THE Humble Representation OF THE Protestant Purchasers of Forfeited LANDS in IRELAND.  
THE Protestant Purchasers of Forfeited Lands in Ireland, in a due Sense of their Gratitude, do aclowledge the Clemency of the Commons of England, in the Allowance intended to be made them of 21000 l. part of their Purchase-Money; and it is with all imaginable Respect and Duty they take Leave to represent,  
That it appears by the Report of the Commissioners,( Paragr. 83.) That the Purchase-Money laid out in the said Kingdom, doth not exceed 63000 l. Money of Ireland; although the future Misery or Happiness of very many of the English Families of that Country depends thereupon.  
That as the Bill is now altered, it will the extremely difficult, if not impossible for them to recover what more shall appear, upon fair Account, to be justly due to them from the Grantees, by reason some of them reside in foreign Parts, and have no Effects in these Dominions: Others may not have the Money to repay; or if they have, may, or already have alienated their Estates; or they may insist on their Peerage, Privilege of Parliament, &c.  
The said Purchasers do not in the least repined at any Mercy intended by the said Honourable House to others of the said Kingdom, who are either restored by His Majesty's Favour only, or who are by this Bill confirmed in the Benefit of any Articles:  
But they most humbly hope, That the said Honourable House will also further consider the Services and Sufferings of the Protestant Purchasers, who beg Leave to say, That they have been Useful to England in the late Revolutions, and have been always in their Inclinations( no less than in their Interests) very far from doing any thing Intentionally( when they made their said Purchases) that might seem in Contempt of the Votes or Proceedings of that Honourable House, to which they owe so very much, and for whom they would again freely hazard all that is dear or near to them.  
They hope, amongst other their Unhappinesses, they are not so Unfortunate as to have it thought that they desire more than their Principal-Money and Interest; But what they humbly endeavour to incline the said Honourable House to, is That they may, in Charity to the many English Protestant Families therein concerned, think fit to let them be considered as Mortgagees for the Money by them bona fide paid; and as such, to be accountable from the times their respective Purchases were made; in which case the Purchasers will be allowed from be beginning but bare Interest for their Money.  
And although the Purchasers will in such case be considerably Losers, yet their entire Ruin will be thereby prevented, and the public will reap from them the Benefit, of,  
1. What the Purchasers in divers Cases expended in making out the Title of the Crown, and evicting pretended Titles.  
2. The Benefit or Advantage of all Bargains, where the Purchasers have bought off prior encumbrances at easy Rates.  
3. The Advantage of having so great a Part of the Country Improved and Inhabited, which was Wasted and Depopulated by the late long and destructive War, which renders the said Lands of near double the Value they were formerly of.   

THE Humble Representation OF THE Protestant Purchasers of Forfeited Lands in Ireland.