Caermarthen.
{226b} Henry Tenison, M.P. for County Louth, was one of the
Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland from 1704 until his death in 1709
(Luttrell, v. 381, vi. 523). Probably he was related to Dr. Tenison,
Bishop of Meath, who died in 1705.
{227a} Anne Finch (died 1720), daughter of Sir William Kingsmill, and
wife of Heneage Finch, who became fourth Earl of Winchelsea in 1712.
Lady Winchelsea published a volume of poems in 1713, and was a friend of
Pope and Rowe. Wordsworth recognised the advance in the growth of
attention to “external nature” shown in her writings.
{227b} See pp. 223, 297.
{227c} This was a mistake. Charles Hickman, D.D., Bishop of Derry, died
in November 1713.
{227d} “These words in italics are written in a large round hand” (Deane
Swift).
{229a} “This entry is interlined in the original” (Deane Swift).
{229b} Colonel James Graham (1649–1730) held various offices under James
II., and was granted a lease of a lodge in Bagshot Park. Like his
brother, Viscount Preston, he was suspected of treasonable practices in
1691, and he was arrested in 1692 and 1696. Under Queen Anne and George
I., Colonel Graham was M.P. for Appleby and Westmorland.
{229c} Mr. Leslie Stephen has pointed out that this is the name of an
inn (now the Jolly Farmer) near Frimley, on the hill between Bagshot and
Farnborough. This inn is still called the Golden Farmer on the Ordnance
map.
{229d} “Soley” is probably a misreading for “sollah,” a form often used
by Swift for “sirrah,” and “figgarkick” may be “pilgarlick” (a poor
creature) in Swift’s “little language” (cf. 20th Oct. 1711).
{230a} See p. 134.
{230b} Probably a misprint for “Bertie.” This Mr. Bertie may have been
the Hon. James Bertie, second son of the first Earl of Abingdon, and M.P.
for Middlesex.
{230c} Evelyn Pierrepont, fifth Earl of Kingston, was made Marquis of
Dorchester in 1706. He became Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1715, and
died in 1726. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was his daughter.
{231a} See p. 116.
{231b} Sir Thomas Thynne, first Viscount Weymouth, who died in 1714,
aged seventy-four, married Frances, daughter of Heneage Finch, second
Earl of Winchelsea.
{231c} See p. 52.
{232a} Swift is referring to St. John’s defence of Brydges (see p. 201.)
{232b} “He does not mean smoking, which he never practised, but snuffing
up cut-and-dry tobacco, which sometimes was just coloured with Spanish
snuff; and this he used all his life, but would not own that he took
snuff” (Deane Swift).
{232c} Beaumont (see p. 1).
{232d} Sir Alexander Cairnes, M.P. for Monaghan, a banker, was created a
baronet in 1706, and died in 1732.
{233a} See pp. 43, 160.
{233b} Isaac Manley (see p. 7.)
{233c} Sir Thomas Frankland.
{233d} See p. 24.
{234a} Hockley-in-the-Hole, Clerkenwell, a place of public diversion,
was famous for its bear and bull baitings.
{234b} Sir William Seymour, second son of Sir Edward Seymour, Bart., of
Berry Pomeroy, retired from the army in 1717, and died in 1728 (Dalton’s
_Army Lists_). He was wounded at Landen and Vigo, and saw much service
between his appointment as a Captain of Fusiliers in 1686 and his
promotion to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1707.
{234c} No. 45.
{235a} “And now I conceive the main design I had in writing these papers
is fully executed. A great majority of the nation is at length
thoroughly convinced that the Queen proceeded with the highest wisdom, in
changing her Ministry and Parliament” (_Examiner_, No. 45).
{235b} Edward Harley (see p. 124).
{235c} See p. 225.
{235d} Tom Ashe was an elder brother of the Bishop of Clogher. He had
an estate of more than £1000 a year in County Meath, and Nichols
describes him as of droll appearance, thick and short in person: “a
facetious, pleasant companion, but the most eternal unwearied punster
that ever lived.”
{235e} “Even Joseph Beaumont, the son, was at this time an old man,
whose grey locks were venerable; yet his father lived until about 1719”
(Deane Swift).
