History of the Commercial and Financial Relations between England and Ireland from the Period of the Restoration

‘
[...]
it seems a little odde that the cheapness of neccessarys for life & goodness of materialls for making all manner of cloth should be made an argument against allowing us to make any, which to me sounds as if one should say to his child you have a good stomach and here is plenty of meal and very good therefore you shall not eat a bit. I do not apprehend why the inviting over English familys to settle in Ireland at this Juncture should be made a reason against us, the waste lands of Ireland must be peopled from some place and quere whether it be safer for England to suffer a few of their people that are willing come, and useless to England or miserable in it, to come here, or to let Ireland be peopled with French and Scotch, England must either let those come that are willing to come, which will increase ye the generall stock of English, or send armys to keep ye country for them, who mairy Irish and whose children will increase the Enemys of England as they have done all a long lastly whereas it is said that the lands of Ireland are generally proper for the linnen manufacture, the truth is quite otherwise
[...]
but the best way is to let this matter alone till England be whipt with its own rode as it was prohibiting Irish Cattel and assure yourself these breaches on Ireland by ye parlement of England will one day come home them as much as that act has.’

Appendix 2

Appendix B: Table I. Provisions exported from Ireland 1764–1800

Year ended Lady Day	Bacon (hams): No.	Bacon (flitches): No.	Beef (barrels): No.	Beef (carcasses): No.
1764	—	—	218,220	19
1765	—	—	199,999	82
1766	—	9,640	190,409	53
1767	—	5,778	173,484	70
1768	—	21,275	209,847	111
1769	—	8,156	205,368	23
1770	—	6,500	208,269	55
1771	—	15,573	201,010	17
1772	—	14,142	200,829	13
1773	—	19,256	215,191	37
1774	—	26,100	187,494	218
1775	—	32,644	192,452	10
1776	—	24,502	203,685	9
1777	241	11,462	168,578	110
1778	578	15,992	190,695	42
1779	391	11,792	138,918	31
1780	203	1,723	187,754	16
1781	183	172	190,501	12
1782	228	239	155,582	6
1783	713	6,337	212,018	12
1784	1,007	33,255	126,531	8
1785	720	35,485	136,650	166
1786	639	30,310	158,388	78
1787	469	16,525	153,649	75
1788	491	29,587	130,857	546
1789	695	33,791	120,192	25
1790	1,836	56,494	126,993	14
1791	1,328	60,735	120,506	78
1792	1,156	62,490	135,219	54
1793	1,127	74,400	102,333	4
1794	643	77,996	135,238	—
1795	752	63,808	124,607	14
1796	1,091	125,085	122,155	0.5
1797	1,314	92,086	110,141	20
1798	1,698	52,941	108,346	—
1799	1,647	68,653	153,578	4
1800	1,049	123,183	149,856	—

