However this act has considerably encreased his Majestys Quitrents for of these tracts which were then vacated, and which by their pattents were to pay altogether five beaver skins, one otter skin one fat Buck and twenty shillings the lands since that time regranted within the bounds of the said patents pay near four hundred pounds yearly at the rate of 2 s 6 d per hundred acres, notwithstanding that a great part of these lands still remain ungranted. The Earl of Bellamont's administration was short he being removed by Death before he could compleat the designs he had in view After his death the admistration fell into Cap Nafans hands, then Lieu Gov r It appears that the Grants made in his time pass'd in a rmrry, without any previous Survey, but upon very uncertain informations of the natural Boundaries, which the Grantees took in their Grants, so that some of them are become a sort of ambulatory Grants. The Patentees claiming, by virtue of the same Grant, sometimes in One part of the Country, and sometimes in another, as they are driven from one place to In other grants we find the same another by others claiming the same lands with more certainty. persons joined in several Grants with others, which Grants were intended for diiferent Tracts and in appearance seem to be so, and yet by their present claims they take in the same Lands within the

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bounds of their several grants. The Earl of Bellamont was succeeded, after Queen Anns ascension to the throne by her Cousin the Lord Cornbury. The Grants of large tracts upon trifling quitrents, that were made during his Lordships administration at least equalled those of all his predecessors put together.