are the poverty, not the riches of it, ix. 353. 396. 420. Would be less miserable, if marriages were more discouraged there, 420. An allegorical description of it, 309. And of the conduct of England toward it, 309-315. Most of the gentlemen in it, who have sons, usually breed one of them to the church, xii. 149. Having bishops perpetually from England, a great disadvantage and discouragement to it, ibid. The depressing of it on every opportunity an erroneous and modern maxim of politicks in the English nation, ix. 401. Contentions of parties, wherefore of worse consequence than in England, 404. Various causes of its misery, 371. x. 109. Roman Catholicks restrained there from wearing or keeping any arms in their houses, ix. 330. The state of its exports and imports, 334. What the profitable land in it usually computed at, 337. What kind of homage was paid to king Henry II, 339. Oppression and arbitrary power at its greatest height there under the government of the earl of Wharton, v. 349, 350. The privy council there have a great share in the administration, with the chief governor, 371. What the number of gentlemen there, ix. 385. Of farmers, 386. Proceedings in the affair of first-fruits and twentieth parts there, see First-fruits. The poorest there have a natural taste for good sense, xii. 438. Little encouragement for authors, 439. Irish tenants knavish, and landlords oppressive, xiii. 298. The bad consequences of four bishopricks being kept vacant there, iv. 318. 343. In the grand rebellion, the churches in Ireland were pulled down, while those in England were only defaced, ix. 74, 75. What the national debt, 345. Reasons against laying an additional duty there on wines, 347. A method proposed for delaying its ruin, 349. 355. The great imports there even from women's luxury, 349. 354. Wine, tea, and unnecessary ornaments, amount to 400000l., ibid. In extent, about a third smaller than England, 371. Its roads very impassable, 372. A project for rendering the soil more fertile, 374. The expediency of abolishing the Irish language, 375. Notorious publick absurdities in that kingdom, xvi. 263. Introduction of frogs there, ibid. Records relating to it in the possession of the duke of Chandos, xiii. 139. 150. The barbarous denominations of places, and the brogue there, of ill effect, xvi. 254. England a habitation of saints, in comparison of Ireland, xiii. 122. The poor there, like oppressed beggars, always knaves, 123. Enumeration of it's grievances, xii. 181. In the time of Henry II, a country little known, xvi. 94. The inhabitants represented at Rome as a savage people, ibid. No nation, in which christianity received so early and unlimited admittance, so late in feeling its effects upon their manners and civility, ibid. Two reasons why that island continued so long uncultivated, 95. Observations on the conduct of the dissenters there, respecting a repeal of the test, xi. 43. House of commons address the queen, upon the reversion of lord Slane's attainder, 63. Few parishes there have any glebe, 91. The number of impropriations make the livings small and of uncertain value, 92. That kingdom has not the
