it was a comfortable day.' His long speech at the opening contains no special reference to Irish policy.[261] [Sidenote: Adventurers. Grocers' Hall committee.] [Sidenote: A lottery for Ireland.] [Sidenote: The ''49 officers.'] Cromwell handed over the supreme authority to the new assembly, which by a majority voted itself a Parliament, but he and his Council of State had already begun to take action on the Act of Settlement. Methusaleh Turner, linen-draper of London, and eight other persons were appointed to meet at Grocers' Hall, on June 20, at eight o'clock in the morning, and there hold a lottery to decide upon the Adventurers' claims. No one lot was to exceed 10,000_l._, Connaught was excluded, and the total to be provided for in the other three provinces was 360,000_l._ One penny in the pound was to be deducted for expenses. Two days after the lottery began a commission was given to Fleetwood, Ludlow, Corbet, and Jones, declaring the war ended and empowering them to administer the Acts and ordinances concerning the Adventurers, and to make a survey for the purpose of all forfeited lands in Ireland. They were instructed first to take in hand ten counties, namely Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford in Munster, King's and Queen's Counties, Meath, and Westmeath in Leinster, Down, Antrim and Armagh in Ulster, 'and to divide all the forfeited lands, meadow, arable, and profitable pasture with the woods and bogs and barren mountains thereunto respectively belonging into two equal moieties' of which one was intended for the Adventurers and the other for the soldiers' arrears. Louth was then to be surveyed separately. The counties of Dublin, Cork, Kildare, and Carlow were specially reserved, and the Commissioners were authorised to assign any five counties not hitherto named to pay arrears accrued since June 5, 1649, of soldiers to be disbanded. All grants made by 'any Act, ordinance, or order of Parliament' since November 1, 1641, were excluded from survey, and the manor of Blarney was specially excepted. Blarney, which was part of Muskerry's great estate, fell to Broghill's share, and we may infer that his advice was much followed in all matters connected with the settlement.[262] [Sidenote: Satisfaction of the army.] [Sidenote: Orders to transplant. Penalties for disobedience.] [Sidenote: Exemption for loyal Protestants.]