An Act for the speedy Recovering of Servants' Wages.

CHAPTER XXIV.

An Act for Forfeiting and Vesting in His Majesty the Goods of
Absentees.

CHAPTER XXV.

An Act concerning Martial Law.

CHAPTER XXVI.

An Act for Punishment of Waste committed on Lands restorable to old
Proprietors.

CHAPTER XXVII.

An Act to enable his Majesty to regulate the Duties of Foreign
Commodities.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

An Act for the better settling Intestates' Estates.

CHAPTER XXIX.

An Act for the Advance and Improvement of Trade, and for Encouragement
and increase of Shipping, and Navigation.

CHAPTER XXX.

An Act for the Attainder of Divers Rebels, and for the Preserving the
Interest of Loyal Subjects.--(Dealt with in our sixth chapter.)

CHAPTER XXXI.

An Act for granting and confirming unto the Duke of _Tyrconnel_, Lands
and Tenements to the Value of L15,000 _per annum_.

CHAPTER XXXII.

An Act for securing the Water-Course for the Castle and City of
_Dublin_.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

An Act for relieving Dame _Anna Yolanda Sarracourt_, alias _Duval_, and
her Daughter.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

An Act for securing Iron-works and Land thereunto belonging, on Sir
_Henry Waddington_, Knight, at a certain Rate.

CHAPTER XXXV.

An Act for Reversal of the Attainder of _William Ryan_ of _Bally Ryan_
in the County of _Tipperary_, Esq.; and for restoring him to his Blood,
corrupted by the said Attainder.

CHAPTER V.

REPEAL OF THE ACT OF SETTLEMENT.

It appears from the Journal of the proceedings of the parliament, and
from many other authorities, that no act of the Irish Parliament of
1689 received such full consideration as the following. Two bills were
brought in for the purpose of repealing the acts of settlement--that
into the House of Lords, on May 13, by Chief Justice Nugent; that into
the House of Commons by Lord Riverstown and Colonel MacCarthy.
Committees sat to inquire into the effects of the bills; many memorials
were read and considered; counsel were heard, both generally on the
bills and on their effects on individuals; the debates were long, and
it was not till after several conferences between the two houses that
the act passed. The act was deliberately and maturely considered.

The titles and some of the effects of the acts of settlement are given
in the preamble to the following statute. The effect of those acts of
settlement had been, in a great degree, to confirm the un