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May it please your Lordshipps, —

Wee have received backe from your Lordshipps the report given in by our selves uppon Dr William Petty's accompt for survey, dated the 26th instant, and have, according to your Lordshipps order, considered of the same againe, and, finding noe reason to alter any thing therein, have remitted the same backe to your Lordshipps; wee have likewise conferred with the said Dr William Petty, concerning such a declaration and order of discharge of the said accompt as wee humbly conceive is fitt to pass your Lordshipps, and having drawne it up, doe likewise therewith, and with our said former report, humbly tender and submitt the same unto your Lordshipps. 27° No. 1656.

The Councill having considered of the report and accompt examined by Robert Gorge and Edward Roberts, Auditors-Generall, in answer to an order of this board of the 12th of November instant, according to the returne uppon oath of Mr. Richard De Lawne and William Hopkins, imployed by Benjamin Worseley, Esq., Surveyor-Generall, for the examining and casting up of the lands admeasured by Dr William Petty by which it appeares that the said Dr hath admeasured as followeth, vizt, one million eight hundred and nine thousand six hundred and thirteene acres two roods and twenty-five perches of forfeited profitable land; one hundred thirty-two thousand four hundred eighty-nine acres two roods and thirty perches of  unprofitable forfeited lands; two hundred sixty-two thousand one hundred fifty-nine acres one rood and eighteene perches of bishopps lands, gleab lands, and other church lands, crowne lands, &c.; thirty three thousand two hundred seaventy-four acres two roods and twenty-eight perches of commons appertaining to the forfeited profitable lands; ffour hundred and sixteene thousand four hundred fifty-two acres three roods and four perches of land reserved to His Highness and the Commonwealth, lying in the county of Dublyn and part of Corke; sixty-nine thousand two hundred ninety-one acres two roods and sixteene perches of unprofitable lands certifyed to bee in