Page:Petty 1851 The Down Survey.djvu/318

( 284 )

debt of about 7000^li, which is forreigne thereunto, and, as wee hope to prove, ought not to be charged thereon,

I answer:

That I endeavoured not, much less did charge, 7000^li forreigne, as is alledged, only I had my whole proportion of land cheaper then other men, but not cheaper then the State could afford it, by 4581^li, uppon account of 3181^li due to mee for arreares of admeasurement, and allowed to be paid me as debenture by your Lordshipps order of the 16^th of March, 1656, and allsoe uppon accompt of 1400^li, the price of redeeming 2000 acres in Leinster, and 1000 acres in Ullster by me disincumbred, according to another order of the 20^th of May following, for which 4581^li, satisfyed as debenture, I am out of purse 1974^li, and more ready money, which sume, with what my debentures placed on the premisses cost, being 1088^li, makes 3062^li wherewith, att six shillings per pound, I might have bought 10206^li debentures, wheroff the ⁵⁄₇ is 7290^li, viz^t, but 168^li less then 7458^li, the value of all my lands; soe that I have saved hereby but 50^li, the price of 168^li in debentures, to ballance all my charge and trouble in proceeding this singular and extraordinary method of satisfaction, which my employment forced me uppon, and which is the only cause of the jealousies now uppon me, as allsoe to ballance the loss of opportunityes anno 1655.

M^d. That odd shillings and pence are omitted in the premisses, for the more easie comprehension of the accompt.

 

To the fourth article, running in these words, viz^t:

That the said D^r hath reserved out of the generall string severall choice places from diverse of the respective lotts uppon which there were noe incumbrances, whereby the quota of the army was much lessened, soe that the lotts of Leinster and Ulster fell short of their 5 sevenths two shillings per pound; and notwithstanding the D^r was afterwards much importuned by severall persons, in whose lotts the said lands lay, that he would sett them out as cleare lands, yet he refused the same, and afterwards converted them to his owne use;

I answer:

1st. That I neither reserved nor withheld from the string of my selfe, but with my fellow Commissioners, and that, 1^st, according to law; 2^dly, the Councill