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November 1684


Date.	Nature and Substance of the Entry.	Reference.

Nov. 24.	Report to the King from the Treasury Lords on the petition of Richard Butler and the reports thereon ut infra. In the present Commission for Defective Titles in Ireland there is a clause that during its continuance there be no new patents for lands in Ireland except as therein. We consider that a grant to petitioner in any other way than as laid down in said Commission will interfere with said Commission. We therefore advise that petitioner apply to said Commissioners in Ireland for the grant he desires of the lands called Mortherskill and Knockmacleary, containing 226 acres, and Curragh Cormick, containing 50 acres. In the margin: cancelled 8 Mar., 1684–5.	Out Letters (Ireland) IV, pp. 118–121.
	Prefixing: (a) said Butler's petition shewing that his father Tho. Butler was one of the 44 persons commonly called Nominees which by the Act of Explanation were to be restored to their chief seat and 2,000 acres of land contiguous thereto: that he died soon after and petitioner as his heir entered his claim before the Commissioners for executing said Act and made election of Kilconel his chief seat and 2,000 acres contiguous, which election was allowed by said Commissioners: that petitioner then went beyond seas and being a minor left his friends in charge of his concerns, who neglected to take out a certificate or patent: that on his return he found said 2,000 acres were disposed of to soldiers and adventurers except Mortherskill and Knockmocleary and Curragh Cormick containing as above and which are not disposed of to soldiers but set off for petitioner upon the Books of Distribution, and that on his petition he obtained by order of the Lord Lieutenant a custodiam thereof as still in the King's hands undisposed of: as he has nothing else to live on prays a grant of said lands. (b) Reference dated Whitehall 1683–4, Feb. 29, from the King to the Duke of Ormonde of said petition. (c) Report dated St. James's Square 1684, May 15, from said Duke to the King thereon. The petitioner's allegations are true and he has had many chargeable suits at law about the said remaining part before he obtained a custodiam thereof from the Exchequer Court in Ireland. His prayer may be granted. (d) Reference dated Whitehall 1684, June 3, from the King to the Treasury Lords of said petition and report. (e) Attestation by Secretary Sunderland of the copy of the Duke of Ormonde's report as in (c).