11th session of parliament elected in 1727. Dates of Session: 6 Oct 1747–9 Apr 1748
Dates on which acts received royal assent: 21 Dec 1746 (3 acts); 9 Apr 1747 (18 acts)
Total of 21 acts (13 public and 8 private)
The public acts of this session are printed in The statutes at large (21 vols, Dublin, 1786-1804), vol. vi, pp 805-867.
Regnal year description in The statutes at large: 21 George II
Dates of regnal year of 21 George II: 11 Jun 1747–10 Jun 1748
Enacted measures only are listed below. To see all measures of this session (including failed bills) click here
Public Acts
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[+]21 George II c.1 [Bill No. 3064] For granting and continuing to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, stro ...
21 George II c.1 [Bill No. 3064] Royal Assent: 21 Dec 1746.
For granting and continuing to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, strong waters, wine, tobacco, hides, and other goods and merchandises therein mentioned, and for prohibiting the importation of all gold and silver lace, except of the manufacture of Great Britain.
[+]21 George II c.2 [Bill No. 1593] For granting to his majesty a further additional duty on wine, silk, hops, china ...
21 George II c.2 [Bill No. 1593] Royal Assent: 21 Dec 1746.
For granting to his majesty a further additional duty on wine, silk, hops, china, earthen, japanned or lacquered ware, and vinegar, and also a tax of 4s. in the pound on all salaries, profits of employments, fees and pensions, to be applied to pay an interest of £5 per cent per annum upon such part of the sum of £100,000, part of the sum of £300,000, formerly raised, and to pay an interest of £4 per cent per annum upon such part of the sum of £250,000 also formerly raised, as shall remain unpaid of the said 25th day of December, 1747, as also to pay an interest of 4 per cent per annum for such part of the sum of £70,000, as hath been, or shall be, borrowed, pursuant to an act passed the last session of parliament, and towards the discharge of the said principal sums.
[+]21 George II c.3 [Bill No. 1314] For licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for the encouragement of English Protesta ...
21 George II c.3 [Bill No. 1314] Royal Assent: 21 Dec 1746.
For licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for the encouragement of English Protestant Schools.
[+]21 George II c.4 [Bill No. 3073] For continuing and amending several laws heretofore made relating to his majesty ...
21 George II c.4 [Bill No. 3073] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For continuing and amending several laws heretofore made relating to his majesty's revenue, and for the more effectual preventing of frauds in his majesty's customs and excise.
[+]21 George II c.5 [Bill No. 2902] For allowing further time to persons in offices or employments to qualify themse ...
21 George II c.5 [Bill No. 2902] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For allowing further time to persons in offices or employments to qualify themselves, pursuant to an act, entitled, an act to prevent the further growth of Popery.
[+]21 George II c.6 [Bill No. 1445] For amending the several acts for the better regulating of juries.
21 George II c.6 [Bill No. 1445] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For amending the several acts for the better regulating of juries.
[+]21 George II c.7 [Bill No. 3778] For reviving, continuing and amending several temporary statutes.
21 George II c.7 [Bill No. 3778] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For reviving, continuing and amending several temporary statutes.
[+]21 George II c.8 [Bill No. 0552] For disappropriating benefices belonging to deans, archdeacons, dignitaries, and ...
21 George II c.8 [Bill No. 0552] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For disappropriating benefices belonging to deans, archdeacons, dignitaries, and other members of Cathedral Churches, and for appropriating others in their stead, and also for the removal of the sites of the ruined Cathedral Churches.
[+]21 George II c.9 [Bill No. 0207] To amend and make more effectual an act, passed in the 4th year of the reign of ...
21 George II c.9 [Bill No. 0207] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
To amend and make more effectual an act, passed in the 4th year of the reign of his late majesty King George I, entitled, an act for vesting in his majesty, his heirs and successors, the several lands, tenements and hereditaments, whereon the barracks in this kingdom are built, or building or contracted for, and whereon lighthouses are or shall be built, and for making reasonable satisfaction to the several owners and proprietors for the same, and likewise for amending an act, made in the 6th year of her late majesty's reign, entitled, an act to prevent the disorders that may happen by the marching of soldiers, and for providing carriages for the baggage of soldiers in their march.
[+]21 George II c.10 [Bill No. 0987] To amend and make more effectual an act, entitled, an act for better regulating ...
21 George II c.10 [Bill No. 0987] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
To amend and make more effectual an act, entitled, an act for better regulating elections of members to serve in parliament, and for the more effectual quieting of corporations, and securing the rights of persons who have been, or shall be, elected into the offices of aldermen and burgesses within any corporations of this kingdom.
[+]21 George II c.11 [Bill No. 2995] For amending the laws in relation to fines and common recoveries, and for better ...
21 George II c.11 [Bill No. 2995] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For amending the laws in relation to fines and common recoveries, and for better securing the rights of purchasers under sales made in pursuance of decrees in the several courts of equity in this kingdom.
