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 wade through boggs and water, climb rocks, fare and lodge hard, &c.), he would instruct foot souldiers, to whom such hardships were familiar.

  PPON the candid and free manifestation of the premisses, there arose obstruction uppon obstruction, notwithstanding the contract seemed to be soe neer finished, even as my wiser friends had forewarned me; ffor, in the first place, there comes to the Lord Deputy and Councill the following remonstrance from some of the surveyors, favourites and admirers of M' Worsley:

That Dr Petty, taking advantage by the surveyors' absence, whilst they were abroad in the countrey discharging their respective duties, according to the trust reposed in them, hath passed a contract with your Lordshipps for the survey of Ireland; in obedience whereunto, some of us, uppon our repair to towne, tendred our assistance to the Dr, profiering to doe the same thing for far lesser rates then are allowed unto him; but he, minding nothing but to make himselfe extraordinary gaines by other mens laboures, will not hearken to any proposalls of ours, but uppon very hard and unreasonable terms, which we can in noe wise accept off. Had the Dr (as wee exspect, and doubtless many more before us) had any more new, certaine, and expeditious way of survey then hitherto had been knowne or practised, there had been just grounds for our yeilding to the Drs terms; but, instead thereof, we find him informing the private soldiers, whose labour he may hire at an easie rate, in the ordinary and common method, whereby it plainly appeares that the Dr, by his undertaking, hath not out done the surveyors; ffor, in his proposalls, there is nothing considerable but his time and price. As for the time, wee shall make it evidently appear, by undeniable arguments, that the