DR. SWIFT.
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do. We are your lordships most humble servants and brethren,
TO ARCHBISHOP KING.
MY LORD,
LONDON, SEPT. 9, 1710.
I ARRIVED here on Thursday last, and inquiring for the two bishops, I found my lord of Ossory[1] was gone some time ago, and the bishop of Killaloe[2] I could not hear of until next day, when I found he was set out early in the morning for Ireland; so that the letter to their lordships is so far to no purpose. I cannot yet learn whether they left any papers behind them; neither shall I much inquire; and to say the truth, I was less solicitous to ask after the bishop of Killaloe, when I heard the other was gone.
They tell me, all affairs in the treasury are governed by Mr. Harley[3], and that he is the person
- ↑ Dr. Harstonge was bishop of Ossory from 1693 to 1714.
- ↑ Dr. Thomas Lindsay, bishop of Killaloe from March 1695, was translated to Raphoe in June 1713, to Armagh in January following; and died July 13, 1724.
- ↑ Afterward earl of Oxford.
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