practice of claiming a modus in many parishes in both kingdoms, 193. By the original constitution of these kingdoms, had the sole right of taxing. themselves, 199. Their maintenance in Ireland precarious, though their office laborious, xiii, 142. Acted with little concert in a point wherein their opinions appeared to be unanimous, 143. The hardships they are subjected to by their bishops, 144. The clergy in Ireland about six hundred, 146. Think themselves well treated if they lose only one third of their legal demands, ibid. Their condition of life much more comfortable in England than in Ireland, 148. Less culpable on account of non-residence in Ireland than in England, 152. Several young clergymen have the vanity to correct the style of their prayer books in reading the church service, viii. 188. Hardly a gentleman in Ireland who has not a near alliance with some of them, xvii. 33. The union of divinity and humanity being the great article of religion, their writings should not be devoid of the latter, xiv. 176. Should, in their sermons, not so much endeavour to move the passions, as to work upon faith and reason, 123. What power they have, independant of the state, iv. 57. The great council of the nation anciently was often entirely of them, and ever a considerable part, 66. right to tithes an older title than any man's estate has, 73. The more justice and piety the people have, the better it is for them, 82, Those of the church of England have carried practical preaching and writing to the greatest perfection it ever a ved at, 84, Clergy no where beloved where Christianity was the religion of the country, xiv. 159. The French clergy offered their consecrated plate, toward carrying on the war against the allies, vii. 57. When fairly dealt with, the increase

Their

of their income a publick benefit, xx. 153. A deer-stealer, by turning informer and hanging his companions, gets a good living, xvii. 57. Clergy of England. The whole body of them violent for the bill against occasional conformity, xv. 28. Clergy of Ireland. Their livings very small, and of uncertain value, through the number of their impropriations, xv. 105. Twentieth parts payable by them, wherein they consist, ibid. Several pay yearly to the crown a third part, sometimes half, of the real value of their living, 106. Archbishop Tillotson's observation respecting them, xvi. 9. Clergyman. young, Letter to a. viii. 1. Clergymen, Essay on the Fates of, viii. 27. Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged, xi 61. Clonmel. Tithes of that parish, one of the largest and poorest in Ireland, claimed by the Ormond family, though granted by king Charles II. to the church with the consent of the first duke of Ormond, xx. 236.

Closeting. When the projecting of it began, xiii. 115. Cockburn (Dr). xxii. 11.

Coghil (Dr. Marmaduke). Anecdote of him, xxi. 250.

Coin. Should record great events, viii. 224. The scheme approved by lord Oxford, xxii. 179. Most histories abound in relating the tragical effects of the abuses of it, xii. 237. See Halfpence, Ireland, Money, Wood.

Cokaine (sir Thomas, in the reign of Philip and Mary, the best housekeeper of his quality, in the county of Derby). His yearly expense of housekeeping and servants wages, xii. 67.

Coke (Thomas, vice chamberlain to queen Anne), iv. 332. His lenity to a person who pretended to sell that office, 333. His lady a celebrated beauty, xi. 272.

Colbert (Mons.). Thought a long war was not for the interest of France, vii. 73. Coleby (one of Wood's evidences). Tried for robbing the treasury in Ireland, xii, 124. Colgan (James), a vicar-choral, xxi. 258.

Colick. A singular method of curing it, ix. 202. Colledge (Mrs). Daughter of a fanatick joiner, who was hanged for treason in Shaftesbury's plot, xxi.

221.

Collins (Anthony). His curious library, xxiv. 110. Collins's Discourse of Freethinking put into plain English, xiv. 191.

Colonies. The usual manner of planting them in countries newly discovered, ix. 331. The wisdom, care, and justice, of the British nation herein, ibid. One hundred thousand pounds granted to those of Nevis and St. Christopher's, as a recompense for their sufferings, v. 225.