{236} Sir William Wyndham, Bart. (1687–1740), was M.P. for Somerset. He
was a close partisan of Bolingbroke’s, and in 1713 introduced the Schism
Bill, which drove Oxford from office. Wyndham became Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and was afterwards a leading opponent of Walpole. His wife,
Lady Catherine Seymour (died 1713), was the second daughter of Charles,
Duke of Somerset (see p. 270).
{237a} Swift was afterwards President of this Club, which is better
known as “the Society.”
{237b} Perhaps Daniel Reading, M.P. for Newcastle, Co. Dublin.
{238a} Afterwards Congreve formed a friendship with the Whigs; or, as
Swift put it,
“Took proper principles to thrive,
And so might every dunce alive.”
{238b} Atterbury.
{238c} This pamphlet, published in February 1712, was called _A Proposal
for Correcting_, _Improving_, _and Ascertaining the English Tongue_, _in
a Letter to the_ . . . _Lord High Treasurer_.
{238d} No. 47
{238e} Francis Gastrell, Canon of Christ Church, was made Bishop of
Chester in 1713. His valuable _Notitia Cestriensis_ was published in
1845–50.
{239} Near Fulham.
{240a} See p. 116.
{240b} The daughters of Meinhardt Schomberg, Duke of Leinster, in
Ireland, and third Duke of Schomberg. Lady Mary married Count
Dagenfeldt, and Lady Frederica married, first, the Earl of Holderness,
and, secondly, Earl Fitz Walter.
{241} Thomas Harley.
{242} See p. 176.
{245a} The widow of Sir John Lyndon, who was appointed a justice of the
Court of King’s Bench in Ireland in 1682, and died in 1699.
{245b} “Marmaduke Coghill, LL.D., was judge of the Prerogative Court in
Ireland. About this time he courted a lady, and was soon to have been
married to her; but unfortunately a cause was brought to trial before
him, wherein a man was sued for beating his wife. When the matter was
agitated, the Doctor gave his opinion, ‘That although a man had no right
to beat his wife unmercifully, yet that, with such a little cane or
switch as he then held in his hand, a husband was at liberty, and was
invested with a power, to give his wife moderate correction’; which
opinion determined the lady against having the Doctor. He died an old
man and a bachelor” (Deane Swift). See also Lascelles, _Liber Muner.
Hibern._, part ii. p. 80.
{246} This was a common exclamation of the time, but the spelling varies
in different writers. It seems to be a corruption of “God so,” or “God
ho,” but there may have been a confusion with “cat-so,” derived from the
Italian “cazzo.”
{247a} See p. 92. Mrs. Manley was now editing the _Examiner_.
{247b} Sir Henry Belasyse was sent to Spain as Commissioner to inquire
into the state of the English forces in that country. The son of Sir
Richard Belasyse, Knight of Ludworth, Durham, Sir Henry finished a
chequered career in 1717, when he was buried in Westminster Abbey
(Dalton’s _Army Lists_, ii. 228). In his earlier years he served under
the United Provinces, and after the accession of William was made a
Brigadier-General in the English army, and in 1694, Lieutenant-General.
In 1702 he was second in command of the expedition to Cadiz, but he was
dismissed the service in consequence of the looting of Port St. Mary.
Subsequently he was elected M.P. for Durham, and in 1713 was appointed
Governor of Berwick.
{248} Atterbury.
{249a} See p. 10.
{249b} Sir John Powell, a Judge of the Queen’s Bench, died in 1713, aged
sixty-eight. He was a kindly as well as able judge.
{250a} See p. 235.
{250b} This Tisdall has been described as a Dublin merchant; but in all
probability he was Richard Tisdall, Registrar of the Irish Court of
Chancery, and M.P. for Dundalk (1707–1713) and County Louth (1713–1727).
He married Marian, daughter of Richard Boyle, M.P., and died in 1742.
Richard Tisdall was a relative of Stella’s suitor, the Rev. William
Tisdall, and years afterwards Swift took an interest in his son Philip,
who became a Secretary of State and Leader of the Irish House of Commons.
{251} “In Ireland there are not public paths from place to place, as in
England” (Deane Swift).
{252a} See p. 226.
{252b} Probably a son of John Manley, M.P. (see p. 24).
{253a} See p. 97.
