The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings

We left the plenipotentiaries of the allies, and those of the enemy, preparing to assemble at Utrecht on the first of January, N.S., in order to form a congress for negotiating...

The House of Commons seemed resolved, from the beginning of the session, to inquire strictly not only into all abuses relating to the accounts of the army, but likewise into the...

I propose give the public an account of the most important affairs at home, during the last session of Parliament, as well as of our negotiations of peace abroad, not only durin...

The House of Lords met upon the second day of January, according to their adjournment; but before they could proceed to business, the twelve new-created peers were, in the usual...

P. 525 (second volume). _Burnet_, speaking of the Act for the General Naturalization of Protestants, and the opposition made against it by the High Church, adds:--This was carri...

P. 623. _Burnet._ Because Chudleigh the envoy there had openly broken with the Prince [of Orange], (for he not only waited no more on him, but acted openly against him; and once...

P. 92. _Burnet._ I will therefore enlarge ... on the affairs of Scotland; both out of the inbred love that all men have for their native country, etc.--_Swift._ Could not he kee...

P. 346. _Burnet_. It was believed, if the design had succeeded, he [Lord Clifford] had agreed with his wife to take orders, and to aspire to a cardinal's hat.--_Swift_. Was he o...

P. 540. [par. 75.] _Clarendon_, upon the Duke of York's being invited into Spain, with the office of El Admirante del Oceano, he was warned that he:--would never be suffered to...

P. 364. [par. 6.] _Clarendon,_ in the King's Declaration, March 9, 164-1/2:--For the Lord Digby, he assured them in the word of a King, etc.--_Swift_. I cannot endure that phras...

P. 199. [par. 71.] _Clarendon_. Being this way secure from any future clamours for peace, they proceeded to try Mr. Tomkins, Mr. Chaloner, ... Mr. Hambden, who brought the last...

P. 2. [par. 2.] _Clarendon_. Sir Dudley Wyat had been sent expressly from the Lord Jermin, to assure the prince, that such a body of five thousand foot were actually raised unde...

P. 11. _Burnet._ Colonel Titus assured me that he had from King Charles the First's own mouth, that he was well assured he [Prince Henry] was poisoned by the Earl of Somerset's...

P. 217. [par. 4.] _Clarendon_, Charles II. proclaimed in Scotland: --upon condition of "his good behaviour, and strict observation of the Covenant, and his entertaining no other...

P. 97. [par. 13.] _Clarendon_, on the discourses against the English in the Scottish Parliament:--This discourse ... was entertained by the rest with so general a reception, tha...

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...

P. 382. [par. 60.] _Clarendon_. Colonel Ashburnham, then governor of Weymouth, was made choice of for that command; ...and, to make way for him, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper had be...

P. 88. [par. 18.] _Clarendon_. There was so little curiosity either in the court, or the country, to know anything of Scotland, or what was done there, that when the whole natio...

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 th...

_Ibid_, [ditto.] _Clarendon_. They did immediately banish him [Daniel O'Neill] the kingdom, and obliged him to sign a paper, by which he consented to be put to death, if he were...

P. 9. [par. 12.] _Clarendon_. All men being inhibited, by the proclamation at the dissolution of the Parliament in the fourth year, so much as to mention or speak as if a Parlia...

P. 394. [par. 56.] _Clarendon_. The Highlanders ... made frequent incursions in the night into the English quarters; and killed many of their soldiers, but stole more of their h...

P. 484. [par. 2.] _Clarendon_. Persons, whose memories ought to be charged with their own evil actions, rather than that the infamy of them should be laid on the age wherein the...

P. 469. [par. 53.] _Clarendon._ That which made a noise indeed, and crowned his [Cromwell's] successes, was the victory his fleet, under the command of Blake, had obtained over...