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 him admeasured, as mentioned in the articles of his agreement, itt is held necessary and just that the said Dr bee, at the expiration of the said twelve moneths, to bee computed as afforesaid, discharged from his contract, and that the bond which the said Doctor and his sureties have entered into for performance thereof bee delivered up to bee cancelled. Dated at the Councill chamber, in Dublyn, the 15th of Aprill, 1657. Clerke of the Councill.

Humbly sheweth,

That your petitioner (notwithstanding all manner of impediments, both designed and accidentall, occasioned by reason of envy, emulation, competition, and other prejudices, as allsoe through misunderstanding of agreements, the excessive wettness of yeare 1655, the then vigorouse prosecution of transplantation, the thinness of the garrisons in respect of guards, the temptations that lay uppon the meersmen to abuse your petitioner, the irresolutions of the army as to goeing into possession, the hindrances caused through the disbanding in 1655, and want of countenance from your Lordshipps to correct the abuses and enormities of such as your petitioner imployed, with many other obstructions too long to enumerate), did by the blessing of God performe all the surveyes whatsoever by him undertaken, punctually within the time allowed him by his contract.

2dly. That your petitioner hath been putt, contrary to and over and above the intention and meaning of his articles, to performe the whole subdivision by way of readmeasurement, according to a quota or proportion not pitcht uppon untill his instruments were wholly returned from the ffield, whereby he hath been forced generally to goe backe againe uppon much of the said lands to subdivide them, in some places two yeares after the downe admeasurement of the same, when the markes were worne out, the meersmen transplanted or otherwise removed, when the surveyors who first admeasured them were some