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 And wee doe further humbly offer, that all the time the generall councills did engage themselves to take care for the equall satisfaction of the disbanded party and the arreares before 1649, itt was uppon consideration that the large security that lay then before them, since which time a considerable part of that security hath been otherwise disposed of, by admitting severall to composition for large proportions of land, &c.

Wee therefore humbly offer it, as a thing most proper and equall, that your lordships take the care of satisfyeing what demands the aforesaid persons concerned may justly make, for their equall satisfaction to the army; or that your lordshipps will please to appoint an equall security to the army, in lieu of such lands soe disposed of as afforesaid, which wee humbly conceive may be made up out of the lands in Conaught exempted from the Irish for the garrisons, English plantations, and near the sea and Shannon, by which meanes wee shall be enabled to answer to the uttermost the engagement of the army.

And wee doe further humbly offer, that diverse vast proportions of rebells lands in Ullster and other places, are not given out to the satisfaction of the souldiery nor the adventurers; on this account, that some English proprietors have statute staples and mortgages for summs of mony on the said lands, which summs of money doe not, in any competent measure, hold proportion with the reall value of lands, in which case wee conceive it might be very equall and just to give such English proprietors soe much of the said rebells lands as might amount to a just satisfaction of their debt, and to dispose of the remainder to the satisfaction of the debts due to the adventurers and souldiers, and other publicke engagements; all which, together with the townes which are comprehended in the Act for the satisfaction of publique debts, will amount to considerable summs.