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Whereuppon I received what was extant and remaining of the barronyes of Upper and Lower Ormond, Kilnemanagh, Kilnelongurty, Owney and Arra, and Owneybeg, and since returned them, having the said surveyes in his custody. Hee alsoe considered for what reasons Mr. Worsely, in pursuance of his above report, did not make use of them himselfe, as to the intended satisfaction of the army, without contracting for a new readmeasurement, the which, as was conceived, must be the want of the bookes of reference, disagreements betweene those surveys taken anno 1639 and the present civill survey, as alsoe the difficulty of making subdivisions uppon them. On the other side, it was considered what reasons there were to meddle with them, the which reasons were plainly and candidly these:

That the Doctor understood that the bookes of reference which were wanting were gotten into the hands of some of those officers whose lots were like to fall in Tipperary, who, in case of any disagreement (betweene the new survey now to be made and that allready in being), to their disadvantage, would oppose that very reputeable survey of Strafford sorely against the Drs.

2dly. Itt was considered that, the people of Tipperary having more universally obeyed the orders of transplantation then other countries generally had done, that countrey became soe uninhabited and wast, that it would be impossible to find mearers to doe it tolerably well, much less soe well as to give such new worke soe great a credit as the other allready had.

3dly. It was considered that many houses and improvements were now demolished, which were, anno 1639, standing; and many wett grounds, heretofore pasturable, now became wholly bog, with other like alterations, which might have proved a grievance to the army, and consequently a review was thought necessary.