Colrane, The rents there attempted to be enormously raised, xx, 101,

Comet. Mr. Whiston's prediction of the approaching dissolution of the world by means of one, xxiv. 89, Comines (Philip de). A cùrious anecdote cited from him, iv. 319.

Common law. By whom first introduced, vii. 227. Commonplace books. The proper use of them, viii. 19. Commonwealth, When the two parties that divide it come to a rupture without hopes of forming a third to balance them, it seems every man's duty to adhere to one of them, though he cannot entirely approve of either, iii. 296. Why, in all those which are well instituted, men's possessions are limited, xiv. 166. Nothing more dangerous to it than a numerous nobility without merit of fortune, viii. 46.

Company. The importance of a proper choice of it to women, viii. 85. The difference between what is called ordinary and good, xxiii. 353,

Compton (Spencer). xi. 30. Instructed king George
II, in the language, customs, &c. of this country,
vii. 316.

Compton, (Dr. Henry), bishop of London, xxii. 139.
Conduct of the Allies, v. 257. Three discourses writ-
ten against it, vi. 15. Second, third, and fourth
editions of it stopped by the author some time,
that he might be informed of any mistakes in it,
16. It's great sale, xxii. 66. Appendix to it, v. 324.
Confidence. There is a degree of it due to all sta-
tions, vi. 241.

Conformity, occasional. Bill against it rejected by a
great majority of the lords, among whom were all
the bishops, xv. 27. Whole body of the clergy,
with a great majority of the commons, violent for
it, 28. The court and rabble trimmers in the
case, ibid. Sentiments of the lords Peterborow,
Somers, and bishop of Salisbury, respecting it,
ibid. The bill written against by Dr. Swift, 32.
How carried at last, xxiii. 237.

Congreve. His character, xi. 128. xviii. 310. xxi.
46, 47. A Tatler written by him, xxi. 148. Had
several good places, xi. 128. Preserved in his em-
ployment by Swift, though of a contrary party,
vii. 16. xxi. 24.251. Ode addressed to him, x.
29.

Coningsby (Thomas, earl of). Sent to the Tower,
xvi. 234.

Connaught. One of the poorest parts of Ireland,
xiii. 265. The number of oaths at a fair there,
xii. 31.

Conolly (William), a commissioner of the revenue,
xix. 118. xx. 278. xxi. 18.

Conolly (William, Speaker), His great wealth, xii.

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Conscience. Why compared to a pair of breeches, iii.
79. What the word properly signifies, xiv. 44,
Great evils occasioned by the wrong use of it as

our director and guide, 45. What is, properly speaking, liberty of conscience, ibid. When guided by religion, it is the only solid, firm foundation, for virtue, 46. Dr. Swift's sentiments on liberty of conscience, 159. Oliver Cromwell's, 160. Constitution. The subversion of it in the Roman state, to what measures owing, ii 310. Living upon expedients will in time destroy any, v. 315. The knowledge of our constitution can only be attained by consulting the earliest English histories, iv. 65. Our present constitution not fairly to be traced beyond Henry I, 66.

Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome, ii. 275.

Contractions. Swift's dislike to them, xix. 155. Controversy. A body of it with the papists, published by the London divines, not to be matched in the world, viii. 123. Pastors have more occasion for the study of it against freethinkers and dissenters than against papists, ibid.

Convents. The great wisdom of instituting them, iv. 14.

Conversation. Hints toward an Essay on, viii. 47. Complete Collection of genteel and ingenious, xxii. 237. Conversation. An artificial method of it, ix. 205. Whence in general so low, xiv. 170. Wherein that called the agreeable consists, xxiii. 356. Whence it languishes in the politest companies, xxii. 239. An invention which has contributed to politeness in it of late years, 247. Few obvious subjects have been so slightly handled, viii. 47. What the truest way to understand it, ibid. The folly of talking too much generally exploded, 48. To affect to talk of one's self a fault, 49. By what easy and obvious reflection it may be curbed, ibid. Some faults in conversation none so subject to as men of wit, nor ever so much as when with each