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To the Right Honourable his Highness the Lord Protectors Councill for the Affaires of Ireland
May it please your Lordshipps,
In obedience to your Lordshipps order of reference of the 25th of March, instant, wee have reviewed a former accompt by us exhibited to your Lordshipps, concerning the reimbursements that Dr Petty was, pursuant to his articles of the 11th of December, 1654, to make, amounting, as wee then conceived, unto two thousand fifty-four pounds, nineteene shillings, as soe much disbursed uppon the grosse admeasurement, at 45s per thousand acres, in the 17th of the said articles mentioned; but, uppon further enquiry into the matter, find that, allthough warrants were yssued for the payments of the said summes unto severall persons, yet there was but nineteene hundred fifty-four pounds, nineteene shillings, actually and really paid unto them. Wee have allsoe transmitted unto your Lordshipps the accompt of that whole affaire, as it was sent unto us by the Surveyor-Generall, exspresseing and specifyeing the severall states and grounds of each of the said payments respectively, for your lordshipps further consideration. Wee have allsoe, according to the said order of your Lordshipps, computed, according to the said contract and articles of the 11th of December, 1654, what appeares to bee due unto the said Dr Petty for his surveyes of the three countyes of Wicklow, Catherlogh, and Limricke, according to an accompt of their respective contents delivered in uppon oath before Sir John Temple, according to your lordshipps order in that behalfe, by Henry Moncke and Phillip Conway, whom Mr Christopher Gough, deputy to the Surveyor-Generall, had by your Lordshipps said order appointed to cast up and examine the same, and doe thereuppon find to bee due to him, the said Doctor, for the said survey, as followeth, vizt: 172369a 24p of lands profitable, and disposeable to the army, in the countyes of Wicklow and Limricke, which, att 7li 3s 4d per thousand acres, amounts unto 1235li 6s 4d; allsoe for 65050a 3r of profitable forfeited lands in the county of Carlow; allsoe for 10029a 2r 3p of unprofitable lands, lying in parcells under 500a, within the three countyes of Wicklow, Carlow, and Limericke; allsoe for 24289a 2r 21p of gleab and other church lands, profitable and unprofitable, within the three countyes: in all, 99369a 3r 24p, which, at three pounds per thousand acres, amounts unto 298li 2s 2d. Soe that there is due, in all, unto the said Doctor, uppon this accompt, the summe of
