_Burnet._ Reports were spread ...

of the plots of the Presbyterians in several counties.

Many were taken up on those reports: But none were ever tried for them .-- _Swift._ A common practice.
Ibid.

_Burnet,_ writing of the ejection of the Nonconformists on St.
Bartholomew's Day, 1662, says:--A severity neither practised by Queen Elizabeth in the enacting her Liturgy, nor by Cromwell in ejecting the Royalists .-- _Swift._ But by King William.
P.186.

_Burnet,_ speaking of the great fines raised on the church estates ill applied, proceeds:--If the half had been applied to the buying of tithes or glebes for small vicarages, here a foundation had been laid down for a great and effectual reformation .-- _Swift._ He judges here right, in my opinion.
Ibid.