, about five
times the number of the quick and the dead which should arise at the
last day, in case the same had been in the year 1682.
3. Now, if there may be place for five times as many graves in
Ireland as are sufficient for all that ever died, and if the earth
of one grave weigh five times as much as the body interred therein,
then a turf less than a foot thick pared off from a fifth part of
the surface of Ireland, will be equivalent in bulk and weight to all
the bodies that ever were buried, and may serve as well for that
purpose as the two mountains aforementioned in the body of this
discourse. From all which it is plain how madly they were mistaken
who did so petulantly vilify what the Holy Scriptures have
delivered.
FURTHER OBSERVATION UPON THE DUBLIN BILLS; Or, Accounts of the
Houses, Hearths, Baptisms, and Burials in that City.
THE STATIONER TO THE READER.
I have not thought fit to make any alteration of the first edition,
but have only added a new table, with observation upon it, placing
the same in the front of what was before, which, perhaps, might have
been as well placed after the like table at the eighth page of the
first edition.
DUBLIN, 1682.
Parishes Houses Fireplaces Baptised Buried
St. James's 272 836 }
St. Katherine's 540 2,198 } 122 306
St. Nicholas }
Without and } 1,064 4,082 145 414
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