WHEREAS it is for the Common Good and Advantage of the Publick , that the Estates of Purchasers for Valuable Considerations should be Secured unto them , towards which nothing has conduced more then Fines Levyed in Due Form of Law . And whereas some doubt may arise concerning the Validity of Fines Levied in the Country Palatine Court of Tipperary , according to the Custom and Vsage thereof , whereby the Estates of several of His Majesties Subjects who have béen , and may hereafter be . Purchasers of Lands , Tenements , and Hereditaments , being within the Iurisdiction of the said Palatinate , may to their great prejudice be called in Question . For Remedy whereof ,

Be it Enacted , by Your Most Excellent Majesty , by and with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled , and by the Authority of the same , That all and singular the Fines heretofore Levyed in the Court of the said County Palatine , shall be of the same Force and Efficacy in Law as Fines with Proclamations Levyed before His Majesties Iustices of the Common-Pleas in this Kingdom , and that all and singular Fines , which at any time hereafter shall be Levyed or acknowledged in any Term before the Iudge or Iudges in the said County Palatine of Tipperary , for the time being , of any Lands , Tenements , or other Hereditaments , Lying , or being within the said County Palatine , which shall be openly Read and Proclamed in the open Court , in the presence of the Iudge or Iudges , in the Term held for the said Palatinate , being the same Term that the same shall fortune to be Ingrossed ; And also that shall be openly Read and Proclaimed in the presence of the Iudge or Iudges of the said County Palatine of Tipperary , or one of them , for the time being , at Two Terms that shall be holden in the said County Palatine of Tipperary , before the Iudge or Iudges of the same , or one of them next after the Levying and Ingrossing of such said Fine , shall be of like , and of the same Force , Strength , and Effect in the Law , to all Intents , Constructions and Purposes , as Fines being duly Levyed with Proclamations before the King's Iudges of his Common-Pleas at Dublin , be , or ought to be .