BY THE Lords-Justices and COUNCIL. A PROCLAMATION  

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CHARLES PORTER  
THO: CONINGESBY.    
WHereas all due care has been taken for the keeping up and preserving the Markets in all parts of this Kingdom under Their Majesties Obedience, whereto all Persons may resort with Freedom and Liberty of Trade and Commerce; And whereas for the better Encouragement of Markets in the Garrisons of Galway, Athlone, Belturbet, Bannagher, Portumna, Sligoe and Birr, We have directed the Commissary General of the Bread to appoint Persons in each of the said Garrisons, who shall constantly attend and buy Wheat and other Provisions for the use of the said respective Garrisons: We have therefore thought fit by this Our Proclamation further to encourage the Inhabitants in the several Counties adjacent to any of the said Garrisons, to bring into such of the said Garrisons as shall be most convenient for them, all the good and Marketable Wheat they can possibly spare from Sowing their Fallow, and feeding their Family; And for every Barrel of such good and Marketable Wheat, Dublin Measure, which they shall so bring in and deliver into any of the said Garrisons as aforesaid, they shall receive without delay in ready Money, upon delivery thereof as aforesaid, Twelve Shillings and Six pence. And We do hereby require all Sheriffs, Iustices of the Peace, and all other Officers Military and Civil, to take effectual care, that none of Their Majesties Subjects be any ways hindered or molested, either in Persons, Horses or cars, in resorting to any of the said Garrisons or other public Markets whatsoever. And for the furtherance of Tillage for the Year ensuing, We have given Directions to the Commissioners of Their Majesties Revenue to take care that all persons to whom they have set any of the said Lands forfeited to Their Majesties, and who have either paid or secured to Their Majesties the Rent contracted for by them for such Lands, and to all Persons to whom they shall Set any of the said Lands, all due encouragement, whereby they and their under Tenants and Occupiers of the said Lands may Plough and sow the same. And where any of the Tenants, who have agreed with the said Commissioners for any of the said Lands, but have not paid their Rent, nor taken out their Leases; that the under Tenants or Occupiers of those Lands, for such part thereof as they shall hold and employ in Tillage, they shall either pay the Rent they were formerly to pay for the same, or the Custom of the Country or Barony where the said Lands do lye, at the Election of the Person who does occupy and enjoy it. And We do hereby assure them, that they shall be continued Tenants to the said Lands, or shall have the Crop the Year following, paying as aforesaid: And if there shall remain any Forfeited arable Lands unset or undisposed of by the said Commissioners, for a further encouragement of Tillage. We do hereby Publish and Declare, that it shall be Lawful for any Person or Persons to enter upon any such arable Lands, and to Plough and Sow it; And that such person or persons shall enjoy the Cropp thereof for the ensuing Year, at a reasonable Rent, or allow or pay the Sheaf for the same, according to the Custom of the Country or Barony, where the said Lands do lye, at the Election of the person Ploughing and Sowing the same; Provided always, that every such person or persons do within Ten Days after they shall enter upon the said Lands, give or sand unto the Collector of the District in which the Lands do lie the denomination of the said Lands; the County, Barony and parish wherein the said Lands are, with the reputed number of Acres they contain, and the number of Acres they will Plow and Sow thereof, to the end the said Collectors may give an account thereof, to the Commissioners of the Revenue, and the Rent or custom of the Country be answered to their Majesties for the same. And for the better incourageing and assurance of the several Tenants and Occupiers of any of the aforesaid Lands or of any other Lands in those parts of the Kingdom, already reduced under their Majesties Government that they shall not be hindered or molested in ploughing or Sowing and quietly enjoying their several holdings. We do hereby strictly require and Command all and every Officer& Soldier, Conductor, and others either of the Standing Army or Militia, and also all Sheriffs, High and Petty Constables, and all other Persons whatsoever, that they do not disturb any of the tenants or Occupiers of any of the Land aforesaid, in Ploughing or Sowing thereof, or Press or take away any of their Horses, Cattle or Corn, as they will answer the contrary at their utmost peril.  
Given at the Council-Chamber in Dublin the 25th. day of September, 1691. 

Fran. Dublin,  
Ri: Reynell,  
Ri: pine,  
Jno Hely   GOD Save the King and Queen,   

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