of it, and did not go to Lord Treasurer till six, where I found Dr.
Sacheverell, who told us that the bookseller had given him £100 for his
sermon, {534c} preached last Sunday, and intended to print 30,000: I
believe he will be confoundedly bit, and will hardly sell above half.  I
have fires still, though April has begun, against my old maxim; but the
weather is wet and cold.  I never saw such a long run of ill weather in
my life.  Nite dee logues MD.

3.  I was at the Queen’s chapel to-day, but she was not there.  Mr. St.
John, Lord Bolingbroke’s brother, came this day at noon with an express
from Utrecht, that the peace is signed by all the Ministers there, but
those of the Emperor, who will likewise sign in a few days; so that now
the great work is in effect done, and I believe it will appear a most
excellent peace for Europe, particularly for England.  Addison and I, and
some others, dined with Lord Bolingbroke, and sat with him till twelve.
We were very civil, but yet when we grew warm, we talked in a friendly
manner of party.  Addison raised his objections, and Lord Bolingbroke
answered them with great complaisance.  Addison began Lord Somers’s
health, which went about; but I bid him not name Lord Wharton’s, for I
would not pledge it; and I told Lord Bolingbroke frankly that Addison
loved Lord Wharton as little as I did: so we laughed, etc.  Well, but you
are glad of the peace, you Ppt the Trimmer, are not you?  As for DD I
don’t doubt her.  Why, now, if I did not think Ppt had been a violent
Tory, and DD the greater Whig of the two!  ’Tis late.  Nite MD.

4.  This Passion Week, people are so demure, especially this last day,
that I told Dilly, who called here, that I would dine with him, and so I
did, faith; and had a small shoulder of mutton of my own bespeaking.  It
rained all day.  I came home at seven, and have never stirred out, but
have been reading Sacheverell’s long dull sermon, which he sent me.  It
is the first sermon since his suspension is expired; but not a word in it
upon the occasion, except two or three remote hints.  The Bishop of
Clogher has been sadly bit by Tom Ashe, who sent him a pun, which the
Bishop had made, and designed to send to him, but delayed it; and Lord
Pembroke and I made Sir Andrew Fountaine write it to Tom.  I believe I
told you of it in my last; it succeeded right, and the Bishop was
wondering to Lord Pembroke how he and his brother could hit on the same
thing.  I’ll go to bed soon, for I must be at church by eight to-morrow,
Easter Day.  Nite dee MD.

5.  Warburton {535a} wrote to me two letters about a living of one
Foulkes, who is lately dead in the county of Meath.  My answer is, that
before I received the first letter, General Gorges {535b} had recommended
a friend of his to the Duke of Ormond, which was the first time I heard
of its vacancy, and it was the Provost told me of it.  I believe verily
that Foulkes was not dead when Gorges recommended the other: for
Warburton’s last letter said that Foulkes was dead the day before the
date.—This has prevented me from serving Warburton, as I would have done,
if I had received early notice enough.  Pray say or write this to
Warburton, to justify me to him.  I was at church at eight this morning,
and dressed and shaved after I came back, but was too late at Court; and
Lord Abingdon {536a} was like to have snapped me for dinner, and I
believe will fall out with me for refusing him; but I hate dining with
them, and I dined with a private friend, and took two or three good
walks; for it was a very fine day, the first we have had a great while.
Remember, was Easter Day a fine day with you?  I have sat with Lady
Worsley till now.  Nite dee MD.

6.  I was this morning at ten at the rehearsal of Mr. Addison’s play,
called Cato, which is to be acted on Friday.  There were not above half a
score of us to see it.  We stood on the stage, and it was foolish enough
to see the actors prompted every moment, and the poet directing them; and
the drab that acts Cato’s daughter, {536b} out in the midst of a
passionate part, and then calling out, “What’s next?”  The Bishop of
Clogher was there too; but he stood privately in a gallery.  I went to
dine with Lord Treasurer, but he was gone to Wimbledon, his daughter
Caermarthen’s {536c} country seat, seven miles off.  So I went back, and
dined privately with Mr. Addison, whom I had left to go to Lord
Treasurer.  I keep fires yet; I am very extravagant.  I sat this evening
with Sir A. Fountaine, and we amused ourselves with making _ifs_ for
Dilly.  It is rainy weather again; nevle saw ze rike. {536d}  This letter
shall go to-morrow; remember, ung oomens, it is seven weeks since oor
last, and I allow oo but five weeks; but oo have been galloping into the
country to Swanton’s. {536e}  O pray tell Swanton I had his letter, but
cannot contrive how to serve him.  If a Governor were to go over, I would
recommend him as far as lay in my power, but I can do no more: and you
know all employments in Ireland, at least almost all, are engaged in
reversions.  If I were on the spot, and had credit with a Lord
Lieutenant, I would very heartily recommend him; but employments here are
no more in my power than the monarchy itself.  Nite, dee MD.

7.  Morning.  I have had a visitor here, that has taken up my time.  I
have not been abroad, oo may be sure; so I can say nothing to-day, but
that I rove MD bettle zan ever, if possibbere.  I will put this in the
post-office; so I say no more.  I write by this post to the Dean, but it
is not above two lines; and one enclosed to you, but that enclosed to you
is not above three lines; and then one enclosed to the Dean, which he
must not have but upon condition of burning it immediately after reading,
and that before your eyes; for there are some things in it I would not
have liable to accident.  You shall only know in general that it is an
account of what I have done to serve him in his pretensions on these
vacancies, etc.  But he must not know that you know so much. {537a}  Does
this perplex you?  Hat care I?  But rove Pdfr, saucy Pdfr.  Farewell,
deelest MD MD MD FW FW FW, . . . ME, MD Lele.

LETTER LXIII. {537b}

                                                  LONDON, _April_ 7, 1713.

I FANCY I marked my last, which I sent this day, wrong; only 61, and it
ought to be 62.  I dined with Lord Treasurer, and though the business I
had with him is something against Thursday, when the Parliament is to
meet, and this is Tuesday, yet he put it off till to-morrow.  I dare not
tell you what it is, lest this letter should miscarry or be opened; but I
never saw his fellow for delays.  The Parliament will now certainly sit,
and everybody’s expectations are ready to burst.  At a Council to-night
the Lord Chief-Justice Parker, a Whig, spoke against the peace; so did
Lord Chomley, {538a} another Whig, who is Treasurer of the Household.  My
Lord Keeper {538b} was this night made Lord Chancellor.  We hope there
will soon be some removes.  Nite, dee sollahs; Late.  Rove Pdfr. {538c}

8.  Lord Chomley (the right name is Cholmondeley) is this day removed
from his employment, for his last night’s speech; and Sir Richard Temple,
{538d} Lieutenant-General, the greatest Whig in the army, is turned out;
and Lieutenant-General Palmes {538e} will be obliged to sell his
regiment.  This is the first-fruits of a friendship I have established
between two great men.  I dined with Lord Treasurer, and did the business
I had for him to his satisfaction.  I won’t tell MD what it was. . . .
{538f} for zat.  The Parliament sits to-morrow for certain.  Here is a
letter printed in Maccartney’s name, vindicating himself from the murder
of the Duke of Hamilton.  I must give some hints to have it answered;
’tis full of lies, and will give an opportunity of exposing that party.
To morrow will be a very important day.  All the world will be at
Westminster.  Lord Treasurer is as easy as a lamb.  They are mustering up
the proxies of the absent lords; but they are not in any fear of wanting
a majority, which death and accidents have increased this year.  Nite MD.

9.  I was this morning with Lord Treasurer, to present to him a young son
{538g} of the late Earl of Jersey, at the desire of the widow.  There I
saw the mace and great coach ready for Lord Treasurer, who was going to
Parliament.  Our Society met to-day; but I expected the Houses would sit
longer than I cared to fast; so I dined with a friend, and never inquired
how matters went till eight this evening, when I went to Lord Orkney’s,
where I found Sir Thomas Hanmer.  The Queen delivered her speech very
well, but a little weaker in her voice.  The crowd was vast.  The order
for the Address {539a} was moved, and opposed by Lord Nottingham,
Halifax, and Cowper.  Lord Treasurer spoke with great spirit and
resolution; Lord Peterborow flirted {539b} against the Duke of
Marlborough (who is in Germany, you know), but it was in answer to one of
Halifax’s impertinences.  The order for an Address passed by a majority
of thirty-three, and the Houses rose before six.  This is the account I
heard at Lord Orkney’s.  The Bishop of Chester, {539c} a high Tory, was
against the Court.  The Duchess of Marlborough sent for him some months
ago, to justify herself to him in relation to the Queen, and showed him
letters, and told him stories, which the weak man believed, and was
perverted.  Nite MD.

10.  I dined with a cousin in the City, and poor Pat Rolt was there.  I
have got her rogue of a husband leave to come to England from Port-Mahon.
The Whigs are much down; but I reckon they have some scheme in agitation.
This Parliament-time hinders our Court meetings on Wednesdays, Thursdays,
and Saturdays.  I had a great deal of business to-night, which gave me a
temptation to be idle, and I lost a dozen shillings at ombre, with Dr.
Pratt and another.  I have been to see t’other day the Bishop of Clogher
and lady, but did not see Miss.  It rains every day, and yet we are all
over dust.  Lady Masham’s eldest boy is very ill: I doubt he will not
live, and she stays at Kensington to nurse him, which vexes us all.  She
is so excessively fond, it makes me mad.  She should never leave the
Queen, but leave everything, to stick to what is so much the interest of
the public, as well as her own.  This I tell her; but talk to the winds.
Nite MD.

11.  I dined at Lord Treasurer’s, with his Saturday company.  We had ten
at table, all lords but myself and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Argyle went off at six, and was in very indifferent humour as usual.
Duke of Ormond and Lord Bolingbroke were absent.  I stayed till near ten.
Lord Treasurer showed us a small picture, enamelled work, and set in
gold, worth about twenty pounds; a picture, I mean, of the Queen, which
she gave to the Duchess of Marlborough, set in diamonds.  When the
Duchess was leaving England, she took off all the diamonds, and gave the
picture to one Mrs. Higgins (an old intriguing woman, whom everybody
knows), bidding her make the best of it she could.  Lord Treasurer sent
to Mrs. Higgins for this picture, and gave her a hundred pounds for it.
Was ever such an ungrateful beast as that Duchess? or did you ever hear
such a story?  I suppose the Whigs will not believe it.  Pray, try them.
Takes off the diamonds, and gives away the picture to an insignificant
woman, as a thing of no consequence: and gives it to her to sell, like a
piece of old-fashioned plate.  Is she not a detestable slut?  Nite
deelest MD.

12.  I went to Court to-day, on purpose to present Mr. Berkeley, {540}
one of your Fellows of Dublin College, to Lord Berkeley of Stratton.
That Mr. Berkeley is a very ingenious man, and great philosopher, and I
have mentioned him to all the Ministers, and given them some of his
writings; and I will favour him as much as I can.  This I think I am
bound to, in honour and conscience, to use all my little credit toward
helping forward men of worth in the world.  The Queen was at chapel
to-day, and looks well.  I dined at Lord Orkney’s with the Duke of
Ormond, Lord Arran, and Sir Thomas Hanmer.  Mr. St. John, Secretary at
Utrecht, expects every moment to return there with the ratification of
the peace.  Did I tell you in my last of Addison’s play called Cato, and
that I was at the rehearsal of it?  Nite MD.

13.  This morning my friend, Mr. Lewis, came to me, and showed me an
order for a warrant for the three vacant deaneries; but none of them to
me.  This was what I always foresaw, and received the notice of it
better, I believe, than he expected.  I bid Mr. Lewis tell Lord Treasurer
that I took nothing ill of him but his not giving me timely notice, as he
promised to do, if he found the Queen would do nothing for me.  At noon,
Lord Treasurer hearing I was in Mr. Lewis’s office, came to me, and said
many things too long to repeat.  I told him I had nothing to do but go to
Ireland immediately; for I could not, with any reputation, stay longer
here, unless I had something honourable immediately given to me.  We
dined together at the Duke of Ormond’s.  He there told me he had stopped
the warrants for the deans, that what was done for me might be at the
same time, and he hoped to compass it to-night; but I believe him not.  I
told the Duke of Ormond my intentions.  He is content Sterne should be a
bishop, and I have St. Patrick’s; but I believe nothing will come of it,
for stay I will not; and so I believe for all oo . . . {541} oo may see
me in Dublin before April ends.  I am less out of humour than you would
imagine: and if it were not that impertinent people will condole with me,
as they used to give me joy, I would value it less.  But I will avoid
company, and muster up my baggage, and send them next Monday by the
carrier to Chester, and come and see my willows, against the expectation
of all the world.—Hat care I?  Nite deelest logues, MD.

14.  I dined in the City to-day, and ordered a lodging to be got ready
for me against I came to pack up my things; for I will leave this end of
the town as soon as ever the warrants for the deaneries are out, which
are yet stopped.  Lord Treasurer told Mr. Lewis that it should be
determined to-night: and so he will for {542a} a hundred nights.  So he
said yesterday, but I value it not.  My daily journals shall be but short
till I get into the City, and then I will send away this, and follow it
myself; and design to walk it all the way to Chester, my man and I, by
ten miles a day.  It will do my health a great deal of good.  I shall do
it in fourteen days.  Nite dee MD.

15.  Lord Bolingbroke made me dine with him to-day; he {542b} was as good
company as ever; and told me the Queen would determine something for me
to-night.  The dispute is, Windsor or St. Patrick’s.  I told him I would
not stay for their disputes, and he thought I was in the right.  Lord
Masham told me that Lady Masham is angry I have not been to see her since
this business, and desires I will come to-morrow.  Nite deelest MD.

16.  I was this noon at Lady Masham’s, who was just come from Kensington,
where her eldest son is sick.  She said much to me of what she had talked
to the Queen and Lord Treasurer.  The poor lady fell a shedding tears
openly.  She could not bear to think of my having St. Patrick’s, etc.  I
was never more moved than to see so much friendship.  I would not stay
with her, but went and dined with Dr. Arbuthnot, with Mr. Berkeley, one
of your Fellows, whom I have recommended to the Doctor, and to Lord
Berkeley of Stratton.  Mr. Lewis tells me that the Duke of Ormond has
been to-day with the Queen; and she was content that Dr. Sterne should be
Bishop of Dromore, and I Dean of St. Patrick’s; but then out came Lord
Treasurer, and said he would not be satisfied but that I must be
Prebend[ary] of Windsor.  Thus he perplexes things.  I expect neither;
but I confess, as much as I love England, I am so angry at this treatment
that, if I had my choice, I would rather have St. Patrick’s.  Lady Masham
says she will speak to purpose to the Queen to-morrow.  Nite, . . . dee
MD.

17.  I went to dine at Lady Masham’s to-day, and she was taken ill of a
sore throat, and aguish.  She spoke to the Queen last night, but had not
much time.  The Queen says she will determine to-morrow with Lord
Treasurer.  The warrants for the deaneries are still stopped, for fear I
should be gone.  Do you think anything will be done?  I don’t care
whether it is or no.  In the meantime, I prepare for my journey, and see
no great people, nor will see Lord Treasurer any more, if I go.  Lord
Treasurer told Mr. Lewis it should be done to-night; so he said five
nights ago.  Nite MD.

18.  This morning Mr. Lewis sent me word that Lord Treasurer told him the
Queen would determine at noon.  At three Lord Treasurer sent to me to
come to his lodgings at St. James’s, and told me the Queen was at last
resolved that Dr. Sterne should be Bishop of Dromore, and I Dean of St.
Patrick’s; and that Sterne’s warrant should be drawn immediately.  You
know the deanery is in the Duke of Ormond’s gift; but this is concerted
between the Queen, Lord Treasurer, and the Duke of Ormond, to make room
for me.  I do not know whether it will yet be done; some unlucky accident
may yet come.  Neither can I feel joy at passing my days in Ireland; and
I confess I thought the Ministry would not let me go; but perhaps they
can’t help it.  Nite MD.

