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682 Fifth, a tax, 84.

Fifth monarchy men, 71.

Fines, 68–71.

Fingallians, 206.

Finsbury Fields, 41.

Fire in Essex Street, Dublin, in 1711, 178.

Fire insurance, public, 83.

Fire of London, Petty's losses by, xxiii; Graunt's relation to, xli; its effect on him, xxxvii; on the parishes within the bills, lxxxiv; mentioned, 243, 507.

Fish, number of, 455; exported from Ireland, 595; imported from New England, 296.

Fish supply of London, 471.

Fisheries, how encouraged, 59; in Ireland, 145.

Fishing trade, profit of to the Hollanders, 257, 309; is declining, 242 n.

Fitton, Sir Alexander, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 616.

Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond, ix, lviii; his Life of Petty, viii, xiii, 655, 656.

Fitzgerald, Edward, 613 n.

Fitz Gerald family, 168.

Five Essays in Political Arithmetick, by Petty, 521–544, 644.

Flanders, husbandry in, 249, 250 n.

Flax, on heath-land, 249; brought from France, 119; in Ireland, 272–274; statute for planting flax, 218, 223; in the Netherlands, 251, 259.

Fleetwood, Charles, in Ireland, xvi, note.

Fleet-street, 42, trade of, 381.

Flesh seldom eaten in Ireland, 191.

Flood, population of the world since the, 465, 477.

Florence, Duke of, his diamond, 627.

Food, cheapness of in England, 244, 288; at London, 531; in Ireland, 191; and wages, 181; wholesomeness of, and chronic disease, 351–352.

Footmanship of the Irish, t66.

Foreign goods, expense of Ireland for, 587; to be discouraged there, 222.

Foreign trade, theory of, 87–89, 309; produces wealth, 295.

Forests, improvement of, 303.

Forfeited land in Ireland, area and value of, 168, 598, 599, 618; disposition of, 611.

Fornication punished, 69; reason for law against, 377; hinders breeding, 373.

Fortrey, Samuel, 252 n., 297 n., 309.

Fortune telling, 64.

Foster, Prof. Michael, ix.

Foundling, 20, 28, 29.

Fournier, Georges, his Hydrographie cited by Petty, 280, 284.

Fowl, number of, 455.

France, area of, 250, 284, 285; map of, 250; population, 291, 467 n.; wealth, 242, 250; interest in, 254; superlucration of, 254, 292 n.; exports and imports, 252, 283, 297, 309; gabelle, 55, 74, 83; harbours, 278, 279, 283; sea power, 251, 278–280; manufactures paper, 258; has many churchmen, 263; revenues of, 252–253, 254, 271, 272; offended by the Political Arithmetick, 238, 240; would not gain by possessing Ireland, 156-157; splendour of the court, 295; Petty's comparisons of with England, lxxii.

France, and a universal monarchy, 467 n.

Franklin, Benjamin, adopts a passage from Petty, lxxiii n.

Fraternity of Physicians, 165.

Free ports, 60, 61.

Free schools, abundance of, 72.

Freight of English shipping, value of, 296.

French, Nicholas, 613 n.

French pox, 355, 356.

French language used in Ireland, 191.

Frenchmen, number of, estimated to be in London, 383 n.

Friars, in Ireland, 164.

Frieze, 201; exported from England, 296; from Ireland, 595.

Fruit, tax on, at Amsterdam, 553.

Fuel cheap at London, 531. See also Coals.

Fuller's earth, prohibition to export, 59.