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.

BOOK IV

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.