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By the Surveyor-Generall:
- Instructions to be observed by Dr William Petty in the making and drawing up the Bookes of Reference, which are to be returned into the said Surveyor-Generall his Office.
Instructions for Dr Petty making up the books to be returned to the Surveyor-Generall's office, 12 Aprill, 1655. 1st. Ffor the more clear and distinct knowledge of the quantity of forfeited profitable lands, and other lands belonging to the Commonwealth in each barrony, you are to draw up soe many bookes of reference as may answer the number of barronyes you admeasure; each booke containing an entire barrony by it selfe.
2dly. The said bookes you are to bind up or cover with parchment; on the outside of which is to be written, in fair letters, the name of the barrony, and underneath that is to be sett downe the names of the severall parishes in the said barrony at length.
3dly. Within the booke you are briefly to describe the barrony by its meets and bounds, by the soile, and by the nature of the soile in general; by the rivers rising out of it, running through it, or meeting in itt; by the severall citties, towns, passes, or other things of eminency or note relateing or belonging to it.
5thly. In describing or setting downe each proprietor's land, you are to divide the leafe into severall columnes; and, beginning on the left hand, you are in the first colume to sett downe the number referred to for that parcell of lands in the plott; in the next colume, the proprietors names, whether English or Irish Papist; in the third colume, the name of the towneland, plowland, cartron, or any other denomination of land, and whether it be an entire townland, plowland, cartron, or only a part of the said denomination, as the ½, ⅓, ¼, &c., of a cartron, plowland, &c.; in the fourth colume is to be sett downe the number of acres contained in the said denomination or parcell of land, according to an exact admeasurement, at 21 foot to the pole, and one hundred and sixty poles to the acre. In the last colume the said number of acres are to be distinguished by a line, into profitable and unprofitable, and the profitable againe into meadow, arable, pasture; and whether it be common pasture, heathy pasture, rocky pastures, mountaine pasture, or boggy pasture, which are to be signifyed as in the ensueing forme:
Memorandum. That in setting downe the name of any proprietor, whether
