same to the Vses of this Indenture Page 22. R. V. R. Sir A. B. Sir J. H. J. B. and G. D. will during the Vndertaking quarterly or within 40 dayes after each Quarter pay unto the Vice-Treasurer the usual Fees and Profits for any money paid out as the Vice-Treasurer ought to receive if such Warrants had been directed to himself Page 22. Further Covenants from R. V. R. c. Page 23. All those from whom any Arrears of Quit-rents are due shall have the benefit of a Clause in the Grant to the Farmers of the great Branches concerning the levying thereof and no prosecution shall be made for recovering thereof otherwise than His Majesty might do if this Indenture had not been made Page 23. No Arrears of Quit-rents before the 25th December 1668 shall be demanded for unprofitable Lands Page 23. His Majesty may authorize the Chief Governour and others to install any other debts or arrears due before 25th December 1670 so the same be not above eight half yearly payments the first to be made the 25th of December 1671 and none to extend beyond the 24th of June 1675 and so the same be not sufficiently secured Page 23 24. The Power of Enstallments not to extend to Farmers or Receivers of the Revenue to small sums to such who deny or dispute the debt or refuse without suit to give security for payment by Enstallments Page 24. No suit at Law shall be made for any debt which is not of Record or already charged unless the Chief Governour be first satisfied that there are probable grounds and that His Majesty is justly intitled and might have sued for the same if this Indenture had not been made Page 24. The Chief Governour to issue Proclamations for Accomptants within a limited time to come in and clear Accounts and declaring to other debtors the favorable Enstallments intended them and requiring them to take effectual course to state and secure their respective debts Page 25. R. V. R. c. shall give unto the Chief Governour and such others as His Majesty shall appoint an account of their proceedings in the management of the premisses and will observe their directions for the better and more easie execution of the Powers and accomplishing the ends of this Indenture Page 25. Further Covenants and Powers from His Majesty Page 25. The general Clause concerning Defalcations in case of War Plague c. Page 25. Full power given to R. V. R. c. in their own or His Majesties name to sue for recover and take execution for all Debts and Arrears in any of His Majesties Courts as His Majesty by Law Prerogative or otherwise might do if this Indenture were not made and to apply the same to the uses undertaken and to detain the surplus to their own use without any account to be therefore rendred to His Majesty in any wise Page 27. Power to R. V. R. c. their Deputies Agents and Servants to view search examine and take Copies of all Records Books Papers or other Memorials concerning the Premisses without charge or paying of any Fee for the same Page 27. R. V. R. c. to be freed from all publick employments which would hinder their attendance on this service Page 28. R. V. R. c. may at their own cost and charges have Constats Exemplifications and Duplicates of this Indenture without any further Order or Direction Page 28. His Majesty commands all his Officers and Ministers to be aiding and assisting to the said R. V. R. c. in as ample manner as they ought to do unto His Majesty if this Indenture had not been made Page 28. His Majesty commands the Judges of the Exchequer to award Writs and to cause Process to be executed concerning the premisses Page 29. His Majesty will give R. V. R. c. such further Covenants and Grants as shall be reasonably advised for the full and quiet having and enjoying and such other Powers and Authorities for levying and collecting the premisses and such aid and assistance from His Majesty his Privy Council Exchequer Courts of Justice and all other his Officers and Ministers as any Commissioners Receivers Collectors Farmers and other Ministers of His Majesties Revenue in England or Ireland ever had or ought to have and as in this case shall be thought fit and reasonable Page 30. This Indenture to be inrolled in Ireland within six months Page 30. His Majesty or Chief Governour will after 25th December 1675 until 25th December 1677 authorize R. V. R. c. to levy receive compound or discharge all moneys and arrears comprehended in this agreement which before 25th December 1675 shall be brought in charge upon Record as amply as His Majesty might if this Indenture were not made Page 30 31. This Indenture shall be construed and taken most favourably and beneficially for the said R. V. R. c. and for the better enabling them to execute and perform this Vndertaking Page 31. His Majesty to one part of the Indenture hath affixed the Great Seal of England and R. V. R. c. have put their Hands and Seals to the other part Page 31. 1. THIS INDENTVRE made the fourth day of August in the Three and twentieth year of the Reign of Our most Gracious Sovereign Lord CHARLES the Second The Preamble of this Indenture dated the 4th of August 1671. by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Annoque Domini One Thousand six hundred seventy one Between the said Kings most Excellent Majesty on the one part Parties to the Indenture and Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh in the Kingdom of Ireland Sir Alexander Bence Knight Sir James Hayes Knight John Bence of London Esquire George Dashwood Esquire Joseph Dean Esquire Robert Huntingdon Esquire John Stepney Esquire and Richard Kingdon Esquire one other part Recital of a former Indenture or Grant 12 July 1669. to John Forth and ten others of the great Branches of the Revenue in Ireland for seven years from 25th December 1675. at 206250 li. for the year ending the 25th December 1671. and 219500 li. per annum the remaining four years WHEREAS the great Branches of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland that is to say the Customs and Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage the Duties of Excise for Goods Imported commonly called the Foreign Excise the Duties of Excise arising from Beer Ale Strong-waters and other Excisable Liquors commonly called the Inland Excise the Duties arising by Hearthmony the Duties arising by Licences to Retail Wines and Strong-waters and by Licences for Selling Ale and Beer by Retail as also all the new Quit-rent given to His Majesty by the late Acts of Settlement and Explanation all Chief-rents and Feefarm-rents all Rents Service-rents Charge-rents Seck-rents reserved upon Leases for one and twenty years or more Assart-rents due for Purprestures arented Copyhold-rents and all other certain and ancient Crown-rents yearly payable to His Majesty
His Majesties said Debts so alwayes that such debts for which Interest is or shall be payable be satisfied and paid in the first place and before any other debts for which no Interest is or shall be due or payable any thing herein before or after contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That if any Pention Annuity If His Majesty shall not renue any Pention or Temporary payment in the Establishment which shall cease or be determined V.R. c. shall pay His Majesty so much as the same would have amounted unto if it had not been determined or Temporary payment so as aforesaid determined shall not be thought fit to be renued that then and in every such case the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon and all and every Person and Persons claiming by from or under them or any of them * 7 shall pay or cause to be paid unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors so much Money over and above all the sums and payments herein before agreed to be paid as the said Annuity or Pention so as aforesaid determined would have amounted to and in such manner and forme and at such times as the same Annuity or Pention should have been paid if it had not been determined any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also And it is further Concluded and Agreed His Majesty may dispose of 7155 l. 4 s. 10d ½ due on the Ballance of the Earl of Angleseys account untill 2d July 67 And of 19491 l. 5 s. 4 d. due on the Ballance of the Accompt of Sir George Carteret untill 20 January 69 without allowing of any Defalcations for the same and so is hereby declared That it shall and may be lawfull to and for His Majesty His Heirs and Successors to have receive and dispose of the full benefit and advantage of Seven thousand one hundred fifty five pounds four shillings ten pence half penny remaining upon the ballance of the Earl of Angleseys account untill the second day of Iuly One thousand six hundred sixty seven and also of the sum of Nineteen thousand four hundred ninety one pounds five shillings and four pence remaining due upon the ballance of the Accompt of Sir George Carteret untill the twentieth day of Ianuary One thousand six hundred sixty nine without making or allowing any Defalcations or abatements therefore out of the said Eighty thousand pounds or any other the sums of money herein before agreed to be paid to or for His Majesty His Heirs or Successors any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and it is further concluded and agreed So much of the 50000 l. payable to the Duke of Ormond by the Act of Explanation as is yet behind And the yearly sum of 5000 l. per annum granted to him out of the Quit-rents for a terme unexpired And 30000l. granted to James E. of Suffolke shall be paid unto them respectively out of the several Fonds on which the same are charged as the same would have been if this Indenture had not been made without any Defalcations and so is hereby Declared that the sum of Fifty thousand pounds payable to James Duke of Ormond or his Assignes by the Act of Explanation or so much thereof as is yet behind and unpaid and also the yearly sum of Five thousand pounds per annum granted by His Majesty to the said Iames Duke of Ormond out of the Quit-rents for a terme of years yet unexpired And also the sum of Thirty thousand pounds granted by His Majesty unto Iames Earl of Suffolke shall remain and continue payable and be duely satisfied and paid unto the said James Duke of Ormond and James Earl of Suffolke respectively and to their several and respective Executors Administrators and Assignes out of the several and respective Fonds whereon the same are charged by such person and persons and with such preferences and in such order manner and forme as the said several and respective sums would or ought to have been paid if this present Indenture had not been made deducting onely thereout the due Fees and Charges therefore payable without making or allowing any Defalcations or Abatements therefore out of the said Eighty thousand pounds or any other the sums of Mony herein before agreed to be paid to or for His Majesty His Heires or Successors any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding If His Majesty remit unto E. Anglesey the Meane-Profits and Quit-rents of the Lands in Beare and Bantry mentioned in his Certificate reserving the antient Crown-rents from the date of the Certificate untill the 25th December 70 reserving only the yearly rent of one half penny out of every Acre of the said Lands V.R. c. shall have no defalcations for the same Provided also and it is hereby further agreed and so declared That if His Majesty shall graciously please to grant pardon remitt and discharge unto Arthur Earl of Anglesey all and every or any the Meane-profits and Quit-rents due on out of or for the Lands in the Barrony of Beare and Bantry in the County of Corke mentioned in his Certificate reserving only the antient Crown-rents from the date of the said Certificate untill the Five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred and seventy reserving only the yearly Rent of one half-penny out of every Acre of the said Lands that then and in such case the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon nor any of them nor any claiming under them or any of them shall have any Abatement or Defalcation in respect thereof out of the said Eighty thousand pounds or any the sums of Mony herein Covenanted or undertaken to be discharged and paid by them any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding If His Majesty shall pardon or discharge Sir James Shaen and His Estate from any Suites or Demands concerning any Moneys received from His Majesty towards the Purchase of the Customes of Londonderry or any other debts duties or arrearages whatsoever other then the arrears of Quitrent Crown rent the years value or reapplotment of the deficiency thereof V. R. c. shall have no defalcation in respect thereof If V. R. c. shall sue in their own or His Majesties name and thereupon cause any Lands to be seized or extended for the Payment of Arrears the same shall be so done that no interruption shall be given to the present Farmers contrary to His Majesties Covenants with them and they will beare the whole loss without any Defalcations for the same Provided likewise That if His Majesty shall gratiously please to remit pardon release or otherwise discharge Sir Iames Shaen Knight
within the said Realm of Ireland under several Reservations Limitations and Conditions therein mentioned are now in farm by vertue of a certain Indenture thereof made by His Majesty unto John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breedon James Hayes Dannet Forth George Dashwood William Muschamp Humphrey Taylor and Ralph Bucknall under his Great Seal of England and bearing date the twelfth day of July in the one and twentieth year of His Mjesties Reign for the terms thereby granted which is not to expire until the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and seventy five by which said Indenture of Lease there is reserved to His Majesty Two hundred six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds for the year ending the five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred seventy one and the yearly rent of Two hundred and nineteen thousand and five hundred pounds from thence to the end of the said term which ends the five and twentieth day of December One Thousand six hundred seventy five as by the said Indenture relation being thereunto had more at large appears Recital of the Patent of Abatements 3 August 1669. to John Forth and eight others whereby the Rent reserved for the year ending 25th Decemb. 