CHAPTER XVIII.

An Act for the Repealing an Act, Entituled, An Act for Confirmation of Letters Patent Granted to his Grace James Duke of Ormond.

[The list of estates granted to Ormond, under the settlement at the restoration, occupies a page and a half of Cox's Magazine. To reduce him to his hereditary principalities (for they were no less) which he held in 1641, was no great grievance, and that was the object of this Act.]

An Act for Encouragement of Strangers and others to inhabit and plant in the Kingdom of _Ireland_.

An Act for Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries.

An Act for Prohibiting the Importation of English, Scotch, or Welch Coals into this Kingdom.

An Act for ratifying and confirming Deeds and Settlements and last Wills and Testaments of Persons out of Possession.

An Act for the speedy Recovering of Servants' Wages.

An Act for Forfeiting and Vesting in His Majesty the Goods of Absentees.

An Act concerning Martial Law.

An Act for Punishment of Waste committed on Lands restorable to old Proprietors.

An Act to enable his Majesty to regulate the Duties of Foreign Commodities.

An Act for the better settling Intestates' Estates.

An Act for the Advance and Improvement of Trade, and for Encouragement and increase of Shipping, and Navigation.

An Act for the Attainder of Divers Rebels, and for the Preserving the Interest of Loyal Subjects.--(Dealt with in our sixth chapter.)

An Act for granting and confirming unto the Duke of _Tyrconnel_, Lands and Tenements to the Value of L15,000 _per annum_.

An Act for securing the Water-Course for the Castle and City of _Dublin_.

An Act for relieving Dame _Anna Yolanda Sarracourt_, alias _Duval_, and her Daughter.

An Act for securing Iron-works and Land thereunto belonging, on Sir _Henry Waddington_, Knight, at a certain Rate.

An Act for Reversal of the Attainder of _William Ryan_ of _Bally Ryan_ in the County of _Tipperary_, Esq.; and for restoring him to his Blood, corrupted by the said Attainder.