Infurance. 



1764 Underwriters not liable for a veffel intention- 



ally leaving convoy - - iii, 401 



1765 Additional duties upon policies - - 416 

 — Veird not fea-worthy lofes infurance, and is 



liable to the fliippers for damage - 419 



1767 New duties laid upon policies - . 462 



176S The duties enlarged - - 477 



1774 Infurance on lives, &c without real intereft 



illegal , . . -55^ 



\■J■J^ New duties upon policies - - 608 



17S5 Policies without names of parties annulled iv, 75 

 17SS Names of configner, confignees, &c to be in- 



ferted - - - - '7S 



1793 Infurance on French property prohibited 165 



1794 Regulations for infurance on flave vefl'els 299, 475 



1795 New duties on policies - - . 344 

 1797 Other new duties - . . 421 

 t79S Convoy aft paffed — infuraiKe annulled by de- 



fertion of convoy ... 447 



rSoi Eftimate of infurable property - - 54S 



^^a*lntereji of jnii/jc^ reduced to la per cent i, 40 



324*Regulated by law in India - - 76 



29*Reduced from 10 to 4 per cent at Rome 1 20 



30 Intereft given for money by bankers in Judaea 147 



230 Reduced to 4 per cent by Alexander Severus joi 



527-567 Settled at 6 per cent by Juilinian - 230 



800 Declared fmful by the clergy - - 250 



950 And prohibited by the Bafilics - - 270 



J126, 1133 Prohibited again and again - 318 



1171 At 4 percent in Venice - - 341 



1197 Prohibited by Richard I, king of England 357 



1198 At 10 per cent upon mortgage in England 358 

 J215 Now apparently legal, not payable by minors 379 

 1231 This law enforced ... 3S8 

 1251 Borrowing and lending upen interefl is an efta- 



blifliecl trade in Italy - . 399 



1270 Intereft 20 per cent at Modena . - 419 



J274 Is avowedly paid by King Edward - 427 



i>8i Stipulated in a treaty between Scotland and 



Norway . . . 427 n 



1357 Covenanted in a treaty between England and 



Scotland - - 557 



J4S7 Prohibited in England by parliament - 708 



J546 Fixed at 10 per cent in England by parliament {1,96 

 1^52 Prohibited in England by parliament - 108 



^SS^ Queen Mary borrows at 12 per cent - 124 



1560 Ufual intereft at Antwerp 12 percent - 1:8 

 '57' Again fixed at 10 per cent by parliament 152 



1587 Fixed at 10 per cent by parliament in Scotland 182 

 1601 Reduced to 6^ per cent in France - 223 



1620 K. Jamesborrows at 6perct. from Denmark 303 g'l 



1624 Reduced to 8 per cent by parliament - 325 



1625 And acknowleged at tliat rate by the king 336 

 1633 Reduced from 10 to 8 per cent in Scotland 376 

 1651 Reduced to 6 per cent in England 442, 482 

 1655 Reduced from 5 to 4 in HoUai-.d - 463 

 1661 Reduced to 6 per cent in Scotland - 498 

 1685 Reduced from 4 to 3 on the pope's debts 622 

 16S8 Rates of interelt in various countries . 483 

 1714 Reduced to 5 per cent m Great Britain iii, 39 

 1763 Some obligations in Scotland at 6 per cent itill 



in force — the debtors authorized to pay only 5 379 

 1773 Limited to 12 per cent in India - 542 



15716 Money lent in Scotland at 3 per cent - 593 



Inventions — Sec Patents. 



\HCj\Invernefs — a large Ihip built theie for France i, 397 



1699II Another built for Venice - ii, 708 n 



14 lohia fends wine to Romf: - - J, 125 



550* /rf/a«<^ mentioned by a Greek poet -■ i, 42 



J*And by Himilco - - .52 



14 Sometimes vifited by Gallic traders - 137 



84 Said by Tacitus to be belter known to the 



iiKrchants than Britain -^ - >S9 



Ireland. 



