first of September One thousand six hundred sixty and three his or their Heirs Executors Assignee or Assignes who are not by the rules of this Act to be removed have been already removed or kept out from the possession of what they held or ought to have held on the Seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine yet neither by virtue of any Decrees made by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act nor by virtue of any Proviso or Clause in the said Act contained or any other legal proceedings in which words Legal Proceedings Custodiams or any other Grant or Patent not confirmed or otherwise provided for by this Act and the proceedings thereupon are not intended to be comprehended that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners for execution of this Act to order and decree all and every such person and persons so removed or kept out as aforesaid to be again restored and put into their possessions pro tempore until the last and final Decree touching the settlement of such person and persons shall be made and the respective Sheriffs and all other Officers and Ministers of Iustice whom it may concern and to whom any Precept or other Warrant in that behalf shall be directed are hereby required and enjoyned to see the some executed accordingly to the end that all and every person and persons so as aforesaid removed or kept out may by such temporary restitution be enabled to retain so much of the Land whereof they shall be so possessed together with their improvements as their two full third parts according to the aforesaid rules shall or may amount unto And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Adventurer and Adventurers who adventured their money upon certain Ordinances or pretended Ordinances of Parliament made in the years One thousand six hundred forty three and One thousand six hundred forty seven commonly called the Doubling Ordinances shall be esteemed and are hereby declared Adventurers for no more than the principal money bonâ fide paid amounts to and that they their Heirs Executors Assignee or Assignes shall receive satisfaction for the moneys really and bonâ fide paid in and advanced upon the said Ordinances or pretended Ordinances in like proportion and manner as other Adventurers are to have by this Act and no otherwise that is to say by an allotment of so much land as may be sufficient to satisfie full two third parts of the principal money so paid in and advanced as aforesaid and no more to the intent that he and they may be equally gainers or loosers with other Adventurers and in the setting out of this proportionable satisfaction no regard is to be had of the quantity of Land whereof the Adventures upon the doubling Ordinances their Heirs Executors Assignee or Assignes were possessed the seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine but onely of the original money truly paid in as aforesaid in the satisfaction whereof one third part is likewise to be retrenched and onely two full third parts to be satisfied as aforesaid Nevertheless it shall and may be lawful for him or them to continue the possession of so much as the Commissioners shall adjudge to amount unto his or their full two third parts in like manner as other Adventurers by this Act are enabled to do in case so much shall be left in his or their possession not decreed away by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall cause one or more books to be made wherein the portion allotted to each Adventurer or Souldier or the Heir Executor Assignee or Assignes of such Adventurer or Souldier for and towards his and their two full third parts and the several Augmentations of any Archbishoprick or Bishoprick the allotment of Glebes and the provisions made for the Colledge of Dublin the maintenance of the Fort at Duncannon and the Corporation of Bandonbridge shall be particularly and fairly set down and entred and shall cause a Duplicate thereof to be made and returned into the Exchequer there to remain of Record and that upon a Certificate under the hands and seals of the Commissioners or the major part of them containing the lands allotted to any the persons or purposes aforesaid or to any Adventurer or Souldier or to the Heir Executor Assignee or Assignes of any Adventurer or Souldier for his or their two third parts and expressing the name or names of such persons with convenient descriptions and denominations thereof as to the number of Acres the Barony County and Province wherein the same do lie and the rents reservable as also the Tenure and Services and presented unto the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdom for the time being he the said Lord Lieutenant and other chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdom for the time being shall be and are hereby authorized and required upon request of the person or persons so producing and presenting the Certificate aforesaid to cause effectual Letters Patents under the Great Seal of Ireland to be passed in the usual manner of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the persons concerned by advice of His Majesties learned Council in the Law or some of them as the case shall require without expecting any further Letters or Warrants from His Majestie And for so doing this present Act shall be to them and every of them their sufficient discharge And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Letters Patents granted by virtue of this Act shall be and are hereby confirmed unto the several persons therein named according to the several and respective estates therein granted against the Kings Majestie his Heirs and Successors and all other persons claiming by from or under him or them and shall stand and be discharged of and from all forfeitures or pretended forfeitures for non-payment of rent or any sum of money now due or not putting in of Claims or not bringing in Field-books or Surveys and of and from all further inquiries into false admeasurements holding of lands profitable for unprofitable or any other Qualifications whatsoeuer and of and from all Measn profits arrearages and incumbrances not herein after excepted and shall stand and be good against all persons Bodies Politick and Corporate and discharged of all Estates tail and all other Estates of Freehold or Inheritance and all Reversions Remainders Titles and Interests whatsoever not Decreed by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act or in the said former Act already allowed whereby the Patentees can or may be incumbred and discharged of all demands other than what are intended to be preserved by this Act and shall be reserved in the same Letters Patents Nevertheless it is hereby declared to be excepted and is further Enacted That no Letters Patents
hereafter to be granted shall any way extend to discharge or acquit any arrearages of Quit-Rents reserved by the said former Act and still behind and unpaid nor to acquit that part and proportion of the Three hundred thousand pounds herein hereafter mentioned and intended to be raised and which by the rules of this Act will be payable by such Patentee and leviable upon the Lands in the said Letters Patents contained nor any Measn profits which have been received of lands set out for English arrears or in satisfaction of any adventures upon the doubling Ordinances above what the original money did deserve or in satisfaction of any other Titles or Interests not satisfiable by this or the said former Act nor to discharge any sum or sums of money which persons transplanted into Conaught received upon sale of their estates in Conaught and yet have since been restored to their former estates or some part thereof by virtue of some Clause in the said former Act contained or some Decree or other Proceedings had upon the said Act or shall be so restored by virtue of any Clause contained in these Presents all which arrearages of Quit-Rents Measn profits or other sums of money as aforesaid shall be and are hereby made due and payable unto His Majestie his Heirs and Successors and shall be leviable and recoverable against every person and persons who shall be liable thereunto his and their Heirs Executors and Administrators and all and every their Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels whatsoever Any Grant Patent Settlement or other Disposition made in pursuance of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And for the prevention of all unnecessary delays and unjust charges which can or may happen to the Subjects of this Realm before their full and final settlement Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where the Commissioners for execution of this Act or the major part of them shall give any Certificate under his and their hands and seals to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate in order to the passing of any Letters Patents according to this Act and shall likewise return a Duplicate of such Certificate into His Majesties Court of Exchequer at Dublin to be there inrolled and the person or persons Body Politick or Corporate to whom such Certificate shall be given shall immediatly upon the obtaining of such Certificate and from time to time during the space of six moneths next ensuing the date thereof diligently and without intermission pursue and prosecute the having and obtaining of Letters Patents accordingly and in order thereunto shall pay or tender to such person or persons to whom they shall apply themselves for their assistance towards the passing of such Letters Patents their several and respective fees to them due and payable and shall not obtain such expedition and dispatch that their several and respective Letters Patents may be full perfected and passed under the Great Seal of Ireland within the space of six moneths next after the date of such Certificate but shall be thereof delayed or hindered by the neglect of any Officers or Ministers as aforesaid that there and in such case the several and respective persons Bodies Politick and Corporate to whom or in whose behalf such Certificate shall be given or granted shall hold and enjoy the several Messuages Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the several and respective Certificates mentioned and allotted according to such estate and under such rents as are therein mentioned as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as if Letters Patents thereof had been granted and perfected according to the directions of this Act Any thing in this or the said former Act and any other Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted That where any Souldier or Souldiers Adventurer or Adventurers his or their Heirs Executors Assignee or Assignes have had any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments formerly set out to him or them as well in satisfaction of arrears due for service done in England as of arrears due for service done in Ireland or in satisfaction of Adventures upon the doubling Ordinances or in satisfaction of any other titles and interests not provided for by this Act together with other Adventures and such setting forth of lands hath been promiscuously and indefinitely as in the gross without any particular application or distinction of the lands shewing which part of the said lands was intended as a satisfaction of the English Arrears and which part as a satisfaction of the Irish Arrears or which part was set out in satisfaction of Adventures upon the doubling Ordinances or of other titles or interests not provided for by this Act and which part for other Adventures and the whole or part of the said lands so promiscuously set out as aforesaid hath been Evicted or Decreed away by virtue of some proceedings of the Commissioners appointed for execution of the said former Act that then and in such case the land so evicted or decreed as aforesaid shall be accounted in Law to be such lands onely as were intended for the satisfaction of English Arrears or Adventures upon the doubling Ordinances or of other titles and interests not provided for by this Act so far as the same will extend and all accompts and payments of the Measn profits of the Lands so evicted are to cease for so much from the time of such Eviction or Decree as aforesaid Nevertheless it is declared That nothing herein contained shall exclude such person or persons from having their full two third parts which are satisfiable by the rules of this Act and from retaining so much whereof they remain possessed for and towards such satisfaction And to the end the Subjects of this Kingdom may be in some measure eased of those charges which are usual and ordinary in passing of Letters Patents Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawful to and for so many of His Majesties Subjects as shall desire the same to be joyned in one and the same Letters Patents the due cautions before mentioned being therein observed so as the Lands thereby granted in case of such being joyned exceed not the quantity of fifteen thousand acres English measure in one Patent Nevertheless it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland and Council there for the time being in these and all other cases touching Patents to be granted by virtue of this Act to regulate and moderate the fees of Officers as they shall think fit according to circumstances And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any Lands shall be allotted unto or detained by any Adventurer or Souldier or the Heir Executor Assignee or Assignes of any Adventurer or Souldier for and towards his and their full two third parts or for any part thereof which lands so allotted or detained as aforesaid shall be