1671 will be reduced to 191476 li. 10 s. and to 204500 li. per annum the remaining four years AND whereas His Majesty by his Letters Patents bearing date the third day of August in the one and twentieth year of his Reign reciting the said former Indenture of Demise and the several Rents therein reserved did for the considerations therein expressed Give and Grant unto the said John Forth William Bucknall William Dashwood Philip Jemmet John Breeden James Hayes Dannett Forth George Dashwood and Ralph Bucknall their Executors and Assigns these Sums following that is to say out of the Rent payable between the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty eight and the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty nine the sum of Six thousand two hundred fifty two pounds and out of the rent payable between the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty nine and the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and seventy the sum of Eleven thousand three hundred seventy eight pounds And out of the rent due between the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and seventy and the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy one the sum of Fourteen thousand seven hundred seventy three pounds and ten shillings And out of the rent due betweeen the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy one and the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five for every year during the said four last mentioned years the yearly sum of Fifteen thousand pounds By reason of which last mentioned Grant the rent expressed to be reserved to His Majesty by the said former Indenture of Demise will in effect be reduced to One hundred ninety one thousand four hundred seventy six pounds and ten shillings for the year ending the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy one and for the four years thence next ensuing the rent payable by the said Farmers is in effect reduced to the yearly sum of Two hundred and four thousand and five hundrd pounds as in and by the said last recited Indenture relation being thereunto had more at large appears AND whereas His Majesty having taken into his Princely consideration the state of his Revenue in Ireland His Majesty taking into consideration the state of his Revenue and the charge of his Government in Ireland admits and accepts of Proposals from Richard Viscount Ranelagh for himself and others for the receiving and issuing his whole Revenue from the 25th of December 1670 to the 26th of December 1675. and the charge of his Government there in the Payment of the Civil and Military Lists according to the several Establishments together with the great debts now owing by His Majesty in that Kingdom as well for the arrears upon the several establishments as otherwise was pleased to admit of such Proposals to be made to him as might tend to the advancement and furtherance of his service there Whereupon the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh on behalf of himself and of Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon did humbly propose to His Majesty that they might be admitted to receive all His Majesties certain and casual Revenue in Ireland Ordinary and Extraordinary whatsoever as well in arrear as what shall any way grow due to His Majesty his Heirs and Successors until the six and twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred seventy five including the last rents due for any part of the said Revenue for the time then incurred though not payable till afterward and that in consideration thereof they would undertake to defray all His Majesties growing charge of his said Kingdom of Ireland and moreover would pay all the arrears of the Establishment there and certain other debts owing by His Majesty in that Kingdom hereby agreed to be by them paid and discharged * 2. And also would pay unto His Majesty for his own use over and besides the Undertaking aforesaid the full sum of Fourscore thousand pounds in such manner and form and with such Limitations and Restrictions as are herein after more particularly expressed and declared All which His Majesty hath thought fit to accept and doth by these Presents declare his gracious acceptance thereof and agreement thereunto to the end therefore that the said Proposal and Agreements may attain their full and due effect Now this Indenture witnesseth The Body of this Indenture The chief Covenants in the present Indenture from His Majesty to the Viscount Ranelagh and his Partners and the consideration thereof That it is covenanted and agreed by and between the parties to these Presents AND FIRST His Majesty in consideration of the Covenants and Agreements Provisoes and Exceptions herein after mentioned and on the part of the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon to be done and performed And to the end the same may be the better performed and brought to their due effect and for several other good causes and considerations His Majesty thereunto
especially moving of his especial grace certain knowledge and meer motion is graciously pleased to covenant and agree and by these presents for Himself his Heirs and Successors doth covenant grant and agree to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them their and every of their Heires Executors and Administrators in manner following that is to say That from and after the date of these presents From the 4th of August 71 to the 26th of December 75 all His Majesties Rents and Arrears of the great Branches of the Revenue His Majesties Treasure and ready Money which are or shall be in the Treasury or due by Imprest or otherwise and all other His Majesties Revenue during the said time shall be issued out and applyed only to the uses undertaken by R. V. Ranelagh and his Partners except what shall be requisite to defray the charges of this Vndertaking and during and untill the six and twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One Thousand six Hundred and Seventy five all and every the arrears of Rent reserved upon the present Farmes or Demises of the great Branches of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland or any of them and all and every the growing Rents which upon or before the said Five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand six Hundred Seventy five shall or may grow due or payable including the last Rents and Payments for the said Revenue which shall incurr and grow due during the said Terme though not payable till after the end of the said Terme And all and every the Rents and Sums of Money which by vertue of the said present Farmes or Demises His Majesty His Heires or Successors is or at any time hereafter can or may be entituled unto And also all His Majesties Treasure and ready Money which upon the day of the date of these presents is or at any time after the date of these Presents and during the terme aforesaid shall be found in His Majesties Treasury in Ireland or shall be any wayes due and owing to His Majesty in that Kingdome by Imprest or otherwise And all other His Majesties Revenue in Ireland Certain and Casual Ordinary and Extraordinary shall from time to time during the terme aforesaid be Issued out and applyed to such Uses Intents and Purposes and in such order and manner and at such times only as the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon Have herein after Covenanted Agreed and Undertaken to see done executed and performed and to no other uses intents or purposes whatsoever except what shall be fit and requisite to defray the necessary Charges and Expences of this Present Undertaking The Monyes which are or shall be received by his Majesties Vice-Treasurer or paid to any within the Establishment shall be accepted as so much of the growing charge of the year commencing from the last of December 70 AND If any Sum or Sums of Money have been or shall be received by His Majesties Vice-Treasurer of Ireland on or since the Five and twentieth day of December last past before the date hereof or have been or shall be on or after the said Five and Twentieth day of December issued and paid out to any person or persons comprehended within the Martial or Civil Lists according to the severall and respective Establishments all Payments so made or to be made and all Moneys so received and issued out shall be deemed and taken and so are hereby declared to be accepted as Moneys issued out for the discharging and answering so much of the growing charge of this present year R. V. R. c. shall not be obliged to defray more of the first years charge then would remain to be answered if the Moneys received and paid by His Majesties Vice-Treasurer since the 25th of December 70 had been duely and wholly applyed to the necessary charges of the year commencing from the last of December 70 commencing upon the last day of December last past And the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon shall not be obliged to answer and defray any more of the charge of this present year commencing as aforesaid then what will remaine to be answered and defrayed if the Moneys received and paid by His Majesties Vice-Treasurer since the Five and twentieth day of December last past had been duely and wholly applyed to the necessary charges of this present year commencing as aforesaid nor shall they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood V. R. c. Shall have no defalcations for Monies which from the 25th of December 70 to the 4th of August 71 have been applyed to the uses only before undertaken Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon or any of them or any Person or Persons claiming by from or under them or any of them aske demand or have any Defalcation or abatement of the Summs agreed to be paid by these Presents for or in respect of any Summes of Money which since the five and twentieth day of December now last past and before the date of these presents have been applyed to such uses intents and purposes only as are herein before undertaken to be performed And His Majesty for Himself His Heires and Successors doth further Covenant Grant and Agree to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them their and every of their Heires Executors and Administrators by these Presents that there shall be from time to time such and so many Commissions issued out under His Majesties Great Seal of England or Ireland Such Commissions shall be issued under the great Seale of England or Ireland and directed to V.R. c. or such others as they shall desire Authorizing them as his Majesties Officers to mannage receive compound for and discharge his whole Revenue not pardoned or granted away before the 25th of December 70 as well in arreare on or before that day and yet unpaid as which shall any way grow due before the 26th of December 75 including the payments which shall be due for the time incurred before the said day though payable after and directed to them the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them or such other able
discreet and fit persons as they shall humbly desire which Commissions so to be issued out shall sufficiently Authorize and Impower the persons therein to be named to act as His Majesties Officers as shall be found necessary to be done in the managing and for the better and more speedy Levying Collecting Suing for Recovering and Receiving or otherwise Compounding for and Discharging of all and every His Majesties Rents Revenues Profits Duties Incomes Certain and Casual Ordinary and Extraordinary whatsoever in the Kingdome of Ireland not remitted or Pardoned or otherwise granted away and disposed before the Five and Twentieth day of December now last past as well such as upon or before the said Five and twentieth day of December now last past were in arreare and are yet unpaid as such as from and after the said time untill the Six and Twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy and Five were or shall be by any matter of Record or otherwise howsoever due owing or payable to His Majesty 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 Five be Taxed Levyed Collected Recovered Answered for Paid or Payable to His Majesty His Heires or Successors out of or for any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in Ireland or all or any the Estates reall or personal of any person or persons Bodies Politique or Corporate or otherwise by reason of any Tax Assessment Subsidy Impositions Contract Covenant Agreement Account Debt Duty Sum or Sums of Money matter or thing imposed made or issued or which did or shall arise or grow due within the said Kingdome of Ireland before the said six and twentieth day of December in the year of Our Lord one Thousand six Hundred Seventy Five including the Rents Duties and Payments which shall be due for the time incurred before the six and twentieth day of December One thousand Six hundred seventy Five though the same may be payable or Installments made or time given for the Payment thereof after that day The said Powers to such Commissioners shall not inable them to interrupt the Farmers of the great Branches in mannaging the Revenue under their charge nor to receive any Money which shall be due to His Majesty by any future Act of Parliament PROVIDED alwayes that the Powers and Authorities to be given unto such Commissioners so to be nominated shall not enable them to give any disturbance or interruption unto the present Farmers of the great Branches of His Majesties Revenue herein before-mentioned or unto any of their Officers or Servants in the Collecting and bringing in those parts of the Revenue which are under their charge nor to receive any sum or sums of Mony or other Annual Rent or Payments which by vertue of any Act of Parliament to be passed after the date of these Presents and before the said six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Five shall or may grow due or payable to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors All which Sums of Money last mentioned must be understood and so are hereby declared to be out of the Covenants and Agreements herein contained wholly excepted and foreprized * 3. PROVIDED also that neither the Moneys called Lapsed Moneys Neither the Lapsed Mony Lands in lieu thereof or the 30000 l. payable for the same nor the English arrears or Lands set out for the same nor the meane profits due for Lands set out on the Dublin Ordinances and already disposed of by the Act of Explanation shall be comprehended in these Agreements nor the forfeited Land in lieu thereof nor the Thirty Thousand pounds payable by the Roman Catholiques of Ireland for the same nor the Moneys called the English-Arreares nor the Land set out for the same nor the Arreares nor Meane-Profits due for Land set out upon the Dublin-Ordinances and already disposed by the late Explanatory Act shall be comprehended in these Covenants or Agreements nor any defalcation allowed for or in respect of the same The said Commissioners shall receive and enjoy all the said arrears growing Revenue which is or shall be in charge or discovered and other the premises subject to the Limitations and restrictions herein expressed and no other AND His Majesty for Himself His Heires and Successors doth further Covenant and Grant to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them their and every of their Heires Executors and Administrators by these Presents that the said Commissioners so to be nominated and appointed as aforesaid shall and may have receive take and enjoy the full benefit and advantage of all the said Arreares now due to his Majesty and all the growing Revenues now in Charge or which hereafter may be in charge or discovered and other the Premises subject to such Limitations and Restrictions as are herein expressed and no other And this Indenture further Witnesseth The chief Covenants in this Indenture from R. V Ranelagh and his Partners to his Majesty and the considerations thereof That in consideration of the Covenants and Agreements herein before mentioned and on the part of his Majesty to be done and performed It is Covenanted Granted Concluded Condescended and Agreed by and between the Parties to these Presents AND the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon for themselves their Heires Executors and Administrators and every of them do Covenant Grant and Agree to and with His said Most Excellent Majesty His Heires and Successors in manner and forme following V. R. c. shall within 14 dayes after Warrants signed and directed to them defray so much of His Majesties expence of Ireland which from the last of Decem. 70 to the 4th of August 71 ought according to the Establishment to have been borne by His Majesty if this Indenture had not been made that is to say that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon shall within the space of fourteen dayes after Warrants duely signed and to them directed fully and duely answer defray satisfie discharge and Pay or cause to be fully and duely answered defrayed satisfied discharged and paid so much of His Majesties whole charge and expence of the Kingdome of Ireland which from the last day of December last past unto the day of the date of these presents ought according to the Establishment to have been born and discharged by His Majesty if this present Indenture had not been made AND MOREOVER shall and will from
