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| Carpenters and Masons, and their Wives | 10,000 | ||
| Shoemakers and their Wives | 20,000 | ||
| and Servants | 2500 | ||
| Millers and their Wives | 1600 | |13| | |
| Workers of Wooll and their Wives. | 30,000 | [1] | |
| Tanners and Curriers, and their Wives. | 10,000 | ||
| 331,600 | [2] | ||
| Trades of Fancy and Ornament and their Wives. | 48,400 | ||
| 380,000 | [3] | ||
| Wherefore if the present Employment be performed with 380,000[4] Persons, it follows that there are to spare for other uses | 400,000 | ||
| Memorandum, That in Dublin, where are but 4000 Families, there are at one time 1180 Ale-houses, and 91 publick Brew-houses, viz. near of the whole; it seems, that in Ireland, there being 200 M. Families, that about 60 M. of them should use the same Trade. | |||
| And consequently, That 180,000 viz. 60 Men, 60 Women, and 60 Servants[5] do follow the Trade of Drink. | 180,000 | ||
| So as there are yet to spare, who are Casherers and Fait-neants. | 220,000 | ||
| 400,000 | |14| | ||
| Whereas it is manifest, that ⅔ of the Alehouses may be spared, even although the same quantity of Drink should be sold ; then there will yet be further to spare of them | 110,000 and 220,000 | ||
| 340,000 | |||
- ↑ Cox,'Workers of Wool & their wives are x times as many as are computed it being comon for one bagmaker to Imploy 1000 Spinners weavers &c. There are also three times as many Carpenters and Masons as he mentions.'
- ↑ S, 1691, '331,600,' 1719, '364,600,' which is the correct footing.
- ↑ S, 1691, '380,000,' 1719. '413,000,' which is the correct footing.
- ↑ S, 1691, '380,000,' 1719, '413,000 'but S and both eds. spare 400,000 for other uses. The editor of the second ed., to be consistent, should have altered 400,000 to 367,000.
- ↑ S, '60 M. Men,' 1719, '60,000 Men, as many Women, and as many Servants.'
