APPENDIX.

The CIVIL ARTICLES OF LIMERICK, exactly printed from the Letters Patent; wherein they are ratified and exemplified by their Majesties, under the Great Seal of England.

GULIELMUS & Maria Dei gratia, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, Rex & Reginia, fidei defensores, &c. Omnibus ad quos presentes literæ nostræ pervenerint salutem. Inspeximus irrotu lament. quarund. literarum patentium de confirmatione, geren. dat. apud Westmonasterium vicisimo quarto die Februarii, ultimi præteriti in cancellar. nostr. irrotulat. ac ibidem de recordo remanent in hæc verba.

William and Mary by the grace of God, &c. To all whom these presents shall come greeting, Whereas certain articles, bearing date, the third day of October last past, made, and agreed on between our justices, of our kingdom of Ireland, and our General of our forces there, on the one part, and several Officers there, commanding within the city of Limerick, in our said kingdom, on the other part. Whereby our said Justices

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and General did undertake, that we should ratify those articles, within the space of eight months, or sooner, and use their utmost endeavours, that the same should be ratified, and confirmed in Parliament. The tenour of, which said articles, is as follows, viz.

ARTICLES AGREED UPON

The third day of October, One Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety-One-Between the Right Honourable Sir Charles Porter, Knight, and Thomas Coningsby, Esq. Lords Justices of Ireland, and his Excellency the Baron de Ginckle, Lieutenant-general, and Commander-in-chief of the English Army on the one part, and the Right Honourable Patrick, Earl of Lucan, Piercy Viscount Gallmoy, Colonel Nicholas Purcel, Colonel Nicholas Cusack, Sir Toby Butler, Colonel Garret Dillon, and Colonel John Brown, on the other part, in the behalf of the Irish inhabitants in the City and County of Limerick, the Counties of Clare, Kerry, Cork, Sligo, and Mayo, in consideration of the surrender of the City of Limerick, and other agreements made between the said Lieutenant-general Ginckle, the Governor of the City of Limerick, and the Generals of the Irish Army, bearing date with

these presents, for the surrender of the City, and submission of the said army, it is agreed that,

1st. The Roman Catholics of this kingdom, shall enjoy such privileges, in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of King Charles the Second; and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them, to summons a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics, such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon

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2d. All the inhabitants, or residents of Limerick, or any other garrison, now in the possession of the Irish, and all officers, and soldiers now in arms, under any commission of King James, or those authorised by him, to grant the same, in the several counties of Limerick, Clare, Kerry, Cork, and Mayo, or any of them; and all the commissioned officers, in their Majesties' quarters, that belong to the Irish regiments, now in being, that are treated with, and who are not prisoners of war, or have taken protection, and who shall return, and submit to their Majesties' obedience; and their, and every of their heirs, shall hold, possess, and enjoy, all and every their estates of freehold, and inheritance; and

all the rights, titles, and interests, privileges, and immunities, which they, and every, or any of them held, enjoyed, or were rightfully and lawfully entitled to, in the reign of Charles the Second, or at any time since by the laws and statutes that were in force, in the said reign of King Charles the Second, and shall be put in possession by order of the government, of such of them, as are in the King's hands, or the hands of his tenants, without being put to any suit, or trouble therein; and all such estates shall be freed, and discharged from all arrears of crown rents, quit rents, and other public charges, incurred, and become due. since Michaelmas, 1688, to the day of the date hereof; and all persons comprehended in this article, shall have, hold, and enjoy, all their goods and chattles, real and personal, to them, or any of them belonging, and remaining either in their own hands, or the hands of any person whatsoever, in trust, or for the use of them, or any of them; and all and every the said persons, of what profession, trade, or calling 'soever they be, shall and may use, exercise, and practise their several and respective professions, trades, and callings, as freely as they did use, exercise, and enjoy the same in the reign of King Charles the Second, provided that nothing in this article contained, be construed to extend to, or restore any forfeiting person now out of the kingdom,