same but subject to the Quit Rents of Eighteen pence per annum to be paid to His Majestie His Heirs and Successors for every Twenty shillings which any House Orchard or Garden-plot within the security aforesaid is worth to be let according to the said former Act and to such other Quit Rents as any of the land within the said security ought by virtue of the said former Act or this present Act to be charged with Saving nevertheless to all and every the Archbishops Bishops and other the Ministers of the Church such right benefit and advantage of in and to the forfeited houses in Cities walled Towns and Corporations as in and by the said former Act is given the said Houses to be set out by the Commissioners for execution of this Act. And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the House chosen by Edward Lord Bishop of Limerick in the City of Limerick and set out to him for seven years according to the Act of Settlement together with that small waste plot of ground and two ruinous Tenements thereon which the present Bishop thereof now rents of the Trustees at Twenty shillings per annum lying on the backside of the said dwelling House equal with the front thereof down to the High-way adjoyning to the wall of the said City being from the said back-side in length threescore and six yards and in breadth twenty and nine yards be annexed unto the See of Limerick for ever and be a Mansion House for William the present Bishop thereof and his Successors And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the benefit and advantage of all forfeitures by false certificates shall be in the first place applyed to and for the satisfaction of the persons aforesaid who ought to be satisfied twelve shillings and six pence in the pound until twelve shillings six pence in the pound be fully satisfied in case the securities aforesaid shall not be sufficient for that purpose and after twelve shillings and six pence in the pound fully satisfied to the persons aforesaid then the whole benefit of the said forfeitures shall be and remain and shall be applyed unto such uses intents and purposes as in and by the said former Act was appointed so as the said false certificates be found out and discovered within three months after the passing of this present Act. And whereas by the said former Act such Officers or their Assignes who shall purchase any Houses Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within any Corporation are enjoyned to give security to satisfie such as by virtue of any Lease or contract for Lease have built or improved any House or Garden either in money or else by granting to such person or persons a Lease at a Rent proportionable to the said improvement so as the said proportion exceed not a fifth part of the value the same are worth to be sold Messuages built from the ground onely excepted Be it Enacted and explained by the Authority aforesaid that no person or persons shall be admitted to have any satisfaction or security for his or their improvements who upon Leases or contracts for Leases made before His Majesties happy Restauration were bound to make such improvements And have actually enjoyed the said Houses Lands and Tenements during the full time and term of years for which they did contract and agree as aforesaid any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And to the end that all and every the Houses in Corporations being part of the aforesaid securities may alwayes continue in the hands of English and Protestant Subjects as neer as may be It is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that no Papist or Popish Recusant shall be admitted to purchase any of the Houses in Corporations from the Commissioners for Execution of this Act nor any other person or persons but such who shall take the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy which Oathes any of the said Commissioners or any Iustice of Peace hath hereby power to Administer without the Licence and leave of the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours in Ireland and Council there by Act of Council first had and obtained And further that no Commissioned Officer who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty and nine nor the Heir Executor Assignee or Assignes of such Commissioned Officer or other person to whom any of the Houses within the said security shall be allotted or shall hereafter come shall set grant alien demise lease or otherwise dispose any House or Houses within the security aforesaid to any Papist or Popish Recusant or person refusing the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy as aforesaid without Licence as aforesaid under pain of forfeiture of double the value of every such House so conveyed or disposed as aforesaid One moyety thereof the Kings Majestie His Heirs and Successors the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same to be recovered by action of Debt Bill Plaint or information in any of the four Courts of Record at Dublin wherein no Essoin Protection nor wager of Law to be admitted nor any more than one imparlance and the said Houses and Lands in Corporations together with the summ of One hundred thousand pounds herein after mentioned are with all possible expedition to be distributed by the Commissioners for Execution of this Act according to the rules aforesaid that so the daily ruine and decay of the said Houses may be prevented as soon as it is possible And whereas the Lord Lieutenant and Council of this your Majesties Kingdom have at the humble suite of several of the said Officers conceived an order bearing date at the Council Board of Dublin the twelfth of January One thousand six hundred sixty three wherein they have set down several rules and directions for the stating the arrears of the several Armies which were imployed in the service of your Sacred Majesty or your Royal Father of blessed memory in your warrs in Ireland before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine which order by reason of the shortness of the time limited for stating the said arrears and issuing debentures unto the said Officers would not be punctually observed by your Majesties Commissioners appointed for Execution of the said Act Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said order bearing date as aforesaid shall be and is hereby Enacted in as full and ample manner as if the same were particularly set down and recited in this Act and the Commissioners appointed or to be appointed for the execution of this Act are hereby authorized and required before they proceed to the giving out of any satisfaction for any arrears of pay due unto any of the said Officers or their Assigns to take care that all the accompts of the said Officers be made conformable unto the Rules and Directions of the said Order notwithstanding the Debentures issued as aforesaid that
Heirs and Successors to the uses herein before and after mentioned And where any of the lands so purchased have been evicted by any Decrees herein after confirmed or shall be given or restored to any person or persons by any special clause or provisoe herein contained The Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall set out and allot unto the person prejudiced by such Decree or clause so much other forfeited land as may be equal in quantity of acres to two third parts of the lands so evicted or restored as aforesaid And it is likewise further declared and Enacted That the persons to be settled in Connaght and Clare as aforesaid and from whom a third part is to be Retrencht and cut of as aforesaid shall be and are hereby discharged of and from the years rent reserved and payd by Charles Earl of Mountrath and others in a particular clause in the said former Act mentioned and of and from all the arrearages thereof And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That neither Adventurer or Souldier Commissioned Officer who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty and nine Protestant purchasor in Connaght and Clare transplanted person Nor the Heirs Executors Assignee or Assignes of them or any of them nor any other person or persons Body Politick or Corporate who by the said former Act of Settlement is or are any way intituled to reprizals for or in respect of some possession which they have quitted or of some Decrees which have been made against them or otherwise shall at any time hereafter be enabled to demand or have the same reprizals further than what will amount to his and their full two third parts as aforesaid but shall be thereof for ever barred and excluded any thing in the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding His Royal Highness James Duke of York His Grace George Duke of Albemarle and such others herein after mentioned according to the provision herein after made onely excepted And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Adventurer or Souldier nor the Heir Executor Assignee or Assignes of any Adventurer or Souldier who before any Decree of innocence made by the Commissioners for Execution of the said Act did by himselfe or any other directly or indirectly compound or agree with any Irish claimant whose claim was then depending before the said Commissioners shall ever be admitted to receive or have his two third parts or any other satisfaction for that part of his estate which he so compounded or agreed for but as to so much of his estate for which any agreement was made as aforesaid shall be for ever barred and concluded to demand his two third parts as if the person so agreeing had never been seized or possessed of the same or intitled thereunto so as such Composition or agreement be made to appear before the Commissioners for execution of this Act within three moneths after their first sitting And for the better improvement and ascertaining of His Majesties Revenue Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all lands by this or the former Act vested in His Majestie or restored by virtue of any Decrees herein after confirmed or settled or mentioned to be disposed restored confirmed or settled unto or upon any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate by virtue of any Clause in this or the said former Act contained and not particularly by plain and express words excepted from Quit Rents in the same Clause and the Lands by this Act appointed to be set out for Augmentation of Bishopricks for endowment of Parochial Churches with Glebe for the better support of the Provost or of the Provost and Fellows of the Colledge of Dublin for the maintenance of the Fort at Duncannon and the benefit of the Corporation at Bandon-Bridge and all the lands enjoyed by transplanted persons in the Province of Conaght or the County of Clare and all other the Lands seized sequestred or set out by reason of or upon accompt of the late Rebellion or War the lands of James Duke of Ormond Elizabeth Lady Dutchess of Ormond the Earl of Burlington and Cork the Earl of Roscommon and other the Protestants of Ireland heretofore sequestred onely excepted be subject and liable to such Quit-Rents to be paid unto His Majestie His Heirs and Successors as in the former Act is directed and appointed Saving onely that the lands in the Province of Ulster which by the former Act were charged with one peny the Acre Quit-Rent shall be and are hereby charged from henceforth with two pence the acre Quit Rent Nevertheless because it may so fall out that in some Counties and Baronies of this Kingdom the Quit Rents which by the Rules of this Act will be chargeable upon and issuing out of the lands therein lying may exceed or at least amount to the full value of the land therewith charged or very neer the full value to the great discouragement of all Plantation and Improvement thereupon Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours and Council for the time being at any time during the space of three years from and after the passing of this present Act to make such abatement and moderation of Quit Rents as they in their judgements shall think fit and that such Order of Council as shall be made touching the abatement of Quit Rents and enrolled in the Court of Exchequer shall be as good and effectual as if the same had been Enacted by these Presents Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding And for the better carrying on of this present Settlement by raising such a sum of money as may be sufficient to buy of several Estates and Interests which by virtue of the said former Act are now in being and if they should be strictly challenged and demanded according to the tenor of the said Act would in a great measure delay and hinder the execution of this present Act Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That one years rent of all the lands in Ireland which were returned by the Civil survey to belong to any Irish Papist Popish Recusant or Roman Catholick according to the values of the same lands were let at in the year One thousand six hundred fifty and nine and of all other the lands wherein any Adventurer or Souldier his Heirs Executors or Assigns hath any benefit of Settlement or Confirmation by virtue of this present Act the lands settled by Erasmus Smith to any pious or charitable use onely excepted be forthwith raised and paid unto the Receivers herein after constituted and appointed by two even and equal payments the first payment thereof to begin upon the first day of February which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty five the second payment to be upon the first day of
paid their purchase money to His Royal Highness or his Commissioners or to the Executors of such Regicides who have since answered the same upon their accompts to His Royal Highness or his Commissioners and other than the lands and Houses granted or intended to be granted unto James Duke of Ormond and the Lady Dutchess his Wife or either of them by this or the said former Act and other than the lands granted unto Michael now Lord Archbishop of Dublin heretofore Lord Bishop of Cork and the lands granted unto Francis Lord Aungier and other than the lands granted to Sir George Lane before and confirmed in and by the said former Act and other than the lands settled upon Hercules Huncks by the said former Act which shall remain to them their Heirs and Assignes accordingly and other than the lands which have been decreed away by the Commissioners for Execution of the late Act shall be and are hereby declared to be and continue vested in his Royal Highness and his Heirs as fully and amply with all the like benefit and advantage as by the said former Act is mentioned discharged of all Rents services and payments by this or the said former Act reserved created or imposed but subject to the same Rents services and payments as other lands by this Act ought to be in case his Royal Highness or his Heirs shall alien or demise the same otherwise than forlives or years reserving the full Moyery of the improved Rent And where any lands formerly set out in satisfaction of any Adventures or arrears or any other lands whatsoever due to the said Regicides or any of them have been evicted or recovered from his Royal Highness his Heirs and Assignes by virtue of any such decrees as aforesaid Be it further Enacted That some other like quantity of profitable and forfeited lands according to the down Survey equal in number of acres to those which have been so evicted and within the Counties of Dublin Lowth Kildare and Cork or some of them if it may be or otherwise elsewhere be forthwith set out by the Commissioners for Execution of this Act and allotted to his Royal Highness and his Heirs to be held as aforesaid And further that all deficiencies which have happened to all or any the persons whose estates by the said former Act or this present Act are vested in his Royal Highness and his Heirs or which have happened to their or any of their estates be fully satisfied and supplyed out of some other forfeited lands to be set out by the Commissioners for Execution of this Act and allotted to his Royal Highness and his Heirs to be held as aforesaid and that all moneys lent or disbursed by any of the said persons or hy any others for them or any of them for Provisions Arms or Ammunition for support of His Majesties Army in Ireland in the beginning of the Rebellion there be likewise satisfied out of the Lands and Houses for that purpose according to His Majesties Declaration in the said Act of Settlement to be set out by the Commissioners for execution of this Act and allotted to his Royal Highness his Heirs and Assignes to be held as aforesaid Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding Saving always unto Arthur Earl of Anglesey such Right and Title of in and to such part of the premisses as he the said Earl of Anglesey hath or ought to have by virtue of the said former Act or this present Act or by virtue of an Indenture of Lease under the hand and seal of his Royal Highness made between his Royal Highness of the one part and the said Earl of Anglesey on the other part bearing date before the passing of this Act Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted That this Act shall not extend or be any ways construed to take away or be prejudicial unto any Estate Right Title or Interest of George Duke of Albemarle his Heirs or Assigns of in or to any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments accrewing to him or them by virtue or in pursuance of the said former Act or one other Act intituled An Act for the securing several Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to George Duke of Albermarle Any thing herein before or after expressed to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And it is further Enacted That the Ferry at Wexford with all the profits and other the Rights and Priviledges thereunto belonging or therewith used and enjoyed shall be and are hereby vested and settled in the said George Duke of Albemarle and shall be held and enjoyed by the said George Duke of Albemarle his Heirs and Assigns And whereas several Lands and Tenements whereof the said George Duke of Albemarle was seized by virtue of one or both the Acts before mentioned have been evicted or recovered from the said George Duke of Albemarle by virtue of certain Decrees lately made by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act and some Incumbrances have likewise by Decree of the said Commissioners been allowed and charged upon the Lands of the said George Duke of Albemarle for redemption whereof the said George Duke of Albemarle hath paid and satisfied the full sum of Eight hundred pounds Be it further Enacted That the Commissioners for execution of this Act do forthwith set out and allot to the said George Duke of Albemarle and his Heirs or Assigns out of the lands in the County of Wexford now or lately held in Custodiam of His Majestie by Sir Richard Clifton Knight so much other land as may be equal in quantity of profitable acres to what hath been so Decreed and Evicted as aforesaid and in value to such Incumbrance as hath been recovered and satisfied as aforesaid which lands so as aforesaid to be allotted shall be held and enjoyed by the said George Duke of Albemarle his Heirs and Assigns as fully and amply as the lands so Evicted and Decreed as aforesaid might have been held in case no such Decree or Eviction had been Any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Right honourable Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord high Treasurer of England Anthony Ashley Lord Ashley Chancellor and Vndertreasurer of His Majesties Court of Exchequer Sir Orlando Bridgeman Knight and Baronet Lord chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas at Westminster and Sir Henry Vernon Knight and Baronet shall have hold and enjoy to them their Heirs and Assignes all that the Castle Mannor and Abbey of Eniscorthy in the County of Wexford and all the Mannors Towns Vills Lands Tenements Territories and Hereditaments late of Robert Wallop late of Farley-Wallop in the County of Southampton called Kilbeg Cloine Tumsalow and Effernock or by what other name or names soever they are known or called with their and every of their
