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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK II
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[Two days afterwards] Leightoun sunk so, that both speech and sense went away of a sudden: And he continued panting about twelve hours; and then died without pangs or convulsions .-- _Swift_.

Burnet killed him by bringing him to London.
_Ibid.

Burnet_ Leightoun ...

retained still a peculiar inclination to Scotland .-- _Swift_.

Yet he chose to live in England.
P.589._Burnet_, speaking of Leightoun's views of the Church of England, says:--As to the administration, both with relation to the ecclesiastical courts, and the pastoral care, he looked on it as one of the most corrupt he had ever seen .-- _Swift_.


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