{253b} Dr. George Stanhope, who was Vicar of Lewisham as well as of
Deptford. He was a popular preacher and a translator of Thomas à Kempis
and other religious writers.
{253c} See p. 10.
{254} A favourite word with Swift, when he wished to indicate anything
obscure or humble.
{255a} See p. 163.
{255b} See pp. 234–5.
{255c} See p. 166.
{256a} Thomas Mills (1671–1740) was made Bishop of Waterford and Lismore
in 1708. A man of learning and a liberal contributor to the cost of
church restorations, he is charged by Archbishop King with giving all the
valuable livings in his gift to his non-resident relatives.
{256b} Tooke was appointed printer of the _London Gazette_ in 1711 (see
p. 8).
{256c} See 24.
{256d} Lady Jane Hyde, the elder daughter of Henry Hyde, Earl of
Rochester (see p. 24), married William Capel, third Earl of Essex. Her
daughter Charlotte’s husband, the son of the Earl of Jersey, was created
Earl of Clarendon in 1776. Lady Jane’s younger sister, Catherine, who
became the famous Duchess of Queensberry, Gay’s patroness, is represented
by Prior, in _The Female Phaeton_, as jealous, when a young girl, of her
sister, “Lady Jenny,” who went to balls, and “brought home hearts by
dozens.”
{257a} See 257.
{257b} John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, had held the Privy Seal from
1705, and was regarded by the Ministers as a possible plenipotentiary in
the event of their negotiations for a peace being successful. He married
Lady Margaret Cavendish, daughter and co-heiress of Henry Cavendish,
second Duke of Newcastle, and was one of the richest nobles in England.
His death, on July 15, 1711, was the result of a fall while stag-hunting.
The Duke’s only daughter married, in 1713, Edward, Lord Harley, the Earl
of Oxford’s son.
{258a} Alexander Forbes, fourth Lord Forbes, who was afterwards
attainted for his share in the Rebellion of 1745.
{258b} Obscure (cf. p. 52).
{260a} Jacob Tonson the elder, who died in 1736, outlived his nephew,
Jacob Tonson the younger, by a few months. The elder Tonson, the
secretary of the Kit-Cat Club, published many of Dryden’s works, and the
firm continued to be the chief publishers of the time during the greater
part of the eighteenth century.
{260b} John Barber.
{260c} By his will Swift left to Deane Swift his “large silver standish,
consisting of a large silver plate, an ink-pot, and a sand-box.”
{261a} _I.e._, we are only three hours in getting there.
{261b} Cf. p. 141.
{262a} The _Examiner_ was revived in December 1711, under Oldisworth’s
editorship, and was continued by him until 1714.
{262b} James Douglas, fourth Duke of Hamilton, was created Duke of
Brandon in the English peerage in September 1711, and was killed by Lord
Mohun in a duel in 1712. Swift calls him “a worthy good-natured person,
very generous, but of a middle understanding.” He married, in 1698, as
his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Digby, Lord Gerard, a
lady to whom Swift often refers in the _Journal_. She outlived the Duke
thirty-two years.
{262c} See p. 260.
{263} William Fitzmaurice (see p. 263).
{264a} The Duke of Shrewsbury (see p. 12) married an Italian lady,
Adelhida, daughter of the Marquis of Paliotti, of Bologna, descended
maternally from Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Queen Elizabeth’s
favourite. Lady Cowper (_Diary_, pp. 8, 9) says that the Duchess “had a
wonderful art of entertaining and diverting people, though she would
sometimes exceed the bounds of decency; . . . but then, with all her
prate and noise, she was the most cunning, designing woman alive,
obliging to people in prosperity, and a great party-woman.” As regards
the name “Presto,” see p. 5 note 3.
{264b} Probably a cousin.
{264c} Presumptuous: claiming much.
{265} See p. 123. John Winchcombe, a weaver of Newbury, marched with a
hundred of his workmen, at his own expenses, against the Scots in 1513.
{266a} Thomas Coke, M.P., of Derbyshire, was appointed a Teller of the
Exchequer in 1704, and Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen in 1706. In 1706 he
married—as his second wife—Mrs. Hale, one of the maids of honour
(Luttrell, v. 411, 423; vi. 113, 462; Lady Cowper’s _Diary_, 15, 16), a
lady whose “piercing” beauty it was, apparently, that Steele described
under the name of Chloe, in No. 4 of the _Tatler_. Jervas painted her as
a country girl, “with a liveliness that shows she is conscious, but not
affected, of her perfections.” Coke was the Sir Plume of Pope’s _Rape of
the Lock_.
