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ing to the value of his own surveyors, and partly according 

 to the rate it is let at this present. 



Next, I shall accompt the woods cut down by the rebellious 

 party, in several places of my Lord's estate. 



Thirdly, I shall compute the value of those lands which my 

 Lord hath lost, both in present possession, and in reversion ; 

 that is to say, those which he has lost altogether, both for 

 himself and his posterity ; and those he has recovered only 

 during the time of his life, and which his only son and heir, 

 the now Earl of Ogle, must lose after his father's decease. 



Fourthly, I shall make mention, how much of land my Lord 

 hath been forced to sell for the payment of some of his debts, 

 contracted during the time of the late Civil Wars, and when 

 his estate was sequestered ; I say some, for there are a great 

 many to pay yet. 



To which I shall, fifthly, add the composition of his brother's 

 estate ; and the loss of it for eight years. 



A particular of my Lord's estate in plain rents, as it was partly 

 surveyed in the year 1641, and partly is let at this present 1 . 



Lincolnshire 

 Wellingore and Ingham Meales 2 



£6229 7 1 1 

 ^100 o o 



1 When the places mentioned could be identified the modern spelling of their names 

 has been adopted. 



2 Camden, in his map of Lincolnshire, places Ingold-meles just above Skegness, and 

 elsewhere explains ' meales ' or ' meles ' to mean sand-hills. 



