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<P>AN ORDINANCE For the further Encouragement of the ADVENTURERS FOR Lands in Ireland, And of the SOULDIERS and other PLANTERS there.</P>
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<OPENER><DATE><HI>Fryday June</HI> 23. 1654.</DATE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by his Highne&s;s the Lord Protector and His Council, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Henry Scobell,</HI> Clerk of the Council.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>William du-Gard</HI> and <HI>Henry Hills,</HI> Printers to His Highne&s;s the Lord Protector, 1654.</P>
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<HEAD>AN ORDINANCE For the further Encouragement of the ADVENTVRERS FOR Lands in Ireland, And of the SOULDIERS and other PLANTERS there.</HEAD>
<P>_HIs Highne&s;s the Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Domi|nions thereunto belonging, taking into con&s;ideration how much the Honour and Safety of this Common-wealth is concerned in the &s;peedy &s;etling of <HI>Ireland;</HI> For the further
<PB N="416" REF="3">Encouragement of the Adventurers for Lands in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and of the Souldiery of the Army, and late reduced Forces there in their Plantations, And for the better ea&s;e of all the Proprietors of Lands, and all other the Inhabitants of <HI>Ireland,</HI> Doth Ordain, and be it Ordained by His Highne&s;s the Lord Pro|tector, by and with the advice and con&s;ent of His Council, That from and after the four and twentieth day of <HI>June</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and four, for and during the &s;pace of five years, from thence next en&s;uing, there &s;hall be Taxed, A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and Levyed, upon all the Counties, Towns and Places in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and all the E&s;tates reall and per&s;o|nall therein, the &s;everall Summs and pro|portions hereafter mentioned, and no more; That is to &s;ay, For two years, to commence the four and twentieth day of <HI>June</HI> one thou|&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and four, and ending the four and twentieth of <HI>June</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and &s;ix, Ten thou&s;and pounds by the Moneth, for every Moneth during the &s;aid Two years.</P>
<P>For one year commencing the four and twentieth day of <HI>June</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and &s;ix, and ending the four and twenti|eth day of <HI>June</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and &s;even, Twelve thou&s;and pounds by the Moneth for every Moneth, during that year.</P>
<P>For one year commencing the four and twentieth of <HI>June</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fif|ty and &s;even, and ending the four and twenti|eth of <HI>June</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and eight, Thirteen thou&s;and pounds by the Mo|neth for every Moneth during that year, and
<PB N="417" REF="3">for one year, commencing the four and twenty|eth day of <HI>June,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and eight, and ending the four and twentieth of <HI>June,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and nine, fourteen thou&s;and pounds by the Moneth for every Moneth during that year, accounting e|very Moneth as they are in the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Provided, That this &s;hall not extend to charge any Mannors, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Rents, or Revenues belong|ing to any College, Ho&s;pital, Almes-hou&s;e, or given to any charitable or pious u&s;e, towards the payment of the &s;everal &s;umms and propor|tions afore&s;aid, &s;ave onely for &s;o much as the &s;aid Mannors, Lands, Tenements, and Here|ditaments, are and &s;hall be re&s;pectively worth by the year over and above the Rent and Reve|nue therefore re&s;pectively due and payable to the &s;aid Colleges, Ho&s;pitals, Almes-hou&s;es, Charitable or pious u&s;es, and every of them re&s;pectively.</P>