time to time VR c. shall from the 4th of August 71 to 26 of Dec. 75 defray all the Expences of Ireland according to the Establishments as otherwise which by His Majesty ought to have been borne if this Indenture had not been made and cause the same to be paid by equall proportions within 40 dayes after the end of every Quarter as the same shall respectively grow due The Monies to be paid for such expences are not in any one year to exceed 171843 l. 5 s. 6 d. out of which the Fees Cheques are to be deducted And there are to be due and legal Warrants signed for the issuing thereof and at all times from and after the date of these Presents untill the six and twentieth day of December which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand Six hundred Seventy Five fully and duely answer defray satisfie discharge and pay or cause to be fully and duely answered defrayed satisfied discharged and paid all and singular the Charges and Expences of His Majesties said Kingdom of Ireland as well in the Payment of the Civill and Military Lists there according to their several and respective Establishments which are or shall be made by His Majesty His Heires or Successors as otherwise which by His Majesty His Heires and Successors ought to have been borne defrayed and discharged if this present Indenture had not been made and shall cause the same from time to time to be satisfied and paid by equal Proportions within forty dayes after the end of every Quarter as the same shall respectively grow due and the Payments thereof to be made in good lawfull and currant money of England or such lawfull and currant money in Ireland as may be equivalent in Ireland to so much English money as shall then be due so alwayes that the money to be paid and Issued out for such Charges and expences as aforesaid do not in any one yeare exceed the sum of One Hundred Seventy one thousand eight hundred forty three pounds five Shillings and six pence out of which the Fees and Cheques are to be deducted and so as that there be due and legall Warrants signed for the issuing and payment thereof from time to time If after 25th December 1670 and before 26th December 1675 any Cheques of Pay made or to be made by reason of absence want or unserviceableness of Horse or Armes or neglect of duty the Chief Governour may lessen or remit any such Cheques so the same be done within three moneths after the Muster Rolls shall be closed and before any Warrants of Pay be issued upon such Muster Rolls Duplicates whereof are to be returned to V. R. c. PROVIDED alwayes that if at any time after the five and twentieth day of December now last past or before the six and twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five any Cheques of Pay have been or shall be made by His Majesties sworn Officers for or by reason of the absence of any Officer or Soldier from his Command want of Horse or Armes or by reason of their being unserviceable or otherwise neglecting their duties then and in every such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being from time to time and as often as he or they shall see cause to reduce and lessen or otherwise totally to remit any Cheques of Pay which have been or shall be made for any the causes aforesaid so as such reducement lessening or remission be within the space of three months next after the Muster Roll are or shall be closed and before any Warrants of Pay be made or issued upon such Muster-Roll Duplicates whereof are from time to time to be returned unto the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon who shall pay and satisfie to every Soldier or other so much pay as by vertue of the said Military List he ought to receive after such reduction or remission made any thing herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon for themselves their Heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them have covenanted and granted and by these presents do covenant and grant to and with our said Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them V. R. c. shall within four years after 25th December 1671 discharge the Arrears which on the 25th of December 1670 were unpaid according to the estabâ—ishment to any in the Military and Civil Lists and to the Train of Artillery or the Heirs Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them shall and will within the space of four years to commence from the five and twentieth day of December next ensuing the date of these presents fully discharge satisfie and pay or cause to be fully discharged satisfied and paid all and every the Arrears of Pay which at or upon the five and twentieth day of December last past before the date hereof were behind and unpaid to any person or persons comprehended in the Martial or Military List according to the Establishment AND also all and every the Arrears of Pay Wages Sallary or Pension then due to any person or persons comprehended within the Civil List according to the said Establishment AND also all Arrears whatsoever then due to His Majesties Train of Artillery in Ireland and shall cause due satisfaction and payment thereof to be made within the time aforesaid And shall cause due payment to be made of the said Arrears within the said time by even and equal portions without composition or deduction the Fees and Cheques excepted the first payment whereof shall begin and be made the 24th of December 1672. His Majesty shall be discharged from all such arrear so as the same deducting the Fees and Cheques exceed not for the Military List 139001 li. 11 s. 4 d. for the Civil List 4000 li. and for the Train of Artillery 1147 li. and by even and equal portions and in good lawful and currant English money or so much lawful and currant money of Ireland as shall be equivalent in Ireland to English money without any composition defalcation or other deduction whatsoever the usual Fees and Cheques only excepted the first payment whereof shall begin and be made at or before the four and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy and two AND
His Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall be for ever acquitted and at all times hereafter exonerated and discharged of and from all such Arrears then due upon the said Civil and Military Lists according to their several and respective Establishments and of and from every part and parcel thereof so as such Arrears of Pay then due upon the Military List and to be hereafter satisfied and discharged within the time and according to the proportions aforesaid do not in the whole exceed the sum of One hundred thirty nine thousand and one pound eleven shillings and four pence deducting the Fees and Cheques and so as the Arrears then due upon the Civil Lists as aforesaid do not in the whole exceed the sum of Four thousand pounds and so as the Arrears then due to the Train of Artillery do not in the whole exceed the sum of Eleven hundred forty seven pounds * 4. AND MOREOVER the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence V. R. c. shall before 25th December 1675 discharge without any abatement except the Fees so much of these sums as on the 4th of August 1671 shall be unpaid unto these persons and uses  li. The present Farmers 70,000 Sir William Bucknall 11,500 Londonderry Customs 4000. Phenix Parke 10,000 Patrick Archer 6294. Armes and Ammunition 6076. Moiety of the Ten moneths arrears 20,394 19 s. Earl Anglesey 2500. Coll. Lanes Daughters 6000. Earl Arlington 6250. Michael Archbishop of Dublin 2500. Fran. and Eliz. Jones 3500. John St. Leger 400. Rachell Vicountess Falkland 3000 George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon for themselves their Heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them have covenanted and granted and by these presents do further covenant and grant to and with our said Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Heirs Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them shall and will before the five and twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and seventy five fully and truly discharge satisfie and pay all and every the debts duties and sums of money hereinafter mentioned or so much thereof as on the day of the date of these presents shall be behind and unpaid that is to say the Seventy thousand pounds advanced by the present Farmers of the great Branches of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland herein before-mentioned And also the moneys lately lent unto His Majesty by Sir William Bucknall Knight and secured by a Patent bearing date at Westminster the five and twentieth day of November in the one and twentieth year of his Reign so as the same for Principal and Interest do not exceed the sum of Eleven thousand and five hundred pounds And also the Four thousand pounds due from His Majesty for the purchase of the Customs of Londonderry And also the moneys due for the purchase made by His Majesty of certain Lands lately enclosed in the Park called the Phenix Parke so as the same do not exceed the sum of Ten thousand pound And also the Six thousand two hundred ninety four pound due to Patrick Archer And also the Six thousand seventy six pound due for Arms and Ammunition sent from England unto Ireland And also that Moiety of the ten months Arrears due to the Army in Ireland during the time of the Government of the late Lord Justices that is to say the late Lord Chancellor Eustace the Earl of Orrery and the late Earl of Mountrath so as the said moiety of ten months Arrears do not in the whole exceed the sum of Twenty thousand three hundred ninety four pounds and nineteen shillings And also the Two thousand and five hundred pounds due to the Earl of Anglesey out of forfeited Recognizances And also the sum of Six thousand pound due to the Daughters of Collonel Lane And also the sum of Six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds being the remainder of Ten thousand pounds heretofore granted by His Majesty unto Henry Lord Arlington one of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State which said sum of Six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds is to be fully and effectually paid unto the said Henry Lord Arlington his Executors Administrators and Assigns without any abatement or defalcation And also the sum of Two thousand five hundred pounds unto Michael Lord Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland And also the sum of Three thousand and five hundred pound unto Francis and Elizabeth Jones Grand-children of Roger late Viscount Ranelagh to be equally divided between them And also the sum of Four hundred pound unto John St. Leger Esquire which last sum of Four hundred pound is to be paid out of the moneys remaining due upon the Ballance of George Carletons account late Clerk of the Hannaper in Ireland And also the sum of Three thousand pound granted by His Majesty unto Rachell Vice-Countesse of Falkland out of the Prize-goods of all and every which debts and sums of money herein before-mentioned due payment and satisfaction is to be made in good and lawful money of England or such lawful and currant money of Ireland as may in Ireland be equivalent thereunto and that without any composition abatement defalcation or other deduction whatsoever the usual Fees therefore payable onely excepted AND His Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall be for ever acquitted and at all times hereafter exonerated and discharged or otherwise saved harmless and indempnified of and from all and every the said Arrears debts and sums of money herein before-mentioned and of and from every part and parcel thereof and of and from all defalcations out of the sums herein agreed to be paid unto His Majesty his Heirs or Successors for or by reason thereof AND WHEREAS the late Farmers of His Majesties Customs in Ireland and of the Excise there for goods imported Whereas the late Farmers of the Customs Excise imported and Inland and Licences of Ale Beer Wine c. demand defalcations by reason of the war with the United Provinces during two years and three quarters of their respective Farms V. R. c. shall either come to an agreement with them for the same or cause their demands in respect thereof to be examined and setled and take upon themselves the whole loss of the defalcations which upon such agreement or examination shall be allowed and discharge His Majesty from the same and also of the Excise arising upon Beer Ale and other Excisable Liquors and of all other the Foreign and Inland Excise there and of the Revenue arising by Licences to retail Ale and Beer and Licences to retail Wine Aqua vitae and Strong-waters there were very much interrupted and hindered
from receiving the benefit of their respective Farms during two years and three quarters of their several Leases by reason of the late war with the States of the Vnited Provinces which continued during all that time and do therefore demand several abatements and defalcations of rent in respect thereof NOW the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon have covenanted and granted and by these presents for themselves their Heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them do further covenant and grant to and with His Majesty his Heirs and Successors that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them shall and will forthwith either come to an agreement with the said late Farmers touching the premisses or cause all and every the demand of the said late Farmers touching or concerning the defalcations as aforesaid to be examined answered adjusted and setled And shall and will take upon him or themselves the whole loss and damage of such defalcations which upon such agreement or examination shall be thought fit to be allowed and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof and of all claims and demands for or concerning the same shall and will from time to time and at all times hereafter for ever acquit exonerate and discharge or otherwise save harmless and indempnifie His Majesty his Heirs and Successors and every of them AND MOREOVER the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh V. R. c. shall over and above the said sums payments and discharges within two years to commence from the 25th of Decemb. 1675 pay unto His Majesty 80000 li. by four equal portions half yearly Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them have covenanted granted and agreed and by these presents for themselves and every of them their and every of their Heirs Executors and Administrators for the causes and considerations aforesaid do covenant grant and agree to and with our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors and every of them that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Heirs Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them over and above all and every the debts duties and sums of money herein before covenanted to be paid and over and above all and every the payment and discharges herein before covenanted to be made shall and will also within the space of two years to commence from the five and twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five satisfie and pay or cause to be satisfied and paid unto our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs or Successors at his or their Receipt of Exchequer at Dublin the full sum of Fourscore thousand pound by four equal portions half yearly that is to say at or before the four and twentieth day of Iune in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy six the full sum of Twenty thousand pounds And at or before the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy six the further sum of Twenty thousand pounds more And at or before the four and twentieth day of Iune in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy seven the further sum of Twenty thousand pounds more And at or before the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy seven the further sum of Twenty thousand pounds more in full of the whole Fourscore thousand pounds so covenanted and agreed to be paid as aforesaid Further Covenants from His Majesty That V. R. c. performing their Covenants shall enjoy the whole surplus of the Revenue to their own use without any further or other account matter or thing to be given to His Majesty and are hereby acquitted and discharged against His Majesty of all accounts and demands which can or may be made concerning the same AND they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them well and truly performing fulfilling doing and executing all and singular the Covenants and Agreements in these presents contained which on the part and behalf of them the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them * 5. ought to be done performed fulfilled and executed shall and may have hold receive retain keep and enjoy the whole surplus and residue of all or any the said Revenues Profits sums of money and other the premisses so as aforesaid to be collected and received to their own sole and proper use and behoof without any further or other account matter or thing to His Majesty his Heirs or Successors to be therefore rendred or given but shall be and hereby are fully and clearly and absolutely acquitted exonerated and discharged against His Majesty his Heirs and Successors of and from and concerning all accounts or other demands whatsoever which can or may be made touching or concerning the same AND His Majesty for Himself his Heirs and Successors doth further covenant grant and agree to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon The Commission for Enquiry into arrears due to His Majesty is superseded THAT WHEREAS a Commission under His Majesties Great Seal of England hath lately issued and is still depending impowering certain Commissioners therein named to proceed in the enquiry into all arrears now due and owing to His Majesty that all further Proceedings upon the said Commission shall be stayed and the Commission it self shall be and is hereby declared to be superseded AND His Majesty for Himself his Heirs and Successors All respits of Quit rents and other sums of money due to His Majesty are declared void and determined doth further covenant with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon that whereas divers Quit-rents and other sums of money due and payable to His Majesty have by Order of
