A COMMISSION To the Right Honourable RICHARD Lord Viscount RANELAGH AND OTHERS To be Commissioners FOR THE MANAGEING OF His Majesties TREASURY and REVENUE IN IRELAND In the SAVOY Printed by Tho. Newcomb 1673. C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT His Majesty King Charles the II. directs this Commission to Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh and eight other principal Commissioners and in their respective absence to nine others CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To Our Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Our Trusty and Welbeloved Sir Alexander Bence and Sir James Hayes Knights John Bence George Dashwod Joseph Dean Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon Esquires and in the absence of the said Lord Viscount Ranelagh to Our Trusty and Welbeloved Robert Sands Esquire and in the absence of the said Sir Alexander Bence to Our Trusty and Welbeloved Thomas Tayler Esquire and in the absence of the said Sir James Hayes to Our Trusty and Welbeloved John Hayes Esquire and in the absence of the said John Bence to Our Trusty and Welbeloved Thomas Scarth Merchant and in the absence of the said George Dashwood to Our Trusty and Welbeloved Edward Roberts Esquire and in the absence of the said Joseph Dean to Our Trusty and Welbeloved Joseph Dean the younger Gentleman and in the absence of the said Robert Huntingdon to Our Trusty and Welbeloved Griffith Bodurda Esquire and in the absence of the said John Stepney to Our Trusty and Welbeloved Lancelot Stepney Gentleman and in the absence of the said Richard Kingdon to Our Trusty and Welbeloved John Winkworth Esquire Greeting Recital of a Grant to Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh and eight others of all His Majesties Revenue in Ireland Dated August 4. 1673. WHEREAS by an Indenture bearing date the fourth day of August last past before the date of these presents and made between Our Self of the one part and you the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Dean Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon of the other part We were Graciously pleased amongst other things to Covenant Grant and Agree to and with you the said Richard Lord Visc Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Joseph Dean Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Rich. Kingdon and every of you you and every of your Heirs Executors and Administrators that there should be from time to time during the term in the said Indenture mentioned such and so many Commissions issued out under Our Great Seal of England and directed to you the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Dean Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon the survivors or survivor of you or the Executors or Administrators of the survivor of you or such other discreet able and fit Persons as you shall humbly desire which Commissions so to be issued out should sufficiently authorize and impower the Persons therein to be named to act as our Officers as should be found necessary to be done in the managing of and for the better and more speedy Levying Collecting Sueing for Recovering and Receiving or otherwise Compounding for and Discharging of all and every our Rents Revenues Profits Duties Incomes certain and casual ordinary and extraordinary whatsoever in the Kingdom of Ireland not remitted or pardoned or otherwise before the Five and twentieth day of December then last past granted away and disposed as well such as upon or before the Five and twentieth day of December then last past were in arrear and were then unpaid as such as from and after the said time until the six and twentieth day of December which should be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy and five were or should be by any matter of Record or otherwise howsoever due owing or payable to us or which might or ought to have been or may before the said Six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy and five be Taxed Levied Collected Recovered Answered for paid or payable to us our Heirs or Successors out of or for any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in Ireland or all or any the Estates Real or Personal of any Person or Persons Bodies Politique or Corporate or otherwise by reason of any Tax Assessment Subsidy Impositions Contract Covenant Agreement Accompt Debt Duty sum or sums of Money matter or thing imposed or made or issued or which did or should arise or grow due within the said Kingdom of Ireland before the said six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy and five including the Rents Duties and Payments which should be due for the time incurred before the said six and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred seventy and five though the same may be payable or Instalments made or time given for the payment thereof after that day and that all and every the sums of Money then due or which at any time after the date of the said Indenture and before the six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five should grow due or payable to us Our Heirs or Successors whether for Rent reserved upon the Farm of the great Branches of Our Revenue in Ireland or for Arrears or otherwise howsoever should from time to time during the term in the said Indenture mentioned answered and brought into Our Receipt of Exchequer at Dublin in such manner as the same had been before that time used to be paid and would and ought to have been paid if the said Indenture had not been made to the end that our Treasure so brought in and remaining in Our Exchequer there might from time to time he issued out from thence and applyed to such Uses Intents and Purposes as in the said Indenture are mentioned and thereby are undertaken to be done and performed and that for the better effecting thereof and more orderly and legal proceeding therein We would forthwith in due form of Law Constitute Authorize Commissionate and Appoint the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh His Majesty by the said Grant did covenant to aâ—â—â—at the said Rich. Lord Visc Ranelagh Sir Alex. Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood to Receive and Issue His Majesties Revenue Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood to be our Officers or Commissioners and to have the sole care and custody of all Moneys so brought in and the sole power to receive the said Moneys from time to time and give Acquittances and Discharges for the same and to issue out the said Moneys and pay the same to the ends and uses in the said
