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2dly. Timber woods were never mentioned in my articles.
3dly. Itt is uncertaine how the extent of such timberwoods should bee determined or circumscribed.
As to the Undistinguishments of the Quality,
I humbly answer:
1st. That this omission hath been but in very few places.
2dly. That it did not proceed from any neglect, but from abundant of caution and tenderness in doubtfull cases, only not certainly knowing whether to call them profitable or unprofitable.
3dly. I am able and ready to make full and ample descriptions of such lands, which is all the contract requires.
- As to the Distinguishments, or omitting to run Lines whereby to distinguish,
1st. Betweene one denomination and another;
2dly. Betweene several forfeited proprieties;
3dly. Betweene Land belonging to the Commonwealth, disposeable to the Army, and such as are not to bee disposed of as Crowne Lands, Church Lands, Burgage Lands, &c.;
I humbly answer:
1st. That in many of the said cases the undistinguished denominations were undistinguished in the abstracts.
2dly. The abstracts did not containe the boundings of every parcell which ought to have been admeasured, nor any other equivalent description of them, whereby they might bee found out, and distinguished one from another.
3dly. The abstracts made noe mention of unforfeited lands, which had been very usefull, if not altogether necessary.
4thly. The abstracts of crowne and church lands were in distinct bookes from those of the forfeited, nor were they delivered untill the worke was very forward. Moreover, they were very imperfect, and often very different from those of the forfeited land, contradicting each other.
5thly. The abstracts did not soe much as containe the number of the proprietors, much less of the parcells; nor could the measurer tell from whome in the countrey to aske or accept of information whereby to repaire the deficiencies of the abstracts.
