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 in all cases, as that all the said adventurers should bee bound to the strickness of the provisions thereoff, wee doe humbly pray that where manifest injury or inconvenience shall appeare in them to the said Doctor, as Commissioner in the premisses, your Lordshipps will bee pleased in such cases to empower the said Dr Petty to proceed to the settlement of the adventurers therein concerned, by such other convenient wayes and meanes as may most indifferently answer the former rules and certificates, and the private agreements of such adventurers among themselves.

Having thus recommended our desires, wee doe humbly pray your Lordshipps countenance and furtherance therein, which wee have an humble boldness to thinke will give the adventurers settlement a speedy and effectual advancement. And wee shall with all humbleness acknowledge your Lordshipps patronage and constant good affection to the said adventurers satisfaction, and profess ourselves, as bound by your Lordshipps goodness, Your Lordshipps most humble and most obliged servants,

The party opposite to these proceedings protest against what had been done, as illegall, gett councellours at law to state a case and draw up an oppinion, which they send into Ireland with the following letter.

Vppon considerations of the severall Acts of Parliament and ordinances relateing to the adventurers and souldiers of Ireland, and the disposeing of the