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view, either to reputation or profit. Perhaps your comfort is, that none but villains, and betrayers of their country, can be your enemies. Upon which, I have little to say, having not the honour, to be acquainted with many of that sort, and therefore, as you easily may believe, am compelled to lead a very retired life.

I am Sir,

Your most obedient,
Humble servant,
A. NORTH.

County of Down,

Dec. 2d. 1728.

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INDEX.

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Aretino, Pietro, 60, 61.
Army, essays on the, 122, 145.
Asgill, John, 118.

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Astell, Mrs. Mary, 5 n., 8 n.
Atterbury, Bishop, his character

in "The Tatler," 19, 20; con-
tributes to "The Examiner,"
69, 70; his influence in Con-
vocation, 134 n., 136 n.
Avarice, essay on, 174.

Bank, the, in the Whig interest,
232 n., 253 n.

"Banks, Sir Jacob, Letter to,"
74 n., 200.

Bickerstaff, Isaac, Steele's pseu-
donym, 3, 40, 43, 65.
Birth, value of, 266, 267.
Boyer, Abel, 276.

Boyle, Henry, 101, 138 n.
Bromley, Clobery, 227.
Bromley, William, speaker, 227;
"Congratulatory Speech of,"
262, 273.
Buckingham, George Villiers,
Duke of, assassination of, 207
n., 208.
Buckingham and Normanby, John,
Duke of, 161, 171.

Burgess, Daniel, 20.
Burnet, Bishop, 90, 165.

Caesar, Julius, 124, 126.
Calves-Head Club, the, 255,
256 n.

Carew, John, speech at the execu-
tion of, 234, 235 n.
Carteret, Lord, 325.
Chamber of Fame, 24, 26.
Charles V. and Aretino, 61.
Church, the, resolution in Parlia-
ment as to the state of, 88;
essay on, 129; answer to essay
on, 137; the Whigs and, 139.
Churches, scheme for building
new, 278 et seq., 295.
Clément, Jacques, 209.
Clendon, John, 141, 161.
Coffee-houses, signification of the,
4, 225.

Coin, clipping of, 245.

Coligny, Admiral de, assassina-
tion of, 209.

Collins, Anthony, 118, 161.
Coningsby, Mrs., 105 n.
Court of Alienation, 61.
Coward, William, 141, 161.
Cowper, Earl, 101 n., 144, 169.
Crackanthorpe, Mrs., 46 n.
Crassus, Marcus, the Duke of
Marlborough attacked under
the name of, 169, 177-179, 194.
Crawley, Sir Ambrose, 327.

D'Ancre, Maréchal, 102 n.
Daniel, Samuel, 37.
Dartmouth, Lord, 172.

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Gay, John, on "The Examiner,"
70; vindication of his "Beggar's
Opera," 316; his fables, 319.
George, Prince, of Denmark,
288.
Gertruydenberg, treaty of, 77 n.,
IOI n., 179.
Godolphin, Lord, his change of
politics, 87 n.; dismissal of,
93 n.; nicknamed "Volpone,
IOI n., 143 n., 160; his in-
trigues against Harley, 117 n.,
193 n.; as Gracchus," 169; |
devoted to the turf, 172 n., 195;
ministry of, 244.

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Good manners, essay on, 55.
Greenshields, Rev. James, 200.

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Gregg, William, 148 n., 211, 221,
263.
Guiscard, Marquis de, 208 et seq.,

220, 221, 250, 262, 263; ac-
count of, 210, n.

Guise, Dukes of, assassination of,
209.

Harcourt, Sir Simon, 161, 170,
265, n.

Hare, Dr. Francis, 151 m., 184 n.
Harley, Robert, 161, 172; at-

tempted assassination of, 208 et
seq., 221, 226, 250, 262, 263,
273; made Earl of Oxford, 265
n., 274; the Speaker's con-
gratulation on his escape, 262
et seq., 273 et seq.; his scheme
for securing debts, 295; his re-
mission of first-fruits to the Irish
Clergy, 295.

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Harley, Thomas, 34 n.
Harrison, William, contributed to
"The Tatler,'
3; new issue
of "The Tatler" by, 40, 41,
65.

Hastings, Lady Elizabeth, 8.
Henry III. of France, assassination
of, 208.

Henry IV. of France, assassination
of, 208.

Herring, Dr. Thomas, 320.
Hickes, George, 220.

Honeywood, General, superseded,
127, 148.

Hooker, Richard, 37.

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Macartney, General, superseded,
127, 148.
Madonella, 8, 16.

"Management of the War, The,"
pamphlets by Dr. Hare, 151,
183.
Manley, Mrs., attacked as "Ma-
donella," 16; her " Memoirs of
Europe," 171 n.

Marlborough, Duke of, 72, 92, 100,

102, 184; the Treaty of Ger-
truydenberg, 77 n.; his change
of politics, 87 n.; rewards and
grants to, 95 et seq.; his in-
trigues against Harley, 117 n. ;
his proposal to be made Com-
mander-in-chief for life, 123;
attacked by Swift under the
name of "Crassus," 169, 177-
179, 194; charged with pecula-
tions with regard to bread con-
tracts, 175 n.; threatened re-
signation of in 1708, 193 n.
Marlborough, Duchess of, 98 n.,
102 n., 161, 169, 243.
Masham, Mrs., 102, 118, 161.
Matveof, Muscovite Ambassador,
arrest of, 249.

Medina, Sir Solomon de, and the

Duke of Marlborough, 175 n.
"Medley, The," attack by Swift
on, 271 et seq.; and see notes
to "The Examiner,” passim.
Ménage, Gilles, 45.

Meredith, General, superseded,
127, 148.

Merit, genealogy and description
of, 198.

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Palatines, the, 264, 293, 294.
Parsons, Robert, 37.
Partridge, John, 22, 23, 43.
Passive obedience, doctrine of, 75
and n.; according to the Whigs,
216; according to the Tories,
218, 258, 259.

Peace, Address to the Queen con-
cerning (1707), 251, 252 n.
People, madness of the, 153.
Peterborough, Earl of, letter from
Swift to, 75 n., 200 n.
Petty, Sir William, 280.
Platonic ladies, 5 et seq.
Political Lying, the Art of, 78.
"Political State of Great Britain,
The," 276.

Popery, the Tories and, 256.
Pretender, the, party capital made
out of, 89, 90; and the Whigs,
260, 261.

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Prior, Matthew, contributes to
"The Examiner," 69,
stated to be the author of "The
Examiner," 168, 186, 203.

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