Hugh Earl of Mount-Alexander and his Hiers with benefit of reprizal in case of restitution as Adventurers by the said former Act ought to have had as in and by the said former Act more at large appears since which time the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act have by their Decree adjudged James Allen to be innocent and restored the said Lands to the said James Allen and his Heirs against which Decree an appeal was made to His Majestie by a Petition exhibited by William Montgomery Esq on the behalf of the now Earl of Mount-Alexander an Infant Sonn Heir of Hugh late Earl of Mount-Alexander on hearing of which case and on the defence made by Colonel Richard Talbot to whom part of the lands restored by the said Decree were for good and valuable considerations and by sufficient assurances in Law legally conveyed by the said James Allen His Majestie thought not fit to alter the said Decree or weaken any of the said assurances His Majestie is therefore graciously pleased that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall set out and allot or cause to be set out and allotted unto the now Earl of Mount-Alexander his Heirs and Assignes so much other undisposed forfeited lands as may be equal in quantity of acres unto two full third parts of the lands so evicted and recovered by Decree as aforesaid and that Letters Patents shall be thereof passed in like manner and shall be of like effect as any other Letters Patents granted by virtue of this Act are or ought to be And whereas in and by certain Letters Patents passed under the Great Seal of Ireland and bearing date the Seaventh day of March in the twelfth year of the Raign of His Majesties Royal Father the Territories and precinct of Feartry in the County of Wicklow and certain other Mannors lands and Tenements in the said Letters Patents contained were thereby given and granted unto Sir John Coke knight and his Heirs his late Majesties principal Secretary of Estate And whereas Thomas Coke late of Grayes-Inn in the County of Middlesex His Majesties Sollicitor Generall sonn of the said Sir John Cooke Deceased was in his life time lawfully seized of or otherwise intitled unto the said Territory and precinct of Feartry and other the lands and Tenements in the said Letters Patents contained the Inheritance whereof after the Death of the said Thomas Coke Deceased did descend and come or of right ought to have descended and came unto _____ Coke an infant onely Sonn and Heir of the said Thomas Coke Deceased Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no sequestration or allotment of any of the lands or Tenements in the said Letters Patents contained to any Adventurer or Souldier shall any way Barr or weaken the right or title of him the said _____ Coke in or the said lands or Tenements but that he the said _____ Coke shall and may hold enjoy the same to him and his Heirs according to the tenor and effect of the said Letters Patents any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas in this and the said former Act great care is taken of the relict and Heirs of Sir Simon Harcourt Knight Deceased upon whom his Majesties Royall Father did by Letters under his Privie Signet appoint that lands of the value of four hundred pounds per annum to be taken out of the forfeited estate of Luke Nettervill should be settled part of which estate together with certain Houses in Dublin were set out accordingly and the relict and Heirs of Sir Simon Harcourt thereof possessed at the time of His Majesties late Gracious Declaration and so still are which lands and Houses together are as is alleaged still short of the value of four hundred pounds per annum intended to be settled as aforesaid It is therefore Explained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for Sir Philip Harcourt Knight son and heir of Sir Simon Harcourt Knight to hold and enjoy to him and his heirs the houses in the City of Dublin so as aforesaid set out and possessed so as the houses and lands together do not exceed the value of Four hundred pounds per annum Any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Thomas Cunningham and Captain Lewis Dick in the year One thousand six hundred forty two pretended to have performed acceptable services against the then Rebels in Ireland by hindering provision coming to them by Sea and by relieving the English Garrisons which were in distress wherein they so far gained belief as that they obtained from the Treasurer for the Irish Adventurers and acknowledgement that they paid in Seven thousand pounds as money adventured and for which they likewise had a certificate from the Committee of Adventurers sitting at Grocers-Hall in London And howbeit the said Thomas Cunningham or Captain Lewis Dick never did any service on the coast of Ireland according to the said undertaking nor paid in any money as other Adventurers did yet by colour of the said certificate there were set out for the said Seven thousand pounds the number of fifteen thousand five hundred fifty and five acres of Land in the County of Tipperary and Limerick whereof they the said Thomas Cunningham and Captain Lewis Dick or their Assigns were possessed the seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine Now least by the general rule of the present settlement the said number of acres or two third parts thereof so unduly obtained as aforesaid should be secured to the said Thomas Cunningham and Captain Lewis Dick or their Assigns His Majestie is graciously pleased that it be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said fifteen thousand five hundred fifty five acres so set out as aforesaid for and on pretence of the said Seven thousand pounds shall be remain and continue and are hereby vested in his Majestie His Heirs and Successors for ever Provided nevertheless That if the said Thomas Cunningham and Captain Lewis Dick their Heirs or Assigns shall within two months after the Royal Assent shall be actually given to this present Bill make it appear by full and clear proof before the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council of Ireland that the said Adventure money of Seven thousand pounds was really and bona fide issued and paid in pursuant to the several Acts made by His late Sacred Majestie for reducing the Rebels of Ireland then they shall have the like benefit and advantage by the said Adventure and out of the said fifteen thousand five hundred fifty five acres as other Adventurers are to have by virtue of this present Act. Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours
