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the previous three or four years were Dr. Isaac Mann 

 and George Faulkner. The former, who was born in 

 Norwich in 17 10, came over to Ireland as tutor to the 

 son of Robert Jocelyn, afterwards Lord Newport and 

 Lord Chancellor, to whom he was chaplain. Mann 

 was incumbent of St. Matthew's, Ringsend, and Arch- 

 deacon of Dublin, and in 1772 he was appointed 

 Bishop of Cork. 



Faulkner, born in Dublin in 1699, who became a 

 printer and publisher of note, was satirised by Foote, 

 as " Peter Paragraph." He was Swift's printer, and 

 on one occasion underwent imprisonment in Newgate 

 for publishing a pamphlet by Bishop Hort. He was 

 vain and fussy, and delighted in offering splendid 

 entertainments to talented authors and men of rank. 

 During his vice-royalty, Lord Chesterfield became on 

 intimate terms with Faulkner, professing high esteem 

 for the printer, whose work was in every way credit- 

 able to the character of the Dublin printing of the day. 

 Faulkner died in 1775. A bust of Dean Swift, which 

 he had intended should be placed in a niche in front of 

 his house in Essex street, was presented by his nephew 

 and successor in the business to St. Patrick's Cathedral, 

 where it is placed near Swift's monument. For many 

 interesting particulars with regard to Faulkner and his 

 circle, the reader is referred to Gilbert's History of 

 Dublin, vol. ii. p. 30. 



Certain rules, which were approved in November 

 1756, were laid down for the better government of 

 the Dublin Society. Among them was one to the effect 

 that no instrument or printed book, its property, was 

 to be lent to anyone without order. From the 1st of 

 November in that year, the annual subscription was to 

 be two guineas, and each person was to pay an admis- 

 sion fee of two guineas ; twenty guineas to be the com- 



