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Abercromby, David 405absolution 222

in articulo mortis 72Academie Royale des Sciences lxix, 387academies 63, 68Acamoth 121, 450Accademia del Cimento 387accidentals 279accidents 154, 489Achilles, shield of 493Adams, Robert M. xliii–xlvAddison, Joseph 277

‘To the King’ 330The Freeholder 499Spectator 522

Aeetes 389Ælian 274Æolists 123, 416–18Æolus 416Æsculapius 158, 499Æsop 42, 151, 152, 162, 355

Fables lxxv, 141, 410, 480, 507Affirmation Act 520Affright 162Aix la Chapelle 209

Treaty of 193, 195alchemy lxxii–lxxiiiAlcibiades 31Alcoran 229Aldrich, Henry, Dean of Christ Church

xxxvi n.13, lxxvi, 506Aldrovandi, Ulisse 161, 504Alexander the Great 109Allecto 492Allgemeine und general Reformation der

ganzen weiten Welt 316Alsatia 324

Alsop, Anthony lxxvii, 415, 506Amaranth 501Amata 492Ambrosia 501amicable societies 388Anabaptists lxv, lxvii, 94, 528

Amsterdam Anabaptists 366Anaximenes 418Andrewes, Lancelot 422Answer to a Scurrilous Pamphlet xxxi n.1Antrim, county lxiii–lxivApocrypha 56, 375

Ecclesiasticus 528Esdras, second book of 375Maccabees, second book of 375Manasses, Prayer of 375Tobit, book of 375

Apollo 157, 162–3Apollonius of Tyana 108, 357, 431, 514Apostles 174appetitus intellectivus 390appetitus sensibilis 390Aquinas, St Thomas 153, 373, 374,

418Summa Theologiæ 420

Arabia 172Arcanum 516Archimedes 41, 354Argia 63, 68Arginusa, deer of 514Ariosto, Ludovico 482Aristeas 447Aristides 17, 330Aristophanes

Clouds 347Knights 345Wasps 345

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Aristotle lxxv, 146, 147, 153, 156, 374,396, 470, 483

Categories 365On Generation and Corruption 515Historia animalium 459De interpretatione 55Poetics 502

Arius lxviiiArlington, Henry Bennett, first Earl of

209Arnauld, Antoine Port Royal Logic

365Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus 522Art and Mystery of Vintners and

Wine-Coopers 524Artephius lxxiii, lxxxi–lxxxv, 43, 357Ascanius 507Asgill, John 321Ashe, St George lxxAss 171–2, 227, 480, 506Astræa 345Ataraxia 409Athenian Society lviiatramentous 502Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester

xxxix, lxvi, lxxvii, lxxxiv, 506Answer to some Considerations on the

Spirit of Martin Luther 342, 407,410

Short Review of the Controversybetween Mr Boyle, and Dr Bentleylxxvii, 385, 446, 471, 502

Attica 185Attick commonwealth 31Atticus, Titus Pomponius 17Aubrey, John

Brief Lives 520Monumenta Britannica 454

‘Audi ignis vocem’ 402Augeas 62, 381Aughrim, Battle of lixAugustine 371

De civitate dei 422Aurangzeb 457Australis incognita, Terra 4, 69, 268,

318, 387

Babel 126Babylon, Whore of 115, 184, 527bacchanals 184Bacchus 183, 184backside 124, 452Bacon, Sir Francis lxxiii, lxxv, 156, 321,

337, 396, 413, 446, 494, 532rhetorical habit 329‘Troglodyte Philosopher’ 118, 446Advancement of Learning liv, 354, 355,

368, 372, 382, 415, 422, 437, 439,441, 446, 469, 474, 478, 479, 488

De augmentis scientiarum 405Baconiana 321‘The Case of the Post-Nati in

Scotland’ 374Essays 354, 372, 413, 425, 438, 465,

466, 491History of the Wind 417, 426Novum organum 333, 354, 447, 480‘Speech Concerning the Undertakers’

425Sylva sylvarum 350, 417, 425, 485,

515Of the Wisdom of the Ancients 355

bag-pipes 127, 181, 182, 524, 525Baines, Paul 349Balaam’s ass 511balneo Mariæ 400Banbury saint 181, 524Banians 229Banquet for Gentlemen and Ladies 353banter 326Barclay, Robert and George Keith,

Quakerism Confirmed 531Barillon, Paul, d’Amoncourt (French

Ambassador to England) 204Baron, William, An Historical Account of

Comprehension 458Bartholin, Caspar 403Bartholomew Fair, a Catch set to Music

389Basima Eacabasa 120Bathurst, Charles 281Bathurst, Elizabeth, Truth’s Vindication

532






572 index

Batman, Stephen, Batman uponBartholome 420

Baxter, Richard, A Christian Directory460

beau, carcass of a 112, 440Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher,

Four Plays 479Beaux Esprits 169, 509Bedlam 430, 443, 446bee 149–52Beelzebub 149Behmen, Jacob 83, 402, 403Behn, Aphra 159, 500, 532Belial 178Bellarmine, Robert 43, 153, 359

Disputationes de controversiisChristianæ fidei 359

In omnes Psalmos dilucida expositio 359Bennet, Thomas (bookseller) xxxviii, 336Bentley, Dr Richard xxxvii, xxxix, xl, lii,

lvi, lxxiii, lxxx, 31, 61, 66, 82, 118,134, 156, 160–4, 218, 229, 250,336, 369, 374, 380, 501–8

‘Guardian of the Regal Library’ 147;Boyle Lectures lxx, lxxi, lxxiii, 440,471–2, 522 notes on Callimachus381

Dissertation upon the Epistles ofPhalaris xxxviii, liv, lxxvi–lxxviii,141, 377, 386, 398, 427, 464, 472

notes on Malelas in Epistola adMillium 381

planned edition of the NewTestament 396

Proposal for Building a Royal Library472

Berkeley, Charles, second Earl ofBerkeley xlii, lxxxii

Bernier, FrancoisAbrege de la Philosophie de Mr Gassendi

387Histoire de la derniere revolution des

etats du Grand Mogol 485Suite des Memoires du Sr Bernier, sur

l’empire du grand Mogol 175, 274,354, 387, 485, 516

Beverley, Thomas Christianity the GreatMystery 509

Bible (see also Apocrypha)Acts 174, 184, 348, 362, 369, 424,

460, 515, 528Colossians 4501 Corinthians 348, 351, 364, 422, 5302 Corinthians 228, 460, 519, 526,

530, 531Deuteronomy 219, 363, 371Ephesians 369, 453Exodus 225, 376, 444Ezekiel 228, 393, 530Galatians 416Genesis 363, 371, 419Hebrews 518, 531Isaiah 419, 423James 465Job 422John 371Judges 4522 Kings 444, 476Leviticus 376, 393Luke 3221 Maccabees 334Matthew 363, 391, 421, 449, 453,

457, 476, 511Numbers 511Philippians 460Proverbs 528, 533Psalms 345, 376, 523Revelation 334, 371, 444, 452, 527,

531Romans 228, 531, 5321 Thessalonians 5311 Timothy 363

bill of fare 405Billingsgate 127, 456Billingsley, Nicholas 463Birmingham University Library 278Blackmore, Sir Richard xlix, 118, 158,

498–9King Arthur 447, 490Prince Arthur 273, 332, 367, 446, 501A Short History of the Last Parliament

463






index 573

Blanchard, W. Scott, Scholars’ Bedlam317, 378

Blome, Richard, The Fanatick Historylxv, 352, 366, 409, 411, 424, 454,457, 520, 530

Blount, Charles lxx, lxxi, 431–2Anima mundi 450The Oracles of Reason 337, 366

board, groaning 127, 456boarding school 127Boccaccio, Giovanni lxxv, 331Boccalini, Trajano 19

Advertisements from Parnassus 332,467

Ragguagli di Parnaso 316, 378, 467,482

Bodleian Library 278, 279, 416, 471Boehme, Jacob see BehmenBoileau Despreaux, Nicolas lxxv, 152,

483L’Art poetique lxxivepigram on Perrault 510Le Lutrin lv, 490, 492Reflexions critiques sur Longin lxxivtranslation of Longinus lxxiv

Bolls, Sir John 113, 442Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne, Exposition de

l’Eglise Catholique lix, lxBottomley, Jacob, The Light and Dark

Side of God 425Boxly Abbey 240, 388Boyer, Abel xxxii n.1

Memoirs of . . . Sir W. Temple 447,467

Boyle, Charles, fourth Earl of Orreryxxxix, xl, lxxvi–lxxvii, 141, 163,464

Dr Bentley’s Dissertation on the Epistlesof Phalaris Examin’d xxxix, lxxvii, 8,323, 324, 336, 341, 342, 378, 385,386, 398, 413, 415, 427, 447, 464,492, 493, 502, 503

