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 low fortune the survey; and to colour their unfittness, he promised that noe ffield man should protract his worke, and he that protracted should bee paid by salary, to the end he should have noe interest to admitt of any bad worke, and all this under the eye of one of these six artists, whome he stiled conductors. Under these colours he marched on to treat with the seraphick gent., Dr Worsley, on the States behalfe, and a committee of the army, whereof the said Major-Generall was chief, on the behalfe of the army, with whome, uppon noe less impartiall then judiciouse debate, he treated; and the said Major-Generall, being sharer as above, became his security. The heads of the contract were, that he should admeasure, in one year, every denomination of land allotted to the army into parcells of fourty acres, and to make conspicuouse bounds thereof; and that he should subdivide the same into every souldiers proportion, bee it never soe small; and that, for his such admeasurement, he was to receive from the State 3li per 1000 acres, and for such division from the army 4li 3s 4d per 1000. Now, no sooner was this contract fully finished, but the said person agreed with the old surveyors for part of the worke, against whome and whose manner of working he had declamed as fallaciouse and dangerouse, and had used as the greatest ground of introduceing his new one. The rest of his worke was intrusted to the management of his raw artists, both as to field worke and protraction, without the former pretended strickness of care and conduct. Thus was all his admeasurement made, but not within fourty acres, nor within one year, as contracted for, except of the county of Tipperary, whereof he returned duplicates of the Lord of Straffords survey for his owne worke, yett was paid for them at the rates above said, which came to above 1500li. Itt is further observable, that whereas, by one clause of his contract, he was not to bee paid for unprofitable land not exceeding 500 acres in a parcell, and the county of Kerrey generally such, the surveyors there were countenanced, if not instructed, to returne mountaine twenty and fourty acres for one acre profitable, and was afterwards layd out by him acre for acre, that is, fourty such acres for fourty profitable; and consequently hee received his full rate, which was 2000li gaine extraordinary, and loss to the army 10,000li per annum, according to carefull computation, and this in short of his admeasurement. Concerning the subdivisions, after severall transactions, the said person was made one of the Commissioners, or rather the only Commissioner, for setting out the said lands unto the army, where by his admeasurement was established, himselfe being judge of the whole charge of