CHARLES R. (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,23,A.3) As to ye matter of regulating Corporations , wee have considered of y=e= principall points represented by you to have beene drawne up & reported to y=e= Councell by y=e= Comittee appointed in that businesse , (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,23,A.4) & are of opinion & accordingly Our Pleasure is , That as to that concerning y=e= Oath of Supremacy to be taken in all Corporations it bee fixed as a Generall rule , that noe person whatsoever bee admitted into any Place of Magistrature or Government in any Corporation within that Our Kingdome till hee shall have first taken y=e= Oath of Supremacy , except such as Our Lieutenant for y=e= time being , or other Chiefe Governor for y=e= time being shall think fitt for some particular reasons to dispense w=th= in that behalfe , (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,23,A.5) & suitable to this Our Pleasure is , that you doe even forthwi=th= & at y=e= same time that you shall execute this rule in y=e= generall towards Corporac~ons make use of y=e= Power of dispensing in this particular of y=e= Oaths with such persons in any Corporations as you shall find qualified for that grace by their Loyalty , Sobriety , prudence , estate in trading , or other particular considerations . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,23,A.6) And as to y=e= encouragement to bee given to Forreigners to come & settle themselves in that Our Kingdome , wee think it of great advantage to Our said Kingdome , (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,23,A.7) & accordingly Our Pleasure is , That you doe take care that all Forreigners , as well Protestants as others , be admitted into Corporac~ons , (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,24,A.8) & this is what wee think most necessary to be signified to you at y=e= present in those matters . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,24,A.9) Given at Our Court at Whitehall y=e= 31=st= day of August , 1672 , in y=e= 24=th= year of Our Reigne . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,24,A.10) RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR OUR RIGHT TRUSTY AND RIGHT WELLBELOVED COUSIN AND COUNSELLOR ARTHUR EARL OF ESSEX OUR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOUR OF OUR KINGDOM OF IRELAND (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,36,P.13) 1 . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,36,P.14) Our pleasure is , and wee doe Declare that we will Signe no Letters for the granting of any Money or Lands or Releasing or abating any Rents or other summs of money due to us in that our Kingdome of Ireland , but upon a petition presented to us which petition is to be first either recommended by you our Lieutenant or the same is to be transmitted unto you by one of our Principall Secretaries of State and your sense and opinion to be had before any order or Letter be signed thereupon . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,36,P.15) 2 (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,36,P.16) That afterwards such Peticion shall be referred to our High Treasurer of England ; who is to be made acquainted with what you Our Lieutenant shall write , either in recommending such Peticion , or upon transmission of any such unto you , (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,36,P.17) And our said High Treasurer's Report is to be had thereupon . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,36,P.18) 3 (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,36,P.19) You shall give no orders upon any Letters for granting money Lands , Releasing or Abating Rents in Ireland , which shall come from us in any other forme or method or wherein these Rules shall not be observed . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.20) 6 . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.21) Whensoever there shall be any Letters from Us for disposing of any money to any publick uses , and there shall be other Letters from Us at the same time for the payment of any money to any particular persons , in all such cases the publique Letters shall be obeyed and preferred before the private . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.22) 7 . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.23) In case our Revenue shall at any time not hold out to pay the whole Establishment the same shall not be applied to the payment of any Pensions untill the rest of the Civill and Military Lists be first payd : (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.24) And if afterwards the same will not hold out to the payment of all Pensions , a proportionable abatement shall be made out of each of them . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.25) 8 . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.26) No Letters or Directions from us for the payment of any money shall be directed immediately to the Vice Treasurer of Ireland but to the Chief Governor or Governors for the time being ; (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.27) And no payments made by the Vice Treasurer upon any such Letters or Directions from Us without the Chief Governor's Warrant thereupon shall be allowed upon the Vice Treasurer's accompts . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.28) (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.29) All Letters must have been first entered at the Signet Office here in England before being issued for payment . Whereby the great disorder in procuring Our grant for the same thing to severall persons may and will be prevented . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.30) Given at Our court at Whitehall the 22=nd= Day of September 1675 in the seven and twentieth year of our Reigne . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,37,P.31) CHARLES R. , (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,234,A.34) Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin and Counceller , Wee greet you well . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,234,A.35) Whereas , by Our Letters Patents under Our Great Seale of England , bearing date the first day of December in the 23=rd= yeare of Our Reigne , Wee have given and granted unto Our Deare and Entirely Beloved Cousin Prince Rupert , his Executors , Administrators , and Assignes , the Sole Power and Priviledge to use exercise and enjoy the new Arts or Inventions of converting into Steele all manner of edged Tooles , Files , and other Instruments forged and formed in soft Iron , or any part of the said Tooles , Files , or other Instruments after they are soe forged or framed ; As also for the like converting of all manner of Iron Wier {COM:sic} after it is drawne , and alsoe of preparing and softning all Cast and Melted Iron , soe that it may be filed & wrought as forged Iron is ; and of tincturing of Copper upon Iron as to him or them shall seem meet ; To have and enjoy the same for and during the terme of fourteen yeares according to the Act of Parliament in that case made and provided . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,235,A.36) Our will and pleasure is , And Wee doe hereby require and Authorise you to give Order for y=e= passing of Letters Patents under the Great Seale of that Our Kingdome , containing Our Grant unto Our said most Deare Cousin Prince Rupert , his Executors , Administrators , and Assignes of the said Exercise and use of the said Arts and Inventions in that Our Kingdome for the terme of fourteen yeares in the same manner , and as fully and beneficially as is contained in Our said Letters Patents under Our Great Seale of England . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,235,A.37) And for soe doing this shall be unto you and to all other Our Officers and Ministers whom it may concerne a sufficient Warrant . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,235,A.38) And soe Wee bid you heartily Farewell . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,235,A.39) Given at Our Court at Windsor the 11=th= day of June , 1679 , in the Six and Twentieth yeare of Our Reigne . (CHARLES-1670-E3-P2,235,A.40)