sioners for setting out the lands to the particular regiment proceeded on the day appointed to the place of drawing, generally some town nearest to the chief baronies, and there in the presence of the officers and soldiers of the regiment drew the lots for the first barony. They were directed to draw out only one lot at once, and, opening it, to read it aloud in the hearing of all persons present, and then to file the lot on the file of that barony, entering the same in their record, fairly and distinctly, before another lot was drawn; and so to proceed, lot by lot, until as many lots were drawn. as contained all the number of acres in the barony in the disposal of the Commonwealth, according to the survey,' with a copy of which they came provided. As soon as the lot was drawn, all persons into whose shares the barony fell were to deliver up their debentures upon the spot, in order that they might be cancelled; but each man was to receive in exchange a certificate, stating the fact of the debenture having been delivered up, and declaring the amount of arrears "To All, &c., I Arnoald Thomas, of Thurles, in the county of Tipperary, send Greeting. Whereas, the Town and Lands of Kilmainham, in the county of East Meath, and barony of Kells, was laid out for me for arrears of pay for service in Ireland as Ensign of Foote in Lieut.-Colonel Richard Steephens's Company, and for other private Souldiers who served in the said Company, whose interest I have purchased, Know Ye, that In consideration of £200 to me paid by George Mathews, of Reaghill, in the county of Tipperary, Esq., I have bargained and sold to the said George Mathews All the said lands of Kilmainham, aforesaid, containing 699 acres plantation measure, beside cast-in land, To Have and to Hold to him, the said George Mathews, his heirs and assigns for ever. In witness, &c. 16 of February, 1654. ARNOA: THOMAS. "Witnesses, &c., DANIEL RYAN. WM. BURGATE." In the chapter entitled, "Sales of Debentures by the Soldiers to their Officers," p. 222, will be found in the notes the conveyance made by thirty-six soldiers of Lieut.-Colonel Stephens's company to Ensign Thomas. 1 The Civil Survey. in the debenture, and the number of acres to be set out in the barony to satisfy it.1 Thus Lord Broghill, Colonel Phaire, and others, were appointed Commissioners, on 10th January, 1654, to set out lands in the baronies of Fermoy, Duhallo, Condon, Orrery, and other baronies in the county of Cork, to satisfy arrears due to the officers and soldiers of the regiments, troops, and companies named in a schedule annexed to the commission, amounting to £60,611 88. 6d., which required 75,735 acres, 2 roods, to satisfy them-lands in the county of Cork being rated by the army, as between themselves, at £800 per thousand acres. The Commissioners were to fix a time and place for drawing lots, of which they were to give seven days' previous notice at least, in Cork, Mallow, Youghal, and Bandon. They were directed by the commission to begin to draw out the lots for the barony of Fermoy, and so lot by lot, until all the land in the barony was exhausted; and if the number of acres in the lots drawn for any barony should exceed the amount of land in the barony, the defect was to be supplied out of the adjacent barony-the particular parish or townland where to begin the supply having been appointed before drawing the first lots, in order to avoid controversy or imputation. The officers and soldiers who fell to be satisfied in any one barony or allotment were immediately to take possession; and, having subdivided it between them, were to send up the subdivision, with each man's lot described by such bounds and other certainties as it could be known to the Commissioners of Revenue of the precinct. Upon getting The proceedings thus described are set out in "A Commission for y⚫ Setting out Lands in yR County of Corke to y° Disbanded Forces in lieu of their Arrears. A Dated at Dublin, y 10th day of January, 1653-4.” 81' P. 31. 2 "A Commission for ye setting out Lands in y° County of Corke to the A Disbanded Forces in lieu of their Arrears." 8 P. 31. possession, the half-pay of the officers and soldiers ceased. But, in addition to the original list of those to be satisfied by the Commissioners, additional lists were constantly sent down of soldiers whom they were to admit to receive their satisfaction as if they had been in the original lists.1 OF THE EQUALIZING OF COUNTIES AND BARONIES. The state gave all the forfeited lands to the army at the Adventurers' or Act Rates; but the several regiments composing each provincial lot were unwilling to cast the regimental lots, or lots to ascertain in what counties and baronies within the province the several regiments were to be satisfied their arrears, without some regard to the value of lands. They thought it too desperate a hazard for a regiment to cast 1 "A list of several persons of Captain Lewis Jones's troop of horse that desire satisfaction for their arrears in the county of Sleigo: "These are to certify that the arrears of the above persons are stated, and amount to the several sums according to their names respectively annexed, for which proportions of land are required at the rate of £500 for 1000 acres; as are likewise to their sums affixed, which amount in the whole for the said £367 138. od. to the sum of 735A. IR. 8P. 30th March, 1655. "WILLIAM DIGGES. "To Major W. Shepherd, Major John King, and the other Commissioners for setting out lands in the county of Sleigo, that they be added to the list of those to be satisfied there, and be permitted to draw lots as if they had been named in the original list." A p. 220. 85' a lot and find itself paid off with 10,000 acres of land in the mountains of Kerry, while the next regiment received 10,000 acres in the rich pastures of Tipperary or Limerick as of equal value, though the army received all the Munster lands from the state at £450 per 1000 acres. Accordingly, they equalized or set an approximate or more real value on the lands in the several counties and baronies, when casting lots for lands in discharge of their pay. Thus the regiments in the Munster lot valued the barony of Glaneroughty, containing the mountain land of Kerry, at £250 per thousand acres; but the barony of Clanwilliam, containing the Golden Vale of Tipperary, at £1100 per thousand acres.1 THE COUNTIES AS VALUED BY THE ARMY. In the following list will be seen the valuation of the several counties by the army, to make them more equal among themselves, preparatory to casting the first "Grand" or "Provincial Lot," to determine in what province each regiment was to be satisfied its arrears. FOR EVERY THOUSAND ACRES IN THE PROVINCE OF LEINSTER. The barony of Athirdee in the county of Louth, twelve hundred pounds; the rest of the county being reserved wholly for the Adventurers. FOR EVERY THOUSAND ACRES IN THE PROVINCE OF MUNSTER. FOR EVERY THOUSAND ACRES IN THE PROVINCE OF ULSTER. 200 Monaghan. 200 Down. New Rates. Five hundred and twenty pounds. Four hundred and twenty pounds. Four hundred pounds. Four hundred and fifty pounds. Four hundred pounds. Four hundred and twenty pounds. For every thousand acres in the baronies of Sligo, Five hundred pounds.' VALUATION OF THE BARONIES. The lots for provinces having been cast, the officers of the several regiments in each provincial lot, before lotting for counties, valued the different baronies in their lot. "Dublin, the 21st November, 1653. "A Particular of the Rates of the severall Counties in the Provinces of Leinster, Munster, and Ulster, as they were agreed to by the Generall Councel of Officers to be settled upon each of the said Counties respectively, in order to the setting out of Lands for the satisfaction of the Arrears of them that are disbanded until the pleasure of the Parliament shall be further known therein, or a more exact account had of the quantity of Forfeited Lands in Ireland." From an original printed Declaration, small folio, of six pages, in the library of Charles Haliday, Esq., of Monkstown Park, Monkstown, county of Dublin: by William Bladen, Dublin: A. D. 1653. |