1 68 REVENUE. 



tended to Ireland. Before that epoch the two kingdoms were 

 in this refpet fimilar ; but the old fubfidies and other duties 

 which formed the hereditary revenue of the Stuarts in Eng- 

 land, were purchafed of the crown at the revolution with the 

 civil lift revenue of 700,000 1. no fimilar bargain took place in 

 Ireland, confequently the old hereditary revenue in that king- 

 dom is at prefent under the fame circumftances as the like 

 funds were in England before the year 1688. It is upon 

 this old revenue that the penfions on the Irifh eftablifhment 

 are granted ; the crown claims a right to apply the whole of 

 it at its pleafure, but arguments have been urged againft that 

 claim. 



The following tables will fet the progrefs of late years, and 

 prefent receipt of the revenue, in a clear light. 



