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 who dare to move in advance of their contemporaries, or their day, are sure to experience. The Doctor's proposals, however, were ultimately accepted, and the committee of officers embodied them into six articles, which they recommended to be made and concluded. They also stated, that the old surveys have appeared on examination to be of very little use to the Doctor's undertaking, and therefore ought to be paid for either by the State or the purchaser, and consent that one penny per acre be paid for that purpose by the army, in addition to the £3 per thousand formerly proposed." There is some obscurity in this, unless it was a payment formerly proposed to have been made to Mr. Worsley for the estate survey, of which there is no mention, or that the Doctor made another offer in accordance with the Act, which will be adverted to in the notes to the next chapter, nor is any light here thrown on it by the context.

Dr. Petty 's offer was £6 per 1000 acres. The payment of £3, with one penny an acre from the army, or £4 3s. 4d., per 1000, making up £7 3s. 4d. per 1000 acres, was the payment afterwards recommended, and finally contracted for, with the Doctor, in regard to the forfeited profitable lands. The Church and Crown lands subsequently thrown in, from which there was no such contribution, were to be surveyed for £3 the 1000, as were also the unprofitable lands. A set of barony and county maps, for which he was to receive £1000, was also to be made, the more full details of which several works will be subsequently found in the articles of agreement.

The order "By the Commissioners," &c. &c., at page 7, is only a repetition of the order in page 4, but it recalls attention to the circumstances, and is printed because it occurs in all the manuscripts.

"Chergeticall," page 7, line 20, is the same in all the copies; no meaning has been discovered for it. In the King's Inns copy there is a pencil note, suggesting that "energetical" may be the word intended.

The word "ingeniously," page 7, line 22, is "ingenuously" in the Lansdowne manuscript.

The obscurity of the paragraphs relating to payment, in page 15, is increased by the want of a comma after the word "proposed," in line 11.

this chapter Doctor Petty again meets the objections of Mr. Worsley, and answers them, as it would appear, before the council.

Among other things he speaks of the survey of Connaught during the government of Lord Strafford, which survey has been known by his Lordship's name, and will be again adverted to hereafter. The paragraph in page 16, indicates the mode in which it was paid for, and it is to be remarked that he speaks of Connaught having been, at the time of its survey, "a Rh