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inauguration, and the new canal was named the " River 

 Bolton." (Pue's Occurrences, 16th December 1732.) 

 (ii) Welbore Ellis, bishop of Meath, who had pre- 

 viously held the See of Kildare. (iii) Josiah Hort, 

 bishop of Kilmore, who subsequently became Arch- 

 bishop of Tuam. (iv) Edward Synge, bishop of Clon- 

 fert. (v) Robert Clayton, bishop of Killala, 1730, 

 who published a number of works. His Essay on 

 Spirit, 175 1, and some later pamphlets, were so Arian 

 in their tendencies, that an Ecclesiastical Commission 

 was appointed to bring the Bishop to trial, but he 

 died in 1758, before any proceedings were had under 

 it. Clayton was appointed to the Bishopric of Clogher 

 in 1745, and he and Mrs. Clayton are frequently 

 mentioned in the Correspondence of Mrs. Delany, 

 who describes the splendid entertainments at their 

 house in Stephen's Green. 



Aaron Rhames was appointed as first printer to 

 the Society, and the earliest work dealt with was 

 Jethro Tull's Horse Hoeing Husbandry, which was 

 ordered to be printed, or rather reprinted. This 

 appears to be a clear case of piracy, as the work had 

 only just appeared in England. The Irish edition 

 printed by Rhames is among the Haliday Pamphlets, 

 Royal Irish Academy, and the title-page describes the 

 work as on the new Horse Houghing Husbandry, 

 " wherein is shown a method of introducing a sort of 

 vineyard culture into corn fields, in order to increase 

 their product and diminish expense by the use of 

 instruments lately invented." This was the drill 

 husbandry practised in Lombardy ; machines drilled 

 the seed in rows, and cleaved and hoed the intervals. 



Jethro Tull, the author of the work, was born in 

 Berkshire in 1674, graduated at Oxford, and was called to 

 the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1 699, as he had intended entering 



