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Peterborow (Dr. Robert Clavering, bishop of). Particulars of an affair between lady Betty Germain and him, respecting a piece of ground, xiii. 68.

Peterborow (dean of). Saves the expense of a piece of plate, by a pun, xv. 153.

Pethox the Great, vii. 262.

Petition of the Colliers, Cooks, and others, xvii. 297.

Petition of the party writers employed by the whig ministry, xviii. 214.

Petty (sir William). The parishes in London very unequally divided when he wrote, iii. 232.

Petronius Arbiter. A favourite among the wits and freethinkers, v. 243. What he reckoned an ingredient of a good poet, 247. The different characters in him are but Nero in so many different appearances, according to St. Evremont, xvii. 107.

Philip (king of Macedon). A pun of his, viii. 394.

Philip (II of Spain). When he appeared contemptible, xvi. 333.

Philips (Mr. Ambrose). Writes to Dr. Swift, to ask for an employment, xv. 80. Verses on him, xviii. 453. Swift esteemed him as a man, ibid.

Philosophers. What has been their method to be heard in a crowd, ii. 71. Their resolving appearances into lusus naturæ just as instructive as Aristotle's occult causes, vi. iii. The system of morality delivered in their writings, v. 99. Advantages arising from the study of them, 101. The imperfections of them, both in general and in particular, x. 138.

Philosopher's stone. Sir R. Steele one of the last eminent men engaged in the pursuit of it, v. 438, note.

Philosophy. Introducers of new schemes in, ii. 165.

Phipps (sir Constantine). His letter to Dr. Swift, respecting the case of Waters, his printer, xii. 47.

Phocion. His good offices to the Athenian state, ii. 309.

Phryne, xiv. 423.

Phyllis, or the Progress of Love, vii. 145.

Physicians and Civilians. Right of Precedence between them inquired into, xviii. 171.

Physicians. The sensitive soul made a sort of first minister to the rational by some of the German physicians, xi. 344.

Pie-powder Courts. What they are, xvii. 250.

Piety. By what means it might be made fashionable, ii. 405.

Pilkington (sir Thomas). Thrice lord mayor of London, vii. 135.

Pilkington (Mr.) Swift's recommendation of him to Mr. Barber, xix. 120. 121. 126. Made chaplain to Mr. Barber when lord mayor, xii. 494; and in that office, got more money than any of his predecessors, xiii. 102. His character, xviii. 362. Letters from him to Mr. Bowyer, xix. 62. 66. 123. 124. Wrote an infallible scheme to pay the debts of the nation, which was taken for Swift's, 66.

Pilkington (Mrs). Her account of Swift, i. 451. Her verses on paper, xiii. 15; and on Dr. Swift's birthday, ibid. Her character; xviii. 362.