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| Recommends a brother of Dr. Sacheverell to the treasurer, 244. | ||
| Threatened with a suspension, by the bishop of Meath, for absence, 313. | ||
| 1713. | Wrote at Windsor, upon finishing the peace, The History of the Four last Years of the Queen, i. 94. iv. 15. xiii. 344. 361. | |
| In May, rewarded with the deanery of Saint Patrick's, of which he immediately went to take possession, i. 93. 145. iv. 15. xi. 259. xv. 421-429. | ||
| Came to England again at the urgent intreaty of the ministry, and having prevented a rupture between them went back to his deanery, i. 93. | ||
| After being there only a fortnight, returned to England (being urged to it by a hundred letters), to endeavour to reconcile the lords Bolingbroke and Oxford; which he could not effect, i. 93. iv. 15. xiii. 344. | ||
| Verses on himself, vii. 92. | ||
| Account of him at this period by bishop Kennet, xix. 21. | ||
| Makes a short reflection on life, xv. 357. | ||
| A witty jest on a bad poet, who sent him a present of wild fowl, 365. | ||
| His reasons for rejecting a parcel of oranges brought him as a present, 368. | ||
| His project for coining halfpence, &c. with devices, 369. | ||
| Makes a collection among the ministry, for the use of needy wits, 381. | ||
| Is very much grieved for the death of Mr. Harrison, secretary to the embassy at Utrecht, whom he called his own creature, having procured his promotion to that office, 382. | ||
| A saying of his grandmother, 389. | ||
| Applied to by foreign ministers, to speak for them to the lord treasurer and lord Bolingbroke, 394. | ||
| His description of the rehearsal of Cato, 415. | ||
| Gives a particular narrative of the proceedings respecting his promotion to the deanery of St. Patrick's, 421. | ||
| Praised by Dr. Davenant, for employing his interest with the lord treasurer in good offices to others, xi. 292. | ||
| 1714. | Ten weeks before the queen's death, retired to Letcomb, near Wantage, in Berkshire, i. 96. iv. 19. 344. | |
| His mode of living there, xi. 335. | ||
| Wrote there Free Thoughts on the present State of Affairs, the publication of which, upon some difference of opinion arising between him and lord Bolingbroke, was delayed till the queen's death, and the copy remained in the hands of Mr. Barber, [from whom it came into the possession of Mr. Faulkner], i. 96. 159. | ||
| Solicited to join lord Bolingbroke's ministry, xi. 382. 384. 391. |
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