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." [14] Vol. I., p. 166. [15] "The famine of 1741 was not regarded with any active interest in England or in any foreign country, and the subject is scarcely alluded to in the literature of the day. No measures were adopted, either by the Executive or the Legislature, for the purpose of relieving the distress caused by this famine."--_Irish Crisis_, by Sir C.E. Trevelyan, Bart., p. 13. [16] Probably the origin of the potato pit, as we now have it, in Ireland was the following advice given in _Pue's Occurrences_ of Nov. 29th, 1740:-- "Method of securing potatoes from the severest frost. "Dig up your potatoes in the beginning of December, or sooner, and, in proportion to your quantity of potatoes, dig a large hole about ten foot deep in such place as your garden or near your house where the ground is sandy or dry, and not subject to water; then put your potatoes into the hole, with all their dirt about them, to within three feet of the surface of the ground. If you have sand near you, throw some of it among the potatoes and on top of them. When you have thus lodged your potatoes, then fill up the rest of the hole with the earth first thrown out, and, with some stuff, raise upon the hole a large heap of earth in the form of a large haycock, which you may cover with some litter or heath. By the covering of earth of five or six feet deep, your potatoes will be secured against the severest frosts, which are not known to enter over two feet into the ground. The same pit will serve you year after year, and when the frosts are over you may take out your potatoes." [17] "O'Halloran on the Air." [18] _Exshaw's Magazine_. [19] _Pue's Occurrences_, March 11, 1740. [20] Sir John Rogerson's Quay, of course. [21] _Pue's Occurrences_, Jan 1, 1740.