C2 R HONI·SOIT·QVI·MAL·Y·PENSE DIEU·ET MON·DROIT royal coat of arms By the Lords Justices and Council. MAU. EUSTACE Canc. ORRERY. WHEREAS on the Seventh day of November last, We did set out a Proclamation whereby We did continue the respective Collectors for the respective Counties in the said Proclamation mentioned, in the execution of the said employment, as Receivers of the Quitrents due to His Majesty, for the half year ended at Michaelmas last, according to the Instructions formerly given by us to the late Commissioners and Collectors, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, 1660; and although We then declared that We found no further use of the labour and pains of the said Commissioners in the said service, and therefore did then publish the same, that so they might know that We intended not to give them any further trouble therein; yet We do still find it necessary and conducing to the furtherance of his Majesty's Service, for the present and more speedy supply of His Majesty's Army here, to continue Collectors for the said respective Counties, in the execution of the said employment, as Receivers of the said Rents for the half year ending at Easter next, which Collectors are as followeth, (viz.) For the County of Meath, Arthur Dillon Esq For the County of Westmeath, james Leigh Esq For the Queen's County, john Gilbert Esq For the King's County, john Wakeley Esq For the County of Kilkenny, joseph Wheeler Esq For the County of Wexford, john Tench Esq For the County of Lowth, William Toxteeths Esq For the two Baronies of Rathcline and Shrewle in the county of Longford, Sir Richard Lane Kn. & Bar. For the County of Antrim, Peter Beaghan Esq For the County of Down, Carrol Bolton Esq For the county of Armagh, Francis Chambers Esq For the county of Monaghan, Tristram Carey Esq For the county of Cavan, Samuel Towneley Esq For the county of Londonderry, Paul Brasier Esq For the county of Tyrone, Humphrey Evat Esq For the county of Fermanagh, George Slack Esq For the Province of Munster, Roger Earl of Orrery. For the Province of Connaught and county of Clare, Charles L. Castlecoote, For the Province of Connaught and county of Clare, Richard Lord Coloony. And the said Collectors are respectively to enter into Bond before any two of His Majesty's justices of the Peace, of the County where the persons aforesaid are appointed Collectors respectively, with one or more good Sureties, in double the sum designed for the Collection, to Sir James Ware Knight, his Majesty's Auditor General, to his Majesty's use, with condition well and truly to satisfy and pay such of the said sums as he shall receive, to his Majesty's Uice-Treasurer and Receiver General, or his Deputy, at the Receipt of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, and to make a true and faithful Account of such of the said Rents as he shall receive before such person and persons as shall be authorized in that behalf, which Bonds the said justices of Peace are to return forthwith after the taking thereof to his Majesty's Auditor General; And after the said Bonds shall be so entered into with Sureties as aforesaid and not before; We do hereby require and authorise the Collectors aforesaid respectively, to proceed in the Collection of the said Rents for the half year ending at Easter next, within such County for which he hath been or now is appointed Collector as aforesaid, and to be guided therein by the Instructions to such Collectors, dated the Sixteenth of February aforesaid; And that the said Collectors are to appoint certain days and places of meeting in every Barony in that County as speedily as possibly, so as the said Rents may be paid to the said Collectors by the last day of April next, and thereof to give public notice and forewarning throughout each Barony; And the said Collectors are hereby required at their extreme perils to return into the Office of His Majesty's Auditor General with all possible speed, and at the furthest by the said last day of April next, a Duplicate under their hands and seals respectively, of the particular Lands, Rents and persons who are to pay the same, in such sort as was formerly prescribed to them by the former Proclamation; And We do hereby authorise the said Collectors to defalk one shilling in the pound, for every pound received, towards their travel and charges, for keeping exact Accounts of their Receipts and Issues, and all other charges incident to the said service; And We do hereby require and authorise the said Collectors respectively, that where they find any Lands concealed, which are liable to the said Quitrents, and are not as yet charged, that they forthwith return unto his Majesty's Auditor General a particular List containing the names of the Lands so concealed in the said County, and the number of Acres the said Lands contain, who are the Tenants or Possessors of the said Lands, and how long the same have been enjoyed by them, and what the yearly values of such concealed Lands are; And We do hereby further require the said Collectors, and every of them respectively, that where it shall appear unto them by any Acquittance under the hand of his Majesty's Uice-Treasurer or his Deputy, that any person chargeable with any Quitrent hereby designed to be paid to the said Collectors, hath paid the same for the time aforesaid, into the Receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer here, that they do forbear the levying thereof; and although the same be made a part of the charge of their Accounts, yet they shall have an Abatement of so much among the allowances and defalkations of their Accounts, upon the perclose and determination of which Accounts, before the Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer and his Majesty's Auditor General, and upon payment into his Majesty's Exchequer, all such moneys as shall be therein found due, the aforesaid Bonds into which they entered for their due accounting, are to be delivered up unto them by his Majesty's Auditor. Given at the Council-Chamber in Dublin, the 27. day of February, 1661. GOD SAVE THE KING Ja. Dublin. Kildare. W. Caulfeild. R. Coote. Santry. J. Temple. Paul Davys. Rob. Meredith. Theo. Jones. DUBLIN, Printed by john Crook, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty: and are to be sold by Samuel Dancer Bookseller in Castle-street, Anno Dom. 1661.