Vindicated for refusing to fight by express command of the queen,
vi. 218. His character, vi. 161, 297. vii. 179. Farther account of
him, iv. 294. Address of thanks to the queen proposed, for appoint.
ing him lord lieutenant of Ireland, and why rejected, xv. 187. Ge-
nerally well esteemed there, 188. A brief commendation of him,
201. Dr. Swift a favourite with him, yet had small hopes of be-
ing preferred by him, xxi. 19. The duke and duchess' pictures
given to Dr. Swift, xv. 253 Declared general in Flanders, xxii.
88. Assists at the fire by which Sir William Wyndham's house
was burnt, 91. Gains much credit by his conduct in Flanders,
130. Huzzaed through the whole city at the king's proclama.
tion, xvi. 92. His daughter, Lady Mary, married to Lord Ash-
burnham, xxi. 42. Her death and character, xxii. 169.
Orrery, Charles, earl of-xvi. 278. The Dean's opinion of his Re-
marks on Bentley, iii. 25. By whom assisted in that controversy,
234. Promoted by Queen Anne, on the general change of her
ministry, vi. 336.

Orrery, John, earl of His ingratitude to Swift, i. 71. Why he was
induced to asperse his memory, ibid. ii. 255. A poetical epistle
sent by him to the Dean on his birth-day, with a paper book ele-
gantly bound, xi. 282. Specimen of his taste, xxiv. 139. His ob-
servation on the city of Cork, xx. 92.

Osborn, Francis-His style too courtly and unintelligible, viii. 188.
Ossory, bishop of Empowered to solicit the affair of the first fruits,
&c. in Ireland, xv. 103.

Ostracism-Aristides banished by it, ii. 290. What, 320. note.
Oxford-The method used by several colleges there, to preserve the
value of their rents, xii. 71.

Oxford, Robert, earl of-See Harley.

--, Edward, earl of Married Lady Henrietta Cavendish
Holles, only daughter of John duke of Newcastle, xviii. 245. Had
novices, except buying manuscripts and curiosities may be called
so, xx. 169. Yet sold great part of his large estate to pay his debts,
ibid. 179.

Oysters Method of boiling them, xxii. 94.

Ozell, Mr-xxiv. 156. A proper assistant in the piece on polite con-
versation, xxii..264. Some account of him, xxiv. 156.

Paget, William, Lord-xxii. 211.

Painter's wife's island-iii. 116.

P

Palatines-Those who invited them over were enemies to the king:
dom, v. 203, 229. The public a loser by every individual among
them, vii. 132.

Palmerston, Lord Viscount-His privilege at the university of Dub-
lin, xvii. 59. Dr. Swift's correspondence with him on the subject,
57, 63.

Panegyric-Rules for, xxiii. 83. Why always worse received than
satire, viii. 74.

Pantomimes When first exhibited in England, xxiii. 93.
Paper-office-A very valuable repository for records, xx. 48.
Papists-Their interest in Ireland very inconsiderable, iv. 36. xiii
226. Those of Ireland invited over the duke of Lorrain, dor
ing the usurpation, 245. See Popery.
acelsus-His curious experiments, iii. 148.

Paris-Du Baudrier's new Journey to, iv. 253.

Parish Some in London had 30,000 souls under the care of one mi-
nister, v. 217. Some two hundred times larger than others,
216.

Parish Clerk-Memoirs of one, xxiii. 148.

Parker, Dr. Samuel, bishop of Oxford-Chastised by Andrew Mar-
vel, iii. 25. note.

Parker, chief justice-An officious prosecutor of, authors and prin-
ters, vii. 42.
Would have silenced Dr. Swift as a writer, xxii,

144.

Parker, Mr. of Lancashire-Dies of the wounds received at Airs-
moss, much lamented, xiv. 311.

Parliament-Advice to the Freemen of Dublin in the Choice of a
Member, xiii. 248.

