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forty-three, and who did at that time and ever since profess the Protestant religion; nor to any woman who, before the second day of December, one thousand six hundred and fifty, was married to any English Protestant; provided that such woman do renounce Popery, and profess the Protestant religion; nor to any male childe or children under the age of fourteen years, and 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 alotted 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, and hath, during the late wars in Ireland, constantly adhered to the English against the rebels, who hath or have land within the said province of Connaught, 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 estates 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 authorized and impowered to nominate commissioners, and to authorize them to alot 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 land by measure or in value in the province of Connaught, or the county of Clare, of the like estate of inheritance or freehold, 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 leaseholders from the Commonwealth, such convenient parcels of land in the said province of Connaught, 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 value of the said lands in the year one thousand six hundred and forty, shall be by you thought fit.
3. You are hereby authorized to give order and direction for the speedy removal of all or any the persons aforesaid unto the lands so alotted 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, one thousand six hundred fifty-four, and within two months after the respective alotments 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, one thousand six hundred fifty-four, be found in any part of the provinces of Leinster, Munster, or Ulster (except the county of Clare), or any way, without such pass as aforesaid, travelling in any of the said provinces (except in the county of Clare), or inhabiting or being in any port, town, or garison, within the said province of Connaught, or county of