and thereby are actually restored without any Previous reprizall and their and every of their Executors and Assignes shall stand and continue restored to and vested in such their estates thereby intended and shall have and enjoy the lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all other the benefits and advantages of the said former Act in such manner and form and for such estates and with such privileges immunities and discharges respectively as in and by the said former Act are mentioned and expressed Nevertheless it is hereby declared that this restitution and confirmation is not to extend to any lands Tenements or Hereditaments other than such as did truely and without fraud upon the two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty and one belong to and were enjoyed by the said persons or some of them their or some of their Ancestors or Heirs or were in the possession and seizin of some others in trust for them or some of them or be particularly expressed in the several and respective clauses of the said former Act And to the end it may more cleerly appear how much land the persons aforesaid are truely intitled unto by virtue of this or the said former Act and how farr the persons who are or shall be dispossessed by them or any of them ought to be relieved by virtue of this Act It is further Enacted that all and every the persons aforesaid who claim any benefit by the clauses aforesaid shall make out such their title as to the several parcels of land which they demand before the Commissioners for Execution of this Act within such time as shall be limited by the Commissioners and take out their Decrees for so much as shall be allowed upon their Claims and in default thereof shall forfeit two years value of the lands in their or any of their possessions respectively or in the possession of their tenants or Trustees one Moyety to the Kings Majestie the other to the Informer to be recovered in like manner as other forfeitures are by this Act appointed to be recovered And it is further declared and Enacted That Thomas Pigott Esq and Matthew Lock Esq shall have and enjoy to them and their Heirs two full third parts of the lands in Westmeath settled on them by the said former Act with like libertie of Retrenchment retaining possession and of demanding and having Letters Patents as other Adventurers and Souldiers ought to have and as if the said lands in Westmeath had been in the possession of the said Thomas Pigott and Matthew Lock on the Seaventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine and had been allotted to them as original Adventurers any thing herein before to the contrary notwithstanding And it is hereby declared and further Enacted That if any of the said persons herein before mentioned to be restored and appointed to take out Decrees as aforesaid or any others who by virtue of any Decrees heretofore made by the Commissioners for Execution of the said former Act have been restored shall at any time within two years next ensuing be found by colour of some clause in the said former Act or Decree as aforesaid to have entred upon and kept possession of more land than did rightfully belong unto them and was in their possession on the two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty and one unles the same land were particularly expressed and given in some clause in the said former Act contained that then and in such case the person so offending shall forfeit double the value of the land so fraudulently possessed and detained unless the said offendor shall within three months next after the first sitting of the Commissioners for the Execution of this present Act discover and declare the same to the said Commissioners and openly relinquish and surrender the possession so unduely detained as aforesaid of which forfeiture one third part shall be to our Soveraign Lord the King and the other two thirds to him or them that will sue for the same to be recovered by action of Debt Bill Plaint or information in any of the four Courts of Record at Dublin wherein no essoyne Protection or wager of law shall be or any more than one imparlance And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the clauses in the said former Act contained and not herein altered explained or repealed and which will consist with the Execution of this Act shall be and so are hereby declared to remain and be of such like force and effect as the same were before the passing of this Act and that all other the clauses which will not consist with the effectual Execution of this Act shall be and are hereby repealed any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding And further that all and every the clauses in this or the said former Act contained so farr as the same remain in force shall be construed expounded and taken in all Courts and places whatsoever most liberally and beneficially for the protecting settling and establishing the persons estates and interests of Protestants who are principally intended by these presents to be settled and secured And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Decrees made by the Commissioners for Execution of the said former Act whereby any Protestant or Protestants have been declared innocent shall be and are hereby absolutely confirmed and also that all Decrees whereby any Papist or Papists have been declared innocent and which shall be taken out within three months after the first sitting of the Commissioners for Execution of this present Act shall be and are hereby absolutely confirmed according to the tenor purport and effect of the same any exception touching the time wherein the same Decrees were made and any irregularity or pretended irregularity in not pursuing the Declaration Instructions and the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding such Decrees wherein any lands are comprehended or which any Protestant or Protestants was or were possessed before the two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one and which were never seized or sequestred or set apart upon the accompt of the late Rebellion or warr and such Decrees wherein more lands are Decreed to the Claimant than were claimed by him as to those lands so Decreed beyond the claim onely excepted which are hereby declared as for so much to be utterly void so as the same be discovered within six moneths next after the first sitting of the Commissioners subject nevertheless to such penalties as in this and the said former Act are contained touching false and fraudulent Claims so as the same be discovered within two years next ensuing the passing of this present Act. Provided always and be it Enacted That no person or persons who by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act have been adjudged and declared innocent and to whom any Land Tenements or Hereditaments have been adjudged and restored
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
Lord Kingston his Heirs and Assignes so much more other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the Counties of Cork Limerick and Tipperary which by virtue of this Act shall or may be Retrenched from any Adventurers Souldiers their Heirs Executors or Assignes or of other forfeited lands within the said Counties or within the Counties of Dublin and Kildare or some of them as together with the lands in the said Letters Patents granted or mentioned to be granted to him as aforesaid and as shall be possessed and enjoyed by him and not recovered or granted away from him by this or the said former Act are of the said present cleer yearly rent of Seaven hundred pounds and as over and above the said yearly rent are equal in value worth and purchase unto two full third parts of all the lands recovered against him by virtue of any Decrees heerein confirmed or that have been delivered up or parted with to William Lord Vice-count Dungan and others in observance of His Majesties Letters To the end that like effectual Letters Patents may thereof also be granted unto the said John Lord Kingston and his Heirs as are herein before appointed to be granted to other Adventurers and Souldiers of their respective allotments any matter or thing whatsoever in this or the said former Act or any other Act contained or otherwise to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Saving unto Charles Lord Vice-count Fitz Harding and his Heirs such right and title in and to any of the premisses as he or they can or may claim by virtue of any Letters Patents thereof granted unto Charles late Lord Vice-count Fitz Harding after Earl of Falmouth by His Majestie any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Sir John Percivall Baronet his Executors Administrators and Assignes shall and may hold possess and enjoy the Town Lands of Kinsaley in the County of Dublin for the term of sixty one years from the first day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and three according to the tenor and full effect of an Indenture of Lease under the Great Seal of Ireland to him thereof made and under the rents covenants and conditions thereby reserved expressed and limited any thing in the last precedent clause or in this present or any other Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also that nothing in this Act or the Letters Patents granted to the said Lord Kingston shall enable him the said Lord Kingston his Heirs or Assignes to hold or enjoy any mannors lands or Tenements lying or being within the Securities set apart for satisfaction of the Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine unless he the said Lord Kingston his Heirs or Assignes shall cause so many Debentures for arrears due to the said Commissioned Officers as are satisfiable by the rules of this Act and have not been satisfied in part to be placed thereupon as after the rate of eight years purchase may be sufficient to purchase the premisses any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the messuages Castles Mannors Lands Tenements and other the Hereditaments whereof Sir Daniel O Bryen now Daniel Lord Vice-count O Bryen of Clare or his Brother Tige O Bryan Esq or Connor O Bryan Esq Sonn and Heir apparent to the said Lord Vice-count or Morough O Bryan one other of the Sonns of the said Vice-count O Bryan or any other person or persons whatsoever to their or any of their use or in trust for them or any of them were upon the two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one lawfully seized of any estate of freehold or inheritance or possest for any term of years yet in being as also one stone-house in the City of Limerick impropriations and appropriated tithes excepted shall be by the Commissioners for Execution of this Act set out and allotted unto and placed in the present and actual possession of Daniel O Bryan Esq Sonn and Heir apparent of the said Connor O Bryen and the Heirs and Executors of the said Daniel O Bryen respectively without and before any previous reprizal any clause matter or thing in the said former Act or in this present Act herein before or after contained to the contrary notwithstanding And that the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall grant unto the said Daniel O Bryen such certificates as may be necessary in Order to the passing of Letters Patents of the premisses and further that until such final Settlement and allotment as aforesaid it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Daniel O Bryen to enter upon and retain and keep possession of the premisses and all and every the Adventurers and Souldiers Protestant purchasors of Lands in Conaght or Clare and Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine their heirs Executors Administrators and Assignes who shall be removed to make way for such restitution or be prejudiced thereby shall after such restitution made be satisfied by the allotment of some other forfeited and undisposed lands as may be equal to their several and respective two full third parts of what they depart from or may be prejudiced in according to the rules of this Act and all and every the persons transplanted into and upon any part of the premisses their Heirs and Assignes shall have full satisfaction out of the forfeited lands undisposed of to the English Protestants as the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland shall think fit after the several interests of His Majesties Protestant Subjects in Ireland have been fully settled and satisfied according to this Act. Provided alwayes and it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall restore James Fleming of Staholmock Esq unto all the Lordships Castles Houses Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders Hereditaments Right Title interest and estate whatsoever whereof the said James Fleming or any or others in trust for him or to his use were seized or possessed the three and twentieh of October One thousand six hundred forty one And that after such Restitution the said James Fleming shall hold and enjoy the same to him and his Heirs this Act or any other Act Record Outlary Attainder or any other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall restore unto Captain Charles Farrell all and singular the lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the County of Longford whereof he the said Charles Farrell or his Father or any other in trust for them or either of them were seized upon the two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since and
