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 Petty, Dr., petitions stating the above exceptions are only intended to ruin and disgrace him, and hopes the case may be put in such a way that after this trial he may not be subjected to more molestation, &c., 278, 342.

ordered that the committee prepare their charges in writing, 279; committee complain that Dr. Petty refuses to show them maps, books, &c., 280; committee state their exceptions, 280, 281, 340.

replies to the several charges, 280; and furnishes an account in detail of debts due him; prices at which lands were purchased by him, &c., 280, 343.

summoned to attend the House to answer certain charges of misdemeanours, frauds, and breach of trust preferred against him by Sir Hierome Sankey, 289, 345.

answers before the House to the several charges, 292, 343.

details the duties he performed in Ireland; the amount of money he received; his dealings in debentures and lands; defends his acts as a commissioner, and the acts of the other commissioners for distribution of lands; describes his accuser, attributes the accusations to malice, &c., and seeks the protection of the House, 292. Sir Hierome Sankey replies, accuses the Doctor of receiving bribes in money, a house and lands; names the parties and localities; and that he gave in a duplicate of Strafford's survey as the Down Survey; and did not put into the Exchequer certain maps and documents, 298.

explains relative to maps, 300; ordered that the Lord Lieutenant and Council do dispose of those papers according to law, 300; the House dissolved, and Dr. Petty returned to Ireland, 301.

Petty, Dr., employed to carry to Parliament the lord lieutenant's letter resigning the lord lieutenancy, 301.

Colonel Sankey presents to the next meeting of Parliament charges of high misdemeanours, frauds, breach of trusts, and several other crimes, 302, 345.

accused of unjustly possessing himself of many of the chiefest places and seats; of obtaining large amounts of money and debentures under several pretences; of delaying payments to his surveyors until he forced them to a compromise; and that he retained maps, books, &c., of the survey instead of depositing them in the Exchequer. The above charges ordered by Parliament to be referred to the commissioners for managing the government in Ireland, 307, 343.

works by, 314, 334, 348.

petitions the King for assistance to make a general map, 323.

avails himself of means and men about him, 323.

communication with Sir Robert Southwell and Sir Richard Cox, 333.

power given to, after Restoration, for levying 1d. per acre where due, 334, 348.

amount of pence due to, 339.

duplicate of will, notice of, 341.

coadjutors appear also in book of distribution as possessors of land, 343.

suit of, against Duke of Ormond, 344.

personal character of, 344, 347, 349.

maps engraved by, 347.

only portrait of, ib.

notices of, in Pepys' and Evelyn's diaries, 348, 349.

an early and distinguished member of Royal Society of London, 348.

notice of his double ship, ib.