Mar.] chronicle. 33 



Number of Livings, the value of whicli are not specified, 



being returned as Impropriations, or Appropriations 27 



Sinecures 38 



Number of Livings not included in the preceding classes, and 

 therefore presumed to exceed the value of ofl 50 yearly ... 5,995 



An abstract of the Totals of Parishes containing a Population of 

 above 2,000, of which the Churches will not contain one half: — 



Population 4,659,786 



Number of persons the churches and chapels will contain 9i9,222 

 Excess of population above the capacity of churches and 



chapels 3,710,564 



An abstract of the Totals of Parishes of above 4,000 Inhabitants, of 

 which the Churches will not contain a quarter :^ 



Population 2,947,698 



Number of persons the churches and chapels will contain 419,193 

 Excess of population above the capacity of churches and 



chapels 2,528,505 



MARCH. still dear) delights, sympathies, 

 Jtid"e Fletcher s Char<re at and associations of home, to 

 Armagh. — " Gentlemen, I find, wander where they could: or, in 

 with great pleasure, that the the language of the Ruffian Fac- 

 calendar laid before me exhibits tion, to wander ' to Hell or 

 but that kind of catalogue of ConnaughtP But, Gentlemen, 

 accusation which, perhaps no if you have had better opportuni- 

 state of Society can be expected ties of viewing the deserted, or 

 tabe free from. I do not find in destroyed habitation — the melan- 

 it any evidence of the existence choly and desponding family, 

 of party feuds. From personal bereft of its little all, and flying 

 inspection I know nothing of your with hasty and disordered steps 

 county, this being the first time from the spoiler, you have not 

 I have borne his Majesty's com- had better opportunities than I 

 mission in it; but I cannot be have had, of tracing the fearful 

 supposed ignorant of the unhappy consequences of this persecution, 

 state of society which it presented The emigrants from this county 

 at a period not remote. You, carried into every district of the 

 Gentlemen, must know much island a fearful tale of the perse- 

 better than I possibly can, the ciition they had fled from — they 

 extent of the mischief locally — bore testimony of their sufferings, 

 you must have witnessed the and of the cruel infliction of your 

 misery inflicted upon thousands Orange-men, or Break-of day-men! 

 of the King's unoffending sub- And artful persons availed them- 

 jects, by the ruthless persecution selves of a melancholy and fright- 

 which drove a large portion of the ful truth, to originate and spread 

 population of this county from an Association, which sought, 

 dl the dear (however humble, afterwards in its maturity^ to 

 • Vot. LX. D overthrow 



