P. 516. Burnet says, on the imposition of a Test Act:—­The bishops were earnest for this, which they thought would secure them for ever from a Presbyterian Parliament.  It was carried in the vote:  And that made many of the court more zealous than ever for carrying through the Act.—­Swift.  And it was very reasonable.

P. 519. Burnet mentions that, when the Test Act was passed:—­about eighty of the most learned and pious of their clergy left all rather than comply with the terms of this law....  About twenty of them came up to England.—­Swift.  Enough to corrupt England.

P. 523. Burnet, describing the death of the Duke of Lauderdale, says—­His heart seemed quite spent:  There was not left above the bigness of a walnut of firm substance:  The rest was spongy, liker the lungs than the heart.—­Swift.  Anglice, more like.

P. 525. Burnet, Home was convicted on the credit of one infamous evidence:—­Applications were made to the Duke [of York] for saving his life:  But he was not born under a pardoning planet.—­Swift.  Silly fop.

P. 526. Burnet All the Presbyterian party saw they were now disinherited of a main part of their birth-right.—­Swift.  As much of Papists as of Presbyterians.

P. 527. Burnet, speaking of the surrender of the charters in 1682:—­It was said, that those who were in the government in corporations, and had their charters and seals trusted to their keeping, were not the proprietors nor masters of those rights.  They could not extinguish those corporations, nor part with any of their privileges.  Others said, that whatever might be objected to the reason and equity of the thing, yet, when the seal of a corporation was put to any deed, such a deed was good in law.  The matter goes beyond my skill in law to determine it.—­Swift.  What does he think of the surrenders of the charters of abbeys?

P. 528. Burnet The Non-conformists were now persecuted with much eagerness.  This was visibly set on by the Papists:  And it was wisely done of them, for they knew how much the Non-conformists were set against them.—­Swift.  Not so much as they are against the Church.

P. 531. Burnet Lord Hyde was the person that disposed the Duke to it:  Upon that Lord Halifax and he fell to be in ill terms; for he hated Lord Sunderland beyond expression, though he had married his sister.—­Swift.  Who married whose sister?

P. 536. Burnet The truth is, juries became at that time the shame of the nation, as well as a reproach to religion:  For they were packed, and prepared to bring in verdicts as they were directed and not as matters appeared on the evidence.—­Swift.  So they are now.

P. 538. Burnet He [Algernon Sidney] was ambassador in Denmark at the time of the Restoration.—­Swift.  For Cromwell.