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you shall well and truely execute the power and trust to you comitted, by vertue of this commission and instructions, according to the best of your skill and knowledge." And the said Henry Waddington and James Shane are to administer the said oath each unto other. And they, or any one or more of them, having so taken the said oath, are hereby authorized to administer the same unto the rest of the persons hereby appointed for the execution of this commission and instructions, as aforesaid.
Dated at Dublin, the 2nd of June, 1654.
You are forthwith, upon receipt of your commission, to meet in some convenient place within the said county, to take the oath prescribed in your said commission, for the due execution of the trust thereby comitted unto you, and to consider in what barony or place you shall judge it most convenient to appoint the first court of survey to bee kept, in order to the prosecution of your said commission, and accordingly to appoint time and place for that end. And for the more effectual performance of the said service, you are authorized to adjourne from time to time, and from place to place, in such manner as you shall judge to bee most conducible to the speedy and effectuall discharge of the said work. And in the first place you are to survey, according to the tenor of your commission and these instructions, the baronies of Clonlownan, Moycashell, Moygoish, Corkerry, Delvin, Ffarbill, territory of Birawny, and lands of Moydrum adjoyning thereunto, being the baronies that are fallen by lot to the souldiery within the said county.
You are with all convenient speed to enter into and upon all and every the honors, baronies, manners, castles, messuages, and other the lands, tenements, and hereditaments whatsoever mentioned in your commission, lying within the said county of Westmeath. And by your oathes of good and lawfull men, and by all other lawfull wayes and meanes, you are to inquire and find out the premisses, and every of them, with their and every of their appurtenances. And you are to view and survey the same, or cause the same to be viewed and surveyed, so as the premisses and every of them may (either by your own view, or by the view and testimony of good and lawfull persons, upon oath) bee certainly, distinctly, and entirely known from other lands, by their respective qualities, quantities, or number of acres by estimation (according to one and twenty foot to the perch, and one hundred and sixty perches to the acre), also by their names, scituacion, parish, or place where the same doe lye, with their respective meets and bounds; the bogs, woods, and barren mountains, belonging to the respective premisses, or any of them, being mentioned, and the quantity thereof estimated and distinguished from the profitable lands in the said survey. And for the better execution of your said commission, you are, as often as you see cause, to summon one or more juries,
