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It will be convenient to classify Irish trade in the sixteenth century into four divisions, to treat each division separately, and then to summarize results. The basis of classification is economic as well as geographic, and comprises: (I) the English Pale; (2) the southern part of Ireland (the province of Munster and part of Leinster); (3) Connaught (the western province); (4) Ulster (the North of Ireland). (I) The English Pale in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was that part of Ireland in which the majority of the inhabitants were of English birth or descent and in which English law was current and English customs prevalent. The border line was a variable one, but in gener 1 we mean by the English Pale the four counties of Dublin, Kildare, Meath,' and Louth (often spoken of as Uriell). This part of the country, extending inland some twenty or thirty miles and north and south about fifty miles, was distinctively English.2 Its chief cities, Dublin and Drogheda, had been settled by men from Bristol3 and other English cities in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The former city became the headquarters of the English administrative system and very rapidly developed into a thriving trade center.4 The patronage

Journal Article Does Conservation Involve Cost? Get access Willford I. King Willford I. King University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 30, Issue 3, May 1916, Pages 595–600, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885242 Published: 01 May 1916