Phalaridis Agrigentinorum tyranniepistolæ 141, 147, 336, 464, 471,505

Boyle, John, fifth Earl of Orrery

Remarks on the Life and Writings of DrJonathan Swift xl

Boyle, Robert lxx, lxxi, lxxiiOf the Cause of Attraction by Suction a

Paradox 480The Christian Virtuoso 386Some Considerations Touching the

Usefulness of Experimental NaturalPhilosophy 476

‘An Essay of the Great Effectsof . . . Motion’ 456

‘An Introduction to the History ofParticular Qualities’ 373

‘New Experiments . . . concerning theRelation between Light and Air (inShining Wood and Fish)’ 352

New Experiments . . . to which isAnnexed a Chymical Paradox 480

‘Observations and Tryals about theResemblances and Differencesbetween a Burning Coal and ShiningWood ’ 351

Some Receipts of Medicines 430Boyne, Battle of the lixBoys, John 390braying 126Brazile, O. (imaginary island) 82, 399Breda, Treaty of 193breech 184British Library 278broomstick 57Brown, John, Quakerisme the Path-way to

Paganisme lxvii n.77Brown, Richard 396Brown, Tom

Amusements Serious and Comical lvii,315, 341, 343, 443, 505

The Late Converts Exposed 372, 498Letters from the Dead to the Living 471Select Epistles . . . out of Cicero 462

Browne, ThomasPseudodoxia Epidemica xxxi, 350, 356,

382, 420, 425, 449, 453, 459, 469,485, 507, 514, 515

Religio Medici 469, 512Brutum hominis 145, 469






574 index

Brutus, Lucius Junius 113, 442Bruyere, Jean de la lxxiv, 19, 331, 332Bucephalus 495Buchanan, George 153, 486Buckingham, George Villiers, second

Duke ofAccount of a Conference lvii, 230, 324To Mr Martin Clifford lvii, 230The Rehearsal 371, 415, 530

Buckingham, John Sheffield 371Budgell, Eustace 505, 506Bugg, Francis lxviii n.79bull-beggars 390bulls, papal 71, 390Burgess, Anthony, Spiritual Refining 460Burnet, Gilbert

A Discourse of the Pastoral Care 373History of his own Time lxiiiHistory of the Reformation 274, 471Sermon Preached before the Right

Honourable the Lord Mayor 343Some Reflections on his Majesty’s

Proclamation of the, 12th of February,1686/7 360

Some Passages of the Life and Deathof . . . John Earl of Rochester 441

Burnet, ThomasArchæologiæ Philosophicæ lxx, lxxiTelluris Theoria Sacra (Sacred Theory of

the Earth) lxx, lxxiv, 422, 475, 476,477

Burton, HenryThe Baiting of the Pope’s Bull 390Documents Relating to the Proceedings

against William Prynne 349Burton, Robert, Anatomy of Melancholy

liv, lv, lxviii, 347, 368, 381, 385,421, 428, 429, 435, 440, 461, 472,525

Butler, SamuelCharacters lv n.48, lxvii n.77, 367, 378,

399, 412, 433, 451, 453, 472, 508,518, 520, 530

Hudibras lv, lxvii n.77, 225, 342, 347,352, 358, 366, 373, 390, 391, 402,411, 413, 419, 421, 422, 424, 425,

426, 428, 431, 441, 449, 452,453, 454, 456, 459, 460, 468,473, 475, 481, 482, 484, 491,495, 500, 504, 508, 511, 522,524, 525

‘Panegyric upon Sir John Denham’srecovery from his madness’ 495

Button’s coffee house 354Bythus 120, 450

C., W., Trepidantium malleus 315cabalism 8, 83, 100, 120Cacus 62, 380, 414, 475Caesar, Julius lxxvCallieres, Francois de, Histoire Poetique

de la Guerre . . . entre les Anciens et lesModernes lvii, 11, 230, 325, 465,467

Calones 487Calvin, John 88, 94, 236–7, 408, 410

Traite Des Reliques 395Camden, William 99–104, 153, 486

Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliæ etHiberniæ Regnate Elizabetha 273;Britannia 517

Camera apostolica 391Camerarius, Symbolorum et emblematum

315Camilla 500, 509cannabis 384canting, art of 180–2, 455, 522, 524caps, black 515caps, quilted 179, 520Cardanus, Hieronymus, commentary on

Hippocrates 460Carkesse, James, Lucida intervalla 394Carlyle, Thomas li n.40Carnochan, W. B. 459, 478Casaubon, Meric

Of Credulity and Incredulity 370A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasm

lxviii, 427, 432, 435, 480, 513Castle, Terry liiiCato, Marcus Porcius Uticensis 17celibacy of Roman clergy 223Cercopithecus, Egyptian 49, 367






index 575

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de lxxvDon Quixote 19, 126, 331, 453,

455chains (for books) 416chameleon 103Character of a Whig, under Several

Denominations 422, 523Charles I, King lxiii–lxiv, 264Charles II, King lxix, 44, 131, 266Charon 164, 508Charron, Pierre, Of Wisdom 467Chasteigner, Henry Louis 418Chillingworth, William lix, lx–lxii

Religion of Protestants 373, 451China 172Chinese wagons 223, 395Christ 178, 219, 227Christ Church College, Oxford

xxxvi n.13, xxxix, lxxvi–lxxviii, 229,415, 502, 506

Cicero, Marcus Tullius lxxv, 17, 109Epistles 274Epistles to Atticus 194, 345Epistles to Trebatius 109, 434Orationes . . . in C. Verrem 505

circulation of the blood 84, 404Civil War lxvClarendon, Edmund Earl of, History of

the Rebellion 360, 361Clark, J. R. lii, 441Clarke, Mary 466Clarke, Samuel, A Discourse Concerning

the Unchangeable Obligations ofNatural Religion xlviii

Clarkson (or Claxton), Laurence 366,425, 518, 528

Claxton, see ClarksonCleon 345Cleveland, John, ‘Rupertismus’ 525Clifford, Lord, Charles Boyle, third Earl

of Cork, second Earl of Burlington56, 375

Clinamina 108Clio 493cloven feet 178cloven tongues 175, 178, 460, 516

cœlum empyræum 101, 177, 519Colchos, bulls of 71, 389Collier, Jeremy, Essays upon Several

Moral Subjects 273, 346, 380, 474Short View of the Immorality and

Profaneness of the English Stage 354Columbia University Library xlii, xlvCombat des livres, see Callieres, Francois

de, Histoire Poetique de la Guerre . . .entre les Anciens et les Modernes

Commissioners of Inspection 113common-place-book 415, 502Common-Prayer, Book of 460Commons, House of 209compass 84, 404Comte de Gabalis, see Villars, Abbe N. de

Montfaucon deConcomitants, doctrine of 74, 223Confessio fraternitatis lxxii, 448confession, auricular 222Congreve, William 134, 462

Love for Love 393The Old Batchelour 356

Connor, county lxiiiConstantine I, Emperor 377Constantine the Great 58, 222Conway, Sir John 375Copernicus lxxii, lxxvCopia vera 78, 396Coppe, Abiezer 454, 530Copperas 145, 502Cornell University Library xlii, xlvcorruption and generation 515Cotton, Charles, Scarronides 417Covent Garden 27, 32, 155, 346Cowley, Abraham 152, 159–60, 482–3

Davideis 492The Mistresse 501‘The Motto’ 497Olympique Odes 500Preface to Poems (1656) 500‘The Resurrection’ 500‘To the Royal Society’ 412

Craige, John 477cream 142creationism 370






576 index

Creech, Thomas lxxi, 158, 499tr. Lucretius 350, 384, 441

Creon 31Crider, J. R., ‘Dissenting Sex’ 530Criticism (as goddess) 154–6, 490criticism, textual and scriptural 376Croft, Herbert, The Naked Truth 409Cromwell, Oliver, 266

(‘blustering Landlord’) 497Cros, Sieur du xxxi n.1cross, wood of the true 394Ctesias 64, 65, 97, 383, 384, 414Cudworth, Ralph 366

True Intellectual System of the Universe432, 435

Curll, Edmund 280–1Complete Key to the Tale of a Tub xxxi,

xli–xlv, lxxxv, lxxxvi–lxxxvii, lxxxix,327, 387

Curtius, Marcus 113, 442custard 133, 462Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran 384Cybele 491Cyprian 273, 363

