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,
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
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