Macaulay’s explanation of the origin of these two terms is somewhat different from that given by Scott.  “In Scotland,” he says, “some of the persecuted Covenanters, driven mad by oppression, had lately murdered the Primate, had taken aims against the government,” etc.  “These zealots were most numerous among the rustics of the western lowlands, who were vulgarly called Whigs.  Thus the appellation of Whig was fastened on the Presbyterian zealots of Scotland, and was transferred to those English politicians who showed a disposition to oppose the court, and to treat Protestant Nonconformists with indulgence.  The bogs of Ireland, at the same time, afforded a refuge to Popish outlaws, much resembling those who were afterwards known as Whiteboys.  These men were then called Tories.  The name of Tory was therefore given to Englishmen who refused to concur in excluding a Roman Catholic prince from the throne.” ("History of England,” vol. i, chap. ii) [T.S.]]

[Footnote 7:  The Convention was summoned by the Prince of Orange in December, 1688.  After a lengthened debate they resolved, on February 12th, 1688/9, that the Prince and Princess of Orange should “be declared King and Queen.”  The Sovereigns were proclaimed on February 13th, and on the 20th the Convention was voted a Parliament. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 8:  The bishops who were deprived for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to King William were:  Sancroft, the Archbishop of Canterbury; Ken, Bishop of Bath; White, Bishop of Peterborough; Turner, Bishop of Ely; Frampton, Bishop of Gloucester; and Lloyd, Bishop of Norwich. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 9:  Writing to Stella, under date October 10th, 1711, Swift complains that “The Protestant Post-Boy” says “that an ambitious tantivy, missing of his towering hopes of preferment in Ireland, is come over to vent his spleen on the late ministry,” etc. (vol. ii., p. 258, of present edition). [T.S.]]

[Footnote 10:  “The most virtuous and pious enemy to their wicked principles [i.e., to those of the Calves-Head Club] is always cried down as a high-flyer, a Papist, and a traitor to his country” ("Secret History of the Calves-Head Club,” 7th edit., 1709). [T.S.]]

[Footnote 11:  Prince George of Denmark died October 28th, 1708. [T.S.]]

NUMB. 45.[1]

FROM THURSDAY MAY 31, TO THURSDAY JUNE 7, 1711.[2]

  Magna vis est, magnum nomen, unum et idem sentieritis Senatus.[3]

Whoever calls to mind the clamour and the calumny, the artificial fears and jealousies, the shameful misrepresentation of persons and of things, that were raised and spread by the leaders and instruments of a certain party, upon the change of the last ministry, and dissolution of Parliament; if he be a true lover of his country, must feel a mighty pleasure, though mixed with some indignation, to see the wishes, the conjectures, the endeavours, of an inveterate faction entirely disappointed; and this important period wholly spent, in restoring the prerogative to the prince, liberty to the subject, in reforming past abuses, preventing future, supplying old deficiencies, providing for debts, restoring the clergy to their rights, and taking care of the necessities of the Church:  and all this unattended with any of those misfortunes which some men hoped for, while they pretended to fear.