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the reader to what has been publilhed by the Society, 

 at whofe requefl that report was made. 



SECT. 6. When and by ivhom this County was furveyed, 



THIS county was furveyed in 1653 by Doclor, af- 

 terwards Sir William Petty. The following account 

 of it is given by Gorges Edward Howard, in his 

 Treatife of the Exchequer and Revenue of Ireland, 

 Vol. II. Appendix, No. 4. The Down furvey, taken 

 in io'53 > ^7 Doclor, afterwards Sir William Petty, 

 being laid down by chain and fcale<> was fo called to 

 diflinguifh it from the Civil Eftimate Surveys, being fur- 

 veys made by the civil power by commiffion, dated 

 1642, and made by eftimate or repute of the country. 

 The volume of the Down Survey, which contained the 

 barony of Upper Iveagh, was unfortunately burned in 

 1712, at the time the Council-office and other offices in 

 Eflex-flreet were burned, but fome fragments of the 

 maps of it were preferved, and fome of the furveys, 

 but the latter may be fupplied by the rough book of 

 diftributions. Since that time, I believe, no general fur- 

 vey of the county has been made; but a map was pub- 

 lifhed in 1/67, by Doctor Kennedy, from furveys of 

 the different eftates, furnifhed that ingenious gentleman 

 by the proprietors : the plates of this map are ftill in 

 being; the map is very much efteemed, but it would 



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