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A narrative of all orders which have been issued from the Councill to committees, the proceedings of severall assemblies of the officers of the army and regimentall agents, and particularly those of November, 1653, and Aprill, 1654, with the severall disbandings which have been made in the yeares 1653 and 1655, and the severall conditions allowed them, as allsoe of the severall surveyes and other representations of the debt and creditt of the army, which have, from time to time been made, from the beginning untill the first commission of the trustees in May last.

2dly. Of the manner and motives of granting the said commission, with a report and narrative of all proceedings thereuppon, vizt, untill another the present commission gave a supersedeas to the former.

[3rdly.] Of our procedings uppon your present commission uppon the provinciall divisions of the whole land, and unto the first subdivisions thereoff, dividing the whole into six grand lotts, according to the method of the generall Councill of Aprill, 1654, which is just soe farr as was proceeded on the first commission, though in a different way.

4thly. Of the severall differences betweene both the said proceedings and of the reasons thereoff.

5thly. Of our proceedings to a further subdivision of the province of Munster, from three grand lotts downe to troopes and companies, and other small proportions occasionally hapening; the accompt whereof will consist of two generall members, vizt, that of the debt or debentures, and that of the creditt or lands.


 * The accompt of the debt will bee in setting forth:

1st. That there appeared many and variouse cases and qualifications of debentures, ariseing from the manner of their service, as before or since 1649, in England or Ireland, the time of the disbanding, either in 1653 or 1655, by generall or particular orders, as allsoe the time of taking out the said debentures, the