YOV are authorized and required, either by Proclamation or o­therwise as you shall think fit, to publish and declare, That for the better security of all those parts of Ireland which are now inten­ded to be planted with English and Protestants, and to the end that all [Page 24] persons in Ireland who have right to Articles, or to any favour and mercy held forth by any the Qualifications in the Act of Parliament, intitu­led An Act for settling of Ireland, may enjoy the bene­fit intended unto them and every of them respec­tively by the said Act, it is thought fit and resol­ved, That all & every the persons aforesaid shall, before the first day of May, which shall be in the year 1654. remove and transplant themselves into the Province of Connaght and the County of Clare, or one of them, there to inhabit and abide, and shall have set forth unto them and every of them respectively such Proportions of Land, and for such Estates or terms, and under such Conditions, Reservations, and Covenants, as shall be answerable in value unto so much of his and their Estates as by such Articles or Qua­lification respectively he or they were to enjoy, in such place and manner, as you, or such as shall be authorized by you, shall appoint and direct; And that whatsoever person or persons aforesaid, shall after the said first day of May 1654. be found inhabiting or remaining in any part of the Pro­vinces of Lemster, Munster, or Ulster (except in the said County of Clare) or (without a passe from you, or any one of you, or under the Hand and Seal of such person or persons as shall be authorised by you to that purpose) travelling in any of the said Provinces (except the said County of Clare) he and they shall be reputed as Spies and Ene­mies, and shall for the same Offence suffer death; And that all and every person and persons afore­said, who shall at or before the said first day of May 1654. quietly and peaceably remove into the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare shall be pardoned all Offences (except all and every person and persons both principall and accessa­ries, [Page 25] who since the first day of October 1641. have or shall kill or slay, or otherwise destroy a­ny person or persons in Ireland, which at the time of their being so killed, slain or destroyed, were not publickly entertained, and maintained in Arms as Officers or private Souldiers for and on the behalf of the English against the Irish; And all and every person and persons both Principal and Accessaries who since the first day of October 1641. have killed, slain, or other­wise destroyed any person or persons entertained or maintained as Officers or private Souldiers for and on the behalf of the English against the Irish, the said persons so killing, slaying, or other­wise destroying, not being then publiquely enter­tained and maintained in Armes as Officers or private Souldiers under the Command and pay of the Irish against the English) and shall be no more molested for the same. Provided, that none of the persons aforesaid shall be admit­ted to live in, or enter into, any Port Town or Garrison within the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare (without license from you or any one of you, or such person or persons as you shall authorise thereunto nor shall have or keep any Arms used in War, or Ammunition; But that all and every person and persons of­fending in either of the premisses shall be tryed by Martial Law, and, being convicted, shall suffer death; Provided also, that this shall not extend to the Pardoning, Tollerating, or Ad­mitting any Popish Priest, Iesuite, or other per­son in Orders by authority from the See of Rome; Provided also, that this shall not ex­tend to the removal of any person who did not adhere unto or join with the Rebels before the fifteenth day of September 1643. and who did [Page 26] at that time and ever since profess the Prote­stant Religion; Nor to any Woman who be­fore the second day of December 1650. was mar­ried to any English Protestant, Provided, that such Woman do renounce Popery, and profess the Protestant Religion; Nor to any Male child or children under the age of fourteen years, or Females under the age of twelve years, whom any of the English have already, or shall be wil­ling hereafter to entertain as Servants, and to instruct and train up in the true Protestant Reli­gion, which said persons and children shall be suffered to live in any of the Places allotted for the habitation of the English.

And you are further to declare, That in case any person or persons of the English nation, or any o­ther person or persons professing the Protestant Religion, & hath, during the late Wars in Ireland, constantly adhered to the English against the Rebells, who hath or have Land within the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare, and hath not forfeited the same by Rebellion or Delinquency, shall desire to exchange the same, or any part thereof, or remove themselves into such Counties or Provinces as are inhabi­ted by the English, that just Surveys shall be taken of the Lands and estate of such person and persons, and so much, or the value there­of, shall be set out unto them in lieu thereof, out of the forfeited Lands in some other Pro­vince or County, as shall be thought fit.

