⟨Appendiae .XIV. f. 178.⟩
An Account of what the subduing the Rebellion of Ireland, begun the 23d. of October, 1641. hath cost, and what Damage the Prostants there have sustained thereby, and what Lands have been forfeited and disp [...]sed of to Adventurers, Souldiers, and other Engln, and what to the Irish, and now in their possession: Abstracted out of the Accoun [...]s of Moneys in the Exchequer, during such timers any regular Accounts were made up, and by probable and rational Estimates, for the time in which no Accounts were kept, by reson of the general Rebellion and Confusion, and out of the Surveys, Decrees, and Settlements, made by his Majesty's Commissiones, for executing the Acts of Settlement and Explanation in Ireland.
| | l. | s. | d. | l. | s. | d. | l. | s. | d. |
| 1. Moneys receiv'd and issued from the 6th. of July, 1649. to the 1st. of November, 1656. being 7 years and 4 months, according to an Account thereof, remaining as a Record, in the Auditor-General's Office in Ireland. | Transmitted out of England, in specie | 1566848 | 13 | 4 | 3509396 | 17 | 0½ | 2201258 | 3 | 0½ |
| Assessments in Ireland. | 1309695 | 14 | 11½ |
| Rents of forfeited and sequestred Houses, Lands, Fishings, &c. | 161598 | 8 | 7¾ |
| Tythes sequestred | 135524 | 3 | 2½ |
| Customs and Excise | 252474 | 18 | 10¾ |
| Preys of Cows, Horses, and other Goods, taken from the Reb [...]ls, and for other casual Revenue | 083258 | 18 | |
| Money issued in England towards transporting Armies, raising Recruits, buying and sendin [...] over Provisions of all sorts for the Army, and other Moneys issued by Warrant from the then Council, or the Committee of the Army in England, which was not accounted for in Ireland, the Warrants and Accounts being never transmitted thither, of which there is a Reference in the account of Record, in the Exchequer above-mentioned, which is estimated to be as much, if not more, than the above sum of 3509396 17 0½ In that all Cloths, Linnen and Wool [...]en, Stockings, Shooes, Boots, Horses, Saddles, Arms, Ammunition, Tents, Bread, Cheese, and all other eating Provis [...]ons, were sent from England, and the price thereof deducted from the weekly Pay of the Army, and not brought [...]o Account, and so estimated as above | | 3509396 | 17 | |
| The Charges of the Armies in the several Provinces of Ireland, from the 23d. of October, 1641. the time the Rebellion broke out, to the 6th. of July, 1649. from whence the Account is stated, as above, being about 7 years and 9 months, when no regular Accounts were or could be kept, by reason of the Confusion in whi [...]h the Kingdom was by the Rebellion, there may be by probable Estimate added, without any Allowance, for Provis [...]on of all sorts, after the Rate of what was paid the Army after the 6th. of July, 1649. when Provisions were deducted | | 3760068 | | |
| The Loss of Rents for 14 years, from October 1641. until the year 1655. reckoning the L [...]nd but at 12 an Acre yearly, is 76082646 and reckoning all the Corporations, Houses and Tithes, but at a Mo [...]ety thereof, comes to | | 11412396 | 9 | |
| Besides the Loss by the Devastation of Houses, Orchards, Gardens, Improvements, Housholdtuff, Corn, Cattel, and the impairing the value of Land unto that time, not to be estimated, but in reason to be accounted, as much as before is comput [...]d for all other Charges, Losses and Expences, if not much more, the same extending to the whole Kingdom. |
| | a. | Acres |
| 2. By the Surveys of Ireland, there is in Ireland, as forfeited by the Rebellion, and belo [...]ging to Protestants, not forfeited, of Plantation-Acres, accounting 21 Foot to the Perch, and 160 Perches to the Acre, in the respective Provinces, the quantity of Land hereafter mentioned. | Leinster | 2603520 | 10868949 |
| Munster | 3255874 |
| Ʋlster | 2777875 |
| Connaght | 2231680 |
| The which Lands are divided and distributed, as by the Surveys and Records of the Cour [...] of Claims will appear, as followeth: | | |
| To the Protestants, and others, that proved their constant good affection, including the Bog [...], Loughs, and Mountains in Ireland | 6110292 | | 10868949 |
| To Adventurers | 396054 | 2717549 |
| To the Officers and Souldiers | 1442839 |
| To the Officers that served his Majesty against the Rebels in Ireland, before the year 1649. | 278041 |
| To his Royal Highness the Duke of York, as Regicides Lands | 111015 |
| To Protestants on Provisoes by the Acts of Settlement and Explanation | 383975 |
| To the Bishops for their Augmentations, of which some have possession | 118041 |
| Reserved to his Majesty as un-disposed, upon the account of Lewis Dyke, and Thomas Conyng [...]m, being set out on fraudulent Adventures | 14006 |
| Lest of course Lands un-disposed, the Title to the greatest part whereof was doubtful | 73578 |
| Restored unto the Irish upon Decrees of Innocency | 965270 | 2041108 |
| Restored to them by special Provisoes in the Acts of Settlement and Explanation | 408083 |
| Set out upon their Transplantations of Connaght and Clare, over and above what is confirmed English Protestants, who purchased Interests there from the Irish | 667755 |
| So that the Irish, notwithstanding the Rebellion, and their great complaints of losing all t [...]eir Lands, are restored unto, and possessed of, almost one half of all the Lands formerly accounted forfeited by the Rebellion. Besides, that the 27175 [...] Acres granted to the English, hath cost as before (besides the loss of hundreds of thousands of Men murthered by, and killed in subduing the said Rebel the sum of 2219125830½And accounting the said 2717549 Acres to be worth 12 d. per Acre, one Acre with the other yearly, they will [...]ome to 1358769 which for the Purchase thereof, at 10 years Purchase, comes to 135876410 After which Rate, the Lands granted to the Engl [...]s;h and Protestants, are not the 15th. part, of what the Money expended in subduing the said Rebellion, would have bought, and accounting the Devas [...]tions, and the loss of many thousands of Mens Lives for nothing. |