four Courts in Dublin between two and five of the Clock in the afternoon shall think fit and assess which said sum or sums so to be assessed and raised shall not exceed two pence for every profitable Acre which shall be by virtue of this Act confirmed unto them their Heirs and Assignes now in their possessions or at any time hereafter shall be confirmed upon them respectively and shall be paid unto the Receivers herein after mentioned and shall be disposed by them or any three or more of them for and toward the end aforesaid and not otherwise Provided alwayes that of the three there be alwayes one of the Peers and two of the Commoners before specified and for default of payment of any summ or summs so assessed it shall and may be lawful to and for the persons aforesaid or any three or more of them or such other person or persons as they shall direct and appoint to levy by distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of such person or persons so making default double the summ that shall be upon him or them assessed and in arrears rendering the overplus to the partie distrained And whereas amongst several Bils certified and transmitted under the Great Seal of Ireland unto his Majestie in his High Court of Chancery in England by a certificate bearing date at Dublin the thirteenth day of May in the sixteenth year of His Majesties Raign a Bill is transmitted intitled an Act for settling of Certain lands of Erasmus Smith Esq for charitable uses Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the said Bill mentioned and thereby intended to be disposed for charitable uses and not already Decreed away by the Commissioners for Execution of the said former Act shall be continued applyed unto and preserved intirely for such pious and charitable uses and that the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall not allot or distribute the said lands or any part thereof or suffer the same to be allotted or distributed to any Adventurer or Souldier in pursuance of this Act And where any of the lands set out by the said Erasmus Smith to pious or charitable uses have been evicted recovered or charged by any Decrees which are confirmed by this Act the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall cause a like quantity of forfeited and profitable Acres within the County of Lowth if so much can there be found or otherwise elsewhere to be set our and allotted to the same pious uses as may be sufficient to recompence the loss which hath hapned by such Decrees as aforesaid any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding and Whereas several lands and Tenements in the County of Tipperary heretofore in the possession of Erasmus Smith upon the Seaventh day of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine and claimed by him as an Adventurer according to the rules of His Majesties late Gracious Declaration and the said former Act were after the said Declaration and before the passing of the said Act granted by His Majesties Letters Patents unto Sir John Stephens and his Heirs as lands concealed which grant nevertheless might at any time by the rules of the said former Act have been revoked by His Majestie if His Majestie had not been pleased since the passing of the said Act to release his power of Revocation by reason whereof great suits and controversies are likely to arise between the said Erasmus Smith and the said Sir John Stephens and such as do or may hereafter claim under them respectively to the end therefore that speedy right and justice may be done and the said controversies appeased and determined Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall examine the right and title of the said Erasmus Smith and of the said Sir John Stephens in and to the said lands and Tenements and if they shall find that the said Erasmus Smith or those under whom he claims were on the Seaventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine seized or possest of all or any the said lands as an Adventurer or Adventurers or as the Heir or Assignee of any Aduenturer then they shall forthwith restore the possession to the said Erasmus Smith to be held by him and his Heirs and Assignes in like manner and proportion as other Adventurers ought to enjoy their several and respective proportions according to this Act in which case the said Erasmus Smith is hereby enabled to sue for and recover the Measne profit thereof received but if they shall find the said lands to have been held by the said Erasmus Smith without any such title as aforesaid and that the same were concealed from his Majestie at the time of the passing of the said Letters Patents then they shall adjudge the said lands or so much thereof as they shall find to be so concealed to Sir John Stephens and his Heirs to be held by him and his Heirs according to the tenor of his said Letters Patents and such judgement and Decree as the said Commissioners shall make touching the premisses shall be and is hereby made concluding to the said Erasmus Smith and the said Sir John Stephens their Heirs and Assignes any thing in the said Letters Patents or in the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas William Mountgomery of Rosemound in the County of Down Esq did purchase of several persons certain Debentures which were due for service done in Ireland since the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty and nine and placed the same in and upon the purchase of a part of his own Estate called or known by the name of the Mannor of Florida in the County aforesaid then set out or set a part by reason of or upon accompt of the said late Rebellion or warr since which time the said William Mountgomery hath by the Commissioners for the Execution of the said former Act been declared adjudged an innocent Protestant and thereupon the said Mannor of Florida together with the rest of the Estate of the said William Mountgomery hath been decreed unto him by reason whereof the Debentures so purchased and placed thereupon as aforesaid do remain wholy unsatisfied Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall set out or cause to be set out unto the said William Mountgomery so much forfeited Land as may be sufficient to satisfie the said Debentures in like manner and form and according to such Rates and proportions as any other like Debentures ought by the Rules of this Act to be satisfied as fully amply as any other purchaser or Assignee of the said Deventures ought to have been satisfied in case the same had been placed on the said Mannor so evicted or decreed as aforesaid And whereas in and by a certain Clause in the said former
