WHEREAS it is for the Common Good and Advantage of the Pub­lick, that the Estates of Purcha­sers for Valuable Considerations should be Secured unto them, towards which nothing has conduced more then Fines Levyed in Due Form of Law. And whereas some doubt may arise concerning the Validity of Fines Levied in the Country Palatine Court of Tip­perary, according to the Custom and Vsage there­of, whereby the Estates of several of His Ma­jesties Subjects who have béen, and may here­after be. Purchasers of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, being within the Iurisdi­ction of the said Palatinate, may to their great prejudice be called in Question. For Remedy whereof,

Be it Enacted, by Your Most Excellent Ma­jesty, by and with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled, and by the Au­thority of the same, That all and singular the Fines heretofore Levyed in the Court of the said County Palatine, shall be of the same Force and Efficacy in Law as Fines with Proclamations Levyed before His Majesties Iustices of the Common-Pleas in this Kingdom, and that all and singular Fines, which at any time hereaf­ter [Page 4] shall be Levyed or acknowledged in any Term before the Iudge or Iudges in the said County Palatine of Tipperary, for the time be­ing, of any Lands, Tenements, or other Here­ditaments, Lying, or being within the said County Palatine, which shall be openly Read and Proclamed in the open Court, in the presence of the Iudge or Iudges, in the Term held for the said Palatinate, being the same Term that the same shall fortune to be Ingrossed; And also that shall be openly Read and Proclaimed in the presence of the Iudge or Iudges of the said County Palatine of Tipperary, or one of them, for the time being, at Two Terms that shall be holden in the said County Palatine of Tipperary, before the Iudge or Iudges of the same, or one of them next after the Levying and Ingrossing of such said Fine, shall be of like, and of the same Force, Strength, and Ef­fect in the Law, to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes, as Fines being duly Levyed with Proclamations before the King's Iudges of his Common-Pleas at Dublin, be, or ought to be.