Quainance bandy
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Queen Anne’s Bounty: a fund to provide for the maintenance of poor clergymen in the church of England; it was created in 1703 out of first fruits and tenths (hence the following allusions of the Hen: fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe)
- Queen Anne: Queen of England and Ireland 1702-1714, when Jonathan Swift was in London, unsuccessfully urging upon the Whig administration of Lord Godolphin the claims of the Irish clergy to the First-Fruits and Twentieths ("Queen Anne's Bounty"), which brought in about £2,500 a year, already granted to their brethren in England → does the Military Review in the Phoenix Park, which this and the following paragraphs seem to be describing, take place during Anne's reign?
- quaint
- acquaintance
- bandy: a game, also called bandy-ball, in which a small ball is driven to and fro over the ground with bent club sticks by two sides of players
- band: orchestra → there is a musical foliation in this paragraph → military band, which is providing the music during a Military Review in the Phoenix Park
- bander: (French) to have an erection
