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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK XVI
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191, 1.

7, fol.ed.near the end of A.D.

1661." [S]] [Footnote 2: Lady Margaret Kennedy, daughter to the Earl of Cassilis.
[S.]] [Footnote 3: A note in Swift's Works, vol.ix., pt.ii.

[1775] says: After "detracting," add "Many of which were stricken through with his own hand, but left legible in the MS.; which he ordered, in his last will, 'his executor to print faithfully, as he left it, without adding, suppressing, or altering it in any particular.' In the second volume, Judge Burnet, the Bishop's son and executor, promises that 'the original manuscript of both volumes shall be deposited in the Cotton Library.' But this promise does not appear to have been fulfilled; at least it certainly was not in 1736, when two letters were printed, addressed to Thomas Burnet, Esq.

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