[The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. by Jonathan Swift]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. BOOK IV 2/36
So Rumsey to save himself joined with Goodenough, to swear Cornish guilty of that for which the Lord Russell had suffered.
And this was driven on so fast, that Cornish was seized on, tried, and executed within the week .-- _Swift._ Goodenough went to Ireland, practised law, and died there. Ibid.
_Burnet._ It gave a general horror to the body of the nation: And it let all people see, what might be expected from a reign that seemed to delight in blood .-- _Swift._ The same here since the Queen's death. P.654.
_Burnet._ The Archbishop of Armagh[5] [1685,] had continued Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and was in all points so compliant to the court, that even his religion came to be suspected on that account .-- _Swift._ False. [Footnote 5: Michael Boyle, who, when Archbishop of Dublin, was made chancellor soon after the Restoration (1665), and continued in that office to January, 1686, during which time he was raised to the Archbishopric of Armagh .-- SEWARD.] Ibid _Burnet,_ and yet this archbishop:--was not thought thorough-paced. So Sir Charles Porter, who was a zealous promoter of everything that the King proposed, and was a man of ready wit, and being poor was thought a person fit to be made a tool of, was declared Lord Chancellor of Ireland .-- _Swift._ False and scandalous. P.669.
_Burnet._ Solicitor-general Finch ...
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