Daily Courant xxxiiDampier, William 318, 490, 509, 517Dangerfield, Thomas 359Daniel, Father Gabriel, Voyage du monde

de Descartes 483Darius 525Daunce, Edward, The Prayse of Nothing

463Davenant, Sir William lxxv, 230, 405,

482Gondibert 157, 494–5

Davies, Sir John, Nosce teipsum 273,489

Davila, Enrico Caterino 153, 485–6Davis, Herbert, edition of A Tale of a

Tub liDe Quehen, Hugh liDe Quincey, Thomas ldeceived, a perpetual possession of being

well 111Defoe, Daniel xl, xlvii

An Argument Shewing, That aStanding Army . . . is not Inconsistentwith a Free Government 412

The Consolidator: or Memoirs of SundryTransactions from the World in theMoon 319

Declaration without Doors 391The Dyet of Poland 429Enquiry into Occasional Conformity

343Essay upon Projects 386The Political History of the Devil 517A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great

Britain 379‘The True-Born Englishman’ 344

Dekker, Thomas, Guls Hornbook 441The Honest Whore (with Middleton)

443Delphin classics 337Delphos 104Demosthenes 31Denham, Sir John 157, 495

Cooper’s Hill 157, 495‘The Progress of Learning’ 321

Dennis, John xlviii, 23, 61, 335–6DePorte, Michael liiDescartes, Rene lxxi–lxxii, lxxv, 108,

109, 147, 152, 156, 337, 396, 414,431, 432, 472, 477, 478, 481, 485,494

Principia philosophiæ 433D’Este, Alfonso II 377Despreaux, see BoileauDialogue Betwixt Three Travellers 407Dicæarchus 384Digby, Sir Kenelm 470‘Digression on the nature usefulness &

necessity of Wars & Quarels’lxxxviii, lxxxix

Diodorus Siculus 64, 184, 273, 423, 505,526, 527

Diogenes Apollonius 431Diogenes Lærtius 108, 315, 431

Life of Epicurus 324, 442Dionysia 183, 526Dionysia Brauronia 185, 527






index 577

Dionysius 183Dionysus 527Disconsolate Reformado 406Discourse between a Deist and a Socinian 5Dobbs, Richard lxiii–lxivDogs, Republick of 143Dominion of Grace 130, 459Donation of Constantine 377Donne, John, ‘A Valediction Forbidding

Mourning’ 457d’Orleans, Pierre Joseph, Histoire de M.

Constance, premier ministre du Royde Siam 273, 462

Downie, J. A. liDownton, Thomas lxxxii, 193Dr Faustus lvii, 43Dragonnades 396Dryden, John xxxviii, lvii, 7, 44, 45, 85,

147, 152, 158, 321, 353, 405, 482,497–8

Absalom and Achitophel 469All for Love 343Annus mirabilis 340The Assignation 343Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy

515‘Discourse Concerning the Original

and Progress of Satire’ 322, 330,334, 341, 342, 347, 361, 447, 498

Essay of Dramatic Poesy 354, 485An Evening’s Love 515Examen poeticum 378‘Heroique Stanzas’ 497The Hind and the Panther 43, 358,

364, 372, 489, 498Indian Queen 497Macflecknoe 333Marriage A-la-Mode 438Preface to Annus mirabilis 463Preface to Cleomenes 446Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern

498Preface to The Rival Ladies 495Preface to Troilus and Cressida 445,

497‘Prologue at Oxford’ 365, 406

Religio Laici 396The Spanish Fryar 344Threnodia Augustalis 508translation of Virgil 23, 335, 361, 362,

408Dublin 281Dublin Journal 282dullness 154, 158Dunton, John 38, 349

Athenian Gazette 496Athenian Oracle 463Life and Errors 332Visions of the Soul 510A Voyage round the World lvii, 398

D’Urfey, Thomas 134, 335, 462Collin’s Walk 532; An Essay towards the

Theory of the Intelligible World,Intuitively Considered 319; NewPoems 356, 510; A Third Collectionof New Songs, Never Printed Before389

Dutch War 193, 209

Eachard, Dr John 8Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt

of the Clergy 322, 355, 401, 415, 523Mr Hobbs’s State of Nature Considered

348, 370ears 129–31, 182, 349, 459echo 163, 507Ecton, John, Liber valorum et decimarum

339Edinburgh 60, 281, 379Edward VI, King 465Edwards, Thomas

Gangræna lxv, 351, 421, 520, 530Tub-Preachers Overturn’d 315

Edwin, Sir Humphrey xxxviii, xxxix, lxii,133, 180, 225, 462

Edwyn, Sir Humphrey, see Edwin, SirHumphrey

Effen, Justus von xlixEgerton, John, The Sayings and

Apothegms of Sundry Learned andEminent Divines of the Church ofEngland 479






578 index

Egypt 184Egyptians 183Ehrenpreis, Irvin xliv, li, liii, liv, 277Eighteenth-Century Collections Online

(ECCO) 279elephant 160Elias, A. C. liElizabeth I, Queen (‘Lady Bess’) 263–4Elliott, R. C. liiEllis, Clement, The Vanity of Scoffing 369Ellis, Frank H. liii, 276

edition of A Tale of a Tub li, lxxix, 276,463

Ellwood, Thomas 409The History of the Life of Thomas

Ellwood 410Empedocles 113, 442Emperor Constantine I 240English Theophrastus 332Ensurance, Office of 70Entio, Georgio 404Epaminondas 17, 330Ephemerides 466Epicurus lxx, lxxi, lxxv, 108, 112, 324,

350, 399, 420, 431, 433, 480, 512Episcopacy, Act abolishing in Scotland

lxiiiErasmus, Desiderius

Colloquies 394edition of Irenæus 316The Praise of Folly lv, lvi, 373, 378,

437, 438Essex, Earl of lxxxivEtesian wind 160, 502Etherege, George, The Man of Mode 372Euclid 153, 487Eutyches 185, 528Eutychianism (monophysitism) 528Evander 152, 484Evelyn, John 473

Essay on the First Book of T. LucretiusCarus 479

Exclusion Bill lviii, 44, 209, 360excrements 523Eygel, Antonio Apologema pro urinis

humanis 444

Fama fraternitatis lxxii, 316, 448Familists see Family of LoveFamily of Love lxv, 185, 529Famous History of Tom Thumb 359Farnaby, Thomas 12, 325Farquhar, George, Constant Couple 372Fate, Book of 488Fathers, Church 219, 470Faulkner, George lxxxv, 281

edition of A Tale of a Tub 281–3Featly, Daniel

The Dippers Dipt 530The Romish Fisher Caught 395

feet, uncovering 452Felltham, Owen, A Trip to Holland 405Ferguson, Robert, A Representation of the

Threatening Dangers, Impendingover Protestants 360

Fermat, Pierre de lxxviFerrara, Duchy of 377Fienus, Johannus, De flatibus humanum

corpus 429Finch, Daniel, Earl of Nottingham 347fistula in ano lxxiv, 107, 430Five Points 226flagelate 182, 525Flammel, Nicholas, Exposition of the

Hieroglyphicall Figures 357, 358Flanders 113, 444

French invasion of 193Fleet-street 169Fletcher, John, see Beaumont, Francisflies and spittle 83Florio, John

Florios Second Frutes 479Queen Anna’s New World of Words 523

Florus, Lucius Annæus, EpitomaGestorum Romanorum 273, 324

Fludd, RobertAnatomiæ Amphitheatrum effigie triplici

more et conditione varia 420Medicina Catholica 400Mosaicall Philosophy 322, 512Summum bonum 512

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de 157,496






index 579

Dialogues des morts 273Digressions sur les anciens et les modernes

lxxivEntretiens sur la pluralite des mondes

lxxi, 433, 474, 512, 522Histoire de Mero et d’Enegu lviii

Fooliana 514Forma informans 418Forster, John xxxviFountaine, Sir Andrew xxxv–xxxvi n.13,

lxxxvi, 214Fowler, Edward 392Fox, George 520

A New-England-fire-brand Quenched352

Foxe, John, Acts and Monuments 406France 204Freind, John lxxvi, lxxvii, 506Freind, Robert lxxvii, 506Friendly Societies 70fuliginous 525Full and true account 466Full and True Account of the . . . Life

of . . . John Taylor 528Fuller, Thomas

‘A Christning Sermon’ 406The Church-History of Great Britain

362, 388Furetiere, Antoine, Nouvelle allegorique

467furor [uterinus] 186, 531

Galen of Pergamon 156, 484, 485, 493gall 145, 502Garth, Samuel, The Dispensary 490,

