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said worke could bee noe otherwise found then by the care of the respective persons therein concerned, as may at large appeare by the coppy of the said report hereunto annexed.

4thly. The petitioner produced another order, bearing date the 26th of November, 1656, attested as afforesaid, whereby it appeareth that your Lordshipps having considered of a report of the auditors of His Highness Court of Exchequer uppon the accompt of the said Dr Petty, concerning the said admeasurement, did direct the said auditors to consider thereof, and to prepare such a declaration or order of discharge for him, the said Dr, as the said auditors should conceive fitt to bee passed by your Lordshipps uppon the said accompts.

5thly. The said Dr Petty produceth another order of your Lordshipps, dated the 28th of November aforesaid, and attested as afforesaid, whereby your Lordshipps doe acknowledge that there was due unto the said Doctor 3784li 15sd uppon the foot of the said accompt, which your Lordshipps did thereby allow and approve of, with a provizoe that the said accompt should not extend to 2054li mentioned in the said order, which the said Dr alledgeth was to bee reimbursed to your Lordshipps by the said Doctor for grosse admeasurement, according to the 11th and 17th articles of his contract, nor unto what shall appeare to be due unto the said Dr for his survey of the countyes of Catherlogh, Wicklow, and Limricke.

6thly. The petitioner produced another order, dated the third of Aprille, 1657, whereby itt appeareth that your Lordshipps gave an allowance of an accompt relating to both those particulars, whereunto the said last mentioned order did not extend, that is to say, the said 2054li, to bee reimbursed to your Lordshipps, and what was due unto the petitioner for his survey of the said countyes of Catherlogh, Wickelow, and Limricke.

Moreover I find by the second article of the said contract, that the said Dr Petty was to subdivide the lands by him admeasured into the lowest denominations, into soe many other smaller parcells as should bee requisite particularly to satisfie each man his respective arreare, without any readmeasurement, and by the tenth article that hee was to compleat all the surveyes mentioned in the said articles, and to returne the plotts, mapps, and bookes of reference, within one yeare and one moneth next after the date of the said articles; and by the eigth article, the said Dr Petty was, with the returne of such books, to note and mention all such subdivisions of lands as should be made to each particular per-

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