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 the names of one hundred O'Neills, while we know that not ten of that name can have held any land after the Restoration. Yet making all deductions the number attainted seems surprisingly large.

And on the other hand the amount of land they are said to have held between them seems surprisingly small, even though to the area specified we must add a certain amount for lands of which the Report says no proper surveys existed, and also between seventy and eighty thousand acres for small scattered parcels of which many, they say, only amounted to a single acre.

If between them the forfeiting persons held only something over one million one hundred thousand plantation acres, or allowing for Potty's error, concealments, etc. something like two and a quarter million English acres, what credence can be given, as I have said already, to Potty's statement, accepted blindly by most modern writers, that the Catholics after the Restoration settlement still held one-third of the profitable land of Ireland, i.e., five million English acres? These are points deserving of a fuller study than can be given here.