Swift greatly feared or respected him, xi. 46. A repartee of his, xii. 105. His enmity to the dean, in return for many kind offices received, xiii. 230. xix. 28. 31. Has a lawsuit with the dean and chapter of Christchurch on his right of visitation, xix. 7. His reflections on the character of the earl of Wharton, lord lieutenant of Ireland, published at Dublin, xi. 127; on Guiscard's attempt to kill Mr. Harley, xi. 135. xv. 15. 32; on the proceeding of the city in the clection of a mayor, xi. 153. His advice to Dr. Swift, 174. 192. Reflections on the approaching peace, 190. Account of the proceedings at a convocation, pressing a representation of the state of religion in Ireland, 195. King (mass John, a noted preacher among the covenanters). A short account of him, x. 336. Taken prisoner by captain Creichton, 345. Sent to Edinburgh, and hanged there, 346. Kingdom. A dependent kingdom, a modern term of art, unknown to the ancient civilians, ix. 90. What meant by the expression, 91. The several causes of a kingdom's thriving enumerated, 199, 200.

Kingdom (Jenny). A maid of honour, colonel Disney's saying of her, xv. 400.

Kingston (Evelyn Pierpoint, duke of).

Imports a foreign com

modity, not worth the carriage, xiii. 372.

Kirk of Scotland, iii. 146.

Kirkwood (an Episcopalian minister in Scotland). Preserves his life and fortune by a singular presence of mind, x. 393.

Kirleus (Mary). The quack, v. 32 note.

Kit-cat. Derivation of the term, xviii. 141.

Kit-cat club. Some account of it, xviii. 89. 141.

Knaves. Whence have art enough to elude the laws, iii. 200.
The term originally not infamous, ix. 151.

Kneller (sir Godfrey). Painted portraits of the members of the
Kit-cat club, xviii. 141.

Knights of the Garter. Six made at one time, xi. 234.
Knox (Mr). His patent for coining halfpence, ix. 49• 54•

L.

Ladder. A symbol of faction and poetry, ii. 77.

Ladies (in England). Their manner of writing, vi. 52; and spelling,
xvi. 252. The insignificancy of many of them when past their
youth and beauty, v. 143. Why they love tragedies more than
comedies, xvii. 386. Verses to one who desired the Author to
write some on her in the heroick Style, vii. 346. On the five at
Sot's-Hole, 389. Their Answer, 391. The Beau's Reply, 392.
Journal of a modern fine Lady, 393. The Lady's Dressing-Room,
viii. 87. The Hardship upon them, 157. New Simile for them,
182. The Answer, 185. On the Education of, xvi. 274.
Verses on one at Court, xvii. 471.

Lagado, the capital of Balnibarbi, described, vi. 201.
Lamb (William). Recommended by Mr. Pope and Mr. Lyttelton
to Swift, to be made one of his vicars choral, xiii. 405.431. 432.
VOL. XIX.
Land.

X

Land. What raises the value of it, v. 272. Whence the dear-
ness of it in Ireland, ix. 206. 263.

Landed Interest. Lessened by the increase of the monied, iii. 6.
Which may prove dangerous to the constitution, 182.

Landlords. Their cruelty and oppression in Ireland, x. 112.
Lanfranc (archbishop of Canterbury). His being preferred by
William Rufus, in his favour and ministry, the cause of Odo's
discontent, xvi. 10. On his death, the see kept vacant four

years, 12.

Langford (sir Arthur).
conventicle, xi. 427.
Langton (Dominick). His false charge of a plot, xi. 175. 188.
Language. Better not wholly perfect, than perpetually changing,
v. 76. One of its greatest perfections, simplicity, ibid. What
esteemed fine language by the better sort of vulgar, 88. The
language of the northern nations full of monosyllables and mute
consonants united, 196. See English language.

Reproved by Dr. Swift, for erecting a

Lansdown (lord). Offended at a passage in the Examiner, xv.

284.

Laputa (or the flying island). The people of it described, vi.

181.

Laracor. The dean purchases a glebe, for the benefit of his suc-
cessors in that living, xi. 450. 457. xii. 330.

Latin tongue. In Britain, never in its purity, nor yet so vulgar as
in Gaul and Spain, v. 65. More words of it remain in the
British tongue than in the old Saxon, ibid. Suffered as much
change in three hundred years as the English and French in
the same space, 67. Reasons assigned for the corruptions of it,
ibid.

Latinitas Grattaniana, xiii. 339.

Laughter. Causes of it, viii. 244.

Lancelot (Mr). Swift's letter to the earl of Chesterfield, in his
behalf, xii. 357. Married a relation of the dean, 358.
Lavallin (captain). His remarkable story, and its melancholy

consequences, xiv. 226.