His Majesties Court of Exchequer at Dublin or by Order of the Council-Board there or otherwise been respited that all such Respits howsoever granted shall cease and are hereby declared to be void and determined AND His Majesty for Himself his Heirs and Successors The Composition with the 49 Officers for the moiety of their 100000 li. payable out of the years va ue shall not be obstructed or delayed but perfected as begun and intended and the whole benefit and advantage thereby to His Majesty shall be enjoyed by the said V. R. c. doth further covenant grant and agree to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon That whereas also the Commissioned Officers who served His Majesty or His Royal Father before the year One thousand six hundred forty nine are by vertue of the Act of Explanation entitled to the sum of One hundred thousand pound therein mentioned and charged upon a Fond commonly called the years value which said Officers have by themselves or their Agents begun and entered into a Treaty of Composition with His Majesty thereby offering to assign unto His Majesty one half of the moneys to them respectively due in hope of a better and more speedy payment of the other half that the said Composition shall in no sort be interrupted hindered obstructed or delayed by Him or any of his Officers or Ministers but perfected as begun and intended and that the whole benefit or advantage which can or may pertain arise or accrue to His Majesty thereby shall be received taken held and enjoyed by them the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of the Survivor AND WHEREAS also in and by the said Act of Explanation it is provided that if the moneys to be raised as aforesaid His Majesty will direct the Chief Governour and Council in Ireland to reapplot and levy upon the Lands of Ireland whatsoever the years value shall be found deficient of the 300000 li. and cause the same to be effectually done as by the Act of Explanation is appointed allowing four years time for the payment thereof half yearly at Michaelmas and Easter the last payment to be made at or before the 29tâ— f September 1675. should fall short of Three hundred thousand pounds then it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council of Ireland for the time being to taxe and assess upon all the Lands in Ireland so much more money as together with what hath been before raised and allowed by vertue of the said Act should make up the full and just sum of Three hundred thousand pound Sterling since the passing of which Act it hath been found by experience that the Three hundred thousand pounds so appointed to be raised is not nor ever can be raised without a general Taxation and Assessment of and upon all the Lands there IN ORDER whereunto His Majesty hath heretofore by his several Letters directed unto the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour and Council of Ireland for the time being commanded them to proceed in the speedy rating and assessing all the Lands in Ireland that so the full sum of Three hundred thousand pounds might be raised and compleated as by the said Act is directed His Majesty doth hereby for Himself His Heirs and Successors further covenant and agree to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Robert Huntingdon Joseph Deane Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them that His Majesty shall and will forthwith renue and direct other Letters unto the Chief Governour or Governours and Council of Ireland thereby commanding them forthwith to reassess reapplot and levy upon the Lands of Ireland whatsoever shall be found deficient of the Three hundred thousand pounds so as aforesaid appointed to be raised and to cause the same effectually to be done as by the said Act is appointed Nevertheless with this moderation and clemency towards his said Subjects and with this Declaration of his grace and favour to them That they may and shall be allowed Four years time for the payment thereof at every Michaelmas and Easter during the said four years by even and equal portions the last payment whereof to be made at or before the nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred seventy five Provisees Limitations and Restrictions Nothing herein is to restrain His Majesties Prerogative to pardon Offenders or to remit or reduce forfeited Recognizances of the Peace good behaviour appearances or other particulars of the Green-wax or Fines and Forfeitures against the Laws or Outlawries other then what relates to the Revenue unless the 〈◊〉 for which 〈◊〉 same shall â—â—â—pen with thâ— câ—stâ— and charges be fully satisfieâ— but his Majâ—sty may exercise hiâ— Royal Authority in such Câ—sâ—â— as amply as this Indenturâ— had not been made And His Majesty may issue Commissiâ—nâ— for reducement of such sums of money as hath be 〈◊〉 accustomed 〈◊〉 as the sums due to His Majesty after such reducements or levied by his Officers shall be paid to V. R. c. PROVIDED alwayes and so it is hereby declared and agreed that nothing in this present Indenture contained shall be expounded or taken or shall any way extend to hinder weaken lessen or restrain His Majesties Royal Authority Power and Prerogative of pardoning any Offendor or Offendors Criminal or Capital or in the remitting releasing reducing or otherwise suspending or mitigating any forfeited Recognizances concerning the Peace or good Behaviour or concerning appearances or any other Particulars under the Survay of the Green-wax or in the remitting pardoning or discharging any Fines or forfeitures whch are or shall be incurred for or by reason of any offence committed done or suffered against the Penal Laws or Statutes of His Majesties Realm of Ireland or against the Common Laws of the Land or in the remitting pardoning and discharging of any Outlawries which already are or hereafter shall be incurred or any Forfeitures or Penalties by reason thereof other then such Outlawries Penalties and Forfeitures as are or shall be incurred or due by reason or occasion of any Suit commenced or to be commenced touching or concerning any matter or thing relating to any part of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland or in the remitting pardoning or discharging any of those Outlawries Penalties or Forfeitures which have been or shall be incurred for matters concerning His Majesties Revenue as aforesaid from and after such time as the Duty for non-payment whereof any such Outlawry Penalty or Forfeiture did or shall happen together with the Costs and Charges expended in the
prosecution thereof shall be fully satisfied and discharged but that it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty his Heirs and Successors to use and exercise his and their Power Prerogative and Authority Royal in all and every the Cases aforesaid as fully and amply as he or they might have done if this present Indenture had never been had nor made any thing herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding PROVIDED also and so it is hereby declared and agreed that it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty his Heirs and Successors at any time or times after the date of these presents to issue out such and so many Commissions unto such person and persons as shall be thought fit thereby impowering and authorising them to make such reducements and abatements of the sums of money owing or which hereafter shall grow due unto His Majesty his Heirs or Successors as they shall think fit and hath formerly been accustomed in like Cases so always that all and singular such sum and sums of money which from and after such reducement shall be due and payable to His Majesty his Heirs or Successors or which after such reducements or other lawful deductions and allowances made as aforesaid shall be levied or received by any of His Majesties Officers shall forthwith be answered and paid over unto the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them any thing herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding PROVIDED also and so it is hereby declared and agreed His Majesty may demise or grant for any Estate his Royal Mines and any Messuages Houses Mannors Castles Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in Ireland yet undisposed of or whereunto His Majesties Title shall hereafter appear so as such rent be reserved thereupon as may be at least equivalent to the new Quit-rents or the Ancient Crown Rent if it exceed the Quit-rent and no arrears of Quit-rent or mean profits be discharged that it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty his Heirs and Successors from time to time and at all times hereafter to give grant demise lease or confirm unto any person or persons all and every or any of His Majesties Royal Mines within the said Kingdom of Ireland * 6. and also any Messuages Houses Mannors Castles Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within the Realm of Ireland which are yet undisposed or whereunto His Majesties Right and Title shall at any time hereafter be made to appear for such Estate or Estates as His Majesty his Heirs or Successors shall think fit whether the same be an Estate of Inheritance Free-hold or term of years or any other less Estate so as upon every such Gift Grant Demise Lease or Conformation such Rents may alwayes be reserved as may be at least equivalent and proportionable to the new Quit-rents which by the late Acts of Settlement and Explanation are payable by Adventurers and Soldiers or to the Antient Crown Rents therefore payable where the Antient Crown Rents shall exceed the proportion of the new Quit-rents and so also that no arrears or mean profits due thereupon be any way remitted released or discharged any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding If His Majesty grant any Lands c. to the uses of the Declaration 30th November 1660 other then to such or in trust to such who formerly received the issues and profits thereof the same shall be freed from arrears of Quit-rent and mean profits due before 25th December 1668 and V. R. c. shall not molest the Grantees nor the Lands granted but may take their remedy for the same against the former Enjoyers or Pervors of the profits of such Lands c. And if His Majesty his Heirs or Successors shall at any time hereafter for the better promoting the uses intents or purposes of His Majesties late gracious Declaration of the Thirtieth of November in the year One thousand six hundred and sixty give grant or demise any Messuages Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to any person or persons other then to such person or persons their heirs or assigns or to any in trust for him or them or to his or their use who formerly received the issues and profits thereof Then and in every such case all and every the Messuages Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments so to be given granted demised or disposed as aforesaid shall be freed exonerated and discharged of and from all arrearages of Quit-rent and mean profits grown due incurred or accrued upon or before the Five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty eight AND the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon nor the Survivors nor Survivor of them nor the Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them shall in any sort vex or molest or disquiet any such person or persons to whom any Lands or Tenements shall be granted or disposed as aforesaid nor the Lands or Tenements so granted or disposed for or in respect of any such arrears of Quit-rents or mean profits but shall and may pursue and take such other remedy for recovery thereof in His Majesties Name or in their own Names against the former Tenants and Enjoyers of the said Lands and Tenements or the Pervors of the profits thereof as they shall be advised and by their Council learned in the Law Further Covenants from V. R. c. to His Majesty shall be thought expedient And the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon have covenanted and granted and by these presents for themselves and every of them their and every of their Heirs Executors and Administrators do covenant grant and agree to and with our said Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors That all and every the Farmers of the great Branches of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland The Farmers of the great Branches of the Revenue and those concerned in the Patent of Abatements and all other Farmers by vertue of any Grant under the Great Seal before 25th December 1670 may under their respective Articles Covenants Conditions and Provisoes enjoy their several Farms according to the tenor thereof without any let of V. R. c. by vertue of a Lease thereof made the twelfth day of June in the One and twentieth year of His Majesties Reign and herein before-mentioned And also such of the said Farmers who are again mentioned in His Majesties Letters Patents bearing date the third day of August in the said One and twentieth