Parliaments, (see Goths)-Remarks on their origin in England, iv.
65. vii. 256. Why called frequently by Henry I, under different
appellations, vii. 257. The word Parliament, as used by old au-
thors, ambiguous, 303. King William, by ill advice, adverse to a
bill for the frequent meeting of parliaments, ii. 230.
That pre-
judice in vain attempted to be removed by Sir W. Temple and
Swift, ibid. The constitution of them deseribed, ix. 141. No far-
ther crime than ill manners, to differ in opinion from the majority
of both houses of parliament, v. 30. Parliaments differ as much as
princes, 192. The first which sat after the great change in queen
Anne's ministry, chosen entirely by the inclination of the people,
without the influence of the court, 95, 185. The character of
that parliament, 164: and of Mr. Bromley, their speaker, 166.
The many great things done by that parliament in their first ses-
sion, 228. Their spirited representation of the injurious treatment
of the queen and nation by their several allies, vii. 113. The com-
mons can put a stop to all government, if they dislike the pro-
ceedings, vi. 348. Absurdities in the choice, qualification, repre-
sentation, and privilege, of members, xiv. 232. The old method
of granting supplies described, vii. 139. Annual ones necessary to
our liberties, xvi. 241. Affairs at a desperate crisis when a
minister can procure a majority to screen him from just punishment,
xiv, 267. See House of Commons.
Parnassus-News from, x. 205.

Parnell, Dr-Recommended to Archbishop King, by Swift, to succeed
to the prebend vacated by his being chosen Dean of St. Patrick's,
xv. 269. His poem, entitled "On Queen Anne's Peace," present-
ed by Dr. Swift to Lord Bolingbroke, xxii. 165. Introduced to
that lord, and greatly liked by him, 163; and by the lord trea-
surer, 185. His admiration of Lay Bolingbroke, 195. His wife's
death and character, xxi. 283.

Parson, Country-His happy Life, xxiv. 8. His Case, xi. 295.
Parsons, the jesuit-His style commended, viii. 188.

Parties-A pernicious circumstance relative to them, ii. 326. A
wonderful contrivance for reconciling them, ix. 211. Are abso-
lutely necessary in an English parliament, vi. 241. Every man
adjusts his principles to those of the party he has chosen, viii. 23.
The ignorant the most violent party men, xxiii. 363. A scheme for
the recovery of the credit of any party, xxiii. 306. We should
converse with the deserving of both parties, v. 12. Advantages of
writing for a party out of power, 107. The folly of party distinc-
tions or aversions in mere trifles, 141. A metaphorical genealogy
of Party, 142. A prince descends from his dignity, who puts himself
at the head of them, 168. The rise and progress of party names,
220. Il effects of party, xiv. 59, 86. The names of whig and tory,

applied to opposite parties, change their meaning, xv. 160. Their
news not to be credited readily, 152. See Faction.

Partition Treaty-An infamous one, vi. 213. Occasions the king of
Spain to appoint the duke of Anjou his successor, v. 308.
Partnership-The nature of ours with the Dutch, vi. 11.

Partridge, the almanac maker-Account of his Death, iv. 119. His
death-bed acknowledgment of the deceit of judicial astrology,
121. Elegy on his supposed Death, x. 74. His Epitaph, 77.
Parvisol, the dean's agent-Dr. Swift disappointed in his returns,
xv. 293.

Passions-Like convulsion fits, xxiii. 364.

Passive Obedience-Mistake in its object, iii. 314. What it is as
charged by the whigs, v. 155. What, as professed by the tories, 157.
In King Charles the Second's reign, carried to a height inconsistent
with our liberties, 197. Liberties of Sweden destroyed by it, xv.
145. Whigs and tories easily reconcilable, when they come to ex-
plain the object ofit, ibid.

Pastoral Dialogues-Between Richmond Lodge and Marble hill,
xi. 56. Dermot and Sheelah, 80.
Pasquin-The success of it, xx. 2.

Pate, William-A learned woollen-draper, xxi. 10. His epitaph, ibid.
Anecdote of him, ibid.

Patents-One granted to Lord Dartmouth, afterward renewed to
Knox, for coining halfpence for the use of Ireland, xii. 133, 143, 159.
None can oblige the subjects against Jaw, 140. What to be consi
dered in the passing of them, 240.