{266b} The committee of management of the Royal household.
{266c} Francesca Margherita de l’Epine, the famous singer, and principal
rival of Mrs. Tofts, came to England in 1692, and constantly sang in
opera until her retirement in 1718, when she married Dr. Pepusch. She
died in 1746. Her sister, Maria Gallia, also a singer, did not attain
the same popularity.
{266d} Charles Scarborow and Sir William Foster were the Clerks of the
Board of Green Cloth.
{267a} See note on Thomas Coke, 266.
{267b} The Earl of Sunderland’s second wife, Lady Anne Churchill, who
died in 1716, aged twenty-eight. She was the favourite daughter of the
Duke of Marlborough, and was called “the little Whig.” Verses were
written in honour of her beauty and talent by Charles Montagu, Earl of
Halifax, Dr. Watts and others, and her portrait was painted by Lely and
Kneller.
{267c} Mary, daughter of Sir William Forester, of Dothill, Shropshire.
In 1700, at the age of thirteen, she had been secretly married to her
cousin, George Downing, a lad of fifteen. Three years later, Downing, on
his return from abroad, refused to acknowledge his wife, and in 1715 both
parties petitioned the House of Lords for leave to bring in a Bill
declaring the marriage to be void; but leave was refused (Lords’
_Journals_, xx. 41, 45). Downing had become Sir George Downing, Bart.,
in 1711, and had been elected M.P. for Dunwich; he died without issue in
1749, and was the founder of Downing College, Cambridge.
{268a} In a discussion upon what would be the result if beards became
the fashion, Budgell (_Spectator_, No. 331) says, “Besides, we are not
certain that the ladies would not come into the mode, when they take the
air on horseback. They already appear in hats and feathers, coats and
periwigs.”
{268b} Horse-racing was much encouraged by Charles II., who, as Strutt
tells us, appointed races to be made in Datchet Mead, when he was
residing at Windsor. By Queen Anne’s time horse-racing was becoming a
regular institution: see _Spectator_, No. 173.
{269a} John Montagu, second Duke of Montagu, married Lady Mary
Churchill, youngest daughter of the Duke of Marlborough.
{269b} Of Clogher.
{269c} John Adams, Prebendary of Canterbury and Canon of Windsor. He
was made Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, in 1712, and died in 1720.
{269d} The Hon. and Rev. George Verney, Canon of Windsor (died 1728),
became fourth Lord Willoughby de Broke on the death of his father (Sir
Richard Verney, the third Baron), in July 1711. Lord Willoughby became
Dean of Windsor in 1713.
{269e} Thomas Hare, Under Secretary of State in Bolingbroke’s office.
{269f} Richard Sutton was the second son of Robert Sutton, the nephew of
the Robert Sutton who was created Viscount Lexington by Charles I.
Sutton served under William III. and Marlborough in Flanders, and was
made a Brigadier-General in 1710, in which year also he was elected M.P.
for Newark. In 1711 he was appointed Governor of Hull, and he died, a
Lieutenant-General, in 1737 (Dalton’s _Army Lists_, iii. 153)
{270a} Charles Seymour, sixth Duke of Somerset (1662–1748), known as
“the proud Duke of Somerset.” Through the influence which his
wife—afterwards Mistress of the Robes (see p. 162)—had obtained over the
Queen, he bore no small part in bringing about the changes of 1710. His
intrigues during this period were, however, mainly actuated by jealousy
of Marlborough, and he had really no sympathies with the Tories. His
intrigues with the Whigs caused the utmost alarm to St. John and to
Swift.
{270b} The third and last reference to Vanessa in the _Journal_.
{271a} “Pray God preserve her life, which is of great importance” (Swift
to Archbishop King, Aug. 15, 1711). St. John was at this moment very
anxious to conciliate Mrs. Masham, as he felt that she was the only
person capable of counteracting the intrigues of the Duchess of Somerset
with the Queen.
