[248] See post, those acts stated.
[249] Com. Journ., vol. ii., p. 576.
[250] English acts, 12 Ch. 2, ch. 32, 13 and 14. Ch. 2, ch. 18.
[251] 1 W., and M. ch. 32.
[252] 7 and 8 W., ch. 28.
[253] 14th Jan., 1697.
[254] 7th July, 1698, dissolved.
[255] In a pamphlet cited by Dr. Smith (vol. ii., p. 244, in his memoirs of wool) it is said that the total value of those manufactures exported in 1697, was £23,614 9s. 6d., namely, in friezes and stockings, £14,625 12s.; in old and new draperies, £8,988 17s. 6d.; and that though the Irish had been every year increasing, yet they had not recovered above one-third of the woollen trade which they had before the war (ib. 243). The value in 1687, according to the same authority, was £70,521 14s.; of which the friezes were £56,485 16s.; stockings, £2,520 18s.; and old and new drapery (which it is there said could alone interfere with the English trade), £11,514 10s.
[256] Preamble of English act of 1699.
[257] 9th June, 1698, vol. of Lords’ Journals, p. 314.