2. You are hereby authorised and impowered to nominate Commissioners, and to authorise them to allot unto any person or persons, who, by Articles granted unto them, or by vertue of the Qualifications in the said Act, were to en­joy any part of their estates, a like proportion of [Page 27] Land by measure, or in value, in the Province of Connaght or the County of Clare, of the like estate of Inheritance of Free-hold, or for the like term of years or number of lives, to be by them held and enjoyed in lieu or satisfaction of such part of their estate, which by such Articles or Qualifications he or they were to enjoy; And also to grant unto such of the said persons, or others as you shall think fit to be Lease-hol­ders from the Commonwealth, such convenient parcels of Land in the said Province of Connaght or County of Clare, as by the said Commissi­oners shall be judged fit, for any term not excee­ding one and twenty years, or three lives, re­serving to the use of the Commonwealth, upon every such demise, such reasonable rents, as, with respect to the values of the said Lands in the year 1640. shall be by you thought fit.

3. You are hereby authorised to give order and direction for the speedy removal of all or any the persons aforesaid unto the Lands so allotted unto them, in such numbers and propor­tions as may consist with safety and security of the rest of the Inhabitants; So as all the said persons be so removed before the first day of May 1654. and within two moneths after the respective allotments so made, and directions gi­ven them by you to take the same into possession.

4. Whatsoever person or persons so to be re­moved, as aforesaid, shall after the said first day of May 1654. be found in any part of the Provin­ces of Lemster, Munster, or Vlster (except the Coun­ty of Clare) or any way, without such pass as a­foresaid, travelling in any of the said Provin­ces (except in the said County of Clare) or inha­biting or being in any Port Town or Garrison within the said Province of Connaght or Coun­ty [Page 28] of Clare, without such license as aforesaid, or ha­ving any Ammunition or Arms used in War, All and every such person and persons shall be tried by Martial Law, and, being convicted of such offence, shall suffer death; and you are hereby authorized from time to time to issue out Commissions for the speedy apprehending, trial, and execution of such Offenders.

5. You are also to authorize the said Commissio­ners to cause exact surveys upon oath to be made of the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments of such person and persons of the English nation, or other persons aforesaid, in Connaght or in the County of Clare, as shall desire such exchange as aforesaid, which being returned unto you, you shall out of the Lands forfeited to the Common­wealth, or the Lands, Tenements or Heredi­taments of the persons so removed, cause Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments of the like quan­tity or value, in such other Province or County as you shall think fit, to be set forth unto such person and persons, to be enjoyed for such estate or term, and under the like Covenants, Conditions and reservations, as such Lands, Tenements or He­reditaments in the said Province or County, and so exchanged, were held, and shall cause an exact particular therof, together with the survey afore­said, to be returned to the Register for the said for­feited Lands, to remain of Record.

6. You are hereby authorized to set out unto John Blackwell the younger of Mortclack in the County of Surrey Esq; his heirs and assigns, in satisfaction of the sum of two thousand three hundred and fif­ty pounds, advanced in several sums by way of Adventure upon the Propositions for Rebells lands in Ireland, and assigned unto him, so many A­cres of meadow, arable, and profitable pasture of [Page 29] the said forfeited lands together with the Bogs, Woods and barren Mountains thereunto be­longing) as are due unto him according to the pro­portions and rates for the respective Provinces in the Act of Parliament in that behalf expressed, and the measure allow'd by the respective Acts & Ordi­nances upon which the said several sums were ad­vanced respectively, in such place and places as the said Joh. Blackwell, his heirs or assigns, or his or their Trustees in that behalf appointed, shall make choice of, and desire, within the Counties of Dub­lin, Kildare and Cork, or any other County which is not particularly by these Instructions, nor shall be by you in pursuance therof, designed and set a­part for the satisfaction of the Adventurers and Souldiers, & not being by any Act, Ordinance or order of Parliament, or by authority derived from Parliament, set out, allotted or granted to any particular person or persons, and to put the said John Blackwell, his heirs or assigns, or his or their Trustees, into the possession of the premisses so to be set forth and allotted to him, to be by him, his heirs and assigns held and enjoyed, in as full and ample manner, and with the like advantages, li­berties and privileges as any the Adventurers for lands in Ireland may and ought to hold and enjoy the lands set forth unto them, and as if the same lands & premisses so set forth unto the said John Blackwell, his heirs and assigns, had come un­to him or them by lot; And that you cause an ex­act survey upon oath to be made of the premisses in writing, and returned unto the Register for the said Lands, to remain of Record.