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CHAPTER XIV.
THE survey being thus sett forth and described in itts beginning, proceeding, and finishing, the next service and suffering of Dr Petty was in the distribution and setting forth of the lands soe by him admeasured, the which therefore is next to bee described, at least soe farr forth as relates to this purpose, for to doe the same perfectly would require a treatise by it selfe, which probably may in due time allsoe be published.
In order to this description it is to bee noted, that in the year 1653 the fforces then disbanded did receive their lands all at enhanced rates, yett soe regulated as that all had, as neer as could be guessed, equall satisfaction, in soe much that, to calculate the quota pars or proportion which they were satisfyed, regard must be had to the whole party as one man, considering only what proportion the Act rates of the whole land then sett forth beares to the enhanced rates of the same, vizt, whether 5⁄8, 2⁄3, 5⁄7, &c., not saying that those in Lowth have but halfe, and those of Longford have their whole, and the like.
The persons then disbanded, by vertue of the generall resolves of the army made in November, 1653, claime right to a further satisfaction equall to the rest of the army now henceforth to bee satisfyed, the doing whereoff is recommended in the commission of the 17th of July hereafter inserted.
By His Highness the Lord Protectors Councill for the Affaires of Ireland.
Whereas, for the equall dividing and subdividing of the forfeited lands in the barronyes within the moytie of the ten countyes appropriated to the officers and souldiers within the provinces of Leinster, Munster, and Ullster, it is provided by Act of Parliament bearing date the 26th of September, 1653, entituled An Act for the speedy and effectuall Satisfaction of the Adventurers for Lands in Ireland, and of the Arreares due to the Souldiery there, and of other Publicke Debts, and for the Encouragement of Protestants to plant and inhabit Ireland, that the then comittee of Parliament, which power is since devolved uppon the Councill, or such as they shall appoint, are fully impowered and authorized to distribute and sett forth unto the said officers and souldiers, answerable to
