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 before necessity compells them to sell, it was but saying Dr Petty would not send a surveyor. If the surveyor doe not lay the house and orchard on the right side, the party disappointed need but say Dr Petty imployes insufficient instruments. When one party hath by good cheare and gratuity byassed a poor fellow, itt was good ground for the other to say that Dr Petty imployes such as takes bribes, and perhapps shares with them; there being persons who have showne a poor souldier a bogg or other course land, telling him that was his lott sett out by Dr Petty, to the end they might have the good land, which really was the poor mans, att the price of the bogg. If a peice of land better than our owne, through an accident, happen to be undisposed of, then our owne is cryed out uppon as incumbred, and Dr Petty a villaine if hee doe not help cozen the State to exchange itt. If wee have undersett our land, then a Protestant claimes it, and soe wee become free to have other lands whereuppon to make a wiser bargaine. If wee would have a good large quota or proportion of our debt satisfyed in Leinster and Ulster, then Kerrey, being the refuse county of Munster, is all good land. If the Munster lott would be rid of Kerrey, they cry up the neating and withdrawing of dubiouse lands for a divine invention; to others, an abominable project.

If the Commissioners are sparing to show their mapps, to prevent projecting and contriving uppon them, then Dr Petty keepes all in the darke. If wee doe not observe what every juncto or faction directs, how contradictory or unintelligible soever, Dr Petty transgresses the Committees orders; if wee fall uppon course land, better being behind us, Dr Petty hath over charged the lott, and stufft in his owne friends; if better lands bee before us, then debentures were not equally fixed. When Dr Petty minds the agents of their poor brethren, who served before 1649, and were disbanded in 1653, itt is said that this advertisement is like Judas his proposing to have the box of ointment sold for one hundred pence, and given to the poor. When loose debentures swarme up and downe, Dr Petty is suspected for buying them at under rates, and hath been searcht like a theife with a constable; but noe body observes the agents breaking up the officers seale, and thereby introducing this danger. When the lyst or string of disposeable lands was made and presented to the agents, they would for greediness acquiesse in any thing; but when the lotts fell out amisse, Dr Petty jugled. Whilst Dr Petty forbore, out of tenderness, to deale in lands or debentures untill the whole army was satisfyed, then it was said he would not engage in the lands