in a Schedule thereunto annexed for which the said Alexander Macdonnell John Moore Archibald Steward and John Trayleman or some of them were joyntly bound for the said Marquess and for their Counter security against those ingagements which said Lease of ninety nine years was in and by a Clause in the said former Act enacted to be of the effect and force in Law and no other as the same was before the making of the said Act and was also therein and thereby transferred from the said Leasees unto and vested and settled in Martin Noell then Esq now Sir Martin Noell Knight Thomas Carleton Citizen and Mercer of London and John Bradburne of the Middle Temple London Gentleman in trust to dispose the Rents and profits thereof towards the payment of all such Debts as were intended by the said Lease to be secured which Debts are yet but very ill secured in regard the said Marquess was but tenant in taile of the premisses at the time of the making of the said Lease and so still continues by reason whereof the said Lease will become of no force and effect in Law after the Death of the said Marquess nevertheless to the end that some more certain and lasting provision may be made for the payment of such Debts as were thereby intended to be secured in such proportions and upon such terms and conditions as are herein after mentioned Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Reversion and Inheritance of all and singular the premisses shall be and hereby is vested and settled in Martin Noell Esq Sonn and Heir apparent of the said Sir Martin Noell George Blake and John Robinson of the City of London Esquires upon these trusts following that is to say if any person or persons their Executors Administrators or Assignes to whom any Debt is owing which was intended by that Lease to be secured will at any time before the nine and twentieth of September One thousand six hundred sixty seaven accept of one moyety or half of his or their principal money due and have interest for the said moyety from the time of such acceptance at the rate of ten pounds per centum in full satisfaction of his or their whole debt intended by the said Lease to be secured and shall declare his or their acceptance by writing under their hands and Seals to be acknowledged before the Lord Chancellor Master of the Rolls or any Master in Chancery either in England or Ireland and to be registred in the Rolls of either Kingdom and if the said Marquess shall happen to dye after such acceptance declared and before the said moyety of the principal money interest at the rate aforesaid be fully satisfied and paid then the said Trustees of the Reversion and inheritance of the premisses the survivor and survivors of them and the Heir of the survivor shall out of the Rents issues and profits thereof pay or cause to be paid the said Moyetie of the principal with interest as aforesaid or so much thereof as at the time of the said Marquesses Death shall be behind and unpaid And if the said Marquess or his Heirs shall at any time before the nine and twentieth of September Which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seaventy five pay or cause to be paid all and every such Creditors their Executors or Assignes who before the nine and twentieth of September One thousand six hundred sixty seaven shall compound as aforesaid their full composition money with interest as aforesaid then the Reversion and Inheritance of the premisses shall be and is hereby transferred unto and vested and settled in the said Marquess and his Heirs Nevertheless it is hereby declared and Enacted That no settlement of the Reversion and inheritance by this Act nor any fine Recovery or other Act or thing done or suffered or to be done or suffered by the said Trustees of the Reversion and inheritance of the premisses without the privity and consent of him the said Marquess shall any wayes extend or be construed to give any strength or continuance to the said lease for ninety nine years further than during the life of the said Marquess but that the said Lease from and after the Death of the said Marquess shall be and so hereby is declared to be fully determined both in Law and equity to all intents and purposes And it is further declared that no Creditor who shall refuse to come in and compound as aforesaid shall be admitted to have any benefit in or by the trust of the reversion and inheritance as aforesaid And where any Debts secured by the said Lease shall be compounded and agreed at one moyety of the principal with interest as aforesaid to the end that such composition may not availe or profit such other Creditors who shall refuse to compound as aforesaid It is further declared and Enacted That the other moyety of the said principal Debt with the interest thereof shall be and is hereby vested in and made payable to the said Marquess and that he the said Marquess shall have the like benefit for the payment and satisfaction thereof out of the Lease of ninety nine years as any other Creditor refusing to compound can or may have and the Trustees