Bullibos, Ballibelaghs, Two's, Horsmens, Beds[1], &c. they are all at this day become unequal both in Quantity and Value, having been made upon grounds which are now Obsolete and Antiquated. |108|
For sometimes lands were divided by what certain Societies of men held, which I conceive were Town-lands or Tythings.
Sometimes by Plow-lands[2],viz. such a of Lands as contained enough of every species of Land Arrable, Meadow, and Pasture, Mountain, Turf-bog, Wood, &c. as serv'd for the whole Use of man, especially of the Owner of such a Plow-land.
[3]Sometimes by the Share or Proportion of Land, which an Undertaker would engage to plant and defend according to Articles.
[3]Sometimes by the Share which each Servitor[4] had given him in reward for his Service, after a Rebellion or Insurrection.
Sometimes by what belonged to the Cell of some Religious Man or Men. But now all the Lands are Geometrically divided, and that without abolishing the Ancient Denominations[5] and Divisions abovementioned. So that it is yet wanting to prevent the various spelling of Names not understood, that some both[6] comprehending the Names of all publick Denominations according as they are spelled in the latest Grants, should be set out by Authority[7] to determine the |109| same for the time to come. And that where the same
- ↑ S, 'horsemens-beds.'
- ↑ A term so indefinite that by acts of 4, 8 and 9 Anne a grand jury was to determine whether a specific parish had plough-lands, and was obliged in consequence to work the roads, or not. Mountmorres, Hist. of the Irish Parliament, ii. 126—127.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 In S these paragraphs are transposed.
- ↑ Prendergast, Cromwellian Settlement, 2d. ed., 44 n.
- ↑ From this point, where 'Denominations' is corrected from 'Demesnes,' to the end of the MS. occasional blanks left by the copyist of S are filled in by a hand which I take to be Petty's.
- ↑ S, 'book.'
- ↑ 1719, 'that some Person or Persons who can rightly comprehend the names of all publick Denominations according as they are spelled in the atest Grants, should be appointed by Authority.'
