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men on the Choice of a Member, 237. Considerations
on the Choice of a Recorder of, 245. The Dean's
Speech to the Lord Mayor, &c. on being presented
with his Freedom, 257. Proposal for giving Badges
to the Beggars in, 261.

Dublin. The method used by Dr. King, archbishop
of it, to encourage the clergy of his diocese to re-
sidence, xiii. 153. The see of it has many fee-
farms, which pay no fines, 168. The many street
robberies committed there owing to the want of
courage in gentlemen, xii. 58. Wants not its due
proportion of folly and vice, both native and fo-
reign, viii. 228. Methods used by the Intelli-
gencers to be informed of all occurrences in it,
ibid. More infested with beggars after the esta-
blishment of the poorhouse than before, xiii.
262. Shares more deeply in the increasing mise-
ries of Ireland than the meanest village in it, 261.
Infested with colonies of beggars sent thither from
England, 267. The number of houses in that
city, xiii. 18. Number of families, 27. In mo-
ney matters, that city may be reckoned about a
fourth part of the whole kingdom, as London is
judged to be a third of England, ibid.
about the choice of a mayor, xv. 157. University
Contest
of Dublin wants to have professorships confined to
the fellows, not left at large,, xvii. 172.
ships there obtained by great merit, xix. 128.
Fellow-
Dean and chapter of St. Patrick's cathedral pos-
sessed of 4000l. a year, xvii. 190.
there preserved or promoted by Dr. Swift, ibid.
Monuments
Law and rules observed there, in the election of
their mayors and aldermen, xv. 157.
the vanity and luxury of feasting there, xx. 85.
Remark on
Statue of king William there how treated, xxi. 92.
The players there, refusing to give the secretary
three hundred a year, obliged to act as strollers,
3.222. See Hoadly, King

Duck.(Stephen), xviii, 66. A quibbling Epigram on

him, xi. 204.

Dudley (sir Matthew). His laconick letter, xxi. 34.
Duelling. An extraordinary duel, ii. 112.
Duke (Dr. Richard). His character, xxi. 148.
Duke upon Duke. A new ballad, xxiv. 23.
Dukes (Mrs). x. 43.

Dun (sir Patrick) xv. 68.
Dunciad. See Pope.

Duncombe (alderman). Left his niece 200,000l.,
xxi. 191.

Dunkin (Dr. William). Some account of him, xix.
151. XX. 33-35. 158, 166. 216. 217. His
translation of Carberia Rupes, x. 278. His epi-
gram on the Drapier, xi. 350.

Dunkirk.

Memorial concerning delivered by the
sieur Tugghe, vi. 136. Secured to England by
the peace, would have been thought a glorious ac-
quistion under the duke of Marlborough, though
at the cost of many thousand lives, vi. 215. The
demolition of it deferred, to remove the difficulties
which the barrier-treaty occasioned, 218. Yielded
by the French king in his preliminaries, but clog-
ged with the demand of an equivalent, 6. Stipu-
lated in the counter-project to be demolished, but
that article struck out in the barrier-treaty, ibid.
35.

Some observations respecting it, xv. 226.
The duke of Ormond not able to send troops to
take possession of it, when yielded to Britain, ibid.
vii. 182. Six regiments sent from England, under
Mr. Hill, for that purpose, 184. On its delivery,
a cessation of arms proclaimed, 185. The uni-
versal joy occasioned in England, by the news of
its being surrendered, 188.

Dunstable. Project for transporting wheaten straw -
from Ireland thither, to be manufactured into
hats for the Irish women, xii. 17.

Dunton (John), iii. 65. His tract, entitled Neck or

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Nothing, the shrewdest piece written in defence
of the whigs, vi. 182

D'urfy (Mr.). Verses occasioned by an &c. at the
end of his name in the title to one of his plays,
xxiv. 15. Prologue designed for his last play,
17. |

