WHEREAS in and by one Act of Parliament, lately made in this Kingdom; Entituled, An Act for the Explaining of some doubts arising upon An Act; Entituled,An Act, for the better Execution of His Ma­jesties Gracious Declaration for the Settlement of His Kingdom of Ireland, and Satisfaction of the se­veral [Page 4]interests of Adventurers, Souldiers, and other His Subjects there; And for making some alterations of, and additions unto the said Act, for the more spee­dy and effectual Settlement of the said Kingdom.

IT is amongst other things therein contain­ed, Enacted, That it shall, and may be lawful to, and for the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Go­vernor, or Governors, and Council of Ireland for the time being, from time to time, and at all times to come, during the space of Seven years, to be ac­compted from the Nine and twentieth day of Septem­ber, One thousand six hundred sixty five, to make and establish such Rules, Orders, and Directions, for the better regulating of all Cities, Walled Towns, and Corporations, both New and Old, and such as shall be created within this Kingdom, and the Ele­cting of Magistrates and Officers there, and to inflict such penalties for the breach thereof, as they in their wisedomes shall think fit, so as the penalties for breach of the Rules, Orders, and Directions to be made, touching such Corporations, do not extend farther than to the Removal and Disfranchisment of such Persons, as shall be found guilty of the breach thereof; and such Rules, Orders, and Directions, so to be made as aforesaid, shall be as good and effectual in Law, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been specially and particularly Established by Au­thority of this present Parliament, and shall remain, continue, and abide in force, for such and so long time, as in the said Rules, Orders, and Directions shall be li­mited and appointed, any thing in the said Act, or otherwise to the contrary thereof in any wise notwith­standing.

[Page] [Page 5] VVE the Lord Lieutenant and coun­cil, in pursuance of the said Act, and the Authority thereby given un­to Vs, Have thought fit to make and Esta­blish; And We do hereby Make and Establish the Rules, Orders, and Directions hereafter mentioned, for the better Regulating of the corporation of the said Town of Gallway, and the Electing of Magistrates and Officers there.

First, That upon all Elections to be hereaf­ter made, after the Second day of October next, of any person or persons to serve in any of the Offices of Mayor, Sheriffs, Recor­der, or Town-clerk of the said corporation, the names of the persons so Elected to serve in the said several Offices, shall be by the said corporation, forthwith presented to the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governour or Governours, and the Privy councel of this Kingdom to be approved of by them, and the said persons so Elected for any the said Offices, shall be for ever hereafter incapa­ble of serving in the said several Offices, or any of them, untill they shall be respectively ap­proved of by the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governour or Governours, and the Pri­vy council of this Kingdom, by Order un­der their Hands; And in case the persons, or any of them, whose names shall be so pre­sented to the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governour or Governours and council of this Kingdom, shall not be so approved of within Ten dayes after their names shall be [Page 6]so presented, then and in such case the said Corporation shall from time to time proceed to a new Election of fit persons for the said re­spective Offices, for which the persons so pre­sented, shall not be so approved of, and shall in like manner present their names to the said Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governour or Governours, and Privy council of this Kingdom, untill they shall have chosen such persons for the said respective Offices, as shall be so approved of as aforesaid.

Provided always that this Rule shall not extend to the Election of any persons, that shall be Elected in the place of any of the said Officers annually chosen, who shall dye within the year of their Execution of the said respective Offices, or within one Moneth before they are to enter upon the Execution thereof.

Secondly, That no person shall be hereafter chosen Warden of the said Town of Gallway, but such person as shall be nominated to the said Office by the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom for the time being.

Thirdly, That no person or persons, that shall hereafter be Elected, either Mayor, Recorder, Sheriffs, Treasurer, Alderman, Town-clerk, or one of the Common-coun­cel within the said Town, or Corporation, or Master, or Wardens of any Corporation, Guild or Fraternity within the said Town or corporation, shall be capable of holding, enjoy­ing or executing any the said Offices, places or [Page 7]imployments, until he or they shall have taken the oath of Supremacy, Established by Act of Parliament 2^do Elizabethae in this Kingdom, & the Oath of Allegiance, besides the Oaths usually taken upon the admission of any per­sons into the said Respective Offices, pla­ces, or Employments. And also this ensu­ing Oath, viz. I A. B. do Declare and Believe, That it is not lawful, upon any pretence what­soever, to take Arms against the KING; And that I do abhor that Trayterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person, or a­gainst those that are Commissioned by him. So help me GOD. The said Oaths to be taken, before such person or persons as shall admit them to the said several Offices, places, and employments (who are hereby impowred au­thorized and required to administer to them the said Oaths) and upon any such person or persons refusal to take the said Oaths, The Election of such person or persons in­to any of the said Offices, places, and employ­ments, is hereby declared to be absolutely null and void (such persons onely excepted, with whose taking the said Oath of Supre­macy, the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governour or Governours of this King­dom for the time being for some particular Rea­sons shall think fit by writing under his or their hand by Name to dispence.

