User talk:Dick Bos/ThePettyProject

ToDo

• 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)

s:en:Page:Life_of_Sir_William_Petty_1623_–_1687.djvu/211

• 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)

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)