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Letters patent of 2 Cha. 1 granting land for the free schools of Armagh, &c.
Letters patent of 4 Cha. 1. as to Banagher and Carysfort schools.
Lands belonging to the said schools vested in the commissioners.
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11. And whereas by letters patent bearing date the eighth day of July in the second year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles the First, the said King Charles granted to his grace the then lord archbishop of Armagh and his successors for ever divers lands, tenements, and hereditaments of great yearly value, situate respectively in the counties of Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal, and Cavan, in trust to the sole and proper use and behoof of the respective masters of the several free schools of Armagh, Dungannon, Enniskillen, Raphoe, and Cavan; And whereas by letters patent bearing date the sixteenth day of September in the fourth year of the reign of the said King Charles the First, the sovereign and burgesses of the borough of Banagher in the King’s County in Ireland and their successors were incorporated; and by other letters patent bearing date the twenty-first day of August in the same year, the sovereign and burgesses of the borough of Carysfort in the county of Wicklow in Ireland and their successors were also incorporated; and by the said respective charters the said King Charles among other things granted to each of the said corporations divers lands, tenements, and hereditaments lying in the said counties respectively, in trust for the only use and behoof of a schoolmaster to be resident in each of the said towns respectively: And whereas the rents of the lands granted by his late Majesty King Charles the First for the use of the said schools of Armagh, Dungannon, Enniskillen, Raphoe, and Cavan, have increased to an amount greater than is necessary for the convenient maintenance of the said masters: And whereas it is necessary for the well ordering of the several schools aforesaid that the commissioners appointed under this Act should have full power over and the entire disposal of the rents and profits of all the lands aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act the several lands, tenements, and hereditaments aforesaid granted by his late Majesty King Charles the First for the use of the masters of the schools of Armagh, Dungannon, Enniskillen, Raphoe, Cavan, Banagher, and Carysfort, shall be and the same are hereby vested in the said commissioners and their successors for ever; and the rents, issues, and profits thereof shall from time to time be received by such agent or agents as the said commissioners for the time being shall appoint for that purpose as aforesaid, and shall be paid and applied by the orders of the said commissioners for and towards the maintenance and support of the masters of the said several schools, and for such other purposes as the said commissioners are under this Act directed and empowered to provide for and carry into effect for the benefit of the said schools.
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