Indenture mentioned with such Clauses to be inserted in such Commission as may be sufficient totally to prohibit and restrain any other Person or Persons from acting or any way intermedling therein upon any other pretence of authority whatsoever during the continuance of the said Undertaking in the said Indenture mentioned AND We were further Graciously pleased by the said Indenture to Covenant and Agree to and with you the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood that all Orders Warrants Directions and Commands which at any time after the date of the said Indenture and before the six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy and five should be made and signed touching or concerning the issuing out of any moneys for paying any part of Our said Revenue should be so made and signed by the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being and be directed to you the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood onely to the intent that you the said Richard Lord Visc Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood might wholly apply the said Moneys to the uses and intents of the said Indenture and to the execution and performance of the undertaking in the said Indenture mentioned as in and by the said Indenture amongst divers other Covenants Clauses and Agreements therein contained may more plainly appear Lord Viscount Ranelagh and his Partners have humbly besought His Majesty to appoint all the said artners and in their respective absence nine other persons to be Commissioners of the Treasury and Revenue AND whereas you the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Dean Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon have since humbly besought us that you the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh and in your absence the said Robert Sands Sir Alexander Bence and in your absence the said Thomas Tayler Sir James Hayes and in your absence the said John Hayes Iohn Bence and in your absence the said Thomas Scarth George Dashwood and in your absence the said Edward Roberts Ioseph Dean and in your absence the said Ioseph Dean the younger Robert Huntingdon and in your absence the said Griffith Bodurda Iohn Stepney and in your absence the said Lancelott Stepney and Richard Kingdon and in your absence the said Iohn Winkworth should have all and every the Powers and Authorities by us Covenanted in and by the said Indenture to be by us granted unto you the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood The Body of the Commission whereby all the nine Partners and nine others in their respective absence are appointed Commissioners NOW therefore Know ye That We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Abilities Fidelity and prudent Circumspection HAVE Nominated Constituted and Appointed and by these Presents do Nominate Constitute and Appoint you the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh and in your absence you the said Robert Sands Sir Alexander Bence and in your absence you the said Thomas Tayler Sir James Hayes and in your absence you the said John Hayes John Bence and in your absence you the said Thomas Scarth George Dashwood and in your absence you the said Edward Roberts Joseph Dean and in your absence you the said Joseph Dean the younger Robert Huntingdon and in your absence you the said Griffith Bodurda John Stepney and in your absence you the said Lancelot Stepney and Richard Kingdon and in your absence you the said John Winkworth to be Our Commissioners accordingly Power given to the Commissioners and every of them or these imployed by them to view search examine and take Copies of any Records or Writings concerning the premises without paying of any Fee for the same GIVING and by these Presents Granting unto you and every of you and to all and every other Person and. Persons imployed by you or any of you full power and authority at all convenient times and in orderly manner to view inspect search and examine all Rolls Records Books Accompts Papers and other Memorials whatsoever remaining in Our Courts of Exchequer or in any other Our Courts of Record or in the Clerks of our respective Councils custody or in any other place or in the hands of any other Person belonging to us within Our Realm of England or Our said Kingdom of Ireland touching or concerning the premisses and which may any ways conduce to the finding out of all such Rents and other the Premises as shall be due owing and unpaid as aforesaid and to take Copies of the same or any of them the said Copies to be made by the respective Officers or Persons in whose custody the same do or shall remain or by their Clerks or Servants without any Fee or other charge to be paid for the same Power to five or more of the Commissioners to meet and call before them such Persons as they shall judge requisite for the discovery and recovering of the premisses and any Writing or evidence belonging to His Majesty concerning the same and to examine him or them touching the same AND further We do hereby Give and Grant unto you Our said Commissioners hereby appointed or any five or more of you such convenient times and places as you shall think fit and appoint full power and authority to meet together and to call before you all or any such Person or Persons as you shall judge requisite or necessary in relation to or concerning the discovery and finding out and recovering of the Premisses or any of them so due and unpaid as aforesaid and any Writing or Evidence belonging to Us concerning the same and to examine him them or any of them To enquire by the oaths of good and lawful men or by other lawful means as well by examining witnesses upon oath as otherwise whereby the truth may be best discovered touching or concerning the same and to enquire and cause to be enquired by the Oaths of good and lawful Men or by any other lawful ways or means by which the truth may be best discovered and known as well by examining Witnesses upon Oath as otherwise And if after such search and examination made it shall happen that any Person or Persons who shall be found in Arrear If after search or examination any person be found in Arrear and indebted unto His Majesty and shall desire to defend himself by Law rather then submit to or give security for the payment thereof by Installments to certify the same into the Exchequer and to cause them to be effectually proceeded against according to Law and Indebted unto Us in any sum or sums of Money for any the Rents Revenues and Profits or other the Premisses before mentioned
