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The Political Anatomy
Carpenters and Masons, and their Wives 10,000
Shoemakers and their Wives 20,000
and Servants 2500
Millers and their Wives 1600 |13|
Workers of Wooll and their Wives. 30,000 [1]
Tanners and Curriers, and their Wives. 10,000

331,600 [2]
Trades of Fancy and Ornament and their Wives. 48,400

380,000 [3]
Wherefore if the present Employment be performed with 380,000[4] Persons, it follows that there are to spare for other uses 400,000
Memorandum, That in Dublin, where are but 4000 Families, there are at one time 1180 Ale-houses, and 91 publick Brew-houses, viz. near of the whole; it seems, that in Ireland, there being 200 M. Families, that about 60 M. of them should use the same Trade.
And consequently, That 180,000 viz. 60 Men, 60 Women, and 60 Servants[5] do follow the Trade of Drink. 180,000
So as there are yet to spare, who are Casherers and Fait-neants. 220,000

400,000 |14|
Whereas it is manifest, that ⅔ of the Alehouses may be spared, even although the same quantity of Drink should be sold ; then there will yet be further to spare of them 110,000
and
220,000

340,000
  1. Cox,'Workers of Wool & their wives are x times as many as are computed it being comon for one bagmaker to Imploy 1000 Spinners weavers &c. There are also three times as many Carpenters and Masons as he mentions.'
  2. S, 1691, '331,600,' 1719, '364,600,' which is the correct footing.
  3. S, 1691, '380,000,' 1719. '413,000,' which is the correct footing.
  4. S, 1691, '380,000,' 1719, '413,000 'but S and both eds. spare 400,000 for other uses. The editor of the second ed., to be consistent, should have altered 400,000 to 367,000.
  5. S, '60 M. Men,' 1719, '60,000 Men, as many Women, and as many Servants.'