. English letters and letterwriters of the eighteenth century. With explanatory notes . burtons note is vague and insufficient. Pope was no moreconcerned with the threatened invasion than any other Englishman, thanAllen himself, who was travelling, and might go to Twickenham, or anywherehe pleased. But, consequent on the threatened invasion, the Habeas Corpus wassuspended; and a Proclamation issued in February (just issued, therefore,when tliis letter was written) for putting the laws in execution against papistsand non-jurors, commanding their departure out of the cities of London andWestmins
. English letters and letterwriters of the eighteenth century. With explanatory notes . burtons note is vague and insufficient. Pope was no moreconcerned with the threatened invasion than any other Englishman, thanAllen himself, who was travelling, and might go to Twickenham, or anywherehe pleased. But, consequent on the threatened invasion, the Habeas Corpus wassuspended; and a Proclamation issued in February (just issued, therefore,when tliis letter was written) for putting the laws in execution against papistsand non-jurors, commanding their departure out of the cities of London andWestminster on or before the 2nd March, and not to remove from theirrespective places of abode above five miles, &c.— D, (MS. note.) But,as a (nominal) papist, Pope was, as matter of course, especially obnoxious tothe operation of these laws. 2 He brought these two eminent men together, but they soon jmrted inmutual disgust with each other.—Warton. Pope lived scarcely three monthsbeyond the date of this letter. The Jacobite Invasion, as is well known, tookplace in the next ih^ r Jkfl^n. /^/ ^^ Uy^j CcnJyJ}Ci- n^; ^K^S^^^Z l--^^j ,f^,^r-U A/ier^ piJ>K ^ J From tlie original MS. of Pope>< Iliad, in the BrHish Musexnn. INDEX. Abbreviations, in the English Language,condemned hy Swift, in the Taller, 95 ; inletter to Beach, 245. Academy of Lagado, referred to by , in a letter to Swift, 193, note. Academy for reforming tlie English , pmposed by Swift, 128. Account of the Poisoning of Edmund Curll, aburlesque l5y Pope, 307. Aclieson, Sir A., and Lady, Irish friends ofSwift, introduced in his Grand QuestionDebuted, 61 ; mentioned by him in letterto Pope, 212 ; Swift gives an account toPope of his libels upon Lady Acheson,214, and note. Achilles, an opera by Gay, 233, note. Addison,Joseph, sends his Remarks to Swift,his intimacy with Swift, revises SwiftsBaucis and Philemon, 16 ; Secretary of Statefor Ireland, 23, and note ; figures in Swiftsletters to
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