[+]21 George II c.12 [Bill No. 0093] For the more effectual punishment of assaults with an intent to commit robbery.
21 George II c.12 [Bill No. 0093] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For the more effectual punishment of assaults with an intent to commit robbery.
[+]21 George II c.13 [Bill No. 3470] For repairing the roads leading from the city of Cork through Millstreet to Shan ...
21 George II c.13 [Bill No. 3470] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For repairing the roads leading from the city of Cork through Millstreet to Shanah-Mill in the county of Kerry, and from Shanah-Mill to Killarney, as also from Shanah-Mill through Castleisland to Listowel in the said county, and for laying an additional toll, at all turnpikes in this kingdom, on all cars and carriages making use of any part of any saplin or trees, as or for a bow or back band, or making use of any saplins twisted into gads for back bands, halters, traces to draw by, or gads commonly called long gads.
Private Acts
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[+]21 George II c.1 (private) [Bill No. 0467] For enabling the governors and guardians of the hospital founded by Dr Richard S ...
21 George II c.1 (private) [Bill No. 0467] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For enabling the governors and guardians of the hospital founded by Dr Richard Steevens, to grant a piece of ground in fee-farm to the governors of St. Patrick's Hospital, Dublin, for the site of that hospital.
[+]21 George II c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2668] To dissolve the marriage of Gorges Lowther of Killrew in the Co. of Meath, esqui ...
21 George II c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2668] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
To dissolve the marriage of Gorges Lowther of Killrew in the Co. of Meath, esquire, with Judith Usher, and to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes therein mentioned
[+]21 George II c.3 (private) [Bill No. 2697] To enable the Right Honourable Mary, Viscountess Dowager Molesworth, to make a l ...
21 George II c.3 (private) [Bill No. 2697] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
To enable the Right Honourable Mary, Viscountess Dowager Molesworth, to make a lease or leases of certain messuages, curtillages and gardens in the lord chief baron's yard, and on the Blind-Quay, in the city of Dublin, for the term of 99 years.
[+]21 George II c.4 (private) [Bill No. 2515] To confirm and carry into execution certain articles of agreement entered into b ...
21 George II c.4 (private) [Bill No. 2515] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
To confirm and carry into execution certain articles of agreement entered into by and between Abraham Creichton, esquire, on behalf of himself and of Elizabeth Creichton, otherwise Rogerson, his wife, David Rogerson Creichton, John Creichton and Abraham Creichton, sons of the said Abraham Creichton and Elizabeth, his wife, all infants under the age of 21 years, and William Todd, esquire, on behalf of himself and Frances Joanna Todd otherwise Columbine, his wife, concerning such residue of the real and personal estate of Francis Harrison, esquire, deceased, as shall remain unsold and indisposed of, after the full execution of the trusts relating to the said real and personal estate, mentioned and contained in an act, made in the 7th year of his majesty's reign, entitled, an act for the relief of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Samuel Burton and Daniel Falkner, and of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Benjamin Burton, Samuel Burton and Daniel Falkner, and of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Benjamin Burton and Samuel Burton, and of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Benjamin Burton and Francis Harrison, and in one other act, made in the 9th year of his majesty's reign, entitled, an act for continuing and amending an act for the relief of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Samuel Burton and Daniel Falkner, and of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Benjamin Burton, Samuel Burton and Daniel Falkner, and of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Benjamin Burton and Samuel Burton, and of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Benjamin Burton and Francis Harrison.
[+]21 George II c.5 (private) [Bill No. 2539] For sale of part of the estate, late of Colonel Robert Dixon, of Calverstown, in ...
21 George II c.5 (private) [Bill No. 2539] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For sale of part of the estate, late of Colonel Robert Dixon, of Calverstown, in the county of Kildare, deceased, for payment of debts and legacies affecting the said estate.
[+]21 George II c.6 (private) [Bill No. 2439] For vesting part of the estate of John Bingham of Newbrook in the County Mayo, e ...
21 George II c.6 (private) [Bill No. 2439] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For vesting part of the estate of John Bingham of Newbrook in the County Mayo, esquire, in trustees, for raising, by sale thereof, money to pay off the debts and encumbrances affecting the same.
[+]21 George II c.7 (private) [Bill No. 2428] For sale of so much of the estate of Lyndon Bell, of Streamstown, in the county ...
21 George II c.7 (private) [Bill No. 2428] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For sale of so much of the estate of Lyndon Bell, of Streamstown, in the county Mayo, esquire, as will be sufficient to pay the debts, legacies and encumbrances affecting the same.
[+]21 George II c.8 (private) [Bill No. 2850] For establishing a fine acknowledged and a recovery suffered by John Walsh, esqu ...
21 George II c.8 (private) [Bill No. 2850] Royal Assent: 9 Apr 1747.
For establishing a fine acknowledged and a recovery suffered by John Walsh, esquire, and Edward Walsh, esquire, his son and heir apparent, in Hilary term, 1732