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The Propositions are not mentioned in the "Advertisement" to the first edition of the Political Anatomy of Ireland (pp. 131—132), and no indication of their authorship accompanies the enumeration of them in the Contents (p. 134). Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice says, however, that "public opinion indicated Sir William as the author of a set of propositions concerning the government of Ireland which the Duke of Ormond submitted about this time to the Crown."

Life of Petty, 140.