P 225 [par 271] Clarendon These Acts of Parliament,
etc will be acknowledged, by an uncorrupted posterity,
to be everlasting monuments of the King’s princely
and fatherly affection to his people.—Swift
Rather of his weakness.
P 237 [par 24] Clarendon A general insurrection
of the Irish, spread itself over the whole country,
in such an inhumane and barbarous manner, that there
were forty or fifty thousand of the English Protestants
murdered.—Swift At least.
P 243 [par 43] Clarendon That which should
have been an act of oblivion, was made a defence and
justification of whatsoever they [the Scotch] had
done.—Swift Scot, Scot, Scot, for
ever Scot.
P 244 [par 47] Clarendon His Majesty having
never received any considerable profit from Scotland,
etc.—Swift How could he, from
Scottish rebels and beggars?
P 245 [par 47] Clarendon Surely he had then
very hard thoughts of a great part of the nation [the
Scotch].—Swift Who can doubt of it?
P 257 [par 87] Clarendon The propositions made
from Scotland, “for the sending ten thousand
men from thence, into Ulster, to be paid by the Parliament,”
were consented to, whereby some soldiers were dispatched
thither, to defend their own plantation, and did in
truth, at our charge, as much oppress the English
that were there, as the rebels could have done.—Swift
Send cursed rebel Scots, who oppressed the English
in that kingdom as the Irish rebels did, and were governors
of that province, etc.
P 271 [par 130] Clarendon, Doctor Williams,
Archbishop of York—had himself published,
by his own authority, a book against the using those
ceremonies [which were countenanced by Laud], in which
there was much good learning, and too little gravity
for a bishop.—Swift Where is that
book to be had?[5]
[Footnote 5: The book is extant, and was written
in answer to Dr Heyhn’s “Coal from the
Altar”. Even the title page contains a punning
allusion to his adversary’s work, rather too
facetious for the subject of his own. It is entitled
“The Holy Table, name and thing, more anciently,
properly, and literally used under the New Testament,
than that of Altar.”]
P. 272. [par. 130.] Clarendon, Archbishop Williams:—appeared
to be a man of a very corrupt nature, whose passions
could have transported him into the most unjustifiable
actions.—Swift. This character I
think too severe.
P. 275. [par. 138.] Clarendon, the same:—The
great hatred of this man’s person and behaviour,
was the greatest invitation to the House of Commons
so irregularly to revive that Bill to remove the bishops.—Swift.
How came he to be so hated by that faction he is so
said to favour?
P. 277. [par. 140.] Clarendon, petition and
protestation of the bishops.—Swift.
I see no fault in this protestation.