19.  I forgot to tell you that Lord Treasurer forced me to dine with him
yesterday as usual, with his Saturday company; which I did after frequent
refusals.  To-day I dined with a private friend, and was not at Court.
After dinner Mr. Lewis sent me a note, that the Queen stayed till she
knew whether the Duke of Ormond approved of Sterne for Bishop.  I went
this evening, and found the Duke of Ormond at the Cock-pit, and told him,
and desired he would go to the Queen, and approve of Sterne.  He made
objections, desired I would name any other deanery, for he did not like
Sterne; that Sterne never went to see him; that he was influenced by the
Archbishop of Dublin, etc.; so all now is broken again.  I sent out for
Lord Treasurer, and told him this.  He says all will do well; but I value
not what he says.  This suspense vexes me worse than anything else.  Nite
MD.

20.  I went to-day, by appointment, to the Cock-pit, to talk with the
Duke of Ormond.  He repeated the same proposals of any other deanery,
etc.  I desired he would put me out of the case, and do as he pleased.
Then, with great kindness, he said he would consent; but would do it for
no man alive but me, etc.  And he will speak to the Queen to-day or
to-morrow; so, perhaps, something will come of it.  I can’t tell.  Nite
dee dee logues, MD.

21.  The Duke of Ormond has told the Queen he is satisfied that Sterne
should be Bishop, and she consents I shall be Dean; and I suppose the
warrants will be drawn in a day or two.  I dined at an ale-house with
Parnell and Berkeley; for I am not in humour to go among the Ministers,
though Lord Dartmouth invited me to dine with him to-day, and Lord
Treasurer was to be there.  I said I would, if I were out of suspense.
Nite deelest MD.

22.  The Queen says warrants shall be drawn, but she will dispose of all
in England and Ireland at once, to be teased no more.  This will delay it
some time; and, while it is delayed, I am not sure of the Queen, my
enemies being busy.  I hate this suspense.  Nite deelest MD. {544a}

23.  I dined yesterday with General Hamilton. {544b}  I forgot to tell
oo.  I write short journals now.  I have eggs on the spit.  This night
the Queen has signed all the warrants, among which Sterne is Bishop of
Dromore, and the Duke of Ormond is to send over an order for making me
Dean of St. Patrick’s.  I have no doubt of him at all.  I think ’tis now
passed.  And I suppose MD is malicious enough to be glad, and rather have
it than Wells. {545a}  But you see what a condition I am in.  I thought I
was to pay but six hundred pounds for the house; but the Bishop of
Clogher says eight hundred pounds; first-fruits one hundred and fifty
pounds, and so, with patent, a thousand pounds in all; so that I shall
not be the better for the deanery these three years.  I hope in some time
they will be persuaded here to give me some money to pay off these debts.
I must finish the book I am writing, {545b} before I can go over; and
they expect I shall pass next winter here, and then I will dun them to
give me a sum of money.  However, I hope to pass four or five months with
MD, and whatever comes on it.  MD’s allowance must be increased, and
shall be too, fais . . . {545c}  I received oor rettle No. 39 to-night;
just ten weeks since I had your last.  I shall write next post to Bishop
Sterne.  Never man had so many enemies of Ireland {545d} as he.  I
carried it with the strongest hand possible.  If he does not use me well
and gently in what dealings I shall have with him, he will be the most
ungrateful of mankind.  The Archbishop of York, {545e} my mortal enemy,
has sent, by a third hand, that he would be glad to see me.  Shall I see
him, or not?  I hope to be over in a month, and that MD, with their
raillery, will be mistaken, that I shall make it three years.  I will
answer oo rettle soon; but no more journals.  I shall be very busy.
Short letters from hence forward.  I shall not part with Laracor.  That
is all I have to live on, except the deanery be worth more than four
hundred pounds a year.  Is it?  If it be, the overplus shall be divided
between MD and FW beside usual allowance of MD. . . . {545f}  Pray write
to me a good-humoured letter immediately, let it be ever so short.  This
affair was carried with great difficulty, which vexes me.  But they say
here ’tis much to my reputation that I have made a bishop, in spite of
all the world, to get the best deanery in Ireland.  Nite dee sollahs.

24.  I forgot to tell you I had Sterne’s letter yesterday, in answer to
mine.  Oo performed oor commission well, dood dallars both. {546a}  I
made mistakes the three last days, and am forced to alter the number.
{546b}  I dined in the City to-day with my printer, and came home early,
and am going to [be] busy with my work.  I will send this to-morrow, and
I suppose the warrants will go then.  I wrote to Dr. Coghill, to take
care of passing my patent; and to Parvisol, to attend him with money, if
he has any, or to borrow some where he can.  Nite MD.

25.  Morning.  I know not whether my warrant be yet ready from the Duke
of Ormond.  I suppose it will by to-night.  I am going abroad, and will
keep this unsealed, till I know whether all be finished.  Mollow, {546c}
sollahs.

I had this letter all day in my pocket, waiting till I heard the warrants
were gone over.  Mr. Lewis sent to Southwell’s clerk at ten; and he said
the Bishop of Killaloe {546d} had desired they should be stopped till
next post.  He sent again, that the Bishop of Killaloe’s business had
nothing to do with ours.  Then I went myself, but it was past eleven, and
asked the reason.  Killaloe is removed to Raphoe, and he has a mind to
have an order for the rents of Raphoe, that have fallen due since the
vacancy, and he would have all stop till he has gotten that.  A pretty
request!  But the clerk, at Mr. Lewis’s message, sent the warrants for
Sterne and me; but then it was too late to send this, which frets me
heartily, that MD should not have intelligence first from Pdfr.  I think
to take a hundred pounds a year out of the deanery, and divide it between
MD and Pr, {546e} and so be one year longer in paying the debt; but we’ll
talk of zis hen I come over.  So nite dear sollahs.  Lele. {547a}

26.  I was at Court to-day, and a thousand people gave me joy; so I ran
out.  I dined with Lady Orkney.  Yesterday I dined with Lord Treasurer
and his Saturday people as usual; and was so bedeaned!  The Archbishop of
York says he will never more speak against me.  Pray see that Parvisol
stirs about getting my patent.  I have given Tooke DD’s note to prove she
is alive.  I’ll answer oo rettle. . . .  Nite.

27.  Nothing new to-day.  I dined with Tom Harley, etc.  I’ll seal up
this to-night.  Pray write soon. . . . MD MD MD FW FW FW ME ME ME Lele,
lele.

LETTER LXIV. {547b}

                                                  LONDON, _May_ 16 [1713].

I HAD yours, No. 40, yesterday.  Your new Bishop acts very ungratefully.
I cannot say so bad of it as he deserved.  I begged at the same post his
warrant and mine went over, that he would leave those livings to my
disposal.  I shall write this post to him to let him know how ill I take
it.  I have letters to tell me that I ought to think of employing some
body to set the tithes of the deanery.  I know not what to do at this
distance.  I cannot be in Ireland under a month.  I will write two
orders; one to Parvisol, and t’other to Parvisol, and a blank for
whatever fellow it is whom the last Dean employed; and I would desire you
to advise with friends which to make use of: and if the latter, let the
fellow’s name be inserted, and both act by commission.  If the former,
then speak to Parvisol, and know whether he can undertake it.  I doubt it
is hardly to be done by a perfect stranger alone, as Parvisol is.  He may
perhaps venture at all, to keep up his interest with me; but that is
needless, for I am willing to do him any good, that will do me no harm.
Pray advise with Walls and Raymond, and a little with Bishop Sterne for
form.  Tell Raymond I cannot succeed for him to get that living of
Moimed.  It is represented here as a great sinecure.  Several chaplains
have solicited for it; and it has vexed me so, that, if I live, I will
make it my business to serve him better in something else.  I am heartily
sorry for his illness, and that of the other two.  If it be not necessary
to let the tithes till a month hence, you may keep the two papers, and
advise well in the meantime; and whenever it is absolutely necessary,
then give that paper which you are most advised to.  I thank Mr. Walls
for his letter.  Tell him that must serve for an answer, with my service
to him and her.  I shall buy Bishop Sterne’s hair as soon as his
household goods.  I shall be ruined, or at least sadly cramped, unless
the Queen will give me a thousand pounds.  I am sure she owes me a great
deal more.  Lord Treasurer rallies me upon it, and I believe intends it;
but, quando?  I am advised to hasten over as soon as possible, and so I
will, and hope to set out the beginning of June.  Take no lodging for me.
What? at your old tricks again?  I can lie somewhere after I land, and I
care not where, nor how.  I will buy your eggs and bacon, DD . . . {548a}
your caps and Bible; and pray think immediately, and give me some
commissions, and I will perform them as far as oo poo Pdfr can. {548b}
The letter I sent before this was to have gone a post before; but an
accident hindered it; and, I assure oo, I wam very akkree {548c} MD did
not write to Dean Pdfr, and I think oo might have had a Dean under your
girdle for the superscription.  I have just finished my Treatise, {548d}
and must be ten days correcting it.  Farewell, deelest MD, MD, MD, FW,
FW, FW, ME, ME, ME, Lele.

You’ll seal the two papers after my name.

                                                  “LONDON, _May_ 16, 1713.

    “I appoint Mr. Isaiah Parvisol and Mr. . . . to set and let the
    tithes of the Deanery of St. Patrick’s for this present year.  In
    witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal, the day and year
    above written.

                                                   [JONAT. SWIFT.” {549a}]

                                                  “LONDON, _May_ 16, 1713.

    “I do hereby appoint Mr. Isaiah Parvisol my proctor, to set and let
    the tithes of the Deanery of St. Patrick’s.  In witness whereof, I
    have hereunto set my hand and seal, the day and year above written.

                                                            JONAT. SWIFT.”

LETTER LXV. {549b}

                                                  CHESTER, _June_ 6, 1713.

I AM come here after six days.  I set out on Monday last, and got here
to-day about eleven in the morning.  A noble rider, fais! and all the
ships and people went off yesterday with a rare wind.  This was told me,
to my comfort, upon my arrival.  Having not used riding these three
years, made me terrible weary; yet I resolve on Monday to set out for
Holyhead, as weary as I am.  ’Tis good for my health, mam.  When I came
here, I found MD’s letter of the 26th of May sent down to me.  Had you
writ a post sooner I might have brought some pins: but you were lazy, and
would not write your orders immediately, as I desired you.  I will come
when God pleases; perhaps I may be with you in a week.  I will be three
days going to Holyhead; I cannot ride faster, say hat oo will.  I am upon
Stay-behind’s mare.  I have the whole inn to myself.  I would fain ’scape
this Holyhead journey; but I have no prospect of ships, and it will be
almost necessary I should be in Dublin before the 25th instant, to take
the oaths; {549c} otherwise I must wait to a quarter sessions.  I will
lodge as I can; therefore take no lodgings for me, to pay in my absence.
The poor Dean can’t afford it.  I spoke again to the Duke of Ormond about
Moimed for Raymond, and hope he may yet have it, for I laid it strongly
to the Duke, and gave him the Bishop of Meath’s memorial.  I am sorry for
Raymond’s fistula; tell him so.  I will speak to Lord Treasurer about
Mrs. South {550a} to-morrow.  Odso! I forgot; I thought I had been in
London.  Mrs. Tisdall {550b} is very big, ready to lie down.  Her husband
is a puppy.  Do his feet stink still?  The letters to Ireland go at so
uncertain an hour, that I am forced to conclude.  Farewell, MD, MD MD FW
FW FW ME ME ME ME.

   Lele lele
   lele logues and
   Ladies bose fair
   and slender.

[_On flyleaf_.]

I mightily approve Ppt’s project of hanging the blind parson.  When I
read that passage upon Chester walls, as I was coming into town, and just
received your letter, I said aloud—Agreeable B—tch.

FOOTNOTES.

{0a}  _Notes and Queries_, Sixth Series, x. 287.

{0b}  See letter from Swift to John Temple, February 1737.  She was then
“quite sunk with years and unwieldliness.”

{0c}  _Athenæum_, Aug. 8, 1891.

{0d}  _Journal_, May 4, 1711.

{0e}  Craik’s _Life of Swift_, 269.

{0f}  _Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift_, pp. 189–96.

{0g}  In 1730 he wrote, “Those who have been married may form juster
ideas of that estate than I can pretend to do” (Dr. Birkbeck Hill’s
_Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift_, p. 237).

{0h}  Scott added a new incident which has become incorporated in the
popular conception of Swift’s story.  Delany is said to have met Swift
rushing out of Archbishop King’s study, with a countenance of
distraction, immediately after the wedding.  King, who was in tears,
said, “You have just met the most unhappy man on earth; but on the
subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question.”  Will it be
believed that Scott—who rejects Delany’s inference from this alleged
incident—had no better authority for it than “a friend of his (Delany’s)
relict”?

{0i}  This incident, for which there is probably some foundation of
fact—we cannot say how much—has been greatly expanded by Mrs. Woods in
her novel _Esther Vanhomrigh_.  Unfortunately most of her readers cannot,
of course, judge exactly how far her story is a work of imagination.

{0j}  In October Swift explained that he had been in the country “partly
to see a lady of my old acquaintance, who was extremely ill”
(_Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift_, p. 198).

{0k}  There is a story that shortly before her death Swift begged Stella
to allow herself to be publicly announced as his wife, but that she
replied that it was then too late.  The versions given by Delany and
Theophilus Swift differ considerably, while Sheridan alters the whole
thing by representing Swift as brutally refusing to comply with Stella’s
last wishes.

{0l}  There has also been the absurd suggestion that the impediment was
Swift’s knowledge that both he and Stella were the illegitimate children
of Sir William Temple—a theory which is absolutely disproved by known
facts.

{0m}  It is curious to note the intimate knowledge of some of Swift’s
peculiarities which was possessed by the hostile writer of a pamphlet
called _A Hue and Cry after Dr. S—t_, published in 1714.  That piece
consists, for the most part, of extracts from a supposed Diary by Swift,
and contains such passages as these: “_Friday_.  Go to the Club . . .  Am
treated.  Expenses one shilling.”  “_Saturday_.  Bid my servant get all
things ready for a journey to the country: mend my breeches; hire a
washerwoman, making her allow for old shirts, socks, dabbs and markees,
which she bought of me . . .  Six coaches of quality, and nine hacks,
this day called at my lodgings.”  “_Thursday_.  The Earl looked queerly:
left him in a huff.  Bid him send for me when he was fit for company. . . .
Spent ten shillings.”

{0n}  The “little language” is marked chiefly by such changes of letters
(e.g., l for r, or r for l) as a child makes when learning to speak.  The
combinations of letters in which Swift indulges are not so easy of
interpretation.  For himself he uses Pdfr, and sometimes Podefar or FR
(perhaps Poor dear foolish rogue).  Stella is Ppt (Poor pretty thing).
MD (my dears) usually stands for both Stella and Mrs. Dingley, but
sometimes for Stella alone.  Mrs. Dingley is indicated by ME (Madam
Elderly), D, or DD (Dear Dingley).  The letters FW may mean Farewell, or
Foolish Wenches.  Lele seems sometimes to be There, there, and sometimes
Truly.

{1a}  Addressed “To Mrs. Dingley, at Mr. Curry’s house over against the
Ram in Capel Street, Dublin, Ireland,” and endorsed by Esther Johnson,
“Sept. 9. Received.”  Afterwards Swift added, “MD received this Sept. 9,”
and “Letters to Ireland from Sept.1710, begun soon after the change of
Ministry.  Nothing in this.”

