xxi. 198. His letter to Dr. Swift, xv. 235. A
remarkable incident respecting him, at the time
of his bringing the barrier treaty, xxii. 184. His
sickness and death, 191. Accident to the mourn-
ers returning from his funeral, 192.

Harrison (Mr. Theophilus), son to Mrs. Whiteway,

xix. 280.

Hart (William). Punished for publishing a libel,
xxii. 212.

Hartington (marquis of). His character, vi. 162
Hartstonge (Dr. John, bishop of Ossory), xv. 97.
xxii. 168. 171. 180.

Harvey (Dr. William), iii. 223.

(lady).

xxiv. 47.

Ballad written on her, xvii. 97.

Hawcubites, xxiv. 81.

Hawkesworth (Dr). Character of his life of Swift,
ii. 258.

Haxton, one of the murderers of the archbishop of
St. Andrew's, taken and executed, xiv. 306.
Head-ach. A good remedy against it, xix. 278.
Bohea tea bad for the head, xxi. 213.

290.

Health. What chiefly conducive to it, xviii.
Dr. Swift's estimation of it, xvi. 241. 261.
Heathcote (sir Gilbert). His care for the Bank,
xxiv. 92.

Heathens. The ancient heathens were strict in the
education of their children, xiv. 51. The most
considerable of them believed a future state of
rewards and punishments, ibid. But it was not
a settled principle among them, by which they
governed their actions, 124.

Helsham (Dr). xvi. 188. Verses to, xi. 256. 260.
His answer, 258.

Helter Skelter, or the Hue und Cry after the Attornies,
xi. 147.

Henley (Mr. Anthony). xv 5. Some account of him,
xxiv. 160. A saying of his farmer, when dying

of an asthma, xiv. 169. Humourously banters the Dean on his situation in Ireland, xv. 90.

Henry Plantagenet (duke of Lancaster). Founded an hospital at Leicester, for a certain number of old men, xii. 66.

Henry I. (king of England). His reign, vii. 246. His person and character, 270.

II. (king of England). His reign, vii. 303. The homage he received from the Irish not greater than what he himself paid for his French dominions, xiii. 105. His character, vii. 308.

VII. Resembled Vespasian in some things, particularly in exacting money, xii. 67.

VIII. To unite the two kingdoms, offered his daughter Mary to James V. of Scotland, xxiii. 206. Made a better bargain in seizing the rights of the church than his contemporary Francis I, viii. 116. Had no design to change religion, 117. 118. His character, iii. 190. viii. 117. xiii. 248. the Great (of France), iii. 147. xiv. 224. V. (emperor of Germany). Reasons of his seeking an alliance with England, vii. 255.

of Blois (bishop of Winchester, and the pope's legate in England). Facilitated his brother Stephen's accession to the crown, vii. 272. On his brother's captivity, took the oath of fealty to Maude, 287. Renounced all obedience to the empress, 288. Herb-eaters, followers of Dr. Cheyne, xxiii. 311. Hereditary Right. Preferable to election in a monar

chy like ours, iii. 317. Of a king, not on the same foot with the property of a subject, 318. The main argument in favour of it answered, 321. Queen Anne's title as indefeasible as an act of parliament could make it, v. 30. Allowed by the tories to be most agreeable to our constitution, yet defeasible by act of parliament, 156.

Herodotus. Character of, vii. 324.

Herring (Dr.Thomas, afterward archbishop). Preached
against the Beggar's Opera, viii. 236. xvii. 193.
Hertford (Charles Seymour, earl of). xxi. 107.
Through an ungovernable temper, incurred the
queen's displeasure, vi. 268.

Hervey (lord). Anecdote of him, x. 335.

Hewit (sir George). On his deathbed confessed an
intention of seizing James II, iv. 296.

Heylin. Observations on his History of the Presby-
terians, iii. 327.

Hickman (Dr. Charles), bishop of Derry, xxi. 230.
Hides. Exported raw from Ireland, for want of bark
to tan them, xiii. 5.

Highwaymen. Some artfully taken by a gentleman,
xxii. 165.

Higgins (Francis). Presented as a sower of sedition
in Ireland, xv. 126. 191. 192. Anecdote of him,
xxii. 19.

Hill (Aaron), xxiii. 41. xv. 219.

