JOHN, EARL OF MAR.

Macky.  He is a very good manager in his private affairs, which were in disorder when his father died, and is a stanch countryman, fair complexioned, low stature, and 30 years old.—­Swift.  He is crooked; he seemed to me to be a gentleman of good sense and good nature,

ANDREW FLETCHER, OF SALTON.

Macky.  A gentleman of a fair estate in Scotland, attended with the improvement of a good education. ...  He hath written some excellent tracts, but not published in his name; and hath a very fine genius; is a low, thin man, brown complexion, full of fire, with a stern, sour look, and 50 years old.—­Swift.  A most arrogant, conceited pedant in politics; cannot endure the least contradiction in any of his visions or paradoxes.

CHARLES, EARL OF MIDDLETON.

Macky.  He is one of the politest gentlemen in Europe; hath a great deal of wit, mixed with a sound judgment, and a very clear understanding; of an easy, indifferent access, but a careless way of living. ...  He is a black man, of a middle stature, with a sanguine complexion; and one of the pleasantest companions in the world.  Towards 60 years old.—­Swift.  Sir William Temple told me, he was a very valuable man, and a good scholar.  I once saw him.

DAVID, EARL OF WEEMS.

Macky.  He hath not yet been in the administration; is a fine personage, and very beautiful; hath good sense, and is a man of honour.  About 30 years old.—­Swift.  He was a black man, and handsome for a Scot.

NOTE.—­The characters on the Duke of Shrewsbury, the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Ranelagh, and Rear-Admiral Byng, have been entirely omitted.  The first is not given by Reed, and includes in Birch the single word “none”; the second is not given either by Birch or Reed, but appears only in “The Crypt”; the third is given only by Nichols; and the last is not given by Birch or Reed.

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REMARKS ON

LORD CLARENDON’S HISTORY OF

THE REBELLION

OXFORD EDITION, 1707, 3 VOLS.

FROM THE ORIGINAL, IN ST. PATRICK’S LIBRARY.

NOTE.

The text of this edition of Swift’s notes on Clarendon has been founded on the careful transcript made by Mr. Percy Fitzgerald.  This transcript is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington.  Mr. Fitzgerald refers to Dr. Rowan’s collation, but I have been unable to find the original of this.  Rowan’s additions, however, were noted by Mr. Fitzgerald, and they have been included here.  Mr. Fitzgerald says:  “Scott’s notes, subject to the corrections just given [by himself], are correct, and would serve as the base of the new edition.  The additions I have given and the few given by Dr. Rowan (which are given here a little further on) will have to be inserted in their proper places and will make the whole complete.”  This has been done, and the present reprint is a very careful following out of this suggestion.