"I have got a set of Examiners; and five pamphlets, which I have either written or contributed to, except the best, which is the Vindication of the Duke of Marlborough,' and is entirely of the author of the Atalantis." — Journal to Stella, Oct. 22.
"Comment on Hare’s[1] Sermon by the same woman; only hints sent to the printer from Presto, to give her." — Ibid. Nov. 3.
- ↑ Dr. Francis Hare, bred at Eaton, was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, where he had the tuition of the marquis of Blandford, only son to the duke of Marlborough; who appointed him chaplain general to her majesty's forces in the Low Countries. He afterward obtained first the deanery of Worcester, and then that of St. Paul's; in 1727 was advanced to the see of St. Asaph, and in 1731 translated to Chichester; which he held till his death, in 1740. "He has written three small pamphlets upon the management of the war, and the treaty of peace," says Swift, vol. III, Examiner, No. XXVIII. He was the author of "The Barrier Treaty Vindicated," and of four treatises against "The Conduct of the Allies." He was also a writer in the Bangorian controversy; and drew upon himself the severest of bishop Hoadly's treatises, under the title of "The Dean of Worcester still the same." His works were collected, in 4 volumes, 8vo, in 1746.
