County Palatine of Tipperary Act 1715
COUNTY PALATINE OF TIPPERARY ACT 1715 | ||
CHAP. VIII. | ||
An Act for extinguishing the regalities and liberties of the county of Tipperary, and Cross-Tipperary, commonly called the county Palatine of Tipperary; and for vesting in his Majesty the estate of James Butler, commonly call’d James duke of Ormond; and for giving a reward of ten thousand pounds to any person, who shall seize or secure him, in case he shall attempt to land in this kingdom. | ||
Letters patent 22 April 14 C. 2. to duke of Ormond, confirmed by flat. 14 & 15 C. 2. 20. | ||
James Butler duke of Ormond attainted by act in G. Britain. 1 G. 1. 17. flat. 2. | ||
All regalities, &c. in said letters patent or act annulled for ever. | ||
WHEREAS his late Majesty King Charles the second by letters patents, dated the twenty second day of April in the fourteenth year of his reign, did grant unto James then duke of Ormond, and to the heirs males of his body, divers liberties, regalities, franchises, and jurisdictions of and in the county of Tipperary and Cross-Tipperary, and for default of such issue to the heirs male of the body of Peter Butler, formerly earl of Ormond and Ossory; which letters patents were afterwards confirmed by an act of Parliament, made in this kingdom in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of the said King: and whereas James Butler, now or lately called or known by the name of James duke of Ormond, is heir male of the body of the said James duke of Ormond, his grand-father; and also heir male of the body of Peter, formerly earl of Ormond and Ossory: and whereas the said James Butler by act of Parliament, made in Great-Britain, stands attainted of high-treason for not rendring himself to justice at or before the tenth day of September last past: be it therefore enacted and declared by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That all and every the liberties, regalities, franchises, courts of law and equity, jurisdictions, rights, powers, and authorities in the said letters patents, or act of Parliament mentioned, be, and the same are, hereby annulled, and for ever extinguished. |