Rules, Orders, AND DIRECTIONS BY THE Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL.  
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BY THE Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL. RULES, ORDERS and Directions made and Established by Us the Lord Lieutenant and Council, for the better Regulating the several Cities, Walled Towns, and Corporations of Cork, Waterford, Kingsale, Youghall, Cashell, Clonmell, Athlone, Londonderry, Carrigfergus, Colerain, Strabane, Charlemont, Trim, Dundalke, Kilkenny, Wexford and Ross, in the County of Wexford, and the Electing of Magistrates and Officers there.  
ESSEX.  
WHEREAS in and by one Art of Parliament, lately made in this Kingdom; Entitled, An Act for the 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 H●s 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.  
IT is amongst other things therein contained, Enacted, That it shall, and may be lawful to, and for the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor, or Governors, and Council of Ireland for the time being, from time to time, and at all times to come, during the space of Seven years, to be accounted from the Nine and twentieth day of September, One thousand six hundred sixty five, to make and establish such Rules, Orders, and Directions, for the better regulating of all Cities, Walled Towns, and Corporations, both New and Old, and such as shall be created within this Kingdom, and the Electing of Magistrates and Officers there, and to inflict such penalties for the breach thereof, as they in their wisdoms shall think fit, so as the penalties for breach of the Rules, Orders, and Directions to be made, touching such Corporations, do not extend farther than to the Removal and Disfranchisment of such Persons, as shall be found guilty of the breach thereof; and such Rules, Orders, and Directions, so to be made as aforesaid, shall be as good and effectual in Law, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been specially and particularly Established by Authority of this present Parliament, and shall remain, continue, and abide in force, for such and so long time, as in the said Rules, Orders, and Directions shall be limited and appointed, any thing in the said Act, or otherwise to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.  
WE the Lord Lieutenant and Council, in pursuance of the said Act, and the Authority thereby given unto Us, Have thought fit to make and Establish; And We do hereby Make and Establish the Rules, Orders, and Directions hereafter mentioned, for the better Regulating of the aforesaid several Cities, Walled Towns, and Corporations and the Electing of Magistrates and Officers there.  
First, That upon all Elections to be hereafter made, after the Last day of December next▪ of any person or persons to serve in any of the Offices of chief Magistrate or Magistrates, Recorder, Sheriffs, or Town Clerk of any of the said several Cities, walled Towns or Corporations, the names of the persons so Elected to serve in the said several Offices, shall be by the said Corporations forthwith after such Election presented to the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor or Governors, and the Privy Council of this Kingdom to be approved of by them, and the said persons so Elected for any the said Offices, shall be for ever hereafter incapable of serving in the said several Offices, or any of them, until they shall be respectively approved of by the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor or Governors, and the Privy Council of this Kingdom by Order under their Hands; And in case the persons, or any of them, whose names shall be so presented to the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor or Governors and Council of this Kingdom, shall not be so approved of within Ten days after their names shall be so presented, then and in such case the said Corporations shall from time to time proceed to a new Election of fit persons for the said respective Offices, for which the persons so presented, shall not be so approved of, and shall in like manner present their names to the said Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor or Governors, and Privy Council of this Kingdom, until they shall have chosen such persons for the said respective Offices, as shall be so approved of as aforesaid.  
And that all such of the said Officers that are Annually chosen, who by the Charters of the said respective Cities, Walled Towns or Corporations, or any of them, have not been usually Elected three months before the day whereon they are to enter upon the Execution of their said respective Offices, shall for ever hereafter be Elected for the said respective Offices on that day Three months, which shall preceded the day whereon they are to enter upon the Execution of the said respective Offices, unless the said day shall happen on a Sunday, and then the said Election to be on the day following (the said three months to be accounted Kallendar months) to the end that there may be sufficient time between such their Election, and their entering upon the Execution of their said respective Offices for the obtaining of the approbation of the Lord Lieutenant and Council, or other chief Governor or Governors, and Council of this Kingdom, and for the making of new Elections in the places of such who shall not be so approved of.  