Year ended Lady Day	Butter: Cwt.	Bullocks and Cows: No.	Calves Skins: No.	Candles: Cwt.	Cheese: Cwt.	Tanned Hides: No.	Untanned Hides: No.	Hogs: No.	Pork: Barrels	Tongues: Dozen	Tallow: Cwt.
1764	257,976	155	12,074	8,895	3,466	—	—	—	35,006	6,121	50,501
1765	301,109	396	14,668	5,564	3,927	44,469	61,866	140	44,361	5,391	52,706
1766	271,946	1,364	20,224	3,293	3,840	45,754	76,100	481	50,155	—	46,543
1767	257,047	857	20,794	2,862	3,541	46,606	65,289	—	34,995	3,255	51,071
1768	304,623	2,578	19,555	4,222	4,113	42,054	82,095	22	43,041	5,036	51,662
1769	315,153	1,676	21,410	3,428	2,686	23,994	89,062	442	40,039	4,902	49,089
1770	262,717	1,250	19,255	1,730	1,815	28,187	102,943	416	43,947	4,198	48,260
1771	238,800	666	17,934	2,170	1,996	41,073	98,686	76	42,519	4,372	46,842
1772	288,475	456	26,015	2,430	2,406	65,643	90,323	90	44,713	5,252	44,981
1773	272,399	591	18,136	2,183	2,101	57,836	62,142	135	51,112	5,010	39,920
1774	270,096	2,477	17,148	2,024	2,575	41,238	67,044	882	52,328	4,348	41,350
1775	264,140	6,625	23,803	2,234	1,953	56,890	79,892	680	50,367	4,620	42,295
1776	272,411	6,924	19,745	3,155	2,229	37,277	71,297	1,148	72,714	5,607	50,549
1777	264,181	4,198	18,457	1,764	1,597	26,953	57,438	1,358	72,931	4,663	48,502
1778	258,144	3,716	16,601	938	1,561	—	—	874	77,612	4,676	38,450
1779	227,829	3,960	17,625	1,827	753	11,728	44,095	285	70,066	3,315	41,384
1780	244,184	4,838	17,908	5,611	960	13,182	68,777	169	96,554	5,114	54,592
1781	264,210	2,298	24,303	7,175	1,423	3,657	92,381	45	106,282	5,007	39,678
1782	234,058	165	20,303	7,072	2,175	3,499	60,771	None	84,910	5,067	38,275
1783	249,485	400	22,510	9,560	2,329	10,488	58,079	642	112,369	6,371	34,420
1784	257,417	6,836	15,876	10,402	1,504	7,170	47,284	1,937	52,912	3,943	17,806
1785	282,802	22,241	28,954	5,038	1,312	19,623	57,293	2,811	58,445	3,806	21,240
1786	243,007	19,315	19,756	3,504	963	29,800	79,581	1,895	74,761	4,342	18,284
1787	330,866	16,175	23,606	3,599	850	31,106	69,804	1,294	101,859	4,289	22,898
1788	341,599	17,699	17,616	3,796	965	24,255	69,741	3,363	111,046	3,430	13,218
1789	314,876	16,501	23,005	3,529	370	15,347	49,035	6,362	93,336	3,526	13,128
1790	300,669	24,070	25,226	3,028	293	1,626	73,134	7,330	100,266	3,571	16,717
1791	295,875	30,132	17,750	4,063	187	4,178	70,240	5,814	95,467	3,360	18,624
1792	323,872	24,351	16,979	5,985	193	325⁸⁵⁹	63,750	6,465	81,823	3,481	16,221
1793	311,960	21,820	22,841	4,482	129	197	57,857	5,425	119,012	3,322	9,522
1794	271,027	809	12,653	271,027	282	163	35,030	1,528	149,453	3,436	6,944
1795	276,403	5,160	12,626	5,992	233	4,000	38,546	1,051	129,922	4,327	14,352
1796	315,255	10,524	23,590	5,408	524	1,134	60,618	2,649	128,266	3,605	12,651
1797	322,218	36,311	21,855	5,032	441	278	55,488	9,402	142,294	2,437	11,854
1798	315,894	30,670	21,699	5,540	504	134	48,614	6,733	168,436	4,312	12,725
1799	262,764	9,331	19,014	7,828	177	3	79,509	2,577	139,268	4,672	13,839
1800	263,289	2,534	12,291	10,992	134	20	51,833	2,949	114,744	4,615	5,536

Year ended Lady Day	Wheat exported: Barrels	Other corn exported: Barrels	Wheat imported: Barrels	Other corn imported: Barrels
1801	—	—	42,994	2.670
1802	—	202	17,849	3,771
1803	168,397	494,421	8,551	2,648
1804	101,901	428,553	5,374	15,008
1805	152,828	397,342	456	183,216
1806	134,871	385,161	1,283	2,265
1807	153,214	488,396	1,211	29,250
1808	68,003	800,357	9,145	1,968
1809	79,189	1,001,708	18,254	6,802
1810	137,157	1,135,102	12,197	7,810
1811	192,981	837,601	6,155	32,941
1812	363,063	753,786	3,016	64,095
1813	334,886	1,058,325	5,232	20,098
1814	327,763	1,603,003	3,363	29,204
1815	351,332	1,098,606	1,984	59,796
1816	338,801	1,092,994	3,335	7,680
1817	197,019	1,313,510	14,869	4,527
1818	90,538	1,068,764	65,502	119,140
1819	161,666	1,696,723	30,737	69,528
1820	224,725	1,296,313	5,107	6,073
1821	—	1,722,774	—	555
1822	776,775	1,948,717	110	493
1823	631,877	895,860	—	871