{1b}  Beaumont is the “grey old fellow, poet Joe,” of Swift’s verses “On
the little house by the Churchyard at Castlenock.”  Joseph Beaumont, a
linen-merchant, is described as “a venerable, handsome, grey-headed man,
of quick and various natural abilities, but not improved by learning.”
His inventions and mathematical speculations, relating to the longitude
and other things, brought on mental troubles, which were intensified by
bankruptcy, about 1718.  He was afterwards removed from Dublin to his
home at Trim, where he rallied; but in a few years his madness returned,
and he committed suicide.

{1c}  Vicar of Trim, and formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.
In various places in his correspondence Swift criticises the failings of
Dr. Anthony Raymond, who was, says Scott, “a particular friend.”  His
unreliability in money matters, the improvidence of his large family, his
peculiarities in grammar, his pride in his good manners, all these points
are noticed in the journal and elsewhere.  But when Dr. Raymond returned
to Ireland after a visit to London, Swift felt a little melancholy, and
regretted that he had not seen more of him.  In July 1713 Raymond was
presented to the Crown living of Moyenet.

{2a}  A small township on the estuary of the Dee, between twelve and
thirteen miles north-west of Chester.  In the early part of the
eighteenth century Parkgate was a rival of Holyhead as a station for the
Dublin packets, which started, on the Irish side, from off Kingsend.

{2b}  Dr. St. George Ashe, afterwards Bishop of Derry, who had been
Swift’s tutor at Trinity College, Dublin.  He died in 1718.  It is this
lifelong friend who is said to have married Swift and Esther Johnson in
1716.

{2c}  The Commission to solicit for the remission of the First-Fruits and
twentieth parts, payable to the Crown by the Irish clergy, was signed by
the Archbishops of Armagh, Dublin, and Cashel, and the Bishops of
Kildare, Meath, and Killala.

{2d}  Dr. William Lloyd was appointed Bishop of Killala in 1690.  He had
previously been Dean of Achonry.

{2e}  Dr. John Hough (1651–1743).  In 1687 he had been elected President
of Magdalen College, Oxford, in place of the nominee of James II.  Hough
was Bishop of Oxford, Lichfield, and Worcester successively, and declined
the primacy in 1715.

{2f}  Steele was at this time Gazetteer.  The Cockpit, in Whitehall,
looked upon St. James’s Palace, and was used for various Government
purposes.

{2g}  This coffee-house, the resort of the Whig politicians, was kept by
a man named Elliot.  It is often alluded to in the _Tatler_ and
_Spectator_.

{2h}  William Stewart, second Viscount Mountjoy, a friend and
correspondent of Swift’s in Ireland.  He was the son of one of William’s
generals, and was himself a Lieutenant-General and Master-General of the
Ordnance; he died in 1728.

{2i}  Catherine, daughter of Maurice Keating, of Narraghmore, Kildare,
and wife of Garret Wesley, of Dangan, M.P. for Meath.  She died in 1745.
On the death of Garret Wesley without issue in 1728, the property passed
to a cousin, Richard Colley, who was afterwards created Baron Mornington,
and was grandfather to the Duke of Wellington.

{3a}  The landlady of Esther Johnson and Mrs. Dingley.

{3b}  Swift’s housekeeper at Laracor. Elsewhere Swift speaks of his “old
Presbyterian housekeeper,” “who has been my Walpole above thirty years,
whenever I lived in this kingdom.”  “Joe Beaumont is my oracle for public
affairs in the country, and an old Presbyterian woman in town.”

{3c}  Isaiah Parvisol, Swift’s tithe-agent and steward at Laracor, was an
Irishman of French extraction, who died in 1718 (Birkbeck’s _Unpublished
Letters of Dean Swift_, 1899, p.85).

{4a}  In some MS. Accounts of Swift’s, in the Forster Collection at South
Kensington there is the following entry:—“Set out for England Aug. 31st
on Thursday, 10 at night; landed at Parkgate Friday 1st at noon.  Sept.
1, 1710, came to London.  Thursday at noon, Sept. 7th, with Lord
Mountjoy, etc.  Mem.: Lord Mountjoy bore my expenses from Chester to
London.”

{4b}  In a letter to Archbishop King of the same date Swift says he was
“equally caressed by both parties; by one as a sort of bough for drowning
men to lay hold of, and by the other as one discontented with the late
men in power.”

{4c}  The Earl of Godolphin, who was severely satirised by Swift in his
_Sid Hamet’s Rod_, 1710.  He had been ordered to break his staff as
Treasurer on August 8.  Swift told Archbishop King that Godolphin was
“altogether short, dry, and morose.”

{4d}  Martha, widow of Sir Thomas Giffard, Bart., of County Kildare, the
favourite sister of Sir William Temple, had been described by Swift in
early pindaric verses as “wise and great.”  Afterwards he was to call her
“an old beast” (_Journal_, Nov. 11, 1710).  Their quarrel arose, towards
the close of 1709, out of a difference with regard to the publication of
Sir William Temple’s Works.  On the appearance of vol. v. Lady Giffard
charged Swift with publishing portions of the writings from an unfaithful
copy in lieu of the originals in his possession, and in particular with
printing laudatory notices of Godolphin and Sunderland which Temple
intended to omit, and with omitting an unfavourable remark on Sunderland
which Temple intended to print.  Swift replied that the corrections were
all made by Temple himself.

{4e}  Lord Wharton’s second wife, Lucy, daughter of Lord Lisburn.  She
died in 1716, a few months after her husband.  See Lady M. W. Montagu’s
_Letters_.

{4f}  Mrs. Bridget Johnson, who married, as her second husband, Ralph
Mose or Moss, of Farnham, an agent for Sir William Temple’s estate, was
waiting-woman or companion to Lady Giffard.  In her will (1722) Lady
Giffard left Mrs. Moss £20, “with my silver cup and cover.”  Mrs. Moss
died in 1745, when letters of administration were granted to a creditor
of the deceased.

{4g}  Dr. William King (1650–1729), a Whig and High Churchman, had more
than one difference with Swift during the twenty years following Swift’s
first visit to London in connection with the First-Fruits question.

{4h}  Swift’s benefice, in the diocese of Meath, two miles from Trim.

{5a}  Steele, who had been issuing the _Tatler_ thrice weekly since April
1709.  He lost the Gazetteership in October.

{5b}  James, second Duke of Ormond (1665–1745) was appointed Lord
Lieutenant on the 26th of October.  In the following year he became
Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief.  He was impeached of high treason
and attainted in 1715; and he died in exile.

{5c}  “Presto,” substituted by the original editor for “Pdfr,” was
suggested by a passage in the _Journal_ for Aug. 2, 1711, where Swift
says that the Duchess of Shrewsbury “could not say my name in English,
but said Dr. Presto, which is Italian for Swift.”

{5d}  Charles Jervas, the popular portrait-painter, has left two
portraits of Swift, one of which is in the National Portrait Gallery, and
the other in the Bodleian Library.

{5e}  Sir William Temple’s nephew, and son of Sir John Temple (died
1704), Solicitor and Attorney-General, and Speaker of the Irish House of
Commons.  “Jack” Temple acquired the estate of Moor Park, Surrey, by his
marriage with Elizabeth, granddaughter of Sir William Temple, and elder
daughter of John Temple, who committed suicide in 1689.  As late as 1706
Swift received an invitation to visit Moor Park.

{5f}  Dr. Benjamin Pratt, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, was
appointed Dean of Down in 1717.  Swift calls him “a person of wit and
learning,” and “a gentleman of good birth and fortune, . . . very much
esteemed among us” (_Short Character of Thomas_, _Earl of Wharton_).  On
his death in 1721 Swift wrote, “He was one of the oldest acquaintance I
had, and the last that I expected to die.  He has left a young widow, in
very good circumstances.  He had schemes of long life. . . .  What a
ridiculous thing is man!”  (_Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift_, 1899, p.
106).

{6a}  A Westmeath landlord, whom Swift met from time to time in London.
The Leighs were well acquainted with Esther Johnson.

{6b}  Dr. Enoch Sterne, appointed Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, in 1704.
Swift was his successor in the deanery on Dr. Sterne’s appointment as
Bishop of Dromore in 1713.  In 1717 Sterne was translated to the
bishopric of Clogher.  He spent much money on the cathedrals, etc., with
which he was connected.

{6c}  Archdeacon Walls was rector of Castle Knock, near Trim.  Esther
Johnson was a frequent visitor at his house in Queen Street, Dublin.

{6d}  William Frankland, Comptroller of the Inland Office at the Post
Office, was the second son of the Postmaster-General, Sir Thomas
Frankland, Bart.  Luttrell (vi. 333) records that in 1708 he was made
Treasurer of the Stamp Office, or, according to Chamberlayne’s _Mag.
Brit. Notitia_ for 1710, Receiver-General.

{6e}  Thomas Wharton, Earl and afterwards Marquis of Wharton, had been
one of Swift’s fellow-travellers from Dublin.  Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
under the Whig Government, from 1708 to 1710, Wharton was the most
thorough-going party man that had yet appeared in English politics; and
his political enemies did not fail to make the most of his well-known
immorality.  In his Notes to Macky’s _Characters_ Swift described Wharton
as “the most universal villain that ever I knew.”  On his death in 1715
he was succeeded by his profligate son, Philip, who was created Duke of
Wharton in 1718.

{6f}  This money was a premium the Government had promised Beaumont for
his Mathematical Sleying Tables, calculated for the improvement of the
linen manufacture.

{6g}  The bellman was both town-crier and night-watchman.

{7a}  Dr. William Cockburn (1669–1739), Swift’s physician, of a good
Scottish family, was educated at Leyden.  He invented an electuary for
the cure of fluxes, and in 1730, in _The Danger of Improving Physick_,
satirised the academical physicians who envied him the fortune he had
made by his secret remedy.  He was described in 1729 as “an old very rich
quack.”

{7b}  Sir Matthew Dudley, Bart., an old Whig friend, was M.P. for
Huntingdonshire, and Commissioner of the Customs from 1706 to 1712, and
again under George I., until his death in 1721.

{7c}  Isaac Manley, who was appointed Postmaster-General in Ireland in
1703 (Luttrell, v. 333).  He had previously been Comptroller of the
English Letter Office, a post in which he was succeeded by William
Frankland, son of Sir Thomas Frankland.  Dunton calls Manley “loyal and
acute.”

{7d}  Sir Thomas Frankland was joint Postmaster-General from 1691 to
1715.  He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father, Sir
William Frankland, in 1697, and he died in 1726.  Macky describes Sir
Thomas as “of a sweet and easy disposition, zealous for the Constitution,
yet not forward, and indulgent to his dependants.”  On this Swift
comments, “This is a fair character.”

{7e}  Theophilus Butler, elected M.P. for Cavan, in the Irish Parliament,
in 1703, and for Belturbet (as “the Right Hon. Theophilus Butler”) in
1713.  On May 3, 1710, Luttrell wrote (_Brief Relation of State Affairs_,
vi. 577), “’Tis said the Earl of Montrath, Lord Viscount Mountjoy . . .
and Mr. Butler will be made Privy Councillors of the Kingdom of Ireland.”
Butler—a contemporary of Swift’s at Trinity College, Dublin—was created
Baron of Newtown-Butler in 1715, and his brother, who succeeded him in
1723, was made Viscount Lanesborough.  Butler’s wife was Emilia, eldest
daughter and co-heir of James Stopford, of Tara, County Meath.

{8a}  No. 193 of the _Tatler_, for July 4, 1710, contained a letter from
Downes the Prompter—not by Steele himself—in ridicule of Harley and his
proposed Ministry.

{8b}  Charles Robartes, second Earl of Radnor, who died in 1723.  In the
_Journal_ for Dec. 30, 1711, Swift calls him “a scoundrel.”

{8c}  Benjamin Tooke, Swift’s bookseller or publisher, lived at the
Middle Temple Gate.  Dunton wrote of him, “He is truly honest, a man of
refined sense, and is unblemished in his reputation.” Tooke died in 1723.

{8d}  Swift’s servant, of whose misdeeds he makes frequent complaints in
the _Journal_.

{9a}  Deputy Vice-Treasurer of Ireland.  In one place Swift calls him
Captain Pratt; and in all probability he is the John Pratt who, as we
learn from Dalton’s _English Army Lists_, was appointed captain in
General Erle’s regiment of foot in 1699, and was out of the regiment by
1706.  In 1702 he obtained the Queen’s leave to be absent from the
regiment when it was sent to the West Indies.  Pratt seems to have been
introduced to Swift by Addison.

{9b}  Charles Ford, of Wood Park, near Dublin, was a great lover of the
opera and a friend of the Tory wits.  He was appointed Gazetteer in 1712.
Gay calls him “joyous Ford,” and he was given to over-indulgence in
conviviality.  See Swift’s poem on Stella at Wood Park.

{9c}  Lord Somers, to whom Swift had dedicated _The Tale of a Tub_, with
high praise of his public and private virtues.  In later years Swift said
that Somers “possessed all excellent qualifications except virtue.”

{9d}  At the foundation school of the Ormonds at Kilkenny (see p. 10,
note 6.)

{9e}  A Whig haberdasher.

{9f}  Benjamin Hoadley, the Whig divine, had been engaged in controversy
with Sacheverell, Blackall, and Atterbury.  After the accession of George
I. he became Bishop of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester in
success.

{9g}  Dr. Henry Sacheverell, whose impeachment and trial had led to the
fall of the Whig Government.

{10a}  Sir Berkeley Lucy, Bart., F.R.S., married Katherine, daughter of
Charles Cotton, of Beresford, Staffordshire, Isaac Walton’s friend.  Lady
Lucy died in 1740, leaving an only surviving daughter, Mary, who married
the youngest son of the Earl of Northampton, and had two sons, who became
successively seventh and eighth Earls of Northampton.  Forster and others
assumed that “Lady Lucy” was a Lady Lucy Stanhope, though they were not
able to identify her.  It was reserved for Mr. Ryland to clear up this
difficulty.  As he points out, Lady Lucy’s elder sister, Olive, married
George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury, and left a daughter Mary,—Swift’s
“Moll Stanhope,”—a beauty and a madcap, who married, in 1712, William
Burnet, son of Bishop Burnet, and died in 1714.  Mary, another sister of
Lady Lucy’s, married Augustine Armstrong, of Great Ormond Street, and is
the Mrs. Armstrong mentioned by Swift on Feb. 3, 1711, as a pretender to
wit, without taste.  Sir Berkeley Lucy’s mother was a daughter of the
first Earl of Berkeley, and it was probably through the Berkeleys that
Swift came to know the Lucys.

{10b}  Ann Long was sister to Sir James Long, and niece to Colonel
Strangeways.  Once a beauty and toast of the Kit-Cat Club, she fell into
narrow circumstances through imprudence and the unkindness of her
friends, and retired under the name of Mrs. Smythe to Lynn, in Norfolk,
where she died in 1711 (see _Journal_, December 25, 1711).  Swift said,
“She was the most beautiful person of the age she lived in; of great
honour and virtue, infinite sweetness and generosity of temper, and true
good sense” (Forster’s _Swift_, 229).  In a letter of December 1711,
Swift wrote that she “had every valuable quality of body and mind that
could make a lady loved and esteemed.”

{10c}  Said, I know not on what authority, to be Swift’s friend, Mrs.
Barton.  But Mrs. Barton is often mentioned by Swift as living in London
in 1710–11.

{10d}  One of Swift’s cousins, who was separated from her husband, a man
of bad character, living abroad.  Her second husband, Lancelot, a servant
of Lord Sussex, lived in New Bond Street, and there Swift lodged in 1727.

{10e}  £100,000.

{10f}  Francis Stratford’s name appears in the Dublin University Register
for 1686 immediately before Swift’s.  Budgell is believed to have
referred to the friendship of Swift and Stratford in the _Spectator_, No.
353, where he describes two schoolfellows, and says that the man of
genius was buried in a country parsonage of £160 a year, while his
friend, with the bare abilities of a common scrivener, had gained an
estate of above £100,000.

