Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 2 (of 3), 1642-1660Bagwell, Richard
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Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 2 (of 3), 1642-1660
Bagwell, Richard
Ireland -- History -- 17th century
3. All legal acts done against Roman Catholics since August 7, 1641, to
be vacated. Debts to remain as they stood before the outbreak.
6. Titles to land to be confirmed under the graces of 1628.
7. All educational disabilities affecting Roman Catholics to be removed.
8. All offices, civil and military, to be open to Roman Catholics.
9. The Court of Wards to be abolished on payment of 12,000_l._
10, 11. Peers without estates in Ireland to have no votes. Irish
Parliament to be as independent as it ever had been.
12. Titles to land to be decided by law and not by the Council.
13. Acts in restraint of trade to be repealed.
14. Viceroys to hold for a limited term of years and not to acquire
estates.
15. An Act of oblivion for all offences civil and criminal since
October 23, 1641, with some exceptions to be hereafter specified.
16. Officials and judges to have no interest in the revenue.
17. Monopolies abolished.
18. To regulate the court of Castle-chamber.
19. 'That two Acts lately passed in this kingdom, prohibiting the
ploughing with horses by the tail, and the other prohibiting the
burning of oats in the straw, be repealed.'
20. Breakers of the cessation or of this peace to be punished.
21, 22. Simplification of legal remedies.
23, 24. Quit-rents increased by Strafford to be reduced again.
25. Commissioners named to raise and transport to England 10,000 men
for the King's service, and to collect overdue taxes.
26, 27. Commissioners named to appoint to judicial offices until
Parliament meets, but without power to decide questions of title, and
no other judges to have power within the Confederate quarters.
28. The _status quo_ as to garrisons.
29. Further details as to taxation.
30. The judicial commissioners to have jurisdiction in every case,
including murder, arising since September 15, 1643.[87]
[Sidenote: Delay fatal to Charles.]
[Sidenote: Digby repulsed from Scilly.]
[Sidenote: The nuncio's opinion of Charles I.]
[Sidenote: Glamorgan's forlorn condition.]
[Sidenote: The peace proclaimed at Dublin, July 30, 1646.]
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