<P>And be it further Ordained by the Authori|ty afore&s;aid, That from and after the four and twentieth day of <HI>June.</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hun|dred fifty and nine, all publique A&s;&s;e&s;sments, Impo&s;itions and Taxations what&s;oever, be impo&s;ed, taxed and levyed proportionably from all the Inhabitants of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> &s;o that what&s;oever &s;hall be generally and in mo&s;t Counties charged upon one hundred pounds by the year of Lands, or upon one hundred pounds per&s;onal E&s;tate in <HI>England,</HI> the &s;ame and no more &s;hall be charged upon one hundred pounds by the year of Lands, and upon one hundred pounds per&s;onal E&s;tate in <HI>Ireland</HI> re&s;pectively,
<PB N="418" REF="4">and &s;o in proportion for greater or le&s;&s;e &s;ums. And that therein &s;uch manner and way of un|po&s;ing, a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing and levying &s;hall be directed and u&s;ed, as &s;hall for the time being be directed and u&s;ed in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Provided alwaies, and it is Ordained, That during the &s;aid five years, no Lands unplant|ed, unimployed, or unmanured, &s;hall (ouring their being unplanted, unimployed or unmanu|red) be charged to pay any rate or proportion to|wards the &s;aid Monethly Tax and A&s;&s;e&s;sment hereby a&s;certained as afore&s;aid, nor any other publique Tax or A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ement what&s;oever. And that no Forrage, Billet-Money, Free quarter of any &s;ort, Carriage, Carriage-Money, Salt, Caddows, Small Ruggs, Bedding, Bed|cloths, or any payment or publique Tax. Bur|then or Charge what&s;oever, for or to the u&s;e or in behalf of the State be layed, a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed or taken from any the Inhabitants, Owners or Occupiers of Lands in <HI>Ireland,</HI> but according to this Ordinance; And that no Officers or Souldiers quarters be taken, or had in private hou&s;es without the con&s;ent of the re&s;pective Inhabitants, but only when and where there is no other provi&s;ion for them, and at &s;uch time and in &s;uch ca&s;e every Officer and Souldier &s;hall pay a rea&s;onable rate or value for the &s;ame; And in default thereof, the Captain or other Officer on the place, immediately com|manding the defaulter or Defaulters, &s;hall pay the &s;ame, and is hereby impowred to retain or detain or defalk &s;o much of the pay of every Souldier making default, as he &s;hall pay for him</P>
<P>Provided, That it &s;hall and may be lawful
<PB N="419" REF="4">to and for the Commi&s;&s;ioners for the &s;aid A&s;&s;e&s;&s;|ments when they &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e, to give Order and Directions to any Officers or Souldiers of the Army to quarter upon &s;uch per&s;on or per|&s;ons as they &s;hall find to be in arrear, or &s;hall refu&s;e to pay their A&s;&s;e&s;sments, untill &s;uch per|&s;on &s;hall pay and &s;atisfy the moneys due for the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And be it further Ordained and E&s;tabli&s;hed by the Authority afore&s;aid, That it &s;hall and may be lawful to and for all and every the peo|ple of this Commonwealth, and of the Domini|ons thereunto belonging, to export out of <HI>Eng|land, Scotland, Wales,</HI> and every the Dominions of this Common-wealth into <HI>Ireland,</HI> Hor&s;es, Mares, Cattle, Sheep, Hou&s;hold&s;tuff, Corn, Victuals, Tools, In&s;truments, Materials nece&s;&s;ary or u&s;eful for Planting, Building, Stocking, Imploying or Improving of Hou|&s;es, Lands, or other Hereditaments in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and all other goods nece&s;&s;ary or u&s;eful for any the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, at any time during the &s;pace of &s;even years, to be accompted from the four and twentieth day of <HI>June</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and four, without paying any Cu&s;tome, Sub&s;idy, Exci&s;e or Impo&s;t for the &s;ame in <HI>England</HI> or <HI>Ireland,</HI> upon &s;ufficient &s;ecu|rity to be given to the Officers of the re&s;pective Ports, in &s;uch &s;ort as by former Laws is pro|vided, or hath been accu&s;tomed for tho&s;e that &s;hip and carry goods from Port to Port in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>And be it further Ordained by the Authori|ty afore&s;aid. That the &s;ame Cu&s;tom, Sub&s;idy, and Impo&s;t, which is now payable in <HI>England,</HI> for any Commodity, Goods or Merchandize,
<PB N="420" REF="5">imported from, or exported into Forein parts, and the &s;ame Exci&s;e payable upon the Con&s;um|ption or u&s;e of any Commodity in <HI>England</HI> and no other, &s;hall be from henceforth impo&s;ed, collected, levyed and paid in <HI>Ireland</HI> according to the re&s;pective books of Rates for the Cu|&s;toms and Exci&s;e in <HI>England,</HI> paid by Engli&s;h men, as the &s;ame now are or hereafter &s;hall be &s;ettled or altered by Act of Parlament.</P>
