394 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Acadcrn//. 



In the " Brief Account of tlie Down Snivey," written liv Petty in 1659. 

 and already refened to above, it is stated that — 



"Mapps of eacli county and pro\ince. as alsoe of the whole island, will be 

 published in print, according to tiie severall ancient and moderne divisions of 

 the same."^ 



Dr. Petty's correspondence with liis cousin, Jolni Petty, at tliis time 

 Surveyor-General for lieland, contains frequent references to this subject.- 

 In March, 1660, he " bids T. T." (Thomas Taylor, tlien Deputy Surveyor- 

 General) " nut faint about the map," for '■ God may send a time when good 

 use may be made of it." In August of tiie same year lie causes T. T. to be 

 informed that he lias "gotten ye King'sgraiit for a ))iivilcgt' and sole sale for 

 our nia])S, out of which hee shall fii-st receive satisfaction for all his j)ains in 

 tiiis business and his faitiifidlness to nice." In February of the following 

 year he writes : — " We must goe in hand with graving our map. Tell T. T. that 

 I would have a eoiiveiiieiit size of papei pitched upon such as might contayne 

 ye largest couiiiy, and two of ye smallest according to ye present scale, upon 

 wliich account bid him send mee word how many sheetes will hold ye map 

 now as it is? (2nd) I would have these loose sheetes capable of making 

 four lai-ge piovinciall maps, to match which (as to size) I would have a new 

 general map done at ^ the present scale : for so shall we have five maps of 

 iieaie one size to hang a room with, (-ird) I would have four provinciall 

 maps and ye general reduced to a single sheet also, that those five small ones 

 and ye county sheet maps may tf)gether make a booke, wheieiinto shall be 

 added the de.sci iptioii of each maji. 'I'he c|ue8lion upon all this is what size 

 plates will be most convenient for this designe and liow many feet of plate 

 will be requisite for the whole, of which let T. T. advise me." 



In 1664, and again in 1665, Petty petitioned the King" for encouragement 

 and assistance to finish the maps of Ireland," in the making of which he 

 states he had been " at many hundred pounds charge and several yeares 

 labour."' He apjicAis, however, to have received little or no satisfaction from 

 that quarter. 



The county maps were, nevertheless, finished and engraved, and the work 

 must iiave been completed Ity 167.'J, as is shown by the reference to " tlie 

 maps of every county engraveil on copper," already qimied from the" Political 

 Anatomy of Ireland." Evelyn in his memoire' states that the engraving was 

 done at Amsterdam at a cost of £1000. 



' History, p xvii. ' History, pp. 339, 400. 



' Lansdown c mss. • Vol. ii, p. 96 



