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to his excellency the lord deputy and councill, and their lordshipps of the councill there.
The humble Declaration and Petition of the Committee of Adventurers for Lands in Ireland, sitting att Grocers Hall,
Humbly sheweth,
That your petitioners, taking into consideration the present confused state of the adventurers satisfaction in Ireland, and in order to remedy the same, have, in pursuance of your Lordshipps letter bearing date the 7th of May, 1658, and of the severall acts and ordinances of Parliament thereunto relating, have caused severall things, which were on their parts to bee done, to be forthwith put in hand; and have allsoe here collected such other things as they humbly desire may bee done by your Lordshipps; both which they humbly represent in the severall particulars following, vizt:
1st. Your petitioners have made a compleat booke, to bee signed by the committee of claimes and themselves, or their appointments respectively, containing the debt of every adventurer whose certificate for the same hath been stated unto this day, with the name of the barrony wherein the same ought (if it may be) to be satisfyed, as alsoe the order of priority wherein the said satisfaction ought to bee made.
2dly. They have desired the committee of claimes to cause an estimate to be made of such debts for which noe certificates have been yet issued, which, as they probably conceive, will bee hereafter claimed and allowed.
3dly. In case noe lands bee put uppon the adventurers, as part of their measure, in satisfaction, but such as are profitable and forfeited, with all other privileges and advantages, according to the Acts and ordinances of Parliament, then this committee are of opinion that the generall survey and admeasurement last taken by your Lordshipps, under the oversight of the Surveyor-Generall and Dr William Petty, bee submitted unto, and not otherwise.
4thly. They desire that such bookes may be made as Dr Petty has shewed them formes and paternes off, by him called neat books, and containing the names of the lands surveyed as forfeited, the number of profitable and unprofitable acres, both according to your Lordshipps survey and the private survey taken by the adventurers, when the said adventurers survey can be had, as
