Inns of court. The worst-instituted seminaries in any
Christian country, iv. 161.

Inscriptions. By lord Bolingbroke in his exile, xvi.
246. 247. See Monuments.

Inspiration. Pretenders to. See Æolists.

Intelligencers (by Dr, Swift), viii, 228-246. Verses
on Paddy's character of them, xi. 119. Written
principally by Dr. Sheridan, ibid. xviii. 4.
Interest. The prevalence of the monied over the
landed, v. 14. The dangers from it, 170. The
lowness of interest, in other countries a sign of
wealth, but in Ireland a proof of its misery, xii.
294. xiii. 16.

Intrigue. Method in which proficients get rid of an
incommode, iv. 206.

John (king of England). His whole portion before
he came to the crown, xii, 66, When he made a
mean figure, xiv, 227.

Johnson (Mrs). See Stella,

(Dr). Character of his Life of Swift, i, 74.
ii. 200. 258. His character of Swift's writings,

247.

Johnstoun (secretary). His character, vi. 176.
Fones (Richard, earl of Ranelagh). His character, vi.
164. Account of him, and of his death, xv. 211.
Monument of him and his father, repaired at the
instigation of Swift, xviii, 31, 228.

(archbishop). His monument, xviii. 228;
(dean), xv. 33.

(Betty). Courted by Swift, and afterward
married to Mr. Perkins, xviii, 9.

(lady Catharine), xviii, 31, 228.

(sir William). Character and anecdote of him,
iii. 292.

Journal of a modern Lady, xi, 81.

Ireland, Advertisement for the honour of the kingdom
of, xiii. 281. Short View of the State of, xii. 287.
Answer to a Paper called a Memorial of the Poor

Inhabitan's of, xiii. 3. Modest Proposal for prevent-
ing the Children of the Poor from being burdensome,
xiii. 143. Maxims controlled in, xiii. 13.

Causes
of the wretched Condition of, xiv. 105. Letter to a
Member of Parliament on the Choice of a Speaker,
xii. 3. On barbarous Denominations in, xiv. 307.
The Drapier's Letter to the Good People of, in 1745,"
xiii. 294.

Ireland. The interest of the papists there very in-
considerable, iv. 36. xiii. 229. Would be the
paradise of the clergy, if they were in the most
credit where ignorance most prevails, viii. 25.
The wretched condition of it from the want of
improvements in agriculture, xii. 11. 64. The
bishops there do not receive the third penny (fines
included) of the real value of their lands, 71.
Letting their lands to lords and squires, a great
misfortune both to themselves and the publick, 74.
A full third part of the whole income of Ireland.
spent annually in London, 77. Pluralities of liv-
ings there defended, ibid. Has been often forced
to defend itself against new colonies of English
adventurers, xiii. 224. What the land-rents of it
amount to, 193. Archbishop of Tuam's rela
tion of a pleasant scheme to secure it from ruin,
xii. 14. Receives wares, wit, and learning, with
strange partiality, from England, 18. What the
amount of the current money there, 102, 221.
294. xiii. 14. 38. xix. 77. What in lord Dart-

mouth's time, xii. 144. England gets above a
million of money yearly by Ireland, xii. 103.
Obliged to receive mixed money under queen Eli-
zabeth, in the time of Tyrone's rebellion, 106.
What money they are obliged by law to take, 26.
The number of souls there, xii. 29. 111. xiii. 28.
44. What the amount of the king's revenues there,
xii. 117. 118. The several sorts of silver coin
current, 137. A brief view of the state of it, fron