said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall forthwith restore unto Patrick Archer Merchant all and singular the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which he or any other person or persons in trust for him had held or enjoyed upon the Two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one the respective Adventurers or Souldiers their Heirs or Assigns now in possession thereof or claiming the same being first satisfied their respective shares and proportions and for their several and respective improvements which will be due to them by the rules of this Act And from and after such restitution so made as aforesaid the said Patrick Archer shall hold and enjoy to him and his Heirs all and singular the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments so to be restored Any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas upon the passing of certain Letters Patents under His Majesties Great Seal of England bearing date the eight day of April in the Fourteenth year of His Majesties Reign unto Richard Earl of Clanrickard and his Heirs an use was therein limited or some other provision thereby made for the better securing unto Charles late Lord Vice-count Muskry the sum of Ten thousand pounds by the yearly payment of Two thousand pounds sterling per annum for and during the term of five years next ensuing the date of the said Patent And forasmuch as it may so fall out by reason of sundry emergent occasions that the payments thereby secured may not be fully compleated within the said term of five years according to the true intent and meaning of the said Letters Patents Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the term of five years in the said Letters Patents mentioned shall be and is hereby enlarged unto the term of three years more next after the said five years ended and determined and that if the several payments in and by the said Letters Patents intended to be secured shall be made and determined within the time hereby enlarged the same shall be as good and effectual in Law as if they had been made within the said five years and that in all other uses limitations matters and things the said Letters Patents and every Clause and Article therein shall be as good and effectual in Law and of like force and effect as the same were before the making of this Act Any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And to the end that no person or persons who is or shall be restored or intitled unto or confirmed in any Messuages Mannors Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments by virtue of any Clause in this Act contained or by virtue of any Letters Patents Grant Restitution or other Disposition or Allotment herein made or hereafter to be made in pursuance of this Act may by pretense of such new title avoid the payment of any just debts to which they or their respective Testators or Ancestors were or ought to have been lyable Be it therefore Explained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons their Heirs and Assignes having and holding or claiming to have and to hold any messuages Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as aforesaid shall be and are hereby made Subject unto and charged with all and singular the Debts and summs of money now due and owing by them or any other person or persons whose Heirs Executors or Administrators they are and under whom they claim their several and respective allotments as Heir Executor or Administrator whether the same Debts be due and owing by virtue of any specialty or matter of Record and that all and every the messuages lands Tenements and Hereditaments so held and claimed as aforesaid shall be held and accompted as Assets in Law and are hereby declared to be Assets for and towards the satisfaction and payment of all such Debts to which the first takers thereof are in their own right or as Heirs Executors or Administrators of any other person or persons made lyable by this Act any thing in this or the said former Act or any other Law matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted That the Heirs or Assignes of Charles late Earl of Mountrath shall have hold and enjoy all such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which were settled upon or granted unto the said late Earl by any Letters Patents of the late Vsurped Powers whereof he was in possession the seventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty and nine except such as have been decreed or shall be by this Act or restored unto the Irish Proprietor for which he or they shall forthwith have the like quantitie of profitable Acres set out unto him or them respectively and that all the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the advantages by this or the said former Act intended to be given granted or confirmed unto the said late Earl of Mountrath his Heirs or Assignes shall stand and remain disposed and divided among and between the now Earl of Mountrath the relict and younger Children of the said late Earl subject and lyable unto such limitations uses debts portions and legacies as are expressed and contained in a decree made by the Lord Lieutenant and Council bearing date the _____ day of October One thousand six hundred sixty and three any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Sir Audley Mervin Knight Speaker of the House of Commons Sir George Lane Kt. Clerke of the house of Lords Philip Ferneley Esq Clerke of the House of Commons and other the attendants on either of the said Houses do claime certain Fees to be due and payable to them for every Bill containing any grant or restitution of any forfeited Lands to any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate their heirs or successors touching the ascertaining whereof and giving due remedy for the recovering of the same some provision was made in and by a clause in the said former Act in which clause the Speaker of the House of Lords and the Clerke of the Council of Ireland are not mentioned Be it therefore explained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Speaker of the house of Lords and Clerke of the Council of Ireland shall be deemed and adjudged to be comprehended in the said clause and that the said Speaker and Clerke of the Council and Sir Audley Mervin Sir George Lane Philip Ferneley and others mentioned in the said clause contained in the said former Act be paid by such person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their Heirs and successors who receive any grant of or Settlement in any forfeited Lands Tenements or Hereditaments by virtue of or in pursuance of this Act or of the said former Act not set out to them in satisfaction
and appropriate tithes And shall also with all convenient Speed restore the whole residue of the said lands and Tenements impropriations and appropriate tithes excepted unto the said Lord Dunsany and his Heirs the respective Adventurers or Souldiers their Heirs or Assignes now in possession thereof or claiming the same being first satisfied their respective shares and proportions and for their several and respective improvements which will be due to them by the rules of this Act And from and after such restitution so made as aforesaid the said Patrick Lord Baron of Dunsany shall hold and enjoy to him his Heirs and Assignes all and singular the lands and Tenements so restored any thing in this or the former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas one thousand Acres of forfeited lands in the Barony of Slane were heretofore set out in satisfaction of an Adventure of six hundred pounds advanced by Sir William Massam Baronet Deceased and as is alleaged was possessed accordingly until about Michaelmas in the year One thousand six hundred fifty eight at which time the said Sir William Massam being Dead and the interest in the said Adventure being come unto Elizabeth Massam the widow and relict of William Massam Esq Sonn and Heir of the said Sir William and then Deceased also Sir Robert Forth Knight pretending some interest in the said lands got possession thereof by an execution or executions issued upon a Iudgement or Iudgements in an action of Ejectment being as is alleaged Surreptitiously obtained without any due notice or legal proceedings the said Elizabeth by reason thereof having no possession upon the Seaventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine could claim no benefit of confirmation by the said sormer Act and it is much to be doubted whether she could demand any satisfaction as a deficient Adventurer the Lot being once set out and enjoyed for remedy hereof Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall forthwith examine the truth of the Allegations aforesaid and if they shall find the possession of the premisses to have been wrongfully taken from the said Elizabeth Massam they shall cause the said Elizabeth Massam to be put into possession thereof And the said Elizabeth Massam shall hold the same to her and her Heirs as fully as any other Adventurer by this Act ought to do until the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall set out and allot to her and her Heirs so much thereof as they shall adjudge to amount to her proportion And if the said Commissioners shall find the said Sir Robert Forths title to possess the said lands to be good and valid then they shall set forth such satisfaction of land for the said Adventure as shall be according to the rules and proportions limited for other Adventurers by this Act And Letters Patents shall be thereof granted to the said Elizabeth and the said Elizabeth shall enjoy the same to her and her Heirs and Assignes accordingly any thing in this or the former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Captain John Wakeham and Lieutenant Richard Wakeham were seized or possessed before the Seaventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine of certain lands set out to them in satisfaction of their arrears and were thereof put out and dispossest before the said Seaventh of May by virtue of an extent Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall set out and allot to the said John Wakeham and Richard Wakeham their Heirs and Assignes so much forfeited and undisposed land as may be equal in quantity of Acres unto two full third parts of the lands whereof they were so possest as fully and amply as if they had been thereof possest upon the Seaventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine any thing in this or the former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall restore unto James Reynold of Loghscurr in the County of Letrim Esq and his Heirs the possession of all and singular the lands Tenements and Hereditaments which the Father of the said James Reynolds or any other person to his use or in trust for him were seized or possessed upon the two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since the respective Adventurers or Souldiers their Heirs or Assignes now in possession thereof or claiming the same being first satisfied their respective shares and proportions and for their several and respective improvements which will be to them by the rules of this Act And from and after such restitution so made as aforesaid the said James Reynolds shall hold and enjoy to him his Heirs and Assignes all and singular the lands and Tenements so restored any thing in this or the former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further explained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That nothing in this or the said former Act contained shall any way extend to Barr any right or title of Escheat which his Majestie hath unto the lands Tenements and Hereditaments of Con O Rourk in the County of Letrim lately Deceased without Heirs and which is found by Inquisition now remaining upon Record in his Majesties High-court of Chancery But that his Majesties right and title thereunto by Escheat as aforesaid be fully saved and preserved unto his Majestie his Heirs and Successors any seizure or sequestration of the premisses or any part thereof upon the account of the said late Rebellion or Warr or any other matter or thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall out of such forfeited lands as shall remain undisposed after all the English interests herein provided for shall be satisfied set out and allot unto Mary Coghlan widow the relict of Terence Coghlan of Kilcolgan in the Kings County Esq Deceased so much land as shall be of like yearly value as the lands which she the said Mary Coghlan formerly held or ought to have held for her joincture to be held and enjoyed by the said Mary Coghlan during her life any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall out of such forfeited lands as shall remain undisposed after all the English interests herein provided for shall be satisfied set out and allot unto Anne Lady Dowager of Slane so much lands as shall be of like yearly value as the lands she formerly held or ought to have held for her joincture as widow and relict of the Lord Delvin her former husband to be held and enjoyed by the said Lady Dowager of Slane during her life any thing herein before contained
Messuages or lands which by virtue of this Act shall be restored or given unto any person or persons herein before or after named may not wholy loose the benefit and charges of their respective improvements Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Protestants so to be removed shall be and are hereby enabled to demand and shall upon their requests have Leases made to them of all and singular the Messuages and lands in their manual occupations for three lives or one and twenty years at a moderate Rent not exceeding three fourthes of the true value of the lands in satisfaction of their improvements except it be a capital messuage and then the party to be restored shall either make such Lease as aforesaid or pay unto the person to be removed in ready money the full value of such improvements and in case of default or refusall to make such Lease as aforesaid upon request or to give such satisfaction in money shall be and are hereby enabled to reenter and to retain the said lands untill such Lease made or satisfaction given as aforesaid And to the end there may not be any difference touching the values of the lands so to be demised or of the improvements to be satisfied as aforesaid The Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours and Council for the time being are hereby enabled upon the Petition of the parties concerned to appoint such Commissioners from time to time as they shall think fit to settle the difference aforesaid Provided alwayes and it is Enacted That nothing herein contained shall enable any of the four and fifty persons herein before mentioned to demand or have or to be restored unto any Impropriations or Appropriate tythes or to any Glebe Lands parcel of any Rectory impropriate but that the same shall remain and be to such uses as they would have been by this and the said former Act if the said fifty and four persons or any of them had not been named Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That those who were in possession of any lands or houses upon the two and twentieth day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and three to which they were restored by virtue of any His Majesties Letters if they or any of them their or any of their Ancestors or any other in trust for them or any of them were thereof seized or possessed upon the Two and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty and one and thereunto rightfully intitled and are not otherwise provided for by this Act shall by the Commissioners for execution of this Act be restored unto and put in possession of such houses and so much of the lands lying contiguous and thereunto adjoyning as shall not exceed the quantity of two thousand acres in the doeing whereof the Commissioners are to proceed by the same rules orders and directions and in like manner and form as they ought to proceed in the settlement and restitution of any of the four and fifty persons herein before named and not otherwise And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That nothing in the said former Act or in this present Act herein before or after contained shall be understood to give restore or confirm to any Irish Papist or Popish Recusant