Year ended March 25th	New Drapery: Yards	Old Drapery: Yards	Flannel: Yards	Frieze: Yards	Stockings: Pairs
1801	5,301	550	2,000	—	9,940
1802	15,998	3,268	2,764	1,287	15,047
1803	27,563	1,726	1,478	1,890	7,267
1804	4,863	1,570	1,923	1,513	13,065
1805	21,635	938	2,322	267	69,110
1806	20,069	668	853	—	2,436
1807	28,067	1,663	2,050	146	2,850
1808	5,469	2,889	3,054	—	2,436
p.442
1809	14,447	659	432	—	768
1810	1,442	1,032	4,616	—	9,951
1811	4,632	2,906	6,855	240	13,008
1812	863	6,596	1,148	100	7,800
1813	18,320	5,921	1,416	—	7,822
1814	31	401	1,753	1,715	9,182
1815	8,395	1,060	550	—	9,627
1816	9,733	10,121	8,828	—	34,863
1817	2,342	3,152	4,058	—	29,694
1818	2,874	2,382	704	—	23,662
1819	12,084	1,957	790	—	15,734
1820	33,142	786	60	—	3,678
1821	2,763	780	507	—	6,958
1822	1,092	929	64	—	12,300

Year ended Jan 5th.	Plain Linen: Yards	Coloured Linen: Yards	Cambric and Lawn: Yards
1802	37,767,077	142,853	1,672
1803	35,491,131	120,879	1,117
1804	37,432,365	137,489	71
1805	42,988,621	127,091	260
1806	43,534,971	148,562	—
1807	39,049,727	111,294	1,764
1808	40,901,442	152,424	837
1809	43,904,382	82,014	—
1810	37,061,859	103,180	1,360
1811	36,846,971	49,300	874
1812	31,392,845	32,626	1,416
1813	35,787,671	48,737	891
1814	38,994,381	28,661	45
1815	42,964,064	2,204	211
1816	43,383,732	7,688	—
1817	45,617,854	100,992	3
1818	56,084,495	119,855	96
1819	50,805,586	86,039	130
1820	37,464,279	18,345	—
1821	43,507,928	55,293	144
1822	49,414,775	34,031	6
1823	46,464,363	81,581	10,701

Year ended Jan 5th.	Muslins: Yards	Cottons: £	Plain Calicoes: Yards	Coloured Calicoes: Yards
1802	1,256	None entered	None entered	None entered
1803	948	"	"	"
1804	893	"	"	"
1805	20,004	"	"	"
1806	8,956	"	"	"
1807	31,149	"	"	"
1808	4,255	"	"	"
1809	193,236	"	"	"
1810	34,998	"	"	"
1811	56,631	"	"	"
1812	8,944	"	"	"
1813	130,306	"	"	"
1814	99,141	"	"	"
1815	57,640	"	"	"
1816	113,416	18,741	622,959	552,085
1817	191,896	15,138	416,650	1,092,696
1818	75,237	24,254	200,476	272,576
1819	60,467	8,630	47,663	263,754
1820	59,270	226	42,594	490,964
1821	176,846	2,701	84,569	514,334
1822	204,851	2,838	37,151	669,629
1823	253,533	6,918	197,084	673,109

Year ended 25th March	Ware: £	Drinking glasses: No.	Bottles: Doz.
1801	6,718	226,312	6,020
1802	6,524	308,027	19,661
1803	4,261	173,998	42,894
1804	9,073	64,456	19,442
1805	7,902	115,740	14,447
p.444
1806	7,735	131,024	22,665
1807	9,076	111,248	15,421
1808	10,389	36,832	8,006
1809	5,410	1,008	9,676
1810	16,124	377,198	15,236
1811	15,882	136,164	16,774
1812	4,196	4,800	8,319
1813	8,672	—	11,534
1814	8,918	1,954	4,549
1815	7,774	577	6,215
1816	27,962	4,320	8,683
1817	21,991	1,600	4,386
1818	20,651	—	8,596
1819	9,692	—	4,317
1820	11,128	—	5,373
1821	7,200	—	4,490
1822	6,099	—	6,644
1823	10,844	—	5,118

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History of the Commercial and Financial Relations between England and Ireland from the Period of the Restoration (Author: Alice Effie Murray)

Appendix 1

Appendix A: (See Chapter IV., p. 69.) Bishop of Derry to Mr. Annesly, June 15th, 1689. (King MSS., Vol. I., folio 243. TCD)

Appendix 2

Appendix B: Table I. Provisions exported from Ireland 1764–1800