Lastly, the Feathers, Kelp, Melasses, Train-Oil, RapeSeed, Wax and Shoos, exported out of Ireland, is almost all the Work of the English.
As for Importations.
1. The Gold, Silver, Copper[1], Tin, Lead and Steel, as also the Iron (excepting Horse-Shoes, and Plow-Irons) is manufactur'd by the English.
2. The Tobacco-pipe-Clay, Slates and Coals is the Work of the English.
3. The most Part of Dying is done by the English, the Irish indeed can use Bog-Earth, Weeds, and some Indico for that Purpose.
4. The Cotton, Grogram-Yarn and 7831l. of raw Silk is all manufactur'd by the English, the 18241 Pieces of Callico are brought from the Indies by the English.
5. The 2056 Tun of French Wine and 727 Pipes of Spanish, is for the most part brought in by the English Merchants and Mariners. The 15000 hundred Weight of Sugars, and 3 Millions Pounds of Tobacco, were made in America by the English, and chiefly brought in by them.
6. The 1056 hundred of hemp is wrought into Cordage by the English.
7. All the Gunpowder, and most of the Arms, are made by the English.
8. 2811 hundred Weight of hops are grown for the most part in England, & brought into Ireland[2].
There be many other important Observations, to be made upon this gross Account of Trade, but not pertinent to this Place.
Supplements.
1. It has been said that there are now several Decays in Ireland.
2. That the Causes of them have been Fears and Jealousies.
