P. 236. Burnet, speaking of the slight rebellion in the west of Scotland, 1666, says:—­The rest [of the rebels] were favoured by the darkness of the night, and the weariness of the King’s troops that were not in case to pursue them. ...  For they were a poor harmless company of men, become mad by oppression.—­Swift. A fair historian!

P. 237. Burnet. They might all have saved their lives, if they would have renounced the Covenant:  So they were really a sort of martyrs for it.—­Swift. Decent term.

P. 238. Burnet. [Sir John Cunningham] was not only very learned in the civil and canon law ... [but] was above all, a man of eminent probity, and of a sweet temper, and indeed one of the piousest men of the nation.—­Swift. Is that Scotch?

P. 242. Burnet. When the peace of Breda was concluded, the King wrote to the Scottish council, and communicated that to them; and with that signified, that it was his pleasure that the army should be disbanded.—­Swift. Four thats in one line.

P. 243. Burnet. [Archbishop Burnet] saw Episcopacy was to be pulled down, and ... writ upon these matters a long and sorrowful letter to Sheldon:  And upon that Sheldon writ a very long one to Sir R. Murray; which I read, and found more temper and moderation in it than I could have expected from him.—­Swift. Sheldon was a very great and excellent man.

P. 245. Burnet. [The Countess of Dysert] was a woman of great beauty, but of far greater parts. ...  She had studied not only divinity and history, but mathematics and philosophy.  She was violent in everything she set about, a violent friend, but a much more violent enemy. ... [When Lauderdale] was prisoner after Worcester fight, she made him believe he was in great danger of his life, and that she saved it by her intrigues with Cromwell.—­Swift. Cromwell had gallantries with her.

P. 248. Burnet. The clergy ... saw designs were forming to turn them all out:  And, hearing that they might be better provided in Ireland, they were in many places bought out, and prevailed on to desert their cures.—­Swift. So Ireland was well provided.

P. 252. Burnet. The King ... suspecting that Lord Cornbury was in the design, spoke to him as one in a rage that forgot all decency. ...  In the afternoon he heard him with more temper, as he himself told me.—­Swift. Who told him?

P. 253. Burnet, speaking of Sheldon’s remonstrating with the King about his mistresses, adds:—­From that day forward Sheldon could never recover the King’s confidence.—­Swift. Sheldon had refused the sacrament to the King for living in adultery.

Ibid. Burnet. Sir Orlando Bridgman ... was a man of great integrity, and had very serious impressions of religion on his mind.  He had been always on the side of the Church.—­Swift. What side should he be of?