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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift (10); Historical Writings
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift Historical Writings - 10 Author:Jonathan Swift Volume: 10 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: G. Bell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you... more » can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: REMARKS LORD CLARENDON'S HISTORY OF THE REBELLION Oxford Edition, 1707, 3 Vols. From The Original, In St. Patrick's Library. NOTE. The text of this edition of Swift's notes on Clarendon has been founded on the careful transcript made by Mr. Percy Fitzgerald. This transcript is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. Mr. Fitzgerald refers to Dr. Rowan's collation, but I have been unable to find the original of this. Rowan's additions, however, were noted by Mr. Fitzgerald, and they have been included here. Mr. Fitzgerald says : "Scott's notes, subject to the corrections just given [by himself], are correct, and would serve as the base of the new edition. The additions I have given and the few given by Dr. Rowan (which are given here a little further on) will have to be inserted in their proper places and will make the whole complete." This has been done, and the present reprint is a very careful following out of this suggestion. After the following pages were in type, however, I have had the opportunity, through the kindness of Dr. Bernard, the Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, of examining the original copy in the Marsh Library at Dublin. Assisted by the Rev. Newport J. D. White, the librarian of the Marsh Library, I have been able to correct several of Mr. Percy Fitzgerald's transcripts, and to add some " remarks " omitted both by him and Scott. Mr. White, in an article in " Hermathena" (No. xxvii., 1901), suggests that the successive perusals by Swift account " for the fact that some of the notes are in ink, though most are in pencil ; whi...« less