January, 1647/8
[3 January, 1647/8.]
Who may advance this sum.; 13 May, 1647.; To be paid by sale of Houses, Lands, &c. in several Cities, and Towns in Ireland.
The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, intending
so raise Fifty thousand pounds for the speedy relief of Ireland,
and reducing the Rebels there; For the encouragement of such
at shall advance any sum of Money for and towards the same,
Do hereby Declare and Ordain, That every person who hath any
just Debt owing unto him upon Publique Faith, or otherwise by
any Promise or Engagement by this present Parliament, or upon
any the Ordinances mentioned in an Ordinance of Parliament
bearing Date 13 Maii, 1647, intituled, An Ordinance of the Lords
and Commons assembled in Parliament, for securing all those
that shall advance Two hundred thousand pounds for the service
of this Kingdome, and of the Kingdome of Ireland; That such
person may for every sum of Money he shall further lend for the
advancement of the said Fifty thousand pounds, be secured a
like sum more, as in case was done in advancing the sum of Two
hundred thousand pounds upon the said Ordinance of 13 May,
1647, before specified, together with the Interest thereof after
the rate of Eight pounds per centum per annum, every six
moneths to be paid out of the moneys that shall be raised by a
speedy sale of all the Houses, Buildings, Lands and Tenements
of the Irish Rebels, scituate and being within any of the Cities,
Towns, or Liberties of Dublin, Cork, Kinsale, Youghal, and
Droghedaly in the Kingdome of Ireland; all which are now in
the present possession and power of the State, not engaged or
disposed of by any former Act or Ordinance of Parliament, but
free and clear in the power of this Parliament, to be sold and
disposed of by such Commissioners and Persons as shall be
authorized in that behalf.
Security in the mean time.
And for a further encouragement of such as shall advance any
sum of Money as aforesaid, the said Lords and Commons do
hereby Declare and Ordaine, That in the mean time, and until
sale be made of the said Rebels Houses, Buildings, Lands, and
Tenements, and until payment be made to the said Adventurers,
the whole money so paid and doubled as aforesaid, with the
Interest thereof every six Moneths, as is before Declared, That
all the Mannors, Lands, and Tenements, with their Appurtenances,
and all the Rents and Profits thence arising, of Francis Lord
Cottington, Arthur Lord Capel, Edward Earl of Worcester, John
Marquess of Winchester, William Shelden of Beely, Sir Charls
Smith of Warwickshire, Sir George Strode Knight, Sir Henry
Beddingfield and his Son, may and shall be mortgaged, and the
Profits received by such Commissioners and Persons as shall be
authorized in that behalf for the payment of the said Principal
money so advanced and doubled as aforesaid, with Interest
thereof, every six Moneths unto every one of the said Advancers
respectively.
Worcester-house and a house in Long Acre excepted.
Provided, That this Ordinance, or any thing therein contained,
shall not extend to Worcester-house, scituate in the Strand, being
now or late parcel of the Possessions of the Earl of Worcester;
nor to the House now in the possession of Major General Philip
Skippon, scituate and being in the Long-Acre, in the Parish of
Martins in the Fields, in the County of Middlesex.