{10g}  William Cowper, afterwards Lord Cowper.

{11a}  Sir Simon Harcourt, afterwards Viscount Harcourt, had been counsel
for Sacheverell.  On Sept. 19, 1710, he was appointed Attorney-General,
and on October 19 Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.  In April 1713 he became
Lord Chancellor.

{11b}  This may be some relative of Dr. John Freind (see p. 65), or, more
probably, as Sir Henry Craik suggests, a misprint for Colonel Frowde,
Addison’s friend (see _Journal_, Nov. 4, 1710).  No officer named Freind
or Friend is mentioned in Dalton’s _English Army Lists_.

{11c}  See the _Tatler_, Nos. 124, 203.  There are various allusions in
the “Wentworth Papers” to this, the first State Lottery of 1710; and two
bluecoat boys drawing out the tickets, and showing their hands to the
crowd, as Swift describes them, are shown in a reproduction of a picture
in a contemporary pamphlet given in Ashton’s _Social Life in the Reign of
Queen Anne_, i. 115.

{11d}  A few weeks later Swift wrote, “I took a fancy of resolving to
grow mad for it, but now it is off.”

{11e}  Sir John Holland, Bart., was a leading manager for the Commons in
the impeachment of Sacheverell.  He succeeded Sir Thomas Felton in the
Comptrollership in March 1710.

{12a}  Dryden Leach. (see p. 51.)

{12b}  William Pate, “_bel esprit_ and woollen-draper,” as Swift called
him, lived opposite the Royal Exchange.  He was Sheriff of London in
1734, and died in 1746.  Arbuthnot, previous to matriculating at Oxford,
lodged with Pate, who gave him a letter of introduction to Dr. Charlett,
Master of University College; and Pate is supposed to have been the
woollen-draper, “remarkable for his learning and good-nature,” who is
mentioned by Steele in the _Guardian_, No. 141.

{12c}  James Brydges, son of Lord Chandos of Sudeley, was appointed
Paymaster-General of Forces Abroad in 1707.  He succeeded his father as
Baron Chandos in 1714, and was created Duke of Chandos in 1729.  The
“princely Chandos” and his house at Canons suggested to Pope the Timon’s
villa of the “Epistle to Lord Burlington.”  The Duke died in 1744.

{12d}  Charles Talbot, created Duke of Shrewsbury in 1694, was held in
great esteem by William III., and was Lord Chamberlain under Anne.  In
1713 he became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and held various offices under
George I., until his death in 1718.  “Before he was o. age,” says
Macaulay, “he was allowed to be one of the finest gentlemen and finest
scholars of his time.”

{13a}  See p. 230.

{13b}  William Cavendish, second Duke of Devonshire (1673–1729), who was
Lord Steward from 1707 to 1710 and from 1714 to 1716.  Afterwards he was
Lord President of the Council.  Swift’s comment on Macky’s character of
this Whig nobleman was, “A very poor understanding.”

{13c}  John Annesley, fourth Earl of Anglesea, a young nobleman of great
promise, had only recently been appointed joint Vice-Treasurer,
Receiver-General, and Paymaster of the Forces in Ireland, and sworn of
the Privy Council.

{14a}  Nichols, followed by subsequent editors, suggested that “Durham”
was a mistake for “St. David’s,” because Dr. George Bull, Bishop of St.
David’s, died in 1710.  But Dr. Bull died on Feb. 17, 1710, though his
successor, Dr. Philip Bisse, was not appointed until November; and Swift
was merely repeating a false report of the death of Lord Crewe, Bishop of
Durham, which was current on the day on which he wrote.  Luttrell says,
on Sept. 19, “The Lord Crewe . . . died lately”; but on the 23rd he adds,
“The Bishop of Durham is not dead as reported” (_Brief Relation_, vi.
630, 633).

{14b}  Lady Elizabeth (“Betty”) Butler, who died unmarried in 1750.

{14c}  Swift wrote in 1734, “Once every year I issued out an edict,
commanding that all ladies of wit, sense, merit, and quality, who had an
ambition to be acquainted with me, should make the first advances at
their peril: which edict, you may believe, was universally obeyed.”

{14d}  Charles, second Earl of Berkeley (1649–1710), married Elizabeth,
daughter of Baptist Noel, Viscount Campden.  The Earl died on Sept. 24,
1710, and his widow in 1719.  Swift, it will be remembered, had been
chaplain to Lord Berkeley in Ireland in 1699.

{14e}  Lady Betty and Lady Mary Butler. (see p. 44.)

{14f}  Henry Boyle, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1702 to 1708, was
Secretary of State from 1708 to 1710, when he was succeeded by St. John.
In 1714 he was created Baron Carleton, and he was Lord President from
1721 until his death in 1725.

{15a}  On Sept. 29 Swift wrote that his rooms consisted of the first
floor, a dining-room and bed-chamber, at eight shillings a week.  On his
last visit to England, in 1726, he lodged “next door to the Royal Chair”
in Bury Street.  Steele lived in the same street from 1707 to 1712; and
Mrs. Vanhomrigh was Swift’s next-door neighbour.

{15b}  In Exchange Alley.  Cf. _Spectator_, No. 454: “I went afterwards
to Robin’s, and saw people who had dined with me at the fivepenny
ordinary just before, give bills for the value of large estates.”

{16a}  John Molesworth, Commissioner of the Stamp Office, was sent as
Envoy to Tuscany in 1710, and was afterwards Minister at Florence,
Venice, Geneva, and Turin.  He became second Viscount Molesworth in 1725,
and died in 1731.

{16b}  Misson says, “Every two hours you may write to any part of the
city or suburbs: he that receives it pays a penny, and you give nothing
when you put it into the Post; but when you write into the country both
he that writes and he that receives pay each a penny.”  The Penny Post
system had been taken over by the Government, but was worked separately
from the general Post.

{17a}  The Countess of Berkeley’s second daughter, who married, in 1706,
Sir John Germaine, Bart. (1650–1718), a soldier of fortune.  Lady Betty
Germaine is said to have written a satire on Pope (Nichols’ _Literary
Anecdotes_, ii. 11), and was a constant correspondent of Swift’s.  She
was always a Whig, and shortly before her death in 1769 she made a
present of £100 to John Wilkes, then in prison in the Tower.  Writing of
Lady Betty Butler and Lady Betty Germaine, Swift says elsewhere, “I saw
two Lady Bettys this afternoon; the beauty of one, the good breeding and
nature of the other, and the wit of either, would have made a fine
woman.”  Germaine obtained the estate at Drayton through his first wife,
Lady Mary Mordaunt—Lord Peterborough’s sister—who had been divorced by
her first husband, the Duke of Norfolk.  Lady Betty was thirty years
younger than her husband, and after Sir John’s death she remained a widow
for over fifty years.

{17b}  The letter in No. 280 of the _Tatler_.

{17c}  Discover, find out.  Cf.  Shakespeare’s _All’s Well that Ends
Well_, iii. 6: “He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.”

{17d}  A village near Dublin.

{17e}  Excellent.

{18a}  See p. 3.

{18b}  John Molesworth, and, probably, his brother Richard, afterwards
third Viscount Molesworth, who had saved the Duke of Marlborough’s life
at the battle of Ramillies, and had been appointed, in 1710, colonel of a
regiment of foot.

{18c}  Presumably at Charles Ford’s.

{18d}  _The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician’s Rod_, published as a
single folio sheet, was a satire on Godolphin.

{19a}  Apparently Marcus Antonius Morgan, steward to the Bishop of
Kildare (Craik).  Swift wrote to the Duke of Montagu on Aug. 12, 1713
(_Buccleuch MSS._, 1899, i. 359). “Mr. Morgan of Kingstrope is a friend,
and was, I am informed, put out of the Commission of justice for being
so.”

{19b}  Dr. Raymond is called Morgan’s “father” because he warmly
supported Morgan’s interests.

{19c}  The Rev. Thomas Warburton, Swift’s curate at Laracor, whom Swift
described to the Archbishop as “a gentleman of very good learning and
sense, who has behaved himself altogether unblamably.”

{19d}  The tobacco was to be used as snuff.  About this time ladies much
affected the use of snuff, and Steele, in No. 344 of the _Spectator_,
speaks of Flavilla pulling out her box, “which is indeed full of good
Brazil,” in the middle of the sermon.  People often made their own snuff
out of roll tobacco, by means of rasps.  On Nov. 3, 1711, Swift speaks of
sending “a fine snuff rasp of ivory, given me by Mrs. St. John for
Dingley, and a large roll of tobacco.”

{20a}  Katherine Barton, second daughter of Robert Barton, of Brigstock,
Northamptonshire, and niece of Sir Isaac Newton.  She was a favourite
among the toasts of the Kit-Cat Club, and Lord Halifax, who left her a
fortune, was an intimate friend.  In 1717 she married John Conduitt,
afterwards Master of the Mint.

{20b}  See p. 17.

{20c}  William Connolly, appointed a Commissioner of the Revenue in 1709,
was afterwards Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.  He died in 1729.
Francis Robarts, appointed a Commissioner of the Revenue in 1692, was
made a Teller of the Exchequer in England in 1704, and quitted that
office, in September 1710, on his reappointment, in Connolly’s place, as
Revenue Commissioner in Ireland.  In 1714 Robarts was removed, and
Connolly again appointed Commissioner.

{20d}  Enoch Sterne, Collector of Wicklow and Clerk to the Irish House of
Lords.  Writing to Dr. Sterne on Sept. 26, Swift said, “I saw Collector
Sterne, who desired me to present his service to you, and to tell you he
would be glad to hear from you, but not about business.”

{20e}  In his _Character of Mrs. Johnson_ Swift says, “She was never
known to cry out, or discover any fear, in a coach.” The passage in the
text is obscure.  Apparently Esther Johnson had boasted of saving money
by walking, instead of riding, like a coward.

{21a}  John Radcliffe (1650–1714), the well-known physician and wit, was
often denounced as a clever empiric.  Early in 1711 he treated Swift for
his dizziness.  By his will, Radcliffe left most of his property to the
University of Oxford.

{21b}  Charles Barnard, Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen, and Master of the
Barber Surgeons’ Company.  His large and valuable library, to which Swift
afterwards refers, fetched great prices.  Luttrell records Barnard’s
death in his diary for Oct. 12, 1710.

{21c}  Robert Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, had been appointed
Chancellor of the Exchequer in August 1710.  In May 1711 he was raised to
the peerage and made Lord High Treasurer; and he is constantly referred
to in the _Journal_ as “Lord Treasurer.”  He was impeached in 1715, but
was acquitted to 1717; he died in 1724.

{22a}  The Right Hon. Thomas Bligh, M.P., of Rathmore, County Meath, died
on Aug. 28, 1710.  His son, mentioned later in the _Journal_, became Earl
of Darnley.

{22b}  Penalty.

{23a}  Erasmus Lewis, Under Secretary of State under Lord Dartmouth, was
a great friend of Swift, Pope, and Arbuthnot.  He had previously been one
of Harley’s secretaries, and in his _Horace Imitated_, _Book I. Ep.
vii_., Swift describes him as “a cunning shaver, and very much in
Harley’s favour.”  Arbuthnot says that under George I. Lewis kept company
with the greatest, and was “principal governor” in many families.  Lewis
was a witness to Arbuthnot’s will.  Pope and Esther Vanhomrigh both left
him money to buy rings.  Lewis died in 1754, aged eighty-three.

{23b}  Charles Darteneuf, or Dartiquenave, was a celebrated epicure, who
is said to have been a son of Charles II.  Lord Lyttleton, in his
_Dialogues of the Dead_, recalling Pope’s allusions to him, selects him
to represent modern _bon vivants_ in the dialogue between Darteneuf and
Apicius.  See _Tatler_ 252.  Darteneuf was Paymaster of the Royal Works
and a member of the Kit-Cat Club.  He died in 1737.

{23c}  No. 230.

{23d}  Good, excellent.

{23e}  Captain George Delaval, appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the King
of Portugal in Oct. 1710, was with Lord Peterborough in Spain in 1706.
In May 1707 he went to Lisbon with despatches for the Courts of Spain and
Portugal, from whence he was to proceed as Envoy to the Emperor of
Morocco, with rich presents (Luttrell, vi. 52, 174, 192).

{23f}  Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax, as Ranger of Bushey Park and
Hampton Court, held many offices under William III., and was First Lord
of the Treasury under George I., until his death in 1715.  He was great
as financier and as debater, and he was a liberal patron of literature.

{24a}  John Manley, M.P. for Bossiney, was made Surveyor-General on Sept.
30, 1710, and died in 1714.  In 1706 he fought a duel with another
Cornish member (Luttrell, vi. 11, 535, 635).  He seems to be the cousin
whom Mrs. De la Riviere Manley accuses of having drawn her into a false
marriage.  For Isaac Manley and Sir Thomas Frankland, see p. 7.

{24b}  The Earl of Godolphin (see p. 18).

{24c}  Sir John Stanley, Bart., of Northend, Commissioner of Customs,
whom Swift knew through his intimate friends the Pendarves.  His wife,
Anne, daughter of Bernard Granville, and niece of John, Earl of Bath, was
aunt to Mary Granville, afterwards Mrs. Delany, who lived with the
Stanleys at their house in Whitehall.

{24d}  Henry, Viscount Hyde, eldest son of Laurence Hyde, Earl of
Rochester, succeeded his father in the earldom in 1711, and afterwards
became Earl of Clarendon.  His wife, Jane, younger daughter of Sir
William Leveson Gower,—who married a daughter of John Granville, Earl of
Bath,—was a beauty, and the mother of two beauties—Jane, afterwards
Countess of Essex (see _Journal_, Jan. 29, 1712), and Catherine,
afterwards Countess of Queensberry.  Lady Hyde was complimented by Prior,
Pope, and her kinsman, Lord Lansdowne, and is said to have been more
handsome than either of her daughters.  She died in 1725; her husband in
1753.  Lord Hyde became joint Vice-Treasurer for Ireland in 1710; hence
his interest with respect to Pratt’s appointment.

{24e}  See p. 9.

{24f}  Sir Paul Methuen (1672–1757), son of John Methuen, diplomatist and
Lord Chancellor of Ireland.  Methuen was Envoy and Ambassador to Portugal
from 1697 to 1708, and was M.P. for Devizes from 1708 to 1710, and a Lord
of the Admiralty.  Under George I. he was Ambassador to Spain, and held
other offices.  Gay speaks of “Methuen of sincerest mind, as Arthur
grave, as soft as womankind,” and Steele dedicated to him the seventh
volume of the _Spectator_.  In his Notes on Macky’s _Characters_, Swift
calls him “a profligate rogue . . . without abilities of any kind.”

{24g}  Sir James Montagu was Attorney-General from 1708 to Sept. 1710,
when he resigned, and was succeeded by Sir Simon Harcourt.  Under George
I. Montagu was raised to the Bench, and a few months before his death in
1723 became Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

{25a}  The turnpike system had spread rapidly since the Restoration, and
had already effected an important reform in the English roads.  Turnpike
roads were as yet unknown in Ireland.

{25b}  Ann Johnson, who afterwards married a baker named Filby.

{25c}  An infusion of which the main ingredient was cowslip or
palsy-wort.

{25d}  William Legge, first Earl of Dartmouth (1672–1750), was St. John’s
fellow Secretary of State.  Lord Dartmouth seems to have been a plain,
unpretending man, whose ignorance of French helped to throw important
matters into St. John’s hands.

{25e}  Richard Dyot was tried at the Old Bailey, on Jan. 13, 1710–11, for
counterfeiting stamps, and was acquitted, the crime being found not
felony, but only breach of trust.  Two days afterwards a bill of
indictment was found against him for high misdemeanour.

