the Year 1630. The County of Londonderry, when the City of London undertook the Plantation by one Mr. Raven[1]; Connought and Tipperary, in the Earl of Strafford's time, by several hands[2], sometimes conducted by Mr. William Gilbert[3]. |59|
The Lands belonging to Papists Ann. 1641. in the three Provinces of Munster, Lemster and Ulster, by Sir William Petty. Other Protestant Lands in the same three Provinces, in order to regulate Contributions, by the Owners of the said Lands themselves: But in so divided and separated a manner, that little Accompt can be given of them, besides what was collected by the said Sir William Petty; who at his own charge, besides those Maps of every Parish, which by his Agreement he delivered into the Surveyor-General's Office, he hath caused distinct Maps to be made of every Barony, or Hundred; as also of every County, engraven in Copper, and the like of every Province, and of the whole Kingdom. All which, could the Defects of them be supplied with the yet unmeasured Lands, would be exposed to publick view[4].
Now as to the value of these Lands, they were Ann. 1642, rated to and by the Adventurers as followeth, viz. in Lemster at 12 s. per Acre; in Munster at 9s. in Connaught at
- ↑ In 1616 Mr Alderman Proby and Mr Matthias Springham, sent from London to report upon the condition of Derry," continued Mr Thomas Raven as surveyor for two years more, holding his services necessary for measuring and setting out the fortifications of Derry and Culmore." Ordnance Survey of the County of Londonderry, i. 40. Raven accordingly directed the building of the walls of Londonderry in 1617. Hempton, The Siege and History of Londonderry, 327.
- ↑ Petty's History of the Down Survey, 54—62, 325—27, 346, 393; Hardinge, "On MS. mapped and other Townland Surveys in Ireland of a public Character, embracing the Gross, Civil and Down Surveys, from 1640 to 1688," in Trans. Roy. Irish Acad., vol. xxiv. Antiquities (1873), pp. 3—118.
- ↑ See Hardinge "On MS. mapped Townland Surveys," in Proc. R. I. A., viii. 39, 54.
- ↑ On Petty's surveys and maps see Introduction, and note on p. 6; also Petty's History, Hardinge, loc. cit., and Fitzmaurice, chap. ii.
before 1600, and was employed in 1605 on fortifications in Munster. In 1609 the survey for the Ulster plantation was intrusted to him, with others, and was ably performed. He died, probably, in January, 1618.