William Petty his Executors Administrators or Assignes from time to time as often as any such Order or warrant shall be made to enter into all and every the lands in such Order or warrant mentioned and to levy the respective summs therein appointed to be paid not exceeding one penny the acre by distress and sale of such distress as shall there be found belonging to the occupiers of the said lands returning the overplus and whatsoever the Tenants or occupiers of the lands shall pay or shall otherwise be levied upon them as aforesaid not exceeding one penny the acre shall and may be deducted out of the rents by them respectively payable and for so much they and every of them shall be and are hereby discharged against their several and respective Landlords And because the Settlement now intended and endeavoured to be perfected would be very much obstructed if the Heirs or Assignes of Wentworth late Earl of Kildare should hold and enjoy the full benefit of a certain clause in the said former Act contained whereby the Preemption of all forfeited estates and interests held of or from Wentworth Earl of Kildare or George Earl of Kildare or either of them and of all other lands lying intermixt with the said Earl of Kildares estate is given to the said Wentworth late Earl of Kildare his Heirs and Assignes and further the arrears due to George Earl of Kildare for service before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine were appointed to be satisfied in the County of Kildare and else where lying most convenient to the said Earl of Kildares estate as the said Wentworth late Earl of Kildare should make choice of Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That so much of the said clause as concerns the preemption of forfeited estates and interests held of and intermixt with the Earl of Kildares grant as aforesaid or appoints the satisfaction of personal arrears for service to be within the County of Kildare or elsewhere at election as aforesaid shall be and is hereby repealed which arrears of the said George Earl of Kildare now belonging to Sir James Shaen Knight and Baronet Administrator of the said George Earl of Kildare are to be satisfied as in and by another clause herein after following and providing for the satisfaction of the interests of the said Sir James Shaen is declared and that in lieu and satisfaction of those privileges and advantages in and by the said clause given or intended to be given the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall forthwith set out or cause to be set out unto John now Earl of Kildare and his Heirs so much undisposed forfeited lands as shall be of the cleer yearly value of five hundred pounds per annum over and above all charges and reprizes therein shall take care that the same may be set out as neer unto the said Earls estate and as contiguous to the Lordship of Kilka in the County of Kildare as the same can conveniently be done and after such allotment and setting forth the same shall be granted by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of Ireland unto John Earl of Kildare and the Heirs Males of his body And for want of such issue to remain and be to Robert Fitz Gerald Esq uncle of the said John Earl of Kildare and the Heirs Males of his body and for default of such issue to the right Heirs of Wentworth late Earl of Kildare for ever subject nevertheless to the payment reimbursement and discharge in the first place of all such summ and summs of Money with interest for the same as upon any contract or bargain heretofore made by the said Wentworth late Earl of Kildare touching the benefit of the said former provisoe or touching the benefit of any part thereof have been paid unto the said late Earl or shall be paid hereafter to such Contractors during the minority of the the said John Earl of Kildare and lyable also to such other charges and payments as shall be necessarily made and disbursed in and for the settling and securing the premisses And that the Letters Patents so as aforesaid to be granted shall be of like force and effect as any other Letters Patents herein before appointed to be granted are or ought to be Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of the estates of John Fitz Gerald John Magill and Ieoffrey Faning before by this Act vested in His Majestie his Heirs and Successors It shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governours of Ireland to restore unto and settle upon them and their Heirs respectively such part or parts of the said respective estates as they shall think fit Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Sir John Stephens Knight Governour of His Majesties Castle of Dublin shall and may have hold and enjoy to him his Executors and Assignes all and every the lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the County of Cork which at any time were reputed to belong to Sir Brice Coghran by colour of any grant or guift of the late Vsurped powers and which are or have been possessed by the said Sir John Stephens by virtue of Letters Patents under the Great Seal or otherwise for and during such time and term of years and under such rents onely as in the said Letters Patents are expressed and no other so as he the said Sir John Stephens do place or cause to be placed upon so much of the premisses as shall be found to be within the securities set apart for satisfaction of the Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine so much of the stated arrears due to such Officers which are satisfiable and for which no satisfaction hath yet been given as the value of the premisses may amount unto any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the Moneyes which by virtue of this or the said former Act shall or may growe due unto His Majestie for or in respect of the measne profits of those lands which have been set out and received in satisfaction of any arrears for service done in England commonly called English arrears or for or in respect of the measne profits of those lands which have been set out to any person or persons in satisfaction of any Adventures upon the Ordinances commonly called the doubling Ordinances or for or in respect of any other measne profits which by this Act are made due and payable unto His Majestie as being received out of lands set out in satisfaction of interests not satisfiable by this or the said former Act and also all and every the summs of Money now due unto His Majestie which any person or persons transplanted into Connaght and since restored or hereafter to be restored to his former
