depiction of the state arms of the Commonwealth (1649-60) consisting of the cross of St. George (patron saint of England) and the Irish harp  
FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS Unto Charles Fleetwood Esq; Lieutenant General of the Army in Ireland, Edmund Ludlow Esq; Lieutenant General of the Horse, Miles Corbet Esq; and john jones Esq;  
YOU are authorized and required, either by Proclamation or otherwise as you shall think fit, to publish and declare, That for the better security of all those parts of Ireland which are now intended to be planted with English and Protestants, and to the end that all persons in Ireland who have right to Articles, or to any favour and mercy held forth by any the Qualifications in the Act of Parliament, entitled An Act for settling of Ireland, may enjoy the benefit intended unto them and every of them respectively by the said Act, it is thought fit and resolved, That all & every the persons aforesaid shall, before the first day of May, which shall be in the year 1654. remove and transplant themselves into the Province of Connaght and the County of Clare, or one of them, there to inhabit and abide, and shall have set forth unto them and every of them respectively such Proportions of Land, and for such Estates or terms, and under such Conditions, Reservations, and Covenants, as shall be answerable in value unto so much of his and their Estates as by such Articles or Qualification respectively he or they were to enjoy, in such place and manner, as you, or such as shall be authorized by you, shall appoint and direct; And that whatsoever person or persons aforesaid, shall after the said first day of May 1654. be found inhabiting or remaining in any part of the Provinces of Lemster, Munster, or Ulster (except in the said County of Clare) or (without a pass from you, or any one of you, or under the Hand and Seal of such person or persons as shall be authorised by you to that purpose) travelling in any of the said Provinces (except the said County of Clare) he and they shall be reputed as Spies and Enemies, and shall for the same Offence suffer death; And that all and every person and persons aforesaid, who shall at or before the said first day of May 1654. quietly and peaceably remove into the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare shall be pardoned all Offences (except all and every person and persons both principal and accessaries, who since the first day of October 1641. have or shall kill or slay, or otherwise destroy any person or persons in Ireland, which at the time of their being so killed, slain or destroyed, were not publicly entertained, and maintained in Arms as Officers or private Soldiers for and on the behalf of the English against the Irish; And all and every person and persons both Principal and Accessaries who since the first day of October 1641. have killed, slain, or otherwise destroyed any person or persons entertained or maintained as Officers or private Soldiers for and on the behalf of the English against the Irish, the said persons so killing, slaying, or otherwise destroying, not being then publicly entertained and maintained in Arms as Officers or private Soldiers under the Command and pay of the Irish against the English) and shall be no more molested for the same. Provided, that none of the persons aforesaid shall be admitted to live in, or enter into, any Port Town or Garrison within the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare (without licence from you or any one of you, or such person or persons as you shall authorize thereunto nor shall have or keep any Arms used in War, or Ammunition; But that all and every person and persons offending in either of the premises shall be tried by Martial Law, and, being convicted, shall suffer death; Provided also, that this shall not extend to the Pardoning, Tollerating, or Admitting any Popish Priest, jesuite, or other person in Orders by authority from the See of Rome; Provided also, that this shall not extend to the removal of any person who did not adhere unto or join with the Rebels before the fifteenth day of September 1643. and who did at that time and ever since profess the Protestant Religion; Nor to any Woman who before the second day of December 1650. was married to any English Protestant, Provided, that such Woman do renounce Popery, and profess the Protestant Religion; Nor to any Male child or children under the age of fourteen years, or Females under the age of twelve years, whom any of the English have already, or shall be willing hereafter to entertain as Servants, and to instruct and train up in the true Protestant Religion, which said persons and children shall be suffered to live in any of the Places allotted for the habitation of the English.  
And you are further to declare, That in case any person or persons of the English nation, or any other person or persons professing the Protestant Religion, & hath, during the late Wars in Ireland, constantly adhered to the English against the Rebels, who hath or have Land within the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare, and hath not forfeited the same by Rebellion or Delinquency, shall desire to exchange the same, or any part thereof, or remove themselves into such Counties or Provinces as are inhabited by the English, that just Surveys shall be taken of the Lands and estate of such person and persons, and so much, or the value thereof, shall be set out unto them in lieu thereof, out of the forfeited Lands in some other Province or County, as shall be thought fit.  
