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banony to the end the ci\il bounds or meares of each bairony may be better 

 knowne and preserved, and that perfect and exact mapps may be had for 

 publique use of each of the barronyes and couutyes aforesaid ... to deliver 

 unto the said Surveyor Generall his office . . . particular plotts with books of 

 reference ... of all forfeited lands ... in any of the aforesaid barronyes." ^ 



In his instructions to his surveyors Petty binds them " to surround the 

 outmeare of each barony, even although there should be noe forfeited lands 

 in the same, and therein to give the true place and scituatiou of each of the 

 pareells by you admeasured.'" 



The delivery of the finished maps, however, constituted a separate 

 undertaking, for we find that the Commonwealth undertake to pay Petty 

 " at the retume or delivery in of perfect mapps of all the said barronyes and 

 countyes"' the sum of £1,000, and subsequent evidence shows that this 

 return was for vaiious reasons never made. 



The second contract for the survey of the adventurers' lands) in 

 September, 1656, though less elaborate than the first, is in similar terms.* 



It appears therefore that tliere was no specific obligation, as stated by 

 Hardinge,* in either contract to return finishcil or "perfect" maps of the 

 baronies surveyed, but that Petty was only bound to produce skeleton or 

 " outmeare " barony maps, with the " particular plotts and books of reference 

 unto them belonging fairly engrossed of all the forfeit€d and other lands." 

 These he retume<l in June, 1657, when he was " fully discharged of the said 

 articles " by the Deputy Surveyor-General.* 



These " particular plotts " on the original forty-perch scale, and tlie key or 

 skeleton barony maps belonging to them, are, with the books of reference, 

 now in the Irish Record Office. 



The deUilol maps were no doubt kept by Petty " to the end that," as 

 stated in the contract, " perfect and exact maps may be had for the publique 

 use." but he seems not to have received the " help and encouragement " he 

 expected in this matter ; ami it would thus appear that he neither delivered 

 the maps in question nor receive<l the promised £1,<>00.' 



In his "Political Anatomy of Ireland," written in 1673, though not 

 published till after liis death, he sUtes that little account can be given of 

 the Prot.>8tant (i e., unforfeitefl) lands "besides what was collected by 

 Sir William Petty, who at his own charge besides thf«e maps of every parish, 

 which by his agreement he delivered into the Surveyor-General's Office, he 



> History, p. 25. • History, p. 3f>0. • History, p. 183. 



' History. {.. 47. ' Hanliiiije. p. 2:{. • Hisu-ry, pp. SaH, 4tjO. 



' History, p. 28. 



