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Session 1695

1st session of parliament elected in 1695. Dates of Session: 27 Aug 1695–14 Dec 1695

Dates on which acts received royal assent: 4 Sep 1695 (1 act); 7 Sep 1695 (5 acts); 22 Oct 1695 (8 acts); 1 Dec 1695 (1 act); 7 Dec 1695 (11 acts); 14 Dec 1695 (5 acts)

Total of 46 acts (30 public and 16 private)

The public acts of this session are printed in The statutes at large (21 vols, Dublin, 1786-1804), vol. iii, pp 249-337.

Regnal year description in The statutes at large: 7 William III

Enacted measures only are listed below. To see all measures of this session (including failed bills) click here

Public Acts

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[+] 7 William III c.1 [Bill No. 3188] For an additional duty of excise upon beer, ale and other liquors.

[+] 7 William III c.2 [Bill No. 4151] For taking away the writ de heretico comburendo.

[+] 7 William III c.3 [Bill No. 0108] Declaring all attainders and all other acts made in the late pretended parliamen ...

[+] 7 William III c.4 [Bill No. 0966] To restrain foreign education.

[+] 7 William III c.5 [Bill No. 2054] For the better securing of the government by disarming Papists.

[+] 7 William III c.6 [Bill No. 1407] For the better settlement of intestates’ estates.

[+] 7 William III c.7 [Bill No. 3763] For reviving two statutes lately expired and making them perpetual, and for avoi ...

[+] 7 William III c.8 [Bill No. 1051] For redress of inconveniencies for want of proof of the deceases of persons beyo ...

[+] 7 William III c.9 [Bill No. 0233] For the more effectual suppressing profane cursing and swearing.

[+] 7 William III c.10 [Bill No. 0787] For taking away damage clear.

[+] 7 William III c.11 [Bill No. 0570] To take away the benefit of clergy from him that doth stab another, not having a ...

[+] 7 William III c.12 [Bill No. 1193] For preventing of frauds and perjuries.

[+] 7 William III c.13 [Bill No. 3708] For the more easy discharging of sheriffs upon their accounts, and from being ju ...

[+] 7 William III c.14 [Bill No. 1359] Declaring which days in the year shall be observed as holy days.

[+] 7 William III c.15 [Bill No. 3269] For granting a supply to his majesty by raising money by a poll and otherwise.

[+] 7 William III c.16 [Bill No. 3025] For granting unto his majesty an aid or additional custom on the several goods a ...

[+] 7 William III c.17 [Bill No. 3665] For the better observation of the Lord’s Day, commonly called Sunday.

[+] 7 William III c.18 [Bill No. 0133] For taking special bails in the country.

[+] 7 William III c.19 [Bill No. 3974] For granting tales on trials to be had in the court of the county palatine of Ti ...

[+] 7 William III c.20 [Bill No. 3975] Concerning fines in the county palatine of Tipperary.

[+] 7 William III c.21 [Bill No. 3652] For the better suppressing of tories, robbers and rapparees, and for preventing ...

[+] 7 William III c.22 [Bill No. 3002] For the more speedy and effectual proceeding upon distresses and avowries for re ...

[+] 7 William III c.23 [Bill No. 3189] For continuing the statute for an additional excise upon beer, ale and other liq ...

[+] 7 William III c.24 [Bill No. 4133] For the better regulating measures in and throughout this kingdom.

[+] 7 William III c.25 [Bill No. 0082] For the prevention of vexations and oppressions by arrests, and of delays in sui ...

[+] 9 William III c.1 [Bill No. 2059] For suppressing all friaries, monasteries, nunneries and other Popish convents, ...

[+] 9 William III c.2 [Bill No. 1582] For the confirmation of the articles made at the surrender of the city of Limeri ...

[+] 9 William III c.3 [Bill No. 2057] To prevent Protestants intermarrying with Papists.

[+] 9 William III c.6 [Bill No. 2951] For making the collectors receipts for quit rent, crown rent and other rents due ...

[+] 9 William III c.7 [Bill No. 0571] For taking away the benefit of the clergy in some cases.

Private Acts

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[+] 7 William III c.1 (private) [Bill No. 2738] For vesting certain manors, lands and tenements belonging to James, duke of Ormo ...

[+] 7 William III c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2462] For securing the debts owing to the Protestant creditors of Colonel John Browne.

[+] 7 William III c.3 (private) [Bill No. 0110] For confirming the outlawries and attainders of William Dongan, late earl of Lim ...

[+] 7 William III c.4 (private) [Bill No. 2814] For settling divers lands and hereditaments in the county of Antrim, in the king ...

[+] 7 William III c.5 (private) [Bill No. 2847] For the relief of James Waller, esquire, and the settlement of the estate of Ric ...

[+] 9 William III c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2541] For vesting certain lands of Sir William Domvill, knight, for the raising £1,00 ...

[+] 9 William III c.3 (private) [Bill No. 2743] To enable John Ormesby, esquire, to raise £3,000 to make good an agreement and ...

[+] 9 William III c. 4 (private) [Bill No. 2745] For enabling Sir Laurence Parsons, baronet, and William Parsons, esquire, his so ...

[+] 9 William III c.5 (private) [Bill No. 2631] To enable William Jephson, esquire, to sell part of his estate for payment of hi ...

[+] 9 William III c.6 (private) [Bill No. 2528] To prevent the disinheriting of Richard Delamer, esquire.

[+] 9 William III c.7 (private) [Bill No. 2636] To enable William Jones, esquire, to raise money on his estate for payment of de ...

[+] 9 William III c.8 (private) [Bill No. 2763] To enable Colonel William Ponsonby to settle a jointure on his wife, and raise p ...

[+] 9 William III c.11 (private) [Bill No. 2711] To enable Samuel Morris, esquire, to charge or sell part of his estate for payme ...

[+] 9 William III c.12 (private) [Bill No. 2561] For settling certain rectories, according to the will of Sir Maurice Eustace, la ...

[+] 9 William III c.13 (private) [Bill No. 2422] To enable James Barry, esquire, to charge his estate with the payment of his deb ...