or 6 s.

for good ploughing land, which now is clothed with excellent good _corne_.' According to the Down survey, made twenty-two years later, Dromore had not improved: 'There are no buildings in this parish; only Dromore, it being a market town, hath some old thatched houses and a ruined church standing in it.

What other buildings are in the parish are nothing but removeable _creaghts_.' To the economist and the legislator, the most interesting portions of the state papers of the 16th and 17th centuries are, undoubtedly, those which tell us how the people lived, how they were employed, housed, and fed, what measure of happiness fell to their lot, and what were the causes that affected their welfare, that made them contented and loyal, or miserable and disaffected.

Contemporary authors, who deal with social phenomena, are also read with special interest for the same reason.

They present pictures of society in their own time, and enable us to conceive the sort of life our forefathers led, and to estimate, at least in a rough way, what they did for posterity.
Harris was moved to write his 'History of Down' by indignation at the misrepresentations of the English press of his day.