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many debts or debentures due for service since the sixth of June, 1649, as many bee brought, at such rates as have been most usually and frequently given, according to their respective lotts, rights, and places of satisfaction, for the summe of two thousand pounds ready money, and that the said debts shall be satisfied in such places as the said William Petty shall desire, at such rates and with such other advantages, the quota of 5⁄7 being in due manner observed, as doe not prejudice or damnifie neither his Highness and the Commonwealth, or the army: and it is hereby referred to Vincent Gookin, Ralph King, and Miles Symner, Esqrs., or any two of them, to putt the premises in execution accordingly. Dated at the Councill chamber in Dublyn, the 5th of Ffebruary, 1657.
| William Steele, Canc. Ric. Pepys. Mat. Thomlinson. Will. Bury. |
Uppon which order are grounded the four orders following.
By the Commissioners for setting forth Lands to the Army.
Whereas by an ordenance of His Highness the Lord Protector, by and with the advice and consent of his Councill, bearing date the 22th of August, 1654, itt was ordained that the persons to whome the lands to be sett out to Generall George Monke have or shall by lott or otherwise fall or bee assigneable, shall, in case they be sett out to him in lieu thereof, receive proportionable satisfaction by other lands of equall value in the county of Clare reserved from the transplantation, and that the Lord Deputy and Councill be authorized to appoint and sett out lands to them of equivalent value in the said county accordingly; and whereas his Highness the Lord Protectors Councill for the affaires of Ireland, having appointed lands to bee sett out in the county of Wexford, in satisfaction of certaine arreares due to Generall George Monke, amounting in the whole unto two thousand six hundred thirty-seven pounds five pence, in lieu thereof have by their order of the two and twentith of July, 1657, appointed that five thousand eight hundred and sixty acres, being the number of acres which, att the Act rates of four hundred and fifty pounds per thousand, doe satisfye the above debt of two thousand six hundred thirty-seven pounds five pence, should bee sett out unto those concerned in the lott of the county of
