August, 1654
[1 August, 1654.]
Names of Committee for determining differences among adventurers in Ireland.; To determine lands by lot.; Continuance of Ord.
Whereas the proportions of several Adventurers for Lands in
Ireland, have fallen by lot within one and the same Barony,
which may occasion some differences among the said Adventurers,
in case the total of the escheated Land within such Baronie
shall not bee sufficient to answer the proportions of Land
allotted to the respective Adventurers; Now for the better
composing of any differences that shall fall out, and on the
humble desire of the said Adventurers, Bee it Ordained by His
Highness the Lord Protector of the Commonweath of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by and with the advice and consent of
His Council, That the persons hereafter named, beeing equally
chosen and nominated by the body of the said Adventurers:
That is to say, Sir Thomas Dacres, Sir John Clotworthy,
Alderman Thomas Andrews, Alderman John Fowke, Alderman
Samuel Avery, Thomas Ayres, John Blackwell Senr, William
Webb, William Hawkins, Charls Lloyd, George Almory, Thomas
Barnardiston, John Greensmith, Lawrence Bromefield, Thomas
Brightwell, Deputy Hutchinson, Michael Herring, Alexander
Jones, John Wood, Thomas Strane, Sir David Watkins,
Alexander Bence, Thomas Gower, William Penoyer, Henry
Colborne, William Hickhocks, Thomas Vincent, Alderman Foot,
James Russell, Alderman Waring, Maurice Thompson, Francis
Ashe, John Moyser, John Holland, Edmond Harrison, and
Ambrose Moore Esquires, bee, and hereby are impowred and
authorised by themselves or any eleven or more of them, or by
such others as they or any eleven or more of them shall from
time to time nominate and appoint, in such cases where several
Lots have been drawn by several persons, of Lands lying in the
same Barony, to settle a way and method for determining by
Lot, how many and which of the said Adventurers proportions,
falling within one and the same particular Barony, wherein the
escheated Lands shall fall short of the Allotments, shall bee
continued and laid out in such Barony, or how much thereof,
and which of the said Adventurers shall take his proportion, or
how much thereof elsewhere, according to the Act of Parlament
made in that behalf; And the Lord Deputy of Ireland and
Council for the time being, are here authorized to settle such
persons as shall be so removed in such other places as is
provided by the Acts of Parlament in that behalf. And the
Committee and Committees hereby authorised are also impowred
to settle a method by Lot, for ascertaining the subdivision of
Adventurers proportion, that shall continue in all and every the
several Baronies according to their respective allotments. And
further, That the said Lord Deputy and Council bee, and are
hereby impowred and authorized, to hear and determine all
differences that shall happen and arise concerning any the
premisses, among the said Adventurers or any of them:
Provided that this Ordinance shall continue in force for one
whole year, from the fift of June last, and no longer.