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The Embargo on the Export of Irish Provisions, 1776-9

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2017

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One of the initial problems raised for England by the outbreak of Anglo-American hostilities in 1775, was that of ensuring an adequate supply of provisions for the English naval and military forces, that had to be dispatched to, and maintained in, America. Confronted with this problem, Lord North's government inevitably focussed attention on Ireland's provision supply.

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Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1940

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Page 3 note 1 Dr. R. B. McDowell very kindly located and transcribed this proclamation from Dublin Gazette, 3-6 Feb. 1776, in Nat. Lib. Ire.

Page 3 note 2 See below, p. 5.

Page 4 note 1 23rd Rep. D.K. PRI, pp. 67, 70.

Page 4 note 2 Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Dec. 1775, pp. 750 ff.

Page 5 note 1 F. Hardy, Memoirs of the earl of Charlemont, p. 40.

Page 5 note 2 Dublin Gazette, 17-20 Feb. 1776 (Nat. Lib. Ire.).

Page 6 note 1 Commons' Journ. Ire., ix. 266. An account of the debate is published in Walkers Hibernian Magazine, Apr. 1776, pp. 267-70.

Page 6 note 2 Sir John Irvine to John Hely Hutchinson, 10 June 1776 (Hist. MSS. Comm., 12th Rep., app. ix, p. 286).

Page 6 note 3 Reported in Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Apr. 1776.

Page 7 note 1 Derryy Journal, I Mar. 1776.

Page 7 note 2 Ibid., 8 Mar. 1776.

Page 7 note 3 Market price lists were published in the Derry Journal at irregular intervals between 30 June 1775 and 26 May 1778.

Page 8 note 1 Commons' Journ. Ire., ix. 330.

Page 8 note 2 Reported in Derry Journal, 14 Aug. 1778.

Page 8 note 3 Ibid., 27 Feb. 1778.

Page 9 note 1 Commons' Journ. Ire., ix. 360.

Page 9 note 2 Buckingham to Lord G. Germaine, 4 Nov. 1777 (Hist. MSS. Comm., 9th Rep., app. i., p. 247).

Page 9 note 3 Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Apr. 1776.

Page 10 note 1 T. W. Newenham, Conmmercial circumstances of Ireland, app. ix, p. 14.

Page 10 note 2 Ibid.

Page 11 note 1 Commons’ Journ., xxxvi. 163 ff., 751 ff.; xxxvii. 638 ff.