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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



[anno 1700. 



ylccouvt of the Number of People in the Counties of Armagh, Lowth, and 

 Meath, and the City of Dublin. IVilli an Estimate of the Number of People 

 that were in the Kingdom of Ireland, Jan. 10, 1 695-6. Commmiicated by 

 Capt. South. N° 26 I , p. 520. 



County of Armagh, 25640; County of Lowth, 17203; County of Meath, 

 43319. — Total of these three Counties, 86162. — City of Dublin, 40508. — 

 In the rest of the kingdom, according to the first quarter's assessment of the poll, 

 there are, in proportion to the above three counties, which were very exactly 

 returned, 907432. — Grand total, 1034102. 



An Account of the Romish Clergy in Ireland, in 1698. By the same. 



Counties. Reg. 



Cavan 5 . 



Fermanagh .... 6 . 

 Donegal 22 . 



.... 7 • 

 4 . 



Tyrone 



Downe 



Antrim 5 



Armagh 4 



Monoghan .... 5 



Waterford 1 6 



Limerick 15 



Clare 18 



Cork 30 



Sec. 

 •29 

 . 13 

 . 24 

 . 22 

 . 15 

 . 13 

 . 10 

 . 20 

 . 23 

 . 51 

 .43 



97 



Counties. 



Kerry 



Tipperary .... 48 

 Londonderry . , 5 



Wicklow 6 



Wexford 16 



Kildare 9 



Lowth 12 



Reg. Sec. 

 19 . .23 



39 



15 



15 



24 



, 16 



14 



, 8 



.30 



. 19 

 . 16 



.22 



. 8 

 . 17 

 , 13 

 . 1 



16 



Counties. Reg. Sec. 



Longford 1 5 . . 22 



Roscommon . . 24 . . 52 



Leitrim 13 . . 20 



Sligoe 31 . . 31 



Mayoe 42 . . 50 



Gallway 39 . . 45 



Meath 1 9 . . 23 



Dublin 1 . . 26 



Drogheda town . 4 . . 2 



495 872 



Carlow 



Kilkenny. . . . 

 King's County 

 Queen's .... 

 Westmeath. . . 



Shipped for Foreign parts, by act of Parliament, the number of regulars 

 following, their passage and provisions being paid for by the Govern- 

 ment, viz. 

 From Dublin. . 153. Gallway. . 170. Cork. . 75. Waterford. . 26.— Total 424. 



The Way of making several China Famishes. Sent from the Jesuits in China, 

 to the great Duke of Tuscany. Communicated by Dr. IVilliam Sherard. 

 N° 262, p. 525. 



Take of crude varnish 60 ounces, ordinary water 60 ounces, mix them well 

 together till the water disappears, afterwards put this matter into a wooden 

 vessel 5 or 6 paluis long, and 2 or 3 broad ; mix them with a wooden spatula, 

 for a whole day in the summer's sun, and for two in the winter. It is afterwards 

 kept in earthen vessels with a bladder over it, and this is the varnish prepared in 

 the sun. • . 



