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which had been addressed to the members of the committee, but he removed their unfavourable impressions, and obtained their concurrence in the views he had been sent to lay before them, which appear to have been principally, that the allotments of lands which they had made to adventurers, should be subjected to revision; and that the Doctor's survey of their lands, which was similar to that on which the allotments of the army had been made, should be adopted for those of the adventurers also. This was agreed to after much discussion, and a proposal drawn up for the appointment of a mixed committee, but which, on further consideration, was abandoned by the committee of Goldsmiths' Hall themselves, and an application addressed by them to the Lord Deputy and council, requesting that the whole revision and adjustment be left to Dr. Petty alone. To this, however, a minority objected, and while each party was occupied in supporting its views of the acts and ordinances, and the proceedings which had taken place thereon, the Doctor was summoned back to Ireland by the council to meet certain charges exhibited against him during his absence.
This chapter again refers to the survey of the adventurers' moiety made by Dr. Petty and the Surveyor-General; see pp. 236, 246, 247, more especially; but there is no record of the manner in which it was originally paid for, either to the Doctor or to Mr. Worsley; and there is no statement of the allowance proposed in the latter page having been carried out, the probable profit of which the Doctor appears to have estimated at £2000. See p. 263.
In his will, indeed, as printed, he states that £60 was paid him for directing the after survey of the adventurers' lands, a sum so wholly inconsiderable that it is probably a mistake for some other figure.
At p. 220, last line, " all" should be "allsoe."
At p. 222, thirteenth line from foot, the words "it was" are omitted between " order" and " among," and the comma should be after "provided" instead of before it.
At p. 241, tenth line from foot, the words "the subsequent denomination" ought to be omitted.
Note.—Since writing the above the Editor has been able to refer to a duplicate of the will, among the valuable manuscripts in the possession of Messrs. Hodges and Smith, in which the sum is given in words as "six hundred pounds." Even this is a small sum for so great a work, and makes it probable that the operation did not extend to a survey of the whole moiety reserved for the adventurers, but was merely a revision or completion of some doubtful or defective parts. This duplicate will, bears autograph corrections by Sir William, and the signature appears to be original. It was among the Southwell manuscripts.
