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Edward Hyde, The History of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641 (Oxford, 1707)
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) annotated many of his books, including this three-volume history of the English Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century, which was written by his favourite historian, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. Swift made extensive annotations in both ink and pencil in the margins throughout the book. Swift corrected a number of stylistic infelicities, but the vast majority of his annotations were negative comments about the interference of Scottish clergymen and armies in English politics during the tumultuous decades of the 1640s and 1650s. This annotation reads: ‘Cursed, abominable, hellish Scottish villains everlasting Traitors. &c &c &c.’
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Edward Hyde, The History of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641 (Oxford, 1707),
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed December 6, 2025,
https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/592
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