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 in money from all persons willing to assist in quelling the rebellion, such contributions to be secured on the lands forfeited, at a certain rate, viz.:

1000 acres in Leinster for £600.

„Munster for £450.

„Ulster for £200.

In redemption of this, after the rebellion was finally quelled, the Council of State, on the 1st of June, 1633, appointed a commission, which was to sit at Grocer's Hall in London for this purpose, as related to the money so advanced by the "adventurers;" and another on the 22nd of the same month, to the Lord Fleetwood and others, to sit in Dublin for the same purpose, as related to the army, which was also to be paid its arrears in lands. Of the latter there were various classes of claimants: those who had served since 1649; those who had also served before that time; those who had been already disbanded and settled on lands; the widows, maimed and wounded soldiers, and some others. For these purposes, by the Act of 26th of September, 1653, the forfeited lands in the ten counties first-named were set apart: one moiety for the adventurers, the other for the soldiers. If these proved insufficient, the county of Louth, with the exception of one barony (Ardee), was to be included; also the land bordering the coast in Connaught, beginning from Sligo, within four miles of the sea and the western bank of the Shannon;—the "transplanted" persons, who, from the other provinces, were removed into Connaught, being excluded from that belt, and confined to the interior;—and finally, if these proved insufficient, all other forfeited lands were to be made available for these and the various other "publique" debts, with certain precautions and reservations. This, with the addition of the Church and Crown lands, and subsequently the adventurers' moiety of the forfeited lands, led to the long list of counties embraced in the Down Survey, which ultimately extended over the greater part of twenty-nine counties.

All these, when profitable, were to be surveyed, showing the lowest denominations known in the several counties, as plough lands, townlands, &c. When unprofitable, less rigour was exacted, and by a subsequent article the Doctor was to survey and protract separately the bounds of all the baronies within the before-mentioned counties: "That perfect and exact maps may be had for publique use of each of the baronyes or countyes aforesaid." These conditions were doubly useful. The townland boundaries were then, as now, generally the boundaries of properties, therefore of forfeitures, and frequently of grants; by which separate measurements for those purposes were rendered unnecessary, and the whole furnished material for a general map.

The articles are also rigid and exact as to the delivery of plots and field-books, and define the amount of security and mode of payment, all in accordance with Dr. Petty's propositions and previous agreements.