Whereas on the seventh day of November last we did set out a proclamation whereby we did continue the respective collectors for the respective counties in the said proclamation mentioned, in the execution of the said imployment, as receivers of the quit-rents due to His Majesty ... by the Lords Justices and Council, Mau. Eustace, canc., Orrery.

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HONI·SOIT·QVI·MAL·Y·PENSE

DIEV·ET MON·DROIT

By the Lords Justices and Council.

MAU. EUSTACE Canc. ORRERY.

WHEREAS on the Seventh day of November last, We did set out a Proclamation whereby We did continue the respective Collectors for the respective Counties in the said Proclamation mentioned, in the execution of the said imployment, as Receivers of the Quit-Rents due to His Majesty, for the half year ended at Michaelmas last, according to the Instructions formerly given by us to the late Commissioners and Collectors, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, 1660; and although We then declared that We found no further use of the labour and pains of the said Commissioners in the said service, and therefore did then publish the same, that so they might know that We intended not to give them any further trouble therein; yet We do still find it necessary and conducing to the furthe∣rance of his Majesties Service, for the present and more speedy supply of His Majesties Army here, to continue Collectors for the said respective Counties, in the execution of the said imploy∣ment, as Receivers of the said Rents for the half year ending at Easter next, which Collectors are as followeth, (viz.)

• For the County of Meath, Arthur Dillon Esq
• For the County of Westmeath, Iames Leigh Esq
• For the Queens County, Iohn Gilbert Esq
• For the Kings County, Iohn Wakeley Esq
• For the County of Kilkenny, Ioseph Wheeler Esq
• For the County of Wexford, Iohn Tench Esq
• For the County of Lowth, William Toxteeth Esq
• For the two Baronies of Rathcline and Shrewle in the county of Longford, Sir Richard Lane Kn. & Bar.
• For the County of Antrim, Peter Beaghan Esq
• For the County of Down, Carrol Bolton Esq
• For the county of Armagh, Francis Chambers Esq
• For the county of Monaghan, Tristram Carey Esq
• For the county of Cavan, Samuel Towneley Esq
• For the county of Londonderry, Paul Brasier Esq
• For the county of Tyrone, Humfrey Evat Esq
• For the county of Fermanagh, George Slack Esq
• For the Province of Munster, Roger Earl of Orrery.
• For the Province of Connaught and county of Clare, Charles L. Castlecoote,
• For the Province of Connaught and county of Clare, Richard Lord Coloony.

And the said Collectors are respectively to enter into Bond before any two of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace, of the County where the persons aforesaid are appointed Collectors re∣spectively, with one or more good Sureties, in double the sum designed for the Collection, to Sir James Ware Knight, his Majesties Auditor General, to his Majesties use, with condition well and truly to satisfie and pay such of the said sums as he shall receive, to his Majesties Uice-Treasurer and Receiver General, or his Deputy, at the Receipt of his Majesties Court of

Exchequer, and to make a true and faithfull Accompt of such of the said Rents as he shall receive before such person and persons as shall be authorized in that behalf, which Bonds the said Iu∣stices of Peace are to return forthwith after the taking thereof to his Majesties Auditor Ge∣neral; And after the said Bonds shall be so entered into with Sureties as aforesaid and not be∣fore; We do hereby require and authorize the Collectors aforesaid respectively, to proceed in the Collection of the said Rents for the half year ending at Easter next, within such County for which he hath been or now is appointed Collector as aforesaid, and to be guided therein by the Instructions to such Collectors, dated the Sixteenth of February aforesaid; And that the said Collectors are to appoint certain days and places of meeting in every Barony in that County as speedily as possibly, so as the said Rents may be paid to the said Collectors by the last day of April next, and thereof to give publick notice and forewarning throughout each Barony; And the said Collectors are hereby required at their extreme perils to return into the Office of His Majesties Auditor General with all possible speed, and at the furthest by the said last day of A∣pril next, a Duplicate under their hands and seals respectively, of the particular Lands, Rents and persons who are to pay the same, in such sort as was formerly prescribed to them by the for∣mer Proclamation; And We do hereby authorize the said Collectors to defalk one shilling in the pound, for every pound received, towards their travel and charges, for keeping exact Accompts of their Receipts and Issues, and all other charges incident to the said service; And We do here∣by require and authorize the said Collectors respectively, that where they find any Lands con∣cealed, which are lyable to the said Quit-Rents, and are not as yet charged, that they forthwith return unto his Majesties Auditor General a particular List conteining the names of the Lands so concealed in the said County, and the number of Acres the said Lands contein, who are the Tenants or Possessors of the said Lands, and how long the same have been enjoyed by them, and what the yearly values of such concealed Lands are; And We do hereby further re∣quire the said Collectors, and every of them respectively, that where it shall appear unto them by any Acquittance under the hand of his Majesties Uice-Treasurer or his Deputy, that any per∣son chargeable with any Quit-Rent hereby designed to be paid to the said Collectors, hath paid the same for the time aforesaid, into the Receipt of his Majesties Exchequer here, that they do forbear the leavying thereof; and although the same be made a part of the charge of their Ac∣compts, yet they shall have an Abatement of so much among the allowances and defalkations of their Accompts, upon the perclose and determination of which Accompts, before the Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer and his Majesties Auditor General, and upon payment into his Ma∣jesties Exchequer, all such moneys as shall be therein found due, the aforesaid Bonds into which they entered for their due accompting, are to be delivered up unto them by his Majesties Auditor.

Given at the Council-Chamber in Dublin, the 27. day of February, 1661.

GOD SAVE THE KING

• Ja. Dublin.
• Kildare.
• W. Caulfeild.
• R. Coote.
• Santry.
• J. Temple.
• Paul Davys.
• Rob. Meredith.
• Theo. Jones.