486 Whether the greater waste by wearing of small coins would not be abundantly overbalanced by their usefulness?
487 Whether it be not the industry of common people that feeds the State, and whether it be possible to keep this industry alive without small money?
488 Whether the want of this be not a great bar to our employing the people in these manufactures which are open to us, and do not interfere with Great Britain?
489 Whether therefore such want doth not drive men into the lazy way of employing land under sheep-walk?
490 Whether the running of wool from Ireland can so effectually be prevented as by encouraging other business and manufactures among our people?
491 Whatever commodities Great Britain importeth which we might supply, whether it be not her real interest to import them from us rather than from any other people?
492 Whether the apprehension of many among us (who for that very reason stick to their wool), that England may hereafter prohibit, limit, or discourage our linen trade, when it hath been once, with great pains and expense, thoroughly introduced and settled in this land, be not altogether groundless and unjust?
493 Whether it is possible for this country, which hath neither mines of gold nor a free trade, to support for any time the sending out of specie?
494 Whether in fact our payments are not made by bills? And whether our foreign credit doth not depend on our domestic industry, and our bills on that credit?
495 Whether, in order to mend it, we ought not first to know the peculiar wretchedness of our state? And whether there be any knowing of this but by comparison?
496 Whether there are not single market towns in England that turn more money in buying and selling than whole counties (perhaps provinces) with us?
497 Whether the small town of Birmingham alone doth not, upon an average, circulate every week, one way or other, to the value of fifty thousand pounds? But whether the same crown may not be often paid?
498 Whether any kingdom in Europe be so good a customer at Bordeaux as Ireland?
499 Whether the police and economy of France be not governed by wise councils? And whether any one from this country, who sees their towns, and manufactures, and commerce, will not wonder what our senators have been doing?
500 What variety and number of excellent manufactures are to be met with throughout the whole kingdom of France?
501 Whether there are not everywhere some or other mills for many uses, forges and furnaces for iron-work, looms for tapestry, glass-houses, and so forth?
502 What quantities of paper, stockings, hats; what manufactures of wool, silk, linen, hemp, leather, wax, earthenware, brass, lead, tin, &c?
503 Whether the manufactures and commerce of the single town of Lyons do not amount to a greater value than all the manufactures and all the trade of this kingdom taken together?
504 Whether, in the anniversary fair at the small town of Beaucaire upon the Rhone, there be not as much money laid out as the current cash of this kingdom amounts to?
505 Whether the very shreds shorn from woollen cloth, which are thrown away in Ireland, do not make a beautiful tapestry in France?
506 Whether there be not French towns subsisted merely by making pins?
507 Whether the coarse fingers of those very women, those same peasants who one part of the year till the ground and dress the vineyards, are not another employed in making the finest French point?
508 Whether there is not a great number of idle fingers among the wives and daughters of our peasants?
509 Whether the French do not raise a trade from saffron, dyeing drugs, and the like products, which may do with us as well as with them?
510 Whether we may not have materials of our own growth to supply all manufactures, as well as France, except silk, and whether the bulk of what silk even France manufactures be not imported?
511 Whether it be possible for this country to grow rich, so long as what is made by domestic industry is spent in foreign luxury?
512 Whether our natural Irish are not partly Spaniards and partly Tartars, and whether they do not bear signatures of their descent from both these nations, which is also confirmed by all their histories?
513 Whether the Tartar progeny is not numerous in this land? And whether there is an idler occupation under the sun than to attend flocks and herds of cattle?
514 Whether the wisdom of the State should not wrestle with this hereditary disposition of our Tartars, and with a high hand introduce agriculture?
515 Whether once upon a time France did not, by her linen alone, draw yearly from Spain about eight millions of livres?
516 Whether the French have not suffered in their linen trade with Spain, by not making their cloth of due breadth; and whether any other people have suffered, and are still likely to suffer, through the same prevarication?
517 Whether the Spaniards are not rich and lazy, and whether they have not a particular inclination and favour for the inhabitants of this island? But whether a punctual people do not love punctual dealers?
518 Whether about fourteen years ago we had not come into a considerable share of the linen trade with Spain, and what put a stop to this?
519 Whether, if the linen manufacture were carried on in the other provinces as well as in the North, the merchants of Cork, Limerick, and Galway would not soon find the way to Spain?
520 Whether the woollen manufacture of England is not divided into several parts or branches, appropriated to particular places, where they are only or principally manufactured; fine cloths in Somersetshire, coarse in Yorkshire, long ells at Exeter, saies at Sudbury, crapes at Norwich, linseys at Kendal, blankets at Witney, and so forth?
521 Whether the united skill, industry, and emulation of many together on the same work be not the way to advance it? And whether it had been otherwise possible for England to have carried on her woollen manufacture to so great perfection?