Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift

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of a colour of the same or one color; in Lilliput, Gulliver describes how the clothes made for him "looked like the Patch-Work made by the Ladies in England, only that mine were all of a Colour" (I:6;19), instead of multicolored.

 

Old Jury
"Old Jewry," street near Bank of England, site of London's Jewish ghetto until their expulsion from England in 1291 (source: London Encyclopædia )
  • Gulliver sets up first surgical practice, with assistance of Mr. Bates, in Old Jury (I:1;1);
  • later relocates to Fetter Lane (I:1;3);

 

Orders The colors blue, red and green of prizes awarded in Lilliput correspond to the Orders of the Garter, Bath, and Thistle.

 

4th Earl of Orrery see Boyle, Charles
5th Earl of Orrery see Boyle, John
Earl of Oxfordsee Robert Harley;

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