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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adventurers-act-1640/section-VII",
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  "legislation": "aep/Cha1/16/33",
  "legislation_title": "Adventurers' Act 1640",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adventurers-act-1640",
  "path": "section/VII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VII",
  "heading": "Upon Declaration by the Lords and Commons that the Rebels are subdued,",
  "text": "Commissions to issue for the surveying the Lands forfeited, and setting forth the same.; Division to be made by Order of the Lords and Commons, and to be done by Lot; Commissioners to return Allotments into Chancery.\nAnd be it further Enacted That when the Lords and Commons of this Realme of England shall in Parliament by Order declare that the said Rebells are subdued and that this present Rebellion in the said Kingdome of Ireland is appeased and ended that forthwith after such Declaration made and sent to the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England for the time being the said Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper is hereby authorised and required to issue forth Commissions into all the said four Provinces of that Kingdome of Ireland for the surveying and setting forth of the said two Millions and halfe of Acres which Commission shall be to such effect and directed to such persons as the said Lords and Commons in Parliament shall appoint Which said Commissioners shall have power by this Act to survey all the Lands of the said Rebells and all the Lands forfeited by vertue of this Act and to ascertain and measure forth of the same six hundred and five and twentie thousand Acres in every of the said foure Provinces of Meadowe Arable and profitable Pasture with Woods Bogs Loughes and barren Mountaines cast in over and above with the Houses and Edifices thereupon and after the same measured and set forth shall indifferently divide the same by Lot among the severall Underwriters and among the Heires of such Underwriters as shall die before the division and the assignee and assignees of such of the Underwriters as shall assigne theire shares or any part thereof before the said Division according to the proportions mentioned in the said recited Propositions and according to the respective su[m]ms paid in as aforesaid and according to the purport of this present Act which Division shall be made in such manner as the said Lords and Commons in Parliament shall by Order direct in which Division no manner of favour or advantage shall be given or allowed to any person whatsoever but all to be done and determined equally and by Lot and each Underwriters Land to be laid togeather or so neere togeather as conveniently may be And in case six hundred twenty five thousand Acres of the Rebells profitable Lands and of the profitable Lands forfeited by vertue of this Act shall not be found in each province then so much of the said six hundred twentie five thousand Acres as shall be wanting in any one Province shall be made up in value out of the said Rebells Lands and for want thereof out of the profitable Lands forfeited by this Act in the other Provinces at the discretion of the said Commissioners respect being had to the value of the Lands in each Province according to the said Propositions which said Commissioners shall returne the said allotments and all theire proceedings therein fairely ingrost in Parchment into his Majesties Court of Chancery of this Kingdome there to remaine of Record and into his Majesties Court of Chancery of the said Kingdome of Ireland to remaine there likewise of Record",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha1/16/33/section/VII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:37:24.001477+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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