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Rh all Catholics, and as poor as I shall describe, having among them no more than—

"One cart, No wheel car, No coach, or any other vehicle, One plow, Sixteen harrows, Eight saddles, Two pillions, Eleven bridles, Twenty shovels, Thirty-two rakes, Seven table-forks, Ninety-three chairs, Two hundred and forty-three stools, Ten iron grapes, No swine, hogs, or pigs, Twenty-seven geese, Three turkeys, Two feather beds, Eight chaff beds, Two stables, Six cow-houses, One national school, No other school,

One priest, No other resident gentleman, No bonnet, No clock, Three watches, Eight brass candlesticks, No looking glasses above 3d. in price, No boots, no spurs, No fruit trees, No turnips, No parsnips, No carrots, No clover. Or any other garden vegetables, but potatoes and cabbage, and not more than ten square feet of glass in windows in the whole, with the exception of the chapel, the school-house, the priest's house, Mr. Dom- brain's house, and the consta- bulary barrack.

"None of their either married or unmarried women can afford more than one shift, and the fewest number can afford any, and more than one half of both men and women cannot afford shoes to their feet, nor can many of them afford a second bed, but whole families of sons and daughters of mature age indiscriminately lying together with their parents, and all in the bare buff.

"They have no means of harrowing their land, but with meadow rakes. Their farms are so small that