{271b} Pontack, of Abchurch Lane, son of Arnaud de Pontac, President of
the Parliament of Bordeaux, was proprietor of the most fashionable
eating-house in London. There the Royal Society met annually at dinner
until 1746. Several writers speak of the dinners at a guinea a head and
upwards served at Pontack’s, and Swift comments on the price of the wine.
{272a} “His name was Read” (Scott).
{272b} Up to the end of 1709 the warrants for the payment of the works
at Blenheim had been regularly issued by Godolphin and paid at the
Treasury; over £200,000 was expended in this manner. But after the
dismissal of the Whigs the Queen drew tight the purse-strings. The
£20,000 mentioned by Swift was paid in 1711, but on June 1, 1712, Anne
gave positive orders that nothing further should be allowed for Blenheim,
though £12,000 remained due to the contractors.
{273a} The piercing of the lines before Bouchain, which Villars had
declared to be the _non plus ultra_ of the Allies, one of the most
striking proofs of Marlborough’s military genius.
{273b} See p. 212.
{274a} A fashionable gaming-house in St. James’s Street.
{274b} See p. 37. The Grange, near Alresford, Hampshire, was Henley’s
seat. His wife (see p. 117) was the daughter of Peregrine Bertie, son of
Montagu Bertie, second Earl of Lindsey; and Earl Poulett (see p. 190)
married Bridget, an elder daughter of Bertie’s.
{274c} William Henry Hyde, Earl of Danby, grandson of the first Duke of
Leeds (see p. 60), and eldest son of Peregrine Osborne, Baron Osborne and
Viscount Dunblane, who succeeded to the dukedom in 1712. Owing to this
young man’s death (at the age of twenty-one), his brother, Peregrine
Hyde, Marquis of Caermarthen, who married Harley’s daughter Elizabeth,
afterwards became third Duke of Leeds.
{275a} See p. 54.
{275b} See p. 8.
{276a} William Gregg was a clerk in Harley’s office when the latter was
Secretary of State under the Whig Administration. In 1707–8 he was in
treasonable correspondence with M. de Chamillart, the French Secretary of
State. When he was detected he was tried for high treason, and hanged on
April 28. The Lords who examined Gregg did their utmost to establish
Harley’s complicity, which Gregg, however, with his dying breath solemnly
denied.
{276b} By Swift himself. The title was, _Some Remarks upon a Pamphlet
entitled_, _A Letter to the Seven Lords of the Committee appointed to
examine Gregg_.
{276c} See p. 120. There is no copy in the British Museum.
{277a} Thomas Parnell, the poet, married, in 1706, Anne, daughter of
Thomas Minchin, of Tipperary. In 1711 Parnell was thirty-two years of
age, and was Archdeacon of Clogher and Vicar of Clontibret. Swift took
much trouble to obtain for Parnell the friendship of Bolingbroke and
other persons of note, and Parnell became a member of the Scriblerus
Club. In 1716 he was made Vicar of Finglas, and after his death in 1718
Pope prepared an edition of his poems. The fits of depression to which
Parnell was liable became more marked after his wife’s death, and he
seems to have to some extent given way to drink. His sincerity and charm
of manner made him welcome with men of both parties.
{277b} Dr. Henry Compton had been Bishop of London since 1675. He was
dangerously ill early in 1711, but he lived until 1713, when he was
eighty-one.
{278} See p. 250.
{279a} See p. 50.
{279b} L’Estrange speaks of “a whiffling fop” and Swift says, “Every
whiffler in a laced coat, who frequents the chocolate-house, shall talk
of the Constitution.”
{279c} Prior’s first visit to France with a view to the secret
negotiations with that country which the Ministers were now bent on
carrying through, had been made in July, when he and Gaultier reached
Calais in a fishing-boat and proceeded to Fontainbleau under assumed
names. He returned to England in August, but was recognised at Dover,
whence the news spread all over London, to the great annoyance of the
Ministers. The officer who recognised Prior was John Macky, reputed
author of those _Characters_ upon which Swift wrote comments. Formerly a
secret service agent under William III., Macky had been given the
direction of the Ostend mail packets by Marlborough, to whom he
communicated the news of Prior’s journey. Bolingbroke threatened to hang
Macky, and he was thrown into prison; but the accession of George I.
again brought him favour and employment.
{280} See p. 106.
{281a} See p. 7.
