By Jonathan Swift
The years 1711 to 1714 observed a few of Swift's so much extraordinary and robust political pamphleteering. Writing for the Tory govt, he did extra to settle the destiny of events and the state than any literary determine, ahead of or due to the fact that. This quantity collects jointly significant defences of the government's place, together with The behavior of the Allies and The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, lively assaults on his rivals, brief satirical broadsides, and short contributions to periodicals. it is usually a few little identified paintings no longer found in earlier versions of fast. this is often the 1st absolutely annotated version of those works. A complete creation, drawing on modern literary and old scholarship, is supported via specific explanatory notes on every one textual content. it's also the 1st variation to spot and collate all appropriate modern versions and supply a whole account of the textual background of every paintings.
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12 e n g l i s h p o l i ti c a l w r i ti n g s 1 7 1 1 -- 1 7 1 4 meaning of ‘Barrier’ was a point of dispute, in basic terms the Dutch Barrier was a collection of cities and fortresses in the French border area and in the Spanish Netherlands which the Dutch were allowed by this treaty to garrison as a protection against French invasion, in return for which the Dutch pledged military support for the Hanoverian Succession, should it be necessary. ) that he wished the Queen to know his position so that he ‘might not be obliged to signe what I think so very prejudiciall to England’, adding that Townshend misjudges the Dutch, for as soon as they have their Barrier they will make peace as soon as possible (Marlborough–Godolphin, pp.
Yet though today it may seem harmless enough, in the last years of Queen Anne even to talk about the Succession was to touch on sensitive issues, for the fear of Jacobitism was always present, and the statutes on treason enacted since the Revolution made such talk potentially dangerous. It was of course treasonable to try to hinder anyone named in the Act of Settlement (1700) from succeeding to the Crown, but it was also high treason for a person ‘maliciously, advisedly, and directly, by writing or printing’, to maintain and affirm that any other person has any right or title to the Crown otherwise than according to the Act of Settlement, or that the Kings or Queens of the realm, with the authority of Parliament, ‘are not able to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to limit and bind the Crown and the descent thereof ’ (1707, An Act for the Security of her Majesty’s Person, 6 Anne c.
Williams, JSt, p. 522) The fact that the examination was taken by Lord Dartmouth, Secretary of State, explains why Swift would have consulted Lewis, since Lewis was Under-Secretary to Dartmouth and would have had access to papers on the 16 For Swift’s approval, see Williams, JSt, p. 516. i n t r o d u c ti o n 17 case. Moreover, thanks to the gossipy Peter Wentworth we now know the identity of the Scoundrel; on 28 March, in a passage unnoticed by Woolley, Wentworth wrote to his brother the Earl of Strafford, Isreel Feilding has had a complaint made of him by the Vice-chamberlain, for his giving out that his place was to be sold.