Fourthly, For the avoiding of such Tumults and Disorders wherewith Popular Elections of Magistrates and other Officers are often attended; We do hereby further Order and Direct, that for ever hereafter, the Mayor, [Page 14]Sheriffs, Recorder, Town-clerk, and all o­ther Officers of the said Town of Gallway, shall be Elected and chosen onely by the Mayor, Sheriffs and Common-councel of the said Town, or the greater number of the Votes of such of the common-councel of the said Town, as shall be present on the dayes whereon such Elections are or ought to be usually made; And that no Freeman of the said Town, or other person, who shall not be of the com­mon-councel of the said Town, shall at any time hereafter have any Vote in the Election of any Mayor, Sheriffs, Recorder or Town-clerk, or other Officers in the said Town of Gallway: And that no matter or thing in any wise relating to the affairs of the said Town, shall be hereafter propounded or debated in the Th [...]lsell, or General Assembly of the said Town, untill the same shall have first past the common-councel of the said Town, and that the persons offending against this Rule, shall be Disfranchised by the Mayor, and common-councel of the said Town, any Law, Vsage, or custom of the said Town, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

Fifthly, That all Foreigners, Stran­gers, and Aliens, as well others as Pro­testants, who are or shall be Merchants, Traders, Artizans, Artificers, Seamen, or otherwise skilled and exercised in any Mystery, Craft, or Trade; or in the work­ing or making any manufacture, or in the Art of Navigation, who are at present residing and inhabiting within the said Town of [Page] [Page] [Page 9] Gallway, or who shall at any time hereafter come into the said Town of Gallway, with in­tent and resolution there to inhabit, reside, and dwell, shall upon his or their reasonable suit or request made, and upon payment down, or tender of Twenty shillings by way of Fine, into the chief Magistrate or Magi­strates and Common-councel; or other per­sons authorized to admit, and make Freemen of the said Town of Gallway, be admitted a Freeman of the said Town of Gallway. And if he or they shall desire it, of all or any Guild, Brother-hood, Society, or Fellowship of any Trade, Craft, or other mystery within the same during his or their residence for the most part, and his and their Families con­stant inhabiting within the said Town of Gall­way, and no longer; and shall have, exercise, and enjoy all priviledges and immunities of Trading, Working Buying, and Selling, in as large and ample manner as any Free­man of the said Town of Gallway, might have, exercise or enj [...]y by vertue of his or their Free­dom: And t [...]at every such person or persons, who shall be admitted to be free as aforesaid, shall from thenceforth be deemed, esteemed, and taken and be Denizen and Denizens within this Kingdom, any Law Statute, Charter, Ʋsage, or Custome of this King­dom, or of any City, Walled-town, or Corporation of the same, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. Provided al­wayes, That all such Strangers, Artifi­cers, and others, to be admitted Freemen [Page 13]as aforesaid, shall take the Oath of Allegi­ance to our Sovereign Lord the King, His Heirs and Successors, and also such other Oaths as are accustomably taken by all or any Freemen, or members of the said Town of Gallway, or by all or any the members of any such Guild, or Brotherhood; Society, or Fellowship of the Trade, Craft, or other mystery, which he or they shall occupy, or exercize, in case he or they shall desire to be incorporated into any such Guild, Brother­hood, Society, or Fellowship aforesaid, and shall pay all such and like Charges, as all Freemen His Majesties subjects, of the like Trade, Craft, or mystery, shall or do use to pay, and no other or more; And that if the chief Magistrate or Magistrates or other persons authorized as aforesaid, of the said Town of Gallway, or any Master, War­den, or other Governour of any Brotherhood, Society, or Fellowship; or any Trade, Craft, or mystery within the said Town of Gallway, shall refuse to admit any such Stranger, be­ing a Merchant, Trader, Artificer, Ar­tizan, Workman or Seaman, residing or coming into this Kingdom, with intent as aforesaid, to be a Freeman of the said Town of Gallway, or to be a Brother or member of any brotherhood, Society, or Fellowship within the same, every such chief Magistrate or Ma­gistrates, Master, Wardens, or other Gover­nours respectively shall (upon complaint and due proof made, of such refusal, before the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governour [Page 14]or Governours, and Council of this King­dom, be by their Order Disfranchised, and from thenceforth incapable (without their Li­cence) of being a Freeman or member of the said Town. And every such Stranger be­ing a Merchant, Trader, Artificer, Artizan, Workman or Seaman, upon tender by him made of Twenty shillings, by way of Fine as aforesaid, and taking the Oath of Allegiance before any Iustice of Peace, of the County of Gallway (who is hereby authorized and appointed to administer the said Oath) shall thereupon by vertue hereof, be deemed, re­puted, and taken to all intents and purpo­ses to be a Freeman or member of the said Town of Gallway, and of the Brotherhood, Society, or Fellowship of any Trade, Craft, or mystery, where he or they shall be denyed admission as aforesaid; And from thenceforth have, exercize, and enjoy the liberty and pri­viledge of Trading, Working, Buying or Selling of any commodities whatsoever, in as large and ample manner, as if he had been admitted a Freeman of the said Town of Gallway a Brother or member of such Bro­therhood, Society, or Fellowship of any Trade, Craft, or mystery within the same, taking the usual Oaths of such Freemen, Bro­thers or members, which Oaths any one Iustice of Peace of the said county of Gallway, shall have power to administer, and paying all such charges as aforesaid, any Law, Cu­stome, Charter or Ʋsage, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: And in case any [Page 12]person or persons shall give any interruption or disturbance to any such Stranger, being a Merchant, Trader, Artificer, Artizan, Workman, or Seaman as aforesaid, to the hindring him in his Trading, Working, Buy­ing or Selling as aforesaid, contrary to the intent and meaning hereof, all and every such person and persons so offending, shall upon like complaint and proof made of his or their offence therein, before the Lord Lieu­tenant, or other chief Governour or Gover­nours and Council of this Kingdom for the time being, be by their Order Disfranchised, and from thenceforth incapable without their Licence of being made a Freeman or member of the said Town of Gallway.

And these Our Rules, Orders, and directi­ons, We do hereby Order and Establish for ever hereafter, to continue in force within the said Town of Gallway, and within the Corporations thereof.

And that the same be forthwith inrolled in the Rolls of His Majesties High-court of Chancery in this Kingdom.