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Rh Kingston, Robert King, second lord, farmer of Irish revenues, xxvii, 616.

King's Weston, 506 n.

Konigsberg, plague at, 403, 404.

Labour, the father of wealth, ixxi, 68, 377; relation of to value, 44, 45, 307, 443; dear when corn is plentiful, 274; hours of, 110; portion of people fit for, 307; a par between labour and land, lxxi, 44, 45, 181, 573, 574; between labour and art, 182. See also Division of labour.

Labourers, raising of money a tax upon, 87.

Lambeth included in the bills of mortality, lxxxiv, 344; not properly part of London, 423; table for, 410,

La Motte, John, his house turned into a tenement, 380.

Land-Carriage, Petty's experiments on, 250.

Land-oaths, 199.

Land, the mother of wealth, lxxi, 68, 377; value of, 44–46, 50; how determined, 89, 570, 573; depends on density of population, 286, 287, 289, 290, 592; affected by a change of coins, 444; intrinsic and extrinsic value of, 396; need of survey of, 395, 396; original and primitive differences between, 250, 255; improvement of, 244; effect of selling land to foreigners, 313 (see also Absentees); taxation of land, 38, 115, 120 n.; par between land and labour, lxxi, 44, 45, 181, 573, 574.

Lands of England and Wales, value of, 105; to be coined into current coin, 558; of Ireland, value of, 176–182, 214, 597, 606; has declined (1687), 570, 573, 580, 583, 590; to be accurately valued, 582; years' purchase of, 7, 447; titles of, 195, 570, 573, 581; how far cultivated, 174, 175.

Land's End, a source of fish-supply, 471.

Landsmen and seamen, 281, 282.

Lanesborough, Sir George Lane, viscount, 616.

Language of Ireland, 206.

Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzmaurice, fifth marquis, ix; his Petty MSS. Iviii; his MS. of Petty's Essay on Ireland lost, 548.

Larcom, General Thomas Aiskew, 124; on Worsley, xvi n.; on Petty's survey, xvii.

La Rochelle, siege of, 280 n.

Latin frequent among poorest Irish, 191; of Irish priests, 198.

Latin words used by Petty and by Graunt, xlviii.

Law, when it flourishes, 76; too many matters regulated by, 243; law and equity, 300.

Laws of nature, 9, 48, 243, 445.

Law suits, Petty's, xxv; called la chicane, 507.

Law Merchant, 261.

Lawyers, excessive number of, 26, 27; in London, 530; and in Paris, 507, object to registers of land, 264.

Laziness, punishment for, 261; of the Irish, 201.

Lead exported from England, 296; to Ireland, 596; to Turkey, 442; worked in Holland, 258.

Lead works in Ireland, 209.

Leadenhall Street has lost its trade, 380.

Leather exported from Ireland, 595.

Lecturers, 79.

Leeuwarden, plague at, 403.

Leghorn, merchants in, 263.

Leinster, surveyed, 177; value of land, 177, 178, 606.

Letterees, 131, 582; lands of, 136.

Leyden, Petty in, xiv; plague at, 402, 404.

Liberty of conscience, xxxi n., lxii, lxxiii, 70, 261, 262, 578, 592.

Libraries, ix, 72.

Liège, 258 n.

Lighthouses in Ireland, 208.

Lights, rising of the, 359.

Lincoln, decrease of, 370, 372.

Lincoln's Inn, 507.

Linen, imported into England, 273; from Ireland and Scotland, 296, 595; from the East Indies, 119.