eye of a critick whence compared to a microscope,
xxiii. 358. Sleeping, talking, and laughing, qua-
lities which furnish out a critick on preaching,

xiv. 124.

Croisades. Their origin, vii. 239. Their progress,
ibid. Gave rise to the spirit of chivalry, 241.
The temper which occasioned them in some mea-
sure still existing, ibid.
Cromwell. To keep up the appearance of a parlia-
ment, created an entire new house of lords (such
as it was) to counterpoise the commons, ii. 322.
Pleased with a flatterer, who undertook to prove
him of royal blood, v. 203. Was a preacher, and
has left a sermon in print, in the style of the
modern presbyterian teachers, xiii. 209. His cha-
racter, iii. 194. His notion of liberty of con-
science, xiv. 160. An instance in which he made
Another, in which he ap-

a great figure, 224.
peared contemptible, 225.
Cross and pile, vi. 11.
Crosse,

rector of St. Mary's, Dublin, xvi. 213.
Crossthwaite, Mr. Ford's steward, xix. 52.

Crown. The laws have not given it a power of
forcing upon the subject what money the king
pleases, xii. 104. 191. 214. Its wanton and pre-
tended debts made a pretence for demanding
money, xvii. 56.

Cuckoldom. A fundamental right, which English
wives have never given up, xxiii. 178.

Cucumbers. A project for extracting sunbeams out
of them, ix. 199.

Cuffe (John), of Desart, xi. 103.

Cumberland (Dr. Richard, bishop of Peterborough).
Some account of, xii. 45.

Cunning. An argument of knavery, not of wit, v.
185.

Curate (Dr. Swift's). His Complaint of hard Duty,
X. 118.

Curll (Edmund). Account of his being poisoned, with his last Will, xxiii. 326. Farther Account of his deplorable Condition, 333. Relation of his being cir cumcised, 343.

Curll (Edmund). His instructions to a porter, to find his authors, xxiii. 336. Obtains indulgence from the house of lords, after he had surreptitiously printed Mr. Pope's and other letters, xix. 179. The Dean had a design on his ears, iii. 5. Incensed the Dean by publishing some miscellanies under his name, xxi. 219. Dr. Arbuthnot's remark on him, xviii. 27. Lord Orrery's, xx. 94. Mr. Pope's, 97. Published some valuable books, xxiii. 326.

Customs. Some peculiar to Lilliput described, ix. 58.
Cutts (lord). His character, vi. 173. Typified by a
salamander, x. 53.
Cuzzoni, xxiii. 312.

D

Dalziel (Thomas). Preferred by the king to be general of the forces in Scotland, xiv. 285. Refused to serve under the duke of Monmouth, 296. Reproached the duke of Monmouth, with betraying the king in the action at Bothwell-bridge, 299An account and character of him, 316–318. Damer (Joseph), xx. 278.

Damned. The Place of the, xi. 227.

Danby (Peregrine Osborne, earl of), xxii. 93. Danes. Their government in England lasted twentysix years, vii. 227.

Daniel (the historian). His style too courtly and unintelligible, viii. 188.

Daniel (Dr. Richard). Dean of Armagh, xviii. 13. Danvers (Caleb), xi. 38.

Daphne. xi. 187.

Darteneuf, (Mr). A great punster, xxi. 21. xxii.
170. His character, xxi. 174.

Dartmouth (lord). A patent granted to him by king
Charles II, to coin halfpence for Ireland, xii. 131.
141. 156.
Dartmouth (William Legge, earl of). Succeeded the
earl of Sunderland as secretary of state, v. 111.
vi. 166. His character, ibid.

Dartrey, lord, (now viscount Cremorne), xvii. 81.
Dauphins (of France). Three of them died in one
year, vii. 161.

Daval (sir Thomas). His widow married to the
duke of Chandos, xx. 4.

D'Avenant (Dr. Charles), vi. 170.

Requests Dr.
Swift's intercession with the lord treasurer, for his
son, xv. 286. His character as a writer, xxi. 55-
Davenant (Henry), xv. 286. 287.

(Sir William), iii. 7. 224.