of the said Lease shall pay and satisfie the said Marquesses Executors and Administrators the other Moyety of the said Debt so compounded with the interest thereof equally and in like manner and proportion as the not compounding Creditor can or may be satisfied this Act or any other Law to the contrary notwithstanding And it is further Declared by the Authority aforesaid That the said Alexander MacDonnell John Moore Archibald Steward and John Trayleman Suerties for the said Marquess and counter secured by the said Lease for ninety nine years until the same was transferred as aforesaid and every of them their and every of their Heirs Executors and Administrators shall be and are hereby discharged of and from all actions suites executions and demands which can or may be had against them or any of them their or any of their Lands Tenements Goods or Chattells for or in respect of any of the said Debts intended by the said Lease to be secured as aforesaid His Majestie taking notice of the Barbarous and uncouth names by which most of the Towns and places in his Kingdom of Ireland are called which hath occasioned much damage to diverse of his good Subjects and are very troublesome in the use thereof and much Retards the reformation of that Kingdom for Remedy thereof is pleased that it be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Lieutenant and Council shall and may advise of settle and direct in the passing of all Letters Patents in that Kingdom for the future how new and proper names more suitable to the English tongue may be inserted with an alias for all Towns Lands and places in that Kingdom that shall be granted by Letters Patents which new names shall thenceforth be the onely names to be used any Law Statute Custome or usage to the contrary notwithstanding FINIS
and Assigns for ever To his and their use and uses without any accompt to be given for the same to His Majestie His Heirs or Successors as by the tenor of the said Letter more at large may appear since which time the said Charles late Vice-Count Muskry hath ended his long continued Services by the loss of his life in the late expedition at Sea against the Hollander His Majestie is therefore graciously pleased pursuant to His said former Royal intentions That it be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall set out and allot unto Charles-James Mac Carthy now Vice-Count Muskry Son and Heir to the said Charles Vice-Count Muskry all the forfeited lands in the said Barony not set out formerly to Adventurers and Souldiers nor restored to the former Proprietors And that the said Commissioners shall quiet and establish the said Charles-James Vice-Count Muskry in the possession thereof which he is to hold possess and enjoy to him and the heirs males of his body and for want of such issue the Remainder to the said Donogh Earl of Clancarty and the heirs males of his body begotten the Remainder in Fee to the right heirs of the said Earl Any thing in this Act or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And that Certificates be thereof granted in order to the passing of Letters Patents Provided nevertheless That the said Donogh Earl of Clancarty Grandfather to the said Charles-James now Vice-Count Muskry or the now Countess of Clancarty if she survive the said Earl may by way of Lease for years of any part of the premisses or by grant of a Rent-charge for years out of the premisses or or otherwise as to him the said Donogh or to her the said Countess if she survive shall seem meet afford such relief out of the premisses to the former Proprietors thereof as he or she shall finde do best merit the same And what he or she shall do therein is hereby allowed of and made good and valid in Law And whereas Sir Philip Percival Knight Deceased for and on the behalf of of Thomas late Earl of Strafford and Sir George Radcliffe Knight Deceased and their Heirs in or about the year One thousand six hundred thirty and six did contract and agree with Teige O Connor Sligoe Vncle and Heir in taile to Donogh O Connor Sligoe then lately Deceased and also with Edmond Mac Iordan and Dorothy his Wife sole Sister and Heir General to the said Donogh for divers Lordships Mannors Castles Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the County of Sligoe being formerly the estate of the said Donogh O Connor Sligoe whereupon several summs of money were paid disbursed and secured to be paid by the said Sir Philip Percival to the said Teige O Connor Edmond Mac Iordan and Dorothy his Wife and to some other person or persons by their or some of their consent direction or appointment for the freeing discharging and disingaging the said premisses of or from some mortgages Leases or Incumbrances thereupon or some of them but no legal conveyance were or could then be made or perfected to him the said Sir Philip Percival by reason of the Grand Office then lately found in the Province of Connaght whereby his Majestie was intitled to the said lands amongst divers others in the said Province Be it therefore