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A54620	The political anatomy of Ireland with the establishment for that kingdom when the late Duke of Ormond was Lord Lieutenant ... : to which is added Verbum sapienti, or, An account of the wealth and expences of England, and the method of raising taxes in the most equal manner ... / by Sir William Petty ...	Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1691 (1691)	Wing P1931; ESTC R4596	80,138	248

mentioned If an Exchange was made of but about 200 M. Irish and the like number of British brought over in their rooms then the natural strength of the British would be equal to that of the Irish but their Political and Artificial strength three times as great and so visible that the Irish would never stir upon a National or Religious Account 3. There are among the 600 M. above-mentioned of the poor Irish not above 20 M. of unmarried marriageable Women nor would above two thousand per Ann. grow and become such Wherefore if ½ the said Women were in one year and ½ the next transported into England and disposed of one to each Parish and as many English brought back and married to the Irish as would improve their Dwelling but to an House and Garden of 3 l. value the whole Work of natural Transmutation and Union would in 4 or 5 years be accomplished The charge of making the exchange would not be 20,000 l. per Ann. which is about 6 Weeks Pay of the present or late Armies in Ireland If the Irish must have Priests let the number of them which is now between 2 and 3 thousand Secular and Regulars be reduced to the competent number of 1000 which is 800 Souls to the pastorage of each Priest which let be known persons and English-men if it may be So as that when the Priests who govern the Conscience and the Women who influence other powerful Appetites shall be English both of whom being in the Bosom of the Men it must be that no massacring of English as heretofore can happen again Moreover when the Language of the Children shall be English and the whole Oeconomy of the Family English viz. Diet Apparel c. the Transmutation will be very easy and quick Add hereunto That if both Kingdoms now two were put into one and under one Legislative Power and Parliament the Members whereof should be in the same proportion that the Power and Wealth of each Nation are there would be no danger such a Parliament should do any thing to the prejudice of the English Interest in Ireland nor could the Irish ever complain of Partiality when they shall be freely and proportionably represented in all Legislatures The Inconveniencies of the Not-Union and Absurdities seem to be these viz. 1. It is absurd that English-men born sent over into Ireland by the Commission of their own King and there sacrificing their Lives for the King's Interest and succeeding in his Service should therefore be accounted Aliens Foreigners and also Enemies such as were the Irish before Henry the VII time whom if an English-man had then killed he had suffer'd nothing for it for it is but Indulgence and Connivance that now the same is not still in force For such formerly was the Condition of Irishmen and that of English-men is now the same otherwise than as Custom has relieved them It is absurd that the Inhabitants of Ireland naturally and necessarily bound to obey their Sovereign should not be permitted to know who or what the same is i.e. Whether the Parliament of England or that of Ireland and in what Cases the one and in what the other Which uncertainty is or may be made a pretence for my Disobedience It is absurd that English-men in Ireland should either be Aliens there or else to be bound to Laws in the making whereof they are not represented It is absurd if the Legislative Power be in Ireland that the final judgment of Causes between man and man should be in England viz. the Writs of Error should remove Causes out of Ireland to the King's Bench in England That the final determination of Admiralty-Causes and of some Causes-Ecclesiastical should be also ended in England nor that men should know whether the Chancery of England have jurisdiction in Ireland and whether the Decrees of Chancery in one Chancery can be executed in the other As for Inconveniences it is one That we should do to Trade between the two Kingdoms as the Spaniards in the West-Indies do to all other Nations for which cause all other Nations have war with them there And that a Ship trading from Ireland into the Islands of America should be forced to unlade the Commodities shipt for Ireland in England and afterwards bring them home thereby necessitating the Owners of such Goods to run unnecessary hazard and Expences It is inconvenient that the same