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Drapier's Letters is the collective name for a series of seven pamphlets written between 1724 and 1725 by the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Jonathan Swift, to arouse public opinion in Ireland against the imposition of a privately minted copper coinage which Swift believed to be of inferior quality.
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In Ireland, Lord Carteret used his power to secretly aid in the controversy over Wood's Halfpence and support Drapier's Letters behind the scenes and cause harm to Walpole's power.
In the first months of his tenure of office he had to deal with the furious opposition to Wood's halfpence, and to counteract the effect of Swift's Drapier's Letters.
Many of his famous sermons and " Irish tracts " ( such as the Drapier's Letters ) were given during his stay as Dean.
They were supported by popular sentiment that came from the various publications of William Molyneux about Irish constitution independence ; this was later reinforced by Jonathan Swift's incorporation of these ideas into Drapier's Letters.
Molesworth's pamphlet Considerations on the Agriculture and Employment of the Poor of Ireland prompted Swift to address the last of his celebrated Drapier's Letters to Molesworth in 1724.
In 1724 Jonathan Swift wrote a series of satirical pamphlets in the guise of a draper called the Drapier's Letters.
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In response, Swift represented Ireland as constitutionally and financially independent of Britain in the Drapier's Letters.
The first complete collection of the Drapier's Letters appeared in the 1734 George Faulkner edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift along with an allegorical frontispiece offering praise and thanks from the Irish people.
Today, the Drapier's Letters are an important part of Swift's political writings, along with Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), A Tale of a Tub ( 1704 ), and A Modest Proposal ( 1729 ).
The most famous and controversial statement of the Drapier's Letters follows claims of loyalty to the Irish king:
The Drapier's Letters were first collected and published in their entirety by Faulkner in 1735.
On 9 February 1733, Faulkner advertised his future publication of Swift's collected works in four volumes, the first containing the Drapier's Letters, in the Dublin Journal.
Although the Drapier's Letters were not under copyright, the complete work was legally brought to a halt from being published in England by a ruling on 28 November 1735.
Although the original printing of the Drapier's Letters resulted in the arrest of Harding and a bounty placed upon the Drapier's head, Swift's actions in defending Ireland were deemed heroic among the Irish citizenry.
According to Robert Mahony, the Drapier's Letters, especially the fourth, were later praised by Irish nationalists.
Many critics, including Carol Fabricant, have asked who " the Whole People of Ireland " are, " who " the Drapier's Letters are speaking " to ", and if Swift has the right, as a Protestant Englishman, to speak for the entire nation.
Along with this, Swift was able to rhetorically extend natural rights, in the Drapier's Letters, to all people of Ireland without any regard to restriction.
* The Drapier's Letters at Internet Archive ( scanned books )
Swift had earlier written a series of pamphlets, known as Drapier's Letters, to rouse public opinion on the matter.
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However, it is possible that the religious rhetoric used to justify an Irish rebellion against the coinage is merely meant as an important aspect of the Drapier's identity without it being meant as evidence that Swift was the author.
This, of all of the Drapier's arguments, is what agitated Walpole, as the head of the British Parliament, the most.
This letter is seen as the final salvo in the Drapier's fight against Wood's patent.
The sixth letter during the Drapier's campaign, To the Lord Chancellor Middleton, is dated 26 October 1724, and was written as a private letter from Jonathan Swift to Alan Brodrick, Lord Midleton ( with the misspelling of his title ).
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It has also been seen as a letter celebrating Harding's release from being tried for printing the Drapier's letters.
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The Drapier's fourth letter, To the Whole People of Ireland, A Word or Two to the People of Ireland, A Short Defense of the People of Ireland, was written on 13 October 1724 and was either published on 21 October 1724 or on 22 October 1724, the day Lord Carteret arrived in Dublin.
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The Drapier's first letter, To the Shop-keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, was printed in March 1724.
The Drapier's second letter, A Letter to Mr. Harding the Printer, upon Occasion of a Paragraph in his News-Paper of 1 August, relating to Mr. Wood's Half-Pence, was printed on 4 August 1724, in response to the British Privy Council's testing of Wood's coin.
The Drapier's third letter, To the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom of Ireland: Some Observations Upon a Paper, Call'd, The Report of the Committee of the Most Honourable the Privy-Council in England relating to Wood's Half-pence, was printed on 25 August 1724.
The Drapier's fifth letter, A Letter To the Honourable the Lord Viscount Molesworth, at his House at Brackdenstown, near Swords was published on 31 December 1724.
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The Drapier's last letter, An Humble Address to Both Houses of Parliament, was completed in June 1725.
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The settlement came to be called Drapier's Meadow by 1748.
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However, when Lord Carteret was sent to control Ireland and placed a bounty on the Drapier's head, Swift felt that a fourth pamphlet was necessary.
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He asserts his status to verify that the Drapier's intentions must be good.
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There are many religious overtones similar to Swift's sermons, such as the Drapier's combination of a duty to God with duty to one's king and country.
The letter serves one other purpose: to delight in the Drapier's lack of being captured and his victory over Whitshed.
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