2. You are hereby authorised and impowered to nominate Commissioners, and to authorize them to allot unto any person or persons, who, by Articles granted unto them, or by virtue of the Qualifications in the said Act, were to enjoy any part of their estates, a like proportion of Land by measure, or in value, in the Province of Connaght or the County of Clare, of the like estate of Inheritance of , or for the like term of years or number of lives, to be by them held and enjoyed in lieu or satisfaction of such part of their estate, which by such Articles or Qualifications he or they were to enjoy; And also to grant unto such of the said persons, or others as you shall think fit to be Lease-holders' from the Commonwealth, such convenient parcels of Land in the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare, as by the said Commissioners shall be judged fit, for any term not exceeding one and twenty years, or three lives, reserving to the use of the Commonwealth, upon every such demise, such reasonable rents, as, with respect to the values of the said Lands in the year 1640. shall be by you thought fit.  
3. You are hereby authorised to give order and direction for the speedy removal of all or any the persons aforesaid unto the Lands so allotted unto them, in such numbers and proportions as may consist with safety and security of the rest of the Inhabitants; So as all the said persons be so removed before the first day of May 1654. and within two months after the respective allotments so made, and directions given them by you to take the same into possession.  
4. Whatsoever person or persons so to be removed, as aforesaid, shall after the said first day of May 1654. be found in any part of the Provinces of Lemster, Munster, or Ulster (except the County of Clare) or any way, without such pass as aforesaid, travelling in any of the said Provinces (except in the said County of Clare) or inhabiting or being in any Port Town or Garrison within the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare, without such licence as aforesaid, or having any Ammunition or Arms used in War, All and every such person and persons shall be tried by Martial Law, and, being convicted of such offence, shall suffer death; and you are hereby authorized from time to time to issue out Commissions for the speedy apprehending, trial, and execution of such Offenders.  
5. You are also to authorise the said Commissioners to cause exact surveys upon oath to be made of the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments of such person and persons of the English nation, or other persons aforesaid, in Connaght or in the County of Clare, as shall desire such exchange as aforesaid, which being returned unto you, you shall out of the Lands forfeited to the Commonwealth, or the Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments of the persons so removed, cause Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments of the like quantity or value, in such other Province or County as you shall think fit, to be set forth unto such person and persons, to be enjoyed for such estate or term, and under the like Covenants, Conditions and reservations, as such Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments in the said Province or County, and so exchanged, were held, and shall cause an exact particular thereof, together with the survey aforesaid, to be returned to the Register for the said forfeited Lands, to remain of Record.  
6. You are hereby authorized to set out unto John Blackwell the younger of Mortclack in the County of Surrey Esq; his heirs and assigns, in satisfaction of the sum of two thousand three hundred and fifty pounds, advanced in several sums by way of Adventure upon the Propositions for Rebels lands in Ireland, and assigned unto him, so many Acres of meadow, arable, and profitable pasture of the said forfeited lands together with the Bogs, Woods and barren Mountains thereunto belonging) as are due unto him according to the proportions and rates for the respective Provinces in the Act of Parliament in that behalf expressed, and the measure allowed by the respective Acts & Ordinances upon which the said several sums were advanced respectively, in such place and places as the said Joh. Blackwell, his heirs or assigns, or his or their trusties in that behalf appointed, shall make choice of, and desire, within the Counties of Dublin, Kildare and Cork, or any other County which is not particularly by these Instructions, nor shall be by you in pursuance thereof, designed and set apart for the satisfaction of the Adventurers and Soldiers, & not being by any Act, Ordinance or order of Parliament, or by authority derived from Parliament, set out, allotted or granted to any particular person or persons, and to put the said John Blackwell, his heirs or assigns, or his or their trusties, into the possession of the premises so to be set forth and allotted to him, to be by him, his heirs and assigns held and enjoyed, in as full and ample manner, and with the like advantages, liberties and privileges as any the Adventurers for lands in Ireland may and aught to hold and enjoy the lands set forth unto them, and as if the same lands & premises so set forth unto the said John Blackwell, his heirs and assigns, had come unto him or them by lot; And that you cause an exact survey upon oath to be made of the premises in writing, and returned unto the Register for the said Lands, to remain of Record.   

SATURDAY JULY 2. 1653.  
At the Council of State at White-Hall, Ordered, that these Instructions be forthwith Printed and Published.  
JOHN THURLOE Secretary   

LONDON, Printed for Giles Calvert, Henry Hills and Thomas Brewster, Printers to the Council of STATE, and are to be sold at the Black spread-Eagle, and at the Three Bibles at the West-end of Paul's, or at the sign of Sir John Oldcastle in Py-Corner, 1653.