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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09304	By the Lord Lieutenant and Council Essex whereas in an act of Parliament, lately passed in this Kingdom, entituled, An act for the explaining of some doubts, a rising upon an entituled, an Act for the better execution of His Majesties gracious declaration for the settlement of his kingdome of Ireland ...	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1672-1677 : Essex); Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, 1631-1683.	1674 (1674)	Wing I818; ESTC R178810	19,183	58

BY THE Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL ESSEX WHEREAS in an Act of Parliament lately passed in this Kingdom Entituled An ACT for the Explaining of some Doubts arising upon an ACT Entituled 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 There is one Clause contained in these words following And for the better carrying on of this present Settlement by raising such a sum of Money as may be sufficient to buy off 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 Tenour 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 the same Lands were lett 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 Febr. 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 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 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 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 Earl of Anglesey Vice-Treasurer of Ireland or to the Vice-Treasurer of Ireland for the time being all and every the sums of Money by them to be received Nevertheless it is hereby Declared and enacted that all and every the sums of Money formerly paid to the Earl of Orrery and Lord Viscount Massereen 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 Assigns in full discharge of so much of the Rent payable by this ACT as the Moneys so as aforesaid paid do or shall amount unto and the two half Years Rent payable to the said Earl of Orrery and Lord Viscount Massereen by any Adventurer or Souldier their Heirs Executors or Assigns by virtue of the said former ACT shall be and are hereby from henceforth Discharged and in case the Moneys to be raised as aforesaid shall fall short of the sum of Three Hundred Thousand pounds then it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor 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 sterl and to cause the same to be Assessed distributed raised and levied by such ways and means as they shall think fit observing therein all the equality and indifferency that can be And whereas since the making of the said ACT His Majesty by Commission under His Great Seal of Ireland did appoint certain Commissioners for the ascertaining the Years Rent of all Lands by the said clause lyable to the payment thereof who have ascertained the said Years Rent and returned the same into His Majesties Court of Exchequer by which return it appears that the whole Moneys raised and to be raised by the said Years Rent do fall much short of the summ of Three Hundred Thousand pounds in the said ACT mentioned the said whole returns of all the Lands lyable to the payment of the said Years Rent amounting but to the summ of One hundred and ninety Thousand Seven hundred Eighty nine pounds Eleven shillings Seven pence half penny And whereas the Barons of His Majesties Court of Exchequer have certified unto Us under their Hands that there have been discharged of the said Years Rent so ascertained and returned by the said Commissioners by Judgements and Orders of the said Court of Exchequer several sums of Money amounting in the whole to the summ of Twelve Thousand One Hundred Seventy one pounds sixteen shillings seven pence part of the said summ of One hundred and ninety Thousand seven Hundred Eighty nine pounds Eleven shillings seven pence half penny which said sums so discharged have been adjudged by the said Court to have been assessed upon Lands that by the said ACT are not liable to the payment of the said Years Rent and the said summ of Twelve Thousand One Hundred Seventy One pounds sixteen shillings seven pence being deducted from the said sum of One Hundred and Ninety Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty Nine pounds Eleven shillings seven pence half penny there remains of the said Years Rent but the sum of One Hundred Seventy Eight Thousand six hundred and seventeen pounds fifteen shillings and one half penny which falls short of the said Three Hundred Thousand pounds the sum of one hundred twenty one thousand three hundred eighty two pounds four shillings and eleven pence half penny And whereas his Majesty by his Contract with our very good Lord Richard Lord Viscount Ranelagh and his Partners and His Gracious Letters bearing date the One and twentieth day of September 1671 hath been Graciously pleased for the ease of his Majesties Subjects in this Kingdom and out of His Clemency and Favour to them to declare That they shall be allowed Eight Half-yearly payments for the paying and answering of the said sum