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names, in regard they are not of the muster of October, 1653. And that it is supposed they were reduced out of other companies, or probably might bee of the late disbanded, and so have received satisfaction, and were since taken into the muster againe.
It is desired, therefore, you wil bee very strict in the inquiry into this busines, and to observe carefully in the first place this generall rule: not to admitt any person to satisfaction that produceth not his originall debenture; and where any of the said single persons, whose arreares are left doubtfull in the said list, shall produce their originall debenture to you, yet you are to suspend his satisfaction if it appear to you hee was formerly a disbanded person, and that hee hath been since taken in againe.
But forasmuch as no unnecessary prejudice is to bee put upon any of the said persons, therefore, if any of the said single persons whose arrears are left doubtful as aforesaid shall produce their original debenture to you, and that the officers shall make oath before you (which oath you are hereby impowered to administer), or otherwise shall give a sufficient and clear testimony on his behalf, that hee was never disbanded, but reduced only out of some other troop or company wherein hee served; in that case you may satisfy them, making a memorandum upon the backside of each of the said debentures, what oath was made on his behalf, or how farre the truth of the thing did appear to you, to the end it may bee here further examined.
Wee further think it fitt that you will bee very carefull in crossing the names in the margent, of all persons in the list, whose debentures you take in, and of fileing your debentures, that all confusion may (as much as may bee) bee avoyded, and that you delay not all the returne of them, according to the directions of your commission, after you have given out certificates for them.
Lastly, if there shall appear to you any necessity of some persons to be imployed in the nature of a clerk to attend you, and to assist you in the casting up of the lands, in writing certificates, and doing the like duties, you are to make choyce of some able and fitt man, and (returning his name immediately unto us), a warrant shall bee ordered for the payment of a fitt salary or reward (during that time) to him; and if there shall be any thing else you shall judge needful to expedite this service, or shall find any obstructions in it, you are from time to time to acquaint us with it, or to intimate it to the surveyor-general.
T. H. (Thomas Herbert.)
C. C. (Charles Coote.)
XI.
Order for the Survey by Mr. Worsley and Dr. Petty of the Adventurers' Lands and other Lands[1].
Whereas, it hath been held expedient that the forfeited lands within the moyety of the ten counties fallen by lott to the adventurers, the forfeited lands in the county of Lowth and county of Leitrim, and the forfeited lands that were set out to the souldiers in 1653, and such
- ↑ From the Record Branch of the Paymaster of Civil Services' Office.
