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ficient Instruments, When one party hath by good chear and gratuities byassed a poor fellow, 'twas a good ground for the other to say, Dr. Petty imployes such as take Bribes, and perhaps shares with them himself. There be persons who have shown a poor Souldier a Bog, or other piece of course Land, telling him that was the Lott set him out by Dr. Petty, and by that means bought the good Land, which really was the poor Mans, at the price of Bog: If a piece of Land better then our own (through an accident) happen to be undisposed of, then our own is cryed out upon, as incumbered, and Dr. Petty a villain if he do not helpe cozen the State to exchange it: If we have underset our Land, then a Protestant claims it, and so we become free to have other Lands in lieu, whereupon to make a wiser bargain. If we would have a good large Quota, or proportion of our Debt satisfied in Lemster and Ulster, then Kerry, (being the refuse County of Munster) is all good Land. If the Munster lot would be rid of Kerry, They cry up the Neating and with-drawing of dubious Lands for a divine Invention, to others an abomina-