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 debt of about 7000li, which is forreigne thereunto, and, as wee hope to prove, ought not to be charged thereon,


 * I answer:

That I endeavoured not, much less did charge, 7000li forreigne, as is alledged, only I had my whole proportion of land cheaper then other men, but not cheaper then the State could afford it, by 4581li, uppon account of 3181li due to mee for arreares of admeasurement, and allowed to be paid me as debenture by your Lordshipps order of the 16th of March, 1656, and allsoe uppon accompt of 1400li, the price of redeeming 2000 acres in Leinster, and 1000 acres in Ullster by me disincumbred, according to another order of the 20th of May following, for which 4581li, satisfyed as debenture, I am out of purse 1974li, and more ready money, which sume, with what my debentures placed on the premisses cost, being 1088li, makes 3062li wherewith, att six shillings per pound, I might have bought 10206li debentures, wheroff the $5/7$ is 7290li, vizt, but 168li less then 7458li, the value of all my lands; soe that I have saved hereby but 50li, the price of 168li in debentures, to ballance all my charge and trouble in proceeding this singular and extraordinary method of satisfaction, which my employment forced me uppon, and which is the only cause of the jealousies now uppon me, as allsoe to ballance the loss of opportunityes anno 1655.

To the fourth article, running in these words, vizt:

That the said Dr hath reserved out of the generall string severall choice places from diverse of the respective lotts uppon which there were noe incumbrances, whereby the quota of the army was much lessened, soe that the lotts of Leinster and Ulster fell short of their 5 sevenths two shillings per pound; and notwithstanding the Dr was afterwards much importuned by severall persons, in whose lotts the said lands lay, that he would sett them out as cleare lands, yet he refused the same, and afterwards converted them to his owne use;


 * I answer:

1st. That I neither reserved nor withheld from the string of my selfe, but with my fellow Commissioners, and that, 1st, according to law; 2dly, the Councill