David (king of Scotland). Having taken the oath
of fealty to Maude, took up arms in her cause, vii.
274. On making peace with Stephen, would by
no means renounce his fidelity to the empress; but
an expedient found, by his eldest son's performing
homage to the king of England, ibid. Continued
his depredations, 277. In return, Stephen seized
on Bedford, part of the earldom of Huntingdon;
which David revenged, by the most sanguinary
barbarities, ibid. On the revolt of the English
barons, redoubled his efforts, and determined to
besiege York, 279. By the zeal of archbishop
Thurstan, a numerous army assembled, under the
command of Geoffry Rufus bishop of Durham, to
oppose him, ibid. David and his son gave many
signal proofs of valour, but their army totally de-
feated, ibid. Reduced to comply with the terms
of peace dictated by Stephen, and to deliver up
his son as a hostage, 281.

Davis. His Characters of the court of queen Anne,

with Swift's remarks, vi. 158.

Davys (Miss Anne), XX. 119.

Darson (Joshua). Built a fine house at Dublin, now the lord mayor's, xvi. 86. xxi. 35.

Day of Judgment, xi. 228.

Dead. Have a title to just character, whether good or bad, xiii. 11.

Dean (The) and Duke, xi. 323.

The Dean (Swift). His manner of Living, xi. 333. Deaneries. Some in Ireland without cathedrals, xiii. 153. Dean and chapter lands unknown in Ire. land, ibid. What the state in general of those of the old foundation, xvi. 129. The general condition of them in Ireland, xix. 270.

Dearness. Of necessaries, not always a sign of wealth, xiii. 14.

Death. Nothing but extreme pain, shame, or despair, able to reconcile us to it, xiv. 178. So natural, so necessary, and so universal, that it is impossible it could ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind, 160.

Death and Daphne. A poem, xi. 184.

Debt (National). Proposal for an Act for paying off xiii. 163.

Debt (National). Unknown in England before the revolution, vii. 99. The expedient of introducing it found out by bishop Burnet, ibid. Such a debt, which is of real use in a republick, detrimental to a monarchy, ico. Decemviri. Their usurpation of arbitrary power, though chosen to digest a code of laws for the government of a free state, ii. 280.

Dedications. Instructions for making them, xxiii.

79.

Deering (sir Cholmondeley). Shot in a duel, xv. 154. .xxi. 214. His death revenged, xxi. 279.

De Foe (Daniel), iv. 25. Some account of, xxir.

152. 154.

Deism. Why not to be eradicated by preaching against it, viii. 21.

Delacourt. Epigram on him and Carthy, xi. 366.
Delane (Dennis). His appeal, xx. ICO.

Delany (Dr. Patrick). Verses addressed to him, x 165. His News from Parnassus, 196. Verses occasioned by the foregoing, 199. His answer to the Prologue and Epilogue for the distressed Weavers, 228. His verses on Gallstown House, 230. His verses written in the name of Dr. Sheridan, 240. On the great buried Bottle, 266. The epitaph, ibid. Verses on his villa, 275. His verses to Dr. Swift when deaf, 302. Answered, ibid. Gave occasion to the verses on Paddy's Character of the Intelligencer, xi. 119. His Epistle to lord Carteret,

120.

Verses occasioned by it, 123. Libel on him and lord Carteret, 127. On the Libels against him, 133. His fable of the Pheasant and Lark, 189. Answer to it, 193. To Dr. Sheridan on the Art of Punning, 262. To Dr. Swift on his birthday with a silver standish, 264. An Invitation by him in the name of Dr. Swift, 266. A short account and character of him and his works, xiii. 81. xviii. 227.338. 340.

De la Warr (lord). His character, vi. 167. His conduct to Swift, x. 114.

Delusion. The advantage of objects being conveyed to us by it, iii. 155.

Demar the Usurer. Elegy on, x. 189. His Epitaph,

191.

Demosthenes.

Upon what he. laid the greatest

strength of his oratory, viii. 10. Greatly excelled Tully as an orator, 11.

Denain. Lefeat of the allies at, vii. 192.

Denham (sir John), iii. 224.

Dennis (Mr. John). A Narrative of his deplorable