thereof granted to the said John Lord Vice-count Massareen his Heirs and Assignes as any other Adventurer or Souldier by the rules of this Act ought to have any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted That the town and lands of Artain alias Tartain with the appurtenances in the County of Dublin containing by estimation two hundred twenty five acres be they more or less be granted ratified and confirmed unto Sir Nicholas Armourer Knight his Executors Administrators and Assignes according to the tenor and effect of your Majesties Letters Patents under the Great Seal of Ireland bearing date the nineteenth day of November in the fifteenth year of your Majesties Raign any thing in this the former or any other Act matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the Messuages Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof Sir John Fitz Gerald Knight dyed seized and whereof Sir Fitz Edmund Gerrarld Knight the Grandchild dyed seized or possessed in the year One thousand six hundred and forty and which were then belonging and of right appertaining to the Bishop of of Cloyne and his successors and were by the last Will and Testament of the said Sir John Fitz Edmund Gerrald and the Schedule and Codicil thereunto annexed dated the first of September One thousand six hundred and forty given and bequeathed or mentioned to be given and bequeathed to His late Majestie King Charles the first shall be and are hereby vested and settled in the now Bishop of Cloyne and His Successors for ever The severall rectories and impropriate tythes therein and thereby bequeathed unto His said late Majestie onely excepted which said rectories and impropriate tythes are hereby declared to be vested and settled in and upon such of the present and future incumbents and their successors who have or shall have actuall cure of Souls in those respective Parishes wherein such impropriations are and such impropriate tythes do arise and renew and in default of an actuall incumbent then in the respective persons now serving the cure and their successors who for that end shall be and are hereby made actual incumbents and capable to take to them and their successors and the presentation to the respective Churches so as aforesaid endowed shall be for ever and the patronage thereof in the Kings Majestie His Heirs and Successors and that all other the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments so given and bequeathed as aforesaid and not formerly belonging or appertaining to the Bishoprick or Sea of Cloyne shall be vested and settled in His Majestie his Heirs and Successors And whereas the right Reverend Father in God Edward Lord Bishop of Corke Cloyne and Rosse and Sir William Flower Knight have been at great pains and charges in discovering of his Majesties title to the premisses as well precedent to the forfeiture by the late Rebellion as by reason and upon the account of the said Rebellion Be it therefore Enacted that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or other Chief Governour there for the time being do cause a Lease of so much as is hereby settled in his Majestie to be passed under his Majesties Great Seal of Ireland unto the said Edward Bishop of Corke Cloyne and Rosse and Sir William Flower their Executors and Assigns for the term of one and thirty years rendring yearly unto his Maiestie his Heirs and Successors after the rate of treble such Quitrent as the Adventures and the Souldiers do pay for the like proportions within the said Province of Munster any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Saving and reserving nevertheless to Edmund Fitz Gerald of Ballymalowe and his Heirs all such right and title which he the said Edmund Fitz Gerald had unto the premisses or any part thereof upon the two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall set out and allot unto the Provost Fellows and Schollars of the College of the holy and undivided Trinity near Dublin the six hundred sixty six Acres two Roods and twenty six Poles English measure in the County of Tipperary and Barony of Elioguarty heretofore allotted to William Sheeres for his Fathers Adventure of three hundred pounds which in pursuance of a Decree in the High-court of Chancery in England were since conveyed or mentioned to be conveyed to the said Provost Fellowes and Schollars of the College of the holy and undivided Trinity neer Dublin towards the satisfaction of a charitable bequest devised to them by Elias Traverse Doctor of Divinity Deceased And that like effectual Letters Patents shall be thereof granted unto the said Provost Fellowes and Schollars and their Successors for ever as any Adventurers or Souldiers by the rules of this Act ought to have to be held by them the said Provost Fellowes and Schollars and their Successors without any defalcation or Deduction whatsoever Subject nevertheless to the Quit-rents by this Act imposed any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Whereas Richard Earl of Arran hath purchased from Erasmus Smith Esq his interest which he had as an adventurer in the Isles of Arran commonly called or known by the names of the Great Island the small East Island and the Island of Inishmaine Be it therefore Enacted and provided by the Authority aforesaid That the said Isles of Arran commonly called by the several names aforesaid lying and being in the half Barony of Arran in the County of Gallway together with all the Royalties Mineralls Royall mines excepted Fishings Profits and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or therewith enjoyed by the former Proprietors thereof before the two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one be and are hereby vested in setled upon and confirmed unto the said Richard Earl of Arran his Heirs and Assignes for ever any thing in this Act or in the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding Subject nevertheless to such Quit-rent payable to his Majestie his Heirs and Successors as other the lands lying and being in the province of Connaght allotted to Adventurers or Souldiers are lyable to And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall forthwith and without any previous reprizal restore unto Patrick Lord Baron of Dunsany and his Heirs the possession of the principal and capital messuage or seat and also one third part of all and singular the Castles lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents Reversions Remainders Right title interest and estate whatsoever which he the said Patrick Lord Baron of Dunsany or any other person to his use or in trust for him were seized or possessed of upon the two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one except impropriations
or thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Whereas by a Decree of the late Court of Claims Patrick Coleclough was restored to an Estate in the County of Wexford in Remainder after the death of Dudley his Father part of which was by a clause in the said former Act vested in Robert Clayton John Morris in trust for Sir John Cutler and others in the said Act mentioned had before that time been purchased from Souldiers or other reprizable persons in order to the erecting of Iron workes which have since accordingly been erected and are of publicque benefit to this Nation the increase of His Majesties revenue if the said Decrees should remain in full force the said advantages might be lost for the preservation thereof It is therefore Enacted be it enacted by this Parliament that the said John Morris Robert Clayton shall may have hold enjoy such part of the lands contained in the said Patrick Colcloughs Decree as they were formerly seized of against the said Patrick and Dudley and their Heirs and against the said Decree made as aforesaid And it is further Enacted that in lieu and compensation thereof the said Patrick Colclough shall have the full benefit of the reprizall due to the said John Morris and Robert Clayton upon the said Decree And that untill the said reprizalls shall be set out that the said lands hereby settled on the said John Morris Robert Clayton shall be chargeable and are hereby charged with the annual Rent of One hundred pounds payable yearly on the first dayes of May and November and made lyable to the distress of the said Patrick upon non payment thereof at the said dayes of payment And that as soon as the said reprizalls shall be set out as aforesaid the said yearly Rent shall cease and absolutely determine And to the end that the said Iron workes may be kept up It is likewise Enacted that if the said former or ancient proprietor or his Heir of any the lands whereof the said John Morris and Robert Clayton are now seized in the said County of Wexford shall be or is by this Act restored to his estate then and in such case the said John Morris and Robert Clayton and their Heirs shall notwithstanding have hold and enjoy such part of the said former Proprietors estate as they now stand seized of And the said Proprietor for so much is elsewhere to be reprized any thing in this present Act or any other Act of Parliament contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Whereas His Majestie by severall Letters Patents under His Great Seal of Ireland whereof one patent was dated the sixteenth February One thousand six hundred and sixty in the thirteenth year of His Majesties Raign the other dated the tenth day of July One thousand six hundred sixty and three in the fifteenth year of His Majesties Raign did amongst other things give grant and confirm or mentioned or intended to give grant and confirm unto Sir George Lane Knight and his Heirs all the Castles Mannors Houses lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other interest whatsoever which Philip Hore late of Kilsalchan attainted of High Treason was seized or possessed of at the time of his said attainder since which time two severall Decrees have been made in the late Court of Claimes in this kingdom to the prejudice of the said Grants one at the suite of the Sonn and Daughters of the said Philip Hore attainted for portions and the other at the suite of the Sonns of Philip Hore the younger Sonn to the said Philip attainted for severall remainders which Decrees were upon a petition exhibited to His Majestie by the said Sir George Lane questioned and on hearing of the cause it was ordered that the said Sir George Lane should be at liberty to impugne the said Decrees by any matter in fact or Law that he could object against them whereupon the said Philip Hore the younger who made defence in the said cause before His Majestie and the said Sir George Lane did mutually agree for avoiding of all future differences touching that matter that all the said estate and interest should be divided and a share thereof settled on the said Sir George Lane and his Heirs for quitting his whole pretense and right to that estate and the remain thereof settled on the said Philip Hore the younger and his Heirs for all his pretenses and the pretenses likewise of his Brothers Sisters and children to that estate which agreement the said parties did by their joint Petition humbly desire to be established by severall provisoes in this Act whereupon His Majesties was graciously pleased that it should be Enacted by the Authority aforesaid And it is hereby Enacted that the said severall Decrees be and are hereby made null and void as if there had never been any such And that the said Sir George Lane shall be and is hereby restored unto settled confirmed and established in the present and actual seizin and possession of the mannor Castle Town and lands of Kilsalchan with a wind-mill and six messuages containing by estimation three hundred acres of land be it more or less within the County of Dublin with a Court Leet and Court Baron to be held within the said Mannor of Kilsalchan the meadow called the Lords mead in the Feilds of Stradbally a messuage ten acres of land in Stradbally aforesaid in the Feilds thereof next adjoyning to the Lords mead aforesaid and all other the said Philip Hores lands in Stradbally aforesaid now or late in the tenure or possession of John Murphy John Quin and Walter Ryan or one of them one Messuage and forty acres of land with the appurtenances in Swords one Messuage and five acres of Land in Rolls Towns two Messuages one Pigeon House one hundred acres of land ten acres of meadow and ten acres of pasture with the appurtenances in Ardlaw nine Messuages nine Gardens and one hundred acres of land with the appurtenances in Stradbally commonly called Bealings Land in Stradbally the village Hamlet and Lands of Great Kingston with the appurtenances containing by estimation one Messuage and fourscore acres of land two houses with Gardens and a Park or Orchard commonly called Pond-Park to them belonging in Newstreet in the Suburbs of the City of Dublin one Close or Park commonly called Barries-Park without Bongans Gate all lying and being in the Parish of St. Nicholas Barony of Uppercross and County of Dublin fifty shillings yearly rent issuing out of the Mannor of Westpalstown nine pence chief rent out of the lands of Criuserath nine pence chief rent out of the lands of Knightfield and thirteen shillings and four pence chief rent out of Dowdes land Bealings land and Talbots land in Stradbally aforesaid the Town and lands of Paslockes-Town and Maces-Town in the aforesaid County the Town and lands of Kilmore in the Barony of Coolook and County aforesaid by virtue