Provided always that this Rule shall not extend to the Election of any persons in any of the said Cities, Walled Towns or Corporations, who shall be chosen in the place of any such of the said Officers that are annually chosen who shall die within the year of their Execution of the said respettive Offices, or within one Month before they are to enter upon the Execution thereof.  
Secondly, That no person or persons, that shall hereafter be Elected, either Mayor, Bailiff, Sovereign, Portreef, Burgomaster, Recorder, Sheriffs, Treasurer, Alderman, Town-Clerk, Burgess, or one of the Common-council, or any Magistrate, or such or the like Officer within the said several Cities, Walled Towns, & Corporations, or Master, or Wardens of any Corporation Guild, or Fraternity within the said several Cities Walled Towns, or Corporations shall be capable of holding, enjoying or executing any the said Offices, places or employments, until he or they shall have taken the Oath of Supremacy, Established by Act of Parliament 2do Elizabethae in this Kingdom, and the Oath of Allegiance, besides the Oaths usually taken upon the admission of any persons into the said Respective Offices, places, or Employments. And also this ensuing Oath, viz. I A. B. do Declare and Believe, That it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take Arms against the KING; And that I do abhor that Traitorous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person, or against those that are Commissioned by him. So help me GOD. The said Oaths to be taken, before such person or persons as shall admit them to the said several Offices, places, and employments (who are hereby empowered authorized and required to administer to them the said Oaths) and upon any such person or persons refusal to take the said Oaths, The Election of any such person or persons into any the said Offices, places, or employments, is hereby declared to be absolutely null and void (such persons only excepted, with whose taking the said Oath of Supremacy, the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdom for the time being, for some particular reasons shall think fit, by writing under his or their hand by Name to dispense.  
Thirdly, That all Foreigners, Strangers, and Aliens, as well others as Protestants, who are or shall be Merchants, Traders, Artisans, Artificers, Seamen, or otherwise skilled and exercised in any Mystery, Craft, or Trade; or in the working or making any manufacture or in the Art of Navigation, who are at present risiding and inhabiting within this Kingdom, or who shall at any time hereafter come into the said several Cities, Walled Town, or Corporation, with intent and resolution there to inhabit, reside, and dwell, shall upon his or their reasonable suit or request made, and upon payment down, or tender of Twenty shillings by way of Fine, unto the Chief Magistrate, or Magistrates, and Common-council; or other persons authorized to admit, & make Freemen of such of the said several Cities, walled Towns, or Corporation, where he or they do intent to inhabit, reside, or dwell, be admitted a Freeman of any of the said several Cities, Walled Towns, or Corporation: And if he or they shall desire it, of all or any Guild, Brotherhood, Society, or Fellowship of any Trade, Craft, or other mystery within any of the said several Cities, Walled Towns, or Corporations, during his or their residence for the most part, and his and their Families constant inhabiting within the said several Cities, Walled Towns or Corporations and no longer; and shall have, exercise, and enjoy all privileges and immunities of Trading, Buying, Working and Selling, in as large and ample manner as any Freeman of any the said several Cities, Walled Towns, or Corporation might have, exercise or enjoy by virtue of his or their Freedom: And that every such person or persons, who shall be admitted to be free as aforesaid, shall from thenceforth be deemed, esteemed, and taken, and be Denizen and Denizens within this Kingdom, any Law Statute, Charter Usage, or Custom of this Kingdom, or of any of the said several Cities, Walled Towns, or Corporations to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. Provided always, That all such Strangers, Artificers, and others, to be admitted Freemen as aforesaid, shall take the Oath of Allegiance to our Sovereign Lord the King, His Heirs and Successors, and also such other Oaths as are accustomably taken by all or any Freeman, or members of the said several Cities, Walled Towns, or