Laws. Those of Brobdingnag described, vi. 154. That men
should be ruined by them, a paradox not understood by the
Houyhnhnms, 292. Method of suits at law as practised
in England, 293. Owing to the defects in reason, 307. Those
of the twelve tables whence formed, ii. 318. What law in a
free country is, or ought to be, v. 461. Qualifications requisite
to those who are to make them, 131. Why the force of them
is often eluded by knaves, iii. 200. Our laws extremely de-
fective in many instances, 202. Laws to bind men without
their own consent not obligatory, ix. 8. Law of God, all other
laws precarious without it, x. 49. Itself invariable, xvi. 192.
Law the will of the supreme legislature, xvi. 191. What is now
called common law was first introduced by Edward the Confessor,
xvi. 8. Observations on the Salique law, iv. 222. A lawsuit
a suit for life, xvi. 155. Their execution should not be trusted
to those who interest it is to see them broken, 52.

Lawyer.

Lawyer. See Rooke.

Lawyers. Bred up in the art of proving white black, and black
white, as they are paid, vi. 293. Avoid entering into the merits
of a cause, but dwell upon the circumstances of it, 294. Their
character, exclusive of their profession, 295. Seem least of all
others to understand the nature of government in general, ii.
378. A specimen of their reports, xvii. 93. Why not always
well acquainted with the old English constitution, xvi. 203.
Their sense of the statute of Henry VIII, relating to the leases
of hospitals, &c., xi. 441.

Learning. What among the people of Brobdingnag, vi. 153.
the effects of it on a brain unfit to receive it, xvii. 317. Men
who have much, are generally the worst ready speakers, v.
235.
Leases. A law wished for, to prevent bishops letting them for
lives, iv. 394. Custom of letting long leases of church lands,
practised by some of the popish bishops at the time of the
reformation, held many years after, v. 270. Remarks on the
custom of letting them for lives upon many estates in England,
275. What the worth of a bishop's lease for the full term, ix.
261.

Lechmere (Nich. lord). Some account of him, xvii. 412.
Le Clerc (Mons.) His letter to Mr. Addison, on his being ap-
pointed secretary to the earl of Wharton, xi. 60. xiii. 456.
Legion club. Satirically described, viii. 208.

Leicester. An hospital founded there by Henry, duke of Lan-
caster, v. 274. A specimen of the sagacity of the justices at a
quarter sessions there, ix. 73. The dean's character of that
town, xi. 3. 4.

Leicester (Robert Dudley, earl of). His character, xvi. 300.
Lent. Why hated by Dr. Swift, xv. 276.

Lepidus. In what he made a mean figure, xvi. 332.

Lesley (Mr). Strictures on him, ii. 363. Accused by Dr. Bur-
net of impudence, for proposing a union between the English
and Gallican church, iv. 411. Characters of his two sons, viii.
60.

Letters from Unknown Persons.
Letters from Unknown Hands.

1692.

Answer to, ix. 361.
Answer to, ix. 370.

LETTERS*.

1692.

Feb. 11. To Mr. John Kendall, Nov. 29. To Mr. William Swift,

xi. 1.

14. To the Athenian So- 1694.

ciety, xviii. 241.

xi. 5.

June 3. To Mr. Deane Swift, 6.

In this List, wherever no name is mentioned as the writer or receiver of
a letter, Dr. Swift is universally to be understood: the letters of un-
certain date (a very few only excepted) are placed in their regular situa-
tion. N.

1694.

LETTERS.

1709.

Oct. 6. To sir William Temple, Jan. 6. To archbishop King,

1696.

xix. I.

April 9. To miss Waryng, xviii. Feb.

.....

1698.

243.

To Mrs. Jane Swift,

xi. 8.

xi. 49.

12. To Mr. Hunter, 53.
10. From archbishop King,
56.

12. M. Le Clerc to Mr.
Addison, 60. xiii.

456.

Jan. 13. To Mr. Windar, xix. 3. Mar. 12. From archbishop King,

1699.

May 26. From Mrs. Jane Swift,

1700.

to Mr. Deane Swift,

xi.

9.

xi. 61.

22. To Mr. Hunter, 63.

24. To Private Marsh, 67.
26. To the same, ibid.
April 22. From Mr. Addison, 71.

July 16. To archbishop King, June 25. From the same, 71.

LETTERS.

King, Mar

Oct. 10. To archbishop King, Mar. 8. To archbishop King,

24. From archbishop King, April 5. To the same, 14.

30. To archbishop King, July 12. To archbishop King,