390 Proceedings of the Royal Iruh Acoilemy. 



from one of these quarrels as to a share claimed by some relatives of the 

 Viceroy in the Petty lands in Co. Kerry, and refers to another with a certain 

 Mi-s. Bermiugham, of which no details are forthcoming: — 



I mast acquaint your Eicellency as touching the copies of the Down Survey to 

 which you refer, and say yon will allow as originals. I have them not, and they are 

 the onely of any part of ye Kingdom I want. How that comes to pass I know but my 

 conjecture, which is this : — 



During the long and vexatious suit carried on by Bermingham against me, among 

 many other her unwarrantable practices in the course of that proceeding one wee detected 

 her in, very vile and notorious, which was proved in court. 



She oirrupted a footman of my lat»; agents, now dead (in whose possession was all 

 the deeds writeings Ac relating to our family] to steal from out his closet all the papers 

 he could come at, which might be serviceable to her in her suit — is probable she took ye 

 vol of ye Kerry Survey which I have always missed and earnestly sought after. I 

 pressed Mr. Thomjeon. Clerk of the Quit Rents t<i search whether he might not have 

 borrowed it from my steward and diligently pui-sued all other likely means for ye recovery 

 of this booke but all in vain. Perhaps should your Excellency bid application to be made 

 to this woman she might produce it for your service. Till which is done I apprehend 

 no surveyes cither of your Excellency's or my naming can have ye least foundation to 

 proceed. 



(Heskv Lord Shelbcrne to Lori> Carteret, January 23, 1727-) 



It is clear then that Henr}- Petty had, in addition to the volumes which 

 have come down to Lord Lansdowne, another volume containing the maps of 

 Co. Kerry, and it is not an unrcasonaVile asisuniption tliat lliis volume would 

 have contained, like its fellows, some twenty or more maps, and that the 

 missing baronies of Co. Cork as well as those of Kerr)- were included in it. 



Thus aVtout 200 barony maps in all, out of a total of 216, may be said to 

 have l»een accounted for in their original state,' and though the number 

 actually extant is considerably less, it does not seem beyond the bounds of 

 possibility that some of those still missing may yet l>e found. 



In his paper read before the Royal Irish Academy, llardinge insists thai 

 the original barony maps must all have l>een on a scale of forty perches to the 

 inch,' similar to those which he discovered in 1837. He also gives it as his 

 opinion that the distribution of land must have been made through the 

 medium of such large-scale maps, and not by means of those of a smaller 

 scale.' It is apparently on this assumption that (as we have seen) he labels 

 all the small-scale Ijarony nia[>s which were extant at the time he read his 

 paper as " duplicates." 



It is true that the original " plotts" were made (as Petty himself explains 

 in his " Brief Account " of the Sur\-ey) on the larger scale, and many of these 



' See snmmary at end. 



-Hardinge, p. 26. He talks of forty perches to the «yuarr surface inch, but this is 

 clearly a slip. 



' Hardinge. pp. 27-31 and p. 109. 



