under-treasurership

Updated: May 17, 2025

I say nothing of the under-treasurership worth about 8000l. a year, nor the commissioners of the revenue, four of whom generally live in England; For I think none of these are granted in reversion. But the test is, that I have known upon occasion some of these absent officers as keen against the interest of Ireland as if they had never been indebted to her for a single groat.

Jonathan Swift - The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 : The Drapier's Letters