<P>And be it further Ordained by the Authority afore&s;aid, That all and every the Quit-rents charged or re&s;erved upon the Lands granted or intended to the &s;aid Adventurers and Soul|diers, by any former Acts or Ordinance, be remitted and di&s;charged unto every the &s;aid Adventurers and Souldiers, their re&s;pective Heirs and A&s;&s;igns for five years next en&s;uing, from the four and twentieth of <HI>June,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and four, and until the A&s;&s;e&s;sments of <HI>Ireland</HI> be brought into an even proportion with the A&s;&s;e&s;sments of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> as is before expre&s;&s;ed, and after that time the Adventurers and Souldiers, their Heirs and A&s;&s;igns &s;hall pay all and every the Quit-rents expre&s;&s;ed in one Act of Parlament, Entituled, <HI>An Act for the &s;peedy and effectual redu|cing of the Rebells in his Maje&s;ties Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> to their due obedience to his Maje&s;tie, and the Crown of <HI>England,</HI></HI> according to the rates for Lands in the re&s;pective Provinces.</P>
<P>Provided That this &s;hall not bind up or conclude the State from letting or di&s;po&s;ing &s;uch Lands in <HI>Ireland,</HI> as do or &s;hall belong or remain to them, upon &s;uch terms as they &s;hall judge advantageous to the Common-wealth.</P>
<P>And be it further Ordained by the Autho|rity
<PB N="421" REF="5">afore&s;aid, That for and in con&s;ideration of every Rent, Service, Charge or Duty, i&s;&s;u|ing, re&s;erved, charged, due or payable (on or out of the Lands or other the Hereditaments granted or intended to or for the &s;aid Souldiers and Adventurers, or either of them) to any per|&s;on or per&s;ons, who have duly claimed the &s;ame, and according to this Ordinance &s;hall have the &s;ame allowed and ordered and certified, Every Adventurer and Souldier, on or out of who&s;e Lands or Hereditaments the &s;ame &s;hall be i&s;&s;u|ing, re&s;erved, charged, due or payable, &s;hall have &s;et forth, and enjoy to him and his heirs for e|ver, &s;o much Land in the County of <HI>Kildare,</HI> (according to the acts and values of Adventu|rers at &s;uch mea&s;ure as was allowed to &s;uch per&s;on for his adventure, in &s;atisfaction where|of &s;uch Lands &s;o charged were allotted unto them) as would have been produced or due for an adventure of &s;uch certain &s;um of money as the purcha&s;e or buying out of &s;uch Rent, Service, Charge, or duty &s;hall be computed to amount unto, Computation being thereof made and cer|tified by &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons as &s;hall be au|thorized by his Highne&s;s the Lord Protector with the con&s;ent of his Council.</P>
<P>And be it al&s;o Ordained by the Authority a|fore&s;aid, That all and every the &s;aid Souldiers and Adventurers, their re&s;pective Heirs and A&s;|&s;igns, be &amp; &s;hall be for ever freed and di&s;charged of and from all Exchequer, and other old Rents, Payments, and Arrears what&s;oever, due or forfeited to the Publique; And their Lands for ever freed and di&s;charged of and
<PB N="422" REF="6">from all di&s;tre&s;&s;es and &s;eizures concerning the premi&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>And be it further Ordained by the Authori|ty afore&s;aid, That every per&s;on, or the Heirs, Executors, or A&s;&s;igns of &s;uch per&s;on, who (upon the three and twentieth day of <HI>October,</HI> in the year one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fourty and one) had any lawful E&s;tace, Right, Title, Intere&s;t, V&s;e, Po&s;&s;es&s;ion, Rever&s;ion, Re|mainder, Office, Annuity, Service Rent, Common Debt, Charge or Incumbrance in, to, or out of any Honours, Ca&s;tles, Man|nors, Me&s;&s;uages, Lands, Tenements, Rent, Rever&s;ions, Remainders, V&s;es, Po&s;&s;es&s;ions, Offices, Rights, Conditions, or any other Hereditaments of what name or quality &s;oever they be (within the Counties of <HI>Ea&s;tmeath, We&s;t|meath, Kings County, Queens County, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford, Antrim, Down, Armagh,</HI> and <HI>Lowth,</HI> or any of them) forfeited or any waies deemed, ve&s;ted, adjudged, or taken to be in the actual and real