The r------r's s----ch explain'd
Contributors: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Series: Eighteenth century -- reel 10493, no. 11.
Publisher: printed by Edward Waters; and publish'd by Edward Lloyd
Published: 1711
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Notes: Verse - "An antient metropolis, famous of late,".

"Attributed to Swift by Scott (Works 1814, X. 438); Williams considers it not impossible, but Swift was not at this time in Ireland" (Foxon).

A parody of the speech of John Forster, recorder of Dublin, welcoming the Duke of Ormonde's arrival on 4 July 1711.

Includes on verso: 'The Recorder's speech to the Lord Wharton', given in Dublin 25 April 1709; and 'The Recorder's speech to His Grace the Duke of Ormonde', given in Dublin 4 July 1711.

Foxon R325

Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Primary Source Media, 1999. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 10493, no. 11).