Excerpt from The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Vol. 10 Having written the following History at Windsor, in the happy reign of her Majesty Queen Anne, of ever glorious, blessed, and immortal memory; I resolved to publish it for the satisfaction of my fellow-subjects in the year 1713: But being under a necessity of going to Ireland, to take possession of the Deanry of St Patrick's, Dublin, I left the original with the ministers; and having staid in that kingdom t above a fortnight, I found, at my return, that my Lord Treasurer Oxford, and the Secretary my Lord Bolingbroke, who were then unhappily upon very ill terms with each other, could t agree upon publishing it, without some alterations, which I would t submit to. Whereupon I kept it by me until her Majesty's death, which happened about a year after. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.