AN ACT For the Explaining of some DOUBTS Arising upon AN ACT INTITULED An Act for the better execution of His Majesties gracious Declaration for the Settlement of His Kingdom of Ireland and satisfaction of the several interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other his Subjects there AND For making some alterations of and additions unto the said Act for the more speedy and effectual settlement of the said Kingdom C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL V â—â—NSE DIEV ET MON DROIT Dublin Printed by John Crook Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie and are to be sold by Samuel Dancer Bookseller in Castlestreet 1665. An o Regni Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae 17 o. At the Parliament begun at Dublin on the eighth day of May Anno Domini 1661. in the 13 th year of the Reign of our Most Gracious Sovereign Lord CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the faith c. And there continued by several Prorogations unto the 26 day of October Anno Domini 1665. and in the 17 year of His Majesties Reign WHereas in the carrying on of that service which was appointed by a former Act intituled An Act for the better execution of His Majesties gracious Declaration for the settlement of His Kingdom of Ireland and satisfaction of the several interests of Adventurers Souldiers and other His Subjects there several doubts and difficulties have arisen partly from the uncertain and ambiguous penning of divers Clauses in the said Act and partly from other accidents which could not then be foreseen to the great obstruction and hinderance of the Publique ends and aims intended by that Act to be promoted and the very great disappointment of several persons interests which were thereby intended to be secured Insomuch that the first and final settlement of this Your Majesties Kingdom can hardly be attained by any further proceedings upon the said Act as is already manifest by the experience which hath been had in the execution thereof To the end therefore that Your Majesties most gracious and just intentions by that Act declared may still be pursued as far as remains possible the Revenues of the Church settled and increased Your Majesties dutiful and loyal Subjects quieted and secured in their just possessions and the minds of all men so composed that there may be a general and universal care and industry by building planting and all other ways of improvement to repair amend the ruines and desolations of this Your Majesties Kingdom May it please Your Most Excellent Majestie that it may be Enacted be it Enacted by Your Most Excellent Majestie by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all Honors Mannors Castles Houses Places Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Right Title Service Chiefry Vse Trust Condition Fee Rent-charge Chattels real Mortgage right of Redemption of any Mortgages Recognizances Iudgements Forfeitures Extent right of Action right of Entry Stature or any other Estate of what nature or kinde soever in all and every the Counties Baronies Cities Towns Corporate and walled Towns within this Kingdom which at any time from and after the Three and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty and one were seized or sequestred into the hands or to the use of His late Majestie King Charles the first or of Your Most Gracious Majestie that now is or otherwise disposed of distributed set out or set apart by reason of or upon account of the late horrid Rebellion or War which began or broke out in this Kingdom upon the three and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one or which were allotted assigned given granted ordered distributed disposed demised set out or set apart to or for any person or persons use or uses for Adventures Arrears Reprizals or otherwise or whereof His late Majestie or Your Majestie that now is or any Adventurer Souldier Reprizable person or others respectively had and received the rents issues and profits by reason or upon account of the said Rebellion or War or whereof the Adventurers Officers or Souldiers now or formerly of the English Army in this Kingdom or transplanted or transplantable persons or any of them or their or any of their Heir Heirs or Assigns or any other person or persons whatsoever upon account of the said Rebellion or War in this Kingdom were in Seizin possession or occupation by themselves their Tenants Agents or Assigns on the Seventh day of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine or which were assigned given granted laid out set apart or reserved for or towards the satisfaction of any the said Adventurers Souldiers or other persons for or in consideration of any money or provisions advanced lent or furnished or for arrears of pay or in compensation of any service or reputed services or other account whatsoever or reserved or mentioned to be reserved for or in order to a reprizal or reprizals for such Incumbrances as then were now are or shall be adjudged due to any person or persons out of the said Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or for any other use intent or purpose whatsoever or whereof any Custodiam Lease for year or years or other Disposition or Grant whatsoever hath been made or unto which Your Royal Father or Your Majestie are any ways intituled by reason of or upon account of the said Rebellion or War or which are wrongfully detained or concealed by any person or persons whatsoever As also all Chantries and all Mannors Lands Tenements Rents Tithes Pensions Portions and other Hereditaments or other things whatsoever belonging to any Ecclesiastical person or persons in his or their Politick capacity and that have formerly by them or any of them been let in Fee-farm the right whereof or title thereunto or interest therein was in any person or persons his or their Heirs or Assigns who by the Qualifications in the said Act expressed have not been adjudged innocent persons As also all Leases that have been made by any Ecclesiastical persons of any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments belonging to them in their Politick capacity to any person or persons their Executors Admininistrators or Assigns who by the Qualifications in the said Act expressed have not been adjudged innocent persons As also all Impropriations or appropriate Tithes belonging to any person or persons his or their Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns who by the Qualifications in the said Act expressed have not been adjudged innocent And also all and singular the Messuages Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever whereof John fitz Gerald alias fitz Gerard of Innishmoore commonly called the Knight of Kerry Captain John Magill of the County of Down Geoffry Fanning of Ballingary or any of them or any of their Ancestors whose Heirs they are or any other person or persons in trust for them
