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the like kind of survey, unto the Dr, with an honourable allowance for the same; and even the Surveyor-Generall, Mr Worsley himselfe, by an instrument under his hand, dated the 18° of September, 1656, prohibited any to be imployed in this second great survey but such as had been before imployed by the said Doctor, and withall soe farr allowed of the reasonableness of the wages which the Dr allowed his surveyors, vizt. three shillings per mile, that by the same instrument he thought noe oppression to the same persons to be allowed but two shillings.
Before wee leave this point, it is to be noted, that the Doctor furnished all, or most part of all those surveyors with circumferenters, chaines, protractors, links for chaines, needles, rulers, royall paper, mouth glew, tents, protracting boards, compasses, &c., sending them into the country, uppon accompt, all things whatsoever they sent for; furnishing them many times with extraordinary hands, uppon extraordinary occasions; made up their worke fair for them, when they had finisht it in the ffield; tooke off their obligation to subdivision, when twas inconvenient for them to waite uppon uncertaintyes; paid them their moneyes before due, uppon rebates; as also when accompts were difficult to be made up, or notes and receipts lost, he compounded with them by the lump, &c.; and uppon all which accompts, and alsoe by reason of severall unexspected emergencies, which did often disturb the nature of the severall contracts, sometimes controversies did arise, and different understanding of our articles, in all which cases the Doctor ever used to state the case in writeing, bidding the parties against him shew the same to their friends and councill, desiring nothing more of them but that they would not misrepresent the fact; and did allways offer the determination of any matter of right, either law or equity, unto indifferent persons; by which meanes he never had any suit of law, and but one complaint to the Councill, and but one arbitration, uppon the numerouse, intricate contracts which he had occasion to make.
