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?! ✅
 * Bevan, Wilson Lloyd (1894) - Sir William Petty: A Study in English Economic Literature.
 * Canterbury : J.A. Jennings. (1893)