year of His Majesties Reign herein before recited and all other Farmers by vertue of any Grant under the Great Seal of England or Ireland before the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and seventy shall and may under the Articles Covenants Conditions and Provisoes mentioned in their several Grants peaceably and quietly have hold and enjoy their several and respective Grants and Farms according to the tenor and purport thereof and the full benefit of all sums of money therein granted and demised without any lett or interruption of them the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon or any of them or of any other person or persons claiming by from or under them And further V. R. c. shall not demand defalcations for any sums which are or shall be allowed to such Farmers for the two years ending 25th Decemb. 1670 or for or in respect of any other matters or things setled and determined before that time in pursuance of and according to such Grants or for any pretensions of the said Farmers upon the 9th of June 1671 depending in the Exchequer at Dublin for defalcations for Lands in Certificate and not past in Letters Patents or for the Composition Rents which way soever the same shall be determined The defalcations which may hereafter be pretended unto by the said Farmers shall be onely determined in such way as by their several Agreements is appointed that neither they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon nor any of them nor any other person or persons claiming or to claim by from or under them or any of them shall or will at any time or times hereafter ask demand receive or have any Abatement or Defalcations for or in respect of any sum or sums of money which are or shall be allowed or given to such Farmers by vertue or colour of such Leases or Grants for or in respect of the two years ending the five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred and seventy or for or in respect of any other matters or things settled and determined before the said time in pursuance of and according to such Grants respectively or for or in respect of any pretensions of the said Farmers upon the ninth day of June One thousand six hundred seventy one depending in the Court of Exchequer at Dublin for Defalcations for Lands in Certificate not passed in Letters Patents or for the Composition Rents which way soever the same is or shall be determined And moreover all and every the Defalcations which may hereafter be pretended unto by the said Farmers or any of them shall be solely and onely determined in such way and manner as by the several agreements relating thereunto was and is appointed any thing in these presents before or after contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding V. R. c. shall allow the usual Enstallments for payment of First-fruits or Twentieth parts And will be concluded by the values made or to be made by the Commissioners now or hereafter to be appointed under the great Seal And His Majesty in case any defect of the Commissions will give order for renewing and rectifying the same and for proceeding thereupon in as ample manner as His Majesty might have done if this Indenture were not made AND the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon for themselves and every of them their and every of their Heirs Executors and Administrators do further covenant and agree to and with His Majesty his Heirs and Successors by these presents that they and every of them and all others claiming by from or under them shall and will in all Cases where any payments are or shall be due from any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Persons in Ireland for or in respect of any First-fruits or Twentieth parts permit and allow all and every such persons to have receive and enjoy the full use and benefits of such Enstallments for the payment thereof as by Law or the usual Course and Practice in such Cases is or hath been allowed they doing and performing on their parts what in like Cases hath been accustomed And also shall and will accept of and be contented with and concluded by such values of the First-fruits and Twentieth Parts due from and payable by the said Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Persons as shall appear upon the returns thereof made or to be made by such Commissioners who now are or hereafter shall be in that behalf authorized and appointed under His Majesties Great Seal of Ireland NEVERTHELESS if any defect is or shall be found in the Commissions which now are or hereafter shall be issued out His Majesty is pleased to covenant and agree by these presents That upon humble Petition to him made by the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon or such as do or shall claim by from or under them or any of them effectual Order shall be forthwith given for the rectifying and renuing of such Commissions and for the proceeding thereupon in as full and ample manner as His Majesty could or might lawfully have done if this present Indenture had not been made Further Provisoes Limitations and Restrictions His Majesty may alter the payments in the Civil and Military Lists of the Establishments so as the whole yearly charge do not in any one year exceed 171843 li. 5 s. 6 d. and may appoint the method and precedency of the payment of His Majesties debts so as those for which interest is payable be first satisfied PROVIDED ALSO and it is further concluded and agreed and so is hereby declared that it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty his Heirs and Successors from time to time and at all times hereafter to alter reduce change or encrease any of the Wages Sallaries Pensions Payments or other Entertainments whatsoever mentioned in the several and respective Establishments of the Civil and Military Lists so as the whole yearly charge thereby made do not in any one year exceed the sum of One hundred seventy one thousand eight hundred forty three pounds five shillings and six pence and also where any Annuity Pension or Temporary Payment now comprehended in either of the said Lists shall cease or determine to renue the same and make it payable to such other person or persons and for such further time as His Majesty his Heirs or Successors shall think fit and also to regulate settle and appoint the Method Order and Precedency of the payment of all or any of
and Baronet his heirs executors or administrators or any of them their or any of their Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels of and from any Suits and Demands touching or concerning any sums of Money received from His Majesty for and towards the payment of and for the Purchase of the Customes of London-derry or any other Debts Duties or Arrearages whatsoever other then the Arrears of Quit-rents Crown-rents the Years-value or Reapplotment of the deficiency thereof that then and in such case the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon nor any of them shall have any Abatement or Defalcation whatsoever for or in respect of any such Release or Discharge any thing herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon have covenanted and granted and by these presents for themselves their heires executors and administrators and every of them do further Covenant and Grant to and with His Majesty His Heires and Successors that if they or any of them or any claiming by from or under them or any of them shall at any time hereafter sue and prosecute in His Majesties Name or in their own names and upon such Suit or Prosecution shall cause any Lands to be seized or extended for the payment and satisfaction of any the arrears which they or any of them or any person or persons claiming by from or under them ought to receive that then and in every such case the said Suites Prosecutions Seizures and Extents shall be in such manner and forme that thereby no interruption or disturbance may be given to the present Farmers of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland contrary to the tenor and effect of His Majesties Covenants with them nor they thereby become entitled to any Defalcation from His Majesty but the whole Loss and Damage of such Defalcations if any shall be thought fit to be allowed for or in respect of such Suites Prosecutions Seizures or Extents shall be sustained and born by the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon the survivors and survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of the Survivor of them and His Majesty His Heires and Successors shall be thereof and of every part and parcel thereof from time to time and at all times hereafter acquitted exonerated and discharged or otherwise saved harmless and indempnified AND HIS MAJESTY for Himself His Majesty further Covenants His Heires and Successors doth further Covenant Grant and Agree to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them their and every of their Executors All the Moneys which are or shall grow due or be payable unto His Majesty before the 26th of December 75 shall during the terme be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer at Dublin in the usual manner to the end the same may be applyed to the uses herein mentioned Administrators and Assignes that all and every the sums of Money now due or which any time after the date of these presents and before the six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five shall grow due or payable to His Majesty His Heires or Successors whether for Rent reserved upon the Farme of the great Branches of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland or for any Arrears or otherwise howsoever shall from time to time during the said terme be answered and brought into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer at Dublin in such manner as the same were heretofore used to be paid and would and ought still to be paid if this present Indenture had not been made to the end that His Majesties Treasure so brought in and remaining in His Majesties Exchequer there may from time to time be issued out from thence and applyed to such uses intents and purposes as are herein before-mentioned and by this present Indenture are undertaken to be done executed and performed His Majesty will Commissionate R. V. Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood to be His Majesties Officers and Commissioners to have the sole custody of all Monys so brought in and sole power to receive give discharges for and issue the same to the uses of this Indenture with clauses therein totally to prohibit any other from intermedling therein during the said time AND That for the better effecting hereof and more orderly and legal proceeding herein His Majesty shall and will forthwith and in due forme of Law Constitute Authorize Commissionate and Appoint them the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood to be His Majesties Officers or Commissioners and to have the sole care and Custody of all Monyes so brought in and the sole Power to receive the said Monyes from time to time and to give Acquittances and Discharges for the same and to issue out the said moneys and pay the same to the ends and uses in this present Indenture mentioned with such clauses to be inserted therein as may be sufficient totally to prohibit and restraine any other person or persons from Acting or any way intermedling therein upon any other pretence of Authority whatsoever during the continuance of this present undertaking AND His Majesty doth further Covenant Grant and Agree to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelgah 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 these presents All Warrants for Payments of any Money from the 4th of August 71 to the 26th of December 75 shall be so made and Signed by the Chief Governour of Ireland and directed to the said R. V.R. Sir A. B. Sir I.H. I. B. and G. D. only to the intent they may wholly apply the same to the uses of this Indenture and before the six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five shall be * 8 made and signed touching or concerning the issuing out of any Moneys or paying any part of His Majesties Revenue shall be so made and Signed by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being and be directed unto them the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood only to the intent that they may wholly apply the said Moneys to the uses and intents of this present Indenture and to the execution and performance
of the undertaking herein before mentioned And yet nevertheless the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood have Covenanted and Granted by these presents for themselves and every of them their and every of their Heires Executors and Administrators do Covenant and grant to and with His Majesty His Heires and Successors that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence and George Dashwood or the survivors or survivor of them shall and will from time to time during the continuance of this present undertaking Quarterly or within Forty dayes after each Quarter R. V.R. Sir A.B. Sir I. H. J. B. and G. D. will during the undertaking Quarterly or within 40 dayes after each Quarter pay unto the Vice-Treasurer the usuall Fees and Profits for any Money paid out as the Vice-Treasurer ought to receive if such Warrants had been directed to himself well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto His Majesties Vice-Treasurer of Ireland for the time being all and every the usual and accustomed Fees and Profit for or in respect of any sums of Money by them to be issued and paid out as aforesaid as such Vice-Treasurer for the time being could or ought to have received if such Warrants had been directed unto or such payments had been made by the said Vice-Treasurer himself for the time being any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding AND BECAUSE a rigorous and speedy Collection levying and bringing in of such debts arrears and other sums of money as are now due and owing to His Majesty would in all probability be attended with many evil consequences and inconveniences to His Majesties Government therefore for the prevention thereof and for the better securing all His Majesties Subjects in Ireland from all unnecessary trouble unjust vexation or double payments the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon have covenanted and granted Further Covenants from R. V. R. c. and by these presents for themselves and every of them their and every of their Executors and Administrators do covenant and grant to and with His Majesty his Heirs and Successors All those from whom any arrears of Quit-rents are due shall have the benefit of a clause in the Grant to the Farmers of the great Branches concerning the levying thereof and no prosecution shall be made for recovery thereof otherwise than His Majesty might do if this Indenture had not been made that whereas in His Majesties Letters Patents herein before mentioned bearing date the third day of August in the one and twentieth year of his Reign amongst other things therein contained there is a Covenant on the part of His Majesty That His Majesty shall not in any one year during the term of seven years therein mentioned collect or receive or suffer to be collected or received from any person or persons above the seventh part of any arrear of Quit-rents by them or any of them then due and in arrear that all and every person and persons from whom any arrear of Quit-rents is now due and payable shall have the full benefit ease and effect of the said Covenant and that no prosecution shall be had or made for the recovery of any arrears of Quit-rents otherwise or in any other manner than His Majesty his Heirs or Successors could or might have prosecuted if this present Indenture had not been made without breach of the said Covenant but that His Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall be from time to time saved harmless of and from all Breaches of the said Covenant which may happen and of and from all Defalcations which can or may be demanded by the said Farmers for or by reason thereof and moreover No arrears of Quit-rents before 25th December 1668 shall be demanded for unprofitable Lands that no arrears of Quit-rents issuing out of or due or payable for or in respect of any unprofitable Lands upon or before the five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty eight shall at any time hereafter be sued for prosecuted or any way demanded AND FURTHER that it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty his Heirs and Successors His Majesty may authorize the Chief Governour and others to install any other debts or arrears due before 25th Decemb. 