ravelled to Dublin, and had gone
through a great part of Munster, but finding nowhere such good quarters
as he had in Dungannon jail, he came back.

[26] On the passing of this bill Sir Charles E. Trevelyan remarks with
quiet severity:--"There is no mention of grants or loans; but an Act was
passed by the Irish Parliament, 1741 (15 George II, cap. 8), for the
more effectual securing the payment of rents and preventing frauds by
tenants."--_Irish Crisis_, p. 13.

[27] Matthew O'Connor's _History of the Irish Catholics_, p. 222.

[28] The Judges held the assizes in Tuam instead of Galway this year, on
account of the fever in the latter place.--_Dutton's Galway_.

[29] _The Groans of Ireland, in a letter to an M.P._, 1741. The
estimated population in 1731 was 2,010,221. Rutty says it was computed,
perhaps, with some exaggeration, that one-fifth of the people died of
famine and pestilence. This agrees with the higher estimate above.

[30] _Philo-Ierne_, London, May 20, 1755. Reprinted in Cork with the
author's name, Richard Bocklesly, Esq., M.D. It is hardly necessary to
say that the "people" referred to in the above extract mean merely the
English colony in Ireland.

[31] _Ibid._, pp. 5 & 6--He seems to use the word "dairy" here in a
sense somewhat different from its present application.

[32] The Bristol barrel contained 22 stones--one stone more than the
Irish barrel.

[33] A disease called the _Curl_ appeared in the potato in Lancashire in
1764. It was in that Shire the potato was first planted in England; and
we are told the Curl appeared in those districts of it in which it was
first planted. The nature of the disease is indicated by its name. The
stalk became discoloured and stunted almost from the beginning of its
growth; it changed its natural healthy green for a sickly greenish
brown, the leaves literally curling like those of that species of
ornamental holly known as the "screw-leaved." The plant continued to
grow, and even to produce tubers, but they never attained any
considerable size, and from their inferior quality could not be used for
food. The Curl appeared in Ireland about the year 1770, where it caused
much loss, as we find a large quantity of grain was imported for food
about that period. Isolated cases of the Curl were not unfrequent in
this country long after it ceased to cause alarm to the farmer. I have
seen many such cases, especially where potatoes were planted on lea. On
examining the _