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''May it please jouy L' 



" The mapps of the 6 escheated Counties, besides theDerrye, being 

 but now newly bound in 6 several bookes for his Majt''" view and the 

 light of the intended plantacon, I humbly send them herewitiial unto 

 yo"" Ho'' with the humble desire to receive some advice from yo"" L by 

 Mr. JsTewton or otherwise, whether I shall sett downe in y® plaine leafe 

 at the fore front of each booke the contents of the same Shire in this 

 very forme of the enclosed Sumary note of Calculation, Or ells leave it 

 for a tyme unwritten to be afterward filled up according to such other 

 forme as any alteracon upon the now course in hand may happen to 

 produce. Also, I humbly present unto y"" Lp for y'" Hon''" own use 

 and perusal at y'' best pleasure I have a dozen lyke Bookes of my own 

 which (imitation only) I extracted in the camp and at my house. 



" Forbearing to fill up the very compliments and description or the 

 other blanke leaffes with my notes, untill I receave some test'from your 

 L in generall, what will best sorte with the same mappes and w*"" y"" li" 

 lykinge, whereupon all shall be performed accordingly, In brief and yet 

 particularly w^^in 3 or 4 days at fardest. 



" The true copy of the L° Dep' remaining advizes concerning the 

 plantation I have sythence y"" Lops vouchsafed admittance and audience 

 yesterday (for which I rest humbly bound) selected and singled out 

 from among other his Lops remembrances, both publyck and private 

 (the latter importable at your Lops better leisure). The Heads and true 

 state of all ells requirable of me by y'' Hon" (This of the plantacon being 

 the hoc age and first and principal part of my employment from Ireland 

 hyther), I wiU not fail (God willing) even in ipso puncto sincerely and 

 loudly to set downe and send about the midst of the next week for y'' 

 Lopps perusall at y'' oune best times. 



" My ever good God in Heaven continue and encrease to y*" If all 

 honor, healthe, and happynesse even so forbearing y'' Hon*" furder trou- 

 ble, I humbly et ever remaine, 



'' L^ wholly 



''to dispose of, 



" Th^ Eidgewat. 



"Trommy 

 ^' Login g in y* Strand, 

 " March 15^ 1609. 



" I humbly present also to y"^ L the Irish Conceived pedigrees of their 

 Great Lordes. 



" Endorsed, 



" Maps, Escheated Counties, Irish Pedigrees, &c." 



I have compared closely the maps of some of the baronies with our 

 modern Ordnance maps ; and although there exists, as I anticipated, from 

 the great perfection to which the art of surveying has attained since 

 1609, when it was but in its infancy, considerable difference of configura- 

 tion, and still more marked discrepancies in the names of denominations, 

 yet the maps in such juxtaposition identify with tolerable accuracy the 



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