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 the severall frauds, collusions, and obscurities concerning these titles, then others.

3dly. That the said dubiouse lands doe, in matter of their scituation, lye perhapps very conveniently to some who, nevertheless, are not likely to make much advantage of them, by reason of their inability to discover and prosecute, as afforesaid.

4thly. That the quantity of these lands is very unequall and disproportionate, either unto the grand divisions, or unto the barrony, or unto the regimentall or other lotts whereunto they adjoine and belong; and that there will arise much controversy about the affixing and appropriating of them, either unto barronyes or lotts, as allsoe in making up equall satisfaction out of such unequall proportions.

5thly. That there hath often been offered discoveries of such lands as are suspected to bee forfeited, which never yet came under the cognizance of any of your Lordshipps ministers; soe that, uppon the whole matter, wee humbly submitt to your Lordshipps pleasures —

1st. Whether the said lands (whether they [bee] more or less incumbred) shall bee all sett out at the same rate, vizt, at the rate that other clear lands are.

And soe whether the whole of them shall bee filed upp into strings of contiguitie, and lotts cast for them, as hath been done in other cases.

Or whether the 7s 9d remaining shall bee divided into three or more gales; and soe the more encumbred any lands is, that it bee bought with the latter gales of payment.

Or, if they may bee sett out at unequall rates, whether there shall bee a free and open boxing for them, indifferently, as whereby one that has received his cleer satisfaction in Munster may box for the dubiouse lands of Ullster.

And wee desire to receive directions whether, having once received the said land, the receivers of them, miscarreing in their suites, shall be admitted to a possibility of being reprized.

And what preference shall bee given to discoverers of land never yet under cognizance; as whether they shall have the satisfaction of any debt, reprizall, &c., due unto them out of such lands as they shall soe discover; and what caution, by bond or otherwise, is to be used, that, by such encouragements, proprietors of unforfeited lands bee not causelesly molested in their possessions.