THE CASE OF William Spencer of Kilcolman in the County of Cork in the Kingdom of Ireland, Esq; Grandson and Heir to Edmond Spencer the Poet.  
THAT Sylvanus Spencer Esq; Father of William, in his life time, in order to prefer his second Brother Peregrine in Marraiage; did give and Assign to him part of his Estate in the said County of Cork.  
Peregrine dies, and that part of the Estate that was settled on him by Silvanus, descended and came to Hugoline Son of the said Peregrine.  
Hugoline being seized and possessed of the said Estate, was outlawed for Treason and Rebellion after the late Revolution.  
William Spencer finding Hugolines Estate vested in the King, and being the next Protestant Heir, as also Heir at Law to him, that part of the Estate being formerly vested in Silvanus, to whom William was Eldest Son and Heir) did apply himself to His Majesty for a grant thereof, and by his Petition did set forth his Claim to the said Estate, and also his Services, Sufferings, and Losses in the late Rebellion in Ireland, in behalf of the Government, which are very well known.  
Upon which Petition his Majesty was Graciously pleased to refer the same to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury in England, and they were pleased to refer it further to the Earls of Montrath, Drogheda, and gallovvay, then Lords Justices of Ireland, to examine the Matter and make their Report.  
The Lords Justices Reported it back to the Lords of the Treasury of England; wherein they recommend the said William to His Majesty for his great Services, sufferings, and Losses in the late Troubles, and that he was next Protestant Heir to Hugoline, and to deserve His Majesty's Grace and Favour.  
His Majesty was thereupon Graciously pleased to Grant the said Hugolines Estate, to the said William, by his Letters Patents bearing date at Dublin the Fourteenth day of June, in the Ninth year of His reign.  
That the said Estate was then of the Yearly value of Sixty seven Pounds seventeen Shillings and Sixpence.  
That there is a Mortgage upon the said Estate for five hundred Pounds, which is yet unpaid.  
That it Cost the said William above six hundred Pounds, the best part of his Fortune in improving the said Estate, and procuring the said Grant, and hath received little or no profit thereof.  
For by a late Act of Parliament, all Grants were made voided in Ireland, and the Forfeited Estates were vested in Trustees, to be sold for the use of the public, and whilst that Act was in Agitation the said William was so disabled by sickness, that he could not apply himself to this Honourable House for a saving Clause, whereby the Trustees have dispossessed the said William of the said Estate, without any manner of consideration for his improvments and other Charges about the same, to his utter ruin and impoverishment.  
That this is conceived to be the only Case of this nature in the whole Kingdom of Ireland, he being the next Protestant Heir, and whose Grand-father Edmond Spencer, by his Book entitled, a View of Ireland modled the settlement of that Kingdom, and these Lands were given him by Queen Elizabeth of Blessed memory for his services to the Crown.  

THAT you Petitioner having applied himself to this honourable House last Sessions of Parliament for relief herein.  
The Petition was referred to the Trustees then in England, who Reported the same to this honourable House, and upon further consideration of that Report, the same was referred to the Trustees in Ireland, who now have made there Report to this effect.  
That the Petitioner was very serviceable to the public, by being a Guide to His Majesty's General the Earl of Arthlone, during the late Wars in that Kingdom.  
That he had 300 Head of black Cattle and 1500 Sheep taken from him, had several Houses burnt: That his Family was stripped, his House plundered, and his only son had above twenty wounds given him by the Irish Army.  
That in consideration of his said Services and Sufferings, and of his being next Protestant heir to Hugoline Spencer Attainted; His Majesty was pleased to Grant the Forfeited Estate of the said Hugoline to the Petitioner in 1697, now set at Sixty Pounds per Ann.  
That there is a Claim heard and allowed as an encumbrance of 300l. absolute, on the said Estate, and 200 l. more in case Hugoline who is very old and unmarried, dies without issue Male.  
That the Petitioner has expended near the sum mentioned in his Petition, in making Jorneys into England to procure his Grant, in passing his Patent in Ireland, and in building a House and planting an Orchard on the premises, so that his Grant has hitherto been a Charge to him and not an Advantage, All which they submit to this honourable house.  
And the Petitioner humbly hopes this honourable House will be pleased to take his Case into consideration, and re-establish him in his said Estate, or otherwise relieve him as to your great wisdoms shall seem meet.    

THE CASE OF William Spencer, Esq;