WHEREAS the Kings moſt excellent Majeſty by his Commiſſion under the great Seal of this Kingdom of Ireland, bearing date the nineteenth day of March, in the thirteenth year of his Reign, hath nominated and appointed Vs Commiſſioners for the putting in execution his Majeſties gracious Declaration of the thirtyeth of November laſt, for the Settlement of this Kingdom of Ireland, and ſatisfaction of the ſeveral Intereſts of Adventurers and Soldiers, and other his Subjects there, according to the tenor of certain Inſtructions to the ſaid Commiſſion annexed; And whereas by the ſaid Inſtructions, We are amongſt other things required to caſt up the whole Debt, and demand of the Adventurers, as well thoſe that are ſatisfied, as thoſe that are in part, or in whole deficient, and alſo all the forfeited Lands aſſigned for the ſaid Adventurers ſatisfaction, in order to the more particular apportioning and dividing the ſaid Lands amongſt the ſaid Adventurers, and ſatisfying their deficiencies, and aſſertaining their reſpective proportions.

We therefore in order to the more ſpeedy and effectual execution of the ſaid Commiſsions and Inſtructions, have thought fit to Publiſh and Declare, and do hereby Publiſh and Declare, That all and every Adventurer and Adventurers for Lands in Ireland, his or their Aſſignee or Aſſignes, as well thoſe who have received ſatisfaction either in Lands or Houſes for their ſaid Adventurers, or thoſe who are in part or in whole deficient, do by themſelves, or their Agent or Agents ſuficiently authorized, within forty dayes after publication hereof, deliver unto Vs in writing under their Hands and Seals a paricular of the ſummes of money for which he or they do demand ſatisfaction by way of Adventure out of any forfeited Lands or Houſes in this Kingdom: and therein do alſo inſert the Names of ſuch perſons, in whoſe right they claim the ſaid Adventure, and alſo the place where the ſame by Lots formerly drawn amongſt the ſaid Adventurers is fallen to be ſatisfied. And further, that ſuch of the ſaid Adventurers who have received ſatisfaction either in Lands or Houſes for the ſums of money ſo by them adventured, or any part thereof, do therein alſo inſert a perticular of the Houſes and Lands by them poſſeſſed, together with the content and number of Acres both profitable and unprofitable in each Town-Land, Village, Balliboe, or Quarter of Land, as the ſame were admeaſured to them or for their uſe, and if ſuch Adventure be for Houſes in any City, ſuch Adventurers are to deliver in, not only the particular Houſes and Tenements by them poſſeſſed, but alſo the values of them reſectively as ſet out to them, or any other for their uſe. And we do further hereby Publiſh and Declare, That his Majeſty by his ſaid Idſtructions to Vs hath ſignified his pleaſure, That if any Adventurer, or the Aſſignee, or Aſſignes to ſuch Adventurer, ſhall neglect to return unto us ſuch certificate, or ſhall willingly make and deliver a falſe Certificate of the ſummes he was to be ſatisfied according to the Acts for ſatisfaction of Adventurers, or of the Town-Lands, Villages, Quarters, or other denomination of Land aſſigned or given out for ſatisfaction of ſuch debt or demand, or of the Contents or number of Acres according as the ſame were ſet out unto him or them, ſuch Adventurer or his Aſſignee, ſhall forfiet for three years the Rents and Profits that ſuch Houſes, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments ſhall yield that he ſhall ſo omit to certifie, or that he ſhall not rightly certifie. And we do hereby further require all ſuch of the ſaid Adventurers as have taken Surveyes of their Lands, that they do forthwith bring unto Vs the ſaid Surveyes or Duplicates thereof, together with the Field-Books, if in their poſſeſſion, to the end, the ſaid Surveyes may be compared with ſuch other Surveyes, as by Order of the late pretended powers have been taken of ſuch Lands: And hereof all perſons concerned are to take notice.