CONTENTS NINTH VOLUME. ... .... Seasonable Advice to the Grand Jury concerning the Bill preparing against the Printer of the Drapier's Fourth Resolutions of the House of Commons in England, Novem- A Full and True Account of the Solemn Procession at the Execution of William Wood..... A short View of the State of Ireland... An Answer to a Paper called a Memorial of the poor Inha- bitants, Tradesmen, and Labourers of Ireland A Vindication of Lord Carteret.... Considerations upon two Bills relating to the Clergy A Proposal for Paying the National Debt ..... An Examination of certain Abuses, &c. in the City of Dublin 267 An Answer to the Craftsman.... Proposal that the Ladies wear Irish Manufactures........ 342 Answer to several Letters from unknown Persons ........ 361 An Answer to several Letters sent me from unknown hands 370 IRISH MANUFACTURE, IN CLOTHES AND OF HOUSES, ETC. UTTERLY REJECTING AND RENOUNCING EVERY THING WEARABLE THAT COMES FROM ENGLAND. FURNITURE WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1720. IT is the peculiar felicity and prudence of the people in this kingdom, that whatever commodities or productions lie under the greatest discouragements from England, thofe are what they are sure to be most industrious in cultivating and spreading. Agriculture, which has been the principal care of all wise nations, and for the encouragement whereof there are so many statute laws in England, we countenance so well, that the landlords are every where, by penal clauses, absolutely prohibiting their tenants This proposal was answered, and our author severely censured, in a pamphlet published directly after it, entitled, "A Defence of English Commodities." VOL. IX. B from from ploughing*; not satisfied to confine them within certain limitations, as is the practice of the English one effect of which is already seen in the prodigious dearness of corn, and the importation of it from London, as the cheaper market. And because people are the riches of a country, and that our neighbours have done, and are doing, all that in them lies to make our wool a drug to us, and a monopoly to them; therefore the politick gentlemen of Ireland have depopulated vast tracts of the best land, for the feeding of sheep. I could fill a volume as large as the history of the wise men of Gotham, with a catalogue only of some wonderful laws and customs, we have observed within thirty years past. It is true indeed, our beneficial traffick of wool with France, has been our only support for several years, furnishing us with all the little money we have to pay our rents, and go to market. But our merchants assure me, this trade has received a great damp by the present fluctuating condition of the coin in France; that most of their wine is paid for in species, without carrying thither any commodity from hence. However, since we are so universally bent upon enlarging our flocks, it may be worth inquiring, what we shall do with our wool, in case Barnstable * It was the practice of Irish farmers to wear out their ground with ploughing, neither manuring nor letting it lie fallow, and when their leases were near expired, they ploughed even the meadows, and made fuch havock, that the landlords by their zeal to prevent it were betrayed into this pernicious measure. + A sea port in Devonshire, at that time the principal market in England for Irish wool. should |
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