and Instructions or inconvenient for the general Settlement hereby intended to be allowed in their full latitude they have full power and Authority hereby granted to them to retrench alter or change and by their Direction or Order to the Commissioners for Execution of this Act to disallow such of them as they shall think meet in part or in whole or to order how far and in what manner the same shall be executed or observed Which Direction or Orders of the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council shall be final and are to be obeyed by the said Commissioners whose proceedings thereupon or in pursuance thereof shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as if they had been particularly appointed or directed by this Act any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding FINIS
Our Lord God One Thousand Six hundred Forty One and out of which or any part thereof they or any of them through the fury and violence of the late times have been since dispossessed be forthwith restored setled and delivered into the quiet and peaceable possession of the respective Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters and other Ecclesiastical person and persons and their Successors Saving to all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their Heirs and Successors and the Heirs and Successours of every of them other than such person and persons their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assignes who are not or shall not according to the Qualifications in this present Act be adjudged innocent Papists A liberty to implead sue for and recover by due course of Law any Right Title Claim and Interest which they or any of them lawfully have or of right ought to have in all or any part of the said restored Manors Lands Tenements and Rents any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Lease and Leases set or demised for any certain term of years yet unexpired by any Arch-Bishop Bishop Dean Dean and Chapter or other Ecclesiastical person or persons or their Successors in their politick capacity of any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments so unto them belonging or appertaining and that are by this present Act forfeited or vested in His Majesty that all and every such Land so forfeited and the remainder of the term of years yet to come and unexpired of such Lease or Leases shall be and are hereby given assigned assured and confirmed unto the respective Sees or Bodies Politick to whom the reversion after such Lease or Leases do or shall of right belong except and always reserved out of this Act the remainder of the term of years yet in being upon any such forfeited Lease or Leases of any of the Lands before mentioned or intended which lye within such parts of the Counties of Wickloe Longford Leitrim and Donegal and the of Mile-Line as are by this present Act assigned unto the Officers that served before the Fifth of June One thousand six hundred Forty nine they and their respective Executors Administrators and Assigns paying such Rents and performing such Covenants to the said respective Sees Reversioners as the several Lessees in such respective Leases paid or ought to have paid in the year One thousand six hundred forty one during their respective terms unexpired excepting also all forfeited Leases that exceeded the term of sixty years of any Chauntry Lands or Houses lying within the security of the said Officers who served His late Majesty before the Fifth of June One thousand six hundred Forty nine and were not surrendred nor sentenced to be surrendred to the Church in or before the years One thousand six hundred Forty or One thousand six hundred Forty one the remainder of which term unexpired is to be esteemed as part of the security of the said Officers they paying and performing during the respective terms yet unexpired all such Rents and Duties unto the respective Sees or Churches from which those Leases were held as were paid or performed or ought to be paid and performed in the year One thousand six hundred Forty one or Two Shillings in the Pound at the Improved value to be ascertained as aforesaid at the Election of the Bishop of the Diocess And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments belonging to any Arch-Bishop Bishop Dean Dean and Chapter or other Ecclesiastical person or persons or to his or their successors in their politick capacity which have been by them or any of them granted or conveyed in Fee-farm under the reservation of any Chiefâ—y Rent or other Duty or service and by this Act are forfeited and vested in His Majesty his Heirs and Successors such a proportion of them be allotted and set out for the better Support and Maintenance of such Arch-Bishops and Bishops their and every of their Successors as are hereafter particularly named which shall be and are hereby given assured and confirmed unto them and every of them their and every of their successors for ever that is to say To the most Reverend Father in God James Lord Arch-Bishop of Dublin and his successors Arch-Bishops of Dublin for ever so much of the said forfeited lands as shall make up the Rent of that Arch-bishoprick and the Bishoprick of Glendelough thereunto united of the clear yearly value of Two thousand Pounds Sterling over and above the Mansion House and Gardens of Sepulchers in and near Dublin and Demeasne Lands of the Manor of Tallaght and the Mensal lands thereunto belonging To the right Reverend Father in God Thomas Lord Arch-Bishop of Cashel and his successors for ever Three hundred Pounds Sterling per annum To Thomas Lord Bishop of Kildare and his successors for ever Seven hundred Pounds Sterling per annum To William Lord Bishop of Clonfert and his successors for ever Two hundred Pounds Sterling per annum To Robert Lord Bishop of Fern and Loghlin and his successors for ever Three hundred Pounds Sterling per annum To Edward Lord Bishop of Limrick and his successors for ever Three hundred Pounds Sterling per annum To Griffith Lord Bishop of Ossory Four hundred Pounds Sterling per annum To Edward Lord Bishop of Killalow and his successors for ever Two hundred Pounds Sterling per annum And to the Provost of Trinity Colledge near Dublin out of the forfeited lands in the Arch-Bishoprick of Dublin and to his successors for ever the sum of Three hundred Pounds per annum And be it also further Declared and Enacted That if in every of the said Arch-Bishopricks and Bishopricks there be of the said forfeited lands sufficient to set out to every such Arch-Bishop and Bishop their respective proportions of lands within their own Bishopricks that then it shall be so set forth unto them and if there be not sufficient therein that then such Arch-Bishoprick and Bishoprick as is deficient shall have so much lands more set out and allotted unto it out of the forfeited lands belonging to the Bishopricks that do superabound and which is most contiguous and convenient as will make up such deficiency in proportion to the values aforesaid And for the setting out of the said Lands with most conveniency to every Bishoprick as is aforesaid or Provostship and the valuation of them Be it also hereby Declared and Enacted That the same shall be performed and done in such way and manner as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdome for the time being shall prescribe and direct before any part of the said lands be otherwise disposed of And that out of all and every the said lands so to be set out the same Rent is and shall be reserved and payable to His Majesty as by this present Act is reserved