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 almost every day for two monethes about it, and that the satisfaction of the whole army should be retarded all that while, by reason thereof, had there not been some more heavy reason in the business, vizt, the interest of all those of the army who were sure not to fall there, who urged to have every acre of the coursest, and such whereof forty was not worth one of the arable of the same countrey, to bee imposed for payable, to the end that the quota pars of their owne satisfactions, fallen by lott in better counties, might be the greater; ffor if thebarronies of Iveragh, Dunkeron, and part of Glanneroughty, had been taken into the credit, the quota of twelve shillings [and] three pence might probably have been sixteene shillings; and in case the disposeable land of the rest of Kerrey had been excluded, the quota, instead of twelve shillings, had been but ten. Now that the interest of these persons was the chief reason of this hardshipp may appeare from the papers he[re]after inserted, for the better understanding whereof itt is to be premised, that the Dr having tendered his survey at the beginning of March, 165$5⁄6$, precisely at the end of the thirteene monethes allowed him, much of that time was spent in referring the examination of the sufficiency thereoff to severall committees, &c. Now the said survey being found sufficient, the agents fall to make use of itt, in order to their satisfaction, meeting among themselves, and applying to the Councill dayly, about the manner of putting their resolves of Aprill, 1654, into practise; in all which negotiation and treaty the principall care was to avoid Kerrey by those who possibly might fall there, and to have it swallowed was the designe of others in noe danger of comming neer it, which was laboured partly by artifficiall intrepretings, and supplying the said generall resolves; but chiefly by asserting or crying downe the survey of Kerrey, as it was returned to containe above four hundred thousand acres of payable land. These disputes and contrivances lasted all Aprill. Att last the Councill, being weary of the dayly and cross applications made unto them, offered the army all the lands belonging to their security, to be distributed by trustees of their owne, according to the tenor of the following commission, and in conformity to an ordinance of the 2d of September, 1654, vizt:

Whereas by an Act of Parliament bearing date the 26th of September, 1653, entituled, An Act for the speedy and effectuall Satisfaction of the Adventurers for Lands in Ireland, and of the Arreares due to the Souldiery there, this