Act Colonel John Fitz Patrick of Castle-Town in the Queens County is restored in blood and also restored unto and vested in the real and actual possession and seizin to him and his Heirs of all and every the Castles Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments reversions remainders and Leases whereof the said Colonel John Fitz Patrick or his Father or any other in trust for them or either of them or to their use were at any time before the two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one Lawfully seized or possessed upon which words Seized or possessed some doubt or question in law may arise how far the said clause may avail the said Colonel Fitz Patrick by reason that a certain Office or Inquisition was found in the nineteenth year of King James by which His Majestie is or may be intiled or presented to be intitled to the whole Territory of Upper Ossery within which place the Lands intended to be restored to the said Colonel John Fitz Patrick do lye and so by consequence the seizin and possession thereof which was in the said Colonel John Fitz Patricks Grandfather at the time of the said Office or Inquisition found may be from the said nineteenth year of King James conceived to have been in the Kings Majestie and not not in the said Colonel Fitz Patricks Grandfather or any other in trust for him although he or some of them were then in the Actual possession and occupation thereof and received the profits Be it therefore Enacted and explained by the Authority aforesaid that the said Colonel John Fitz Patrick shall hold and enjoy to him and his Heirs the full benefit of the clause and provisoe in the said former Act contained the said Office of Inquisition or any other matter or thing in the said former Act or this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding And it is hereby declared and Enacted that all and every the Adventurers and Souldiers their Heirs and Assigns to whom any Lands or Tenements in the Queens County were set out and allotted and whereof they were possest the seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine the Lands of the said John Fitz Patrick excepted shall hold and enjoy such part of the said Lands and Tenements as will be due to them by the Rules of this Act the said Office or Inquisition in the nineteenth year of King James to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwaies that all and singular the Clauses in the said former Act contained wherein or whereby any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments are granted to or vested in Theobald Earl of Carlingford or whereby any other benefit or advantage can or may accrue unto the said Earl of Carlingford shall be and are hereby again confirmed and shall be enioyed by the said Earl of Carlingford in as full and ample manner as in the said Act is contained any retrenchment change or other alteration thereof made by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland and any other clause matter or thing in the said former Act or this present Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwaies and it is hereby declared and Enacted That Sir Richard Ingoldsby Knight of the Bath and Sir Henry Ingoldsby Baronet shall hold enjoy to them and their Heirs all and singular the Lands within and contiguous to the Mileline in the County of Clare which were set out to them or either of them in satisfaction of fifteen hundred and fifteen pounds eleaven shillings two pence with their Houses and Gardens in Limerick and also all and every their Lands of which they or either of them were possessed by themselves or their Tenants the seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine such part of the Premisses onely excepted as have been Decreed away by the Commissioners for Execution of the said former Act any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And Whereas Captain Henry Finch late of Londonderry Deceased in pursuance of a Commission from Sir William Parsons and Sir John Birlacy sometimes Lords Iustices of Ireland did in the moneth of November One thousand six hundred forty one levy and Arm a Company of Foot consisting of One hundred Men besides Officers in the County of the City of Londonderry and maintained the said Company for three years at his own charges and continued in the command of the said Company against the Rebels from the moneth of November One thousand six hundred forty one until the moneth of October One thousand six hundred forty and eight and was then disbanded without receiving any the least satisfaction and yet nevertheless the arrears due to the said Henry Finch for his service before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine have not been cast up nor stated by the Commissioners for Execution of the said former Act partly by reason of some doubt conceived that the said Company was not upon the establishment of the Ulster Army Whereas in truth the said Company was received into the said establishment though the Order whereby the same should be made appear could not then be produced and partly by reason of other accidents Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall forthwith and before any distribution made of the Houses lands Tenements Hereditaments or summs of money herein before appointed for the security and satisfaction of such Commissioned Officers as served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine cast up and state the arrears which were due to the said Henry Finch Deceased for the service aforesaid and that after the arrears so stated William Finch and Henry Finch Sonns and Administrators of the said Henry Finch Deceased shall be satisfied and paid and are hereby Enabled to demand and receive satisfaction equally and proportionably having respect to the arrears stated and in like manner as any other Commissioned Officer who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty and nine and whose arrears are stated and allowed by the Commissioners for Execution of the said former Act may or ought to be satisfied and as fully and amply as if the arrears which were due to the said Henry Finch Deceased had been stated and allowed within the time limited by the said former Act any thing in the said former Act or this present Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Alice Countess Dowager of Barrimore would have been lawfully intitled unto the payment of and satisfaction for the several respective arrears which were due unto David late Earl of Barrimore ber Husband and to James Barry her son deceased as Commissioned Officers for service done in Ireland before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine if the same had been duely stated and allowed within the time limited by the said former Act And whereas also Dennis Muschampe Esq would
