P. 151. [par. 38.] Clarendon.  The Earl of Rothes ... was a man very well bred, of very good parts, and great address.—­Swift.  A Scotch freethinker.

P. 152. [par. 42.] Clarendon, on the order of the Houses of Parliament, to use the appellation of “our brethren of Scotland” towards the Scotch commissioners.—­Swift Cursed Scots, brethren in iniquity.

P. 153 [par 44] Clarendon The allegation was, “That the charge against the Earl of Stafford was of an extraordinary nature, being to make a treason evident out of a complication of several ill acts, That he must be traced through many dark paths,” etc.—­Swift. As a boy.

Ibid [par 45] Clarendon It was alleged, “That at his coming from Ireland the Earl had said in council there, That if ever he returned to that sword again, he would not leave a Scottishman in that kingdom".—­Swift And it was a good resolution.

P 153 [par 45] Clarendon ——­ “And at his arrival in this kingdom, the lord mayor and some aldermen of London attending the board about the loan of moneys, and not giving that satisfaction was expected, that he should tell the King, That it would never be well till he hanged up a Lord Mayor of London in the City to terrify the rest".—­Swift At worst, only a rash expression.

P 155 [par 50] Clarendon Hereupon, in one day, were sworn privy councillors, much to the public joy, the Earl of Hertford (whom the King afterwards made marquess), the Earl of Bedford, the Earl of Essex, the Earl of Bristol, the Lord Say, the Lord Saville, and the Lord Kimbolton, and within two or three days after, the Earl of Warwick.—­Swift All [rogues, perhaps,[4]] but the first.

[Footnote:  4 P Fitzgerald says [sworn, more likely] [T.S.]]

P 161 [par 67] Clarendon, on the method of procuring signatures to one petition, and then cutting them off, and affixing them to a petition of quite a different tendency.—­Swift Dogs, villains, almost as bad as the cursed Scots.

P 366 [par 85] Clarendon The Earl of Bedford prevailed with the King ... to make Oliver Saint-John ... his solicitor-general, which His Majesty readily consented to:  ... being a gentleman of an honourable extraction (if he had been legitimate).—­Swift The bastard before mentioned.

P 183 [par 140] Clarendon, trial of Strafford—­Mr Solicitor Saint-John ... argued for the space of near an hour the matter of law.  Of the argument itself I shall say little, it being in print, and in many hands, I shall only remember two notable propositions, which are sufficient characters of the person and the time.—­Swift Bp.  A[tterbury]

P 187 [par 156] Clarendon, on the bill for extirpating bishops, deans, and chapters, etc.—­Though the rejecting it, was earnestly urged by very many, ... yet, all the other people, as violently pressed the reading it; and none so importunately, as Saint-John.—­Swift.  The bastard!