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this favourite and near relation, they may explain, 

 very simply and naturally, what in our ignorance 

 looks like a mystery. 



It appears from Swift's Letters that in August, 

 1727, Mr. Launcelot was living in "New Bond 

 Street, over against the Crown and Cushion;" 

 and it was to "my cousin Launcelot's house" that 

 Swift went, when, on August 31, 1727, he so ab- 

 ruptly left Pope's at Twickenham. 



Further, I would ask whether it is known what 

 were the accidents that brought Thomas of (Good- 

 rich's son Jonathan acquainted with Abigail Erick 

 of Leicestei'shire ? Goodrich and Leicester were 

 very wide apart in those days. Now it is just 

 worth noticing that it appears from the History of 

 Leicester that about that time John and Thomas 

 Swift were, in conjunction with others, owners of 

 the stage-waggon between London and Leicester. 

 Can any connexion be shown between these John 

 and Thomas and the Goodrich people ? N. A. Q. 



The Vanhomrigs. — It is curious, considering 

 the interest which attaches to Vanessa, that so 

 little sliould be known about the family. Walter 

 Scott embodies the current belief in a note. Bar- 

 tholomew, the father, he says, was a Dutch mer- 

 chant, Avho had been commissary of stores for 

 King William during the Irish civil wars, and 

 afterwards Muster-master General and Commis- 

 sioner of the ilevenue. How is tiiis to be re- 

 conciled with other facts ? Thus it is noted in 

 Luttrell's Diary, that in Oct. 1689 : — * 



" Mr. Vanhomery, alderman of Dublin, lately arrived 

 here from the English camp in Ireland." 



Again, Dec. 6. 1689 : — 



" Alderman Vanhummery, who came lately from 

 Dublin, is appointed Commissary General of Ireland," 



As Tyrconnel and the Catholic party had 

 power to nominate to all offices in tiie city of 

 Dublin after the quo warranto in 1686, and never 

 lost their power until after the battle of the Boyne, 

 July, 1690, it appears to me that a Protestant 

 alderman in 1689 must have been an alderman 

 before 1686, and consequently that Vanhomery 

 or Vanhomrig must have been a prosperous 

 merchant, if merchant at all, settled in Dublin in 

 the reign of King James, and I should say of 

 Charles II. 



In May, 1692, Vanhomerig was appointed a 

 Commissioner of the Irish Revenue ; and in 1697 

 he was chosen Lord Mayor of Dublin, on which 

 occasion, as recorded in the List of Mayors ap- 

 pended to the L-ish Compendium, he " being a 

 person very servicable to the crown and city, ob- 

 tained a collar of SS. to the value of a thousand 

 pounds, the^ former collar having been lost in the 

 reign of King James." 



This collar, it is understood, was presented by, 

 or " obtained " from King William. T. V. 



Pamphlet against Sioift. — Where can I learn 

 any particulars as to the authorship of a bitter 

 pamphlet directed against Swift ? It is entitled 

 Essays, Divine, Moral, and Political : viz. — I. Of 

 Religion in General. 11. Of Christianity. III. 

 Of Priests. IV. Of Virtue. V. Of Friendship. 

 VI. Of Government. VII. Of Parties. VIII. Of 

 Plots. By the Author of " The Tale of a Tub ; " 

 sometime the writer of " The Examiner," and the 

 original inventor of the Band-Box Plot. With the 

 Effigies of the Author. Out of thy own Mouth will 

 I condemn Thee, O thou Hypocrite. Ex hoc di- 

 cite Hominem. London, printed in the year 1714. 

 Price One Shilling. The frontispiece is engraved 

 on copper, and represents Swift on horseback at 

 the gates of a large house, listening apparently to 

 the master of it, who is standing at a gate, and 

 seems by his gesture to be directing him to go 

 away. There are two other figures in the print, 

 both on horseback and riding from the house — 

 the first is in clerical costume, the second, whose 

 back only is seen, is blowing a horn. The book 

 is full of charges against Swift of the grossest 

 kind. I do not find it mentioned in Scott's Life 

 of the Dean. M. S. 



Faidknei's Edition of " Swift's Works." — In 

 2"*^ S. ii. iii. there was considerable discussion 

 about an octavo edition of Swift's Works, pub- 

 lished by Faulkner of Dublin. The conclusion 

 seemed to be that the first edition was certainly 

 published in 1735 ; and C. (2'"^ S. ii. 255.) was of 

 opinion that an edition of 1734 would be " unique, 

 and a great literary curiosity ;" in fact, that there 

 was no such edition. • C. subsequently (2'"^ S. iii. 

 72.) drew a distinction, in reference to a 12mo. 

 edition, between the first three volumes and the 

 fourth volume, but always with reference to a 

 presumed first issue in ^735. Against this general 

 argument was the fact that some of the separate 

 pieces in the edition of 1735 bore on their title- 

 page "Printed" in the year 1733 and 1734 — and 

 the natural eagerness of printers and publishers 

 to hurry into the market, apd bring back a pro- 

 fitable return for their labour and capital. In 

 confirmation of this view, and as tending to show 

 that an edition was issued in 1734, I forward a 

 copy of the following advertisement, which ap- 

 peared in the Dublin Evening Post of Nov. 26. 

 1734 : — 



" Tomorrow will be delivered to the Subscribers at the 

 house of George Faulkner, Printer and Bookseller, in 

 Essex Street, and nowhere else in Dublin, 



" Three Volumes of the Writings of the Rev"! D. J. S. 

 D. S. P. D., &c., in 8™. The other Volume shall be given 

 out on the 6'^ day of January next. The delay is owing 

 to several new^pieces which came late to his hands." 



Whether this edition in three volumes, issued 

 on Nov. 26, 1734, had the date of 1734 on the 

 title-page, I know not; but the title-page of 