531Gassendi, Pierre lxxi, 152, 483Gastrell, Francis, The Principles of Deism

Truly Represented 319Gay, John 399gear 126Geneva bibles 180, 523George (or Joris), David 185, 529Germain, Lady Betty, her copy of A Tale

of a Tub xlii, xlvGeryon 414

Giffard, Lady Martha (WilliamTemple’s sister) lxxxiv

advertisement in Post-Man lxxxivGildon, Charles xlix, lxx, lxxiGilead, Balm of 127, 456Gilpin, John 409Glanvill, Joseph lxx, lxxi

Lux Orientalis 515Philosophia Pia 370Scepsis Scientifica 396, 434, 468, 477,

489Glasgow 281glosses, biblical 221Gloucester Cathedral 240, 387Gnosticism liiGod, black 177, 519God, white 177, 519Godolphin, Sidney, first Earl of lxxxiv,

207Godwin, Francis, The Man in the Moone

491Goedartius, Johannes 403gold lace 55–6, 89Golden Fleece 72, 389Golden Spy: or, a Political Journal of the

British Nights Entertainments of Warand Peace 319

Gordon, Thomas, see Trenchard, JohnGorgons 492Gother, John lxi, lxiiGrabe, John Ernest, edition of Irenæus

225Grace, marks of 130, 460Grand Committee 338Grand elixir 172, 511

see also universal medicineGreat Seal of England 229Greece 183Greene, Donald li, livGreg, W. W. 277Gresham College 40, 117, 155, 170,

353, 430, 443, 448, 510, 530Grew, Nehemiah, The Anatomy of Plants

456Griffolini, Francesco 464Grub Street 4, 40, 213, 443, 446






580 index

Guagninus, Alexander, SarmatiæEuropeæ descriptio 176, 516

Gueret, Gabriel, Le Parnasse reforme 467Gueuses 94, 411Guicciardini, Francesco 153, 485Guild Hall 117gunpowder 84, 404Guthkelch, Adolph Charles, edition of

A Tale of a Tub (with David NicholSmith) li, liv, lxxviii, 282

Hague, The xxxii n.1, lxxxvii, 209Hakluyt, Richard, Principal Navigations

338, 490, 517Hall, Joseph, Mundus alter et idem 455,

514Halley, Edmond lxxvihamated 521Hammond, Brean liHammond, E. R. 378Hannasi, Rabbi Judah 43, 358Harangues or Speeches of Several Famous

Mountebanks 387Hardouin, Jean 399Harrington, James 338

The Common-wealth of Oceana 512Rota 512

Harry Huff, see Henry VIIIHarth, Phillip li, lii, 365, 370, 435–6,

513Harvey, William lxxv–lxxvi, 153, 404,

484–5, 493Anatomical Exercitations 420

Hascard, Gregory, A Discourse about theCharge of Novelty 406

Haselrigg, Sir Arthur 497Hatton, Charles xxxii n.1Hawkesworth, John

‘Life of Dr Jonathan Swift’ xcedition of A Tale of a Tub xlv, 416,

478Works of Swift 281–3, 502, 509

Head, Richard, The Western Wonder 399Heinsius, Daniel, Laus Asini 383Helena (paramour of Simon Magus)

528

Helicon 64, 162, 506Hennepin, Louis 527Henri IV, King of France 106, 429Henriette d’Angleterre, daughter of

Charles I (‘Madame’) 193Henry VIII (‘Harry Huff’) 262–3Heracleonites 251Herbert, Edward, first Baron Herbert of

Cherbury, The Life and Raigne ofKing Henry VIII 273

Hercules 61, 96, 380–1, 414Hermes 153; rod of 182, 524Herodotus lxxv, 64, 65, 97, 98, 153, 182,

184, 329, 382, 383, 413, 414, 416,487, 525, 527

Hesiod, Theogony 505Hesychius 415Heydon, John 397Heylyn, Peter

Cosmographie in Foure Bookes 318, 395,401, 426

Cyprianus Anglicus 376Heywood, Thomas, Hierarchie of the

Blessed Angels 362, 426Higgins, Ian li, 408–9, 426–7, 429,

457–8, 469, 528Hippocrates 130, 153, 173, 460, 470,

487, 514Hirsch, E. D. lxxix n.95Histoire d’Æthiopie 273Histoire de M. Constance xxxviiiHistory of Dr John Faustus 359History of Martin lxxxviii, lxxxix,

280History of Sir Richard Whittington 359Hobbes, Thomas lii, lxx, lxxi, lxxv, 147,

152, 473, 483, 509copies of his works owned by Swift

484Elements of Philosophy 438Humane Nature 398Leviathan lxxi, 25, 179, 338, 353, 368,

370, 392, 397, 418, 419, 424, 427,432, 439, 467, 474, 489, 512, 518,519

frontispiece to Leviathan 521






index 581

Hogarth, William, Rake’s Progress 373,432

Holland 193, 204, 280, 281holy-water 222, 388Holzknecht, G. K. 276Homer lxxiv, lxxv, 83–4, 153, 157, 161,

163, 164, 401, 494Iliad liv, 95, 282, 475, 481, 488, 489,

491, 492, 494, 498, 501, 503, 504,506

Odyssey 274, 423Hooke, Robert, Micrographia lxxiiiHooker, Richard, Ecclesiastical Polity

408, 451, 452, 455Hopkins, Robert liiHorace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) 26,

32, 37, 38, 71, 107, 129, 159, 178,199, 245, 273, 339, 341, 346, 347,349, 381, 390, 398, 430, 437, 459,478, 500, 519

horse, Lord Mayor’s great 133Houghton Library 275How, John 113, 442Howard, Sir Robert, The History of

Religion 337Hudson, Nicholas 382Huet, Pierre-Daniel 337Huguenots 94, 411humanity (of Dr Bentley) 147, 151, 447,

471, 503Hume, Patrick, Annotations on Milton’s

Paradise Lost 519Huntington Library 479Hybris 61, 380, 490Hyde Park 27Hydra 62, 381Hyperbolus 31, 345

Ignis vocem 83ignorance 154ill-manners 154illuminati 449impudence 154Independents lxvindexes 96, 184, 413, 415, 526index-hunting 413

India 172, 175Indian figures 57–8, 89Indians, wild 177Indulgence, Declaration of 461infinity of matter 97Inns of Court 32innuendo 391inward light 180, 352Ireland 176, 213, 214, 331

religion in lxiiiIrenæus lii, lxvi, 20, 120, 225, 251, 273,

316, 448, 529Irish 517Iroquois Virtuosi 170, 510

Jack Presbyter 406James I, King lxiii, 264, 344James II, King lviii, lxi–lxii, lxiv, 133,

266Janissaries 457Jason 389Jauguis 175, 516Jeffrey, Francis lJeffreys, Judge George 379Jenkins, Sir Lionel 208Jesuits lxviiJews 183Johnson, Samuel (1649–1703) 392Johnson, Samuel l, 277

Dictionary 371Johnson, Thomas lxxxvii–xcJones, Inigo, The most Notable Antiquity

of Great Britain 454Jones, John lviJones, Sir William 209Jonson, Ben

The Alchemist 358Timber 478

Joris, David, see George, DavidJosephus, Flavius 448Juno 32, 346Jupiter 49, 153–4, 162Justel, Henry 465Justinus, M. Junianus, Epitoma

historiarum Philippicarum 329Juvenal 342, 344, 367






582 index

Keill, John, Examination of Dr Burnet’sTheory 414, 471, 478, 479

Keith, GeorgeTruths Defence 457see also Barclay, Robert

kennel 520Kennett, White, Parochial Antiquities

389Kentish Idol 240, 388Kidd, Captain William 331Kilroot xxxvii, lxiii–lxivKing, William xlvii, 229, 336

Dialogues of the Dead lxxvii, 229,403

A Short Account of Dr Bentley’sHumanity and Justice 337

Some Remarks upon A Tale of a Tubxlvii, 319, 323, 325, 328

King’s Bench 133King’s Library, St James Palace

lxxvi–lxxvii, 141, 146, 153, 155,336, 465, 471

Knox, John 94, 411Korshin, P. J. 414

lacunae 493lady in a lobster 158, 497Lambin, Denys xxxiv, 47, 364Landa, Louis liLangbaine, Gerard 445lanthorn 523Laplanders 104Latria 101, 376, 422Laud, William, Conference with Fisher

