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 whether arable, pasture, or meadow, &c., and how the same is respectively scituated in each land.

Wee further certifie that all the barronyes of the said countyes of Tipperary appeare to have been admeasured, and plotts of them returned, save only the barrony of Slevardagh and Compsy, and the barrony of Iffa and Offa, and Clanwillian and Middlethird, of which Slevardagh and Compsy only doeth belong to the souldiers.

Wee further certifie, that, besides these, wee find not any paper relating to the said county of Tipperary; but of some other counties, particularly of the countyes of Gallway and Slego, wee find an oflfice of enquiry, made by vertue of a commission from the late King, of all that were reputed proprietors of lands within each barrony of the said county distinctly, and what estates each of them claimed, in posession or reversion; and what or how many townes, quarters, cartrons, or other quantities or denominations of land, any or either the said particular persons held, and what were the severall name or names of the said lands; but neither the quality or number of acres, according to twenty-one foot to the perch, or value of the said lands, were by the said commission to be enquired after, mentioned, or exsprest.

Uppon the whole matter, wee are humbly of an opinion,—

That as to the quantity of land, or number of acres contained in each barrony, and within every parish or towne within the said barronyes respectively, nothing can be exspected more exact then what may be found in the papers, books, and plotts of the said barronyes respectively mentioned. But as to the quality of the said land, for what is returned wholly wast or unprofitable, or for what is judged by them to hold only such or such a proportion unto lands good and profitable, noe certainty, as wee humbly conceive, can in that case be given, further then as your honours shall thinke fitt to allow soe much of it as shall agree with the returnes of the countrey, as it shall be found by the courts of survey.

All which, nevertheless, wee humbly submit.Md.—That this report was approved by the Commissioners.