Earl of Oxford's Patent

LORD BRAYBROOKE no doubt knows, that the preamble to the patent was written by Dean Swift. (See *Journal to Stella*.) I would add, in reply to O.P.Q., that there is no doubt that *assassin* and *assassinate* are properly used even when death does not ensue. Not so *murder* and *murderer*, which are strict terms of *law* to which *death* is indispensable.