Volume 1

The economic writings of Sir William Petty together with the Observations upon the bills of mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt / edited by Charles Henry Hull.

Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.

Date:: 1899

Credit: The economic writings of Sir William Petty together with the Observations upon the bills of mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt / edited by Charles Henry Hull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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$Mem. That Protestants in Connaught purchased ) of the Transplantees per estimate. M. [ Wherefore of the whole 7500 M. of good Land, \ the English, and Protestants and Church have this l 5,14c)2 Christmas 1672. I And the Irish have near \ as much, viz. 2,280s 4 Remains in the Common-Stock5, near 7>5°°4 II 80 [Also] ‘ 2340 2400 460 5200 D. of Ormond, &c. 160 D. Yorke 120 Com Stock 80 Morgages 100 460.’ These marginal calculations give Ormond 30,000 acres more than the text allows him, and introduce an item of 180,000 acres which cannot be identified with anything preceding. On the other hand they do not include 1,200,000 acres to the Innocents nor 40,000 to Lord Inchiquin, Lord Roscommon, and others. A grouping in accordance with Petty’s probable meaning would be : Papists recovered. 40 to the 26 1200 to the Innocents 60 to letterees 360 per proviso 700 transplantation decrees 2360 or in all 5,230,000 acres. 1 1719, ‘80,000.’ 2 The 5,140,000 acres are found by adding to the 2,300,000 acres held by the Church and the transplanted protestants in 1641 (see p. 136), the 2,400,000 acres of the “ Protestants and Churches additions,” the 60,000 acres purchased by protestants in Connaught and the 380,000 acres “ Of a more indifferent Nature” remaining after the deduction of the 80,000 acres in the common stock from the total of 460,000 acres. 3 The 2,280,000 acres are found by subtracting the transplantees’ sales of 60,000 acres from the 2,340,000 acres which the Papists recovered. 4 In S the total ‘ 7500 ' is written beneath the ‘80,’ as it obviously should be. 5 Cox, ‘ What or where are ye 8ooooa left in ye Common Stock and how comes it they are undisposed, many adventurers being deficient & many designd to be restord are still excluded for want of Previous reprizal.’ Protestants recovered. 20 to the Church 390 to the adventurers 1440 to the ’49 soldiers 280 to the ’49 officers 270 per proviso 2400 Indifferent. 130 to Ormond 40 to Inchiquin 120 to the Duke of York 80 in the common stock 100 to mortgagees 470$