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<HEAD>The CASE of <HI>ANN,</HI> Wife to the late Baron <HI>SLANE.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BY Marriage-Articles dated and executed in <HI>September,</HI> 1684. between the Counte&s;s-Dowager of <HI>Drogheda</HI> (Grandmother and Guardian to the &s;aid Baron) and other Friends of the &s;aid Lord and <HI>Ann</HI> his Wi&s;e; in Con&s;ideration of 6000 <HI>l.</HI> Portion, the E&s;tate, which was worth 2500 <HI>l. per Annum,</HI> was agreed to be &s;ettled on Tru&s;tees for the following U&s;es; <HI>viz.</HI> 2000 <HI>l. per Annum</HI> upon the I&s;&s;ue Male, with fair Provi&s;ion for Younger Children; 800 <HI>l. per Annum</HI> Jointure; and al&s;o 200 <HI>l. per Annum</HI> to the &s;aid <HI>Ann</HI>'s Separate U&s;e Yearly, during their Joint Lives, and Land to be &s;ecured for its Payment.</P>
<P>The &s;aid <HI>Ann</HI> (in order to obtain an Allowance out of the Lord <HI>Slane</HI>'s E&s;tate) did, in the Year 1695, prove before the Lords Ju&s;tices of <HI>England,</HI> That Three thou&s;and Pounds of the &s;aid Portion was paid on the very Day of her Marriage; and that the remaining Three thou&s;and Pounds was paid in a &s;hort time afterwards.</P>
<P>On the 14th of <HI>June,</HI> 1690, (which was indeed long after the Marriage, though within a few days after he came to Age) the late Lord <HI>Slane,</HI> by Deeds of Settlement, made in pur&s;uance of the &s;aid Articles before executed, did convey the E&s;tate to Tru&s;tees upon the afore&s;aid U&s;es, and did engage 300 <HI>l. per Ann.</HI> of Land, for the Payment of the &s;aid 200 <HI>l. per Ann.</HI> to his Lady's own U&s;e. <HI>Being under Age, he could not execute &s;uch Deeds &s;ooner.</HI></P>
<P>It mu&s;t be confe&s;s'd, That in <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI>-Term, 1691, the &s;aid Lord <HI>Slane</HI> was outlaw'd for High Trea&s;on, upon the account of being in Arms for the late K. <HI>James</HI> in <HI>Ireland;</HI> and the Trea&s;on mentioned in the Indictment is alledged to be committed before the Settlement made by my Lord: But the Settlement (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 chunk">s has been &s;tated) was made only in pur&s;uance of the Articles of Marriage <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> were long before agreed to by the Friends, Guardian, and Grandmother of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;aid Lord, and was made as &s;oon as my Lord came to Age; and al&s;o upon the valuable Con&s;ideration of having received 6000 <HI>l.</HI> Portion with his Lady: (Which is in truth a great Portion in that Country, where they generally give little or none.)</P>
<P>Upon his being Outlawed the whole E&s;tate was Granted to the Earl of <HI>Athione</HI> in the year 1692.</P>
<P>And in the year 1695, the &s;aid Earl of <HI>Athlone</HI> obtained an Act of Parlia|ment in <HI>Ireland</HI> for the confirmation of his &s;aid Grant, without any Allowance for the &s;aid <HI>Ann</HI> or her I&s;&s;ue.</P>
<P>She has a Daughter as well as her &s;elf to provide for, and &s;he had no part of that &s;eparate Allowance which was provided by the Articles till 1696, from which time the Earl of <HI>Athlone</HI> has been plea&s;ed to allow her 200 <HI>l. per Ann.</HI> &s;o that there is a great Arrears of that &s;eparate Allowance &s;till unpaid.</P>
<P>Now fora&s;much as the &s;aid Lady <HI>Slane</HI> brought &s;uch a very con&s;iderable Portion, as Six thou&s;and Pounds is in that Country, and that &s;he hath no Means left to &s;upport her &s;elf and Child, and that al&s;o all her Relations are become unable to Maintain and Relieve her; and withal &s;ince the &s;aid E&s;tate is the free&s;t from Incumbrances of any that is Forfeited;</P>
<P><HI>She therefore hopes from the Ju&s;tice of an</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Parliament, that in tender Commi&s;eration of her &s;el&s; and Child, before the Act relating to the</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>Forfeitures is Pa&s;&s;ed, &s;ome compa&s;&s;ionate Care will be taken of her and her poor Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed and Innocent Daughter.</HI></P>
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<P>Wi&s;e to the late Ba|ron <HI>Slane.</HI></P>
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