a second possibility is that sir richard's estate, and heirs may not have had any interest in paying, speculating on an eventual sale, without any actual investment, or not having the means to pay their quit-rent and it was lost for none payment of arrears. the annual charge to lot 62, from 1767, at 4s per 100 acres, being 40 £ pounds, accumulating as debt, up to 1797, would amount to an arrear of £1,200 pounds. the move to have lands forfeited for non-payment of quit-rent became very much a political issue in pei, this long after the initial deferral of all quit-rent in the first five years, of the grant, and their half reduction into the first ten years.