Patrick's, St-The best deanery in Ireland, xxii. 233.
Paulus-Au Epigram, xi. 119. The Answer, 120.
Paxton, a solicitor-xx. 229.

the

Peace--An unreasonable and impracticable condition imposed upon
French by the whig ministry, v. 91. Why the emperor against it,
vi. 218. Vain fears that France was aggrandized by it, ibid.
When overtures of it are in prudence to be received, v. 261. Why
the Dutch against it, vi. 8. Several observations on it, xv. 244,
255. Private overtures of a peace, made by France and Holland,
vii. 166,207. Many of the tories discontented at it, xxii. 197. To
be ratified in all courts before it could be proclaimed here
209.

Peace and Dunkirk-A Song, x. 104.
Pearce, a famous architect-Built the parliament house at Dublin,
xi. 204.

Dicky, the earl of Suffolk's fool-His epitaph, xi. 76.
Pedantry-Its definition, viii. 51. xiv. 187. Not confined to science,
or to sex, ibid. Fiddlers, ancing masters, and heralds, greater
pedants than Lipsius or Scaliger, ibid.

Peers Twelve created at once by Queen Anne, vi. 315. vii. 42. The
queen's conduct in this censured by those whose opposition had com-
pelled her to it, vi. 69. The choice made with great judgment, ibid.
Their house cannot easily be perverted from minding the true in-
terest of their prince and country, 70.

Peg, John Bull's sister-Her character, xxiii. 215.

Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, earl of-xv. 97. Two punning letters
to him, xiii. 298, 299. His drell anxiety, on being elected a mem
ber of the royal academy of Paris, xxii. 2. A punster, 14.
Penn, William, account of-xiv. 201.

Pennsylvania-Too much extolled in a pamphlet giving an account
of it. xiii. 58.

People-The bulk of them forced to live miserably, that a few may
live plentifully, ix. 283. A free people met together, whether by
compact or family government, divide of themselves into three

powers, ii, 277. The tyranny of the people ever followed by the
arbitrary government of a single person, 304. The body of them
in England as staunch unbelievers as any of the highest rank, iv.
13. What the confluence of them to the capital city may be com-
pared to, xxiii. 372. Their natural bent and inclination, v. 93.
When left to their own judgment, seldom mistake their true inte-
rest, 94. The truest way of judging of their disposition, 95. The
merciful disposition of the English populace, 146. When long used
to hardships, lose, by degrees, the very notions of liberty, xii. 155.
Their number not the riches of Ireland, 274. xiii. 18, 280. Not
always the riches of a nation, vii. 131. xiii. 18. The true way
pointed out of multiplying them to public advantage, vii. 132.
Perceval, John, earl of Egmont-xxi. 175.

Percivale, William, archdeacon of Cashe-xvi. 280.
Pericles-Why banished by the people of Athens, ii. 291.

Perjury-An instance where the law for its punishment is defective,
xx. 19.

Perpetual motion-Where the virtuosi may find it, iii. 271.
Perrault, Charles-iii. 18.

Perrot, Sir John-The first upon record that swore by God's wounds,
xxii. 254.

Persecution-The signification of the word considered with respect to
the presbyterians, iv. 38.

Perseus, king of Macedon-When he made a mean figure, xiv. 228.
Persons-Sometimes so connected with things, that it is impossible to
separate them, v. 41.

Pestilent Neighbour--Account of one, xiii. 297.

Petalism-What it was, and whence derived, ii. 313.

Peter, Martin, and Jack-The legacies left them by their father, and
their several behaviour upon it, iii. 75, 195.

Peter, Czar of Muscovy-His ambassador arrested in England,
v. 189. Mr. Whitworth sent to him on an embassy of humilia-
tion, xiv. 228.

Peter the Savage-A description of him, xxiii. 320. Sent for to court
by Queen Caroline, ibid. xviii. 230.

Peterborow, Charles Mordaunt, earl of-Verses addressed to him, x.
56. Left unsupported in Spain, and exposed to the envy of his ri-
vals, v. 278. Though a zealous whig, abhorred by that party, and
carressed by the tories, xv. 43. Is strenuous for continuing the
war, 172. His character, vi. 166. x. 56. xvi. 290. Bequeathed his
watch to Pope, xix. 205. Song by him, xxiv. 37. His sentiments
respecting the bill against occasional conformity, xv. 30. Que
ries sent by him to Dr. Swift, xvi. 19. Writes a facetious letter to
him, on the publication of Gulliver's Travels, xvii. 106. His expe
ditious return from Vienna, xxi. 244. His negotiations of great
consequence, 253. Reasons well against a peace, ibid.