{26a}  Sir Philip Meadows (1626–1718) was knighted in 1658, and was
Ambassador to Sweden under Cromwell.  His son Philip (died 1757) was
knighted in 1700, and was sent on a special mission to the Emperor in
1707.  A great-grandson of the elder Sir Philip was created Earl Manvers
in 1806.

{26b}  Her eyes were weak.

{26c}  The son of the Sir Robert Southwell to whom Temple had offered
Swift as a “servant” on his going as Secretary of State to Ireland in
1690.  Edward Southwell (1671–1730) succeeded his father as Secretary of
State for Ireland in 1702, and in 1708 was appointed Clerk to the Privy
Council of Great Britain.  Southwell held various offices under George I.
and George II., and amassed a considerable fortune.

{27a}  Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), dramatist and poet laureate, and one of
the first editors of Shakespeare, was at this time under-secretary to the
Duke of Queensberry, Secretary of State for Scotland.

{27b}  No. 238 contains Swift’s “Description of a Shower in London.”

{27c}  This seems to be a vague allusion to the text, “Cast thy bread
upon the waters,” etc.

{27d}  Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723), the fashionable portrait-painter
of the period.

{28a}  At the General election of 1710 the contest at Westminster excited
much interest.  The number of constituents was large, and the franchise
low, all householders who paid scot and lot being voters.  There were,
too, many houses of great Whig merchants, and a number of French
Protestants.  But the High Church candidates, Cross and Medlicott, were
returned by large majorities, though the Whigs had chosen popular
candidates—General Stanhope, fresh from his successes in Spain, and Sir
Henry Dutton Colt, a Herefordshire gentleman.

{28b}  Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676–1753), a distinguished antiquary, of an
old Norfolk family, was knighted by William III. in 1699, and inherited
his father’s estate at Norfolk in 1706.  He succeeded Sir Isaac Newton as
Warden of the Mint in 1727, and was Vice-Chamberlain to Queen Caroline.
He became acquainted with Swift in Ireland in 1707, when he went over as
Usher of the Black Rod in Lord Pembroke’s Court.

{28c}  See p. 6.  The Bishop was probably Dr. Moreton, Bishop of Meath
(see _Journal_, July 1, 1712).

{28d}  The game of ombre—of Spanish origin—is described in Pope’s _Rape
of the Lock_.  See also the _Compleat Gamester_, 1721, and _Notes and
Queries_, April 8, 1871.  The ace of spades, or Spadille, was always the
first trump; the ace of clubs (Basto) always the third.  The second trump
was the worst card of the trump suit in its natural order, _i.e._ the
seven in red and the deuce in black suits, and was called Manille.  If
either of the red suits was trumps, the ace of the suit was fourth trump
(Punto).  Spadille, Manille, and Basto were “matadores,” or murderers, as
they never gave suit.

{28e}  See p. 12

{29a}  In the _Spectator_, No. 337, there is a complaint from “one of the
top China women about town,” of the trouble given by ladies who turn over
all the goods in a shop without buying anything.  Sometimes they
cheapened tea, at others examined screens or tea-dishes.

{29b}  The Right Hon. John Grubham Howe, M.P. for Gloucestershire, an
extreme Tory, had recently been appointed Paymaster of the Forces.  He is
mentioned satirically as a patriot in sec. 9 of _The Tale of a Tub_.

{30a}  George Henry Hay, Viscount Dupplin, eldest son of the sixth Earl
of Kinnoull, was made a Teller of the Exchequer in August, and a peer of
Great Britain in December 1711, with the title of Baron Hay.  He married,
in 1709, Abigail, Harley’s younger daughter, and he succeeded his father
in the earldom of Kinnoull in 1719.

{30b}  Edward Harley, afterwards Lord Harley, who succeeded his father as
Earl of Oxford in 1724.  He married Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles,
daughter of the Duke of Newcastle, but died without male issue in 1741.
His interest in literature caused him to form the collection known as the
Harleian Miscellany.

{30c}  William Penn (1644–1718), the celebrated founder of Pennsylvania.
Swift says that he “spoke very agreeably, and with much spirit.”

{30d}  This “Memorial to Mr. Harley about the First-Fruits” is dated Oct.
7, 1710.

{30e}  Henry St. John, created Viscount Bolingbroke in July 1712.  In the
quarrel between Oxford and Bolingbroke in 1714, Swift’s sympathies were
with Oxford.

{31a}  _I.e._, it is decreed by fate.  So Tillotson says, “These things
are fatal and necessary.”

{31b}  See p. 8.

{31c}  Obscure.  Hooker speaks of a “blind or secret corner.”

{31d}  Ale served in a gill measure.

{31e}  Scott suggests that the allusion is to _The Tale of a Tub_.

{31f}  An extravagant compliment.

{32a}  See p. 62.

{32b}  L’Estrange speaks of “trencher-flies and spungers.”

{32c}  See p. 2.

{32d}  Samuel Garth, physician and member of the Kit-Cat Club, was
knighted in 1714.  He is best known by his satirical poem, _The
Dispensary_, 1699.

{32e}  Gay speaks of “Wondering Main, so fat, with laughing eyes” (_Mr.
Pope’s Welcome from Greece_, st. xvii.).

{32f}  See p. 24, note 3.

{33a}  See the letter of Oct. 10, 1710, to Archbishop King.

{33b}  See p. 6.

{33c}  “Seventy-three lines in folio upon one page, and in a very small
hand.” (Deane Swift).

{34a}  _I.e._, Lord Lieutenant.

{34b}  _Tatler_, No. 238.

{34c}  See p. 2.

{34d}  Charles Coote, fourth Earl of Mountrath, and M.P. for
Knaresborough.  He died unmarried in 1715.

{34e}  Henry Coote, Lord Mountrath’s brother.  He succeeded to the
earldom in 1715, but died unmarried in 1720.

{35a}  The Devil Tavern was the meeting-place of Ben Jonson’s Apollo
Club.  The house was pulled down in 1787.

{35b}  Addison was re-elected M.P. for Malmesbury in Oct. 1710, and he
kept that seat until his death in 1719.

{35c}  Captain Charles Lavallee, who served in the Cadiz Expedition of
1702, and was appointed a captain in Colonel Hans Hamilton’s Regiment of
Foot in 1706 (Luttrell, v. 175, vi. 640; Dalton’s _English Army Lists_,
iv. 126).

{35d}  See p. 25.

{36a}  The _Tatler_, No. 230, _Sid Hamet’s Rod_, and the ballad (now
lost) on the Westminster Election.

{36b}  The Earl of Galway (1648–1720), who lost the battle of Almanza to
the Duke of Berwick in 1707.  Originally the Marquis de Ruvigny, a French
refugee, he had been made Viscount Galway and Earl of Galway successively
by William III.

{36c}  William Harrison, the son of a doctor at St. Cross, Winchester,
had been recommended to Swift by Addison, who obtained for him the post
of governor to the Duke of Queensberry’s son.  In Jan. 1711 Harrison
began the issue of a continuation of Steele’s _Tatler_ with Swift’s
assistance, but without success.  In May 1711, St. John gave Harrison the
appointment of secretary to Lord Raby, Ambassador Extraordinary at the
Hague, and in Jan. 1713 Harrison brought the Barrier Treaty to England.
He died in the following month, at the age of twenty-seven, and Lady
Strafford says that “his brother poets buried him, as Mr. Addison, Mr.
Philips, and Dr. Swift.”  Tickell calls him “that much loved youth,” and
Swift felt his death keenly.  Harrison’s best poem is _Woodstock Park_,
1706.

{37a}  The last volume of Tonson’s _Miscellany_, 1708.

{37b}  James Douglas, second Duke of Queensberry and Duke of Dover
(1662–1711), was appointed joint Keeper of the Privy Seal in 1708, and
third Secretary of State in 1709.  Harrison must have been “governor”
either to the third son, Charles, Marquis of Beverley (born 1698), who
succeeded to the dukedom in 1711, or to the fourth son, George, born in
1701.

{37c}  Anthony Henley, son of Sir Robert Henley, M.P. for Andover, was a
favourite with the wits in London.  He was a strong Whig, and
occasionally contributed to the _Tatler_ and Maynwaring’s _Medley_.
Garth dedicated _The Dispensary_ to him.  Swift records Henley’s death
from apoplexy in August 1711.

{37d}  Sir William Ashurst, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, and Mr. John Ward were
replaced by Sir Richard Hoare, Sir George Newland, and Mr. John Cass at
the election for the City in 1710.  Scott was wrong in saying that the
Whigs lost also the fourth seat, for Sir William Withers had been member
for the City since 1707.

{37e}  Sir Richard Onslow, Bart., was chosen Speaker of the House of
Commons in 1708.  Under George I. he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
was elevated to the peerage as Baron Onslow in 1716.  He died in the
following year.

{38a}  “The upper part of the letter was a little besmeared with some
such stuff; the mark is still on it” (Deane Swift).

{38b}  John Bolton, D.D., appointed a prebendary of St. Patrick’s in
1691, became Dean of Derry in 1699.  He died in 1724.  Like Swift, Bolton
was chaplain to Lord Berkeley, the Lord Lieutenant, and, according to
Swift, he obtained the deanery of Derry through Swift having declined to
give a bribe of £1000 to Lord Berkeley’s secretary.  But Lord Orrery says
that the Bishop of Derry objected to Swift, fearing that he would be
constantly flying backwards and forwards between Ireland and England.

{38c}  See p. 6, note 2.

{39a}  “That is, to the next page; for he is now within three lines of
the bottom of the first” (Deane Swift).

{39b}  See p. 20.

{39c}  Joshua Dawson, secretary to the Lords Justices.  He built a fine
house in Dawson Street, Dublin, and provided largely for his relatives by
the aid of the official patronage in his hands.

{39d}  He had been dead three weeks (see pp. 14, 25).

{39e}  In _The Importance of the Guardian Considered_, Swift says that
Steele, “to avoid being discarded, thought fit to resign his place of
Gazetteer.”

{40a}  As Swift never used the name “Stella” in the _Journal_, this
fragment of his “little language” must have been altered by Deane Swift,
the first editor.  Forster makes the excellent suggestion that the
correct reading is “sluttikins,” a word used in the _Journal_ on Nov. 28,
1710.  Swift often calls his correspondents “sluts.”

{40b}  Godolphin, who was satirised in _Sid Hamel’s Rod_ (see p. 4).

{40c}  No. 230.

{40d}  “This appears to be an interjection of surprise at the length of
his journal” (Deane Swift).

{41a}  Matthew Prior, poet and diplomatist, had been deprived of his
Commissionership of Trade by the Whigs, but was rewarded for his Tory
principles in 1711 by a Commissionership of Customs.

{41b}  “The twentieth parts are 12d. in the £1 paid annually out of all
ecclesiastical benefices as they were valued at the Reformation.  They
amount to about £500 per annum; but are of little or no value to the
Queen after the offices and other charges are paid, though of much
trouble and vexation to the clergy” (Swift’s “Memorial to Mr. Harley”).

{41c}  Charles Mordaunt, the brilliant but erratic Earl of Peterborough,
had been engaged for two years, after the unsatisfactory inquiry into his
conduct in Spain by the House of Lords in 1708, in preparing an account
of the money he had received and expended.  The change of Government
brought him relief from his troubles; in November he was made
Captain-General of Marines, and in December he was nominated Ambassador
Extraordinary to Vienna.

{41d}  Tapped, nudged.

{41e}  _I.e._, told only to you.

{41f}  Sir Hew Dalrymple (1652–1737), Lord President of the Court of
Session, and son of the first Viscount Stair.

{41g}  Robert Benson, a moderate Tory, was made a Lord of the Treasury in
August 1710, and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the following June, and
was raised to the peerage as Baron Bingley in 1713.  He died in 1731.

{42a}  The Smyrna Coffee-house was on the north side of Pall Mall,
opposite Marlborough House.  In the _Tatler_ (Nos. 10, 78) Steele laughed
at the “cluster of wise heads” to be found every evening at the Smyrna;
and Goldsmith says that Beau Nash would wait a whole day at a window at
the Smyrna, in order to receive a bow from the Prince or the Duchess of
Marlborough, and would then look round upon the company for admiration
and respect.

{42b}  See p. 19.

{42c}  See p. 25.

{42d}  An Irish doctor, with whom Swift invested money.

{43a}  Enoch Sterne, Collector of Wicklow and Clerk to the House of Lords
in Ireland.

{43b}  Claret.

{43c}  Colonel Ambrose Edgworth, a famous dandy, who is supposed to have
been referred to by Steele in No. 246 of the _Tatler_.  Edgworth was the
son of Sir John Edgworth, who was made Colonel of a Regiment of Foot in
1689 (Dalton, iii, 59).  Ambrose Edgworth was a Captain in the same
regiment, but father and son were shortly afterwards turned out of the
regiment for dishonest conduct in connection with the soldiers’ clothing.
Ambrose was, however, reappointed a Captain in General Eric’s Regiment of
Foot in 1691.  He served in Spain as Major in Brigadier Gorge’s regiment;
was taken prisoner in 1706; and was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of
Colonel Thomas Allen’s Regiment of Foot in 1707.

{43d}  This volume of _Miscellanies in Prose and Verse_ was published by
Morphew in 1711.

{43e}  Dr. Thomas Lindsay, afterwards Bishop of Raphoe.

{44a}  The first mention of the Vanhomrighs in the _Journal_.  Swift had
made their acquaintance when he was in London in 1708.

{44b}  Lady Elizabeth and Lady Mary (see p. 40 and below).

{44c}  John, third Lord Ashburnham, and afterwards Earl of Ashburnham
(1687–1737), married, on Oct. 21, 1710, Lady Mary Butler, younger
daughter of the Duke of Ormond.  She died on Jan. 2, 1712–3, in her
twenty-third year.  She was Swift’s “greatest favourite,” and he was much
moved at her death.

{45a}  Edward Wortley Montagu, grandson of the first Earl of Sandwich,
and M.P. for Huntingdon.  He was a great friend of Addison’s, and the
second volume of the _Tatler_ was dedicated to him.  In 1712 he married
the famous Lady Mary Pierrepont, eldest daughter of the Duke of Kingston,
and under George I. he became Ambassador Extraordinary to the Porte.  He
died in 1761, aged eighty.

{45b}  See p. 28.  No copy of these verses is known.

{45c}  Henry Alexander, fifth Earl of Stirling, who died without issue in
1739.  His sister, Lady Judith Alexander, married Sir William Trumbull,
Pope’s friend.

{46}  “These words, notwithstanding their great obscurity at present,
were very clear and intelligible to Mrs. Johnson: they referred to
conversations, which passed between her and Dr. Tisdall seven or eight
years before; when the Doctor, who was not only a learned and faithful
divine, but a zealous Church-Tory, frequently entertained her with
Convocation disputes.  This gentleman, in the year 1704, paid his
addresses to Mrs. Johnson” (Deane Swift).  The Rev. William Tisdall was
made D.D. in 1707.  Swift never forgave Tisdall’s proposal to marry
Esther Johnson in 1704, and often gave expression to his contempt for
him.  In 1706 Tisdall married, and was appointed Vicar of Kerry and
Ruavon; in 1712 he became Vicar of Belfast.  He published several
controversial pieces, directed against Presbyterians and other
Dissenters.

{47a}  No. 193 of the _Tatler_, for July 4, 1710, contained a letter from
Downes the Prompter in ridicule of Harley’s newly formed Ministry.  This
letter, the authorship of which Steele disavowed, was probably by Anthony
Henley.

{48a}  William Berkeley, fourth Baron Berkeley of Stratton, was sworn of
the Privy Council in September 1710, and was appointed Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster.  He married Frances, youngest daughter of Sir John
Temple, of East Sheen, Surrey, and died in 1740.

{48b}  Probably the widow of Sir William Temple’s son, John Temple (see
p. 5).  She was Mary Duplessis, daughter of Duplessis Rambouillet, a
Huguenot.