or any other person seized or possessed in trust for any such Irish Papist or Popish Recusant any Advowson or Right of Patronage of or in any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion or any Right of Nomination Presentation or Collation to or Donation of any such Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion but that all and every such Advowsons and Rights of Patronage and the Rights of Nomination Presentation or Collation to or Donation of any such Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion but that all and every such Advowsons and Rights of Patronage and the rights of Nomination Presentation Donation or Collation of or to any such Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion shall vest remain and continue and so are hereby adjudged to vest remain and continue in His Majestie His Heirs and Successors until such Irish Papist or Popish Recusant or the right heir of such Papist or Recusant shall come to Church and receive the Sacrament according to the Rites of the Church of England and from and after such conformity shall be again revestel in the person so conforming and his heirs Any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Sir Edward Smith Knight Chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas Sir Edward Dering Baronet Sir Allen Broderick Sir William Churchill Knights and Edward Cook Esq and such others as upon the death or removal of them or any of them shall be appointed by His Majestie from time to time shall be Commissioners and that they or any three or more of them shall have power to put in execution all and every the matters of this present Act and of the said former Act which remain still in force and are directed to be done by Commissioners or are not particularly entrusted to some others by the said Acts and that they and every of them shall before they act any thing in execution of the said Commission take an Oath before the Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland or before the Lord Chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Chief Place or the Lord Chief Iustice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas or be-before the Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer for the time being which Oath they or any of them have hereby power to administer as there shall be occasion in these words following YOu shall swear That you shall to the best of your skill and knowledge truly and impartially execute the place and duty of a Commissioner for putting in execution an Act intituled 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 And of so much as is still in force and remains to be executed of an other 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 so long as you shall continue in that imployment and therein you shall spare no person for favour and affection nor any person grieve for hatred or ill will So help you God And that in all cases which shall happen before the Commissioners within the space of two years next after
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
Harviestown and the mill thereunto belonging PoleHore Bolgerstown and Muchy-wood and Mullindery with the appurtenances all lying and being in the County of Wexford And that he the said Philip Hore shall have hold possess and enjoy all and singular the premisses to him and his Heirs against the Kings Majestie his Heirs and Successors and against the said Sir George Lane and his Heirs and all claiming by from or under them or any of them by virtue of this or the said former Act with all the rights members and appurtenances Rents issues and profits and all other advantages whatsoever to them and every of them belonging and appertaining to the use of him the said Philip Hore his Heirs Executors and Administrators respectively for ever Subject unto such rents and services as the same are lyable unto by this Act This present Act or any other Act Law Statute Ordinance Order Grant Decree Outlawry Attainder Record Provision Sequestration Distribution Allotment Iudgement or Conviction or any other clause matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding His Majestie having taken to his Princely consideration the many faithfull and acceptable services of Sir George Hamilton Knight performed aswell to his late Majestie of Glorious Memory as to himself in the Warrs of Ireland and that in severall qualities as Captain of Horse Colonel and Captain of Foot Governour of the Castle of Nenach and other capacities for which there were arrears to great value accrued to the said Sir George Hamilton before and after the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine which though not stated are by agreement and consent between him and other the Commissioned Officers and Trustees serving in Ireland before that time reduced to five thousand pounds sterling Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Sir George Hamilton shall in full satisfaction of all personal arrears due unto him for his service in Ireland in the several imployments he had there before and after the said fifth day of June One thousand six hundred forty nine be satisfied the summ of five thousand pounds sterling out of the security set a part and designed by this and the said former Act for satisfaction of the arrears of such Commissioned Officers as served His Majestie or his said Royal Father in the Warrs of Ireland at any time before or after the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine in such manner as by the said agreement is directed this Act or any other Act or matter to the contrary notwithstanding Provided Alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any lands Tenements or Hereditaments which were seized sequestred or set apart upon account of the late Rebellion or Warr have been given and granted by any particular clause or provision in the said former Act mentioned or by any Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England or under the Great Seal of Ireland to any person or persons whose estates therein were confirmed by the said former Act or are confirmed by this present Act and whereof a third part hath not been already evicted by some Decrees herein confirmed the lands granted to his Royal Highness James Duke of York George Duke of Albemarle Arthur Earl of Anglesey Roger Earl of Orrery Charles late Earl of Mountrath Richard Lord Baron of Coloony Charles late Earl of Falmouth Theobald Earl of Carlingford Henry Lord Arlington John Lord Kingston Chidley Coot and Thomas Coot Esquires the relict and Heirs of Sir Simon Harcourt and the relict and Children of Colonel George Cook Sir William Pen Sir Theophilus Jones Sir George Ayscough the Orphans of Colonel Owen O Conell Sir George Rawdon Baronet Sir George Lane Edward Vernon Esq Erasmus Smith Esq and the lands conveyed or mentioned to be conveyed by John Parker to certain Trustees for pious uses which Trustees are hereby made responsible to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour and Governours and Council there for the time being touching the execution and performance of the said Charity and the lands granted to any person or persons in satisfaction of arrears due for service done in Ireland or in satisfaction of any debt owing to them for provisions for the Army or Navy in Ireland and the lands which by the said former Act are restored to former Proprietors onely excepted That there and in such cases the said Provisoes Clauses Grants and Letters Patents shall be understood and so are hereby declared to be good and valid for no more than two full third parts of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments therein mentioned and thereby granted and as to one third part of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments therein contained shall be and so are hereby declared to be null and void Any thing in the said Provisoes Clauses Letters Patents or in the said former Act or in this present Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Nevertheless such Grantees and all those who claim under them shall have like liberty of Retrenchment and in like manner and form as Adventurers and Souldiers are to have by the rules of this Act and the third part so as aforesaid to be retrencht shall remain and be vested in His Majestie His Heirs and Successors to be disposed and applyed to such uses as other forfeited lands by this Act ought to be Any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of all the Lands which have been decreed to any Irish Papist Popish Recusant or Roman Catholick by virtue of any Decrees not grounded upon some particular Proviso in the said former Act and made by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act after the second day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty three and herein confirmed one years rent according to the values the same were let at in the year One thousand six hundred fifty nine over and above all other the rents and payments by this Act imposed or made levyable shall be raised and levyed and paid unto the Receivers herein after mentioned by two even and equal payments the first payment thereof to begin upon the first day of November which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and seven and the second payment thereof to be upon the first day of November which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and eight under the penalty following That is to say every person lyable to the payment of any part of the said years rent and making default and failing to pay the same by the space of twenty days next after any the days and times wherein the same ought to be paid shall be chargeable and is hereby charged with double the sum which ought to have been paid as aforesaid to be levyed by Process out of His Majesties Court of Exchequer in like manner as any other the rents herein before
the new Survey if the same exceed not one tenth part of what is due to the Defendant or Defendants no Retrenchment shall be made Seventhly If the overplus exceed a tenth it shall be lawful to and for such Defendant or Defendants possessed of the overplus to retrench the same where they think fit so as such Retrenchments be contiguous and of unprofitable land together with the profitable but is hereby discharged of all accompts for the Measn profits of the landes so retrenched Eighthly If the information of false admeasurement be against a Souldier or his Heirs or Assigns there the lot of the whole Regiment Troop or Company shall be first surveyed and if the same exceed not one tenth part of what such Regiment Troop or Company ought to have then no survey shall be taken of any individual lot or proportion Ninthly Where the lot of the Regiment Troop or Company shall exceed one tenth part of what they ought to have there the individual parcel to be admeasured if there be cause of Retrenchment may retrench where he thinks fit so as such retrenchment be contiguous Tenthly Whereas some lots for satisfying the Army fall in a good and bad County or Barony such as Kerry and Limerick Dowhallow and Orrery whereas the Souldiers before they came to a particular Dividend of their general lot did mutually consent that when a lot should fall in a bad County or Barony the persons to whom it there fell should have more acres when it fell in a good County they should have less acres or that the acres in the bad County should have a less rate or value set on them And the acres in the good County a greater rate or value should be set on them It is therefore declared that no overplus of acres in the bad County shall be considered as such an overplus as is lyable to retrenchment but with a due respect to such mutual agreements as were made in the general lot of the Regiment Troop Company or Society before the persons concerned in it came to a subdivision Eleaventhly No defendant or defendants whose lotts are not to be found within the books of distribution books of debentures or books of Grocers-Hall shall be liable to any new survey or readmeasurent his evidences being lost Twelfthly and lastly All proceedings in order to a new Survey or readmeasurement which shall not be finished and perfected within nine monthes next after passing this Act shall cease and be void and the defendant to be discharged of all such inquiries for concealments upon such informations And for the further directions of the Commissioners for execution of this Act in their proceedings touching Incumbrances It is â—â—reby declared that where the estate in any messuages Laâ—ds Tenements or Hereditaments recovered by any Irish Claimant by virtue of any decree herein confirmed is noe other nor greater than for the life of such Claimant onely there and in such case the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall give the person or persons against whom such decree hath been made or those who claim under them his and their election whether they will accept the reversion in fee of the Lands so incumbred with an estate for life expectant upon the determination of the said estate in lieu of their two third parts for the same or will rather choose to have their full two third parts set out and allotted to them presently out of some other forfeited Lands And the Commissioners shall give them certificates in order to their passing of Letters Patents either of the reversion of the whole or of two third parts in possession according as such election shall be made And where the estate in any Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments recovered by any Irish Claimant by virtue of any decree herein confirmed is such an estate in remainder or reversion as will leave unto the person or persons against whom such decree hath been made an estate for the life of some other person onely The Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall likewise give the person or persons against whom such decree hath been made or those who claim under them his or their Election whether they will choose to continue the possession of the whole Land during the life of such person and accept the estate for life in the whole Land in satisfaction of one of the third parts which would otherwise be due by the rules of this Act and demand no further allotment of any other forfeited Land than what shall be equal in quantity of acres to one third part onely or whether they would rather desire to have their two full third parts to be set out and allotted presently out of some other forfeited Lands and to relinquish the possession of that estate which they hold for life And the Commissioners are to proceed to give certificates in order to Letters Patents according to the consequence and event of such election And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Commissioners for Execution of this Act do forthwith and with all convenient speed set out and allot or cause to be set out and allotted unto the Archbishops and Bishops in the said former Act in that behalfe named respectively and to their and every of their respective Successors for ever such augmentations and allowances and out of such Lands as were formerly held or reputed to be held in fee farm of any Archbishop Bishop Dean Dean and Chapter or other Ecclesiastical person in his or their politick capacitie under the reservation of any cheifry rent or other duty or service and in such way and manner as by the said former Act is directed and appointed Provided alwayes and be it Enacted that where any Mannors Lands or Tenements not lying within the securitie set a part for the satisfaction of the Commissioned Officers who served in Ireland before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine nor by the said former Act or this present Act otherwise disposed to any particular person or persons have been given and granted to any such Archbishop or Bishop and his and their Successors by virtue of any Letters Patents under the Great Seal of Ireland bearing date since the passing of the said former Act for or towards his and their respective augmentations and allowances that then and in such cases the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall cause the Lands so granted as aforesaid to be surveyed and valued and if upon the return of such survey it shall appear that the lands so granted as aforesaid do not exceed the value of such Augmentations and allowances as by the said former Act were intended to be settled upon the respective Archbishops and Bishops to whom such Letters Patents were granted then the lands so granted as aforesaid shall be held and enjoyed by the several and respective Archbishops Bishops and their Successors according to the tenor of their respective Letters Patents And that the
