As the lands at first granted did not measure the 42,000 acres, the Lord Deputy is instructed to issue a commission to measure off so much of other escheated lands adjoining "as shall be requisite to make up the full number and quantity of three seignories and a-half of tenantable land, without mountains, bogs, or barren heath; To hold for ever in fee-farm, as of the Castle of Carregroghan, in the Co. of Cork, in free soccage and not in capite."—Ibid. p. 327.
Alas! how soon he tired of the great and coveted prize.
[6] Hooker, Suppl. to Holinshed's Chronicle, p. 183.
[7] Some Considerations for the Promoting of Agriculture and Employing the Poor, addressed to Members of the House of Commons, by R.L. V.M. Haliday Collection of pamphlets in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. 54.
[8] Page 18.
[9] Page 35.
[10] Short View of the State of Ireland. Haliday Pamphlets, Vol. 74.
[11] An answer to a paper called "A Memorial of the Poor Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland." Same Vol.
[12] "Answer to Memorial," signed A.B., March 25, 1728.
[13] "Letter to the Duke of Newcastle."