Some of the observations made by W. P. upon the trade of Irish cattel Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09728 of text R181751 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09728 Wing P1937A ESTC R181751 ocm 62369596

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 eng Petty, William, -- Sir, 1623-1687. Cattle -- Ireland -- Early works to 1800. Cattle -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Some of the observations made by W.P. upon the trade of Irish cattel. Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687. 1673 1 677 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-06 Sampled and proofread 2014-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Some of the OBSERVATIONS made by W. P. Upon the Trade of Irish Cattel .

1. THat the value of the Oxen and Sheep ( their Hides , Tallow , and Skins deducted ) which were ever Imported in one year out of Ireland into England , were never worth above Eighty thousand pounds , nor above the hundredth part of the Rents of Land in England , nor above one hundred part of the Butchers meat yearly spent in England .

2. That Ireland never yet did , nor could spare as many Sheep and Oxen alive or dead , as would maintain a fifth part more people than now it hath ; that is to say , than would maintain about Thirteen hundred thousand people ; of which number , there are about Eleven hundred thousand now in Ireland .

3. Whereas Ireland contains three quarters as much Land as England and Wales , and there be above Six millions of people in England ; it follows , That if Ireland can furnish Flesh-meat but unto Thirteen hundred thousand , that England cannot with equal plenty furnish Meat unto the said Six millions .

4. The Owners of Breeding-lands have since the Prohibition not gotten above Ten shillings per head more for their Cattel than before it ; which the Owners of the Feeding-lands have paid them , and lost . Moreover , the Mariners of England have lost the getting of Nine shillings and Six pence per head for Freight and Primage ; and the People of England have lost Four Shillings and Six pence per head more for Driving and Grazing . The King hath lost Three Shillings and Six pence per head for Custom , on both sides , besides Officers Fees . And the Traders in Hides and Tallow have lost what they might have gained out of Fifteen shillings per head : And the Merchants and Artisans of England have lost yearly what they might have gained by One hundred and forty thousand pounds worth of English Manufactures . The Wool-growers of England have lost as much as their Wool is fallen by reason of the extraordinary Sheep-walks now in Ireland . The Landlords of Ireland resident in England have lost Five per Cent . extraordinary for Exchange of Money . Lastly , the bulk of the People of England have lost one Half-peny for every pound of Flesh-meat they have spent ; amounting for all England unto about Two millions per an . of which great Sum , the Owners even of Breeding-lands have paid three times more in the inhansment of Wages and Manufactures , than they got by the raised Rate of their Cattel above mentioned .

5. Since this Prohibition , the Papists in Ireland ( who are Eight hundred thousand in number ) have gotten a Dispensation from Rome to eat Flesh five days in the week , whereas formerly they did but four . In which extraordinary day of Indulgence , there is as much Meat spent by the Papists in a year , as ever was brought into England .

6. Although a Beast worth Forty shillings might be brought out of Ireland , even to London , for about Twenty shillings ; yet the Land of England , generally taken , is worth five times as much , Acre for Acre , as the Lands of Ireland generally taken . Neither can the Lands of Ireland rise up to a Level of value with those in England , without the mission of some Millions of people more into Ireland than now are there , nor without the expence of more Millions in Buildings and Improvements than all Ireland is now worth : Nor can the Lands of England fall down to a Level with those in Ireland , without vast Depopulations and Devastations preceding .

Every of the before mentioned particulars can be readily proved , from grounds of sence known , granted , or authentique .