QUESTIONS concerning the Compositions in Conaght, wherein the Vice-President of Conaght...

Whether every quarter chargeable with the composition ought to be interpreted to contain 120 acres, or, as they are known by name and anciently reputed, quarters.

Whether lands which were concealed and not found by inquisitions taken at the time of the making of the indenture of composition, and have been since found out and discovered, shall not be subject and chargeable with the composition as well as the lands which were then found.

Whether the 10s. laid upon every quarter of chargeable land be accompted a rent or a composition, in lieu of other impositions which, by the composition, were taken from that land and rent.

Whether such lands as are held by lease or in fee farm from his Majesty, and pay rent into the Exchequer, ought to be freed, in respect of their grants and reservations, from payment of the composition of 10s. a quarter.

Whether lands now inhabited, or which shall be inhabited, and afterwards suffered by the owner, either wilfully or for some other respects, to be laid waste, and neither by war or otherwise forced to be laid waste, shall be accompted waste within the meaning of the composition.

Whether it be a fitting course, in case the owners shall suffer their lands wilfully, or for other respects, to lie waste and uninhabited as aforesaid, that the King's officers may let those lands for a certain time, whereby his composition may be kept up.

Whether those corporations that claimed immunities and freedoms as burgage land by reason of ancient grants or prescription, and were not allowed by the indenture of composition, shall be accounted free from payment of the 10s. a quarter, generally granted by the whole country, by the new composition.

Endorsed by Carew.

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