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fitly applicable to their satisfaction, may be sett apart for their security, to make them equall with the army.
6thly. Ffor those of the county of Longford, they have allready received two-thirds of their satisfaction.
Now whereas the army did engage for an equall satisfaction with themselves to the disbanded party, it must be performed after the lands are layd out, till when it cannot be knowne wherein they came short. However, wee have offered the afforesaid cautionary security, to bring them to at least two-thirds, which wee conceive will be as good satisfaction to them as the whole will be to the standing army, considering the advantages the disbanded party have had in point of conveniency, in point of choice, and in point of time, whereby they have been enabled to gett tenants from all parts of the nation to plant their lands with, the standing army receiving only what comes to them by lott, which differenceth their condition very much as to all the fforementioned particulars, as may easily be demonstrated.
As to the engagement on the army for an equall satisfaction at the Act rates, for arreares before 1649, itt is humbly offered that the army have allready consented to lay apart, as cautionary security for their said arreares, three counties of the armyes security, and have allsoe made application to the Lord Protector and his Councill for the satisfaction of the said arreares in lands in Conaught, which is not yet refused to be done.
And now wee doe humbly offer and desire that the said three counties may be given out, towards the satisfaction of the said arreares before 1649, as far as they will goe; till that bee done, itts impossible for us to know what they will want.
And wee likewise pray that a committee be appointed to examine the interest of persons alledged to be concerned in those arreares before 1649, for that wee understand that severall who did desert Sir Charles Coot and Collonell Michael Jones (the only persons, with the forces under their command, who did justifie the Commonwealths interest in Ireland, in the times of greatest tryalls) have stated their accounts, and received debentures for the same; and wee doe humbly conceive itt is not the reall intention of the Commonwealth that they should receieve satisfaction for those debentures, which being done, considering how large a proportion of the said arreares is allready satisfyed to the disbanded party and others, the remaine will not arise to soe great a summ as is imagined.
