ToDo edit
- the red links on the Project page, and
- finish the draughts in my sandbox
- create in sandbox: Petty's History of the Down Survey, published 1851 by Thomas Aiskew Larcom for the Irish Archaeological Society.
- careful examine link(s) with Hobbes, Bacon, Hartlib etc.
- concerning Hobbes: see: Fitzmaurice p. 186f (ch. VII)
- analyse context: developments in England, and especially in Ireland
- see e.g. Fitzmaurice p. 189: taxation in relation to Treatise
- and p. 190 on Colbert.
- think about texts only in MS, like e.g. 'An Opinion of what is possible to be done' (1685) in Nelligan MS, British Museum – see Fitzmaurice p. 188 (ch. VII)
- so: Petty Papers etc.
- the family:
- spouse: Elizabeth Waller (c. 1636-1708), she became the first Baroness Shelburne (in 1688)
- sons: Charles Petty, 1st Baron Shelburne and Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne who both had no sons.
- daughter: Anne, married to Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry; she had a
- her son: John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne, his descendants hold the title
- Marquis of Lansdowne, e.g. his son William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne = William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805)
- her son: John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne, his descendants hold the title
- etc. see also: Earl of Shelburne and Category:Petty-Fitzmaurice family
- create in ws: Bevan 1893 of 1894?!
Done
- Bevan, Wilson Lloyd (1894) - Sir William Petty: A Study in English Economic Literature.
- Canterbury : J.A. Jennings. (1893)