The life of Sir William Petty, 1623-1687 : one of the first Fellows of the Royal Society, sometime secretary to Henry Cromwell, maker of the 'Down Survey' of Ireland, author of 'Political Arithmetic' &c. : chiefly derived from private documents hitherto unpublished / by Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice.

  • Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, Baron, 1846-1935.
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1895
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Credit: The life of Sir William Petty, 1623-1687 : one of the first Fellows of the Royal Society, sometime secretary to Henry Cromwell, maker of the 'Down Survey' of Ireland, author of 'Political Arithmetic' &c. : chiefly derived from private documents hitherto unpublished / by Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PETTY 88 ; from Brasenose, 89 ; escapes to Dublin, 89 ; pamphlet and book by, 90-93; in London, 93; and the Cromwell family, 75, 96, 106, 133; his views, 1659, 96, 98, 101 ; on Henry Cromwell, 98, 106; and the Royal Society, 102, 107 seq.; on shipping, 103,104,107,109,113 ; and the King, 103 ; peculiar position of, 105, 106; claims of, 106, 132; knighted, 107 ; will of, 108, 114; on the Plague, 108, 121 ; his ‘ Calais- Douvres,’ 109-113, 255 ; his ‘ Scale of Creatures,’ 116, 117 ; his Chris- tianity, 118, 120 ; on a ship-engine, 122-124 ; money gain of, 126 ; land in Kerry, 126-128, 132; an Irish M.P., 130 ; his great map, 133; troubles and firmness of, 137, 151; on Irish government, 140 ; on Irish cattle, 141, 142 ; foreign trade, 142 ; absenteeism, 143 ; exchange, 143 ; on English throttling, 144, 145 ; on the Irish, 145-148, 239 ; on the New England, 148 ; plea for union, 148, 229, 276; his colony at Kenmare, 149, 150, 155, 289 ; and the Great Fire, 151,155, 156,168 ; a challenge to, 152 ; marriage of, ] 53; banter of, 154 ; tired of life, 154; on fur- nishing, 154; offered a peerage, 155; troubles and losses of, 156 ; cha- racter of, 159, 168 ; and his children, 160, 163, 166, 297-306; on the Quakers, 166 ; in Chancery, 169-172, 174 ; and the Psalms of David, 172 ; health of, 1677,172 ; portrait of, 173, 179 ; and the revenue farmers (see Farmers); and Colonel Vernon, 176- 178; Aubrey’s sketch of, 179; his works, 183, 185 seq., 317, 318 ; on the Deluge, 217 ; on sermons, 225 ; and Captain Graunt, 233 ; on Pope and Councils, 237; on Ireland, 1678, 239; declines a peerage, 245 ; in Kerry, 1680, 245 ; at the Admiralty, 247-250; and the reform of the revenue, 250-252 ; as a Latin poet, 250, 252 ; in Kerry again, 253 ; and the Dublin Society, 253-255 • and James II., 269, 275, 280 ; on deno- minations, 270; his ‘ Speculum Hiberni®,’ 272 ; axioms of, 276; on Imperial questions, 278 ; and Tyr- connel, 282 ; preaches patience, 285 ; his affairs at Kenmare, 289 ; sum- mary of claims, 293; on his early struggles, 294 ; on his coat and armes, 297 ; on men, 299-301 ; death of, 308 ; his patriot creed, 309 ; a fore- I SHELBURNE cast by, 310; on mourning, 312 ; burial-place of, 313 ; will of, 314, 318-324 ; see Letters, Works, Ac. Philosophical Society, Ireland, 253- 255 Plagues of London, 121 Plunket, Archbishop, 242 ‘ Political Anatomy of Ireland,’ 33, 39, 43, 59, 133, 134-137, 140, 143-145, 148, 181, 185,186,189, 212, 213, 215, 219, 221 ‘ Political Arithmetic,’ 100, 148, 149, 180, 181, 183, 185, 195, 204, 209,’ 215, 216, 221, 224, 225 seq. Popish Plot, 232, 234 seq., 240 Population, 216-220 Privy Council, 1679, 243 Quakers in Ireland, 166 ‘Quantulumcunque concerning Monev,’ 185, 213 ‘ Queries on the State of Ireland,’ 272 Quesnay, 202 Rates, Book of, 189 ‘ Reflections,’ 44, 56, 59, CO, 70, 71, 72, 73, 83, 84, 85, 90, 91, 92, 93, 98,107, 121 Religions and States, founders of, 99 Restoration, the, 98, 105, 128 Revenue, farmers, 137, 169, 174, 246, 251 ; raising, 207, 251 Robartes, Lord, 241 Rochester, 271, 286 Rome, Church of, 234-238 Romsey Abbey, 315 Rota Club, the, 94 Royal Society, the, 20, 21, 107, 108 Rump, Parliament, the, 87 88, 89 Rumsey, 1 Rush worth, 10 St. Cyran, 6 ‘ Sale and Settlement of Ireland,’ 272 Salmasius, 8 Sandys, Sir John, 177 Sankey, Sir Hierome, 70, 71, 76, 77, 81-86, 88-93, 106, 131, 151 ‘ Satyre, A,’ 93 4 Scale of Creatures,’ 116, 176 Sedgvvick, Mr., 230 Servetus, 120 Settlement of Ireland, 1654-8, 65 Shaen, Sir James, 49, 137, 151, 251, 263 Shaftesbury, 242 Shelburne Barony, the, 311