[GENERAL 



1376 



1382 



1410 

 1420 



1437I 

 1460 



1465 

 150+ 



»54i 



i55» 

 «553 



J 560 



1573 

 1601 

 1603 

 1612 



.615 

 1627 



Some ot its towns known to geographers i, 

 [The Scots apparently the ruling people in the 

 idaiid . - . . 213, 



I Manufactures, &c of Ireland 

 Irelajid is invaded by the Norwegians 

 And alfo by the Englilh 

 Is almoft entirely occupied by Oftmen 

 Suffers by a moil dreadful famine 

 1 The manufactures — wlieat, wine, and gold, 

 brought by foreigners— rich in gold and 

 filver - - . . 



Ireland reduced by the Englifh 

 Englifti laws introduced — round money coined 

 Ireland pillaged by the pope 

 The (hipping fummoned by the king 

 Some cloth of Ireland exported to England 

 Foreigners allowed a free trade 

 The Irifti give money to have Englifh laws 

 They fpare corn and provifions to England 

 The freedom of trade abridged 

 Some Flenrifti merchants trade to Ireland 

 Corn and ale exported in Irilh velFels 

 The 7 cliief towns of Ireland 

 Wheat, &c ordered from Ireland 

 Foreigners may carry corn, &c from I. to Engl. 

 Some new regulations ordered 

 All the veftelb prefted — to be paid for 

 Currency of black money permitted 

 Weights and meafures of England introduced 

 Staple fixed at four towns - 547, 



Corn fcnt from Ireland to Et^land 554, 



Sundry enormities rcftrained 

 The trade free to all nations 

 The king orders a fearch for mines 

 Some manufaftures of Ireland worthy of being 

 imitated in Catalonia and worn in Florence 

 Revenue of Ireland near ;f 10,000 

 Wool and woolen manufatture of Ireland fa- 

 voured in England 

 Some Irilh manufai5lures fent to the pope 

 Irifti cloth feems pretty common in England 

 Expenfe of keeping Ireland 

 I Irilh trade with' Brabant 

 Mints at Dublin — Copper coined 

 Irifti woolen cloth admitted in England 

 Irilh money forbidden in England, &c ii. 



The king aft'umes the title of king of Ireland — 

 the Englifti fettlers adopt Irilh manners, and 

 alTunie Irifh names 

 TheEnglifli border in England extended 

 £1000 a-year paid by foreigners for leave to fifti 



on the north coaft of Ireland 

 Trade of Ireland with Antwerp 

 Irifti revenue inadequate to the expenditure 

 Money of inferior ftandard coined for Ireland 

 Ireland entirely pacified 



Divided into I'hires — laws eftabliftied — agricul- 

 ture, commerce, fcience, encouraged 

 Pipe (laves Ihippedfrom I. 30 cargoes annually 

 Merchandize abounding in Ireland — enume- 

 ra'cd and higher duties impoled on expor- 

 t.ition — ftaves and wool not to be exported 

 v.ithout fpecial licence 

 Shi;i tnuber fent from iieland to England 

 Iriih linen yarn fent to Mancheiter 

 Tnc yiapifts maftacre the proteftants 

 Tlv.ir lands fold to ]-!Oteftants - 419, 



Revenue of Ireland befides alfeirment 

 Hitherto the Irifh lliared all the commercial 

 privileges of Englilli fubjcCts : but now 

 Ireland is excluded from the benefits of 

 the navigation act - . - 



Irilh cattle and (heep prohibited in Englaud 



»97 



322 



248 



*53 

 i7l 



333 

 339 



377 

 392 

 394 

 423 

 426 

 429 

 436 



449 

 450 

 465 

 48a 

 49+ 

 495 

 504 

 5o\ 

 5=4 

 545 

 549 

 582 



557 

 56 « 

 562 



562 

 563 



581 

 593 

 624 



634 

 653 

 674 

 678 

 26 



89 



113 

 IIZ 



•31 

 ■55 



223 

 229 



267 

 281 



348 

 351 

 415 

 419 

 421 

 473 



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