(general). His secret expedition against Ca-
nada, why it failed, though well-concerted, v. 276.
xxii. 18. A regiment designed for him by the
queen, but the duke of Marlborough undutifully
refused to consent to it, iv. 293. vi. 269. His
present to Swift, of a snuff-box, with an explana-
tion of the device on it, i. 149. XV. 219. Sent,
with six regiments, to take possession of Dunkirk,
vii. 184. His brother, xv. 219.

(Mr.), envoy to the duke of Savoy. His cha
racter, vi. 172.

History. Why so few writers of it in the English
tongue of any distinction, vi. 59. The times
which afford most matter for it are, generally
speaking, those' in which a man would least
choose to live, iv. 179. Modern, ix. 221. Mi-
nute circumstances of extraordinary facts most
pleasing parts of it, iv. 203.

History of the Four last Years of Queen Anne, vii. 1.
Account of it, 2; and of its publication, 3, 5.
The Dean mentions it as a free-written, but faith-
ful, record, vi. 313 vii. 15. Speaks of it as his
grand business, xxii. 199. The lords Oxford and
Bolingbroke could not agree about its publication,
vii. 14. The Dean's reasons for writing it, 15.
The materials whence it was formed, 16. xx. 123.
Dr. Swift asserts, that he never received any re-
ward from the minister; and that he was so far
from being biassed, that he had preserved several
of the opposite party in employments, vii. 16.
Dr. King's opinion of this history, xx. 174.
Hoadly (Dr. Benjamin, successively bishop of Ban-
gor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester). A cham-
pion for resistance, but never charged with med-
dling out of his function, vi. 194. Has an ill
name from our author, xvi. 260. xviii. 58. 270.
xxi. 8. But lived to see the nation become his
converts; and sons have blushed, to think their
fathers were his foes. See the annals of cooler
times. Dr. Swift speaks of him very slightingly,
xxi. 8. The excuse made by the court, for not
translating him to Durham, xviii, 270.

Hobbes. His grand mistake, in confounding the exe-
cutive with the legislative power, iii. 315. Proves
that every creature lives naturally in a state of
war, xi. 295. To what he ascribed the corruption
of the political principles of the English youth, vi.
189. xiii. 77. 126. His definition of magnanimity,
vi. 302.

Hoffman (a formal German-resident). Prescribes
good manners at the English court, xiv. 186..
Hogs. Scheme for ploughing the ground with
them, ix. 20r.

Holland (sir John, comptroller of the houshold).
Solicits Dr. Swift's acquaintance, xxi. 9.

Holland. Why it can much sooner recover itself

after a war than England, v. 17. No religion
there; and its government the worst constituted
in the world to last, iv. 89.

Holt (lord chief justice). From what motive Dr.
Radcliffe took particular care to recover his wife,
xviii. 25.

Homer. Humorous animadversions on his gross er-
rours and various defects, in comparison of the
moderns, iii. 118. Description of that immortal
bard, viii. 179. ix. 219.

Honour. Why purchased at a cheaper rate by satire
than by any other productions of the brain, iii. 57.
An imperfect guide of men's actions, xiv. 48.
Hooker His style commended, viii. 188.

Hope. One of the two greatest motives of action,
but such as will not put us in the way of virtue
unless directed by conscience, xiv. 50.
cessive hopes of the whigs, v. 90.

The suc

Hopkins, (secretary to the duke of Grafton). Made
master of the Revels, xii. 159.

Horace. Ep. VII, L. I, imitated in an address to the
earl of Oxford, x. 102. Od. I, L. II, paraphrased,
addressed to Mr. Steele, 145. Od. II, L. III. to
lord Oxford in the Tower, 157. Od. IX, L. IV,
addressed to Dr. King, archbishop of Dublin, 164.
Od. XIV, L. I, paraphrased and inscribed to Ire
land, xi. 24. Od. XVI, L. I, imitated, 43. Sat.
VI, L. II, paraphrased, x. 106. Sat. I, L. II,
imitated, x. 116. Ep. V, L. I, imitated in an in-
vitation to the earl of Nottingham, 98; and to
Mr. Steele, 149. Sat. IV, L. I, paraphrased, xi.
319. Part of Ep. I, L. I, by lord Bolingbroke,
xvi. 193. Ode XIX, L. IV, addressed to Hum
phry French, xi. 237. Excels Juvenal as a satirist,
viii. 233. Dr. Sican's verses to the Dean, with
present of Pine's Horace, xi. 320.

Horrid Plot discovered by Harlequin, x. 280.

Horses. Reflections on our abuse of them, ix, 267.