339, 362, 363, 408, 459Laurcalco (giant, in Don Quixote) 126,

453Le Clerc, Jean xlix, liiiLeaden-Hall Market 393leap-frog 181, 228, 524Leeds University Library 278Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van lxxiii, lxxvi,

403, 404Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm lxxviLeicester 327Leicester Fields 28, 343

Lens, Bernard xxxv, xxxviLeslie, Charles lxiii, lxvii, lxviii, 454

An Answer to a Book, Intituled, TheState of the Protestants in Ireland 458

A Discourse lxviThe History of Sin and Heresie

lxviii n.79A Parallel Between the Faith and

Doctrine of the Present Quakers, andthat of the Chief Hereticks in all Agesof the Church 352, 408, 528

Primitive Heresie Revived lxvi, 458Satan Disrob’d 410, 450, 457, 516,

518The Snake in the Grass lxv, 352, 411,

424, 457, 518, 524, 525, 528, 530L’Estrange, Roger 7, 44, 118, 153, 321,

487A Brief History of the Times 332, 345,

361, 465The Character of a Papist in Masquerade

428The Dissenter’s Sayings 338L’Estrange his Apology 361Fables of Æsop and other Eminent

Mythologists lvii, 355, 410, 507Observator 322, 406, 441Observator Defended 361Twenty Select Colloquies out of Erasmus

395The Visions of Dom Francisco de

Quevedo Villegas . . . Made English332

letter to a friend 509–10Levine, Jay liiLevine, Joseph M. liLeyden, John of lxvii, 94, 109, 185, 366,

411, 435, 520, 529Libavius, Andreas, Turris Babel 454Licensing Act lxii, 464Lipsius, Justus lvi, 378liquid 523Lithgow, William 395, 517Liverpool University Library 278‘Lives and Fortunes’ 360Livius, Titus 153, 442, 487






index 583

Lock, F. P. liLocke, John 440

The Conduct of the Understanding 445An Essay Concerning Human

Understanding 332, 337, 510A Letter to the . . . Bishop of Worcester

480Reasonableness of Christianity 337

Locket’s coffee house 48, 365London Spy, see Ward, Ned‘London’s Wonder: Being a Description

of God’s Mercy . . . in the Breakingof this Late Mighty Frost’ 372

London-Post, The 387Long, Thomas, The Letter for Toleration

Decipher’d 426Longheads 173, 514Longinus, Peri hupsous 405Lonsdale, Roger 277Loretto, Chapel of 77, 395Lorrain, Paul 349Lorraine 193Louis XIV, King of France lxxiv, 107,

396, 430Lovers Quarrel: or Cupid’s Triumph

359Loyola, St Ignatius 369Lucan, Marcus Annæus 158, 507

De bello civili 320Lucian 488

Adversus indoctum 441Charon 508; How to Write History 316Icaromenippus 489, 491

Lucretius 108, 396De rerum natura xxxviii, liv, lxxi, lxxxi,

38, 81, 94, 99, 106, 135, 273, 316,334, 350, 384, 397, 411, 414, 418,429, 430, 433, 435, 437, 438, 440,463, 490, 491, 521

Lund, Roger li, 366, 431Luther, Martin 88, 185, 236, 387Lyon, John xli n.22, lxxx, xc

Machiavelli, Niccolo di Bernardo deilviii, lxxv

Macrocephali, see Longheads

Madame, see Henriette d’AngleterreMagdalen College, Oxford lxiiMagnus, Olaus, De gentium

septentrionalium 426Magus, Simon lxviii, 185, 528Mahomet lxvi–lxviii, 171, 511, 530Mahometans 185, 229Malevoli 65, 385Malignants 361Malpighius, Marcellus, De cerebri cortice

521Mandeville, John, Voyages and Travels

530Manley, Delarivier, New Atalantis 245Mansell, Roderick 360Marcellinus, Ammianus 51, 220, 372Marcosian heretics 20, 251Mariana, Juan de 153, 486Markland, James Heywood xliiMarsh, Narcissus, ‘An Introductory

Essay to the doctrine of Sounds’350

Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis367

Marvell, Andrew 8The Rehearsal Transpros’d lv, 323, 334,

338, 340, 342, 343, 345, 355, 397,425, 429, 444, 460, 465

Mary I, Queen 523Mary II, Queen lxiii–lxiv, 263Mary, Milk of the Virgin 223, 394Massialot, Francois, The Court and

Country Cook 412Mathematicks 150, 152, 477Maurier, Louis Aubrey de, Memoires

pour servir a l’histoire de Hollande273

McDayter, Mark 471Meal-Tub plot 44, 359, 458Medici, Maria de 429Megalopolis 101, 423Melampus 183, 526Melanchthon, Philipp 387Menippean satire lvMercury, see HermesMercury, salivation without 84, 405






584 index

Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham359

Mezeray, Francois Eudes de Abregechronologique de l’histoire de France333, 429

microcosm 49, 368Middleton, Thomas, see Dekker,

ThomasMilky Way 153Milton, John 152

Areopagitica 469Paradise Lost 334, 380, 395, 410, 413,

423, 466, 475, 482, 490, 492, 493,502

Paradise Regained 526Samson Agonistes 497

Minellius, Johannes 12, 325Minerva 346Miscellaneous Works, Comical and

Diverting xxxi, xlv, lxxxvii–xc,280

Misna, Babylonian 43, 358Misna, Jerusalem 43, 358mitre 184, 527modern saints 174mogul 128, 457Molesworth, Robert, An Account of

Denmark 337Moloch 22Momus 61, 153, 154–5, 163, 379, 488,

490Monmouth, James Scott, first Duke of

379Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de lxxv

‘Apologie de Raimond Sebond’ 409Essais 370, 510

Montmorency, Charlotte de 429Moor Park xxxvii, xxxviii, lxvi, lxix, lxxMoorfields 117, 430, 446More, Henry 402, 421

Conjectura Cabbalistica 368Enthusiasmus Triumphatus liv, lxviii,

417, 418, 420, 422, 427, 428,431–2, 436, 452, 455, 512, 513,528, 529, 530, 532

Immortality of the Soul 352, 531

Observations upon AnthroposophiaTheomagica and Anima MagicaAbscondita lxxiii, 368, 423

A Plain and Continued Exposition of theSeveral Prophecies 392

Moreland, Sir Samuel 489Moreri, Louis, Great Historical,

Geographical and Poetical Dictionarylxvi, lxxiii, 357, 379, 426, 449, 451,467, 476, 484, 485, 510, 511,512

Morning’s Discourse of a Bottomless Tubb,A xlix

Morocco 172Morphew, John xxxiii, 279Morsure 179Moses 115, 444Motte, Benjamin 280, 281Moulin, Louis du, The Power of the

Christian Magistrate 425Moulinavent 104mouse traps 84Moxon, Elizabeth, English Housewifry

508Moxon, Joseph 469Moyle, Walter, see Trenchard, JohnMueller, Judith liii, 276Muggleton, Lodowicke 366Muggletonians lxvMuller, Johann 153, 486Munster 411Munster, Bishop of 193, 195Musgrave Sir Christopher 113, 442mystery 520

Namur, Siege of 384Nandy, Dipak xlivNantes, Edict of 429

Revocation of Edict of Nantes 396nature, second 514Naude, Gabriel, Advis pour dresser une

Bibliotheque 473Nauplians 63, 382Nayler, John 511Neuster, Adam 185, 529Nevile, Henry, Plato redivivus 467






index 585

New Tale of a Tub, Concerning One GoodyLaw. Old Father Discipline, andYoung Master Nicodemus 319

Newgate 72, 93New-Holland 169, 509Newton, Sir Isaac lxxii, lxxvi, 14,

471Nicea, Council of 364Nichols, John 281, 507Nimeguen, Treaty of 208Noden, Ralph lxxxviinoise 154Norfolk 214nose 182, 525nothing 135, 463Nothing, A Song of 463Nott, Joseph 449Nova Zembla 154, 490Nuck, Anton 403Nutt, John xxxiii, 356

Oates, Titus 359Oats, Samuel 421Ogilby, John 499–500

Homer 362Ogleby 159Ogling 186Old Oligarch 345Oldenburg, Henry ‘To the Royal

Society’ 445Oldham, John 159, 468, 500

Satyr upon the Jesuits 369Oldmixon, John

The History of Addresses 360Reflections upon Dr Swift’s Letter to the

Earl of Oxford xl, xlviii n.31Olson, R. C. li, 367Opinion (as goddess) 154Optatus, St, De schismate Donatistarum

lviii, lxOpus magnum 83, 120, 402Orgasmus 186Orgya 183, 185, 526Origen 424Orleans, Pere de 134Ormonde, Duke of lxxxiii

Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh li, 366, 394,406, 409, 454, 459

Ornatissimus joculator 353Orpheus 183, 185, 526Osyris 183, 184Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

Fasti 475Metamorphoses 326, 333, 425, 477,

488, 490, 492, 501, 507, 508Remedia amoris 344

owls, catching of 84

Pagitt, Ephraim, Heresiography lxv,528

Pagods 229Painters Wives Island 82, 401Palestine 106Pallas Athene 153, 157, 163, 164, 488,

508Pancirollus, Guido 101

Artes perditæ 130, 423Panegyres 183, 526Panipat, Battle of 457Papstesel 387Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus

von Hohenheim) lxxiii, 100, 108,153, 156, 400, 420, 421, 431, 484,493

The Aurora of the Philosophers 341, 393Paradise, Bird of 103, 425Pardon, papal 72Paris 32Park, James, A General Epistle to Friends

Every Where 406Parker, Samuel lv, 8

A Defence and Continuation of theEcclesiastical Politie 417, 513

A Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie 323,351, 407

Disputationes de Deo et ProvidentiaDivina 434

A Free and Impartial Censure of thePlatonick Philosophie 448

Tentamina Physico-Theologica 317Parliament, Houses of 117Parnassus 144–5, 146, 147






586 index

Parnell, Thomas 399Homer’s Battle of the Frogs and Mice

With the Remarks of Zoilus 380Pascal, Blaise, Pensees 369Passerati, Joannes 463Passive Obedience 360Passmann, Dirk 529

and Heinz Vienken, The Library andReading of Jonathan Swift lxxx

Patrick, Simon, Search the Scriptures 377Paulson, Ronald li, lii, 450Pausanias 63, 135, 382, 423, 463, 527Peace Treaty of 1668 between Portugal

and Spain 193Pechlin, Johann Nicolaus 404pedantry 154penal laws 133penance 222Penkethman, William 419Penn, William 531

The Christian-Quaker 531The Preface, being a Summary Account

of . . . the Ministry and Testimonyof . . . George Fox 352

Pentecost 515Pepys, Samuel, Diary 372, 390Perrault, Charles lxxiv, 61, 157, 380, 496

Parallele des anciens et des moderneslxxiv, 474, 475

Le siecle de Louis le Grand 483, 510Perseus 61Persia 172Peru 172Petronius Arbiter 274Phalaridis Agrigentinorum tyranni epistolæ

lxxviPhalaris, tyrant of Acragas 162, 163,

464–5his bull 162, 505Epistles lxxvPhalaris controversy lxxvi–lxxviii, 141,

385Phiddian, Robert liiiPhiladelphia 531Philips, Katherine 457Philo Judæus 481

Philomela 163, 507philosopher, seduced by his lower parts

187, 532Philosopher’s stone 123, 172, 451, 511Philosophical Transactions lxix, 419, 434,

440Philostratus 431Photius 64, 97, 185, 383

Photii myriobiblon 383, 414, 527pickle, universal 70Pilgrim’s salve 127, 456Pindar 153, 159, 487, 500–1, 505planetary worlds 172, 511Plato lxxv, 146, 147, 148, 153, 470

Ion 481Phædrus 436Republic 348, 467, 488, 514Symposium 489Theætetus 532

Platonicks 187Pliny, Gaius Plinius Secundus, Historia

naturalis 411, 425, 476, 502,523

Plus ultra: Or, the Second Part of theCharacter of a Quaker 472, 531

Plutarch 180, 183, 345, 385, 424Septem convivium sapientium 522

Poitiers, William of 463political wagering 84, 404Poliziano, Angelo, Epistemon lvi, 378Pons, Emile 369Poor Robin’s Answer 449Pope, Alexander, Dunciad 413Popish Plot 44, 359porcupines 145pork 31Porsenna, Lars 9positiveness 154Post-Man, The xxxii, 387Powder Pimperlim pimp 70, 389prejudices 320Prestre, Sebastien Le, Seigneur de

Vauban 475pride 154Prideaux, Humphrey

Life of Mahomet 228






index 587

The True Nature of Imposturelxviii n.79, 428

Primordium 99, 420primum mobile 49, 368Prior, Matthew

The Hind & Panther Transvers’d 356,497

‘The Ladle’ 326‘Satyr on the Modern Translators’

500privy 184Privy Council 117Probyn, Clive liii‘Project for the Universal Benefit of

Mankind’ lxxxviii, lxxxixProtectorate lxvprotuberancy 106, 429Prynne, William 349, 520pudenda 97, 99, 102, 414, 509Puffendorf, Samuel, The Whole Duty of

Man According to the Law of Nature468

puppets 70, 388Purchas, Samuel, Purchas his Pilgrimes

426, 519Puttenham, George 466pygmies 414Pyrenees, Peace of the 195Pythagoras 42

Quaker Turn’d Jew 532Quakers lxv–lxvii, 102, 186, 352, 366,

411, 416, 449, 452, 457, 516, 518,520

Quakers Art of Courtship 531Quakers meer Obbists 315, 419,

509quintessence 74, 100, 392

R., P., The History of the Damnable Lifeand Deserved Death of Dr JohnFaustus 357

R., T., The Common-Wealths-ManUnmasqu’d 352

rabblings lxiii, 409Rabelais, Francois lxxv

Gargantua and Pantagruel lv, 316, 340,355, 356, 379, 400, 411, 417, 452,454, 489

Peter Motteux’s Fifth Book 389Racine, Jean 496Raleigh, Sir Walter, The History of the

World 371, 401Ranters lxv, 518, 528Rapin, Rene, Reflexions sur la poetique

lxxivraree shows 388Ravaillac, Francois 106, 429Rawson, Claude lii, 384, 399, 489, 510Ray, John

A Collection of English Proverbs 524Historia plantarum 384Miscellaneous Discourses lviiWisdom of God Manifested 367

Real, Hermann li, 490, 497edition of The Battel of the Books li,

lxxixrefinement 445Reflections upon Two Pamphlets Lately

Published xxxi n.1Regiomontanus, see Muller, JohannRemarks upon the Present Negotiations of

Peace begun between Britain andFrance xl, xlviii

Restoration 195Reynard the Fox lvii, 42Rhenford, James (‘Jacobus Rhenferdius’)

225, 251Rhœtia 153Richelieu, Cardinal 339Rinckhart, Martin, Der Eislebische

Christliche Ritter lviiiRipon spurs 182, 524Roberts, Marie Mulvey 448Rochester, Laurence Hyde, first Earl of

207, 328Roscelli, William liiiRoscommon, Wentworth Dillon, fourth

Earl of 249Rose Tavern 372Rosencreutz, Christian 448Rosicrucians 120, 448–50






588 index

Ross, Angus liRound-heads 174, 514Royal College of Physicians 444, 446,

484, 485, 499Royal Exchange 127Royal Society lv, lxix–lxxiii, lxxv, 337,

353, 354, 430, 446, 483, 486, 509Russell, Edward, Earl of Orford 346Rymer, Thomas 23, 61, 335

An Essay Concerning Critical andCurious Learning 403

Preface to Rapin’s Reflections onAristotle’s Treatise of Poesie 520

Ryswick, Conference of xxxviiiPeace of xxxviii, 135, 412, 463,

469

Sacramental Test lxiv, 133sacrum, os 180, 522Salisbury Plain 126Sancroft, Archbishop William lxi, lxiiSarpi, Paolo lxxv

History of the Council of Trent lxxx,273, 364, 391

satin, flame coloured 56–7satire, a sort of glass 142, 465Satyr upon the French King 430Satyrical Reflections on the Vices and Follies

of the Age 319Save-all 403Scævola, Mucius 324Scaliger, Joseph Justus 503Scaliger, Julius Cæsar 131, 161, 503

Exotericarum exercitationum liberquintus decimus de subtilitate 461

Scarron, Paul, Comical Works 515schoolmen 147, 435Schopper, Hartmann, Opus poeticum de

admirabili fallacia et astutiaVulpeculæ Reinikes 356

Scotia 101, 423Scotland Yard 117, 446Scotland, religion in lxii–lxiiiScott, Sir Walter l, 282, 407Scotus, Duns 43, 146, 153, 358, 470Scruggs, Charles li

Scythians 64, 98, 173, 176, 383, 414,460, 514, 517

Secretary of the Universe 396Sedgmoor 379Sedley, Sir Charles, ‘Prologue to Epsom

Wells’ 344Selden, John, Table Talk 395Sendivogius, Michael 83, 402Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Moral Epistles

