P. 610. Burnet.  The Duke of Ormonde had given the States such assurances, of his going along with them through the whole campaign, that he was let into the secrets of all their counsels, which by that confidence were all known to the French:  And, if the auxiliary German troops had not been prepared to disobey his orders, it was believed he, in conjunction with the French army, would have forced the States to come into the new measures.—­Swift.  Vile Scot, dare to touch Ormonde’s honour, and so falsely.

P. 612. Burnet, the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun were engaged in litigation; and:—­upon a very high provocation, the Lord Mohun sent him [the Duke] a challenge, which he tried to decline:  but both being hurried, by those false points of honour, they fatally went out to Hyde Park, in the middle of November, and fought with so violent an animosity, that neglecting the rules of art, they seemed to run on one another, as if they tried who should kill first; in which they were both so unhappily successful, that the Lord Mohun was killed outright, and Duke Hamilton died in a few minutes after.[9]—­Swift.  Wrongly told.

[Footnote:  9:  A footnote to the 1833 edition of Burnet says that “the duke in the belief of some was killed by General Macartney, the Lord Mohun’s second.”  See also Chesterfield’s letter quoted in Introduction, and Swift’s own version in the “Four Last Years,” p. 178. [T.S.]]

P. 614. Burnet says of the Earl of Godolphin:—­After having been thirty years in the Treasury, and during nine of those Lord Treasurer, as he was never once suspected of corruption, or of suffering his servants to grow rich under him, so in all that time his estate was not increased by him to the value of L4,000. Swift.  A great lie.

THE CONCLUSION.

P. 669. Burnet, speaking of the progress of his own life, says:—­The pleasures of sense I did soon nauseate.—­Swift.  Not so soon with the wine of some elections.

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY THOMAS BURNET, ESQ.

Opposite to the title-page:—­Swift.  A rude violent party jackanapes.

In the Life, p. 719, is printed a letter from Archbishop Tillotson, dated October 23, 1764 [sic, the volume was printed in 1734, the date should be 1694], in which he says:  “The account given of Athanasius’s Creed, seems to me no-wise satisfactory; I wish we were well rid of it.”—­Swift has drawn a finger in the margin of his copy of Burnet’s History pointing to this passage.

P. 722. Thomas Burnet.  The character I have given his wives, will scarce make it an addition to his, that he was a most affectionate husband.  His tender care of the first, during a course of sickness, that lasted for many years; and his fond love to the other two, and the deep concern he expressed for their loss, were no more than their just due, from one of his humanity, gratitude and discernment.—­Swift.  Three wives.