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CHIEF: Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock |
Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd 568 W. Friedrich Street Rogers City, Mich. 49779
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Proclamation of 1653 The following "Proclamation of 1653" was posted to the Co.Tyrone, Ireland list by Teena - ivorie-samhoir@home.com who has kindly given me permission to post it to this list. Following the Proclamation there was an attachment of names. I have "only" copied the entry (group) that included Boyds. If anyone would like the "complete" listing of names, just search the CoTyroneIreland mailing list archives for: "Proclamation of 1653" for the complete list. Karen Proclamation of 1653 The proclamation on a
proposal to tranplant leading and/or land owning Presbyterians in 1653 from the Counties of Down and Antrim, to Munster. "Whereas the right
honourable the commissioners of the commonwealth of England have commissioned us, for the settling and securing of these
parts from those disturbances which the council of state did intimate unto them were like to arise here, through the designs of the
neighbouring Highlanders in Scotland, and whereas many persons here have
(to our grief) too much confirmed those fears; in discharge of that trust reposed in us, that the good people here of the English and
Scottish nation, who have manifested their good affection towards the present government, might receive all due protection and encouragement,
we have thought fit as the most probable expedient for the peace and settlement of this province, to transplant a certain number of such
persons as we judge (by reason of their interest and disaffection) to be
therein most dangerous, into the provinces of Leinster and Munster. And that we might show our tenderness towards them(not withstanding their
present temper) and that we have no other end in this action, next to preservation of the peace in these parts, than their good and welfare;
We do hereby declare, that the ensuing conditions or articles shall, God
willing, be made good to the respective persons who shall be so First,- Valuable
consideration in land, computed as the same worth in the year 1640, shall be allowed for the land, leases and houses of such
as shall be transplanted, value as aforesaid, according to their respective interests, and the qualifications under which they do fall in
the printed act for settlement of August 1652, entitled 'An act for the settling of Ireland'. And to that end, persons of judgement and known
integrity shall be, with all convenient speed, appointed surveyors upon oath of the value of the said land, leases and houses of such as shall
be removed as aforesaid,according unto such answerable satisfaction as Secondly,- The said persons shall hold such lands, if the lands unto which they be tranplanted be now waste, and shall pay no contribution thereout, till November come twelvemonth: after which time they are to pay proportionable taxes with the rest of their neighbours. Thirdly,- The said persons shall be allowed what wood is necessary either for the building of new or repairing of old houses on the said lands; and the same shall be appointed out of the commonwealth's woods. Fourthly,- The
said persons shall and may enjoy by their agents the profits of their lands they now possess till November next ensuing the
date hereof. And notwithstanding that it is the custom of the country that all removers pay a years contribution after removal in the places
from whence they remove; yet for the further encouragement of the persons so removing, it is condescended that they shall pay the
contribution charged on the lands they now possess in Ulster only during
the time of their holding the said lands by their said agents and not Fifthly,- The State shall, if the said persons desire it, take off all their corn now upon the ground, being made into meal, and delivered into the public stores at a market price and shall pay the money so due to them for it at what place they shall desire in Ireland. Sixthly,- Convoys
shall be allowed for the persons and goods of such as Seventhly,- The said persons shall and may enjoy the freedom of their religion, and choose their own ministers; provided they shall be such as shall be peaceable-minded men towards the authority they live under, and not scandalous: and such ministers shall be allowed a competence for their subsistence, suitable with others in their condition. Eightly,- Such of the said persons who have no title to land shall have leases, of so much as they can be stock, at a valuable rent and contribution free, if it be waste when they enter upon it, till November next come twelvemonth. And we do further
declare, that all those who have signified their willingness to remove on the conditions tendered, as also any of the
rest that yet shall, by the _ day of June next, signify their willingness to the commissioners of the revenue of the precinct of
Belfast, and give in sufficient security to remove as aforesaid, shall The following are some of the names attched to the proposal of 23d May 1653 which was signed by Robert Venables, Arthur Hill, William Allen Jones, and Anthony Morgan. The document can be found in the Bristish Museum,and was printed by William Bladen Dublin, Anno Domini 1653. Route quarters: Major John Stewart NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources.
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