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Santry (lord). A custom with him, and some others, to rail at people, and, upon receiving challenges, come and beg pardon, xv. 259. A droll anecdote concerning him, 198.
Satire. The itch of it whence brought among us, ii. 64. Why better received than panegyrick, 66. In what cases not the easiest kind of wit, as usually reckoned, v. 459. Introduced into the world to supply the defect of laws, iii. 206. Humour the best ingredient in the most useful and inoffensive kind of it, v. 211. A poet desirous of fame should set out with it, 257. Rules for, xvii. 54.
Satirists. The publick how used by some of them, ii. 64.
Saunders (Mr. Anderson). Deprived of the government of Wicklow castle by the duke of Wharton, who gave it to an infamous horse courser, v. 368.
Savoy (duke of). Put in his claim to the crown of England, iii. 307. What he got by the peace, owing to the queen, 319. His inducements to enter into the confederate war, 392.
Scaliger. A singular assertion of his, viii. 395.
Schomberg (Frederick, duke of). Epitaph to his memory, viii. 94. A monument to him moved for, to be erected by his relations, xii. 280, xix. 59; but erected at the expense of the dean and chapter of St. Patrick's, ibid. Swift charged with erecting it out of malice, to raise a quarrel between the kings of England and Prussia, xii. 411. 415.
Scipio the elder. When he appeared great, xvi. 331.
Scotland. The presbyterians there denied a toleration to the episcopalians, though the latter were a majority, iii. 146. The nobility never like to be extinct, their titles for the most part descending to heirs general, iii. 301. Pays in taxes one penny for every forty laid on England, ibid. Its natives residing in England receive more in pensions and employments than their whole nobility ever spent at home, ibid. The whole revenues of some of its nobles, before the union, would have ill maintained a Welsh justice of the peace, ibid. In soil and extent, not a fourth part of the value of Ireland, not (according to bishop Burnet) above the fortieth part in value to the rest of Britain, ix. 171. An allegorical description of it and the inhabitants, ix. 307. An act passed, for allowing episcopal communion in Scotland, iv. 149. Which produced the free exercise of farther indulgences to the clergy of that persuasion, 150.