{281b} See 34.
{281c} Edward Villiers (1656–1711), created Viscount Villiers in 1691,
was made Earl of Jersey in 1697. Under William III. he was Lord
Chamberlain and Secretary of State, but he was dismissed from office in
1704. When he died he had been nominated as a plenipotentiary at the
Congress of Utrecht, and was about to receive the appointment of Lord
Privy Seal. Lord Jersey married, in 1681, when she was eighteen,
Barbara, daughter of William Chiffinch, closet-keeper to Charles II.; she
died in 1735.
{282} Lord Paisley was the Earl of Abercorn’s eldest surviving son (see
p. 161).
{283a} The Hon. John Hamilton, the Earl’s second surviving son, died in
1714.
{283b} Dr. John Robinson (1650–1723) had gone out as chaplain to the
Embassy at the Court of Sweden in 1682, and had returned in 1708 with the
double reputation of being a thorough Churchman and a sound diplomatist.
He was soon made Dean of Windsor, and afterwards Bishop of Bristol. He
was now introduced to the Council Board, and it was made known to those
in the confidence of Ministers that he would be one of the English
plenipotentiaries at the coming Peace Congress. In 1713 Dr. Robinson was
made Bishop of London.
{283c} To the Irish bishops: see above.
{284a} John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1675–1732), who was attainted for his
part in the Rebellion of 1715. His first wife, Lady Margaret Hay, was a
daughter of Lord Kinnoull.
{284b} Thomas Hay, sixth Earl of Kinnoull (died 1719), a Commissioner
for the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland, and one of the
Scotch representative peers in the first Parliament of Great Britain.
His son and heir, Viscount Dupplin, afterwards Baron Hay (see p. 30), who
married Harley’s daughter Abigail, is often mentioned in the _Journal_.
{284c} See p. 7.
{284d} The title of the pamphlet was, _A New Journey to Paris_,
_together with some Secret Transactions between the French King and an
English Gentleman_. _By the Sieur du Baudrier. Translated from the
French_.
{285a} See p. 97.
{285b} See p. 269.
{286} The Earl of Strafford (see p. 170) married, on Sept. 6, 1711,
Anne, only daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Johnson, of Bradenham,
Buckinghamshire, a wealthy shipbuilder. Many of Lady Strafford’s letters
to her husband are given in the _Wentworth Papers_, 1883.
{287a} Samuel Pratt, who was also Clerk of the Closet.
{287b} Alice Hill, woman of the bed-chamber to the Queen, died in 1762.
{288a} Enniscorthy, the name of a town in the county of Wexford.
{288b} Scrambling.
{288c} “These words in italics are written in strange, misshapen
letters, inclining to the right hand, in imitation of Stella’s writing”
(Deane Swift).
{288d} Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.
{289a} John Pooley, appointed Bishop of Raphoe in 1702.
{289b} “These words in italics are miserably scrawled, in imitation of
Stella’s hand” (Deane Swift).
{290a} See p. 54.
{290b} See p. 236.
{291a} See p. 74.
{291b} See p. 284.
{293a} Cf. the entry on the 11th (p. 291).
{293b} See p. 34.
{294a} William, Lord Villiers, second Earl of Jersey (died 1721), a
strong Jacobite, had been M.P. for Kent before his father’s death. He
married, in 1704, Judith, only daughter of a City merchant, Frederick
Herne, son of Sir Nathaniel Herne, Alderman; she died in 1735. Lord
Jersey, one of “the prettiest young peers in England,” was a companion of
Bolingbroke, and stories in the _Wentworth Papers_ (pp. 149, 230, 395,
445), show that he had a bad reputation.
{294b} See p. 269.
{295a} The name of Arbuthnot’s wife is not known: she died in 1730.
{295b} James Lovet, one of the “Yeomen Porters” at Court.
{296a} Richard Jones, Earl of Ranelagh, who died without male issue in
January 1712. Writing to Archbishop King on Jan. 8, Swift said, “Lord
Ranelagh died on Sunday morning; he was very poor and needy, and could
hardly support himself for want of a pension which used to be paid him.”
{296b} Arabella Churchill, maid of honour to the Duchess of York, and
mistress of James II., afterwards married Colonel Charles Godfrey, Clerk
Comptroller of the Green Cloth and Master of the Jewel Office. Her
second son by James II. was created Duke of Albemarle.
