_Earl of Oxford's Patent_ (Vol. ii., PP. 194. 235.).--LORD BRAYBROOKE no
doubt knows, that the preamble to the patent was written by Dean Swift.
(See _Journal to Stella_.) I would add, in reply to O.P.Q., that there
is no doubt that _assassin_ and _assassinate_ are properly used even
when death does not ensue. Not so _murder_ and _murderer_, which are
strict terms of _law_ to which _death_ is indispensable.