{48c}  The Rev. James Sartre, who married Addison’s sister Dorothy, was
Prebendary and Archdeacon of Westminster.  He had formerly been French
pastor at Montpelier.  After his death in 1713 his widow married a Mr.
Combe, and lived until 1750.

{48d}  William Congreve’s last play was produced in 1700.  In 1710, when
he was forty, he published a collected edition of his works.  Swift and
Congreve had been schoolfellows at Kilkenny, and they had both been
pupils of St. George Ashe—afterwards Bishop of Clogher—at Trinity
College, Dublin.  On Congreve’s death, in 1729, Swift wrote, “I loved him
from my youth.”

{49a}  See p. 19.

{49b}  Dean Sterne.

{49c}  See p. 38.

{49d}  When he became Dean he withheld from Swift the living of St.
Nicholas Without, promised in gratitude for the aid rendered by Swift in
his election.

{49e}  Crowe was a Commissioner for Appeals from the Revenue
Commissioners for a short time in 1706, and was Recorder of Blessington,
Co. Wicklow.  In his _Short Character of Thomas_, _Earl of Wharton_,
1710, Swift speaks of Whartons “barbarous injustice to . . . poor Will
Crowe.”

{50a}  See p. 9.

{50b}  See p. 13.

{50c}  See p. 3.

{50d}  Richard Tighe, M.P. for Belturbet, was a Whig, much disliked by
Swift.  He became a Privy Councillor under George I.

{51a}  Dryden Leach, of the Old Bailey, formerly an actor, was son of
Francis Leach.  Swift recommended Harrison to employ Leach in printing
the continuation of the _Tatler_; but Harrison discarded him.  (See
_Journal_, Jan. 16, 1710–11, and Timperley’s _Literary Anecdotes_, 600,
631).

{51b}  The _Postman_, which appeared three days in the week, written by
M. Fonvive, a French Protestant, whom Dunton calls “the glory and mirror
of news writers, a very grave, learned, orthodox man.”  Fonvive had a
universal system of intelligence, at home and abroad, and “as his news is
early and good, so his style is excellent.”

{51c}  Sir William Temple left Esther Johnson the lease of some property
in Ireland.

{52a}  See p. 27.

{52b}  An out-of-the-way or obscure house.  So Pepys (_Diary_, Oct. 15,
1661) “To St. Paul’s Churchyard to a blind place where Mr. Goldsborough
was to meet me.”

{52c}  Sir Richard Temple, Bart., of Stowe, a Lieutenant-General who saw
much service in Flanders, was dismissed in 1713 owing to his Whig views,
but on the accession of George I. was raised to the peerage, and was
created Viscount Cobham in 1718.  He died in 1749.  Congreve wrote in
praise of him, and he was the “brave Cobham” of Pope’s first _Moral
Essay_.

{52d}  Richard Estcourt, the actor, died in August 1712, when his
abilities on the stage and as a talker were celebrated by Steele to No.
468 of the _Spectator_.  See also _Tatler_, Aug. 6, 1709, and
_Spectator_, May 5, 1712.  Estcourt was “providore” of the Beef-Steak
Club, and a few months before his death opened the Bumper Tavern in James
Street, Covent Garden.

{52e}  See p. 32.

{52f}  Poor, mean.  Elsewhere Swift speaks of “the corrector of a hedge
press in Little Britain,” and “a little hedge vicar.”

{52g}  Thomas Herbert, eighth Earl of Pembroke, was Lord Lieutenant from
April 1707 to December 1708.  A nobleman of taste and learning, he was,
like Swift, very fond of punning, and they had been great friends in
Ireland.

{53a}  See p. 9.

{53b}  See p. 10.

{53c}  A small town and fortress in what is now the Pas de Calais.

{53d}  Richard Stewart, third son of the first Lord Mountjoy (see p. 2),
was M.P. at various times for Castlebar, Strabane, and County Tyrone.  He
died in 1728.

{54a}  See p. 7.

{54b}  Swift, Esther Johnson, and Mrs. Dingley seem to have begun their
financial year on the 1st of November.  Swift refers to “MD’s allowance”
in the _Journal_ for April 23, 1713.

{55a}  Samuel Dopping, an Irish friend of Stella’s, who was probably
related to Anthony Dopping, Bishop of Meath (died 1697), and to his son
Anthony (died 1743), who became Bishop of Ossory.

{55b}  See p. 6.

{55c}  The wife of Alderman Stoyte, afterwards Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Mrs. Stoyte and her sister Catherine; the Walls; Isaac Manley and his
wife; Dean Sterne, Esther Johnson and Mrs. Dingley, and Swift, were the
principal members of a card club which met at each other’s houses for a
number of years.

{55d}  See p. 2.

{56a}  “This cypher stands for Presto, Stella, and Dingley; as much as to
say, it looks like us three quite retired from all the rest of the world”
(Deane Swift).

{56b}  Steele’s “dear Prue,” Mary Scurlock, whom he married as his second
wife in 1707, was a lady of property and a “cried-up beauty.”  She was
somewhat of a prude, and did not hesitate to complain to her husband, in
and out of season, of his extravagance and other weaknesses.  The other
lady to whom Swift alludes is probably the Duchess of Marlborough.

{56c}  See p. 46.

{56d}  Remembers: an Irish expression.

{57a}  This new Commission, signed by Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop of
Armagh, and William King, was dated Oct. 24, 1710.  In this document
Swift was begged to take the full management of the business of the
First-Fruits into his hands, the Bishops of Ossory and Killala—who were
to have joined with him in the negotiations—having left London before
Swift arrived.  But before this commission was despatched the Queen had
granted the First-Fruits and Twentieth Parts to the Irish clergy.

{57b}  Lady Mountjoy, wife of the second Viscount Mountjoy (see p. 2),
was Anne, youngest daughter of Murrough Boyle, first Viscount
Blessington, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Charles Coote, second
Earl of Mountrath.  After Lord Mountjoy’s death she married John
Farquharson, and she died in 1741.

{58a}  Forster suggests that Swift wrote “Frond” or “Frowde” and there is
every reason to believe that this was the case.  No Colonel Proud appears
in Dalton’s _Army Lists_.  A Colonel William Frowde, apparently third son
of Sir Philip Frowde, Knight, by his third wife, Margaret, daughter of
Sir John Ashburnham, was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel
Farrington’s (see 59) Regiment of Foot in 1694.  He resigned his
commission on his appointment to the First Life Guards in 1702, and he
was in this latter regiment in 1704.  In November and December 1711 Swift
wrote of Philip Frowde the elder (Colonel William Frowde’s brother) as
“an old fool,” in monetary difficulties.  It is probable that Swift’s
Colonel Proud (? Frowde) was not Colonel William Frowde, but his nephew,
Philip Frowde, junior, who was Addison’s friend at Oxford, and the author
of two tragedies and various poems.  Nothing seems known of Philip
Frowde’s connection with the army, but he is certainly called “Colonel”
by Swift, Addison, and Pope (see Forster’s _Swift_, 159; Addison’s
_Works_, v. 324; Pope’s _Works_, v. 177, vi. 227).  Swift wrote to
Ambrose Philips in 1705, “Col. Frond is just as he was, very friendly and
_grand rêveur et distrait_.  He has brought his poems almost to
perfection.”  It will be observed that when Swift met Colonel “Proud” he
was in company with Addison, as was also the case when he was with
Colonel “Freind” (p. 11).

{58b}  Charles Davenant, LL.D., educated at Balliol College, Oxford, was
the eldest son of Sir William Davenant, author of _Gondibert_.  In
Parliament he attacked Ministerial abuses with great bitterness until, in
1703, he was made secretary to the Commissioners appointed to treat for a
union with Scotland.  To this post was added, in 1705, an
Inspector-Generalship of Exports and Imports, which he retained until his
death in 1714.  _Tom Double_, a satire on his change of front after
obtaining his place, was published in 1704.  In a Note on Macky’s
character of Davenant, Swift says, “He ruined his estate, which put him
under a necessity to comply with the times.” Davenant’s _True Picture of
a Modern Whig_, _in Two Parts_, appeared in 1701–2; in 1707 he published
_The True Picture of a Modern Whig revived_, _set forth in a third
dialogue between Whiglove and Double_, which seems to be the piece
mentioned in the text, though Swift speaks of the pamphlet as “lately put
out.”

{58c}  Hugh Chamberlen, the younger (1664–1728), was a Fellow of the
College of Physicians and Censor in 1707, 1717, and 1721.  Atterbury and
the Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby were among his fashionable
patients.  His father, Hugh Chamberlen, M.D., was the author of the Land
Bank Scheme of 1693–94.

{58d}  Sir John Holland (see p. 11).

{59a}  Swift may mean either rambling or gambolling.

{59b}  Thomas Farrington was appointed Colonel of the newly raised 29th
Regiment of Foot in 1702.  He was a subscriber for a copy of the _Tatler_
on royal paper (Aitken, _Life of Steele_, i. 329, 330).

{59c}  In _The History of Vanbrugh’s House_, Swift described everyone as
hunting for it up and down the river banks, and unable to find it, until
at length they—

    “— in the rubbish spy
    A thing resembling a goose pie.”

Sir John Vanbrugh was more successful as a dramatist than as an
architect, though his work at Blenheim and elsewhere has many merits.

{59d}  For the successes of the last campaign.

{60a}  John Sheffield, third Earl of Mulgrave, was created Duke of
Buckingham and Normanby in 1703, and died in 1721.  On Queen Anne’s
accession he became Lord Privy Seal, and on the return of the Tories to
power in 1710 he was Lord Steward, and afterward (June 1710) Lord
President of the Council.  The Duke was a poet, as well as a soldier and
statesman, his best known work being the _Essay on Poetry_.  He was
Dryden’s patron, and Pope prepared a collected edition of his works.

{60b}  Laurence Hyde, created Earl of Rochester in 1682, died in 1711.
He was the Hushai of Dryden’s _Absalom and Achitophel_, “the friend of
David in distress.”  In 1684 he was made Lord President of the Council,
and on the accession of James II., Lord Treasurer; he was, however,
dismissed in 1687.  Under William III. Rochester was Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, an office he resigned in 1703; and in September 1710 he again
became Lord President.  His imperious temper always stood in the way of
popularity or real success.

{60c}  Sir Thomas Osborne, Charles II.’s famous Minister, was elevated to
the peerage in 1673, and afterwards was made successively Earl of Danby,
Marquis of Caermarthen, and Duke of Leeds.  On Nov. 29, 1710, a few days
after this reference to him, the Duke was granted a pension of £3500 a
year out of the Post Office revenues.  He died in July 1712, aged
eighty-one, and soon afterwards his grandson married Lord Oxford’s
daughter.

{60d}  See p. 12.

{60e}  See p. 48.

{60f}  See p. 11.

{60g}  See p. 52.

{60h}  This is, of course, a joke; Swift was never introduced at Court.

{60i}  Captain Delaval (see p. 23).

{60j}  Admiral Sir Charles Wager (1666–1743) served in the West Indies
from 1707 to 1709, and gained great wealth from the prizes he took.
Under George I. he was Comptroller of the Navy, and in 1733 he became
First Lord of the Admiralty, a post which he held until 1742.

{60k}  See p. 52.

{60l}  See p. 24.

{60m}  Isaac Bickerstaff’s “valentine” sent him a nightcap, finely
wrought by a maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth (_Tatler_, No. 141).  The
“nightcap” was a periwig with a short tie and small round head, and
embroidered nightcaps were worn chiefly by members of the graver
professions.

{61a}  _Tatler_, No. 237.

{61b}  _Tatler_, No. 230.

{62a}  See pp. 32, 68.

   {62b}  “Returning home at night, you’ll find the sink
   Strike your offended sense with double stink.”

                                 (Description of a City Shower, ll. 5, 6.)

{62c}  Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

{63a}  See p. 1.

{63b}  See p. 55.

{64a}  See p. 34.

{64b}  See p. 2.

{65}  The bellman’s accents.  Cf. Pepys’ _Diary_, Jan. 16, 1659–60: “I
staid up till the bellman came by with his bell just under my window as I
was writing of this very line, and cried, ‘Past one of the clock, and a
cold, frosty, windy morning.’”

{66a}  John Freind, M.D. (1675–1728), was a younger brother of the Robert
Freind, of Westminster School, mentioned elsewhere in the _Journal_.
Educated under Dr. Busby at Westminster, he was in 1694 elected a student
of Christ Church, where he made the acquaintance of Atterbury, and
supported Boyle against Bentley in the dispute as to the authorship of
the letters of Phalaris.  In 1705 he attended the Earl of Peterborough to
Spain, and in the following year wrote a defence of that commander
(_Account of the Earl of Peterborough’s Conduct in Spain_).  A steady
Tory, he took a share in the defence of Dr. Sacheverell; and in 1723,
when M.P. for Launceston, he fell under the suspicion of the Government,
and was sent to the Tower.  On the accession of George II., however, he
came into favour with the Court, and died Physician to the Queen.

{66b}  See p. 59.

{66c}  St. John was thirty-two in October 1710.  He had been Secretary at
War six years before, resigning with Harley in 1707.  Swift repeats this
comparison elsewhere.  Temple was forty-six when he refused a
Secretaryship of State in 1674.

{66d}  Sir Henry St. John seems to have continued a gay man to the end of
his life.  In his youth he was tried and convicted for the murder of Sir
William Estcourt in a duel (Scott).  In 1716, after his son had been
attainted, he was made Viscount St. John.  He died in 1742, aged ninety.

{67a}  See p. 4.

{67b}  “Swift delighted to let his pen run into such rhymes as these,
which he generally passes off as old proverbs” (Scott).  Many of the
charming scraps of “Old Ballads” and “Old Plays” at the head of Scott’s
own chapters are in reality the result of his own imagination.

{67c}  See p. 10.

{67d}  Sir Richard Levinge, Bart., had been Solicitor-General for Ireland
from 1704 to 1709, and was Attorney-General from 1711 to 1714.
Afterwards he was Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and Chief-Justice
of the Common Pleas in Ireland.

{68a}  See pp. 32, 62.

{68b}  See p. 6.

{68c}  Thomas Belasyse, second Viscount Fauconberg, or Falconbridge (died
1700), a nobleman of hereditary loyalty, married, in 1657, the
Protector’s youngest daughter, Mary Cromwell, who is represented as a
lady of high talent and spirit.  She died on March 14, 1712.  Burnet
describes her as “a wise and worthy woman,” who would have had a better
prospect of maintaining her father’s post than either of her brothers.

{69a}  Richard Freeman, Chief Baron, was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from
1707 until his death in November 1710.

{69b}  See p. 49.

{69c}  Sir Richard Cox, Bart. (1650–1733), was Lord Chancellor of Ireland
from 1703 to 1707.  In 1711 he was appointed Chief-Justice of the Queen’s
Bench, but he was removed from office on the death of Queen Anne.  His
zealous Protestantism sometimes caused his views to be warped, but he was
honest and well-principled.

{69d}  Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart. (1676–1746), succeeded Bromley as Speaker
in 1714.  In February 1713 Swift said, “He is the most considerable man
in the House of Commons.”  His edition of Shakespeare was published by
the University of Oxford in 1743–44.  Pope called it “pompous,” and
sneered at Hanmer’s “superior air” (_Dunciad_, iv. 105).

{70}  See p. 24.

{72a}  Elliot was keeper of the St. James’s Coffee-house (see 2).

{72b}  Forster suggested that the true reading is “writhing.”  If so, it
is not necessary to suppose that Lady Giffard was the cause of it.
Perhaps it is the word “tiger” that is corrupt.

{72c}  The Hon. Charles Boyle (1676–1731), of the Boyle and Bentley
controversy, succeeded to the peerage as Lord Orrery in 1703.  When he
settled in London he became the centre of a Christ Church set, a strong
adherent of Harley’s party, and a member of Swift’s “club.”  His son
John, fifth Earl of Orrery, published _Remarks on the Life and Writings
of Jonathan Swift_ in 1751.

