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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK IV
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He was an old rogue for all that.
P.805._Burnet_, speaking of the first effects of the Revolution upon the Presbyterians in Scotland, says:--They generally broke in upon the Episcopal clergy with great insolence and much cruelty.

They carried them about the parishes in a mock procession: They tore their gowns, and drove them from their churches and houses.

Nor did they treat those of them, who had appeared very zealously against Popery, with any distinction .-- _Swift_.

To reward them for which, King William abolished Episcopacy.
_Ibid.

Burnet_, The Episcopal party in Scotland saw themselves under a great cloud: So they resolved all to adhere to the Earl of Dundee, who had served some years in Holland, and was both an able officer, and a man of good parts, and of some very valuable virtues .-- _Swift_.


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