often forced to defend itself against new colonies of English adventurers, 333, 334. What the land rents of it amount to, x. 256. Archbishop of Tuam's relation of a pleasant scheme to secure it from ruin, ix. 4. Receives wares, wit, and learning, with strange partiality, from England, 8. What the amount of the current money there, 21. 154. 206. 345. 391. xiii. 122. What in lord Dartmouth's time, ix. 68. England gets above a million of money yearly by Ireland, ix. 22. Obliged to receive mixed money under queen Elizabeth, in the time of Tyrone's rebellion, 25, 26. What money they are obliged by law to take, 26. The number of souls there, 31. 289. 385. x. 288. What the amount of the king's revenues there, ix. 38, 39. The several sorts of silver coin current, 60. A brief view of the state of it, from about four hundred years before queen Elizabeth's reign, till the year 1641, 64. The people how rewarded for reducing it to the obedience of England, 81. Why so few employments to be disposed of in it, 85. Is no dependent kingdom, being called in some statutes an imperial crown, 90. Parliaments of England have sometimes bound it by laws enacted there, 92. A bill for enlarging the power and privileges of the peerage of it thrown out, 121. The absurd opinion entertained of the natives by the generality of the English, 143. What the rents of the land were, since enormously raised, 171, 172. Several articles, by which Ireland loses, to the gain of England, 172, 173. The folly of those natives of it, who spend their fortunes in England, 174. Appeals from the peers of Ireland to those of England frequent, 176. What Luther said of himself, applicable to Ireland, 177. The only advantage possessed by it an extinction of parties, ibid. The dissenters there not in a situation to erect a party, 178. A proposal for promoting the sale of the silk and woollen manufactures of it, 181. 342. 357. Other means of improving it proposed, 185. 318. 349. Charter working schools instituted in, 186. The only kingdom ever denied the liberty of exporting its native commodities and manufactures, 202. An examination of the share which Ireland has of the several causes of a nation's thriving, 199-204. 391. The lowness of interest, a certain sign of wealth in other countries, a proof of misery in this, 206. 393. Flesh meat very dear there, notwithstanding the great plenty of cattle, and dearth of human creatures, 212. Pays in taxes more, in proportion to the wealth of it, than England ever did in the height of war, 215. The maintenance of the clergy there precarious and uncertain, 244. What the revenues of the archbishops and bishops are computed to amount to, 260. Hardships suffered by the poorer people, through the scarcity of silver there, v. 217. 223. By what means the great scarcity of silver there is occasioned, ibid. Half its revenue annually sent to England, 218. How it might be remedied, 219, 220. The first imperial kingdom, since Nimrod, which ever wanted power to coin its own money, 220. Why the Irish migrate to America, 222. ix. 363. xviii. 353. The only christian country where the people
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