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 of London he speculated largely in building, and greatly assisted in making city improvements. He was the founder of fire insurance in England and was active in land and bank speculations. He died in 1698, leaving a will directing that none of his debts should be paid. [T. S.] [43] The beggars of Ireland are spoken of by Bishop Berkeley. But Arthur Dobbs, in the second part of his "Essay on Trade," published in 1731, gives a descriptive picture of the gangs who travelled over Ireland as professional paupers. In the 2,295 parishes, there was in each an average of at least ten beggars carrying on their trade the whole year round; the total number of these wandering paupers he puts down at over 34,000. Computing 30,000 of them able to work, and assuming that each beggar could earn _4d._ a day in a working year of 284 days, he calculates that their idleness is a loss to the nation of L142,000. (Pp. 444-445 of Thom's reprint; Dublin, 1861) [T. S.]