16-579: The Adventurers' Act 1640 ( 16 Cha. 1 . c. 33) was an Act of the Parliament of England which specified its aim as "the speedy and effectual reducing of the rebels in His Majesty's Kingdom of Ireland ". The Irish Rebellion of 1641 had broken out five months earlier, and the Act was designed to pay the army needed to subdue the rebellion by using borrowed money. Repayment would come from confiscating
32-530: The Confederate Oath of Association that recognised Charles as their monarch. The Adventurers' Act was extended and amended by three other acts the Lands of Irish Rebels (Adventurers' Subscriptions) Act 1640 (c. 34), Lands of Irish Rebels (Adventurers' Subscriptions) (Corporations) Act 1640 (c. 35), and Irish Rebels Act 1640 (c. 37). All four received royal assent in the summer of 1642, just before
48-610: The Long Parliament and other bodies without royal assent , and which were not considered to be valid legislation following the Restoration in 1660. The number shown after each act's title is its chapter number. Acts are cited using this number, preceded by the years of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67", meaning
64-595: The list of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly , and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru ; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland . For medieval statutes, etc. that are not considered to be acts of Parliament, see the list of English statutes . See also the List of ordinances and acts of the Parliament of England, 1642–1660 for ordinances and acts passed by
80-500: The 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3". Acts passed by
96-617: The English government for this purpose. The entire island of Ireland is about 20.9 million acres (8.5 million hectares; 85,000 square kilometres). The enactment was done at the request of King Charles in the House of Lords, joined by the Commons, and was unanimously accepted, without any debate. The Bill had been placed before the Houses for inspection but was not formally read into
112-485: The Parliament of England did not have a short title ; however, some of these acts have subsequently been given a short title by acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (such as the Short Titles Act 1896 ). Acts passed by the Parliament of England were deemed to have come into effect on the first day of the session in which they were passed. Because of this, the years given in the list below may in fact be
128-608: The Realm ; it is also listed in the Chronological Table of the Statutes as c. 38. Acts in this session were passed between 1641 and 1642. List of acts of the Parliament of Scotland, 1639%E2%80%931651 Interregnum (1642–1660) Rescinded (1639–1651) This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland for the years 1633 to 1661 . It lists acts of Parliament of the old Parliament of Scotland , that
144-604: The other three statutes (cc. 33, 34, 35, and 37), were repealed as regards the United Kingdom by the Statute Law Revision Act 1950 . As regards the Republic of Ireland they were repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 2007 . 16 Cha. 1 Interregnum (1642–1660) Rescinded (1639–1651) This is a list of acts of the Parliament of England for the year 1640 . For acts passed during
160-492: The period 1707–1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain . See also the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland , and the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland . For acts passed from 1801 onwards, see the list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the list of acts of the Scottish Parliament ,
176-654: The rebels meant leading them back (Latin: reducere ) to the legal concept of the " King's Peace ". King Charles could not subsequently enforce the Act, but it was realised by his political opponents following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649–1653, and formed the main legal basis for the contentious Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 . Ironically, in May 1642 the Confederate Irish rebels drafted
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#1732802416273192-571: The rebels' lands and selling them. It was passed by the Long Parliament on 19 March 1642 as a way of raising funds to suppress the Irish Rebellion of 1641 . The Act invited members of the public to invest £200 for which they would receive 1,000 acres (400 ha; 4.0 km) of lands that would be confiscated from rebels in Ireland . 2.5 million acres (1.0 million hectares; 10,000 square kilometres) of Irish land were set aside by
208-599: The record. The title of the Act – "An Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the Rebels, in His Majesty's Kingdom of Ireland, to their due Obedience to His Majesty, and the Crown of England" – was read out to Parliament, followed by the statement: " le roy le veult ". The "Adventurers" were so called because they were risking their money at a time when the Crown had just had to pay for the Bishops' Wars in 1639–40. "Reducing"
224-601: The start of the English Civil War , but are usually referred to as 1640 acts—the year the Long Parliament started to sit—and as that year was the 16th year of Charles I's reign are formally known as 16 Cha. 1 . c. 33 etc. In July 1643, Parliament passed the Doubling Ordinance which doubled the allocation of land to anyone who increased their original investment by 25%. The purpose of the Act
240-480: The year before a particular act was passed. The first session of the 5th Parliament of King Charles I (the 'Long Parliament') which met from 3 November 1640 until 21 August 1642. Note that this session was traditionally cited as 16 Car. 1 , 16 Chas. 1 or 16 C. 1 ; it is listed in the "Chronological Table of the Statutes" as 16 Cha. 1 Private act c. 1 is printed as public act c. 38 in The Statutes of
256-676: Was twofold, firstly to raise money for Parliament to help suppress the rebellion in Ireland, and secondly to deprive the King of the lands seized from rebels that would be his by prerogative . To enforce the Acts the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland was launched in 1649. In 1653, Ireland was declared subdued and the lands were allocated to the subscribers in what became known as the Cromwellian Settlement . The Adventurers Act, and
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