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	Sir William Petty
		A pupil of Hobbes, Petty was a Mercantilist in his policies, but one can find rudiments of the labor theory of value.
		Wilson Lloyd Bevan's "Sir William Petty: A Study in English Economic Literature", 1894, Pub.
		Charles H. Hull's "Petty's Place in the History of Economic Theory", 1900, QJE.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/petty.htm (132 words)

	William Petty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Petty was born in Romsey on the 26th of May 1623 to a family of middle income, his father being a Hampshire clothier, as was his grandfather.
		Petty counted among his many scientific interests naval architecture: he had become convinced of the superiority of double-hulled boats, although they were not always successful; the Experiment reached Porto on 1664, but sank on the way back.
		Petty said that the gain is greater 'as the manufacture itself is greater'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sir_William_Petty (3644 words)

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		William Petty, born on the 26th of May, 1623, was the son of a clothier at Romsey in Hampshire.
		Petty's Maps were printed in 1685, two years before his death, as "Hiberniae Delineatio quoad hactenus licuit perfectissima;" a collection of thirty-six maps, with a portrait of Sir William Petty, a work answering to its description as the most perfect delineation of Ireland that had up to that time been obtained.
		Sir William Petty had to base his calculations partly upon the Bills of Mortality, which had been imperfectly begun under Elizabeth, but fell into disuse, and were revived, as a weekly record of the number of deaths, beginning on the 29th of October, 1603; notices of diseases first appeared in them in 1629.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/mkpa10.txt (11532 words)

	William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC (2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805), known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was a British Whig statesman.
		Lord Kerry had married Anne Petty, the daughter of Sir William Petty, Surveyor-General of Ireland, whose elder son had been created Baron Shelburne in 1688 and (on the elder son's death) whose younger son had been created Baron Shelburne in 1699 and Earl of Shelburne in 1719.
		On the younger son's death the Petty estates passed to the aforementioned John FitzMaurice, who changed his branch of the family's surname to "Petty" in place of "FitzMaurice", and was created Viscount FitzMaurice later in 1751 and Earl of Shelburne in 1753 (after which his elder son was styled Viscount FitzMaurice).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Petty,_2nd_Earl_of_Shelburne (1042 words)

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		Sir William Petty knight was the son of Mr Petty of Rumsey in Hampshire.
		Sir William Petty died at his house in Piccadilly street (almost opposite to St James church) on Friday, 16 December 1687, of a gangrene in his foot, occasioned by the swelling of the gout, and is buried with his father and mother in the church at Rumsey in Hampshire.
		Petty is not the only marke aimed at." Despairing of a trial, Petty returned to Ireland on the 12th of May. The fall of the Protector, Richard, at the end of the month, placed his brother's power in Ireland in a precarious position.
	melbecon.unimelb.edu.au /het/petty/bevan.html (21300 words)

	Petty, Sir William - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		PETTY, SIR WILLIAM [Petty, Sir William] 1623-87, English statistician and physician.
		Petty's survey of the Irish estates appropriated by Oliver Cromwell, begun in 1654 and carried out in 13 months, was the first attempt at scientific surveying on a large scale.
		Secrets and guys; Director Sir Peter Hall said she was 'a goer', but actress BRENDA BLETHYN has been in love with the same man for 26 years.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Petty-Si.asp (396 words)

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		Petty was hardly a religious man, though in that age he inevitably wrote some on religious topics--including a much admired Latin metrical rendition of Psalm 104.
		Petty was a general virtuoso who was intimately associated with the partisans of the new natural philosophy who organized the Royal Society.
		Petty was one of the extraordinary intellects of the age; aside from demography, his most productive areas fell outside the precincts of this study.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/petty.html (1640 words)

	BookRags: William Petty, Sir Biography
		Sir William Petty was a sailor, physician, professor, inventor, surveyor, and member of Parliament, as well as a political economist and statistician.
		Petty built a wooden model of his ship, wrote a treastise on ship building, and gave them to the Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge, of which he was a founder.
		Petty was an originator of political arithmetic, which he called the art of reasoning with figures about things that relate to government.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-petty-sir-soc (661 words)

	WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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	December 16th
		In the small town of Romsey or Rumsey, in Hampshire, William Petty, the son of a humble tradesman, was born in 1623.
		Petty, during this sojourn on the continent, supported and educated a younger brother named Anthony, and was sometimes so reduced, that in Paris he is said to have lived for two weeks on three penny-worth of walnuts.
		Petty, by hard industry, rigid economy, and great ingenuity, had prepared himself to take advantage of such a flood, to swim and direct his course upon it at pleasure, not to be swept away by it.
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	thePeerage.com - General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne and others
		She married General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, son of John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne and Mary FitzMaurice, on 3 February 1765 in Chapel Royal, St. James's, London, England.
		She married General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, son of John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne and Mary FitzMaurice, on 19 July 1779 in St.
		She married Sir Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, son of General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne and Lady Louisa FitzPatrick, on 30 March 1808 in Melbury, England.
	www.thepeerage.com /p3843.htm (2796 words)

