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of IRELAND.

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So as there are in Ireland fit for Trade		^[2]780,000	\|12\|
Which are Imployed as followeth, viz.
For the Tillage of 500,000 Acres of Land for Corn, Men, and their Wives	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	100,000
For Cowherds and Shepherds to Cattel, grazing upon Seven Millions of Acres, viz. six Millions of black Cattel, or their equivalent in Horses and Sheep^[3], Men and their Wives.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	120,000

220,000
By the other side^[4].		220,000
Imployed about the taking of 5000 Hogsheads of Pilchards, Boats, Nets, Hewers, &rc. Men and Women.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	1000
Imployed about making 1000 Tuns of Iron, Men and Women	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	2000
Smiths as by account, Men and Women		15,000
Their Servants to the Trade^[5]		7,500
Taylors and their Wives		45,000

↑ Had Petty adopted Graunt's table [Observations, ch. xi.] without modification, his figures would have been 704, 440, 275, 176, no, 66, 33. The figures actually used correspond more nearly to the probable mortality of Ireland at the time, but there is no indication of the reasons which led Petty to substitute them for Graunt's (or his own) 'six mean proportional numbers.'
↑

In the margin of S, '1,100,000

320,000.'
↑ Cox, '6,000,000 of black Cattle or their equivalent is more yⁿ all Ireland will feed vide pag 42' [of the MS., p. 175 of this ed.].
↑ This line stands at the top of folio 10 in S and repeats the total (' 220,000,' one line above) from the bottom of folio 9 (misnumbered 13). In the first edition both lines fall (as here) in the middle of a page where they are superfluous. Cf. note 3, p. 143.
↑ Cox, 'Smiths 15000 and their serv^ts but 7500: whereas of all Trades Smiths doe most need a serv^t to help: It is indeed a two handed trade y^t cannot be without a serv^t: ergo there should be as many Serv^ts as Smiths.' But Petty allows a servant to each smith, though none to the smiths' wives.