King's Subjects should pay Customs as Aliens passing from one part of the same their own King's Territories to another The chief Objection against the remedy of these Evils is That his Majesty would by the Union lose much of his Double-Customs Which being true let 's see what the same amounts unto and if it be sufficient to hinder the remedy of these Evils and if it be irreparable by some other way Ann. 1664. which was the best year of Trade that hath been these many years in Ireland when neither Plague nor Wars impeached it and when men were generally disposed to Splendor and Liberality and when the Act for hindring Cattel coming out of Ireland into England was not yet made nor that made for unlading in England Ships bound from America into Ireland I say in that year the Customs upon exported and imported Commodities between Ireland and England was but but not ⅙ thereof which since how easily may it be added to the other Charges upon England and Ireland which are together perhaps 1500 M. per Ann 2. If it be for the good of England to keep Ireland a distinct Kingdom why do not the predominant Party in Parliament suppose the Western Members make England beyond Trent another Kingdom under Commerce and take Tolls and Customs upon the new Borders Or why was there ever a Union between England and Wales the good effects and fruits whereof were never questioned And why may not the entire Kingdom of England be farther Cantoniz'd and infinitely for the advantage of Parties As for the Practice The Peers of Ireland assembled in Parliament may depute so many of their number as make the ⅛ part of the Peers of England to be call'd by Writ into the Lords House of England And the Commons in Ireland assembled in like manner may depute the like proportion of other Members to sit with the Commons of England the King and that House admitting of them But if the Parliament of England be already the Legislative Power of Ireland why may they not call a competent Number out of Ireland 〈◊〉 or in some other more convenient manner All these Shifts and Expedients are necessary but for the 〈◊〉 tim● until the matter be agreed upon by both Nations in some one Parliament 'T is s●ppos'd that the Wealth of Ireland is about the ● or ● of that of England and the King's Revenue in both Kingdoms seems about that proportion Of the Government of IRELAND THE Government of Ireland is by the King 21 Bishops whereof four are Arch-Bishops and the Temporal Peers whereof some

part by reason of the late Rebellion do not sit in Parliament By about 3000 Freeholders and the Members of about 100 Corporations the University at Dublin reckoned for one represented in the House of Commons by about 270 Knights Citizens and Burgesses The Parliament so constituted have a Negative upon any Law that the Lord Lieutenant and Councel shall offer to the King and which the King and his Councel in England shall under the Great Seal remit to the said Parliament The Sheriffs of Counties and of Cities and Counties in Ireland are 40 finally appointed by the Lord Lieutenant each of which hath about Ten Bailiffs The Chief Governour called sometimes Lord-Lieutenant sometimes Lord-Deputy sometimes Lords Justices with a Council at this time consisting of about 50 Members do govern in all Matters belonging to the Peace Prerogative c. There be five Courts viz. a Chancery consisting of a Lord-Chancellor Master of the Rolls and two three or four Sallariated Masters of Chancery The King's-Bench of a Lord-Chief-Justice and two other Judges The Common-Pleas of the like The Exchequer of a Lord-Chief-Baron and two other Barons with the Treasurer and Chancellor of the Exchequer And a Prerogative whereof the Primate of Armagh is Judge There is also a Palatinate-Courtih Tipperary whereof the Duke of Ormond is Lord of the Liberties and Regalities to it belonging There is also a Court of Admiralty Every Bishop hath also two Courts And there have been formerly and lately but now An. 1672. suspended a Presidency of Munster and another of Connaght who meddle not with Life or Limb nor Titles of Land There is also a Court Marshal for the Affairs of the Army who in times of peace often transmit accus'd persons to the Civil-power To all these Courts do belong Officers Councellors of Law whereof I reckon are of the first Classis gaining by Estimation about 600 l. per Ann. each of the 2d gaining about 300 l. per Ann. And of the 3d gaining not above 100 l. per Ann. There are also sworn Attornies gaining about 120 l. per Ann. one with another There are in Ireland about 950 Justices of the Peace appointed by the Lord-Chancellor an Head-Constable for each Barony or Hundred being 252 and a Petty Constable for each