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CHAPTER VIII.
HAVING thus put in hand the admeasurements, the Dr next proceeds to make what benefitt he could of the surveys of Tipperary taken in the Earle of Straffords time, by vertue of the afore-mentioned generall order of the 20th of December, granted him to that purpose. And first he enquired into the nature of those surveys, by consulting what opinion others had of them, and particularly by the following report:
By the Lord Deputy and Councill:
Ordered,
That the Surveyor-Generall of lands doe deliver unto Dr William Petty the surveys of such, the severall barronyes of the county of Tipperary, together with the bookes and other appurtenances belonging to them, as are sett out for satisfaction of the army, the said Surveyor-Generall taking a receipt for the same, together with an engagement for the said Dr to redeliver them uppon demand.
Dublyn, the 14th of May, 1655.
Tho. Herbert, Clerke of the Councill.
By the Commissioners of the Commonwealth of England for the Affaires of Ireland.
Ordered,
That it be referred to Benjamin Worseley, Esq., Surveyor-Generall, and Major Symner, to consider of the several surveys, books of survey, reference plotts, and other papers returned about the admeasuring the county of Tipperary, and what barronies have been admeasured in the said counties, and what papers, plotts, or books relating to the said barronys respectively are perfect, and such as may be relyed uppon; and what other barronyes they conceive a necessity of admeasuring againe, and which of them.
Dublyn, the 22th of June, 1654.
Signed by order of the said Commissioners,
Tho. Herbert, Secretary.