The

Dutch. Some remarks on their practice of trampling
on the crucifix, ix. 242. Why they are no pre-
cedent for us, either in religion or government,
iii. 303. To what the preservation of their com-
monwealth is to be ascribed, 312. Delivered up
Traerbach to the Imperialists without consulting
the queen, vi. 217. In what manner England
bound by an old treaty to assist them whenever
attacked by the French, v. 268. Joined with the
English in signing two treaties with Portugal;
but wise enough never to observe them, 279.
advantages granted to them as guarantees of the
protestant succession, 28c-282. 293.305. What
the proportion of men they were to contribute to-
ward the war, 284. Gradually lessened their pro-
portion in all new supplies, ibid. Never furnished
their quota of maritime supplies, 286. Are ever
threatening England with entering into separate
measures of a peace, 314. Why against a peace,
vi. 8. Dutch partnership, wherein it consists, 11.
Though they allow the fullest liberty of con-
science of any Christian state, yet admit none into
civil offices, who do not conform to the legal wor-
ship, xiii. 202. The English highly blameable, in
permitting them to engross the herring-fishery,
xix. 76. Their behaviour, on finding the queen
in earnest inclined to a peace, vii. 66. Greatly
deficient every year in furnishing their quota, 117.
Entirely abandoned the war in Portugal, 119 In
low politicks, excel every country in Christendom,
148. Discontented at seeing the queen at the
head of the negotiation, 15. Their intrigues for

entering into separate measures of peace with
France, 165. 206. The inducements which led
them to sign the treaty of barrier and succession,
207. Convinced of their errour in trusting to a
discontented party, 210. In what light they seem
to have considered England, v. 324. Character of
them, xix. 77. xxiii. 161. Brief remarks on them,
xxii. 78. 85. 125.
A learned Dutchman writes a
book to prove that England wronged them by the
peace, 144. Yield to the barrier-treaty, which
chiefly retarded the peace, 184.

Dyer's Letter. A paper of lying fame, iv. 308.
Dyot (Justice), a commissioner of the stamp office).
In danger of the gallows, for defrauding the reve-
nue, xxi. 23. His trial, ibid. A remarkable
anecdote of the person (a clerk in Doctors Com-
mons) who detected the fraud, 32.

Dying speeches. Of what kind they usually are, xii,
56.

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Eachard (Dr.). His book of the contempt of the
clergy, iii. 25. xiv. 179. xxiii. 1
150.
Edgworth (colonel Ambrose), xxi. 39.

(Talbot), his son, ibid.

Education, modern, Essay on, viii. 37. Of Ladies, xiv.
233.

Education. The manner of educating children in
Lilliput, ix. 62. The necessity of it, iv. 161. The
consequences of its defects to many noble fami-
lies, viii. 38. Is usually less in proportion as the
estate the children are born to is greater, xiv. 51.
Not above a thousand male human creatures in
England and Wales of good sense and education,
xiv. 236. Of females, not half that number, 237.
What too frequently the consequence of a liberal
one, xvii. 129.

Edward (the Black Prince). When he appeared great, xiv. 224.

Edward (the Confessor). First introduced a mixture of the French tongue with the Saxon, vi. 45. In his time the English gentry began to affect the French language and manners, in compliance with their king, who had been bred in Normandy, vii. 227. He was the first of our princes who attempted to cure the king's evil by touching; and was the first who introduced what we now call the common law, ibid.

Edwin (sir Humphry, lord mayor in 1698). Went in his formalities to a conventicle, with the insignia of his office, iii. 183. xxiii. 211.

Egremont (John Perceval, earl of). xxi. 175. Egyptians. The first fanaticks, iii. 258. Drank nothing but ale, 259.

Eleanor (queen of France). Divorced from Lewis, and married to Henry duke of Normandy, vii.

295. Elections. Dexterity of the whig ministry in deciding them, v. 56. Absurdities attending them; 1st, that any who dissent from the national church should have the privilege of voting; zd, that an election should be any charge either to the candidate or to the ministry; 3d, that the qualification which entitles a freeholder to vote still remains forty shillings only, though that sum was fixed when it was equal to twenty pounds at present: 4th, that representatives are not elected ex vicinio, but a member perhaps chosen for Berwick, whose estate is at the Land's End; and many persons returned for boroughs who do not possess a foot of land in the kingdom; and, 5th, that decayed boroughs should retain their privilege of sending members, who in reality represent nobody, xiv. 229-231. Strongly contested in 1713, xv. 288. Elegy. On Mr. Demar, a rich usurer, x. 189. A

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