[Footnote 11:  “They [the Dutch] have a right to put us in mind, that without their assistance in 1688, Popery and arbitrary power must, without a miracle, have over-run us; and that even since that time, we must have sunk under the exorbitant power of France, and our Church and Queen must have been a prey to a Pretender imposed upon us by this exorbitant power, if that tottering commonwealth ... had not heartily joined with us....  But I forget my self, and I doubt, allege those very things in their favour, for which the ‘Examiner’ and his friends, are the most enraged against them.” ("The Case,” etc., p. 24). [T.S.]]

[Footnote 12:  They [i.e. the bishops] say that the prolocutor is “the referendary of the lower house, i.e. one who is to carry messages and admonitions from the upper house to the lower, and to represent their sense, and to carry their petitions to the upper:  That originally the synod met all in one house in this, as it still does in the other province.” ("The Case,” etc., p. 14). [T.S.]]

[Footnote 13:  Bishop Burnet had made a similar proposal to Queen Mary several years before, “so that she was fully resolved, if ever she had lived to see peace and settlement, ... to have applied it to the augmentation of small benefices.”  He had also laid it very fully before the Princess of Denmark in the reign of King William ("Hist.  Own Times,” ii. 370).

“This very project ... was first set on foot by a great minister in the last reign.  It was then far advanced, and would have been finished, had he stayed but a few months longer in the ministry” ("The Case,” etc., p. 23). [T.S.]]

[Footnote 14:  Swift’s own Memorial to Harley, petitioning the Queen to surrender the first-fruits in Ireland is given in Scott’s edition (vol. xv., pp. 381-4).  It was on behalf of these first-fruits that Swift came to England, in 1707, on a commission from Archbishop King.  Then he made his application as a Whig to a Whig government, but failing with Somers and Halifax both in this and in his hopes for advancement, he joined Harley’s fortunes. [T.S.]]

NUMB. 27.[1]

FROM THURSDAY JANUARY 25, TO THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1, 1710-11.[2]

Ea autem est gloria, laus recte factorum, magnorumque in rempublicam meritorum:  Quae cum optimi cujusque, tum etiam multitudinis testimonio comprobatur.[3]

I am thinking, what a mighty advantage it is to be entertained as a writer to a ruined cause.  I remember a fanatic preacher, who was inclined to come into the Church, and take orders; but upon mature thoughts was diverted from that design, when he considered that the collections of the godly were a much heartier and readier penny, than he could get by wrangling for tithes.  He certainly had reason, and the two cases are parallel.  If you write in defence of a fallen party, you are maintained by contribution