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Articles to be put into this present Parliament, without reading them (as he himself boasted) beyond the first Article, the which Article cunningly suggesting a fraud of about 7000. l. got acceptance to the whole, and a reference into Ireland, although the chief Witnesses (for trying all the pretended frauds of the State and Army amounting to about twenty thousand pounds) as also authentique Copies of Records be here in England, sufficient for that purpose.
The First of which Articles is,
That he the said Doctor had as much Land for 3480. l. as comes to 10188. l.
To which the said Doctor Answers generally, and briefly.
That it will rather appear, that he had paid 20000. l. for 8000. Acres.
2. Article.
Whereas the said Doctor had Licence to purchase Lands charged with more Incumbrance than they amounted unto at the Act Rates. He hath taken some incumbred for lesse, some he hath gotten by collusion and paid nothing, and hath wrested others out of an Officers hand of the Army.
Answer.
The Doctor hath paid above 1300. l. for what many have had for four hundred pounds, and hath proceeded according to Orders, throughout the whole businesse.
3. Article.
Whereas Rates higher and lower then the Act Rates were put on Lands by consent of the Persons concerned, the said Doctor hath taken to himself the benefit of the Enhancements.
Answer.
That the Doctor hath no benefit by the said Enhancements, nor desires to have any; The scope of this Article being to wind out of the States hands about 12000. l. which belongs to them.
4. Article.
That he left out of the Souldiers Lot, the chiefest seates as incumbred, putting in others incumbred as clear, and afterwards takes those choice seats to himself.
Answer.
That the Design of leaving out certain Lands here mentioned was good,
