Note 274 — Chapter XXXVII · PEACE, SETTLEMENT, AND TRANSPLANTATION, 1652-1654

Brief account of the Survey in Hist. of Down Survey, xiii.; Petty’s Political Anatomy of Ireland, chap. iv.; Fitzmaurice’s Life of Petty, chap. ii.; Prendergast, 2nd. edition, 221, where there are many details as to the sale of debentures to officers, and a facsimile of one by way of frontispiece. On August 29, 1655, Henry Cromwell wrote to Thurloe: ‘I believe we reduce near 5000 men, and as good soldiers as are in the three nations. I am afraid few of them will betake themselves to planting; if you could find out some employment for them abroad, it would be of good service to the public,’ Thurloe, iii. 744. State Papers, Domestic, December 28, 1654. As late as November 6, 1657, Broghill wrote to Montagu ‘if all things move at the rate our settlement of Ireland has done, I shall think the body politic has got the gout,’ Thurloe, vi. 600.