THE INDEX. ACTS of Parliament, number of, passed in 10 years, ending with 206 table of the number of, passed in eight years, ending with 1800, for making local improvements of the same, ending 1809 Agriculture, promoted by Richard II. little understood before the time of Henry VIII. 245 358 24 28 advantages to be derived from the encouragement of it 117 its improvement in the present reign 149-247 146 AMERICA, disadvantages to Great Britain from its increased territory false alarms from the war with 144 172 advantages to England from the independence of 173-4 the amount and losses of trade and shipping during her ASTLE (Mr. Thomas) thanked for the communication of his 64 350 Authors, some ready to persuade us that the nation is ruined 47-73.-74.-92.-93.-94.-107.-110-114-15,- 122.-3.-128.-135-6.-139.-157.-181. Balance of Trade, state of opinions on 326 a Chronological Table of 315 Table of, with the different nations of Europe, in 1771- Balance of Trade, alarms about it during the prevalence of to it 4.39 Mr Hume's judicious observations relating ibid. Bank Restrictions, state of the nation during their continu. ibid. Bankruptcies, the numbers in England from 1700 to 1793 223 in 1793, causes and consequences of how they injure manufactures and trade 226 226-7 224-8 226-235 196 Baptisms, number of, in the villages around London at different number of, in 16 parishes in Lancashire, at different pe- BRAKENRIDGE, Dr. censured BRITAIN, Great. See England. 122 Pref. xvii. BUFFON, Count de, supposed mankind urged to procreation by instinct CHARLES L encouraged ship-building 1 42 CHARLES II. King, turnpikes established in his reign - 33-46 and in the present, CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE, its vast informations, Circulation, well explained by Sir Tho. More further illustrated the mischiefs of its obstructions impeded by bankruptcies CLARENDON, Lord, gives a pleasing account of the 46 204-5 315 29 191-95 196-97 226-7 commerce of 44 315 the quantity in circulation, at different periods, 344-52 Coinage, Coinage in each reign, from Queen Elizabeth's to the present 344 the total of the constant increasing state of, from 1580 33-37 43 69-70 Commerce, state of ships cleared at the port of London in vari- ous years, from 1688 to 1784 70 78 81 encouragements given to it since the Revolution 92 106-7 114-20 state of, in the reign of George I. 315 general progress of, after our successive wars 325-6 passed in 10 years the resuscitative power of COMPTON, Sir Spenser, anecdote of him 204 477 113 77 Corn, the bounty on exportation, given in the first parliament 78 annual export, from 1744 to 1748, 753,689 quarters, 120 256 ibid. the vast amount of the whole bounty on export ibid the bounty on the import thereof, when it began CULLIFORD, William, the first inspector-general Custom duties, the annua, amount of, from 1660 to 1689 49 net, paid into the exchequer, from 1663 to 1800 DAVENANT, Dr the second inspector-general Depreciation of money a commodious, rather than a just form of expression DODDINGTO, Mr, his conduct 242 4-5 178 Doomsday-book shews the scanty population of England war EAST India Company, acts of parliament for regulating its con- cerns 201 201-2 the affairs, and the trade of 8-9-10 18 produce of a poll-tax in the 51st year of his reign 12-13 arts 21 ibid. in 1337 no wool to be exported rers act respecting vagabonds 31 ibid ELIZABETH, Queen, her act respecting labourers and their wages a few salutary laws made in her reign the number of people under her ENGLAND, settled probably 1000 years before Christ - 35-6 37 38 3 found by Cæsar to contain a great multitude of people, ibid. the Britains soon taught manufactures and commerce ibid. ill effects of the Conquest on population 5 ibid. the plague of 1349 said to have taken off half its inhabi- tants number of inhabitants in, 2,092,978 11 14 the tax paid by the principal towns in England, 1377, 16-17 18 Edward III raised 100,000 men to invade France 24 the trade, in the reign of Richard III. carried on chiefly the number of fighting men in 1575, 1,172,674 |