DIEV ET MON DROIT  BY THE Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL.  
ESSEX.  
WHEREAS the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue (being the persons and Officers duly Authorised by themselves, Substitutes, Agents, or Servants, for the Receiving, Collecting and Answering the Duty ariseing by Hearths, Firing Places and stoves, etc.) have Complained to Us, that they are deprived of a considerable part of the said duties by Certificates unduly granted by the justices of the Peace, unto several persons, who by the Acts for settling the said Duty on his Majesty, are uncapeaule thereof; And whereas in the first Act for settling the said Revenue, there is a Proviso Contained, That in case any Two Justices of the Peace, shall in writing under their hands, yearly Certify their belief, that the House wherein any person doth inhabit with such County wherein they are Justices of Peace, is not of Greater value than Eight shillings per Annum: upon the full Improved Rent, and that neither the person so inhabiting, nor any other useing the same Message, hath, useth or occupieth any Lands or Tenements of their own, or others, of the yearly value of Eight shillings Per Annum: nor hath any Lands, Tenements, Goods, or Chattel, of the value of four pounds in their own Possession, or in the Possession of any other in trust for them, then in such Case upon such Certificate made to the Justices of the Peace of such County, at any of their Quarter Sessions to be held for the same County, and allowed by th●m, for which Certificate and allowance no Fees shall be paid, the person on whose behalf such Certificate, made, shall not be returned by the Constables or other persons to be Assistant to them as aforesaid, and the said house is thereby for that year discharged of and from all Duties, by this Act Imposed, any thing therein Contained to the Contrary notwithstanding: Which said last Proviso by the Additionall Art for the better ordering and Collecting the Revenue ariseing by Hearth-money is declared shall be Construed, to Extend only to such Widows as shall Produce such Certificates as are therein mentioned, and as to all other persons whatsoever, the said Clause is thereby absolutely Repealed. And We being Informed that Certificates have been lately Granted by several justices of the Peace for freeing persons from payment of the said Duty which have not been Either allowed at the Quarter sessions, or Warranted by the said Acts. Yet under Colour thereof many persons have pretended to be freed from payment of the said Duty, who by Law are Liable thereunto, and if such Certificates, so unwarrantably Granted have not been allowed by the said Farmer's Officers, they have been Indicted, and prosecuted thereupon, and thereby put to Great Costs, and Charges, and hindered from Levying what is justly due to his Majesty by the said Acts. And forasmuch as it is Enatted by the said Additionall Act, that it shall and may be Lawful for the Lord Lieutenant; Lord, Deputy, or other Chief Governor, and Council etc. to appoint such persons as they shall think fit, to do, Execute and perform all, and Every the matters, and things which by the said former Act, or this present Act, are to be done, Executed or performed by any justice of the peace or Clerks of the Peace of this Kingdom and from and after such appointment all other persons not thereby appointed shall be and are hereby Discharged from doing, Executing and performing any Matter or thing relateing unto the premises any thing in the said former Act or the said last Act to the Contrary notwithstanding▪ And whereas we have thought fit hereby to nominate and appoint the several persons in and for the several Counties herein after mentioned being all justices of the peace that is to say in and for the County of Catherlagh Sir John Develleir Knight, Henry Barkeley, Marmaduke Taylor, and Richard Andrew's Esqs: for the County of Dublin, Sir Robert Reading Baronet, Sir Walter Plunket, Sir Thomas Worsopp Knights, and Richard Forster Esq: for the County of Kildare, Robert Fitz Gerald, Henry Brenn Thomas Carr, Francis Leigh, and Maurice Keating, Esqs: for the County of Kilkenny, Richard Coote, Joseph Cuffe, George Deyos, and Bartholomew Fowke, Esqs: for the King's County, Lawrence Parsons, John Foorth, John Baldwin, John Wakeley and Samuel Rowel, Esqs: for the County of Longford, Sir John Edgeworth Knight, William Kennedy, Thomas Robinson, and Nicholas Dowdall, Esqs: for the County of Lowth, Sir James Graham, Sir William Tichburne, and Sir Thomas Fortescue, Knights, and Nehemiah Donnelan, Esq: for the County of Meath, Doctor Robert Gorges, James Stopford, Arthur Dillon, Thomas Loftus, Gerrald Wesley, and George Peppard Esqs:, for the Queen's County Walter Warneford, Thomas Piggott of disert John Weaver, William Weldon, and Peryam Poell Esqs: for the county of Westmeath▪ Sir Henry Peirce, Baronet, William Hancock, George Peyton, James Leigh, and Robert Cook Esqs: for the County of Wexford. Sir Richard Clifton, and Sir Nicholas Loftus, Knights: Christian B●rr, Francis Harvey, and Richard Kenny, Esqs: for the County of Wick●ow, Henry Temple, Roger West, Robert Hassells, and Philip Pakenham, Esqs: for the County of Clare, Benjamin Lucas, Donnagh O Bryan, Samuel Burton, and Henry Leigh Esqs: for the County of Cork, Sir Richard Aldworth, John St. Leger, Redmond Barry, Richard Hull, Anthony Stoell, Bartholomew Purdon, John Widnam, Richard Travers, Richard Townesend, J●on Grove, Richard Beer, and Brian Wade, Esqs: for the County of Kerry, Sir Francis Bruster Knight, Thomas Browne, Richard Chute, Thomas Crosby and, Anthony Raymond Esqs: for the County of Limerick, Sir William King, and Sir George Ingoldsby Knights: Richard Southwell, Drurey Wrey, Richard Maguire, Samuel