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noures bee importuned to doe any extrajudiciall actions for the advancement thereof, and your petitioners accommodation.
6thly. The effectuall pressing of the transplantation and sending away the forces for England and Scotland, about the beginning of the worke, left your petitioner soe naked of meeresmen and guards, even when the undertaking was in the bud, that thereby, and through the extreame wettness and windiness of the season, without your petitioners extraordinary care and charge, the whole worke had miscarried or been retarded.
7thly. Soon after your petitioners contract was sealed, being in the dead of winter, severall of the officers of the army, apprehending the greatness of the worke, and being earnest for possession, by importunity urged your petitioner to sett forth near sixty instruments in the said dead of winter, whereby the land being overflowne, the meeres not to be seen, the quality of the land not to be discerned, the measurers, mearers, chainemen, and spadesmen discouraged, goeing up to the knees and middle in bogg and water, the raine spoiling the instruments, together with the advantages that the former surveyors, your petitioners enemies, made thereof, and of the breach that was like to bee betweene your honoures and your petitioner about the same time, touching parcells under ffourty acres: these things, all cooperating together, lost your petitioner, in worke, workemen, and instruments, severall hundred pounds, besides the discouragement withall.
8thly. Your petitioner, observing some omissions in his contract on the States behalfe, gave out instructions to the respective instruments acting under him, as he humbly conceives, far more large and comprehensive then those contained in his owne contract, vizt:
1st. Ffor running parish lines, where the most part of the lands were forfeited.
2dly. Ffor keeping breakings, taking notice of high wayes, rivers, mountaines, harboures, &c.
3dly. Ffor the scituation of townes, castles, churches, mills, raths, notable houses, &c.
4thly. Ffor the scituation of forfeited land in the barronys where litle forfeited land was, allthough the same could not bee done under tyeing lines of a mile long.
9thly. Your petitioner hath made up his platts and bookes of reference in a
