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way and method beyond his obligation, and hath alsoe made other platts and bookes for particular use of setting out land to the late disbanded forces, not mentioned in his contract, with a most difficult mapp of the whole security: in all which, to demonstrate his paines and labour, hee assureth your honoures that nineteene reames of paper have been spent to perfect three.
10thly. Your petitioner hath done the most troublesome and allmost endless county of Dublyn, and some other reserved lands, as alsoe severall liberty lands lying in many small stragling parcells; ffor the which, without your honoures tender consideration, your petitioner shall receive noe considerable or proportionable recompence.
11thly. The great earnestness of the souldiers to obtaine possession, and the severall opinions concerning lotts, and the extent of the security, &c., hath produced soe many seeming resolutions, sometimes to sett out this barrony first, and sometimes another, and uppon all those motions your petitioner having been all wayes alarmed to be ready, for the compliance therewith hath been forced to extraordinary inconveniences, vizt, to keep men idle in exspectation of such worke as hath afterwards failed, to sett out many hands uppon some one piece as hath begotten confusion and error, to give extraordinary allowance for dispatch; and lastly, through much hast, hee hath often been made to stumble and fall, but left to rise againe at his owne charge, and much of this; besides the making of the aforementioned extraordinary platts and bookes of each barrony hath been occasioned in the late disbanding: for the which your petitioner doeth humbly crave allowance.
12thly. Your petitioner, after long sollicitation, finding noe hopes of having the civill survey of the countyes of Carlow and Wicklow, hath notwithstanding adventured to survey and measure them at his extraordinary charge and hazard, to the end the season for doeing the same might not slipp and bee lost, to the prejudice of the Commonwealth and army.
13thly. Your petitioner hath been forced to accept of base Spanish money instead of the sterling and English money soe often mentioned in his articles, and uppon a sett debate before your honoures allowed; whereby your petitioner hath been at great loss, trouble, and hazard, insoemuch as, to avoyd the danger of bad money here, he hath been forced to entrust unknowne persons in England, having no setled factor or correspondent as a merchant, with bills of exchange drawne thither for that purpose, besides the great trouble solliciting and
