such reasonable and moderate Rents, for and in respect of such Lands payable for the same to the Commonwealth, as the said Commissioners of Revenue, or any three or more of them shall think just and equitable. And it is hereby further Declared, That such of the said Persons as shall remove themselves as aforesaid, shall (for their encouragement to live there peaceably, and conformable to the Laws and Customs of the Commonwealth and people of England) have and enjoy the benefit and advantage held forth in and by the said recited Act for satisfaction of the Adventurers, for the mitigation and ascertaining of Assessments, and other publick Taxes, from and after the four and twentieth day of June next ensuing, equal. with the English and Protestants in Ireland; and shall be pardoned all offences by them respectively committed (except Murthers committed by, or upon any person not being in Armes at the time of committing the same) and shall be no more molested for the same. And for the better accommodation of such as shall remove and Transplant themselves as aforesaid, it is hereby further Ordered and Declared, That the said Commissioners of Revenue within the Precinct of Gallway, or any three or more of them, shall and are hereby impowred and authorized to assign and appoint unto the said persons who are to remove as aforesaid, all or any part of the Lands forfeited or belonging to the Common-wealth, within the Province of Connaught and County of Clare to be by them respectively held and enjoyed as aforesaid (except such Lands as are now actually tilled or stocked by the Inhabitants, and except such Lands as are Scituate and lying within the County of the City of Gallway, and within four Statute Miles distant of the said City (the same being intended for English and Protestants to Plant), and also except such of the forfeited Lands within the Province of Connaught, beginning at the end of one Statute Mile round the Town of Sleigo, and so winging upon the Sea Coast, not above four Miles distant from the Sea, as shall satisfie the Forces now disbanded, who are to be satisfied within the said Province) which said forfeited Lands so set out, assigned and appointed as aforesaid, unto such of the said persons as are to remove, and to have Lands given them according to the respective Qualifications in the Act for settling of Ireland, under which they fall, in lieu or recompense for their Interests or Estates in other Lands in Ireland, shall be held and enjoyed by the said persons respectively, according to such Estates, and for such terms, and under such conditions as they have, or ought to have in any Lands in Ireland, according to the Tenor and true meaning of the said Act of Settlement, in case upon tryal and adjudication of their respective claims and Qualifications so much shall appear to be due unto them: And in case upon tryal and final adjudication of their respective claims and Qualifications, more Lands shall appear to be due unto them then what shall be assigned and set out unto them as aforesaid, the said defects shall be supplied out of other lands belonging to, and in the dispose of the Common-wealth, within the said Province of Connaught or County of Clare in such places as may be most convenient for every respective person, without prejudice or injury to any other. Provided alwaies, and it is hereby intended, that every respective Proprietor or Owner of Lands within the Province of Connaught and County of Clare, shall have due recompence and satisfaction in other Lands belonging to the Common-wealth, within the said Province of Connaught or County of Clare, for the value of what Lands shall appear (upon final adjudication of their respective claims) to be due unto them (according to the Tenor of the Act for settling of Ireland) and to have been assigned out of their Estates, for such persons as are to remove as aforesaid. And whereas (by a Declaration of the said Commissioners of Parliament, bearing Date the twelfth day of September last past, and published in Print with the said Instructions) Power is given to the Commanders in Chief of the Forces and the Commissioners of Revenue within every respective Precinct within the Provinces of Leinster, Munster and Ulster, or any two or more of them, to grant Licenses under their hands and seals, unto such persons whose removal they shall judge necessary to be dispensed with for the plowing, sowing, husbanding, reaping, inning, and disposing of such Crops or Corn, which those who are to be removed shall have sown before the first day of May, 1654. It is hereby further Ordered, That such Licenses and dispensations (upon request to be made) be granted accordingly. Provided always, and it is hereby Declared, That such Licences so to be granted, shall not extend, or be construed to extend to the justifying or warranting of any person of the Irish Nation and Popish Religion to inhabit or reside, in any of the Garrisons of the Common-wealth in Ireland: Provided further that no Licence or dispensation be granted to any Person of the Irish Nation or Popish Religion, to reside or live in the said Provinces of Leinster, Munster, and Ulster, or in any of them, who shall not be at the time of the granting of such Licence a member of some Families and for whose good Demeanor the Master or Chief in the said Family will not be responsible. And that all the said Licences be Printed and filled according to Instructions set down. in a Declaration, bearing Date at Kilkenny, the Twenty ninth day of April, One thousand six hundred fifty and two. For the issuing out of Tickets, to such persons, who were then in Protection. Dated at Dublin 14 of October, 1653. Ordered by the said Commissioners That this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published. Signed by Order, &c. Jo. HUGHES. DUBLIN, Printed by WILLIAM Bladen, 1653. |