about four hundred years before queen Elizabeth's
reign, till the year 1641, 140. The people how
rewarded for reducing it to the obedience of Eng-
land, 155. Why so few employments to be dis-
posed of in it, 158. Is no dependent kingdom,
being called in some statutes an imperial crown,
163. Parliaments of England have sometimes
bound it by laws enacted there, 165. A bill for
enlarging the power and privileges of the peerage
of it thrown out, 190. The absurd opinion enter-
tained of the natives by the generality of the
English, 210. What the rents of the land were,
since enormously raised, 237. Several articles, by
which Ireland loses, to the gain of England, 237:
238. The folly of those natives of it, who spend
their fortunes in England, 239. Appeals from the
peers of Ireland to those of England frequent, 241.
What Luther said of himself, applicable to Ire-
land, 242. The only advantage possessed by it
an extinction of parties, ibid. The dissenters there
not in a situation to erect a party, 243.
A pro-
posal for promoting the sale of the silk and wool-
len manufactures of it, 246. xii. 270. xiii. 35.
Other means of improving it proposed, xii. 250.
306. xiii. 41. Charter working-schools instituted
in, xii. 251. The only kingdom ever denied the
liberty of exporting its native commodities and
manufactures, xii. 290. An examination of the
share which Ireland has of the several causes of a
nation's thriving, xii. 287-293. xiii. 14. The
lowness of interest, a certain sign of wealth in
other countries, a proof of misery in this, xii. 294.
xiii. 16. Flesh meat very dear there, notwith-
standing the great plenty of cattle, and dearth of
human creatures, xiii. 63. Pays in taxes more, in
proportion to the wealth of it, than England ever
did in the height of war, 8. The maintenance of
the clergy there precarious and uncertain, 142.

What the revenues of the archbishops and bishops
are computed to amount to, 164. Hardship suf-
fered by the poorer people, through the scarcity of
silver there, viii. 238. 243. By what means the
great scarcity of silver there is occasioned, ibid.
Half its revenue annually sent to England, 239.
How it might be remedied, 240. The first impe-
rial kingdom, since Nimrod, which ever wanted
power to coin its own money, 241. Why the
Irish migrate to America, 242. xiii. 56. xx. 102.
The only christian country where the people are
the poverty, not the riches of it, xii. 266. xiii. 18.
266. Would be less miserable, if marriages were
more discouraged there, 266. An allegorical de-
scription of it, xii. 299. And of the conduct of
England toward it, 299-304 Most of the gen-
tlemen in it, who have sons, usually breed one of
them to the church, xvii. 33. Having bishops
perpetually from England, a great disadvantage
and discouragement to it, 34. The depressing of
it on every opportunity an erroneous and modern
maxim of politicks in the English nation, xiii. 239.
Contentions of parties, wherefore of worse conse-
quence than in England, 242. Various causes of
its misery, xiii. 63. xiv. 105. Roman Catholicks
restrained there from wearing or keeping any arms
in their houses, xiii. 97. The state of its exports
and imports, 101. What the profitable land in it
usually computed at, 103. What kind of homage
was paid to king Henry II, 105. Oppression and
arbitrary power at its greatest height there under
the government of the earl of Wharton, iv, 180.
The privy council there have a great share in the
administration, with the chief governor, 199.
What the number of gentlemen there, xii. 29.
Of farmers, ibid. Proceedings in the affair of first-
fruits and twentieth parts there, see First-fruits.
The poorest there have a natural taste for good

sense, xviii. 141. Little encouragement for
authors, 145. Irish tenants knavish, and land-
lords oppressive, xx. 6o. The bad consequences
of four bishopricks being kept vacant there, vi.
304. 326. In the grand rebellion, the churches in
Ireland were pulled down, while those in England
were only defaced, xiv. 74. What the national
debt, xiii. 38. Reasons against laying an addi-
tional duty there on wines, xiii. 39. A method
proposed for delaying its ruin, xii. 268. xiii. 41.
The great imports there even for women's luxury,
xii. 267. xiii. 41. Wine, tea, and unnecessary
ornaments, amount to 400,000l., ibid. In extent,
about a third smaller than England, xiii. 63. Its
roads very impassable, 64. A project for render-
ing the soil more fertile, 65. The expediency of
abolishing the Irish language, 66. Notorious pub-
lick absurdities in that kingdom, xii. 276. Intro-
duction of frogs there, ibid. Records relating to it
in the possession of the duke of Chandos, xix. 95.
115. The barbarous denominations of places and
the brogue there, of ill effect, xiv. 307. England
a habitation of saints, in comparison of Ireland,
xix. 77. The poor there, like oppressed beggars,
always knaves, 78. Enumeration of it's grievances,
xvi. 66. In the time of Henry II, a country little
known, vii. 306. The inhabitants represented at
Rome as a savage people, ibid. No nation, in
which Christianity received so early and unlimited
admittance, so late in feeling its effects upon their
manners and civility, ibid. Two reasons why that
island continued so long uncultivated, ibid. 307.
Observations on the conduct of the dissenters
there, respecting a repeal of the test, xv. 56.
House of commons address the queen, upon the
reversion of lord Slane's attainder, 74. Few pa
rishes there have any glebe, 104. The number