LETTER PAGE CXLI. Mr. Duncombe to Mr. Jeffreys 235 Mr. Jeffreys to Mr. 124 CXLII. CXLIII. CXLIV. } Duncombe 241 248 255 CXLV. Mr. Duncombe to Mr. Jeffreys 256 CXLVI. Mr. Jeffreys to Mr. Duncombe 266 *CXLVII. Archbishop Herring to Mr. Duncombe 270 APPENDI X. The character of Mrs. Bridget Ben- On the use of monofyllables in poetry. Farther particulars of Mrs. Bendish 1 X xvii xxviii * N. B. Thofe marked thus are added in this edition. LETTERS, ERRAT A. Page 35, line 20, for "the fummer," read "fummer” 113, note, for " Weykhamite," read "Wyke hamite" -115, note t, for "earl of Stanhope, read "earl Stanhope" 217, note, for " p. 143", read p. 205" 226, note +, for “ P. 145", read " P. 208" 235, note † & †, for "p. 163 & 164", read " 66 227 & 228" * " pp. 236, note & †, for p. 166 & 168", read "pp. "230 & 232" LETTERS, &c. LETTER LXXXVI. Rev. Dean SWIFT to the Rev. Mr. WALLIS SIR, Dublin, May 13, 1721. I HAD your letter, and the copy of the bishop's + circular inclofed, for which I will not pretend to I thank and you; yet Son of the dean of Derry, and vicar of Athboy in the county of Meath. He died in 1746. † Dr. Evans, tranflated from the fee of Bangor to that of Meath in 1715. In this diocefe was the vicarage of Laracor, which Swift held with his deanry. Some diffenfions having arifen between bishop Evans and his clergy, Swift took part with VOL. II, B the know any thing of it, and hope you have not told any body what you did. I fhould be glad enough to be at the vifitation, not out of any love to the business, or the perfon, but to do my part in preventing any mischief. But in truth my health will not fuffer it; and you, who are to be my proxy, may fafely give it upon your veracity. I am confident the bishop would not be diffatisfied with wanting my company, and yet he may give himself airs when he finds I am not there . I now the latter. At the firft vifitation which he attended, hearing his diocefan very fevere in his animadverfions on a poor curate, for a matter of little or no importance, the dean ftood up, and told his lordship, that having once been witnefs of fuch improper "unepifcopal behaviour, he would never be witness of it again, and therefore gave his lordship no"tice, that if he had any fault to find with him, "he muft find it then, as he was determined not to "attend any other vifitation." By a warm expoftulatory letter from Swift to this Cambro-Hibernian prelate, dated July 5, 1721, (fee Swift's works," vol. xviii, p. 141) it appears that his lordship did "give himfelf airs," by refufing |