said Letters Patents shall be of like force and effect as any other Letters Patents granted to Adventurers or Souldiers by virtue of this Act are or ought to be but if the lands so granted as aforesaid shall exceed the value of such Augmentation as by the said former Act was intended to be settled on the Archbishop or Bishop to whom the said lands were granted then the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall cause such Retrenchment of the overplus to be made as may leave unto the respective Archbishops and Bishops his and their due Augmentations and Allowances with as much conveniency and contiguity as may be and the Lands and Tenements so left unto the said Archbishops and Bishops shall be held and enjoyed by them and their Successors respectively as fully and amply as the same might have been enjoyed in case the lands granted by the said Letters Patents had not exceeded the value intended by the said former Act and the said Letters Patents as to so much of the lands therein contained which shall be retrench'd by the Commissioners as aforesaid are hereby declared to be null and void and the lands so retrench'd shall remain and be vested in His Majestie to the uses of this present Act And if the lands so granted as aforesaid shall fall short of the value of such Augmentations as in and by the said former Act was intended to be settled the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall cause the same to be supplied and made up by a further allotment out of such lands and in such way and manner as by the said former Act was directed And it is further Enacted That in lieu of such provision for glebes as by the said former Act was intended the said Commissioners shall likewise set out so many Acres of Land more as may be sufficient to endow or supply all and every the Parochial Churches in this Kingdom with ten acres of Glebe at the least except such Parochial Churches as are endowed with the like or a greater quantity of Glebe already and that the same be so allotted as may be most contiguous and convenient to and for the several and respective Parish Churches hereby intended to be endowed in which provision Parishes united or to be united by virtue of an Act intituled An Act for real union and division of Parishes and concerning Free-Schools and Exchanges are to be understood but as one Parish and Parishes within great Cities and walled Towns are not at all intended to be comprehended and the like care both for contiguity and conveniency is to be had in the setting out of the Augmentations of the several Archbishopricks and Bishopricks not already provided for as aforesaid as far as may be without the too great prejudice of the present Possessor who is to be removed and after the lands set out for the several Augmentations and Glebes as aforesaid the Commissioners shall certifie their proceedings to the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour and Council for the time being And in case the proceedings of the Commissioners shall be there approved and allowed then the lands set out for Augmentations and Glebes as aforesaid shall be and are hereby vested and settled respectively in the several and respective Archbishops and Bishops and Incumbents of Parochial Churches and their Successors for ever and Letters Patents thereof are to be passed to them and their respective Successors in like manner as is directed in the cases of Adventurers and Souldiers and to be of like effect subject nevertheless to the Quit Rents hereafter mentioned and no other And to the end the Revenues of the Church may be more speedily settled Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lands held or reputed to be held in Fee Farm of any Archbishop or Bishop Dean Dean and Chapter or other Ecclesiastical person in his or their Politick capacity and by this Act vested in His Majestie and the several Impropriations forfeited to and by these Presents vested in His Majestie shall be permitted to remain and continue in the possession of the several Archbishops Bishops and other Incumbents until the several and respective Augmentations Endowments and Glebes set out and satisfied as aforesaid and from and after the Augmentations satisfied the residue of the lands held in Fee Farm as aforesaid shall remain subject to the uses of the former Act not changed by this Act and to such other uses as in this Act are limited and appointed And all and every the Impropriations or appropriate Tythes vested in His Majestie by these Presents or otherwise escheated to His Majestie in Right of His Crown and by the said former Act vested and settled in the present and future incumbents and their Successors shall likewise remain and be vested in the present and future Incumbents and their Successors Subject nevertheless to such reservations provisoes conditions exceptions and other limitations Authorities and dispositions as by the said former Act the same were made Subject unto so alwayes that all and every the matters and things which by the former Act were limited and appointed to be done within the space of two years from and after the passing of the said Act be likewise done within the space of two years from and after the passing of this present Act. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all guifts grants feoffments fines and other conveyances hereafter to be made by any Archbishop or Bishop of any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments which by virtue of or in pursuance of this or the said 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 have already been or hereafter shall be granted unto or settled upon any Archbishop or Bishop and his Successors as an augmentation of the revenue of such Archbishoprick or Bishoprick respectively other than for the term of one and twenty years or three lives from such time as any such lease grant or assurance shall begin And whereupon the full moyety of the yearly value and improved rent as the same are now worth to be let shall be reserved and payable during the said term of one and twenty years shall be utterly void and of none effect to all intents and purposes This Act or any other Act law custome or usage to the contrary notwithstanding And the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall likewise set out or cause to be set out so many more acres of profitable Land as may be of the yearly value of three hundred pounds per ann or may be sufficient to answer and secure a yearly rent charge of three hundred pounds per ann to be issuing out of the same to the intent the same may be a perpetual revenue for the support and maintenance of the Provost of Trinity Colledge neer Dublin and his Successors
February which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty six under the penalty following that is to say every person liable to the payment of any part of the said years Rents and making default and failing to pay the same by the space of twenty days after any the days and times wherein the same ought to be paid shall be chargeable and is hereby charged with double the sum which ought to have been paid as aforesaid to be levied by Process out of His Majesties Court of Exchequer in like manner as any the Rents whereof the said Earl of Orrery and Lord Massereen were appointed Receivers by the said former Act might have been levied and if need so require like course is to be taken for the ascertaining of the value of lands charged with the said years rent and of returning the same into the Exchequer to remain and be a charge upon Record as in and by the said former Act in case of the said other rent therein secured was appointed And the said Receivers herein after appointed are to accompt for and pay unto Arthur Earle of Anglesey Vice-treasurer of Ireland or to the Vice-treasurer of Ireland for the time being all and every the summs of money by them to be received Nevertheless it is hereby declared and Enacted that all and every the summs of money formerly paid to the Earl of Orrery and Lord Vice-Count Massareen in pursuance of the said former Act shall be allowed to the person and persons so paying the same his and their Heirs Executors and Assignes in full discharge of so much of the rent payable by this Act as the moneyes so as aforesaid payd do or shall amount unto and the two half years rents payable to the said Earl of Orrery and Lord Vice-Count Massereen by any Adventurer or Souldier their Heirs Executors or Assignes by virtue of the said former Act shall be and are hereby from henceforth discharged And in case the monies to be raised as aforesaid shall fall short of the summ of three hundred thousand pounds then it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour and Council there for the time being to tax and assess upon all the lands in Ireland so much more money as together with what hath been before raised and allowed by virtue of this Act shall make up the full and just summ of three hundred thousand pounds sterling and to cause the same to be assessed distributed raised and levied by such wayes and means as they shall think fit observing therein all the equality and indifferency that can be And Arthur Earl of Anglesey Vice-treasurer of Ireland or the Vice-treasurer for the time being is hereby required and enjoyned to pay or cause to be payd out of the moneyes to be received as aforesaid unto the Kings Majestie the summ of fifty thousand pounds and also unto and amongst such Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine and have not yet received any satisfaction in lands or money and amongst the Heirs Executors and Assigns of such Commissioned Officers and other persons intitled to be satisfied within their security such summs of money as the Commissioners for Execution of this Act having respect to the arreares already stated shall by any warrant under their hands and Seals or the hands and Seals of the Major part of them direct and appoint until the whole sum of One hundred thousand pounds shall be fully satisfied and payd and the warrant or warrants under the hands and Seals of the said Commissioners or the Major part of them together with the acquittance or acquittances of the party or parties who shall receive any money thereupon shall be unto the said Vice-treasurer a sufficient discharge for so much as the said acquittances extend unto which said One hundred thousand pounds so as aforesaid appointed to be payd is hereby declared to be in lieu and recompence of and in full satisfaction for the years rent payable out of the lands of those Souldiers who had lands set out for their arrears in the year One thousand six hundred fifty three and the year and halfs rent payable by those other Souldiers who had lands set out for their arrears in the years One thousand six hundred fifty five One thousand six hundred fifty six One thousand six hundred fifty seaven One thousand six hundred fifty eight One thousand six hundred fifty nine The payment of which said rents shall from henceforth cease and determine and the persons and estates there with charged or chargeable by the said former Act shall be and are hereby thereof for ever acquitted and discharged And whereas several clauses in His Majesties Gracious Declaration of the thirtieth of November in the twelfth year of his Raign and in the former Act do intitle His Grace James Duke of Ormond and the Lady Dutchess His Wife to great quantities of forfeited lands in the Counties of Catherlagh Galloway Waterford Dublin Kildare Meath Cork Kerry Kilkenny and Tipperary and other places and if the same were extended to the utmost would greatly obstruct and hinder the Settlement now intended Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the full summ of fifty thousand pounds sterling be payd out of the moneyes aforesaid unto his said Grace James Duke of Ormond now Lord Lieutenant of Ireland His Executors Administrators or Assignes which the said Vice-treasurer is hereby required and enjoyned to pay or cause to be payd out of the moneyes aforesaid unto His said Grace or unto such other person or persons as His Grace shall appoint which is hereby declared to be in lieu and recompence of and in full satisfaction for all such forfeited and forfeitable estates titles interests claims or demands in or to any Mannors lands Tenements or Hereditaments mediately or immediately held as of any of the Mannors of the said Duke or the Lady Dutchess of Ormond His Wife or heretofore granted by His Grace or any of his Ancestors or by any of the Ancestors of the said Lady Dutchess in Fee Farm or Fee tail and of all and singular the statutes judgements Mortgages and other real securities for money given made acknowledged or entred into by any person or persons holding as aforesaid to any other forfeiting person or person not declared innocent to all which premises the said Duke and Dutchess respectively hy his Majesties said Declaration and by the said former Act are intitled and of all mean rates issues and profits thereof since incurred and now due to His Grace other than what is already received to his use for which he is hereby acquitted and of all and every the Reversions and Remainders which the said Duke or Dutchess now hath or have expectant upon the said forfeited and forfeitable Estates tail which Estates Interests and other the benefits and advantages herein before mentioned are intended and so are hereby declard to
