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Rh the Year 1630. The County of Londonderry, when the City of London undertook the Plantation by one Mr. Raven ; Connought and Tipperary, in the Earl of Strafford ' s time, by several hands, sometimes conducted by Mr. William Gilbert. |59|

The Lands belonging to Papists Ann. 1641. in the three Provinces of Munster, Lemster and Ulster, by Sir William Petty. Other Protestant Lands in the same three Provinces, in order to regulate Contributions, by the Owners of the said Lands themselves: But in so divided and separated a manner, that little Accompt can be given of them, besides what was collected by the said Sir William Petty; who at his own charge, besides those Maps of every Parish, which by his Agreement he delivered into the Surveyor-General's Office, he hath caused distinct Maps to be made of every Barony, or Hundred; as also of every County, engraven in Copper, and the like of every Province, and of the whole Kingdom. All which, could the Defects of them be supplied with the yet unmeasured Lands, would be exposed to publick view.

Now as to the value of these Lands, they were Ann. 1642, rated to and by the Adventurers as followeth, viz. in Lemster at 12 s. per Acre; in Munster at 9s. in Connaught at