{73a}  William Domville, a landed proprietor in County Dublin, whom Swift
called “perfectly as fine a gentleman as I know.”

{73b}  On May 16, 1711, Swift wrote, “There will be an old to do.”  The
word is found in Elizabethan writers in the sense of “more than enough.”
Cf. _Macbeth_, ii. 3: “If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have
old turning the key.”

{73c}  See p. 9.  Clements was related to Pratt, the Deputy
Vice-Treasurer, and was probably the Robert Clements who became Deputy
Vice-Treasurer, and whose grandson Robert was created Earl of Leitrim in
1795.

{73d}  See p. 24.

{74a}  Swift’s sister Jane, who had married a currier in Bride Street,
named Joseph Fenton, a match to which Swift strongly objected.  Deane
Swift says that Swift never saw his sister again after the marriage; he
had offered her £500 if she would show a “proper disdain” of Fenton.  On
her husband’s dying bankrupt, however, Swift paid her an annuity until
1738, when she died in the same lodging with Esther Johnson’s mother,
Mrs. Bridget Mose, at Farnham (Forster’s _Swift_, pp. 118–19).

{74b}  Welbore Ellis, appointed Bishop of Kildare in 1705.  He was
translated to Meath in 1731, and died three years later.

{74c}  The expression of the Archbishop is, “I am not to conceal from you
that some expressed a little jealously, that you would not be acceptable
to the present courtiers; intimating that you were under the reputation
of being a favourite of the late party in power” (King to Swift, Nov. 2,
1710).

{75}  This indignant letter is dated Nov. 23, 1710.  It produced an
apologetic reply from the Archbishop (Nov. 30, 1710), who represented
that the letter to Southwell was a snare laid in his way, since if he
declined signing it, it might have been interpreted into disrespect to
the Duke of Ormond.  Of the bishops King said, “You cannot do yourself a
greater service than to bring this to a good issue, to their shame and
conviction.”

{76a}  William Bromley (died 1732) was M.P. for the University of Oxford.
A good debater and a strong High Churchman, he was Secretary of State
from August 1713 until the Queen’s death in the following year.

{76b}  Colonel, afterwards Major-General, John Hill (died 1735) was
younger brother of Mrs. Masham, the Queen’s favourite, and a poor
relation of the Duchess of Marlborough.  He was wounded at Mons in 1709,
and in 1711 was sent on an unsuccessful expedition to attack the French
settlements in North America.  In 1713 he was appointed to command the
troops at Dunkirk.

{76c}  “The footmen in attendance at the Houses of Parliament used at
this time to form themselves into a deliberative body, and usually
debated the same points with their masters.  It was jocularly said that
several questions were lost by the Court party in the menial House of
Lords which were carried triumphantly in the real assembly; which was at
length explained by a discovery that the Scottish peers whose votes were
sometimes decisive of a question had but few representatives in the
convocation of lacqueys.  The sable attendant mentioned by Swift, being
an appendage of the brother of Mrs. Masham, the reigning favourite, had a
title to the chair, the Court and Tory interest being exerted in his
favour” (Scott).  Steele alludes to the “Footmen’s Parliament” in No. 88
of the _Spectator_.

{77a}  See p. 1.

{77b}  A Court of Equity abolished in the reign of Charles I.  It met in
the _Camera Alba_, or Whitehall, and the room appears to have retained
the name of the old Court.

{78a}  See p. 24.

{78b}  Swift’s first contribution to the _Examiner_ (No. 13) is dated
Nov. 2, 1710.

{78c}  Seduced, induced.  Dryden (_Spanish Friar_) has “To debauch a king
to break his laws.”

{80a}  Freeman (see p. 69).

{80b}  “To make this intelligible, it is necessary to observe, that the
words ‘_this fortnight_’, in the preceding sentence, were first written
in what he calls their little language, and afterwards scratched out and
written plain.  It must be confessed this little language, which passed
current between Swift and Stella, has occasioned infinite trouble in the
revisal of these papers” (Deane Swift).

{80c}  Trim.  An attack upon the liberties of this corporation is among
the political offences of Wharton’s Lieutenancy of Ireland set forth in
Swift’s _Short Character of the Earl of Wharton_.

{80d}  Apologies.

{80e}  “A Description of the Morning,” in No. 9 of the _Tatler_.

{81a}  See p. 38.

{81b}  William Palliser (died 1726).

{81c}  See p. 20.

{81d}  “Here he writ with his eyes shut; and the writing is somewhat
crooked, although as well in other respects as if his eyes had been open”
(Deane Swift).

{81e}  _Tatler_, No. 249; cf. p. 93.  During this visit to London Swift
contributed to only three _Tatlers_, viz. Nos. 230, 238, and 258.

{81f}  St. Andrew’s Day.

{82a}  No. 241.

{82b}  _Tatler_, No. 258.

{84a}  Lieutenant-General Philip Bragg, Colonel of the 28th Regiment of
Foot, and M.P. for Armagh, died in 1759.

{84b}  James Cecil, fifth Earl of Salisbury, who died in 1728.

{84c}  See p. 5.

{84d}  See p. 60.

{84e}  Kneller seems never to have painted Swift’s portrait.

{85a}  On Nov. 25 and 28.

{85b}  Arthur Annesley, M.P. for Cambridge University, had recently
become fifth Earl of Anglesea, on the death of his brother (see p. 13).
Under George I. he was Joint Treasurer of Ireland, and Treasurer at War.

{85c}  _A Short Character of the Earl of Wharton_, by Swift himself,
though the authorship was not suspected at the time.  “Archbishop King,”
says Scott, “would have hardly otherwise ventured to mention it to Swift
in his letter of Jan. 9, 1710, as ‘a wound given in the dark.’”
Elsewhere, however, in a note, Swift hints that Archbishop King was
really aware of the authorship of the pamphlet.

{86a}  A false report: see p. 88 below.

{86b}  None of these Commissioners of Revenue lost their places at this
time.  Samuel Ogle was Commissioner from 1699 to 1714; John South from
1696 until his death in 1711; and Sir William St. Quintin, Bart., from
1706 to 1713.  Stephen Ludlow succeeded South in September 1711.

{86c}  See p. 53.

{86d}  James Hamilton, sixth Earl of Abercorn (1656–1734), a Scotch peer
who had strongly supported the Union of 1706.

{87a}  L’Estrange speaks of “insipid twittle twattles.” Johnson calls
this “a vile word.”

{87b}  A cousin of Swift’s; probably a son of William Swift.

{87c}  Nicholas Sankey (died 1722) succeeded Lord Lovelace as Colonel of
a Regiment of Foot in Ireland in 1689.  He became Brigadier-General in
1704, Major-General 1707, and Lieutenant-General 1710.  He served in
Spain, and was taken prisoner at the battle of the Caya in 1709.

{88a}  See p. 88.

{88b}  The Earl of Abercorn (see p. 86) married, in 1686, Elizabeth, only
child of Sir Robert Reading, Bart., of Dublin, by Jane, Dowager Countess
of Mountrath.  Lady Abercorn survived her husband twenty years, dying in
1754, aged eighty-six.

{88c}  Charles Lennox, first Duke of Richmond and Gordon (1672–1723), was
the illegitimate son of Charles II. by Madame de Querouaille.

{88d}  Sir Robert Raymond, afterwards Lord Raymond (1673–1733), M.P. for
Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire, was appointed Solicitor-General in May 1710,
and was knighted in October.  He was removed from office on the accession
of George I., but was made Attorney-General in 1720, and in 1724 became a
judge of the King’s Bench.  In the following year he was made Lord
Chief-Justice, and was distinguished both for his learning and his
impartiality.

{88e}  Lynn-Regis.

{88f}  Richard Savage, fourth Earl Rivers, the father of Richard Savage,
the poet.  Under the Whigs Lord Rivers was Envoy to Hanover; and after
his conversion by Harley, he was Constable of the Tower under the Tories.
He died in 1712.

{89a}  Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland from 1695 until his death
in 1717.

{89b}  Lord Shelburne’s clever sister, Anne, only daughter of Sir William
Petty, and wife of Thomas Fitzmaurice, Lord of Kerry, afterwards created
first Earl of Kerry.

{89c}  Mrs. Pratt, an Irish friend of Lady Kerry, lodged at Lord
Shelburne’s during her visit to London.  The reference to Clements (see
p. 73), Pratt’s relative, in the _Journal_ for April 14, 1711, makes it
clear that Mrs. Pratt was the wife of the Deputy Vice-Treasurer of
Ireland, to whom Swift often alludes (see p. 9).

{89d}  Lieutenant-General Thomas Meredith, Major-General Maccartney, and
Brigadier Philip Honeywood.  They alleged that their offence only
amounted to drinking a health to the Duke of Marlborough, and confusion
to his enemies.  But the Government said that an example must be made,
because various officers had dropped dangerous expressions about standing
by their General, Marlborough, who was believed to be aiming at being
made Captain General for life.  For Maccartney see the _Journal_ for Nov.
15, 1712, seq.  Meredith, who was appointed Adjutant-General of the
Forces in 1701, was made a Lieutenant-General in 1708.  He saw much
service under William III., and Marlborough, and was elected M.P. for
Midhurst in 1709.  He died in 1719 (Dalton’s _Army Lists_, iii. 181).
Honeywood entered the army in 1694; was at Namur; and was made a
Brigadier-General before 1711.  After the accession of George I. he
became Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons, and commanded a division at
Dettingen.  At his death in 1752 he was acting as Governor of Portsmouth,
with the rank of General (Dalton, iv. 30).

{90a}  Or “malkin”; a counterfeit, or scarecrow.

{90b}  William Cadogan, Lieutenant-General and afterwards Earl Cadogan
(1675–1726), a great friend of Marlborough, was Envoy to the United
Provinces and Spanish Flanders.  Cadogan retained the post of Lieutenant
to the Tower until 1715.

{90c}  Earl Cadogan’s father, Henry Cadogan, barrister, married Bridget,
daughter of Sir Hardresse Waller, and sister of Elizabeth, Baroness
Shelburne in her own right.

{90d}  See p. 28.

{90e}  Cadogan married Margaretta, daughter of William Munter, Counsellor
of the Court of Holland.

{91a}  Presumably the eldest son, William, who succeeded his father as
second Earl of Kerry in 1741, and died in 1747.  He was at Eton and
Christ Church, Oxford, and was afterwards a Colonel in the Coldstream
Guards.

{91b}  Henry Petty, third Lord Shelburne, who became Earl of Shelburne in
1719.  His son predeceased him, without issue, and on Lord Shelburne’s
death, in 1751, his honours became extinct.  His daughter Anne also died
without issue.

{91c}  The menagerie, which had been one of the sights of London, was
removed from the Tower in 1834.  In his account of the Tory Fox Hunter in
No. 47 of the _Freeholder_, Addison says, “Our first visit was to the
lions.”

{91d}  Bethlehem Hospital, for lunatics, in Moorfields, was a popular
“sight” in the eighteenth century.  Cf. the _Tatler_, No. 30: “On Tuesday
last I took three lads, who are under my guardianship, a rambling, in a
hackney coach, to show them the town: as the lions, the tombs, Bedlam.”

{91e}  The Royal Society met at Gresham College from 1660 to 1710.  The
professors of the College lectured on divinity, civil law, astronomy,
music, geometry, rhetoric, and physic.

{91f}  The most important of the puppet-shows was Powell’s, in the Little
Piazza, Covent Garden, which is frequently mentioned in the _Tatler_.

{91g}  The precise nature this negligent costume is not known, but it is
always decried by popular writers of the time.

{91h}  Retched.  Bacon has “Patients must not keck at them at the first.”

{92a}  Swift was born on November 30.

{92b}  Mrs. De la Riviere Manley, daughter of Sir Roger Manley, and
cousin of John Manley, M.P., and Isaac Manley (see pp. 7, 24), wrote
poems and plays, but is best known for her _Secret Memoirs and Manners of
Several Persons of Quality_, _of both sexes_.  _From the New Atalantis_,
1709, a book abounding in scandalous references to her contemporaries.
She was arrested in October, but was discharged in Feb. 1710.  In May
1710 she brought out a continuation of the _New Atalantis_, called
_Memoirs of Europe towards the Close of the Eighth Century_.  In June
1711 she became editress of the Tory _Examiner_, and wrote political
pamphlets with Swift’s assistance.  Afterwards she lived with Alderman
Barber, the printer, at whose office she died in 1724.  In her will she
mentioned her “much honoured friend, the Dean of St. Patrick, Dr. Swift.”

{92c}  “He seems to have written these words in a whim; for the sake of
what follows” (Deane Swift).

{93a}  See p. 62.

{93b}  No. 249 (see p. 81).

{94a}  See p. 30.

{94b}  In a letter to the Rev. Dr. Tisdall, of Dec. 16, 1703, Swift said:
“I’ll teach you a way to outwit Mrs. Johnson: it is a new-fashioned way
of being witty, and they call it a _bite_.  You must ask a bantering
question, or tell some damned lie in a serious manner, and then she will
answer or speak as if you were in earnest; and then cry you, ‘Madam,
there’s a _bite_!’  I would not have you undervalue this, for it is the
constant amusement in Court, and everywhere else among the great people.”
See, too, the _Tatler_, No. 12, and _Spectator_, Nos. 47, 504: “In a
word, a Biter is one who thinks you a fool, because you do not think him
a knave.”

{94c}  See p. 66.

{95a}  “As I hope to be saved;” a favourite phrase in the _Journal_.

{95b}  See p. 48.

{95c}  This statement receives some confirmation from a pamphlet
published in September 1710, called _A Condoling Letter to the Tatler_:
_On Account of the Misfortunes of Isaac Bickerstaf Esq._, _a Prisoner in
the — on Suspicion of Debt_.

{95d}  Dr. Lambert, chaplain to Lord Wharton, was censured in Convocation
for being the author of a libellous letter.

{95e}  Probably the same person as Dr. Griffith, spoken of in the
_Journal_ for March 3, 1713,—when he was ill,—as having been “very tender
of” Stella.

{96a}  See p. 74, note 1.

{96b}  Vexed, offended.  Elsewhere Swift wrote, “I am apt to grate the
ears of more than I could wish.”

{96c}  Ambrose Philips, whose Pastorals had been published in the same
volume of Tonson’s _Miscellany_ as Pope’s.  Two years later Swift wrote,
“I should certainly have provided for him had he not run party mad.”  In
1712 his play, _The Distrest Mother_, received flattering notice in the
_Spectator_, and in 1713, to Pope’s annoyance, Philips’ Pastorals were
praised in the _Guardian_.  His pretty poems to children led Henry Carey
to nickname him “Namby Pamby.”

{97a}  An equestrian statue of William III., in College Green, Dublin.
It was common, in the days of party, for students of the University of
Dublin to play tricks with this statue.

{97b}  Lieutenant-General Richard Ingoldsby (died 1712) was Commander of
the Forces in Ireland, and one of the Lords Justices in the absence of
the Lord Lieutenant.

{97c}  This seems to have been a mistake; cf. _Journal_ for July 13,
1711, Alan Brodrick, afterwards Viscount Midleton, a Whig politician and
lawyer, was made Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench in Ireland in 1709,
but was removed from office in June 1711, when Sir Richard Cox succeeded
him.  On the accession of George I. he was appointed Lord Chancellor for
Ireland.  Afterwards he declined to accept the dedication to him of
Swift’s _Drapiers Letters_, and supported the prosecution of the author.
He died in 1728.

{97d}  Robert Doyne was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland
in 1695, and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1703.  This appointment
was revoked on the accession of George I.

{97e}  See p. 69.

{97f}  Of the University of Dublin.