further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the said Lordships Mannors Castles Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the appurtenances formerly belonging to the said Donogh O Connor Sligo and the said Teige O Connor Sligo or to either of them shall be and are hereby settled upon William Earl of Strafford Sonn and Heir of the said Thomas Earl of Strafford and Thomas Radcliffe Esq Sonn and heir of the said Sir George Radcliffe and their heirs under the Rents and services due and payable thereout to his Majestie in the year One thousand six hundred forty one And that they the said William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Radcliffe and their heirs be forthwith settled in the possession of all and singular the said Lordships Mannors Castles Lands Tenements and hereditaments by the Commissioners appointed or to be appointed for the Execution of this Act any thing in the aforesaid Act or in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted that all depositions and examinations of witnesses that have been taken in a cause lately depending before the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland between the said William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Radcliffe Esq and Sir John Percival plaintiffs against Martin O Connor Grandsonn and heir to Teige O Connor Sligoe Esq Deceased Richard Lord Baron of Coloony and others defendants shall and may be read and made use of as good proof for all such lands Tenements and hereditaments as by the said Depositions have been proved to be part of the said Donogh O Conners estate And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Radcliffe or either of them their heirs or Assignes shall within six monthes time after the passing of this Act pay or cause to be paid all such summ or summs of money as shall within the time of the said six monthes be made appear to be iustly due from the said Teige O Conner Sligoe Edmond Mac Jordan and Dorothy his Wife Sir Philip Percival Thomas late Earl of Strafford and Sir George Radcliffe or any of them their heirs or Assignes of any of them and not by them or some of them allready paid for and towards the purchasing and buying off of any of the said Mortgages Leases or Incumbrances which were upon the estate of the said Donogh O Conner at the time of the said contract made as aforesaid which summ or summs of money so made appear to be due as aforesaid from the said Teige O Conner Edmond Mac Jordan and Dorothy his Wife Sir Philip Percival Thomas late Earl of Strafford and Sir George Radcliffe their heirs or Assignes or any of them or by them or any of them deposited in the Clerk of the Councils hands in Order to the buying off of any of the said Mortgages Leases or incumbrances shall be and are hereby vested in and made payable unto his Majestie his Heirs and Successors to be disposed of by his Majestie as by his Signet and Sign manual he shall declare and appoint Saving and excepting hereour such summ and summs of money as shall appear to be justly and legally due by one Mortgage upon part of the said estate made by the said Donogh O Conner to certain Feoffees to the use of the children of Sir Francis Blundell their heirs or Assignes Provided that the Adventurers Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine and Souldiers who are now in possession of all or any the said lands or ought to have
the same according to the rules of this Act and are by virtue hereof to be removed from the same shall have so much other forfeited lands set out to them by the Commissioners for the Execution of this Act as may be sufficient to reprize and satisfie them for two full third parts of the lands from whence they are to be removed and certificates shall be thereof granted in order to the passing of Letters Patents which shall be of like force and effect as any other Letters Patents granted in pursuance of this Act are or ought to be And they and every of them are hereby likewise discharged for them their Heirs and Executors respectively of and from all arrears of rent and measne profits received or to be received by them at any time before they shall be removed as aforesaid Provided also That the Town and Lands of Bradcullen and so much lands contiguous about the same as may amount unto three thousand acres of profitable land with the appurtenances which by the said Contract made with the said Teige O Conner were to have been given or assured to the said Teig O Conner and his heirs shall be and are hereby excepted from being settled upon the said William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Radcliffe and their Heirs or any of them and shall remain diposeable between Sir Francis Gore Knight and Captain Robert Parkes according to their several proportions of what they respectively possess of the said estate and what by the rules of this Act shall belong to them respectively and are to be reckoned and numbred out of such lands which are now in their or either of their possessions most contiguous to the said Town of Bradcullen