478Septuagint 447Sergeant, John, An Historical Romance

426Servus servorum dei 391Session of the Poets 495Settlement, Act of lxiiiseven sages 473Seven Wise Masters of Rome 147, 473Seymour, Sir Edward 113, 442Shadwell, Thomas

Squire of Alsatia 325The Sullen Lovers 497The Virtuoso lxxiii, 318, 350, 352, 386,

404, 419, 441Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper,

first Earl of 359A Paradox against Liberty Written by

the Lords, during their Imprisonment480

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper,third Earl of

Characteristicks 412Letter Concerning Enthusiasm 7,

321Shakespeare, William

All’s Well that Ends Well 370Hamlet 4771 Henry IV 393, 394, 4302 Henry IV 452I Henry VI 454King John 397Tragedy of King Lear 439, 445Love’s Labours Lost 452Romeo and Juliet 351

Sharp, Dr John, Archbishop of York321






index 589

Sheridan, Thomas, Life of the Rev. DrJonathan Swift xc

Sherlock, William lxi–lxiiDefence of Dr Sherlock’s Notion of a

Trinity 348A Dialogue between Dr Sherlock, the

King of France, the Great Turk, andDr Oates 389

Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holyand Ever Blessed Trinity 348

Shillingsburg, Peter 275Shippen, William, Faction Display’d

329Shirley, John, History of Reynard the Fox

356shoulder-knots 51–5Sidney, Algernon 337Sidney, Sir Philip lxxvSige 121, 450silver fringe 57silver, points tagged with 58, 88Simon, Richard Critical Histories lix, lx,

488Six Penny-worth of Wit lvii, 38,

353Sleidanus (Johannes Philippson),

Commentariorum de statu religioniset republicae 273, 486

Sloane, Hans 521Smalridge, George lxxvii, 506Smedley, Jonathan, An Hue and Cry after

Dr S—t xlviii n.31Smith, David Nichol 279

see also Guthkelch, Adolph CharlesSmith, Frederik N. liSnap-dragon 124, 452snuffling 181–2, 525Socinians lxviiSocinus lxvii–lxviiiSocrates 17, 34, 42, 355Solomon, King 247Somers, John Lord xxxvii, 16–18, 229,

237, 327–9, 346, 412Sophisters 491Sorrel 497Sotheby’s xlii

South, RobertAnimadversions upon Dr Sherlock’s Book

348Forty Eight Sermons 460‘A Sermon Preached at

Westminster-Abbey, April, 30. 1676’369

‘A Sermon Preached on Isaiah V. 20’519

‘Two Discourses upon Luk. xii. Ver.15’ 519

Tritheism Charged upon Dr Sherlock’sNew Notion of the Trinity 348

Southwark Bear Garden 390sparrows 413Spectator 375, 432, 477Spenser, Edmund

Epithalamion 532Faerie Queene 490

Sphæra pyroplastica 83, 402–3spider 149–52spider and bee, episode of 474spleen 84, 147, 404Sprat, Thomas

History of the Royal Society lxix, 316,447, 483

Life of Cowley 446, 482spunging-house 461squaring of the circle 172, 511St Clair, Robert, The Abyssinian

Philosophy Confuted 476St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin lxxxiiiSt Paul 220, 228St Paul’s church yard 169standing army 204, 412–13, 457Stanley, Thomas, The History of

Philosophy 368, 418Starkman, Miriam K. li, liiState Coffee House 127Stearne, Dean 329Steele, Sir Richard 213, 277Steno, Nicolaus 403Stephen, Leslie lSterne, Laurence 523Stevens, John 517St-Evremond, Charles de lxxiv






590 index

Stillingfleet, Edward lxviii n.79, 503Answer to Several Late Treatises 338,

413, 458The Bishop of Worcester’s Answer to Mr

Locke’s Second Letter 480A Discourse Concerning the Idolatry

Practised in the Church of Rome 347Fanaticism of the Church of Rome 128,

226, 458Origines sacræ lix, 433

Stonehenge 454Stout, Gardner liiiStow, John, Survey of the Cities of London

and Westminster 393, 430Stubbe, Henry, Campanella Reviv’d 386Sturt, John xxxvStymphalian birds 62, 381Styx 164subscription publishing 92

see also Walton, Briansugar-loaf 514Suidas 415Summum bonum 172, 511Sunderland, Charles Spencer, third Earl

of lxxxiv, 207Swammerdam, Jan 403, 406Sweet Singers of Israel 185, 530sweetness and light 152Swift, Deane xxxvii, xxxviii, xl, lxxxv,

281Swift, Deane, the elder 388Swift, Jonathan

admiration for Milton 482imagines himself as Cowley 483reading in Aquinas 486Library Sale Catalogue lxxxAdvantages Propos’d by Repealing the

Sacramental Test 437‘Answer to a Paper, Called a

Memorial of the PoorInhabitants . . . of Ireland’ 517

Argument against AbolishingChristianity 320, 480, 518

Conduct of the Allies xlviiiContests and Dissentions in Athens and

Rome xxxiii, 328, 487

‘On Creech’s hanging himself, forhaving translated Horace’ 499

‘Description of a City Shower’ 451‘The Description of a Salamander’

384‘A Description of the Kingdom of

Absurdities’ 318Discourse of the Contests and Dissentions

394Examiner 447, 458‘Upon the Excellency of Christianity’

532Gulliver’s Travels xxxv, lv, lxxxix, 391,

392, 408, 413, 428, 431, 434, 442,444, 451, 483, 489, 491, 524, 533

History of the Four Last Years of theQueen lxvi, 520

Journal to Stella xxxiii, xli, 375, 443,472

‘The Legion Club’ 432, 470Letter of Thanks from my Lord Wharton

531letter to John Gay and Alexander

Pope 505Letter to a Young Gentleman 415, 433,

520marginal annotations on Burnet

449Miscellanies in Prose and Verse xxxiii,

xxxiv n.7, xli, lxxxv, 213, 214,384

Modest Proposal 412, 510‘To Mr Congreve’ 342, 383, 438Mr Collins’s Discourse of Free-Thinking

337, 437, 439, 499, 532, 533‘Ode to Dr William Sancroft’ 344,

434‘Ode to Sir William Temple’ 350,

470‘Ode to the Athenian Society’ 423,

436‘Ode to the King’ 430, 434‘On Poetry, a Rhapsody’ 343, 405,

477‘On the Causes of the Wretched

Condition of Ireland’ 439






index 591

‘On the Martyrdom of Charles I’ 437,511

‘On the Trinity’ 348, 376, 515, 518‘Pethox the Great’ 433Polite Conversation 353, 515Preface to the B—p of S—r—m’s

Introduction 458Project for the Advancement of Religion

xxxiiiPresbyterians Plea of Merit lxiii, 409,

437, 458, 514Proposal for Correcting . . . the English

Tongue 340‘Public Absurdities in England’ 413‘Queries Relating to the Sacramental

Text’ 511Remarks upon a Book, intitled, the

Rights of the Christian Church 409,436, 445, 470, 514, 518

The Sentiments of a Church-of-EnglandMan 428, 511

‘A Serious Poem upon WilliamWood’ 352

‘Upon Sleeping in Church’ 409‘Some Thoughts on Free-Thinking’

437Tale of a Tub Apology 213, 279–80‘On the Testimony of Conscience’

437‘Thoughts on Religion’ 450‘Thoughts on Various Subjects’ 383,

434Tritical Essay 368, 374, 433, 488‘Verses on the Death of Dr Swift’

373‘A Vindication of my Lord Carteret’

439Swift, Theophilus (son of Deane Swift)

282Swift, Thomas xxxix, xli–xlvi, lxxxv,

lxxxvii, xc, 213(‘that little Parson-cousin’) 214,

237; Noah’s Dove xlv n.28Sylva Caledonia 37, 348Sylvester I, Pope 377syphilis 524

tabernacles 526Tachard, Guy, Voyage de Siam des peres

jesuites 273, 387Tacitus, Publius Cornelius 113, 442Talbot, Richard, Earl of Tyrconnell

lviiiTale of a Tub, Revers’d 319Tale of the Tubbs or Romes Master Piece

Defeated 315Tanselle, G. Thomas 276, 278tarantula 127, 455Tarquinius Superbus 442Tartars 176Tasso, Torquato 152, 482Tate, Nahum 23, 335Tatler 443, 444Tax Cameræ Apostolicæ 72Taylor, Jacob 530Taylor, John 369, 528