1670. so the same be not above eight half yearly payments the first to be made the 25th of December 1671 and none to extend beyond the 24th of June 1675 and so the same be not sufficiently secured from time to time and at all times hereafter to give full power and authority to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and such other person and persons as His Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall think fit to appoint to order the payment of any other debts or arrears which upon or before the five and twentieth day of December now last past were due and owing to His Majesty by such leasurely and proportionable payments and Enstallments as they in their wisdoms shall think just and equitable upon consideration had of each several and respective Case so alwayes that none of the said debts or arrears so to be installed be installed for any other or longer time then eight equal half yearly payments the first whereof to begin and to be made upon the five and twentieth day of December now next ensuing and no allowance of time or Enstallment hereafter to be made do extend beyond the four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy-five and so also as that the payment so to be installed be at the time of the installment thereof sufficiently secured The power of Enstallments not to extend to Farmers or Receivers of the Revenue to small sums to such who deny or dispute the debt or refuse without Suit to give security for payment by instalments NEVERTHELESS IT IS hereby declared That the Power and Authority so to be given as aforesaid shall in no sort extend to the installing of any debts or arrears due or to be due from any Farmers Receivers or Collectors of any part of His Majesties Revenue nor to the enstalling of any small or inconsiderable sums except the debtors thereof shall be found to be very poor and unable nor to give any benefit or ease of payment to such person or persons who shall deny or any way contest or dispute the debt in demand and will not own or acknowledge the same or shall refuse to give security for payment thereof by such Enstallments as shall be allowed without any further Process or Suit of Law AND for the further prevention of all disquiet or vexation which can or may happen to any of His Majesties Subjects
in Ireland by reason or occasion of this present undertaking the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon for themselves and every of them their and every of their Heirs Executors and Administrators No Suit at Law shall be made for any debt which is not of Record or already charged unless the Chief Governour be first satisfied that there are probable grounds and that His Majesty is justly entituled and might have sued for the same if this Indenture had not been made do further covenant grant and agree to and with His Majesty his Heirs and Successors that no Suit Process or other proceeding at Law whatsoever shall at any time hereafter be commenced or prosecuted by them the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon or any of them or any claiming by from or under them or any of them either in His Majesties name or in their or any of their own proper names for the recovery or bringing in of any debt now due or owing to His Majesty which is not a debt of Record or already charged unless the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland shall be first made acquainted therewith and shall be satisfied that there are good reasonable and probable grounds for such proceeding and that His Majesty is justly entitled thereunto and might have sued for the same if this Indenture had not been made AND to the end that all His Majesties Subjects of Ireland may the better take notice of the provision hereby made on their behalfs and for their ease and benefit The Chief Governour to issue Proclamations for Accomptants within a limited time to come in and clear Accompts and declaring to other Debtors the favâ—urable Installments intended them and requiring them to take effectual course to state and secure their respective debts His Majesty is pleased to declare That the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being shall be directed to issue out from time to time and as occasion shall require such Proclamations as shall be necessary thereby warning and requiring all Collectors Receivers and Accomptants within some reasonable time therein to be prefixed to come in and clear their Accounts and declaring and publishing to all others His Majesties Subjects who are any way indebted to His Majesty the favourable Enstallments of their debts hereby intended to them and requiring them and every of them within the time therein to be limited to take some speedy and effectual course for the stating and securing their respective Debts and Arrears that so they may be capable of the favour and grace hereby intended towards them R. V. R. c. shall give unto the Chief Governour and such others as His Majesty shall appoint an account of their proceedings in the management of the premisses and will observe their directions for the better and more easie execution of the powers and accomplishing the ends of this Indenture And the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon for themselves and every of them their and every of their Heirs Executors and Administrators do farther covenant grant and agree to and with His Majesty his Heirs and Successors that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them and all and every other person and persons claiming or to claim by from or under them or any of them shall and will from time to time as often as they shall be thereunto required give unto the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland for the time being and to such others as His Majesty shall thereunto authorize and appoint a just and true Accompt of all and every their proceedings in and about the premisses and the management thereof And also shall and will from time to time observe such Orders and directions as they shall receive from such Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour and other Persons as aforesaid for the better and more easie execution * 9. of the Powers and Authorities and accomplishing and fulfilling the ends intents and purposes of this present Indenture AND HIS MAJESTY for Himself his Heirs and Successors Further Covenants and powers from His Majesty hath covenanted and granted and by these presents doth covenant grant declare and agree to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon their Executors Administrators and assigns by these presents The general clause concerning defalcations in case of war plague c. That if at any time or times before the six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five any spreading infection of Plague or Pestilence or other great Mortality or any Depopulation or destruction of Houses by Fire or otherwise or any Publick open Warr or Domestick Rebellion or Insurrection or any other unavoidable Calamity shall be or happen within the said Realm of Ireland or any the Counties Cities Townes or Places of or within the same or if hereafter during the said terme any General Act of Pardon or Oblivion or other Act or thing shall be done or Passed by Authority of Parliament Or if His Majesty His Heirs or Successors shall at any time before the said six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five make any particular Pardon or Release or since the five and twentieth day of December now last past hath done or before the six and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy five shall cause to be done any other Act or thing whatsoever or if any Proclamation or other Act of State shall issue whereby or by reason or occasion whereof any of the Revenues Rents Profits Sums of money Debts or Arrears which ought to be received and applyed as aforesaid or any part thereof shall be pardoned suspended lessened diminished discompted reckoned extinguished or taken away other then such part thereof which is herein before excepted or whereof they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon have herein before undertaken to bear the loss and to Indemnifie His Majesty His Heirs and Successors from any Defalcation or whereby or by meanes whereof they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood
Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon or the survivors or survivor of them or the Executors or Administrators of the survivor of them shall or may be hindred or obstructed in having receiving collecting and levying the said Rents Revenues Debts and Arreares except as aforesaid THEN THEY The said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon their Executors Administrators and Assignes shall from time to time and in every or any of the said cases have such proportionable respit forbearances abatements defalcations and allowances out of the sums hereby undertaken to be paid as upon Consideration had of the Damage susteined and of the Proofs thereof made shall be thought reasonable the said allowances to be made by and with the approbation and order in writing of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland and Councel there for the time being or any six or more of them whereof the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of Ireland to be alwayes one or more and the said Richard Lord Ranelagh or any other person concerned in the present undertaking is alwayes to be excluded from any Vote herein and these Presents or the Enrollment thereof shall be to them and every of them a sufficient Warrant and Authority without any other or further Warrant or Declaration of the Pleasure of His Majesty His Heires or Successors in that behalf to be obtained AND HIS MAJESTY For Himself Full Power given to R. V. R. c. in their own or His Majesties Name to sue for recover and take Execution for all Debts and Arrears in any of His Majesties Courts as His Majesty by Law Prerogative or otherwise might do if this Indenture were not made and to apply the same to the uses undertaken and to detain the surplus to their own use without any accompt to be therefore rendred to His Majesty in any wise His Heires and Successors hath Covenanted and Granted and by these Presents doth further Covenant and Grant to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon that they and every of them their and every of their Executors and Administrators shall have full power and authority either in their or any of their name or names or in the name of His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or any of them and at their own proper cost and charges to implead sue and prosecute as well all and every person and persons their heires executors and assignes and every or any of them as shall or may by any meanes be found not to have paid or be indebted charged or answerable to His Majesty His Heires or Successors for any the Rents Revenues Profits Debts Sums of Money or Arrears herein before mentioned or for any part or parcell thereof either in His Majesties Court of Exchequer at Dublin or in any other Court of Record whatsoever either in England or Ireland in as full and ample manner as His Majesty might lawfully have done if this present Indenture had not been made and to take execution of all and every the sums of money so to be recovered and the same to have and receive and apply to the uses intents and purposes herein before undertaken to be performed and the surplus thereof if any shall remain after the said undertaking duely satisfied and performed to retain and keep to his and their own proper uses without any account or other matter or thing to be therefore rendered to His Majesty His Heires or Successors in any wise and to proceed sue and prosecute in for and concerning the premises as fully and amply and in such and the like manner and forme as our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors of His or their Regall Power Prerogative and Authority or by the Laws of His Majesties Realms and Dominions should or might have done if this Present Indenture had not been made AND These Presents or the Inrollment thereof shall be to all and every our Officers whom it shall or may concerne Power to R.V.R. c. their Deputies Agents and Servants to view search examine and take copies of all records books papers or other memorialls concerning the Premises without charge or paying of any fee for the same a sufficient Warrant and Authority in that behalfe AND HIS MAJESTY DOTH hereby straightly charge and command all and every the Officers and Ministers of His Courts and all and every other person and persons whatsoever in whose custody any Rolls Records Books Papers or other memorialls whatsoever touching or concerning the Premises either in England or Ireland do or shall remaine that they and every of them do from time to time and at all times hereafter during the continuance of this present Undertaking permit and suffer the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon and all and every their Deputies Agents and Servants to view inspect search and examine the said Rolls Books Papers and Records and to take Copies of the same the said Copies to be made by the respective Officers 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 AND HIS MAJESTY is well pleased and doth by these Presents for Himself R. V.R. c. to be freed from all Publick employments which would hinder their attendance on this service His Heires and Successors Covenant Grant and Agree to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them and willeth and ordaineth that they and every of them and all and every of their Deputies Agents Officers and Servants as much as His Majesty may lawfully and by the Orders and Customes of those Places where they or any of them or any of their Deputies Agents Officers or Servants shall inhabit tollerate and dispence with shall be freed and discharg'd from all publick Offices and Services which would require their or any of their personall attendance and might withdraw them or any of them from their necessary attendance in and upon the Execution of their present service herein before undertaken to be performed AND HIS MAJESTY is pleased further to Covenant and Agree R. V. R. c. may at their own Cost and Charges have Constats Exemplifications and Duplicates of this Indenture without any further order or direction that they the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them their and