Dr. Robert Clavering, bishop of Particulars of an affair
between Lady Betty Germain and him, respecting a piece of ground,
xix. 22.
Peterborow, dean of-Saves the expense of a piece of plate, by a pun,
xxi. 318.

Pethox the Great-x. 305.

Petition of the Colliers, Cooks, and others, xxiii. 316.

Petition of the party writers employed by the whig ministry, v.

234.

Petty, Sir William-The parishes in London very unequally divid-
ed when he wrote, v. 216.

-, Henry, earl of Shelburne-xix. 144.

Petronius Arbiter-A favourite among the wits and freethinkers, viii.
61. What he reckoned an ingredient of a good poet, 65. The

different characters in him are but Nero in so many different ap
pearances, according to St. Evremont, xxiii. 135.

Philip, king of Macedon-A pun of his, xxiv. 120.

11. of Spain-When he appeared contemptible, xiv. 229.
Philips, Ambrose-xv. 76. Writes to Dr. Swift, to ask for an em-
ployment, xxi, 250. Verses on him, xxiv. 31. Swift esteemed him
as a man, ibid.

John-his Cyder, xxiii. 55.

Philosophers-What has been their method to be heard in a crowd,
iii. 62. Their resolving appearances into lusus naturæ just as in-
structive as Aristotle's occult causes, ix. 112. The system of mo-
rality delivered in their writings, viii. 16. Advantages arising from
the study of them, 18. The imperfections of them, both in general
and in particular, xiv. 132.

Philosopher's stone-Sir R. Steele one of the last eminent men en-
gaged in the pursuit of it, vi. 147.

Philosophy-Introducers of new schemes in, iii. 148.

Phipps, Sir Constantine-xiii. 86, xvi. 9. 10. xxi. 117. His letter to Dr.
Swift, respecting the case of Waters, his printer, xvi. 245.
Phocion-His good offices to the Athenian state, ii. 294.
Phryne-xxiv. 7.

Phyllis, or the Progress of Love-x. 167.

Physicians-The sensitive soul made a sort of first minister to the ra-
tional by some of the German physicians, xvi. 45.

Physicians and Civilians-Right of Precedence between them inquir-
ed into, xii. 34.

Pic-powder Courts-What they are, xxiii. 272.

Piety-By what means it might be made fashionable, iv. 155.
Pilkington, Sir Thomas-Thrice lord mayor of London, x. 157. xviii.

220.

Mr--Swift's recommendation of him to Mr. Barber, xviii.
192, 199, 219. Made chaplain to Mr. Barber when lord mayor,
207; and in that office got more money than any of his predeces-
sors, xix. 57. His character, xx. 165. Letters from him to Mr.
Bowyer, xviii. 112, 122, 204. Wrote an infallible scheme to pay
the debts of the nation, which was taken for Swift's, 122.

Mrs Her account of Swift, ii. 161. Her verses on paper,
xviii. 227; and on Dr. Swift's birthday, ibid. xi. 367. Her cha-
racter, xx. 165,

Pitt, Thomas-xvi. 282

Flantations-The shameful neglect of religion in the American, v.
219.

Plato-His conduct, when his character was aspersed, xvii. 186. His
idea of happiness was unworthy of a philosopher, xiv. 136. Fol-
lowed merchandise for three years, xvi. 214. His notions resembled
the doctrines of christianity, xiv. 216.

Players Their character too contemptuously treated, xxiii. 92.
Playhouse The fountain of love, wit, dress, and gallantry, viii. 78.
Pleasure-Balanced by an equal degree of pain, xiv. 166.
Plots-Instructions for discovering them, ix. 212.

Plutarch-Observes, that the disposition of a man's mind is often bet-
ter discovered by a small circumstance, than by actions of the
greatest importance, xiv. 279.

Poems-On burning a dull one, xi. 127.

Poet, Young-Letter of Advice to a, viii. 58.

Poetry-Progress of, x. 222. A Rhapsody on, xi. 307. History of, in
a punning epistle, xxiv. 150. Art of Sinking in, xxiii. 28. What
kind of it ought to be preferred, 31. What the effect of epithets
improperly used in it, xi. 312. Mr. Pope's reflections on its best
use, viii. 58. note.