Thursday, 22d of September, 1653.
Irish Adventurers.
THE Bill intituled, An Act for the speedy and effectual Satisfaction of the Adventurers for Lands in
Ireland; and of the Arrears due to the Soldiery there;
and of other publick Debts; and for the Encouragement
of Protestants to plant and inhabit Ireland; was this Day
read the Third time.
A Clause was tendered to this Bill, in these Words;
"And be it further Enacted and Declared, by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners of Parliament be, and are hereby, impowered to prohibit the
passing and being current of the clipped, base, or counterfeit Money or Coin in Ireland; and to erect a Mint
there, for the new Coining of Money, answerable to the
Standard Weight and Form of the Money of the Commonwealth of England, and agreeable to the present Indenture for the Mint, at the Tower of London; and to
appoint such Officers as are incident and necessary for the
same; provided, that the said Mint do not continue in
Use for above the Space of Years, to commence from the Time of the publishing this Act: That
the Monies to be coined in the said Mint, may not
exceed One hundred thousand Pounds, in any one Year;
And that the first Four Months, when the Mint there,
shall be set on Work, they shall, monthly, and afterwards
quarterly, make return to the Lieutenant of the Tower
of London, and to the Master of the Mint there, for the
Time being, or either of them; the Pix of their Monies
so coined in Ireland, to be tried by the Officers of the
Mint, at the aforesaid Tower of London: Who are to
make Report thereupon to the Council of State, how
they find the same: And if any Defect shall be found
therein, the Council of State are hereby impowered to
give present Order for Remedy, as they shall see fit: And
the Money so coined by the said Mint, in Ireland, shall
pass in Payment as current and lawful Money of this
Commonwealth:" Which was read the First time:
And the Question being put, That this Clause be read
the Second time;
The House was divided:
The Yeas went forth:
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| Colonel Clerk, |
Tellers for the Yeas: |
34. |
| Colonel Jones, |
With the Yeas: |
| Colonel Sydenham, |
Tellers for the Noes: |
37. |
| Mr. Anlaby, |
With the Noes: |
So it passed in the Negative.
A Clause was likewise tendered to this Bill, in these
Words; viz. "And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That, in Consideration of the Losses
sustained by Anthony Edwards, one of the Aldermen of
the City of Gloucester, and Thomas Witcomb of the said
City, and many others, named in a List, delivered in to
the Committee of the late Parliament for Irish Affairs,
by suffering their Houses voluntarily to be burned, and
their Goods and Lands destroyed, for the Service of the
Parliament, before the late Siege of the said City of Glocester, by the late King's Forces, such Part and Share of
the said forfeited Lands, as shall be valued at Ten thousand Pounds, according to the Rates set upon those Lands,
appointed by this Act to be set forth unto the Adventurers for Irish Lands; be set-forth, and sufficiently conveyed unto the said Anthony Edwards, Thomas Whitcombe,
and their Heirs, in Trust, for the Use of themselves,
and all others named in the said List, to be divided
amongst them or the Heirs, Executors, Administrators or
Assigns of them, or any of them respectively, according to
their several and respective Losses, and Sufferings, mentioned in the said List:" Which was this Day read the
First time.
Resolved, That this Clause be read again the Second
time.
And the same was accordingly read the Second time.
And the Question being put, That the House doth
agree to this Clause; and that the same be Part of the Bill;
The House was divided.
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| Captain Crofts, |
Tellers for the Yeas: |
33. |
| Mr. Highland, |
With the Yeas, |
| Colonel Cromwell, |
Tellers for the Noes: |
33. |
| Sir Robert King, |
With the Noes, |
Mr. Speaker declared his Vote with the Yeas; And so
it was.
Resolved, That this House doth agree with this Clause;
and order, that it be Part of the Bill.