WHEREAS the Farmers of his Majesties Revenue (being the persons and Officers duely Authorised by themselves, Substitutes, Agents, or Servants, for the Receiving, Collecting and Answering the Duty ariseing by Hearths, Fireing Places and stoves, &c.) have Complain­ed to Vs, that they are deprived of a considerable part of the said duties by Certificates unduely granted by the Iustices of the Peace, unto seve­rall persons, who by the Acts for setling the said Duty on his Majestie, are uncapeavle thereof; And whereas in the first Act for setling the said Revenue, there is a Proviso Contai [...]d, That in case any Two Justices of the Peace, shall in wri­ting under their hands, yearly Certifie their beliefe, that the House wherein any per­son doth inhabit with such County wherein they are Justices of Peace, is not of Greater value than Eight shillings per Annum: upon the full Improved Rent, and that neither the person so inhabiting, nor any other useing the same Messuage, hath, useth or occupieth any Lands or Tenements of their own, or others, of the yearly value of Eight shillings Per Annum: nor hath any Lands, Tenements, Goods, or Chattell, of the value of four poundes in their own Possession, or in the Possession of any other in trust for them, then in such Case upon such Certi­ficate made to the Justices of the Peace of such County, at any of their Quarter Sessions to be held for the same County, and allowed by th [...]m, for which Certificate and allowance no Fees shall be paid, the person on whose behalfe such Certificate, made, shall not be returned by the Constables or other persons to be Assistant to them as aforesaid, and the said house is thereby for that year discharged of and from all Dutyes, by this Act Imposed, any thing therein Contained to the Con­trary notwithstanding: Which said last Provisoe by the Additionall Art for the better ordering and Collecting the Revenue ariseing by Hearth-money is declared shall be Construed, to Extend onely to such Widdowes as shall Produce such Certificates as are therein mentioned, and as to all other persons whatsoever, the said Clause is thereby absolutely Re­pealed. And Wee being Informed that Certificates have been lately Granted by severall Iustices of the Peace for freeing persons from payment of the said Duty which have not been Either allowed at the Quarter sessi­ons, or Warranted by the said Acts. Yet under Colour thereof many persons have pretended to bee freed from payment of the said Duty, who by Law are Lyable thereunto, and if such Certificates, so unwarrantably Granted have not been allowed by the said Farmers Officers, they have been Indicted, and prosecuted thereupon, and thereby put to Great Costs, and Charges, and hindred from Levying what is Iustly due to [Page] his Majesty by the said Acts. And forasmuch as it is Enatted by the said Additionall Act, that it shall and may bee Lawfull for the Lord Lieutenant; Lord, Deputy, or other Chiefe Governor, and Council &c. to appoint such persons as they shall thinke fit, to doe, Execute and per­form all, and Every the matters, and things which by the said former Act, or this present Act, are to be done, Executed or performed by any Iu­stice of the peace or Clerkes of the Peace of this Kingdome and from and after such appointment all other persons not thereby appointed shall be and are hereby Discharged from doeing, Executing and performing any Matter or thing relateing unto the premises any thing in the said former Act or the said last Act to the Contrary notwithstanding▪ And whereas wee have thought fit hereby to nominate and appoint the severall persons in and for the severall Counties herein after men­tioned being all Iustices of the peace that is to say in and for the County of Catherlagh Sir John Develleir Knight, Henry Barkeley, Marmaduke Taylor, and Richard Andrewes Esqs: for the County of Dublin, Sir Robert Reading Baronet, Sir Walter Plunket, Sir Thomas Worsopp Knights, and Richard Forster Esq: for the County of Kildare, Robert Fitz Gerald, Henry Brenn Thomas Carr, Francis Leigh, and Maurice Keating, Esqs: for the County of Kilkenny, Richard Coote, Joseph Cuffe, George Deyos, and Bartholomew Fowke, Esqs: for the Kings County, Lawrence Parsons, John Foorth, John Baldwin, John Wakeley and Samuel Rowle, Esqs: for the County of Longford, Sir John Edgeworth Knight, William Kennedy, Thomas Robinson, and Nicholas Dow­dall, Esqs: for the County of Lowth, Sir James Graham, Sir William Tichburne, and Sir Thomas Fortescue, Knights, and Nehemiah Donnelan, Esq: for the County of Meath, Docter Robert Gorges, James Stopford, Arthur Dillon, Tho­mas Loftus, Gerrald Wesley, and George Peppard Esqs:, for the Queens Coun­ty Walter Warneford, Thomas Piggott of disert John Weaver, William Wel­don, and Peryam Poell Esqs: for the county of West-Meath▪ Sir Henry Peirce, Baronet, William Hancock, George Peyton, James Leigh, and Robert Cooke Esqs: for the County of Wexford. Sir Richard Clifton, and Sir Nicholas Loftus, Knights: Christian B [...]rr, Francis Harvey, and Richard Kenny, Esqs: for the County of Wick [...]ow, Henry Temple, Roger West, Robert Hassells, and Phillip Pakenham, Esqs: for the County of Clare, Benjamin Lucas, Donnagh O Bryan, Samuell Burton, and Henry Leigh Esqs: for the County of Cork, Sir Ri­chard Aldworth, John St. Leger, Redmond Barry, Richard Hull, Anthony Stoell, Bartholomew Purdon, John Widnam, Richard Travers, Richard Townesend, J [...]on Grove, Richard Beer, and Brian Wade, Esqs: for the County of Kerry, Sir Francis Bruster Knight, Thomas Browne, Richard Chute, Thomas Crosby