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 9thly. In like manner, whereas the Dr did receive great and advantagiouse rates for the survey and admeasurement of the said lands of the said souldiers, more then double to any that ever was given by the publicke, to the value in the whole of twenty-two thousand pounds, or thereaboutes, accompting what was due to him and wrongfully gotten by him; and did agree, on the contrary, with severall of his under surveyors for the performance of the said worke at much lower, meaner, and smaller rates then ordinary; yet after such agreements made att such disproportionate rates as afforesaid, such nevertheless was the grediness of the said Dr, after his owne particular profitts, without any regard to a good conscience, that he did frequently delay the payment of the said surveyors according to their agreements made with him, and represents severall objections and scruples to them, untill, by wearying them with a tediouse attendance from time to time uppon him, he forced them to a composition with him, and to the abatement of considerable summes to him, and yett giving discharges for the full, to the great loss and damage of the said poor men, the particulars allsoe of which are ready to bee made appeare uppon oath by the testimony of many knowne and credible persons among them.

10thly. That whereas the said Dr, both as a Commissioner and as an undertaker for the survey, was obliged to observe severall rules and instructions that were given him, in order to the more speedy, equall, just, and secure settling of the army, and of the interest of the respective persons therein, the said Dr, slighting and neglecting the said rules and instructions of the Councill, hath, both as a Commissioner and undertaker for admeasurement, from time to time, and in severall cases, acted in a way alltogether unwarrantable and arbitrary, to the dishonour of the Councill and prejudice to the Comonwealth, and to the damage of the just rights of many persons; the particulars of which are likewise ready to bee proved by the oaths and testimonyes of the said persons soe injured by him.

Lastly. Whereas by an Act made in the warr 1656, entituled, an Act, &c., for Attainder of the Rebells in Ireland, itt is therein exspressly commanded and directed, that all books, mapps, plotts of survey, and other writings and things concerning the surveying, admeasuring, distributions, and disposing of the delinquents lands in Ireland, which was in the hands of any persons whatsoever, should, within three moneths after the publication of the said Act, bee brought into, lodged, and placed in the Exchequer of Ireland, there to remaine uppon