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The works of the Reverend Dr Jonathan Swift Author:Jonathan Swift Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER S .FROM AND TO DOCTOR SWIFT. LETTER CLXIII. Charles Ford, Efq; to Dr. Swift. London, Aug. 12; 1714. UR juflices fit feveral hours eve... more »ry day, without affording us the leaft On die detnife of the queen, the following wefc lords of the regency, until the arrival of George 1. from flanover. Dr. Tenmfon, a.rchbifhop of Canterbury ; lord Hdrcourt; lord chancellor; the duke of Buckingham, prefident of the council; the duke of Shreuflury, lord lieutenant of Ireland, and lord high tfeafurer of England; the e.afl of Strafford, fijft lord eommifTioner of tile admiralty ; and fir Thomas Parker, lord chief juftice of the king's-bench, who were appointed by aft of parliament. To thefe the eleftor of ftanover on the de- mife of queen Anne, was pleafed to add the following: the archbifhop of York ; the dukes of Shrav/iury, So- merjet, Boltcfi, Devon/hire, Kent, Argyle, Moittrofe and Roxborough ; the earls of Pembroke, Angltfey CarliJJe, Nottingham, Abmgdon, Scarborough and Orford; lord vifcount Tewnjkend; lords Halifax and Ceuiptr. Vol. II. B news. news. I don't hear any thing they have done worth mentioning, except ibme orders they have given about the difpute in the city of Dublin. You may be fure they are not fuch as will pleafe our friends; but I think you and I agreed in condemning thofe proceedings in our own people. My lord Darby is made lord lieutenant of Lancajhire. That and Hampjbire are the only vacant employments they have filled up; I fuppofe, under pretence of their being maritime counties. If the whigs had directed the lift of regents, Marlborough, Sunderland and Wharton had not been left out. There are five tories too, that would not have been in. Though they were a little whimfical for three or four days about the fucceffion, they feemed to r...« less