Hollander, who joyns therein with him for the ruine of the said Portugueses.
Dalkeith, May 29. 1655.
Here is no newes but a commissioner is there from the chief of the
Mac Clouds (who is Laird of Dunvegan) to Treat for his coming in,
and I believe the Articles will be perfected tomorrow. There is not
any out then but Glengary.
Dublin, May 23.
This is that last day of the Lord Deputy and Councils fitting here
before their intended progress. His Lordship and Council intend first
for Ki[unr]kenny, and thence to Limrick, whence they will journey
through Conaught. I conceive, the great affair of Transplantation
and fetling thereof, will be the most of their business thither. The
Commissioners for Adjudication of the Qualifications of the Irish according
to the Act of Settlement being at Athlone, and the Commissioners
for setting out lands to the Irish according to their qualifications
being at Loughrea, We shall be able at their return to Judg
whether the Province of Connaught and County of Clare afford
for feited lands enough to satisfie the Claims of the Irish.
The Committee for apportioning the lands fallen by lot to the
Army, have resolved on the possession of two thirds of their lands
according to the rates in the Act for Adventurers: Whether the
land will hold out to more or no, is uncertain. Several of the Regiments
have proceeded to a subdivision; Commissary Gen Reynolds his
Regiments is fallen in Carbery in the County of Cork, and all the rest
of the Regiments know now in what Barony their lots fall.
The Lord Deputy and Council have set forth two Declarations,
one requiring all Irish that have not manifested their constant good
affection, to remove at least two miles from the city of Dublin; and
the other requiring all persons expecting any benefit by an Ordinance
of his Highness and Council, entituled An ordinance of Indempnity to
the Protestants in Munster, (which persons are by the said Ordinance
pevertheless to submit to Fines to be imposed according to their
demetits,) that they bring in a particular of their real and personal
Estates by a day appointed; or otherwise all persons refusing
or neglecting, who have real estates, are fined at
two years and a halfs value of their said real estates as the
same were worth in the year 1640 and those who only have
personal estates, at a tenth part of such their personal estates;
which Fines are to be paid into the publique Treasury by
a day appointed, or their Estates are to be sequestred to the
use of the State.
The Officers of the Army here are very sensible of the horrid
cruelry in the massacre of the Poor Protestants in the Duke of Savoys
dominion; they intend to make application to his highness about it.
It was the less strahge to us, when we heard that the insatiable Irish