future ages might be at a loss to derive it. It was a most witty conceit of four gentlemen, who ruined themselves with this iron project. _Sw._ stands for _Swift_,[193] _And_, for _Sanders_, _Ling_ for _Davling_ and _Bar._ for _Barry_. Methinks I see the four loggerheads sitting in consult, like _Smectymnuus_, each gravely contributing a part of his own name, to make up one for their place in the ironwork; and could wish they had been hanged, as well as undone, for their wit. But I was most pleased with the denomination of a town-land, which I lately saw in an advertisement of Pue's paper: "This is to give notice, that the lands of _Douras, alias_ WHIG-_borough_," &c. Now, this zealous proprietor, having a mind to record his principles in religion or loyalty to future ages, within five miles round him, for want of other merit, thought fit to make use of this expedient: wherein he seems to mistake his account; for this distinguishing term, whig, had a most infamous original, denoting a man who favoured the fanatic sect, and an enemy to kings, and so continued till this idea was a little softened, some years after the Revolution, and during a part of her late Majesty's reign. After which it was in disgrace until the Queen's death, since which time it hath indeed flourished with a witness: But how long will it continue so, in our variable scene, or what kind of mortal it may describe, is a question which this courtly landlord is not able to answer; and therefore he should have set a date on the title of his borough, to let us know what kind of a creature a whig was in that year of our Lord. I would readily assist nomenclators of this costive imagination, and therefore I propose to others of the same size in thinking, that, when they are at a loss about christening a country-seat, instead of straining their invention, they would call it _Booby-borough_, _Fool-brook_, _Puppy-ford_, _Coxcomb-hall_, _Mount-loggerhead_, _Dunce-hill_; which are innocent appellations, proper to express the talents of the owners. But I cannot reconcile myself to the prudence of this lord of WHIG-_borough_, because I have not yet heard, among the Presbyterian squires, how much soever their persons and principles are in vogue, that any of them have distinguished their country abode by the name of _Mount-regicide_, _Covenant-hall_, _Fanatic-hill_, _Roundhead-bawn_, _Canting-brook_, or _Mont-rebel_, and the like; because there may probably come a time when those kind of sounds may not be so grateful to the ears of the kingdom. For I do not conceive it would be a mark of discretion, upon supposing a gentleman, in allusion to his name, or the merit of his ancestors, to call his house _Tyburn-hall_.