and, Anthony Raymond Esqs: for the County of Limerick, Sir William King, and Sir George Ingoldsby Knights: Richard Southwell, Drurey Wrey, Richard Maguire, Samuell Foxon, and Robert Oliver, Esqs: for the County of Tipperary, Sir Robert Cole, Gamaliel Warter, So [...]omon Camby, Charles Blunt, Francis Legg, Simon Finch, and Nicholas Southcoat Esqs: for the County of Waterford, Be­verly Usher, Henry Nichols, Andrew Lynn and James Muttlow, Esqs: for the County of Gallway, Thomas Caulfield, Esq: Sir Henry Waddington, Knight, Sir George St. George, Charles Holcroft, John Eyre, Thomas Cuffe Edward Eyre, and John Parker Esqs: for the County of Leytrym, James King, Henry Crofton, and Bryan Cuningham, Esqs: for the County of Mayo, Sir George Bingham and Sir Arthur Gore Baronets, Owen Vaughan, Robert Mil­ler and Francis Brent, Esqs: for the County of Roscommon, Sir Edward Orms­by Knight, Arthur St. George, Robert Kng, Robert Sands, and Edmond Donnellan, Esqs: for the County of Sligoe, Sir Francis Gore, Thomas Grif­fith, Edward Cooper, Charles Collis, and Phillip Ormsby, Esqs: for the Coun­ty of Antrym, Sir John Rowly, Knight, Sir Hercules Longford, Robert Col­vill Michael Harrison, and Hercules Davis, Esqs: for the County of Ardmagh Sir Toby Poyntz, Sir George Atkinson, Edward Richardson, and Arthur Bromlow, Esqs: for the County of Cavan, Thomas White, Humphrey Parret, Merrick Hart, and Thomas Newburg, Esqs: for the County of Donnegall, Sir Albert Cuningham, Francis Cary, Henry Vaughan, and William Dutton Esqs: for the County of Downe, Vere Essex Cromwell, William Warren, VVilli­am Brett Thomas Smith, and John Farrar, Esqs: for the County of Ferman­nagh, Sir Michas Cole Knight, Henry Blenerhasset, Cromwell VVarde, and [Page] Lancellot Lowther, Esqs: for the County of Londonderrey, Sir John Rowly Knight Col; VVilliam Cecill, John VVillson, John Gaich senior and Raphell VVhistler Esqs: for the County of Monahan, the Lord Blany, VVilliam Bar­ton, Nicholas Owens, and Cromwel VVarde, Esqs: for the County of Tyrone, John Chichester, and Henry Mervin, Esqs: and Robert Ecklin, Clerk, to be the persons for Granting of Certificats to poore widows, accor­ding to the true purport and intent of the said last mentioned Art, which wee do hereby authorize them or any two or more of them, and noe other person or persons whatsoever within the said respective Counties to give accordingly & further for the County of the City of Dublin, We appoint the Mayor & Recorder of the said City for the time being, Sir Jossua Allen, & Alderman Enoch Reader, or any two of them, for the County of the City of Kil­kenny the Mayor and Recorder thereof for the time being for the County of the Towne of Drohgeda the Mayor or Recorder of the Towne of Dro­gheda for the time being, for the County of the City of Cork, the Mayor or Recorder of the said City for the time being, for the County of the City of Lymerick, the Mayor or Recorder of the said City for the time being, for the County of the City of VVaterford, the Mayor or Recorder of the said City for the time being, for the County of the Towne of Galway, the Mayor or Recorder of the said Towne for the time being, for the County of the Towne of Carrigfergus the Mayor or Recorder of the said Towne for the time being. And we require all the aforesaid per­sons to be very circumspect and carefull in the granting of these Certi­ficats; which are to be made publiquely at the Quarter sessions unto none but such as are fitly qualified, and not unto Women who are not Widdowes, nor to one and the same Widdow for severall Houses, nor to Widdowes for the houses of their sonns, or their Brothers or Relations, though the same were heretofore don, And we doe hereby further declare that Wiliam Hill, Esq: Sir James Shaen Knight, and Barronet, William Rider, William Muschamp, Edward Richbell, Lawrence Stanyan, John Gourney and Thomas Sheridan Esquirs: and such other person and persons as Wee upon the humble suite of them or any seven or more of them shall from time to time nominate & appoint are and shall be the onely Commissoners, officers, & persons whom wee have, and shall thinke fit to Authorize and appoint, to doe, Execute & perform, all and Every the matters and things, other then Granting of such Certificates, which by the said former Act or the present Art, are to be done Executed, & performed, by any Iustices of the Peace or Clerkes of the Peace of this. Kingdome And wee doe hereby further De­clare that all and Every the Powers in and by the said Acts, or either of them given to any Iustices of the Peace or Clerkes of the Peace, other than such as are herein appointed to the purposes aforesaid shall be, and are hereby vacated. And wee doe hereby strictly Charge, and Command all and Every Iustice and Iustices of the Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, Bai­liffs, Constables, Head-Burroughs, Clerkes of the Peace and all other our officeres whatsoever within every County, Burrough, Towni, or Corporation, Barrony, Parish or Place, and all other his Majesties officers and Ministers and other subjects whatsoever that they and every of them shall from time to time be aydeing and assisting to the said Farmers and to their Colectors, Surveyors, & other officers wich are, or shall be ap­pointed by them, or any three, or more of them as aforesaid, upon Paine of our displeasure and such paines and Imprisonments, as by the Lawes and Statutes, of this Realme can, or may be inflicted upon them for their negligence or contempt in that behalfe, As they will Answere the Contrary at their utmost Perrill.