in pursuance of the said Contract And whereas the said Sir Philip Percival and Sir George Ratcliffe or one of them did besides the said Donogh O Connors estate in like manner purchase some other small parcels of lands tenements and hereditaments in the said County of Sligoe from several other persons Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Radcliffe shall be and are hereby restored to all the Estate Right and Title which the said Thomas late Earl of Strafford and Sir George Radcliffe or either of them had either in Law or equity in or to the said last mentioned lands tenements and hereditaments in the year One thousand six and forty And that they the said William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Ratcliffe shall by the said Commissioners for execution of this Act be forthwith restored to the possession of all such of the said last mentioned lands tenements and hereditaments whereof the said Thomas late Earl of Strafford and Sir George Radcliff or either of them or any other person or persons to their or either of their uses or in trust for them or either of them were seized or possessed in the said year One thousand six hundred and forty under the rents and services due and payable thereout to His Majestie in the said year And forasmuch as the Adventurers and Souldiers and Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine and are now in possession of or claim the same may the better know whether they may hold the said lands or take themselves to their Reprizals the said Commissioners are required to hear and determine of the said purchases and of the right title and interest either in Law or Equity which they the said William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Radcliffe have or had in or to the said last mentioned lands and to reprize the said Adventurers Officers and Souldiers in other lands of equal value worth and purchase according to the rules of this Act in case the said lands shall be evicted from them as aforesaid who are hereby discharged of and from all arrearages of rent and mean profits received at any time before they shall be removed from the said last mentioned lands Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Explained Declared and Enacted by by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the lands tenements and hereditaments and other estates with their and every of their members and appurtenances of within or appertaining to the half Barony of Irris alias Irrus or Erris and the Parish of Dunfiny alias Ducuni adjoyning unto Irris in the County of Mayo and the Parish of Termon-barry alias Tearmonbeary in the County of Roscommon and all and every or any of them vested in settled on forfeited to or belonging upon the said three and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since unto Your Majestie or Your Royal Father together with all the Mines and Minerals therein Royal Mines excepted and all Fishings on the Sea coasts of the same as also on the Loughs and fresh Rivers and waters thereunto in any wise belonging or appertaining be and they are hereby as from the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty five in the Seaventeenth year of your Majesties Raign vested in settled on and granted unto Sir Robert Vyner Knight Thomas Vyner Esq James Temple Henry Lewis and Silvanus Hyde of London Gent. their Heirs and Assignes for ever to be held of your Majestie your Heirs and Successors as of your Castle of Dublin in Free and Common Soccage at and under the yearly Rent of fifty pounds to be paid into your Majesties Exchequer at Michaelmas and Easter by equal portions And that Thomas Earl of Ossory Richard Earl of Burlington and Cork Roger Earl of Orrery Richard Earl of Arran and Robert Boyle Esquire their Heirs and Assigns for ever shall possess and enjoy the full benefit advantage and effect of your Majesties gracious Letters under your Royal Signet bearing date the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty two in the Fourteenth year of your Reign for granting of several houses and lands unto Sir James Shaen his Heirs and Assigns for ever in for or towards satisfaction of Adventures or Arrears for service done in Ireland and other interests confirmed allowed or satisfied by or intended allowed confirmed or satisfied by or in pursuance of your Majesties said gracious Declaration of the Thirtieth of November One thousand six hundred and sixty and other Concessions consistent with and agreeable to the same And also to have hold and enjoy to them their Heirs and Assigns for ever the full benefit advantage and effect of your Majesties Letters under your Royal Signet bearing date the Four and twentieth day of July One thousand six hundred sixty five in the Seventeenth year of your Reign in trust for and to the uses intents and purposes therein expressed mentioned and declared Excepting onely what concerns the lands and premisses in Irris Dunfiny and Tearmonbeary or any of them Any other Clause Provisoe Sentence matter or thing whatsoever in the said former