It is worth while to reprint a sentence from Scott's note on these "Remarks" of Swift's, if only to continue a record of retort against Swift's intemperance of feeling against the Scottish nation: "The ludicrous virulence of his execrations against the Scottish nation, go a great way to remove the effect of his censure; and a native of Scotland may be justified in retaining them, were it but for that reason." [T.S.] REMARKS ON CLARENDON'S HISTORY OF THE REBELLION. VOL. I. On the first board: Finished the 4th time, April 18, 1741. Judicium de authore.[1] [Footnote: 1 The note "Finished the 4th time April 18, 1741," which Scott and Fitzgerald record as written on the first board of vol. i., is not now to be traced, the volume having been rebound since their transcripts were made.] The cursed, hellish villainy, treachery, treasons of the Scots, were the chief grounds and causes of that execrable rebellion.--_Swift_. "The word of a king." This phrase is repeated some hundred times; but is ever foolish, and too often false.--_Swift_. PREFACE. P. v. [p. xxi.[2]] _Clarendon_. We might give instances ... of those points ... which have brought the prince, sometimes, under the disadvantageous suspicion of being inclined to the love of arbitrary power.--_Swift_. What king doth not love, and endeavour at it? [Footnote: 2 The references in square brackets apply to the recent Oxford edition of Clarendon's "Rebellion" (6 vols., cr. 8vo, 1888). The prefaces can only be referred to by the page, but throughout the body of the work the _paragraphs_ are separately numbered for each book. [T. S.]] P, vi. [p. xxii.] _Clarendon_. The people may not always be restrained from attempting by force to do themselves right, though they ought not.--_Swift_. They _ought!_ BOOK I. P. 9. [par. 12.] _Clarendon_. All men being inhibited, by the proclamation at the dissolution of the Parliament in the fourth year, so much as to mention or speak as if a Parliament should be called.--_Swift_. Great weakness. P. 47. [par. 128.] _Clarendon_. He [the Earl of Montgomery] had not sat many years in that sunshine, when a new comet appeared in court, Robert Carr, a Scotsman, quickly after declared favourite.--_Swift_. A Scottish king makes a Scottish favourite. P. 48. [par. 133.] _Clarendon_. The Earl of Carlisle ... wrought himself into ... greater affection and esteem with the whole English nation, than any other of that country; by choosing their friendships, and conversation, and really preferring it to any of his own--_Swift_. A miracle in a Scot!