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• A.D.iyGS. Anno quafto Ann^ Reginae.'; C. 2.3;-i-236. .^213 « Coinage Aft is appropriated, as in the fame Acft is mentioned ;' Be it therefore enafted by the Qtieefi's ■■' ■'*«» =" »»

moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of t?je Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and - •

{iCommons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That it fhall and After ij Dec, 'may be lawful to and for the Lord Treafurer, and Under Treafurer, or Gommiflioners of the Treafury '705' ^ord 'for the Time being, by Orders or Warrants, to iffue out of the Exchequer, or difpofe of the Monies ^"^^ ""'i' ■ arifing by the faid Coinage Duty yearly and everyr Year, from and after the twenty-fifth Day of December ^u' of ?hi Coin- •"•V)ne thoufand feven hundred and five, any Sum 6r Sums of Money, not exceeding the yearly Sum of five age Duties for

  • 'iiundred Pounds, over and above the yearlv Sum of three thoufand Pounds abovementioned, for the Fees the Salaries of

"or Salaries of the Officers of the Mint or Mints, and towards the providing, maintaining, and repairing 'toOfficersof the faid Houfes, Offices, and Buildings, and other NecefTaries before-mentioned ; the faid recited A6t or '"'■ Ads, or any othe Law, Statute, or Ufage to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. - ify4Ge6.2.c.i2. Coinage Dutia are ctadnued for."] Yeirs-f and. (:re farther cmtitmed hji^ Cto.i, t,i^^ and zjCtQ, s, e, ii. -CAP. XXIII. ■ . An KSi for raifing the Militia for the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fix, notwithftanding the Month^s Pay formerly advanced, be not repaid ; and- for an Account to be made of Trophy Monies. ' EXP. CAP. XXIV. An Aft to enlarge the Time for regiftring unfatisfied Debentures upon the forfeited Eftates in Ireland, and EXP. for renewing qf other, Debentures, .which have been loft, burnt, or deftroyed. ■ ' ■ = '■ -■';^- 'C A P.- XXV. ^ i:. ■^. , ^■■'■ An Aft for the paying and clearing the feveral Regiments commanded by Lieutenant General S/fW«;;f, E X P. Colonel Hill, and Brigadier Holt, and for fupplying the Defeft of the Mufter-rolls of thofe and fcveral other Regiments. CAP. XXVL An A£l for making efFeflual a Grant of their late Majefties King William and Que^n Mary, of the Town and Lands, of Seatown to the Archbifhoprick oi Dubliny and for rt- ftoring the fame to the faid See. ' TT7HEREAS by the Afts of Settlement and Explanation heretofore made and pafled in the Forfeited Land*

  • VV Kingdom of Ireland, it was enafted. That fo much of the then forfeited Lands as were an- anciently the In-
  • ciently the Right and Inheritance of the See oi Dublin, but granted in Fee-farm by the former Arch- heritanceof the
  • bifhops of that See, in the Time of Popery, under a Refervation of Chief Rent, from the then forfeit- ^'^ " °""'-

•' iiig Perfons, or thofe under whom they claimed, fliould be fet out in Augmentation to the faid See,

  • as fhould complete the Revenue thereof to the Sum of two thoufand Pounds per Annum ; and purfuaht
  • thereunto the late Commiffioners for putting in Execution the faid Afts, did fet out to the then Arch-

1 ' * !>i(hop of Dublin, and his SuccelTors, feveral Lands, and as Part thereof, the Lands of Seatown, Neiii- Seatown, Ncw- i **'/o«. Blackball, Gamble, Smithjland, and feveral other Lands and Tenements in and about the Town of *°wn, Blackball, 5tt;«r</j, containing together four hundred thirty-feven Acres, lying in the Barony of A/lfi/jf^rcrff/}, in the J^^^'"'^'^™"'* ' County of Dublin (being formerly the Propriety oi Chriftopher RujTell, a forfeiting Perfon :) And where- chriitopher Ruf- •■asthe faid Archbifliop and his Succeflbrs, remained in full and quiet Poffeffion of the faid Town and fd a forfeiting ' Lands, till the Year one thoufand fix hundred eighty and eight, when Bartholomew Ruffell, Son pf the Perfon, Baitho- ' faid Chrijlopher RuM, fet up. a pretended Title to the faid Town and Lands, and the late Earl of Tircon- '"""^w Ruflfel hit

  • neU, being chief Governor of the Kingdom of Ireland, and the Judges being //v^- Papifts, Judgment "' '■
  • was given againft the then Archbifhop of Dublin, in Favour of the faid Bartholomew Ruffell, and he ob-

' tained Poffeffion of the faid Town and Lands, and continued in the Pofleffion thereof, until the Re-

  • duftion of the faid Kingdom of Ireland, by his late Majefty King William the Third, of glorious
  • Memory : And whereas the faid Bartholomew Ruffel, being aftually engaged in the faid Rebellion, he a«'a'n(eJ of

' was indifted and attainted by Outlawry of Treafon, and died fo attainted : And whereas their late Ma- "'"'°"' ' jeftiesby their Letters Patent, bearing Date on or about the fixth Day oi September in the fixth- Year Seatown, &c. of their faid late Majefties Reign, did give, grant, and confirm unto Narciffis, then Lord Archbifliop g'^^ " the

  • o( Dublin, and his Succeffors the Archbifliops of Dublin for ever, all that and thofe the aforefaid Town ^'^1^^°^,"^.

I and Lands,- and alfo all the E'ftate, -Right, Title, and Intereft, which their faidlate Majefties then had^or succeflbrsfw'* might, or ought to have had of, in, and to the PremilTes, or any Part or Parcel thereof, by Force of the ever, aforefaid feveral Afts of fettlenient or Explanation, or. either of them, or otherwife howfoever ; to hold unto the (aidNarciffus Archbifliop of Dublin, and his S ucceflbrs, Archbifliops of Dublin, for ever, to the Ufe of the faid Ar-chbifliop and his Succeffors for ever, paying therefore thereout yearly, unto their fajd

  • late Mijefties and.their Succeffors, the feveral yearly Rents therein particularly mentioned, amounting

in the whole to the Sum of nine Pounds eighteen Shillings and eleven Pence Halfpenny, to be paid into- 'the Exchequer of the Kingdom of Ireland, attheFeaftof Saint tJ^/V/j^^/ the Archangel, and the An nun- Arclibiftop not I elation of thebleffed VnginMary, half-yearly: And whereas byreafon the late Archbifliop of Dublin did ^"^^^""{"fy.l I not profecute a Claim made of the faid Premi.Ies in the Right of his Church, before the Perfons nomina- premiffes befbte • ^ ted ahdappoirited Truftees for the putting in Execution the Powers and Authorities relating to the for- che Truftees in fdted arid other Eftates ajid Interefts in- Ireland, in and by an Aft made in the eleventh Year of the Reign Right of hi» • ' ^ ' ' 4 q£ Church.