An Apology for Private preaching315

tea 84, 404Temple, Sir William xxxi, xxxix, xl, xli,

lxvi, lxvii n.77, lxxiv–lxxviii, lxxx,lxxxi–lxxxv, 9, 148, 153, 162–3,236–7, 324

and Triple Alliance lxxxi, 193, 195,209, 229

‘Different Conditions of Life andFortune’ 199

Essay upon the Ancient and ModernLearning lxix, lxx, lxxi, lxxiv, 141,199, 217, 344, 427, 464, 468, 481,485, 491, 509

‘The Gardens of Epicurus’ 371, 387,433

‘Of Health and Long Life’ 199‘Of Heroic Virtue’ 451, 457, 466,

487‘An Introduction to the History of

England’ 383, 517Letters lxxxiiLetters to the King lxxxiiiLetters to the King, the Prince of Orange

204Miscellanea xxxiii, lxxiv, lxxxiii






592 index

Temple, Sir William (cont.)Memoirs xxxiii, lxxxiiiMemoirs of what Past in Christendom

xxxi n.1, 273‘Upon Poetry’ 343, 390, 401, 445,

487, 497‘Observations upon the United

Provinces’ 413‘Of Popular Discontents’ 199‘Some Thoughts upon Reviewing the

Essay of Antient and ModernLearning’ xxxix, lxxviii, 217, 379,385, 399, 403, 404, 415, 464, 468,470, 510, 511

tentiginous 531Terence Adelphi 385

Andria 385Heautontimoroumenos 385Terrae filius lvi

Test Act lxiitetractys 347Thales 532Themistocles 65, 330, 385Theophrastus, Characters 274Thersites 161, 502, 503Theseus 61Thomas, Sir Keith 388Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian

War, tr. Hobbes 274, 469Thuringians 262Tibullus, Albius 199Tigellius 61, 380Tillotson, John lxii, 533

Discourse against Transubstantiation392

‘The Hazard of being Saved in theChurch of Rome’ 389

‘The Necessity of the Knowledge ofthe Holy Scriptures’ 377

Rule of Faith lix, lx–lxi, 393, 451Tindal, Matthew 514, 518

An Essay Concerning the Power of theMagistrate 337

Tinkler, John F. li, 503tobacco 517Tobinambou, Literati of 170, 510

Toghari, Al 357Toland, John 221, 321, 328

Christianity not Mysterious 376, 526Toldervy, John 409Toleration Act lxv, 461Tom Thumb 43Tommy Potts 43, 359Tonson, Jacob lxxxii n.101, 329, 408Tooke, Benjamin, Jr xxxi, xxxiii, xxxiv,

xxxvi, xli, xlv, xlvii, lxxxiii n.107,275, 279, 280

Torriano, Giovanni, Piazza Universale diProverbi Italiani 459

Torricelli, Evangelista 350trade 514, 520Traducianism 370transubstantiation 74, 223, 230, 392Trapp, Joseph, Most Faults on One Side

409Trenchard, John and Thomas Gordon

Cato’s Letters 320Trenchard and Walter Moyle, Short

History of Standing Armies inEngland 473

Trent, Council of 375, 393Trinity lxvii, 219Trinity College, Dublin xxxvii, lvi, lxix,

lxx, lxxx, lxxxiii, 463, 491Triple Alliance, see Temple, Sir William

and Triple AllianceTripos speech xxxvii n.14, lviTrœzenians 463Troglodyte Philosopher, see Bacon, Sir

Francistrois justaucorps, Les lviiiTrosse, George, Sauciness of a Seducer

Rebuked 449Tryon, Thomas 432, 436, 443, 445Tuba Stentoro-Phonica see Moreland, Sir

SamuelTurgescency 143Turk 106, 128Turnus 500turpentine 527Tuveson, Ernest li, 476types (typology) 450






index 593

universal medicine 123, 400see also Grand elixir

uroscopy 444, 484–5Usucaption 467Utopian commonwealth 172, 511

vanity 154Vatican Council 377Vaughan, Thomas lvi, lxxii–lxxiii, 83,

121, 402‘Eugenius Philalethes’ lxxii, 121Anima Magica Abscondita lxxii, 121,

366, 477Anthroposophia Theomagica lxxii, 83,

121, 402, 403, 418, 452, 469Fame and Confessions of the Fraternity

of the R.C. lxxii, 448Magia Adamica 408

Venus 32, 159–60, 346‘Venus omitted’ 429vessel 182, 185, 348, 421, 524Vickers, Brian liVictoria and Albert Museum xc,

279Vienken, Heinz liVillars, Abbe N. de Montfaucon de, Le

comte de Gabalis 273, 400, 431Virga genitalis 184, 527Virgil lxxv, 147, 157–8, 199, 273, 482,

494, 496–7Aeneid liv, 34, 347, 374, 380, 414, 416,

424, 475, 481, 484, 488, 491, 492,500, 502, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508

Eclogues 199, 348, 491Georgics 390, 480

Virgil, Polydore 153, 486virtuosi 179Voiture, Vincent 273Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet),

Lettres philosophiques lviiiVossius, Gerhard Johann 487Vossius, Isaac 487

de Sybillinis 274, 488Vossius, Isaac or Gerhard Johann 153Voyage de Maroc 274Vulgate 222, 444

Wake, William, False Prophets try’d bytheir Fruits lxvii n.77

Walker, Obadiah 407Waller, Edmund 481Wallis, John 460Walters, Sir John 56, 375Walton, Brian, Biblia sacra polyglotta 408Walton, Izaak 396Warburton, William 507Ward, Ned

All Men Mad: or, England a GreatBedlam 443

Battel without Bloodshed 462A Journey to Scotland 456London Spy lvii, 366, 381, 400, 405,

439, 443, 444, 445, 462Waring, Jane xxxvii n.14Waring, Westenra xxxvii n.14, xlWarwick-Lane 116, 117, 444Webb, John, A Vindication of Stone-Heng

454Webster, C. M. liWebster, John, Academiarum examen 479Weinbrot, Howard li, liv, 503Wesley, Samuel 157, 496

Maggots 333, 367, 385, 496Western civet (Zibeta Occidentalis) 107Westminster Hall 115, 117, 127, 169,

456Westminster-Drollery lvii, 40, 353

Second Part 353Wharton, Thomas (English anatomist)

403Wharton, Thomas, first Marquis of

Wharton 346Whig Rampant 315Whispering Office 69Whiston, William 477white powder 153, 485Whitechapel 128Whitefriars 14Whitehall 32, 346Whitehead, George lxviiWhiteway, Martha xl, 533

her copy of Tale of a Tub 282Whittington and his Cat 43






594 index

Whore, Scarlet, see Babylon, Whore ofWilkins, John 153, 486

Discourse Concerning a New World 425,479

Discovery of a New World 512Of the Principles and Duties of Natural

Religion 518will, father’s (testament) 47, 48, 51–8,

77–8, 87–93, 123–4, 219, 363, 406Will’s coffee house 40, 48, 117, 353,

446William III, King xxxvii, lxii, lxiii, 193,

266 (‘a Foreigner’), 380 (asHercules)

Williams, Harold xliiWillis, Thomas lxix, lxxvi, 520–1

De anima brutorum 428, 520wills nuncupatory 55wills scriptory 55Wilmot, John, second Earl of Rochester

‘A Letter from Artemiza in the Town,to Chloe in the Country’ 437

‘Upon Nothing’ 463Wilson, John, The Projectors 403wind 99–104wines, hungry 524Wise Men of Gotham 43Wither, George 147, 152, 473, 482Witt, John de 194woman flay’d 112women, community of 185, 528Wood, Anthony a, Athenæ Oxonienses

408

woodcocks 164, 508Woodhead, Abraham, Two Discourses

342, 407Woolley, David 275, 282Woolpack, in Newgate Street 456worms 69, 472Wotton, Henry 492Wotton, William xxxix, xl, lvii, lxxiii,

lxxxiii, 23, 61, 109, 155–6, 161–4,181, 235–7, 248–51, 336, 347, 371,501–8

A Defense of the Reflections upon Ancientand Modern Learning lxxviii, lxxxvi,218, 323

Observations upon the Tale of a Tubxxxi, xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxix, xlvii, lxxxix

Reflections upon Ancient and ModernLearning xxxiii, xxxviii, xxxix, liv,lxix, lxxiii, lxxv–lxxvi, 83, 141, 318,356, 381, 382, 397, 400, 403, 404,414, 427, 440, 464, 468, 480, 485,512, 520–1

wounds, honourable 524Wycherley, William, The Country Wife

444

Xenophon 31, 83, 401

Yatch 193

Zibeta Occidentalis (Western civet) 107,430

Zoilus 61, 380