every of their Executors and Administrators shall and may at their proper cost and charges have as many Constats Exemplifications and Duplicates of these Presents or of any Covenant Article or Sentence therein contained and of every and such Part and Parcel of the same and when and as often as to them or any of them shall seem meet And these Presents or the Enrollment of the same shall be to the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland for the time being * 10 As also to the Lord Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer and to all and every Officer and Minister in England or Ireland to whom it shall or may appertain a sufficient Warrant and Authority for allowing granting and passing the same and that without any further or other Grant or Warrant from His Majesty His Heires or Successors to be had procured or obtained in that behalfe AND OUR SAID SOVERAIGNE LORD the Kings Majejesty His Majesty commands all His Officers and Ministers to be aiding and assisting to the said R. V.R. c. in as ample manner as they ought to doe unto His Majesty if this Indenture had not been made doth by these Presents for Him His Heires and Successors straightly Charge and Command all and every Justices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables and Head-borroughs and other Officers of and within every City Borrough Town within the Realm of Ireland and all other His Majesties Officers and Ministers whatsoever whether Civil or Military that they and every of them be from time to time aiding and assisting unto the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them their and every of their Executors Administrators Deputies Factors and servants in the due Execution of all and every the afore-mentioned Premises according to the true intent and meaning of these Presents whether it be in and about the levying or recovering any of the Rents Revenues Debts or sums of Money herein before-mentioned or the arreares thereof by distress seizures entries and due proceedings thereupon or otherwise in the due recovering thereof or any part thereof in as large ample beneficial and diligent wise order and manner whatsoever as they and every of them should or ought to have been recovered to our said Soveraign Lord the King His Heires or Successors by any manner of meanes if this present Indenture had never been had nor made upon pain of His Majesties indignation and displeasure and of such further paines penalties and imprisonments as by the Lawes and Statutes of the said Realm can or may be inflicted upon them for their negligence and contempt in that behalfe AND His Majsties will and pleasure is His Majesty commands the Judges of the Exchequer to award Writs and to cause Process to be executed concerning the premisses That the Lord Treasurer of Ireland Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer there for the time being or any three or more of them whereof the Lord Treasurer Chancellor or Chief Baron of the Exchequer for the time being to be one shall have by force of these presents full Power and Authority to make forth and award Writs under the Seal of the said Court of Exchequer for that purpose according to the Order and Course of the said Court and the Contemners of the said Writs to punish in such sort as by the course of the said Court hath been accustomed AND in an especial manner His Majesties will and pleasure is That the Lord Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellour and Barons of his Exchequer there or any three of them whereof the said Treasurer Vice-Treasurer Chancellour or Chief Baron to be one do strictly require and enjoyn all and every the Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables and other Officers who are or shall be authorized employed or directed to levy any the said Rents Revenues Debts Sums of Money or Arrears or any of them or otherwise to execute any Process concerning the same that they do in their several places from time to time with diligence and faithfulness do and perform the same without partiality and delay and after execution or receipts otherwise thereof either make speedy returns of such speedy payment thereof as they ought and as shall be in that behalf requisite His Majesty will give R. V. R. c. such further Covenants and Grants as shall be reasonably advised for the full and quiet having and enjoying and such other powers and authorities for levying and collecting the premisses and such aid and assistance from His Majesty his Privy Council Exchequer Courts of Justice and all other his Officers and Ministers as any Commissioners Receivers Collectors Farmers and other Ministers of His Majesties Revenue in England or Ireland ever had or ought to have and as in this case shall be thought fit and reasonable AND HIS MAJESTY doth hereby declare and agree That He his Heirs and Successors shall and will from time to time upon humble suit on that behalf made give such further Covenants and Grants for the full and quiet having and enjoying the premisses according to the true intent and meaning of these presents as shall be in that behalf reasonably advised and such other power and authority for levying and collecting the premisses and such aid and assistance from His Majesty and his Privy Council His Majesties Court of Exchequer and the Officers thereof and all other His Majesties Courts of Justice and all other his Officers and Ministers whatsoever as any Commissioners Receivers Collectors Farmers and other Ministers of any part of His Majesties Revenue in England or Ireland ever had or ought to have and as in this Case shall be thought fit and reasonable This Indenture to be inrolled in Ireland within six months PROVIDED ALWAYES That if the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon or some of them shall not within the space of six months next ensuing the date hereof cause this present Indenture to be enrolled in His Majesties High Court of Chancery in Ireland and in the Office of His Majesties Remembrancer there that then and in such case and for every such default the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon their Executors and Administrators and every of them shall forfeit and lose unto His Majesty his Heirs and Successors the sum of One hundred pounds for each month after the said six months expired wherein the said Indenture shall remain and continue without enrollment thereof made in manner and form aforesaid His Majesty or Chief Governour will after 25th Decemb. 1675 until 25th December 1677 authorize R. V. R. c. to levy receive compound or discharge all moneys and arrears
comprehended in this agreement which before 25th December 1675 shall be brought in charge upon Record as amply as His Majesty might if this Indenture were not made AND MOREOVER HIS MAJESTY for Himself his Heirs and Successors doth covenant and grant to and with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon and every of them their and every of their Heirs Executors and Administrators That His Majesty his Heirs and Suceessors or the Lord Lieutenant or Deputy or other Chief Governour or Governours of the said Kingdom of Ireland for the time being shall and will after the five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred seventy five and until the five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred seventy and seven from time to time sufficiently authorize the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon or such as they shall nominate and appoint as far as the Laws and Statutes of Ireland will permit to demand levy collect recover receive and take or otherwise compound for and discharge all sums of money and the arrearages thereof which after the date of these presents and before the five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred seventy and five shall be ascertained and brought into charge upon Record and which if they had been duly collected and levied during the said term should and ought to have been answered and paid unto them the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon in as full and ample manner as His Majesty could or ought to have collected or levied the same if this present Indenture had never been had or made AND LASTLY HIS MAJESTY is hereby graciously pleased to declare and grant This Indenture shall be construed and taken most favourably and beneficially for the said R. V. R. c. and for the better enabling them to execute and perform this undertaking That these His Letters Patents and the Covenants and Agreements on the part of His Majesty herein contained shall be construed adjudged deemed and taken in all and every His Majesties Courts of Record and elsewhere within his said Kingdom of Ireland most favourably and beneficially for the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon their Executors Administrators and Assigns and for the better enabling them to execute and perform the said undertaking In witness whereof to the one part of this Indenture His Majesty to one part of the Indenture hath affixed the Great Seal of England and R. V. R. c. have put their hands and seals to the other part remaining with the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty hath caused the Great Seal of England to be affixed and to the other part of this Indenture remaining with our said Soveraign Lord the King the said Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir Iames Hayes Iohn Bence George Dashwood Ioseph Deane Robert Huntingdon Iohn Stepney and Richard Kingdon have set their hands and Seals the day and year first above-written Annoque Domini 1671. August 1671. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli 2. Vicessimo tertio HIs Majesties Covenants and Agreements with Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh Sir Alexander Bence Sir James Hayes John Bence George Dashwood Joseph Deane Robert Huntingdon John Stepney and Richard Kingdon whereby in consideration of their undertaking to defray His Majesties growing Charge in Ireland and to pay the Arrears of the Establishments there and other debts owing by His Majesty and Fourscore thousand pounds more to his Majesty His Majesty is pleased to covenant that all the Arrears of Rent reserved upon the Farm of the Revenue in Ireland and all the growing Rents until the 25th of December 1675 and all his Majesties Treasure and ready money in Ireland due or owing to his Majesty by Imprest or otherwise and all his Majesties Revenue certain and casual shall during the said Term be applied to the uses by them undertaken and that they shall have the Surplus to their own use but all Revenue arising by new Acts of Parliament and hereafter to be passed and the lapsed moneys the 30000 li. payable by the Roman Catholicks the English Arrears and the Profits of doubling Ordnance Lands are excepted The Lord Viscount Ranelagh and the rest covenant with his Majesty to defray his Majesties whole Charge of the Kingdom of Ireland from the 25th of December 1670 unto the 25th of December 1675 not exceeding 171843 li. 5 s. 6 d. in any one year and all Arrears of Pay due to the Military List upon the last of December 1670 not exceeding 139001 li. 11 s. 4 d. and to the Civil List not exceeding 4000 li. and to the Train of Artillery not exceeding 1147 li. and the 70000 li. advanced by the Farmers the moneys lent by Sir William Bucknall not exceeding 11500 li. the Customs of Londonderry not exceeding 4000 li. the money due for Phenix Parke not exceeding 10000 li. to Patrick Archer 6294 li. for Arms and Ammunition sent from hence 6076 li. The moiety of Ten Moneths Arrears not exceeding 20394 li. 19 s. 00 d. To the Earl of Anglesey 2500 li. To the Lord Arlington 6250 li. To the Daughters of Collonel Lane 6000 li. To the Lord Archbishop of Dublin 2500 li. To Francis and Elizabeth Jones 3500 li. To John St. Leger Esquire 400 li. out of the Ballance of Sir George Carletons Accompt and to the Lady Faulkland out of the Prize Goods 3000 li. They are also to save his Majesty harmless from all Defalcations to be demanded by the Farmers and to pay his Majesty 80000 li. for his own use within two years after the 25th of December 1675 and that the Duke of Ormond shall receive 50000 li. and the Earl of Suffolk 30000 li. out of the proper Fonds whereon they are charged and that his Majesty shall have the disposal of 7155 li. due on the ballance of the Earl of Angleseys Account and 19491 li. due on the ballance of Sir George Carterets Account His Majesty doth hereby covenant that the Commission of Enquiry now on foot shall be forthwith superseded That all respits of Quit-rents and other sums due to his Majesty shall be forthwith determined That the Composition with the Commission Officers shall not be obstructed but perfected as begun and intended and the Grantees to have the benefit thereof That his Majesty will forthwith renew his Letters to the Chief Governour and Council of Ireland to re-applot
THE STATE OF His Majesties Revenue IN IRELAND As the same was Given in to the Right Honourable the LORDS COMMISSIONERS of His Majesties Treasury in England By Francis Lord Angier Vice-Treasurer of IRELAND AND ALSO The Humble Proposals OF THE Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount RANELAGH Upon the said STATE TOGETHER WITH His Majesties Contract THEREUPON Concerning His whole Revenue in IRELAND BY LETTERS PATENTS Bearing date the 4th of August 1672. In the SAVOY Printed by Tho. Newcomb 1673. FUIMUS The Right honble Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill Son Heir Apparent of Thomas Earl of Ailasbury Baron Bruce of Whorleton A STATE of HIS MAJESTIES YEARLY REVENUE and CHARGE IN IRELAND From the 25 th of December 1669 to the 25 th of December 1675 being the time when the present Farm determines From the 25 th of December 1669 to the 25 th of December 1670. Reven Hearth-money Wine-Licences Quit-rents 91500 00 00 Customs 75000 00 00 Inland Excise 39000 00 00 Total 205500 00 00 Abatements Anno 1870 Abatement allowed by the second Contract 11378 00 00 Salaries of the Commissioners 02750 00 00 Interest of the 70000 li. 07000 00 00 Quit-rents abated to the Duke of Ormond 05000 00 00 Quit-rents respited and discharged and for Lands in the Kings hands 12929 03 08 ¾ Total 39057 03 08 ¾ Clear Revenue payable this year 166442 16 03 ¼ His Majesties Charge To the Military List 155341 13 07 To the Civil List 16501 11 11 Total Charge 171843 05 06 Clear Revenue deduct 166442 16 03 ¼ The Charge exceeds the Revenue this year 5490 09 02 ¾ From the 25 th of December 1670 to the 25 th of December 1671. Revenue Hearth-money Wine-Licences Quit-rents c. 091500 00 00 Customs c. 075000 00 00 Inland Excise for the first quarter ending 25th March 1671 009750 00 00 Inland Excise for the remaining three quarters 039750 00 00 Total 216000 00 00 Abatements Anno 1671. Abatement allowed by the second Contract 014771 10 00 All the other Abatements mentioned in the Accompt of the last year comes to 027679 03 08 ¾ Total 042450 13 08 ¾ Clear Revenue payable this year 173549 06 03 ¼ Charge The Charge of the Civil and Military Lists as before 171843 05 06 Excess of the Revenue above the Charge 001706 00 09 ½ From the 25 th of December 1671 to the 25 th of December 1672. Reven Hearth-money Wine-Licences Quit-rents 091500 00 00 Customs 075000 00 00 Inland Excise 053000 00 00 Total 219500 00 00 Abatements Anno 1672. Abatement allowed by the second Contract 015000 00 00 All the other Abatements amount unto 027679 03 08 ¾ Total 042679 03 08 ¾ Clear Revenue payable this year 176820 16 03 ¼ Charge The Charge of both Lists 171843 05 06 Excess of the Revenue above the Charge 004977 10 09 ¼ From the 25 th of December 1672 to the 25 th of December 1673. Reven Hearth-money Wine-Licences Quit-rents c. 091500 00 00 Customs c. 075000 00 00 Inland Excise 053000 00 00 Total 219500 00 00 Abatements Anno 1673. Allowed the same as the first year 042679 03 08 ¾ Clear Revenue payable this year 176820 16 03 ¼ Charge The Charge of both Lists 171843 05 06 Excess of the Revenue above the Charge 004977 10 09 ¼ From the 25 th of December 1673 to the 25 th of December 1674. Reven Hearth-money Wine-Licences Quit-rents c. 091500 00 00 Customs c. 075000 00 00 Inland Excise 053000 00 00 Total 219500 00 00 Abatements Anno 1674. Abatements allowed as before 042679 03 08 ¾ Clear Revenue payable this year 176820 16 03 ¼ Charge The Charge of both Lists 171843 05 06 Excess of the Revenue above the Charge 004977 10 09 ¼ From the 25 th of December 1674 to the 25 th of December 1675. Reven Hearth-money Wine-Licences Quit-rents c. 091500 00 00 Customs c. 075000 00 00 Inland Excise 053000 00 00 Total 219500 00 00 Abatements Anno 1675. Abatements allowed as before 042679 03 08 ¾ Clear Revenue payable this year 176820 16 03 ½ Charge Charge of both Lists 171843 05 06 Excess of the Revenue above the Charge 004977 10 09 ¼ So that when the said Farm determines viz. the 25th day of December 1675 the Annual Revenue will exceed the Annual Charge the sum of 016215 14 07 ½ A STATE of HIS MAJESTIES DEBTS TO THE CIVIL and MILITARY LISTS c. Due to the Kings Guard of Horse for 12 months pay ending the last of December 1670 07677 12 00 Due to 29 Troops more 12 months ending the last of December 1670 56935 04 00 Due to 61 Companies of Foot 12. months ending the last of December 1670 53642 08 00 Due to the Regiment of Guards 11. months pay ending the 30th of December 1670 20746 07 04  139001 11 04 Advanced by the new Farmers 070000 00 00 Lent by Alderman Bucknall 10000 li. which with interest at 10 li. per Cent. and Exchange at 5 li. per Cent. comes to 011500 00 00 To the City of Londonderry 004000 00 00 For Lands inclosed in the Parke 010000 00 00 Arrears of the Civil List about 004000 00 00 Due for Arms and Ammunition sent out of England 006076 00 00 Due to Patrick Archer 006294 05 00 Due to the Train of Artillery 001147 05 02 Insolvent Assignments due to the Army 010000 00 00 Due to the Earl of Anglesey to be paid out of forfeited Recognizances 002500 00 00 Due to the Lord Arlington being the remainder of 10000 l. granted to him 006250 00 00 Part of the 10 months arrear due to the Army in the Lords Justices time 040789 18 00 To Collonel Lane's Daughters 006000 00 00 Total Debt 317558 19 06 Towards the discharging which Debts there is in prospect these particular Funds that follow The Overplus of the Revenue above the Charge at the end of the Farm 016215 14 07 ½ Out of the 50000 li. reserved to the King by the Act of Explanation 010000 00 00 By the Assignment of the Duke of Ormond to His Majesty out of the years value 025000 00 00 In arrear upon Sir Alexander Bence for the Inland Excise 008000 00 00 By contract with the 49. men out of their share of the years value 050000 00 00 Total in view 109215 14 07 ½ So there remains unpaid 203343 04 10 ½ To discharge which there is no Fund left of His Majesties Revenue but to the product of the Old Arrears upon the Commission of Inquiry now on foot and the casual Revenue the Quantum whereof cannot be ascertained This was given in to His Majesty and the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Angier Vice-Treasurer of Ireland THE Lord Ranelaghs SHORT PROPOSALS I Do Humbly offer to pay Your Majesties Charge and Debts mentioned in the State of Your Revenue given You in by the Vice-Treasurer as far as Your Majesty is obliged That the Farmers should continue their Bargain as now
