ABSTRACT
Church and monarch In the year Gulliver’s Travels was published, Swift exclaimed in a let ter: ‘I am weary of being among Ministers whom I cannot govern, who are all Rank Toryes in Government, and worse than Whigs in Church: whereas I was the first M an who taught and practiced the direct contrary Principle’ (Swift to Thomas Tickell, 2 July 1726). It is a useful pointer to what lies behind the political allegory of the Travels and to his view of the nature of party animosities and the part he played in them during the reign of Queen Anne.
