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 worth five or six shillings per acre, meerly for the great difference between the one and the other. Moreover, the Ulster and Leimster Agents (to augment the Quota, or proportion of their own Satisfaction on rich Baronies) their contending to have the disputeable, and but part profitable Land of Kerrey, put upon the Munster men, for wholly profitable and payable; was the chief cause of an incureable Clamour upon me, who was so far from contributing any thing to that grievance of the Armies, that I did what in me lay to prevent it; and ever bore my Testimony against it:

Thirdly, When men saw (in the first three moneths of my managing the Survey) how I had facilitated and regulated the whole Art, that I had divided the whole practice into several parts, and committed each to such Actors as were respectively most fit for it, how I provided a double proportion of Workmen and Instruments to prevent emergent hinderances, and had the examination performed under my own Eye, by Persons who daily eat and drank with me, and how I contracted with most of my Instruments by