{98a}  See pp. 6, 7.  Sir Thomas Frankland’s eldest son, Thomas, who
afterwards succeeded to the baronetcy, acquired a fortune with his first
wife, Dinah, daughter of Francis Topham, of Agelthorpe, Yorkshire.  He
died in 1747.

{98b}  See p. 60.

{98c}  See p. 20.

{99a}  Mary, daughter of Sir John Williams, Bart., and widow of Charles
Petty, second Lord Shelburne, who died in 1696.  She had married, as her
second husband, Major-General Conyngham, and, as her third husband,
Colonel Dallway.

{99b}  Dr. John Vesey became Bishop of Limerick in 1672, and Archbishop
of Tuam in 1678.  He died in 1716.

{100a}  See p. 14.

{100b}  Sex.

{100c}  Toby Caulfeild, third son of the fifth Lord Charlemont.  In 1689
he was Colonel to the Earl of Drogheda’s Regiment of Foot, and about 1705
he succeeded to the command of Lord Skerrin’s Regiment of Foot.  After
serving in Spain his regiment was reduced, having lost most of its men
(Luttrell, vi. 158).

{101a}  John Campbell, second Duke of Argyle (1680–1743), was installed a
Knight of the Garter in December 1710, after he had successfully opposed
a vote of thanks to Marlborough, with whom he had quarrelled.  It was of
this nobleman that Pope wrote—

    “Argyle, the State’s whole thunder born to wield,
    And shake alike the senate and the field.”

In a note to Macky’s _Memoirs_, Swift describes the Duke as an
“ambitious, covetous, cunning Scot, who had no principle but his own
interests and greatness.”

{101b}  Harley’s second wife, Sarah, daughter of Simon Middleton, of
Edmonton, and sister of Sir Hugh Middleton, Bart.  She died, without
issue, in 1737.

{101c}  Elizabeth Harley, then unmarried, the daughter of Harley’s first
wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Foley, of Whitley Court,
Worcestershire.  She subsequently married the Marquis of Caermarthen,
afterwards Duke of Leeds.

{101d}  Harcourt (see p. 11).

{102}  William Stawel, the third baron, who succeeded to the title in
1692, was half-brother to the second Baron Stawel.  The brother here
referred to was Edward, who succeeded to the title as fourth baron in
1742.

{104a}  Charles Finch, third Earl of Winchelsea, son of Lord Maidstone,
and grandson of Heneage, second Earl of Winchelsea.  On his death in 1712
Swift spoke of him as “a worthy honest gentleman, and particular friend
of mine.”

{104b}  Vedeau was a shopkeeper, who abandoned his trade for the army
(_Journal_, March 28, April 4, 1711).  Swift calls him “a lieutenant, who
is now broke, and upon half pay” (_Journal_, Nov. 18, 1712).

{104c}  Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart. (died 1721), of Herringflat, Suffolk,
succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1686.

{104d}  The reverse at Brihuega.

{104e}  See p. 57.

{106a}  John Barber, a printer, became Lord Mayor of London in 1732, and
died in 1741.  Mrs. Manley was his mistress, and died at his printing
office.  Swift speaks of Barber as his “very good and old friend.”

{106b}  Bernage was an officer serving under Colonel Fielding.  In August
1710 a difficulty arose through Arbuthnot trying to get his brother
George made Captain over Bernage’s head; but ultimately Arbuthnot waived
the business, because he would not wrong a friend of Swift’s.

{106c}  See p. 99.

{107a}  George Smalridge (1663–1719), the High Church divine and popular
preacher, was made Dean of Carlisle in 1711, and Bishop of Bristol in
1714.  Steele spoke of him in the _Tatler_ (Nos. 73, 114) as “abounding
in that sort of virtue and knowledge which makes religion beautiful.”

{107b}  St. Albans Street, Pall Mall, was removed in 1815 to make way for
Waterloo Place.  It was named after Henry Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans.

{109}  See p. 100

{112a}  Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford (1684–1750), only son of
Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset.  Lord Hertford succeeded to the
dukedom in 1748.  From 1708 to 1722 he was M.P. for Northumberland, and
from 1708 to 1713 he took an active part in the war in Flanders.

{112b}  See p. 17.

{112c}  _A Short Character of the Earl of Wharton_ (see p. 85).

{112d}  See 69.

{113}  Henry Herbert, the last Baron Herbert of Cherbury, succeeded to
the peerage in 1709, and soon afterwards married a sister of the Earl of
Portsmouth.  A ruined man, he committed suicide in 1738.

{114}  Nos. 257, 260.

{115a}  See p. 26.

{115b}  “_After_ is interlined” (Deane Swift).

{115c}  With this account may be compared what Pope says, as recorded in
Spence’s _Anecdotes_, p. 223: “Lord Peterborough could dictate letters to
nine amanuenses together, as I was assured by a gentleman who saw him do
it when Ambassador at Turin.  He walked round the room, and told each of
them in his turn what he was to write.  One perhaps was a letter to the
emperor, another to an old friend, a third to a mistress, a fourth to a
statesman, and so on: yet he carried so many and so different connections
in his head, all at the same time.”

{116a}  Francis Atterbury, Dean of Carlisle, had taken an active part in
the defence of Dr. Sacheverell.  After a long period of suspense he
received the appointment of Dean of Christ Church, and in 1713 he was
made Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster.  Atterbury was on
intimate terms with Swift, Pope, and other writers on the Tory side, and
Addison—at whose funeral the Bishop officiated—described him as “one of
the greatest geniuses of his age.”

{116b}  John Carteret, second Baron Carteret, afterwards to be well known
as a statesman, succeeded to the peerage in 1695, and became Earl
Granville and Viscount Carteret on the death of his brother in 1744.  He
died in 1763.  In October 1710, when twenty years of age, he had married
Frances, only daughter of Sir Robert Worsley, Bart., of Appuldurcombe,
Isle of Wight.

{117a}  Dillon Ashe, D.D., Vicar of Finglas, and brother of the Bishop of
Clogher.  In 1704 he was made Archdeacon of Clogher, and in 1706
Chancellor of Armagh.  He seems to have been too fond of drink.

{117b}  Henley (see p. 37) married Mary, daughter of Peregrine Bertie,
the second son of Montagu, Earl of Lindsey, and with her obtained a
fortune of £30,000.  After Henley’s death his widow married her relative,
Henry Bertie, third son of James, Earl of Abingdon.

{117c}  Hebrews v. 6.

{118a}  Probably Mrs. Manley and John Barber (see pp. 92, 106).

{118b}  Sir Andrew Fountaine’s (see p. 28) father, Andrew Fountaine,
M.P., married Sarah, daughter of Sir Thomas Chicheley, Master of the
Ordnance.  Sir Andrew’s sister, Elizabeth, married Colonel Edward Clent.
The “scoundrel brother,” Brig, died in 1746, aged sixty-four
(Blomefield’s _Norfolk_, vi. 233–36).

{118c}  Dame Overdo, the justice’s wife in Ben Jonson’s _Bartholomew
Fair_.

{119a}  See p. 7.

{119b}  Atterbury, who had recently been elected Prolocutor to the Lower
House of Convocation.

{120a}  Dr. Sterne, Dean of St. Patrick’s, was not married.

{120b}  January 6 was Twelfth-night.

{120c}  Garraway’s Coffee-house, in Change Alley, was founded by Thomas
Garway, the first coffee-man who sold and retailed tea.  A room upstairs
was used for sales of wine “by the candle.”

{120d}  Sir Constantine Phipps, who had taken an active part in
Sacheverell’s defence.  Phipps’ interference in elections in the Tory
interest made him very unpopular in Dublin, and he was recalled on the
death of Queen Anne.

{120e}  Joseph Trapp, one of the seven poets alluded to in the distich:—

    “Alma novem genuit celebres Rhedycina poetas,
    Bubb, Stubb, Grubb, Crabb, Trapp, Young, Carey, Tickell, Evans.”

Trapp wrote a tragedy in 1704, and in 1708 was chosen the first Professor
of Poetry at Oxford.  In 1710 he published pamphlets on behalf of
Sacheverell, and in 1712 Swift secured for him the post of chaplain to
Bolingbroke.  During his latter years he held several good livings.
Elsewhere Swift calls him a “coxcomb.”

{120f}  See p. 50.

{121}  The extreme Tories, who afterwards formed the October Club.

{122}  Crowd.  A Jacobean writer speaks of “the lurry of lawyers,” and “a
lurry and rabble of poor friars.”

{123a}  See p. 24, note 3.

{123b}  St. John’s first wife was Frances, daughter and co-heiress of Sir
Henry Winchcombe, Bart., of Berkshire, and in her right St. John enjoyed
the estates of Bucklebury, which on her death in 1718 passed to her
sister.  In April 1711 Swift said that “poor Mrs. St. John” was growing a
great favourite of his; she was going to Bath owing to ill-health, and
begged him to take care of her husband.  She “said she had none to trust
but me, and the poor creature’s tears came fresh in her eyes.”  Though
the marriage was, naturally enough, unhappy, she did not leave St. John’s
house until 1713, and she returned to him when he fell from power.  There
are letters from her to Swift as late as 1716, not only doing her best to
defend his honour, but speaking of him with tenderness.

{123c}  “Battoon” means (1) a truncheon; (2) a staff of office.
Luttrell, in 1704, speaks of “a battoon set with diamonds sent him from
the French king.”

{124a}  Edward Harley, second son of Sir Edward Harley, was M.P. for
Leominster and Recorder of the same town.  In 1702 he was appointed
Auditor of the Imposts, a post which he held until his death in 1735.
His wife, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Foley, was a sister of Robert
Harley’s wife, and his eldest son eventually became third Earl of Oxford.
Harley published several books on biblical subjects.

{124b}  See p. 36.  The last number of Steele’s _Tatler_ appeared on Jan.
2, 1711; Harrison’s paper reached to fifty-two numbers.

{124c}  Dryden Leach (see p. 51).

{125a}  Cf. Letter 7, October 28th.

{125b}  Published by John Baker and John Morphew.  See Aitken’s _Life of
Steele_, i. 299–301.

{125c}  In No. 224 of the _Tatler_, Addison, speaking of polemical
advertisements, says: “The inventors of Strops for Razors have written
against one another this way for several years, and that with great
bitterness.”  See also _Spectator_, Nos. 428, 509, and the _Postman_ for
March 23, 1703: “The so much famed strops for setting razors, etc., are
only to be had at Jacob’s Coffee-house. . . .  Beware of counterfeits,
for such are abroad.”

{126a}  Sir John Holland (see p. 11).

{126b}  Addison speaks of a fine flaxen long wig costing thirty guineas
(_Guardian_, No. 97), and Duumvir’s fair wig, which Phillis threw into
the fire, cost forty guineas (_Tatler_, No. 54)

{127a}  Swift’s mother, Abigail Erick, was of a Leicestershire family,
and after her husband’s death she spent much of her time with her friends
near her old home.  Mr. Worrall, vicar of St. Patrick’s, with whom Swift
was on terms of intimacy in 1728–29, was evidently a relative of the
Worralls where Mrs. Swift had lodged, and we may reasonably suppose that
he owed the living to Swift’s interest in the family.

{127b}  The title of a humorous poem by Lydgate.  A “lickpenny” is a
greedy or grasping person.

{128a}  Small wooden blocks used for lighting fires.  See Swift
(“Description of the Morning”),

    “The small-coal man was heard with cadence deep,
    Till drowned in shriller notes of chimney-sweep;”

and Gay (_Trivia_, ii. 35),

    “When small-coal murmurs in the hoarser throat,
    From smutty dangers guard thy threatened coat.”

{128b}  The Tory Ministers.

{129a}  See p. 51.

{129b}  Thomas Southerne’s play of _Oroonoko_, based on Mrs. Aphra Behn’s
novel of the same name, was first acted in 1696.

{129c}  “Mrs.” Cross created the part of Mrs. Clerimont in Steele’s
_Tender Husband_ in 1705.

{130a}  See p. 106.

{130b}  George Granville, afterwards Lord Lansdowne, was M.P. for
Cornwall, and Secretary at War.  In December 1711 he was raised to the
peerage, and in 1712 was appointed Comptroller of the Household.  He died
in 1735, when the title became extinct.  Granville wrote plays and poems,
and was a patron of both Dryden and Pope.  Pope called him “Granville the
polite.”  His _Works in Verse and Prose_ appeared in 1732.

{131a}  Samuel Masham, son of Sir Francis Masham, Bart., had been a page
to the Queen while Princess of Denmark, and an equerry and gentleman of
the bed-chamber to Prince George.  He married Abigail Hill (see p. 149),
daughter of Francis Hill, a Turkey merchant, and sister of General John
Hill, and through that lady’s influence with the Queen he was raised to
the peerage as Baron Masham, in January 1712.  Under George I. he was
Remembrancer of the Exchequer.  He died in 1758.

{131b}  A roughly printed pamphlet, _The Honourable Descent_, _Life_,
_and True Character of the_ . . . _Earl of Wharton_, appeared early in
1711, in reply to Swift’s _Short Character_; but that can hardly be the
pamphlet referred to here, because it is directed against libellers and
backbiters, and cannot be described as “pretty civil.”

{131c}  “In that word (the seven last words of the sentence huddled into
one) there were some puzzling characters” (Deane Swift).

{132}  Sir Robert Worsley, Bart., married, in 1690, Frances, only
daughter of the first Viscount Weymouth.  Their daughter Frances married
Lord Carteret (see p. 116) in 1710.  In a letter to Colonel Hunter in
March 1709 Swift spoke of Lady (then Mrs.) Worsley as one of the
principal beauties in town.  See, too, Swift’s letter to her of April 19,
1730: “My Lady Carteret has been the best queen we have known in Ireland
these many years; yet is she mortally hated by all the young girls,
because (and it is your fault) she is handsomer than all of them
together.”

{133a}  See p. 7.

{133b}  See p. 25.

{133c}  William Stratford, son of Nicholas Stratford, Bishop of Chester,
was Archdeacon of Richmond and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, until his
death in 1729.

{133d}  See p. 10.

{134a}  James, third Earl of Berkeley (1680–1736), whom Swift calls a
“young rake” (see p. 151).  The young Countess of Berkeley was only
sixteen on her marriage.  In 1714 she was appointed a lady of the
bed-chamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales, and she died of smallpox in
1717, aged twenty-two.  The Earl was an Admiral, and saw much service
between 1701 and 1710; under George I. he was First Lord of the
Admiralty.

{134b}  Edward Wettenhall was Bishop of Kilmore from 1699 to 1713.

{134c}  In the Dedication to _The Tale of a Tub_ Swift had addressed
Somers in very different terms: “There is no virtue, either in public or
private life, which some circumstances of your own have not often
produced upon the stage of the world.”

{136}  Their lodgings, opposite to St. Mary’s Church in Stafford Street,
Dublin.

{138a}  The Stamp Act was not passed until June 1712: see the _Journal_
for Aug. 7, 1712.

{138b}  Both in St. James’s Park.  The Canal was formed by Charles II.
from several small ponds, and Rosamond’s Pond was a sheet of water in the
south-west corner of the Park, “long consecrated,” as Warburton said, “to
disastrous love and elegiac poetry.”  It is often mentioned as a place of
assignation in Restoration plays.  Evelyn (_Diary_, Dec. 1, 1662)
describes the “scheets” used on the Canal.

{139a}  Mrs. Beaumont.

{139b}  The first direct mention of Hester Vanhomrigh.  She is referred
to only in two other places in the _Journal_ (Feb. 14, 1710–11, and Aug.
14, 1711).

{139c}  See p. 10.

{139d}  No. 27, by Swift himself.

{140a}  No. 7 of Harrison’s series.

{140b}  The printers of the original _Tatler_.

{141}  Harley had forwarded to Swift a banknote for £50 (see _Journal_,
March 7, 1710–11).

{143}  At Moor Park.

{144a}  Scott says that Swift here alludes to some unidentified pamphlet