Patterjackmartins

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  • Peter, Jack, Martin: the three brothers in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of A Tub, representing Catholicism (St Peter), Calvinism & Presbyterianism (Jean Calvin), and Lutheranism & Anglicanism (Martin Luther) → Shem, Shaun and the combined Shem/Shaun character
    • "By these three sons, Peter, Martin, and Jack; Popery, the Church of England, and our Protestant dissenters, are designed" – William Wotton, A Tale of a Tub, Section II, footnote
  • patter: chatter, babble