it stands And that I would besides give Your Majesty Fourscore thousand pounds sterling to be paid in two years from the end of the Farm by equal Portions half yearly Your Majesty superceding the Commission of Enquiry lately issued and impowering me to Receive the Benefit of all that is or shall be due or payable to You until the 26 of December 1675. excepting any Addition to Your Revenue that shall hereafter be made by Act of Parliament and excepting 7000 l. being the Ballance of the Earl of Anglesey's Account and about 20000 l. being the Ballance of Sir George Carteret's Account This I do now Humbly offer to Your Majesty that my Proposal may not be either forgotten or mistaken whilst I am preparing to put it into better form TO THE KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTY The Humble Proposals of Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh THat the Charge of His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland not exceeding what it is computed to be in a Paper styled The State of Your Majesties Revenue delivered in by your Vice-Treasurer shall from the 25 of December 1670. until the 26 of December 1675. be fully and duely answered and discharged excepting what ought to be deducted for Cheques made by your Majesties sworn Officers That all arrears of Pay due to your Martial and Civil Lists at or on the last day of December last past according to the establishment and all other Debts mentioned in the aforesaid State which your Majesty is obliged to pay shall before the 25 of December 1675. be fully paid and discharged and that without any Composition or Defalcation except the Fees and Cheques usually and duely made and except what shall be found to be still due of the Ten months Arrears in the Lords Justices time which hath all along been compounded for one half and so much every body concerned therein shall have That all such Defalcations as shall appear to be justly due unto the late Farmers of your Majesties Customs Imported Inland Excize Licenses for Ale and Beer Licenses for Wine Aquavitae and Strong-waters during the two years and three quarters of the late War with the Dutch shall be adjusted and setled in such manner as your Majesty shall be wholly freed and discharged from any Demand for or concerning the same That the present Farmers of His Majesties Revenue in Ireland may continue their Farms under the Articles Covenants Conditions and Provisions mentioned in their several Grants and that any pretence of Defalcation by them shall be solely determined in such manner as by their several Agreements is and was appointed without any Lett or Interruption therein That your Majesty shall have and dispose of as you shall think fit the Ballances of the Earl of Anglesey's Account and the Ballance of Sir George Carteret's Account being 20000 l. or thereabouts That as to any addition which shall hereafter be made to your Majesties Revenue by Act of Parliament the Proposer will in no wise pretend thereunto or intermeddle therewith That the Proposer over and above the Payments and Discharges to be made as aforesaid will be engaged to pay your Majesty 80000 l. sterling within the space of two years to commence from the 25 of December 1675. by four equal Portions half yearly That Your Majesty may continue the Excize of Your Royal Prerogative and Power to Suspend Mitigate Reduce or Pardon any Particulars under the survey of the Greenwax and any Fines and Forfeitures upon Penal Laws other then such as relate to your Revenue and for appointing Commissioners for reducements thereof But that all such Moneys which after such reducements shall be Payable Levied or Received by Your Majesties Officers shall belong to the Proposer That as for any payment due to Your Majesty from the Clergy for First Fruits or Twentieth Parts the Proposer will be concluded by such Returns as shall be made by the Commissioners lately impowred for that purpose under the Great Seal of Ireland That to the end Your Majesties Revenue may not be diverted out of its proper and usual Channel The Proposer Declares That all Moneys due and payable to Your Majesty whither upon the account of the present Farms Arrears or otherwise shall be answered and brought into the Receipt of Your Majesties Exchequer in the same manner as formerly to be there ready to answer the Vses herein undertaken That all Warrants for the issuing out of any of Your Majesties said Revenue shall be Signed and Ordered as formerly by your Majesty or Chief Governor and directed to the Proposer who will forthwith answer the same according to the intent of these Proposals That the 30000 l. Granted by Your Majesty to the Earl of Suffolk shall be satisfied out of the proper Fond whereon it is Charged That it is not intended hereby to abridge Your Majesty from Granting Leasing or Confirming unto any Person or Persons c. any Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within Your said Kingdom which are yet undisposed of or to which Your Majesties Title hereafter shall be made appear so that the Quit-Rents or the Crown-Rents which shall be found most for Your Majesties profit be reserved and no Arrears or mean Profits due thereon be remitted That to prevent and avoid the many and sad consequences which may happen by a speedy and rigid Levying and bringing in of Your Majesties Debts and Dues and to secure and ease Your Subjects from any unnecessary trouble unjust vexations or double payments It is Humbly Proposed 1. THat all Persons in Arrears for Quit-Rents shall have the full benefit and effect of a Covenant for Instalments already made between Your Majesty and the present Farmers of Your Revenue 2. That a Power may be given to Your Governors and such others whom Your Majesty shall think fit to appoint for Installing all other the Debts Arrears c. due to Your Majesty on or before the 25 of December 1670. where they shall see cause upon consideration had upon every respective Case so that none of them be installed for above eight half yearly Payments of which none to extend beyond the 24 day of June 1675. And that the payment so Installed be sufficiently secured But this Power not to extend to any Farmers Receivers or Collectors who either are or have been of Your Majesties Revenue nor to any small or inconsiderable Sums except the Debtors be found very unable nor to any who shall not own the Debts or will not consent to secure the Payments thereof by such Installments without Suits at Law 3. That nothing which is not now in charge shall be sued for or Levied until satisfaction be first given to the chief Governor and such others whom Your Majesty shall please to appoint that there is good grounds for so doing and that Your Majesty is justly entituled thereunto 4. That the chief Governour may be directed to issue out Proclamations as occasion shall require whereby all Collectors Receivers and Accomptants may be warned within a reasonable time to come in
and clear their Accounts And that all other Your Subjects who are any ways indebted to Your Majesty may have notice of the Favour of Installments intended and accordingly may take some effectual course to state and secure their respective Debts and Arrears That a just Account shall from time to time be given to Your chief Governour and such others whom Your Majesty shall think fit to appoint of all proceedings in the management of this undertaking and any directions from them which may conduce to the better and more easie carrying on of this work shall be most willingly embraced and that in all matters of Law in which may occur the Judgements and Decrees of Your Court of Exchequer shall be conclusive As concerning what is to be Granted Covenanted and Agreed by Your Majesty to and for the Proposers encouragement it is Humbly tendered That the Commission of Enquiry now on foot may forthwith be Superceded That all Respits of Quitrents and other Sums now due to Your Majesty be forthwith determined That the Composition with the 49 Officers may not be obstructed but perfected as intended and that the benefit arising thereby to Your Majesty mentioned in this said State may belong to the Proposer for the carrying on of the Vses undertaken That Your Majesty will renew Your Letter to the chief Governor and the Council to reapplot the deficiency of the years value but that therewith all Your Majesties Grace and Favour may be extended to Your Subjects in allowing them four years for the payment thereof That as well the Arrears as growing Rents and Profits of the present Farm of Your Majesties Revenue until the 26 of December 1675. including the last Quarters Rent then due though not payable And also all the Moneys now in Your Majesties Treasury or due by Imprest or otherwise may be wholly imployed to the uses herein undertaken and to be from time to time accepted and accounted as payable for the said Vses That Your Majesty will be pleased sufficiently to Commissionate and Impower such able and fit Persons as the Proposer shall nominate and Your Majesty approve of to be Your Officers and Ministers Granting to them such Power and Authority as shall be thought requisite without interrupting the present Farmers or their Officers in Collecting and bringing in the Revenue under their Charge in Your Majesties name and with the assistance of Your Officers to Mannage Levy Collect Sue for Recover and Receive all and every Your Majesties Revenues Certain and Casual Ordinary and Extraordinary whatsoever not hitherto remitted or pardoned as well such as upon or before the said 25 of December 1670. were in arrears and yet unpaid as such which from and after the said time until the 26 of December 1675. including the Rents and Payments which shall be due for the time preceding the said day were or shall be by any matter of Record or otherwise howsoever due owing or payable to Your Majesty or which might or ought to have been or may before the 26 of December 1675. be Taxed Levied Collected Recovered Answered for Paid or Payable to Your Majesty out of or for all or any the Estates Real and Personal of any Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate or otherwise by reason of any Tax Subsidy Assessment Imposition Contract Covenant and Agreement Account Debt Sum or Sums of Money Matter or Thing Imposed Made Issued or which did or shall arise grow due or payable within the said Kingdom of Ireland before the said 26 of December 1675. excepting the particulars before proposed to be excepted That the Proposer and the Persons to be Commissionated as aforesaid may Have Receive and Enjoy the full benefit and advantage of all Your Majesties said Arrears and growing Revenue now in charge or that which hereafter may be in charge or discovered and not before excepted without being Answerable or Accountable to Your Majesty after this their undertaking shall be accomplished but that the same being accordingly performed by them they may Receive Retain and Enjoy the whole Surplus of the Revenue to their own proper uses without further Account and be absolutely discharged as to Your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors of and for the same That the said Persons may have such farther Power and Concessions requisite both to make Your Majesties Grant herein effectual in Law to them and for the better enabling them to perform the said undertaking as are usual or useful in cases of the like nature so that the same extend not to the Demand of any Defalcations out of the sums hereby undertaken to be paid other then by reason of the hand of God unavoidable necessity or Your Majesties own Act. AN INDEX TO His Majesties CONTRACT WITH RICHARD Lord Viscount RANELAGH and his Partners concerning His Majesties whole Revenue in IRELAND dated the 4 th of August 1671. PReamble of the Indenture dated the 4th of August 1671 Page 1. Parties to the Indenture Page 1. Recital of a former Indenture or Grant 12. July 1669 to John Forth and ten others of the great Branches of the Revenue in Ireland for seven years from 25th December 1675 at 206250 li. for the year ending the 25th December 1671 and 219500 li. per annum the remaining four years Page 1. Recital of the Patent of Abatements August 3. 1669 to John Forth and eight others whereby the Rent reserved for the year ending the 25th of December 1671 will be reduced to 191476 li. 10 s. and to 204500 li. per annum the remaining four years Page 2. His Majesty taking into consideration the state of his Revenue and the Charge of his Government in Ireland admits and accepts of Proposals from Richard Viscount Ranelagh for himself and others for the receiving and issuing his whole Revenue from 25th December 1670 to the 26th of December 1675 Page 3. The Body of this Indenture Page 3. The Chief Covenants in the present Indenture from His Majesty to the Viscount Ranelagh and his Partners and the consideration thereof Page 3. From the 4th of August 1671 to the 26th of December 1675 all His Majesties Rents and Arrears of the great Branches of the Revenue His Majesties Treasure and ready money which are or shall be in the Treasury or due by Imprest or otherwise and all other His Majesties Revenue during the said time shall be issued out and applied onely to the uses undertaken by R. Viscount Ranelagh and his Partners except what shall be requisite to defray the Charges of this Vndertaking Page 4. The Moneys which are or shall be received by His Majesties Vice-Treasurer or paid to any within the Establishment shall be accepted as so much of the growing charge of the year commencing from the last of December 1670 Page 4. R. V. R. c. shall not be obliged to defray more of the first years charge than would remain to be answered if the monies received and paid by His Majesties Vice-Treasurer since the 25th of December 1670 had been