shall desire to defend him or themselves by Law against the Debts and Duties so found to be owing and then and there demanded of him rather then submit to the payment thereof or give security for payment of the same by such instalments as shall be offered to him or them then and in such case Our Will and Pleasure is that you forthwith Transmit and Certify the name or names of such Person or Persons not submitting to such payment or giving security as aforesaid into the Court of Our Exchequer at Dublin and that you cause him or them to be effectually proceeded against according to Law And to the end Our Will and Pleasure may be the better performed and accomplished and the Money so due and in Arrear may the more speedily and effectually be Recovered Levied The chief Governor of Ireland and others whom it may concern are in His Majesties name at the request of the Commissioners to issue Commissions Writs and Processes without any Fee for recovery and bringing in of His Majesties Revenue and Debts according to the course of the Exchequer wherein all His Majesties Officers and Ministers are to be aiding and assisting and paid as aforesaid OUR FURTHER Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby Authorize Command and Require Our Lord Lieutenant Justices or chief Governor or Governors of Ireland Our Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of Our Court of Exchequer there for the time being and all others whom it shall or may concern that they and every of them during the continuance of this Our Commission in force at the desire and request of you Our said Commissioners or any of you do award make and deliver unto you or any of you without charge or Fee all and every such Commission and Commissions of Enquiry Writ and Writs Process and other proceedings whatsoever in the name of Us Our Heirs and Successors as shall or may be necessary for the more speedy recovery bringing in and Levying of all and every Our said Rents Revenues Profits and other the Premisses and are agreeable to and may stand and consist with the antient course and practice of Our said Court of Exchequer heretofore used for the recovery of Debts due and owing to Us or any of Our Royal Progenitors or Predecessors and that they and every of them as also all Sheriffs Bailiffs and other Our inferior Officers and Ministers in their several and respective places be from time to time aiding and assisting to you Our said Commissioners and every of you in obeying such Precepts as from time to time shall be directed to them and in the execution of the premisses as becometh AND FURTHER in pursuance of a Covent in that behalf in the said Indenture mentioned and at the aforesaid humble supplication of you the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Dean Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon and of Our especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer motion in consideration of the assured Trust and Confidence we repose in you Our said Commissioners hereby appointed Power to the Commissioners or any five or more of them whereof one to be always of each division the whole eighteen being divided in three divisions six in a division to execute and exercise the Offices and Places of the Treasurer Receiver-General and Treasurer at Wars from the date hereof until the 26 of December 1675. We have Given and Granted and by these Presents do Give and Grant to you Our said Commissioners and to any five or more of you or which five or more of you We Will that of you the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence Robert Sands John Hayes or Thomas Scarth there shall be always one and of which said five or more of you We also Will that of you the said George Dashwood Robert Huntingdon Richard Kingdon Edward Roberts Griffith Bodurda or John Winkeworth there shall be always one AND of which five or more of you We likewise Will that of you the said Sir Alexander Bence Joseph Dean John Stepney Thomas Tayler Joseph Dean the younger or Lancelot Stepney there shall be always one full Power and Authority to exercise and execute the several Places and Offices of Vice-Treasurer and General-Receiver of all Our Revenues Profits and Casualties whatsoever that be or shall be due to Us Our Heirs or Successors from time to time within Our said Kingdom of Ireland and also to exercise and execute the Office and Place of Treasurer at Wars within Our said Kingdom of Ireland from the day of the date of these Presents until the twenty sixth day of December which shall be in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy and five by your selves or any such five or more of you as aforesaid or by the sufficient Deputy or Deputies of you Our said Commissioners or of any such five or more of you as aforesaid in as full and ample manner to all intents and purposes as any Vice-Treasurer General-Receiver and Treasurer at Wars have done or might do the same AND whereas the said Lord Viscount Ranelagh A Clause in pursuance of a Covenant in the Indenture dated the 4 of August 71 for payment of the Vice-Treasurers Fees for inabling the Commissioners to receive the Fees due to the Vice-Treasurer Receiver-general and Treasurer at Wars for the said use Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Dean Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon have Covenanted with Us that you will pay unto the Vice-Treasurer of Ireland for the time being during the time or this your undertaking all the Fees and Perquisites due unto and usually received by the Vice-Treasurer NOW the better to enable you to pay to Our Vice-Treasurer General-Receiver and Treasurer at Wars of Our said Kingdom of Ireland for the time being all the said Profits and Fees so undertaken by you to be paid and all other Profits Casualties and Fees which Our Vice-Treasurer Receiver-General and Treasurer at Wars ought to have had for all or any Moneys which shall by you or any five or more of you or your Deputy or Deputies be payd during this your undertaking or afterwards by vertue of or in pursuance of this your undertaking if the same had been paid by Our Vice-Treasurer General-Receiver and Treasurer at Wars of Our said Kingdom of Ireland for the time being to the intent and upon Trust and Confidence that you shall pay the same accordingly We do further Will and Grant that during the time aforesaid and until the said twenty sixth day of December One thousand six hundred seventy and five you Our said Commissioners hereby appointed or any such five or more of you as aforesaid or the sufficient Deputy or Deputies of you Our said Commissioners or of such five or more of you as aforesaid Do and shall Demand Take Receive and Have all and singular the Fees Rights