[77] 7 George II. (Irish) c. 13. This Irish Statute was framed on the model of an Act passed by the English Parliament in 1678, providing that all dead bodies should be wrapped in woollen shrouds. Dean Swift warmly approved of this measure which, however, he seemed to think would never pass the Privy Councils. "What," he says, "if we should agree to make burying in woollen a fashion, as our neighbours have made it a law?" Swift's Works (Scott's Ed.), vi., p. 274.
[78] Finlayson's "Monumental Inscriptions in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin," p. 27.
[79] Lecky's "Eighteenth Century," vol. ii., 215.
[80] "Parliamentary Register," 17, 249. Mr. Lecky pays a high compliment to the exertions of the Irish Parliament to protect the material interests of their country. "During the greater part of the century (18th century) it had little power except that of protesting against laws crushing Irish commerce, but what little it could do it appears to have done."—"Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland," p. 187.
[81] "Parliamentary Register," 17, 249.
[82] Mr. Lecky refers doubtless to the Treaty of Limerick.
[83] "Eighteenth Century," vol. ii., 256.
[84] "English in Ireland," vol. ii., 213.