po&s;&s;es&s;ion of the late King <HI>Charles,</HI> his Heirs and, Succes&s;ors upon or by force of any Act or Acts of Parlament, &s;pecified in a Commis&s;ion under the great Seal of <HI>England</HI> to <HI>Charles Fleetwood</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Lieute|tenant General of the Army in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and others, in the year one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and three, or into or out of any Chantry Lands, Lands or Tenements given to &s;uper&s;titious u|&s;es, for maintenance of Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts, and I|dolatrous Mas&s;es, Trentalls, Dirges, and the like, or for maintenance of Lazars, or La|&s;arous people, concealed in the pos&s;es&s;ion and occupation of &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons who upon
<PB N="423" REF="6">the fourteenth day of <HI>July</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fourty and three, or at any time &s;ince, was or were in Rebellion, &s;hall on or before the three and twentieth day of <HI>October</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and four, make the truth and reality of &s;uch E&s;tate Right, Title, Intere&s;t, V&s;e, Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, Rever&s;ion, Re|mainder, Office, Annuity, Service, Rent, common Debt, Charge or Incumbrance, ap|pear unto &s;uch per&s;ons as are appointed for re|ceiving and determining Claims in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and obtain from them an Order or Certificate of their allowance thereof, and &s;hall cau&s;e the &s;ame to be &s;ent unto the Regi&s;ter for forfeited Lands, and to be by him annexed to the Sur|vey of tho&s;e Lands or other the Premi&s;&s;es, touching which &s;uch allowance &s;hall be made: And in default thereof, the &s;aid E&s;tate, Right, Title, Intere&s;t, V&s;e, Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, Rever&s;i|on, Remainder, Office, Annuity, Service, Rent, Common Debt, Charge, or Incom|brance, and every of them, &s;hall be, and the &s;ame be hereby di&s;charged, extinct, made nul and void.</P>
<P>And be it further Ordained and e&s;tabli&s;hed by the Authority afore&s;aid, That no per&s;on &s;hall incur either of the penalties for or upon Selling, Alyening, or for or upon Letting, Setting, or granting by Lea&s;e, any of the forfeited Hou&s;es and Lands to any per&s;on or per&s;ons comprehended in the Qualifications of the Act of Parlament Entituled, <HI>An Act for &s;etling <HI>Ireland,</HI></HI> but &s;uch onely who &s;hall knowingly do the &s;ame, and that it &s;hall be lawfull to all per&s;ons to Let or Grant by
<PB N="424" REF="7">Lea&s;e, Lands to any per&s;ons, who, now, or by future Directions or Declaration of State, &s;hall be exempted from Tran&s;plantation into <HI>Connaght</HI> or <HI>Clare.</HI></P>
<P>And be it further Ordained and E&s;tabli&s;h|ed by the Authority afore&s;aid, That all and every City and County, or County of a City, City and Liberties, Town and County, half Barony, Territory, Franchi&s;e, Liberty, Pa|ri&s;h, Town, Place or Land which is return|ed among the Baronies, or for or as a Barony (on the ab&s;tract of the Surveys or e&s;timate, made concerning the ten Counties appointed for the &s;aid Souldiers &amp; Adventurers) &s;hall, as to the Divi&s;ion, Sub-divi&s;ion, and enjoy|ment thereof among&s;t the &s;aid Souldiers and Adventurers and every of them re&s;pec|tively therein concerned, be deemed and taken to be as the &s;ame are returned in the Survey, although the &s;ame then were not a Barony, or were in another County, or were a County Franchi&s;e, or Liberty of it &s;elf: And that all Counties, Baronies and Places returned or certified in or by mi&s;written, mi&s;taken or wrong names, &s;hall be enjoyed by tho&s;e who&s;e Lots are or &s;hall be on &s;uch Coun|ties, Baronies or Places, as if they had been returned or certified by their true and pro|per names.</P>
<P>And be it further Ordained, If within &s;ix Moneths after publication of the late Act, for the &s;peedy and effectuall &s;atisfaction of the Adventurers for Lands in <HI>Ireland,</HI> any Ca|&s;tles, Cittadels, Forts, Bulwarks, Ram|pyers, Blockhou&s;es, or any places of defence
