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7. | A Repetition and Enlargement of the Premisses. | [Chapter ix., p. 571.] |
Objections.
1. | That the said Transplantation is impracticable and Utopian. | [p. 574.] |
2. | The said Cattle-Trade is so likewise. | [p. 575.] |
3. | That Men will comply with neither, altho' practicable and profitable, out of mere Caprice and Perverseness. | [p. 576.] |
4. | That the Irish will Hate and Scorn the said Transplantation, as the Abolishment of their Nation; which they will not think compensable by all the Advantages abovementioned. | [p. 577.] |
5. | The Protestants of England will be frighted to see the Proportion between Catholicks and themselves, which is now, as 280 to one, shrink to 9 for one. | [p. 578.] |
6. | There wants an indifferent judicature, or natural Justice, to make the Estates of Ireland, as firm as is propounded. | [p. 580.] |
7. | That these extraordinary Proposals of Transplantation, Cattle, Trade, and Judicature, are unnecessary: For that matters are already so well in Ireland without them. | [p. 582.] |
Upon which Account the following Particulars are sett down. Vizt.
1. | The Difference of the Price of Lands 1687, from what they were, 1683. | [p. 582.] | |
2. | The like Difference in Value of Houses, in Cities, Ports and Market-Towns. | [p. 583.] | |
3. | The like in Cattle of all Sorts. | [p. 583.] | |
4. | How much the People of Ireland have spent in the Years 1684, 1685, and 1686, in Drinks, and other Superfluities, above the Level of the precedent Years. | [p. 583.] | |
5. | The Value of Merchandise exported in the Years 1685, and 1686, without Return. | [p. 583.] | |
6. | An Estimate of the Moneys, Plate and other fine Goods and Furniture; which were, in the said 2 Years, conveyed out of Ireland, or other ways withdrawn from Currant Uses. | [p. 583.] | |
7. | How much the Catholicks of Ireland have Gained and how much they have Lost, by the Transactions of the said Two Years. | [p. 590.] | |
8. | What Effect the said Differences must have upon the Expense of the People, and upon such Branches of the King's Revenue, as depend thereon. | [p. 589.] |