Parish whereof are about 2278. The Ecclesiastical Government is by Arch-Bishops Bishops Arch-Deacons Deans of Cathedral-Churches in all which there are now actually but one Quire entire and that in Dublin serving both at Christ-Church and St. Patrick's And the Parsons Vicars and Curates for the Protestant-Religion are in all Ireland at this day near 500 and about half the Tythes are Impropriate and belonging to Lay-men This is the State of the External and Apparent Government of Ireland so far as it concerns the Number and Species of Persons managing the same But the Internal and Mystical Government of Ireland is thus viz. 1. There are always about Twenty Gentlemen of the Irish Nation and Popish-Religion who by reason of their Families good Parts Courtly Education and Carriage are supported by the Irish to negotiate their Concernments at the Court of England and of the Vice-Roy in Ireland These men raise their Contributions by the Priests who actually and immediately govern the People The Priests are govern'd by at least 24 Romish Bishops all of whom have a long time been conversant in France Spain Italy Germany England whereas Chaplains and Almoners c. they have made an interest with the governing Men and Ministers of State in those several Kingdoms and have obtained some Benefits and Preferments from them So as the Body of the Irish-Papist's being about 800 M. whereof near 700 M. do live in wretched Cabbins without Chimney or Window are govern'd by about 1000 Secular Priests and 2500 Friars and Regulars of several Orders whereof most are Franciscans next Dominicans and Augustins but few Capuchins and Iesuits or Carthusians These I say are govern'd by their respective Bishops and Superiors whom the Ministers of Foreign States do also govern and direct So as upon the whole matter the Irish who are the Bulk of the Nation are govern'd indirectly by Foreign Power and so are the aforenamed Lay-Patriots their support coming from the Clergy constituted as aforesaid and who do notoriously exercise their Spiritual Jurisdiction in Ireland And do also exert a Temporal Power by prevailing with Papist Justices of the Peace to send such to Gaol as are disobedient to the Clergy upon feigned or frivolous Complaints which they cause to be brought against them The Judges aforenamed all but the Chancellor go Circuits whereof there are five twice every year excepting only the one County of Kerry There is an University at Dublin but lying for the most part within one College wherein are a Provost and seven Senior and Ruling Fellows Nine Junior Fellows sixty Sch lars and at this time Commoners and other Students There was about the year 1669 erected a College of Physicians consisting of a President and 13 Fellows There are belonging to the Prerogative Arch-Deacons Courts Court-Martial and Admiralty-Courts not above to Advocates and 30 Proctors There are in the City of Dublin a Lord-Mayor 2 Sheriffs 24 Aldermen 48 Sheriffs Peers and 96 of the Common-Council There are besides Companies or Corporations of Trades-men There is lately instituted an Hospital for poor Children not yet fully perfected nor endowed There is also an Hospital for Sick Lame and Old Soldiers but without Endowment and standing but at discretion and pleasure There are in and near Dublin three Publick Prisons and one House of Correction Lastly I must intimate that the Footmanship for which the Irish 40 years agone were very famous is now almost quite lost among them every man now keeping a small Garran to ride on unless in such rocky and craggy places where 't is easier to go a foot than to ride Of the Militia and Defence of IRELAND THERE be in Ireland as elsewhere two Militias one are the Justices of Peace their Militia of High and Petty Constables as also the Sheriffs Militia of his Servants and Bailiffs and Posse Comitatus upon extraordinary occasions Of these all together there are in Ireland near 3000 all of which are bound within their several Districts there to act and not elsewhere There is or hath lately been an Army in Ireland of about thirty Troops of Horse and sixty Companies of Foot with a Regiment of Guard at Dublin as a Life-Guard for the Lord Lieutenant making in all about five thousand Men. There is also a Protestant Militia of about 24000 Men viz. about ten thousand Horse and the rest Foot The people of Ireland are all in Factions and Parties called English and Irish Protestants and Papists Though indeed the real distinction is vested and devested of the Land belonging to Papists Ann. 1641. Of which the Irish that are vested by Restoration seem rather to take part with the devested And the chief Pique which the Popish-Clergy have at the Protestants is