"France," "Popery," "The Pretender," "Peace without Spain," were the words to be given about at this mock parade; and if what was confidently asserted be true, that a report was to have been spread at the same time of the Queen's death, no man can tell what might have been the event.
[Footnote 76: See Swift's "Journal to Stella," Letter xxxv.

(vol.ii., pp.

283-84), and "A True Relation of the Intended Riot," printed in Scott's edition, vol.v., pp.

399-413.

[W.S.J.] "The burning of a Pope in effigy," notes Scott--in his reprint of what Swift called "the Grub Street account of the tumult"-- "upon the 17th November, the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, was a favourite pastime with the mob of London, and often employed by their superiors as a means of working upon their passions and prejudices." A full account of this ceremony is given in his edition of Dryden's Works, 1808, vol.vi., p.222.An account of the attempt "to revive an old ceremony," referred to by Swift, was published also in "The Post Boy" for November 20th, 1711.