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Clare, without such license as aforesaid, or having any ammunition or arms used in war, all and every such person and persons shall be tryed 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, tryal, 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 Connaught, 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 thereof, 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 Blackwel, the younger, of Mortelack, 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 rebels' lands in Ireland, and assign unto him so many acres of meadow, arrable, and profitable pasture of the said 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 allowed by the respective Acts and ordinances upon which the said several sums were advanced respectively, in such place and places as the said John Blackwel, 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 thereof, designed and set apart for the satisfaction of the adventurers and soldiers, and not being by any Act, ordinance, or order of Parliament, or by authority derived from Parliament, set out, alotted, or granted to any particular person or persons; and to put the said John Blackwel, his heirs or assigns, or his or their trustees, into the possession of the premises so to be set forth and alotted to him, to be by him, his heirs and assigns, held and enjoyed, in as full and ample maner, 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 and premises so set forth unto the said John Blackwel, 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 premises, in writing, and returned unto the register for the said lands, to remain of record.
Passed 27 September.
