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Treatise of Ireland.
7. A Repetition and Enlargement of the Premisses. [Chapter ix., p. 571.]

Objections.

1. That the said Transplantation is impracticable and Utopian. [p. 574.]
2. The said Cattle-Trade is so likewise. [p. 575.]
3. That Men will comply with neither, altho' practicable and profitable, out of mere Caprice and Perverseness. [p. 576.]
4. That the Irish will Hate and Scorn the said Transplantation, as the Abolishment of their Nation; which they will not think compensable by all the Advantages abovementioned. [p. 577.]
5. The Protestants of England will be frighted to see the Proportion between Catholicks and themselves, which is now, as 280 to one, shrink to 9 for one. [p. 578.]
6. There wants an indifferent judicature, or natural Justice, to make the Estates of Ireland, as firm as is propounded. [p. 580.]
7. That these extraordinary Proposals of Transplantation, Cattle, Trade, and Judicature, are unnecessary: For that matters are already so well in Ireland without them. [p. 582.]

Upon which Account the following Particulars are sett down. Vizt.

1. The Difference of the Price of Lands 1687, from what they were, 1683. [p. 582.]
2. The like Difference in Value of Houses, in Cities, Ports and Market-Towns. [p. 583.]
3. The like in Cattle of all Sorts. [p. 583.]
4. How much the People of Ireland have spent in the Years 1684, 1685, and 1686, in Drinks, and other Superfluities, above the Level of the precedent Years. [p. 583.]
5. The Value of Merchandise exported in the Years 1685, and 1686, without Return. [p. 583.]
6. An Estimate of the Moneys, Plate and other fine Goods and Furniture; which were, in the said 2 Years, conveyed out of Ireland, or other ways withdrawn from Currant Uses. [p. 583.]
7. How much the Catholicks of Ireland have Gained and how much they have Lost, by the Transactions of the said Two Years. [p. 590.]
8. What Effect the said Differences must have upon the Expense of the People, and upon such Branches of the King's Revenue, as depend thereon. [p. 589.]