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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54704	The interest of England in the preservation of Ireland humbly presented to the Parliament of England / by G.P., Esq.	Philips, George, 1599?-1696.	1689 (1689)	Wing P2027; ESTC R1613	18,021	38

will be Thorns in our Sides and who since the first Conquest of them were never able to accomplish that Design which was bequeath'd from Generation to Generation till this late unhappy Juncture do not derive their Pedigree from Strangers they are the legitimate Offspring of England and Scotland there is scarce a Man there of British Extraction except such as by very long continuance are degenerated into mere Irish but in one of those Kingdoms will Challenge a Father Brother or near Kinsman They are not estranged in their Language Habit Manners or Customs they retain the natural Propensions disseminated from their respective Families and own a filial Reverence to their Countries as to their lawful Parents not their Step mothers who not being able to make a competent Provision for all their Issue at home have sent some of their Children abroad to seek for their Livelihood on the other side of the Ferry where in their Manners and Humour they bear an exact Resemblance to that Original whereof they are the Transcript except only in their profuse Hospitality and luxurious Consumption of Meat and Drink to which perhaps they are inclined by the Constitution of the Air or disposed by the Genius of the Country or tempted by the incredible Plenty and Cheapness of all sorts of Provisions yet in their Language they have gone beyond their Teachers having refined the English Tongue from the odd Tones and uncouth words used in several Counties distant from London and reformed the Scotch from the Clownish Dialect spoken by the vulgar People So that the People of England are bound in Conscience and common Reason to regard the English in Ireland as Bone of their Bone and Flesh of their Flesh and the Scots as naturalized and incorporated with them to sympathize with them in their Sufferings to participate in their Adventures and from the Principles of Generosity as well as the Impulse of Nature and a prudential Foresight of the same Calamities hovering over their Heads to use their utmost Effort to re-assure that Kingdom in its Appendage to England and absolutely to eradicate the Irish Papists and all French Intruders VI. The Imployments Ecclesiastical Civil and Military Since England is bounded by the Sea and cannot be inlarged by the Discovery of any Newfound Land since the Inhabitants are as fruitful as the Soil Prolific and continually multiplying and increasing since the Vigor and Generosity of their Temper spurs them on to Business and Activity and that the List of Places Offices and Preferments in Church and State do bear no Proportion with the number of Competitors Candidates and Pretenders It is an unexpressible Benefit and Advantage that they can so easily inlarge their Quarters and spread through a Kingdom in Polity Subordinate but in natural Fertility no way Inferior to that from whence they sprang I think it very well worth the Observation That among all the Bishops Deans and Dignitaries in the Church of Ireland in the first year of the late King so very few were born in that Kingdom but almost all of them transplanted from England so were the Lord Chancellor Lord Chief Baron Attorny General and many of the Judges and Officers in the Civil List by such also was the Revenue managed And for the Army it was perfectly a Detachment out of the several Shires in England In a word there did Divines and Scholars get Preferment Lawyers Attornies and others of the Long Robe met with Practice and Promotion Clerks Accountants and Men of ingenious Education were gratified with Imployments the younger Sons of the English Nobility and Gentry were honoured with Military Commands and thousands of the meaner sort train'd up in the Discipline of War. All which must have met with a Check in their Fortunes and been subjected to a less generous course of Living and remain'd as Shrubs in their own Soil while by this Transplantation they grow up to tall Trees shoot out their Branches and bring forth abundant of Fruit. The Advantage to the Trade of England Hitherto I have endeavoured by a few short Hints to represent the many valuable Benefits and Advantages accruing to the Kingdom of England in general by the Conjunction and Preservation of Ireland I shall now proceed to set down how palpably and remarkably it doth contribute to the Advancement of Trade which is the Glory Strength and Security of the English Nation the Fountain and Source of the Riches Wealth and Plenty which render it the Envy and Astonishment of all the Neighbouring Kingdoms and without which it were impossible to provide Sustenance for the innumerable Company of Inhabitants wherewith the Country is sufficiently furnished and the Cities and Towns are absolutely crowded It is Trade that preserves the Body Pelitick in health by Recreation and Exercise by Evacuation and Repletion carrying off such Things as are unnecessary and redundant and bringing in a constant supply of whatsoever is useful and profitable It is Trade that ransacks the Indies joins remote Islands in an imaginary Contiguity with England and makes the whole World but a large Mart for Negotiation and Traffic Trade is the Blood that Circulates in the Veins and Arteries of the Commonwealth and disperseth the animal Spirits to all the Limbs and extreme parts of the Body This so necessary an Ingredient to the Honour and Felicity of England has been signally augmented and improved by the Trade of Ireland co-incident with it will suffer a mighty Detriment by the present Obstruction of Commerce and will as eminently gain by its Revival and Recovery The Advantage to Trade arising from Ireland is demonstrable by these Particulars 1. The Scituation 2. The Exportation 3. The Importation 4. The Ingenuity of the Inhabitants 5. The Benefit to the King. I. The Scituation In the Description of Ireland I might expatiate in recounting the many Benefits and Advantages which it enjoys in Common with her Neighbour Countries and the several Immunities which God and Nature have indulged to it in peculiar above other Places in its exemption from poysonous Insects and noxious Vermin as Frogs Toads Snakes and Adders Neuts Effs and hurtful Spiders but above all in the Freedom from Moles which are the Epidemical Nusance of England and are so sensibly injurious to Orchards Gardens Medows and Pastures in a temperate and benign Air in an infinite number of Fountains Springs Loughs or Lakes and fresh Rivers in an incredible store and variety of Land and Sea-Fowls among which I would mention the incredible Number of Woodcocks and how the Parson of Clownish farms the Tyth of the Woodcocks catcht in his Parish at thirty Pounds per annum where they are generally sold at Twelve-Pence per dozen the innumerable Flocks of Swans and Barnacles that haunt the River of Loughfoyl but that it would exclude the wonder due to the rest But because these Priviledges are inherent to the Soil and not communicable to the Use and Benefit of the Neighbours I shall pass over the further