The I';ai£L or Kekky — Lansdoione J/ups of the t>own Survei/. 39l 



still survive ill the Public Record Office; but, except in the eleven large maps 

 found by Hardinge,' the plots aie of parishes, and not of baronies, while it 

 seems obvious that for any but a small barony the forty-perch scale would 

 have produced a map so unwieldy as to be useless for practical purposes. 

 Moreover, these large-scale plots of baronies are " protractions " rather than 

 maps, and indeed are so described by Hardinge himself in his list. It would 

 seem therefore that these large maps were constructed, if at all, only for the 

 purpose of obtaining the reduced maps, and that the maps so reduced as to be 

 contained on a sheet of "Eoyal paper," 23 inches by 17 inches 'e.g., in the case 

 of parishes to a scale of 40 to 80 perches, and in tlie case of baronies to a scale 

 of 160 to 320 perches), as described in Petty's " Brief Account " of the Survey,* 

 and in his instructions to his surveyors, were considered then, and should be 

 considered now, as the finished and original prodiict of the Survey. 



As to the distribution of land, there is no reason w^liy this should not have 

 been effected thi-ough the medium of the parish maps, if not through those of 

 tlie baronies, but in any case by his contract of December, 1654, Petty bound 

 himself when necessary to deliver separately " to each otiicer and soldier such 

 mapps, plotts, and books of reference as shall manifestly demonstrate their 

 several proportions of land," * so no difficulty can have been experienced on 

 this head. 



It may perhaps seem strange that the original and finished barony maps 

 should not have been '■ returned " to the Office of the Surveyor-General with 

 the rest of the maps and papers connected with the Down Survey. It is, 

 however, on record that Petty discharged his obligations in this respect, and 

 that he received full quittance for the same from the Surveyor-General,* 

 while the following passage in his will shows that he died in possession of 

 these and of other maps and documents relating to the Survey, and that he 

 attached great value to tliem : — •' I value my three etiests of originall mapps 

 and field books, the coppys of the Down Survey, with the Barony mapps, 

 and the chest of distribution books with two chests of loose papers relating 

 to the survey, the two Great Barony Books, and the book of the history of 

 the Survey, altogether at two thousand pounds." ' 



The explanation is to be found in the terms of Petty's contracts with the 

 Government for the two portions of his survey and of his release therefrom, 

 as also in the instructions given to his surveyors after the conclusion of the 

 contracts. 



In his first contract he binds himself " to survey all forfeited lands, 

 profitable and unprofitable, ... to survey the outmeares or bound of every 



' Hardinge, Appendix E. * History, pp. 182, 183. 



■ Historj', p. xvi and p. 49. ' Hardiiiye, p. 112, and History, p. i. 



3 History, p. 26. 



