[Footnote 2:  On August 20th, 1724, the Grand Jury, and the other inhabitants of the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick’s waited on the Dean, and read him the following Declaration, desiring him to give orders for its publication: 

“The Declaration of the Grand-Jury, and the rest of the inhabitants of the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick’s, Dublin.

“We, the Grand-Jury, and other inhabitants of the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, whose names are underwritten, do unanimously declare and determine, that we never will receive or pay any of the half-pence or farthings already coined, or that shall hereafter be coined, by one William Wood, being not obliged by law to receive the same; because we are thoroughly convinced by the Addresses of both Houses of Parliament, as well as by that of his Majesty’s most honourable Privy-Council, and by the universal opinion of the whole kingdom, that the currency of the said half-pence and farthings would soon deprive us of all our gold and silver, and therefore be of the most destructive consequence to the trade and welfare of the nation.” [T.  S.]]

APPENDIX VI

PROCLAMATION AGAINST THE DRAPIER.

“Oct. 27th, 1724.

“A proclamation for discovering ye Author of ye Pamphlet intituled A letter to ye whole people of Ireland, by M.B.  Drapier, author of the Letter to the Shop-keepers, etc.

L300 Reward

BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT AND COUNCIL OF IRELAND.

A Proclamation.

“CONTENT: 

“Whereas a wicked and malicious pamphlet, intituled A Letter to the whole people of Ireland, by M.B.  Drapier, author of the Letter to the Shop-keepers, etc., printed by John Harding, in Molesworth’s Court, in Fishamble Street, Dublin, in which are contained several seditious and scandalous paragraphs highly reflecting upon his Majesty and his Ministers, tending to alienate the affections of his good subjects of England and Ireland from each other, and to promote sedition among the people, hath been lately printed and published in this kingdom:  We, the Lord-Lieutenant and Council do hereby publish and declare that, in order to discover the author of the said seditious pamphlet, we will give the necessary orders for the payment of three hundred pounds sterling, to such person or persons as shall within the specified six months from this date hereof, discover the author of the said pamphlet, so as he be apprehended and convicted thereby.

“Given at the council chamber in Dublin, this twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-four.

“(Signed) Midleton Cancer.  Shannon; Donnerail; G. Fforbes; H. Meath;
Santry; Tyrawly; Fferrars; William Conolly; Ralph Gore; William
Whitshed; B. Hale; Gust.  Hume; Ben Parry; James Tynte; R. Tighe; T.
Clutterbuck.