P. 580. Burnet, speaking of the interruption in the negotiations for a peace consequent on the Earl of Jersey’s death, adds:—­One Prior, who had been Jersey’s secretary, upon his death, was employed to prosecute that, which the other did not live to finish.  Prior had been taken a boy, out of a tavern, by the Earl of Dorset, who accidentally found him reading Horace; and he, being very generous, gave him an education in literature.—­Swift.  Malice.

P. 581. Burnet.  Many mercenary pens were set on work, to justify our proceedings, and to defame our allies, more particularly the Dutch; this was done with much art, but with no regard to truth, in a pamphlet entitled “The Conduct of the Allies, and of the late Ministry.”—­Swift It was all true.

Ibid.  Burnet.  The Jacobites did, with the greater joy entertain this prospect of peace, because the Dauphin had, in a visit to St. Germains, congratulated that court upon it; which made them conclude, that it was to have a happy effect, with relation to the Pretender’s affairs.—­Swift.  The Queen hated and despised the Pretender, to my knowledge.

P. 583. Burnet, in a conference I had with the Queen on the subject of peace.—­she hoped bishops would not be against peace:  I said, a good peace was what we prayed daily for, but ... any treaty by which Spain and the West Indies were left to King Philip, must in a little while deliver up all Europe into the hands of France; and, if any such peace should be made, she was betrayed, and we were all ruined; in less than three years’ time, she would be murdered, and the fires would be again raised in Smithfield.—­Swift.  A false prophet in every particular.

P. 589. Burnet, the Queen having sent a message to the Lords to adjourn, it was debated:—­that the Queen could not send a message to any one House to adjourn, when the like message was not sent to both Houses:  the pleasure of the Prince, in convening, dissolving, proroguing, or ordering the adjournment of Parliaments, was always directed to both Houses; but never to any one House, without the same intimation was made, at the same time, to the other.—­Swift.  Modern nonsense.

P. 591. Burnet.  The House of Commons, after the recess, entered on the observations of the commissioners for taking the public accounts; and began with [Sir Robert] Walpole, whom they resolved to put out of the way of disturbing them in the House.—­Swift.  He began early, and has been thriving twenty-seven years, to January 1739.

P. 609. Burnet.  A new set of addresses ran about....  Some of these addresses mentioned the Protestant succession, and the House of Hanover, with zeal; others did it more coldly; and some made no mention at all of it.  And it was universally believed, that no addresses were so acceptable to the ministers, as those of the last sort.—­Swift.  Foolish and factious.