estate did or might have received upon the sale of the lands in Connaght to which he or they were transplanted shall be paid unto the Receivers herein after constituted and appointed who shall account for and pay the same over unto Arthur Earl of Anglesey Vice-treasurer of Ireland or to the Vice-treasurer of Ireland for the time being And that the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey or the Vice-treasurer of Ireland for the time being shall thereout issue pay these several summs following That is to say To Morough Earl of Inchequin the full summ of Eight thousand pounds sterling as a marke of His Majesties favourable gracious consideration of the losses and sufferings of the said Earl To John Lord Berkeley the summ of four thousand pounds To Charles Lord Vice-count Fitz Harding Treasurer of His Majesties House-hold the summ of two thousand pounds To Henry Coventrey Esq Groom of His Majesties Bedehamber the summ of two thousand pounds To Colonel William Legg the like summ of two thousand pounds in full satisfaction of all the right and interest which they the said Henry Coventrey or William Legg can or may have of in or to any fractions of od aeres pounds shillings or pence in or by the said former Act reserved to His Majestie and by this present Act released and discharged as aforesaid To Colonel Edward Villiers the summ of One thousand pounds To Elizabeth Terrill Wife of Sir Tymothy Terrill the summ of three thousand pounds To Colonel Marmaduke Darcy the summ of three thousand pounds To Sir Connel Farrell the summ of two thousand pounds To Colonel Daniell Treswell Captain of His Majesties Guard of Battle Axes the summ of One thousand pounds Sir William Armorer the summ of five hundred pounds Nicholas Bayly Esq the summ of two thousand pounds Thomas Lynch the summ of One thousand pounds And if any more moneyes shall arise out of the premisses than will be sufficient to discharge the respective summs herein before mentioned the same shall remain in His Majesties Exchequer at Dublin to be further applyed and disposed as His Majestie being informed thereof shall direct and appoint And whereas the Towns and lands of Shamaclone Garons-Brury Garrane Lishanacone Ballifoukin Ballimoran Balliwillin in the Barony of Conello and County of Limerick and also fifteen hundred acres in Garundenny in the Barony of Slewmargye in the Queens County were allotted to Charles Lloyd Esq now Sir Charles Lloyd Baronet as an Adventurer for lands in Ireland the rents issues and profits of which lands have notwithstanding by Samuel Avery and other Adventurers been wrongfully received or in the hands of the Tenants of the said lands detained Be it therefore Enacted and it is Enacted by this present Parliament That the said Sir Charles Lloyd shall have receive and recover all and singular the rents issues and profits of the said lands remaining in the hands of the respective Tenants thereof or in the hands of their Executors or Administrators which have grown due since the lands were allotted as aforesaid any thing in this present Act or any other Act of Parliament contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And it is here by further Enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall forthwith restore Sir Richard Bellings Knight unto the present and actual possession of all and singular the Mannors Castles Lordships Lands Tenements Reversions Remainders and all other Hereditaments interests conditions powers of Redemption right and title whatsoever in the said Kingdome of Ireland which Sir Henry Bellings Knight Grandfather to the said Sir Richard Bellings and Richard Bellings Father of the said Sir Richard Bellings or either of them or any other person or persons in trust for them or either of them or to their or either of their use or uses had held or enjoyed or of right ought to have held or enjoyed on the two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one and that from and after such Restitution as aforesaid the same shall be granted by Letters Patents and settled upon and confirmed unto the said Sir Richard Bellings the Grandsonn and his Heirs and Assignes for ever This present or any other Act Ordinances Order Vtlary Attainder Record or any other matter cause or thing to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That John Lord Kingston shall hold and enjoy to him and his Heirs for ever all and every the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the said former Act ratified and confirmed unto him and all other the benefits and advantages of the said Act the Lands Decreed away by the Commissioners and the full benefit of reprizals and the Lands herein granted or confirmed unto Charles Lord Vice-count Fitz Harding formerly granted to Charles late Lord Vice-count Fitz Harding Earl of Falmouth onely excepted as fully and amply and with the like Confirmations Privileges Immunities and exemptions as any adventurer or Souldier by this or the said former Act may or ought to hold and enjoy any of the Lands whereof they or any of them respectively were possessed the Seaventh day of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine and as if the several clauses and provisoes in the said former Act on that behalf had been in this Act particularly recited and Enacted and shall also have hold and enjoy to him and his Heirs for ever all and every the Towns Lands Tenements and Hereditaments given granted and confirmed or mentioned to be given granted and confirmed unto him in and by His Majesties Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date at Westminster the five and twentieth day of January in the sixteenth year of His Majesties Raign And that the said Letters Patents and all clauses and things therein contained shall be and are hereby ratified and confirmed and shall be taken most beneficially to and on the behalf of him the said Lord Kingston his Heirs and Assignes according to the tenor and purport thereof to all intents and purposes and as if the same Letters Patents and every clause therein had been in this Act fully and at large recited and particularly Enacted but in case the Lands in the said Letters Patents mentioned which shall be possessed and enjoyed by the said Lord Kingston and not recovered or granted away from him by this or the said former Act shall exceed the present cleer yearly rent of Seaven hundred pounds and two full third parts of all the Lands recovered against him the said Lord Kingston by any Decrees herein confirmed then such overplus shall be reconveyed to such as the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall appoint And be it also Enacted in case the said Lands shall not be sufficient That then the Commissioners or such person or persons as are or shall be appointed for Execution of this Act doe and shall forthwith cause to be set out and delivered unto him the said