DIEV ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  BY THE Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL. 
ORMONDE.  
WHEREAS We are informed by John Stepney Esq who is the only Party to the Earl of Ranelagh, and Partners Contract that appears here to Act on the place, that several Sheriffs and Collectors within the respective Counties of this Kingdom, have received by Virtue of his Majesty's Process, divers considerable sums of Money due to His Majesty, and which belongeth to the said Earl and Partners Undertaking, some of whom have accounted lately in the Exchequer, but not paid in the Money due from them, and others have not as yet accounted; upon consideration whereof, We think fit by this Our Proclamation, to require such of the said Sheriffs and Collectors who have accounted, with all convenient speed, and at furthest, by the Tenth day of the next Term, to pay the Money in their respective hands into his Majesty's Treasury, and such of them as have not accounted, that they do before the end of the said Term make up their Accounts, and pay such Moneys as they have, or shall by that time receive into his Majesty's Treasury, as aforesaid, to the end, the same may be applied to the Uses of the said Undertaking.  
Given at the Council-Chamber in Dublin the 22th, day of March 1677. 

Ja: Armachanus,  
Mich: Dublin Cane.  
Longford.  
Blesinton.  
Lanesborough.  
Ca: Dillon.  
Char: Meredith.  
Walter Plunkett.  
John Cole.  
Theo: Jones.  
Ja: Cuff.   
 GOD Save the KING.   

DUBLIN, Printed by Benjamin took, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; And are to be sold by Joseph Wild Book: seller in Castle-street 1677.