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tweene the adventurers and souldiers, unless otherwise confirmed, the alotting for barronyes, the judgement of defective barronyes, and the proceedings of the committee of adventurers?
- This abstract I take to be voyd, as a foundation for any future proceedings, it is soe full of gross errors; for example, the barrony of one land returned for 16430 acres, but what forfeited and what not is uncertaine, and in trueth there is not one acre of forfeited lands there.
Whether dividing signifye diflferently from the words setting out, distributing, or allotting; that is to say, allthough the comittee of claimes had power to subdivide the fourty-two barronyes among the adventurers, according to the proportion due to every of them, whether they have power after such subdivision to assigne and sett out by determined meets and bounds, by name, membershipp, scituation, quality, and quantity, what lands should satisfye each particular adventurers debt?
- I thinke the subdivideing which the committee att Grocers Hall is to performe is not the allotting intended within the severall Acts, especially the Act of Satisfaction, which, after the certificate from Grocers Hall, appoints both souldier and adventurer to goe with his certificate into Ireland, and there procure before the Commissioners of Parliament to the distribution and setting forth and registering their lotts, and then they bee in seisin and possession.
Whether the Commissioners of Parliament had not power clearely or more probably then any others?
- That appeares by the Act of Satisfaction exspressly to bee in the Commissioners of Parliament in Ireland, in pursuance of the certificate from Grocers Hall.
Whether the committee of claimes overdrawing of provinces and countyes, and drawing uppon particular barronyes, without first drawing lotts for province and county, as allsoe proceeding to draw for barronyes without a legall abstract of the States surveyes, and thereby causing much danger, to particular persons interest, and confusion to the whole affaire, be not punishable by law, vizt, by ffine or therwise?
