Egmont Diary. Notes by the Earl of Egmont concerning the desire of Mr Fitzgerald, a papist of Co. Waterford, to get a bill passed enabling him to buy land in Ireland. The papists in Ireland have much of the trade of the country because they cannot buy land. April, 1733.

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