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LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM PETTY

PETTYSHELBURNE

88; from Brasenose, 89; escapes to Dublin, 89; pamphlet and book by, 90-93; in London, 93; and the Cromwell family, 75, 96, 106, 133; his views, 1659, 96, 98, 101; on Henry Cromwell, 98, 106; and the Royal Society, 102, 107 seq.; on shipping, 103, 104, 107, 109, 113; and the King, 103; peculiar position of, 105, 106; claims of, 106, 132; knighted, 107; will of, 108, 114; on the Plague, 108, 121; his 'Calais-Douvres,' 109-113, 255; his 'Scale of Creatures,' 116, 117; his Christianity, 118, 120; on a ship-engine, 122-124; money gain of, 126; land in Kerry, 126-128, 132; an Irish M.P., 130; his great map, 133; troubles and firmness of, 137, 151; on Irish government, 140; on Irish cattle, 141, 142; foreign trade, 142; absenteeism, 143; exchange, 143; on English throttling, 144, 145; on the Irish, 145-148, 239; on the New England, 148; plea for union, 148, 229, 276; his colony at Kenmare, 149, 150, 155, 289; and the Great Fire, 151, 155, 156, 168; a challenge to, 152; marriage of, 153; banter of, 154; tired of life, 154; on furnishing, 154; offered a peerage, 155; troubles and losses of, 156; character of, 159, 168; and his children, 160, 163, 166, 297-306; on the Quakers. 166; in Chancery, 169-172, 174; and the Psalms of David, 172; health of, 1677, 172; portrait of, 173, 179; and the revenue farmers (see Farmers); and Colonel Vernon, 176–178; Aubrey's sketch of, 179; his works, 183, 185 seq., 317, 318; on the Deluge, 217; on sermons, 225; and Captain Graunt, 233; on Pope and Councils, 237; on Ireland, 1678, 239; declines a peerage, 245; in Kerry, 1680, 245; at the Admiralty, 247-250; and the reform of the revenue, 250-252; as a Latin poet, 250, 252; in Kerry again, 253; and the Dublin Society, 203-255; and James II., 269, 275, 280; on denominations, 270; his 'Speculum Hiberniæ,' 272; axioms of, 276; on Imperial questions, 278; and Tyrconnel, 282; preaches patience, 285; his affairs at Kenmare, 289; summary of claims, 293; on his early struggles, 294; on his coat and armes, 297; on men, 299-301; death of, 308; his patriot creed, 309; a forecast by, 310; on mourning, 312; burial-place of, 313; will of, 314, 318-324; see Letters, Works, &c.

Philosophical Society, Ireland, 253-255

Plagues of London, 121

Plunket, Archbishop, 242

'Political Anatomy of Ireland,' 33, 39, 43, 59, 133, 134-137, 140, 143-115, 148, 181, 185, 186, 189, 212, 213, 215, 219, 221

'Political Arithmetic,' 100, 148, 149, 180, 181, 183, 185, 195, 204, 209, 215, 216, 221, 224, 225 seq.

Popish Plot, 232, 234 seq., 240

Population, 216-220

Privy Council, 1679, 243


Quakers in Ireland, 166

'Quantulumcunque concerning Money,' 185, 213

'Queries on the State of Ireland,' 272

Quesnay, 202


Rates, Book of, 189

'Reflections,' 44, 56, 59, 60, 70, 71, 72, 73, 83, 84, 85, 90, 91, 92, 93, 98, 107, 121

Religions and States, founders of, 99

Restoration, the, 98, 105, 128

Revenue, farmers, 137, 169, 174, 246, 251; raising, 207, 251

Robartes, Lord, 241

Rochester, 271, 286

Rome, Church of, 234-238

Romsey Abbey, 315

Rota Club, the, 94

Royal Society, the, 20, 21, 107, 108

Rump, Parliament, the, 87, 88, 89

Rumsey, 1

Rushworth, 10


St. Cyran, 6

'Sale and Settlement of Ireland,' 272

Salmasius, 8

Sandys, Sir John, 177

Sankey, Sir Hierome, 70, 71, 76, 77, 81-86, 88-93, 106, 131, 151

'Satyre, A,' 93

'Scale of Creatures,' 116, 176

Sedgwick, Mr., 230

Servetus, 120

Settlement of Ireland, 1654-8, 65

Shaen, Sir James, 49, 137, 151, 251, 263

Shaftesbury, 242

Shelburne Barony, the, 311