by the Decree of the said Commissioners nor any other person or persons claiming under such Decree shall be permitted to sue or prosecute the person or persons against whom such Decree was made his or their Executors or Administrators or any of their Tenants or Assigns touching or concerning any Measn profits of the Lands and Tenements so as aforesaid decreed but that all Suits Actions and Demands touching or concerning such Measn profits and all prosecutions therefore whether in law or equity shall be and are hereby barred and excluded and all and every person and persons liable to such actions molestations and prosecutions shall be thereof for ever acquitted and discharged Any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And because many persons did put in their claims before the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act as innocent persons thereby demanding some small parcel of land onely or deriving his or their title to some small part from some Irish Papist and thereupon no opposition being made the said Commissioners declared the said Claimant or the person under whom the Claimant derived to be innocent quo ad hoc since which time the said Claimants and the said persons under whom they derive alleaging themselves to be declared innocent enter upon great estates in several Counties as devested out of the Crown by such Iudgement of Innocence pretending the limitation of that Innocence by the words of the Decree quo ad hoc to be repugnant and impossible contrary to the intention and meaning of the said Commissioners by them publickly declared whereas if the whole estates to which the said persons now pretend had been then in question before the said Commissioners the several Adventurers and Souldiers therein concerned had been summoned to have taken notice thereof and might have made such opposition and produced such proof of their nocency as they thought fit Be it therefore Enacted That no Decree wherein any person or persons have been declared innocent quo ad hoc shall give such person or persons any title by virtue of any such Decree to enter upon or enjoy any more or other lands than what were particularly mentioned in such Decrees but that all other the lands of such person or persons declared innocent quo ad hoc which were sequestred upon the accompt of the late Rebellion or War shall remain and continue in His Majestie to the uses of this and the said former Act Any thing in either of the said Acts to the contrary notwithing Provided also and be it Enacted That nothing herein contained shall extend in any wise to ratifie or confirm the Decree made by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act wherein and whereby Oliver Earl of Tyreconnel hath been declared to be nocent but that the said Decree and every part thereof shall be and so is hereby declared to be null and void as if the same had never been had or made and that the said Oliver Earl of Tyreconnel and all others who upon the Three and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since were or are seized to his use or in trust for him or in trust for Sir Thomas Fitz William late Vicecount Meryon Father to the said Earl or Christopher Fitz Williams Vncle to the said Earl or in trust for the Countess of Tyreconnel Wife of the said Earl of Tyreconnel for her separate maintenance or claiming by from or under him the said Earl of Tyreconnel shall be and continue in such like estate and condition and no other nor better than he or they ought to have been in case no such Decree had ever been made subject nevertheless to such Quit Rents as by this Act are imposed Any thing herein or in the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted That the said Oliver Earl of Tyreconnel shall hold and enjoy to him and his heirs the lands in Cappock in the County of Dublin and Hanlaston and Athronan in the County of Meath mortgaged by the Lord Vicecount fitzs William his Father now forfeited to His Majestie and that His Majesties Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date the eight day of June in the sixteenth year of His Majesties Reign containing His Majesties gracious pardon to the said Earl of Tyreconnel and a clause of Restitution of all the lands and Tenements of the said Earl shall be and is hereby confirmed and shall be held and enjoyed accordingly subject to Quit Rents as aforesaid Provided always and it is hereby Enacted and Explained That no lands whereof the Provost Fellows and Scholars of the Colledge of the holy and undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth neer Dublin were seized in Fee in the year One thousand six hundred forty one and are now in their actual possession nor any lands held by virtue of any Grant Lease or Fee Farm from the said Provost Fellows and Scholars and forfeited to His Majestie shall be disposed by virtue of this or the said former Act but that they and every of them remain and be in the said Provost fellowes and scholars and their Successors for ever Subject nevertheless to the payment of such Quit rents for the said forfeited lands as Adventurers or Souldiers by virtue of this or the former Act ought to pay any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And because several persons have been decreed innocent but nevertheless have not been restored to the lands which they claimed before the Commissioners for Execution of the said former Act but have been left to the course of law for the recovery of their possessions by trying their titles grounded upon the validity of those evidences by which they pretended to claim Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person persons who were defendant or defendants in the suit or claim upon which such decree was made as aforesaid and those claiming by from and under them shall within three months next after the sitting of the Commissioners for Execution of this Act declare and make his and their election by writing under his and their hands and Seals or under the hands and Seals of his and their Atturneys or Agents thereunto lawfully authorized whether they will immediately deliver up and relinquish the possession of the lands in controversy unto the Kings Majestie and resort to their proportionable satisfaction out of other forfeited lands which if they do elect they are to be admitted accordingly and shall be satisfied his and their full two third parts and so much more as may be Equivalent to his and their buildings and improvements and then shall part with the said lands or whether they will rather abide the tryal at law which if they do elect and the Irish claimant should fail to prosecute his title or a verdict or judgement shall be given against
that after such Restitution made the said Charles Farrell shall hold and enjoy the same to him and his Heirs Subject nevertheless to the quit-rents by this or the former Act imposed and lyable to all and singular the statutes Mortgages Debts Charges and all other the Acts and Incumbrances whatsoever of him the said Charles Farrell or his Father any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall out of such forfeited lands as shall remain undisposed after all the English interests herein provided for shall be satisfied set out and allot unto Frances Darcy widow so much land as shall be of like yearly value as the lands which she the said Frances Darcy formerly held or ought to have held for her joincture to be held and enjoyed by the said Frances Darcy during her life any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the summ of Four thousand five hundred pounds due for service done in Ireland before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine unto Arthur Lord Vice-count Ranelaugh by Debentures already stated and allowed by the Commissioners for Execution of the said former Act shall be paid and satisfied out of the securities thereunto lyable by this present Act unto Richard Earl of Burlington and Cork Lord High Treasurer of Ireland Arthur Earl of Anglesey Roger Earl of Orrery and Sir John Skeffington Baronet and the Survivors and Survivor of them and that they and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the Heirs of the Survivor shall have hold receive and enjoy to his and their Heirs all and singular the Mannors lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all other the satisfaction whatsoever or of what nature or kind soever which shall or may be hereafter appointed allotted or otherwayes set out and Assigned for the satisfaction of the said Four thousand five hundred pounds Nevertheless in trust to and for the onely use benefit and advantage of Frances Jones and Elizabeth Jones Daughters of the said Arthur Lord Vice-count Ranelaugh their Executors and Assignes and to and for no other use intent or purpose whatsoever any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted that all Leases terms and estates which upon the three and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one did not exceed three lives or one and thirtie years and are forfeited to or vested in His Majestie whereof or whereupon the next and immediate Reversion or Remainder doth or shall appertain to any innocent Protestant be and are hereby declared to be ceased determined null and void any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That nothing in this present Act nor in the former Act shall be taken or any wayes construed to weaken or make void all or any of the right title and claim which Lawrence Hide of Henton-Dawbney in the County of Southampton Esq hath by virtue of any Statute Staple Mortgage or otherwise unto the Towns and Town Lands of Ballihenukin Knockanammy and part of Chancellors-town in the Barony of Iffa and Offa and the lands of Quarter-cross parcel of the town and Lands of Clare nor unto two acres great Countrey measure in Burdens-Grange in the Barony of Middle-third in all containing about eight hundred acres lying and being in the County of Tipperary but that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners for Execution of this Act to examine the right and title of him the said Lawrence Hide of in and to the said lands and Tenements or to any summ of money which can or may be levied thereupon and to make such Order and Decree for the said Lawrence Hide or his Assignes to hold and enjoy all and singular the premisses until he or they shall be fully satisfied and paid the moneys to him due as aforesaid together with what interest shall be due for the same as they shall think fit any thing in this Act or in any former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Colonel Christopher O Bryen was appointed by His Majestie in his late gracious Declaration to be restored unto his estate as one who in an especial manner had merited his Maiesties Grace and favour and was afterwards in pursuance of His Majesties Orders put into possession thereof by the Sheriff of the County of Clare in which County the said estate doth lye notwithstanding which if the same should be strictly examined according to the Rules of the said former Act It may be doubted whether such delivery of possession were legal and whether the lands so delivered do not still remain Subject to the uses of the said former Act and this present Act And whereas the said Christopher O Bryen is lately Dead without issue and all his estate right title and interest descended unto and upon Morogh Earl of Inchequin his next and immediate Brother and Heir Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Execution of this Act shall forthwith restore unto the said Morogh Earl of Inchequin and his Heirs the present and actual possession of all and singular the Castles Houses Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which the said Colonel Christopher O Bryen or any other in trust for him or to his use had held or enjoyed upon the two and twentieth day of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since the lands Tenements and Hereditaments formerly belonging to the said Christopher O Bryen and now in the possession of Peirce Creagh excepted which are hereby granted and confirmed unto the said Peirce Creagh and his Heirs and shall likewise set out and allot unto the said Earl of Inchequin and his Heirs so many acres more of undisposed and forfeited lands as may be equal in quantity of acres to the said lands held by the said Peirce Creagh and from and after such restitution and allotment so made as aforesaid the said Morogh Earl of Inchequin shall hold and enjoy to him and his Heirs all and singular the messuages lands Tenements and Hereditaments so as aforesaid restored and allotted and all and every the persons transplanted into and upon any part of the premisses their Heirs and Assignes shall have such satisfaction out of the forfeited lands undisposed of to English Protestants as the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland shall think fit after the several interests of His Majesties Protestant Subjects in Ireland have been fully satisfied and settled according to this Act any thing in this or the said former Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Sir Thomas Sherlock Knight Deceased was in his life time a very dutifull and Loyall Subject and from the time of the first
Assignes in the distribution and setting forth of the securitie appointed for the satisfaction of the arrears of the Commissioned Officers who served your Majestie and your late Royal Father in Ireland before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine shall have the preference preemption of all the forfeited houses lands tenements and Hereditaments in the town of Youghill or the liberties thereof belonging unto and which are part of the said securities at the rate of Eight years purchase as they are or shall be found to be really and Bonâ Fide worth and that Arthur Earl of Anglesey Vice-treasurer of Ireland his heirs and Assignes shall have like preference and preemption of all the forfeited houses lands tenements and hereditaments in the town of Rosse in the County of Wexford or the liberties thereof belonging unto and which are part of the said securities at the rate of eight years purchase as they are or shall be found to be really and Bonâ Fide worth and if any doubt or difficulty shall arise concerning the value of the said houses or lands so as the Trustees for the said Officers shall not be satisfied with the return already made of the value of the same that in such case upon the desire and request of the said Trustees there shall be a new Survey and valuation of the said towns liberties thereof by such persons as shall be appointed by the Commissioners for the Execution of this Act by and with the consent of the said Trustees according to which return the said Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments are to be sold and not otherwise And in case the said Earls their Heirs and Assignes or any of them shall offer unto the said Commissioners for the execution of this Act any Debentures of Officers who served as aforesaid before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine for or in part of payment for all or so much of the said Houses and premisses in the said several towns as shall be by them respectively contracted and agreed for that the same shall be allowed and the said Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to accept and receive the same for all or in part of the purchase money so as the said Debentures are capable of prior satisfaction and there has been such Deductions and defalcations made as are directed by this Act and the said former Act and shall not be accepted to satisfie more in the pound than the whole security will hold out to satisfie the Debentures of the rest of the said Officers the said Commissioners are also required authorized to give such certificates as are necessary for the passing of Patents thereof according to the rules of this Act. And whereas there is a Lease granted of a House in Dublin called Corke house with the appurtenances unto the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Corke and Burlington by the name of Richard Earl of Corke Lord High-treasurer of Ireland from James Margetson Doctor of Divinity Treasurer of the Cathedral Church of St. Patricks Dublin by the approbation of the Archbishop of the same Diocess and in obedience to his Majesties Letters of Recommendation to that purpose dated the twentieth of July One thousand six hundred sixty and confirmed by the several Deans and Chapters both of the Holy Trinity Dublin and St. Patricks Dublin bearing date the three and twentieth of January One thousand six hundred sixty for the term of forty years from the Feast of the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour then last past which was made upon good and valueable considerations Be it therefore Enacted and it is hereby Enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the said Richard Earl of Cork and Burlington his Executors and Assigns shall and may have hold and enjoy the said house with the appurtenances mentioned in the said Lease for and during the years therein mentioned at the Reservations thereby reserved Any thing in this Act or any other former Act or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That all and singular the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which Arthur Lord Vice-Count of Valentia and Earl of Anglesey hath purchased from any person or persons in actual possession thereof by virtue of any Grant Order or Disposition of the late Vsurped Powers or any of them the Lands and Tenements Decreed away by the Commissioners for the execution of the said former Act onely excepted shall be settled and are