Corporations or by any the members of any such Guild, or Brotherhood; Society, or Fellowship of the Trade, Craft, or other mystery, which he or they shall occupy, or exercise, in case he or they shall desire to be incorporated into any such Guild, Brotherhood, Society, or Fellowship aforesaid, and shall pay all such and like Charges, as all Freemen His Majesty's subjects, of the like Trade, Craft, or mystery, shall or do use to pay, and no other or more; And that if any Chief Magistrate or Magistrates, or other persons authorized as aforesaid, of any the said several Cities, walled Towns, or Corporations; or any Master, Warden, or other Governor of any Brotherhood, Society, or Fellowship; or any Trade, Craft, or mystery within the said several Cities, walled Towns or Corporations shall refuse to admit any such Stranger, being a Merchant, Trader, Artificer, Artisan, Workman or Seaman, residing or coming into this Kingdom, with intent as aforesaid, to be a Freeman of any the said several Cities, walled Towns, or Corporations where he or they intent to inhabit, reside, or dwell; or to be a Brother or member of any Brotherhood, Society, or Fellowship within them or any of them every such chief Magistrate or Magistrates, Master, Warden, or other Governors respectively, shall upon complaint and due proof made, of such refusal, before the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor or Governors, and Council of this Kingdom, be by their Order Disfranchised, and from thenceforth incapable (without their Licence) of being a Freeman or member of any such City, Town, or Corporation; And every such Stranger being a Merchant, Trader, Artificer, Artisan, Workman or Seaman, upon tender by him made of Twenty shillings, by way of Fine as aforesaid, and taking the Oath of Allegiance before any justice of the Peace, of the County next adjacent to such City, Town, or Corporation, or wherein such City, Town, or Corporation is situated (who is hereby authorized and appointed to administer the said Oath) shall thereupon by virtue hereof, be deemed, reputed, and taken to all intents and purposes to be a Freeman or member of the said City, Town, Corporation, Brotherhood, Society, or Fellowship of any Trade, Craft, or mystery, where he or they shall inhabit, reside, or dwell, and be denied admission as aforesaid; And thenceforth have, exercise, and enjoy the liberty and privilege of Trading, Working, Buying or Selling of any commodities whatsoever, in as large and ample manner, as if he had been admitted a Freeman of such City, Town, or Corporation, a Brother or member of such Brotherhood, Society, or Fellowship of any Trade, Craft, or mystery within the same, taking the usual Oaths of such Freemen, Brothers or members, which Oaths any one justice of Peace near adjoining, shall have power to administer, and paying all such charges as aforesaid, any Law, Custom, Charter or Usage, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: And in case any person or persons shall give any interruption or disturbance to any such Stranger, being a Merchant, Trader, Artificer, Artisan, Workman, or Seaman as aforesaid, to the hindering him in his Trading, Working, Buying or Selling as aforesaid, contrary to the intent and meaning hereof, all and every such person and persons so offending, shall upon like complaint and proof made of his or their offence therein, before the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor or Governors and Council of this Kingdom for the time being, be by their Order Disfranchised, and from thenceforth incapable without their Licence of being made a Freeman or member of any of the said several Cities, Walled Towns, or Corporations  
And these Our Rules, Orders, & directions, We do hereby Order and Establish for ever hereafter, to continue in force in all the aforesaid several Cities, Walled Towns and C●rporations of Cork Waterford, Kingsale, Youghall, Cashell, Clonmell, Athlone, London-dery, Carickfergus, Colerain, Strabane, Charlemont, Trim, Dundalke, Kilkenny, Wexford, and Ross. And that the same be forthwith enrolled in the Rolls of His Majesty's High-court of Chancery in this Kingdom.  
Given at the Council-Chamber in Dublin, the Three and Twentieth day of September, 1672. 

Ja. Armachanus.  
Mich. Dublin  
Canc. Drogheda.  
Arran.  
Conway & Kilulta.  
Massereene.  
Hen. Midensis.  
Fran. Aungier.  
Art. Forbese.  
Jo. Bysse.  
Rob. Byron.  
Will. Stewart.  
H. Ingoldesby.  
Theo. Jones.  
Char.  
Meredyth.   
 GOD save the King.