	Ireland, Sir William Petty, and British Population Studies
		In fact, Sir William Petty's and the Royal Society's founding of this ``science of population statistics'' rested on a ``study'' both evil and completely unscientific: genocide and ``ethnic cleansing'' against the Irish people, in which Petty was instrumental--the founding genocide of the British Empire, so to speak.
		Sir William Petty, a wealthy merchant and sometime surgeon, accompanied Oliver Cromwell's army to Ireland on its second invasion in 1652, with the task of conducting a survey of lands which had been and were to be confiscated by force from their Irish owners.
		Petty's poll-tax proposals reflected his obsessive claims--repeated in dozens of his ``statistical tracts''--that he could use his population statistics (inaccurate as they usually were) to enable the collection of a maximum tax revenue for the Crown at minimum cost.
	members.tripod.com /~american_almanac/petty.htm (2954 words)

	§18. Political Economists of the Seventeenth Century: Sir William Petty and Locke. XV. The Progress of Science. ...
		Sir William Petty and the philosopher Locke are the best known names in this group of political economists.
		Sir William Petty, who was among the first to state clearly the nature of rent, wrote a celebrated Treatise of Taxes and Contributions.
		Another writer, Samuel Fortrey, followed Petty in his endeavour to go behind the mere art of taxation and analyse the ultimate sources of national wealth in the land and labour of the country.
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	§10. Economists Contemporary with Locke: Sir William Petty. XIV. John Locke. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Of all the economists contemporary with Locke, Sir William Petty was, in many ways, the most remarkable.
		Petty did not sympathise with these complaints; he distrusted vague generalities, and asked for exact statements of the resources of England as compared with those of her rivals.
		It was characteristic of Petty to look facts in the face, without being too much overawed by the prevalent assumptions of statesmen and men of business.
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	Alexander Sir William Earl of Stirling - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Craigie, Sir William Alexander (1867-1957), Scottish philologist, born in Dundee, and educated at the universities of St Andrews and Oxford.
		Shelburne, William Petty, 2nd Earl of (1737-1805), British statesman, prime minister of Great Britain (1782-1783), who was sympathetic to the...
		Mackenzie, William Lyon (1795-1861), Canadian journalist, reformer, and leader of the Rebellion of 1837, born near Dundee, Scotland, Great Britain....
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		Petty had designed a twin-hulled boat by fixing two narrow hulls together and rigging it with one huge sail.
		Petty's second and bigger twin-hulled vessel was named The Experiment by King Charles II, who was present at the launching in December 1664 at Redriffe on the Thames.
		Petty's idea was way ahead of its time but the question remains whether Petty derived his idea for his craft from the "double-bottomd Vessell" made on the Isle of Wight, mentioned by Aubrey.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /lordcornell/iwhr/cat.htm (1239 words)

	Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic
		Petty’s Maps were printed in 1685, two years before his death, as “Hiberniæ Delineatio quoad hactenus licuit perfectissima;” a collection of thirty-six maps, with a portrait of Sir William Petty, a work answering to its description as the most perfect delineation of Ireland that had up to that time been obtained.
		In 1674 Sir William Petty published a paper on “Duplicate Proportion,” and in 1679 he published in Latin a “Colloquy of David with his Own Soul.” In 1682 he published a tract called “Quantulumcunque, concerning Money;” and “England’s Guide to Industry,” in 1686.
		Another of Sir William Petty’s helps in the arithmetic of population was the Chimney Tax, a revival of the old fumage or hearth-money - smoke farthings, as the people called them - once paid, according to Domesday Book, for every chimney in a house.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/mkpa10h.htm (11119 words)

	thePeerage.com - John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne and others
		William FitzMaurice was born on 30 July 1670 in St.
		She was the daughter of Sir William Petty and Elizabeth Waller, Baroness Shelburne.
		Sir William Petty was the son of Anthony Petty.
	thepeerage.com /p3842.htm (2326 words)

	PETTY, SIR WILLIAM (16... - Online Information article about PETTY, SIR WILLIAM (16...
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		place ' The survey executed by Petty was, somewhat whimsically, called the " Down Survey," because the results were set down in maps; it is called by that name in Petty's will.
		Petty is much concerned to discover a fixed unit of value, and he thinks he has found it in the necessary sustenance of a See also:
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		He married Lucy Chichester about 1650 and died in 1686 in London, at which time he owed Sir William Petty £200 for Iron from the Kerry mines, so he was obviously involved in the iron / mining business.
		Due to his relationship with Sir William Petty (a great Cromwellian beneficiary), we can surmise that he was probably involved in the Cromwellian Wars in Ireland.
		Richard was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and fought for King William III at the Battle of the Boyne.
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	Catamarans - Page 2 - Flying Lab Software Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Petty’s letter to Hartlib on education was his first publication but in the next year (1648) he patented a ‘double writing’ machine, which was a device for making copies of handwritten documents.
		I first studied Sir William over 15 years ago, and was fasinated with his inovative work.
		I would like to base the ship as closely as possible to Petty's print of the "Experiment", and increase the dimensions, as to make possible a faster speed than the original, and to be able to carry 9 pdrs.
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	William Petty, Lord Shelburne Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		William Petty, earl Shelburne was born into an ancient Anglo-Irish family.
		Papers of William Petty, 2nd earl of Shelburne, 2nd baron Wycombe, 1st marquess of Lansdowne, British statesman.
		Sir James Lacaita (1813-1895), private secretary to the 3d marquess of Lansdowne from 1857 to 1863 at the family estate, Bowood, at Wiltshire, compiled an autograph collection primarily of material from Shelburne's papers, 625 items, 1692-1885; this is also part of the collection at the Clements Library.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Arlenes/S/Shelburn.html (632 words)

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