<PB N="425" REF="7">(in any of the Towns or Counties appointed for the &s;aid Souldiers and Adventurers) were judged and declared by the per&s;on or per|&s;ons therein &s;pecified, to be fit and meet to be re&s;erved for the publique &s;afety of the Land, and the &s;ervice of the Common-wealth (not|with&s;tanding &s;uch Iudgement and Declara|tion, and the Provi&s;o in the &s;aid Act referring thereunto) the re&s;pective Adventurers and Souldiers, their &s;everall Heirs and A&s;&s;igns, in who&s;e Lots or Proportions any &s;uch decla|red Ca&s;tle, Cittadell, Fort, Bulwark, Ram|pier, Blockhou&s;e or other place of defence is or &s;hall be, &s;hall or may pre&s;ently, or any time hereafter, if the &s;ame be not now a Garri&s;on, enter upon, have and enjoy the &s;ame, to him, his Heirs and A&s;&s;igns; And if the &s;ame now be a Garri&s;on, and &s;hall hereafter be di&s;mant|led, or the Guard or Souldiers with-drawn from the &s;ame, then and from thenceforth, It &s;hall and may be lawfull to and for &s;uch per&s;on, his Heirs and A&s;&s;ignes, in who&s;e Lot or Proportion the &s;ame is or &s;hall be, to enter upon, have and enjoy the &s;ame to his and their own u&s;e for ever; And that upon the di&s;mant|ling any &s;uch Ca&s;tle, Cittadell, Fort, Bul|wark, Rampier, Blockhou&s;e, or place of de|fence, or the pulling or taking down any part thereof, &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, in who&s;e Lot or Lots the &s;ame &s;hall be, &s;hall have and enjoy all and &s;ingular the Iron, Lead, Tim|ber, Stones and materials thereof, to his and their own u&s;e, without paying any thing for the &s;ame: And that no per&s;on or per&s;ons do or &s;hall convert the &s;ame to any other u&s;e what&s;oever.</P>
<P><PB N="426" REF="8">And to the end &s;uch godly and able Prea|chers as are already in <HI>Ireland,</HI> or &s;hall be willing to tran&s;plant them&s;elves thither for &s;preading and publi&s;hing the knowledge of Chri&s;t in that Land, may have due encou|ragement therein, and a competent provi&s;ion of maintenance, Be it further Ordained by the Authority afore&s;aid, That there &s;hall be allowed unto every &s;uch per&s;on, as having fir&s;t obtained from the Commi&s;&s;ioners for ap|probation of publique Preachers &s;uch te&s;timo|nial as by the Ordinance, Entituled, <HI>An Ordi|nance appointing Commi&s;&s;ioners for approbation of Publique Preachers,</HI> is directed, of his fitne&s;s and &s;ufficiency for that work, &s;hall, within five years from and after the four and twentieth of <HI>June</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and four, tran&s;port him&s;elf into <HI>Ireland,</HI> the &s;um of fifty pounds towards the charge of his tran&s;por|tation to be paid unto every &s;uch per&s;on out of the publique Trea&s;ury. And that the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners for ordering and managing the Af|fairs of <HI>Ireland</HI> for the time being, and &s;uch o|ther per&s;on and per&s;ons as &s;hall hereafter be deputed by His Highne&s;s for the Government of that Nation, &s;hall and are hereby required to place every &s;uch per&s;on in &s;ome &s;uch Bene|fice as &s;hall be in the gift of His Highne&s;s the Lord Procector, [or confirm any pre&s;entation which &s;hall be granted unto &s;uch per&s;on by the Patron] to the value of one hundred pounds <HI>per annum,</HI> and in ca&s;e the &s;ame &s;hall not be of that value, then to grant unto &s;uch per&s;on, &s;uch yearly allowance by way of augmentati|on as &s;hall make up the &s;ame to that value,
<PB N="427" REF="8">as al&s;o to grant &s;uch further augmentation as they &s;hall think fit, to any &s;uch per&s;on, or to a|ny other Preachers now there (who&s;e living doth not exceed the value of fifty pounds <HI>per annum</HI>) as they &s;hall find worthy &s;uch augmen|tation, not exceeding fifty pounds <HI>per annum;</HI> And all and every &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons &s;o by them placed as afore&s;aid, &s;hall hold and en|j<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y &s;uch Benefice, and all the Hou&s;es, Lands, Dues and Profits of and belonging thereun|to, and have &s;uch and the like benefit and means for recovery thereof, as if &s;uch per&s;on had been in&s;tituted and inducted according to the Laws in <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATE><HI>Fryday June</HI> 23. 1654.</DATE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by his Highne&s;s the Lord Protector, and His Council, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Henry Scobell,</HI> Clerk of the Council.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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