hereby granted and confirmed unto him his Heirs and Assigns and he and they shall have hold and enjoy the same and that for such of the said estates or any part thereof as have or hath been Decreed away as aforesaid or shall be decreed away in pursuance of this Act by the Commissioners appointed or to be appointed for the execution thereof the said Earl His Heirs and Assigns shall forthwith be fully reprized for the same and without any Retrenchment by the said Commissioners by so much forfeited lands as may be sufficient to make up and supply unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey his Heirs and Assigns what was or is granted or intended to be granted by the said Act or by this Act And the said Earl his Heirs and Assigns shall have hold and enjoy all other the benefits and advantages in and by the said former Act given granted or provided or intended to be given granted or provided to or for the said Earl his Heirs or Assigns Any thing in the said former Act or in this present Act or otherwise to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Explained Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every payment and payments sum and sums of money which are and shall be made by any Adventurer Officer and Souldier Connaght-Purchasor Irish Papist Popish Recusant Roman Catholick or others out of or for any of the said forfeited vested or escheated Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Estates by virtue or in pursuance of His Majesties said Declaration Instructions the said former or this present Act or by all every or any of them to or for any use or uses intent end or purpose therein respectively mentioned expressed declared limited or appointed Excepting onely the Quit-Rents and other Chief-Rents reserved and payable unto His Majestie His Heirs and Successors and such other sums as are herein otherwise directed to be paid shall be paid for the said uses intents and purposes into the hands of John Bence and Alexander Bence Esquires or either of them who are hereby constituted and appointed joyntly and severally to collect and receive the same and to be Collectors and Receivers thereof by themselves or their Deputy or Deputies respectively whose Acquittance or Acquittances Receipt or Receipts for the said several and respective payments sum and sums of money being entred and signed as after is directed shall be firm valid effectual and sufficient discharges in Law for the same respectively And to the end our
the same according to the rules of this Act and are by virtue hereof to be removed from the same shall have so much other forfeited lands set out to them by the Commissioners for the Execution of this Act as may be sufficient to reprize and satisfie them for two full third parts of the lands from whence they are to be removed and certificates shall be thereof granted in order to the passing of Letters Patents which shall be of like force and effect as any other Letters Patents granted in pursuance of this Act are or ought to be And they and every of them are hereby likewise discharged for them their Heirs and Executors respectively of and from all arrears of rent and measne profits received or to be received by them at any time before they shall be removed as aforesaid Provided also That the Town and Lands of Bradcullen and so much lands contiguous about the same as may amount unto three thousand acres of profitable land with the appurtenances which by the said Contract made with the said Teige O Conner were to have been given or assured to the said Teig O Conner and his heirs shall be and are hereby excepted from being settled upon the said William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Radcliffe and their Heirs or any of them and shall remain diposeable between Sir Francis Gore Knight and Captain Robert Parkes according to their several proportions of what they respectively possess of the said estate and what by the rules of this Act shall belong to them respectively and are to be reckoned and numbred out of such lands which are now in their or either of their possessions most contiguous to the said Town of Bradcullen in pursuance of the said Contract And whereas the said Sir Philip Percival and Sir George Ratcliffe or one of them did besides the said Donogh O Connors estate in like manner purchase some other small parcels of lands tenements and hereditaments in the said County of Sligoe from several other persons Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Radcliffe shall be and are hereby restored to all the Estate Right and Title which the said Thomas late Earl of Strafford and Sir George Radcliffe or either of them had either in Law or equity in or to the said last mentioned lands tenements and hereditaments in the year One thousand six and forty And that they the said William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Ratcliffe shall by the said Commissioners for execution of this Act be forthwith restored to the possession of all such of the said last mentioned lands tenements and hereditaments whereof the said Thomas late Earl of Strafford and Sir George Radcliff or either of them or any other person or persons to their or either of their uses or in trust for them or either of them were seized or possessed in the said year One thousand six hundred and forty under the rents and services due and payable thereout to His Majestie in the said year And forasmuch as the Adventurers and Souldiers and Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine and are now in possession of or claim the same may the better know whether they may hold the said lands or take themselves to their Reprizals the said Commissioners are required to hear and determine of the said purchases and of the right title and interest either in Law or Equity which they the said William Earl of Strafford and Thomas Radcliffe have or had in or to the said last mentioned lands and to reprize the said Adventurers Officers and Souldiers in other lands of equal value worth and purchase according to the rules of this Act in case the said lands shall be evicted from them as aforesaid who are hereby discharged of and from all arrearages of rent and mean profits received at any time before they shall be removed from the said last mentioned lands Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Explained Declared and Enacted by by the Authority aforesaid That all and singular the lands tenements and hereditaments and other estates with their and every of their members and appurtenances of within or appertaining to the half Barony of Irris alias Irrus or Erris and the Parish of Dunfiny alias Ducuni adjoyning unto Irris in the County of Mayo and the Parish of Termon-barry alias Tearmonbeary in the County of Roscommon and all and every or any of them vested in settled on forfeited to or belonging upon the said three and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since unto Your Majestie or Your Royal Father together with all the Mines and Minerals therein Royal Mines excepted and all Fishings on the Sea coasts of the same as also on the Loughs and fresh Rivers and waters thereunto in any wise belonging or appertaining be and they are hereby as from the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty five in the Seaventeenth year of your Majesties Raign vested in settled on and granted unto Sir Robert Vyner Knight Thomas Vyner Esq James Temple Henry Lewis and Silvanus Hyde of London Gent. their Heirs and Assignes for ever to be held of your Majestie your Heirs and Successors as of your Castle of Dublin in Free and Common Soccage at and under the yearly Rent of fifty pounds to be paid into your Majesties Exchequer at Michaelmas and Easter by equal portions And that Thomas Earl of Ossory Richard Earl of Burlington and Cork Roger Earl of Orrery Richard Earl of Arran and Robert Boyle Esquire their Heirs and Assigns for ever shall possess and enjoy the full benefit advantage and effect of your Majesties gracious Letters under your Royal Signet bearing date the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty two in the Fourteenth year of your Reign for granting of several houses and lands unto Sir James Shaen his Heirs and Assigns for ever in for or towards satisfaction of Adventures or Arrears for service done in Ireland and other interests confirmed allowed or satisfied by or intended allowed confirmed or satisfied by or in pursuance of your Majesties said gracious Declaration of the Thirtieth of November One thousand six hundred and sixty and other Concessions consistent with and agreeable to the same And also to have hold and enjoy to them their Heirs and Assigns for ever the full benefit advantage and effect of your Majesties Letters under your Royal Signet bearing date the Four and twentieth day of July One thousand six hundred sixty five in the Seventeenth year of your Reign in trust for and to the uses intents and purposes therein expressed mentioned and declared Excepting onely what concerns the lands and premisses in Irris Dunfiny and Tearmonbeary or any of them Any other Clause Provisoe Sentence matter or thing whatsoever in the said former
alwaies and it is hereby Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for Richard Stephens the younger to hold and enjoy to him and his Heirs all and singular the messuages and lands Tenements and other the Hereditaments situat lying and being in and about the Town and Corporation of Kells in the County of Eastmeath whereof he the said Richard Stephens the younger by himself or his under-tenants was seized or possessed upon the Seaventh of May One thousand six hundred fifty nine and which lye within the securities set apart for the satisfaction of the Commissioned Officers who served before the fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine he the said Richard Stephens placing thereupon so many Debentures for arrears due for service done before the said fifth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine for which no satisfaction hath yet been given and which are satisfiable by the rules of this or the said former Act as do amount unto the full summ of three hundred pounds any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Sir Theophilus Jones Knight was heretofore settled in and planted upon a Messuage and certain Lands in and about Lucan and now by virtue of some Decree made by the Commissioners for execution of the said former Act and herein confirmed is onely to enjoy the said Messuages and Lands during the life of Patrick Sarsfield who was declared nocent after whose death the said lands are declared to come unto William son of the said Patrick an infant and the heirs males of his body by reason whereof the said Sir Theophilus Jones is likely to sustain great prejudice if due consideration be not had of his improvements Be it declared and Enacted That the Commissioners for execution of this Act shall forthwith set out and allot unto the said Sir Theophilus Jones and his heirs so much forfeited land as may be sufficient in value worth and purchase fully to reprize the said Sir Theophilus Jones for the Messuage Lands and Improvements which have been so evicted and decreed away from him Any clause matter or thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always That it shall and may be lawful to and for Pierce Creagh to hold and enjoy to him and his Heirs all and singular the Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the Province of Connaught and County of Clare or either of them whereof he the said Pierce Creagh is now in possession by himself or his Vnder-tenants and into which the said Pierce Creagh was transplanted by the late Vsurpers Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And because the Adventurers and Souldiers are by this Act exempted from payment of such Fees to the Officers attending both Houses of Parliament and others as in and by the said former Act might have been demanded or pretended to as due Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of Ireland and Council there to assess and impose upon all and every the Adventurers and Souldiers who by the said former Act were lyable or might be pretended to be lyable to the payment of such Fees such further and other sums of money not exceeding Five thousand pounds as they shall think fit and to cause the same to be levyed in such manner as any other the sums herein before imposed are levyable and to be paid to the Receivers aforesaid to the end the same may be issued out unto and distributed amongst such Officers in such manner and according to such proportions as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour and Council after the advice of both Houses of Parliament thereupon had shall direct and appoint Provided always and be it further Cnacted by the Authority aforesaid That Colonel William Leg one of the Grooms of His Majesties Bed-Chamber shall in lieu of what hath been retrenched of his Provisoe in the former Act have hold and enjoy to him and his Heirs for ever all and singular the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments by His Majesties Letters Patents to him granted and passed under the Great Seal of Ireland pursuant to and according to the tenor and effect of His Majesties Letters under His Privy Signet and Sign Manual bearing date at Whitehal the Nineteenth day of January One thousand six hundred sixty and three without any Retrenchment or Defalcation whatsoever Any thing in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted That James Fitz Gerald of Laragh in the County of Westmeath and his Heirs shall have the like restitution priviledges advantages and benefits in all respects as any of the fifty four persons provided for by this Act Any thing therein contained or otherwise to the contrary notwithstanding His Majestie being fully satisfied of the constant loyalty and Innocence of Robert Arthur deceased late of Dublin Alderman and of John Arthur his son and heir who were both Inhabitants of Dublin is graciously pleased That it be Enacted be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said John Arthur shall be by the said Commissioners restored unto settled and established in the quiet possession and shall thenceforth have hold possess and enjoy to him and his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively all and singular the Mannors Houses Castles Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Reversions Remainders Leases Rights Titles Interests and Estates whatsoever in the Kingdom of Ireland which the said Robert Arthur or any other person or persons in trust for him or to his use had held or enjoyed on the twenty second of October One thousand six hundred forty one or at any time since Except what thereof is in the hands of Adventurers or Souldiers or is in the City of Dublin for which the said John is to be forthwith reprized elsewhere to the full value thereof as neer and contiguous to the said City as conveniently may be and the said John Arthur is likewise restored unto and is hereby enabled to demand recover and receive to his own use all and singular the debts and sums of money which at any time heretofore were due and owing to him the said Robert Arthur and are still unpaid This present or any other Act Clause matter or thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas Randall Marquess of Antrim did on or about the One and twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred thirty seven demise and grant the Barony of Cary the Lordship of Ballycastle and the Island of Rathcline and all the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the said Barony Island and Lordship unto Alexander Macdonnell John Moore Archbald Steward and John Trayleman for the term of ninety nine years from Michaelmas One thousand six hundred thirty seven in trust for payment of certain debts
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