C ² R  DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
BY THE Lord Lieutenant and Council.  
ORMONDE,  
WHereas by a Clause in the Act entitled, And Act for explaining of some doubts arising upon an Act, entitled, An Act for the better execution of His Majesty's gracious Declaration for the settlement of His Kingdom of Ireland, and satisfaction of the several interests of Adventurers, Soldiers, 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, one years Rend of all the Lands in Ireland, which were returned by the Civil Survey to belong to any Irish Papist, Popish Recusant, or Roman Catholic, and of all other the Lands wherein any Adventurer or Soldier, His Heirs, Executors or Assigns hath any benefit of settlement, or confirmation by virtue of the said Act, was to be raised and paid unto the Receivers therein appointed, by two even and equal payments, the first payment whereof was to have been upon the first day February, which was in the year, of our Lord, 1665. and the second payment on the first day of February, which was in the year, 1666. under the penalty in the said Act mentioned; And whereas His Majesty in pursuance of the said Act by His Letters-patents under the Great-Seal of this Kingdom, bearing date the 17 day of January, in the Eighteenth year of His Reign, hath constituted and appointed Commissioners to ascertain the said years Rend, And the said Commissioners have informed Us the Lord Lieutenant and Council, that they have already ascertained the said years rend of the greatest part of the Lands, which by the said Act are charged therewith, and that the valuation of the said years Rend, doth at present remain in the hands of Matthew Barry Esq Secretary to the said Commissioners: And that when the said Commissioners shall have finished that work, a Duplicate thereof is to be returned into His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, as by the said Act is directed, there to remain a charge upon Record, upon all and every the Messages, Lands and Tenements therein mentioned, whereupon Process will issue out of the said Court for levying the same, which may prove inconvenient to several of His Majesty's Subjects, in case timely notice be not given unto them of the days of payment of the several sums of money, whereunto by the said Act the said Lands are liable: To the end therefore the persons concerned in the said payments, may not be surprised, We have thought fit hereby to declare and appoint, That the said year's Rent, as the same is and shall be ascertained by the said Commissioners, is to be paid unto John Bence, and Alexander Bence Esquires, Receivers by the Act appointed, or one of them, by two even and equal portions, The first payment thereof to be on or before the 24 day of June, which shall be in the year of our Lord, 1668. and the second payment thereof to be on or before the 24 day of June, which shall be in the year of our Lord, 1669. out of which second payment, all and every the sums of money formerly paid to the Earl of Orrery, and Lord Viscount Massereene, in pursuance of the Act of Settlement, are to be allowed to the person and persons who have paid the same, his and their Heirs, Executors and Assigns, in full discharge of so much of their Rent payable by the said Act of Explanation, as the moneys so as aforesaid paid do amount unto.  
Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin the 15 day of October, 1667. 

Ja. Armachanus.  
Mich. Dublin. Canc.  
Roscommon.  
Drogheda.  
Dungannon.  
Fran. Aungier.  
Heugh Glenaully.  
Fra. Hamilton.  
Art. Forbess.   
 GOD Save the KING.   

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