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q. projector, 1 esq. attorney, 6 officers of the army, 8 women, 1 London merchant, 1 Cork merchant, 1 Belfast merchant, 18 merchants whose places of abode are not mentioned, 1 cashier, 4 bankers, 1 gentleman projector, 1 player, 1 chemist, 1 Popish vintner, 1 bricklayer, 1 chandler, 4 doctors of physic, 2 chirurgeons, 1 pewterer, 4 gentlemen attorneys, besides 28 gentleman dealers, yet unknown, _ut supra_? Dublin: Printed by John Harding in Molesworth's Court, in Fishamble Street. (_Reprinted from original broadside, n.d._) [29] In the capacity of a postillion, no doubt. [T. S.] [30] Which means that she kept an eating-house or restaurant, and became eventually a bankrupt. [T. S.] [31] The livery of a footman. [T. S.] [32] As a constable. [T. S.] [33] An innkeeper. [T. S.] [34] This paragraph is printed as given by Faulkner in ed. 1735, vol. iv. [T. S.] [35] See note on Paul Lorrain, p. 34. It was the duty of the Ordinary of a prison to compose such dying speeches. [T. S.] [36] His parents were Dissenters, and gave him a good education. [T. S.] [37] Sir Henry Craik remarks on this title: "In modern language this might well have been entitled, 'The theories of political economy proved to have no application to Ireland.'" The word "controlled" is used in the now obsolete sense of "confuted." [T. S.] [38] Sir John Browne, in his "Scheme of the Money Matters of Ireland" (Dublin, 1729), calculated that the total currency, including paper, was about L914,000, but the author of "Considerations on Seasonable Remarks" stated that the entire currency could not be more than L600,000. Browne was no reliable authority; he is the writer to whom Swift wrote a reply. See p. 122. [T. S.] [39] See "A Short View of the State of Ireland," p. 86. [T. S.] [40] Lecky refers to a remarkable letter written by an Irish peer in the March of 1702, and preserved in the "Southwell Correspondence" in the British Museum, in which the writer complains that the money of the country is almost gone, and the poverty of the towns so great that it was feared the Court mourning for the death of William would be the final blow. (Lecky, vol. i., p. 181, 1892 ed.). [T. S.] [41] Those of Charles II. and James II. in which, for political reasons on the part of the Crown, Ireland was peculiarly favoured. [S.] [42] This was Dr. Nicholas Barbou, the friend of John Asgill and author of two works on trade and money. After the Great Fire
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