Foxon, and Robert Oliver, Esqs: for the County of Tipperary, Sir Robert Cole, Gamaliel Warter, So●omon Camby, Charles Blunt, Francis Legg, Simon Finch, and Nicholas Southcoat Esqs: for the County of Waterford, Beverly Usher, Henry Nichols, Andrew Lynn and James Muttlow, Esqs: for the County of galway, Thomas Caulfield, Esq: Sir Henry Waddington, Knight, Sir George St. George, Charles Holcroft, John Eyre, Thomas Cuffe Edward Eyre, and John Parker Esqs: for the County of Leytrym, James King, Henry Crofton, and Bryan Cuningham, Esqs: for the County of Mayo, Sir George Bingham and Sir Arthur Gore Baronet's, Owen Vaughan, Robert Miller and Francis Brent, Esqs: for the County of Roscommon, Sir Edward Ormsby Knight, Arthur St. George, Robert Kng, Robert Sands, and Edmond Donnellan, Esqs: for the County of Sligoe, Sir Francis Gore, Thomas Griffith, Edward Cooper, Charles Collis, and Philip Ormsby, Esqs: for the County of Antrym, Sir John Rowly, Knight, Sir Hercules Longford, Robert colvil Michael Harrison, and Hercules Davis, Esqs: for the County of Ardmagh Sir Toby Poyntz, Sir George Atkinson, Edward Richardson, and Arthur Bromlow, Esqs: for the County of Cavan, Thomas White, Humphrey Parrot, Merrick Hart, and Thomas Newburg, Esqs: for the County of Donnegall, Sir Albert Cuningham, Francis Cary, Henry Vaughan, and William Dutton Esqs: for the County of Down, Vere Essex Cromwell, William Warren, William Brett Thomas Smith, and John Farrar, Esqs: for the County of Fermannagh, Sir Michas Cole Knight, Henry Blenerhasset, Cromwell Warde, and Lancellot Lowther, Esqs: for the County of Londonderrey, Sir John Rowly Knight Col; William Cecil, John Willson, John Gaich signior and Raphell Whistler Esqs: for the County of Monahan, the Lord Blany, William Barton, Nicholas owen's, and Cromwell Ward, Esqs: for the County of Tyrone, John Chichester, and Henry Mervin, Esqs: and Robert Ecklin, Clerk, to be the persons for Granting of Certificats to poor widows, according to the true purport and intent of the said last mentioned Art, which we do hereby authorise them or any two or more of them, and no other person or persons whatsoever within the said respective Counties to give accordingly & further for the County of the City of Dublin, We appoint the Mayor & Recorder of the said City for the time being, Sir Jossua Allen, & Alderman Enoch Reader, or any two of them, for the County of the City of Kilkenny the Mayor and Recorder thereof for the time being for the County of the Town of Drohgeda the Mayor or Recorder of the Town of Drogheda for the time being, for the County of the City of Cork, the Mayor or Recorder of the said City for the time being, for the County of the City of Lymerick, the Mayor or Recorder of the said City for the time being, for the County of the City of Waterford, the Mayor or Recorder of the said City for the time being, for the County of the Town of Galway, the Mayor or Recorder of the said Town for the time being, for the County of the Town of Carrigfergus the Mayor or Recorder of the said Town for the time being. And we require all the aforesaid persons to be very circumspect and careful in the granting of these Certificats; which are to be made publicly at the Quarter sessions unto none but such as are fitly qualified, and not unto Women who are not Widows, nor to one and the same Widow for several Houses, nor to Widows for the houses of their sons, or their Brothers or Relations, though the same were heretofore done, And we do hereby further declare that william Hill, Esq: Sir James Shaen Knight, and Baronet, William Rider, William Muschamp, Edward Richbell, Laurence Stanyan, John Gourney and Thomas Sheridan Esquirs: and such other person and persons as We upon the humble suit of them or any seven or more of them shall from time to time nominate & appoint are and shall be the only Commissioners, officers, & persons whom we have, and shall think fit to Authorise and appoint, to do, Execute & perform, all and Every the matters and things, other then Granting of such Certificates, which by the said former Act or the present Art, are to be done Executed, & performed, by any justices of the Peace or Clerks of the Peace of this. Kingdom And we do hereby further Declare that all and Every the Powers in and by the said Acts, or either of them given to any justices of the Peace or Clerks of the Peace, other than such as are herein appointed to the purposes aforesaid shall be, and are hereby vacated. And we do hereby strictly Charge, and Command all and Every justice and justices of the Peace, Mayor, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables, Head-Burroughs, Clerks of the Peace and all other our officeres whatsoever within every County, Burrough, Towni, or Corporation, Barony, Parish or Place, and all other his Majesty's officers and Ministers and other subjects whatsoever that they and every of them shall from time to time be aydeing and assisting to the said Farmers and to their Colectors, Surveyors, & other officers which are, or shall be appointed by them, or any three, or more of them as aforesaid, upon Pain of our displeasure and such pains and Imprisonments, as by the Laws and Statutes, of this Realm can, or may be inflicted upon them for their negligence or contempt in that behalf, As they will Answer the Contrary at their utmost Perrill.  
Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin the fifth day of February 1676. 

Ja: Armachanus.  
Mich: Dublin Canc.  
Thomond:  
Blesinton:  
Lanesborough.  
R: Coote.  
Rob: Fitz: Gerald.  
Ca: Dillon.  
Cha: Meredith.  
Ric: Gethin.  
I: Povey.  
Jo: Bysse.  
H: Ingoldesby.  
VVm: Flower.  
Ja: Cuff.  
Tho: Newcomen.  
Abrah: Yarner.  
Will: Hill.   God Save the King.   

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