{297a} See p. 269.
{297b} The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of Dublin, elected in August 1711,
“not being approved of by the Government, the City was obliged to proceed
to another election, which occasioned a great ferment among the vulgar
sort” (Boyer, _Political State_, 1711, p. 500). After two other persons
had been elected and disapproved of, Alderman Gore was elected Lord
Mayor, and approved (_ib._ pp. 612–17).
{297c} “These words in italics are written enormously large” (Deane
Swift).
{297d} See p. 14.
{298} Henry Lowman, First Clerk of the Kitchen.
{299} “The Doctor was always a bad reckoner, either of money or anything
else; and this is one of his rapid computations. For, as Stella was
seven days in journey, although Dr. Swift says only six, she might well
have spent four days at Inish-Corthy, and two nights at Mrs. Proby’s
mother’s, the distance from Wexford to Dublin being but two easy days’
journey” (Deane Swift).
{300} Mrs. Fenton.
{301} See p. 86.
{302a} Charles Paulet, second Duke of Bolton, was appointed Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland in 1717, and died in 1722. In a note on Macky’s
character of the Duke, Swift calls him “a great booby”; and Lady Cowper
(_Diary_, p. 154) says that he was generally to be seen with his tongue
lolling out of his mouth.
{302b} Stella’s maid.
{303a} See p. 106.
{303b} Colonel Fielding (see p. 154).
{304a} The envoys were Ménager and the Abbé du Bois; the priest was the
Abbé Gaultier.
{304b} See p. 170.
{304c} Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, General, who died in 1702, married
Eleanor, daughter of Richard Wall, of Rogane, Tipperary. She died in
1732, and Swift described her as so “cunning a devil that she had great
influence as a reconciler of the differences at Court.” One of her sons
was General James Oglethorpe, the philanthropist, and friend of Dr.
Johnson.
{305a} “Worrit,” trouble, tease.
{305b} Sir John Walter, Bart. (died 1722), was M.P. for the city of
Oxford. He and Charles Godfrey (see p. 296) were the Clerks Comptrollers
of the Green Cloth.
{306} See p. 306.
{307a} No doubt one of the daughters of Mervyn Tuchet, fourth Earl of
Castlehaven, who died in 1686.
{307b} Henrietta Maria, daughter of Charles Scarborow (see p. 266). She
married, in 1712, Sir Robert Jenkinson, Bart., M.P. for Oxfordshire, who
died without issue in 1717. See _Wentworth Papers_, 244.
{307c} In July 1712 a Commission passed empowering Conyers Darcy and
George Fielding (an equerry to the Queen) to execute the office of Master
of the Horse.
{307d} At Killibride, about four miles from Trim.
{308a} Swift’s “mistress,” Lady Hyde (see p. 24), whose husband had
become Earl of Rochester in May 1711. She was forty-one in 1711.
{308b} See p. 296.
{309a} See p. 287.
{309b} See p. 206.
{310a} See p. 262, note 2.
{310b} See p. 250.
{311a} “This happens to be the only single line written upon the margin
of any of his journals. By some accident there was a margin about as
broad as the back of a razor, and therefore he made this use of it”
(Deane Swift).
{311b} Lieutenant-Colonel Barton, of Colonel Kane’s regiment.
{312a} A nickname for the High Church party.
{312b} See p. 284.
{312c} “From this pleasantry of my Lord Oxford, the appellative Martinus
Scriblerus took its rise” (Deane Swift).
{312d} Cf. the _Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of
Horace_, 1714, where Swift says that, during their drives together,
Harley would
“gravely try to read the lines
Writ underneath the country signs.”
{313a} See p. 218.
{313b} See p. 170.
{313c} See p. 218.
{314a} Lord Pembroke (see p. 52) married, in 1708, as his second wife,
Barbara, Dowager Baroness Arundell of Trerice, formerly widow of Sir
Richard Mauleverer, and daughter of Sir Thomas Slingsby. She died in
1722.
{314b} Caleb Coatesworth, who died in 1741, leaving a large fortune.
{314c} Abel Boyer, Whig journalist and historian, attacked Swift in his
pamphlet, _An Account of the State and Progress of the Present
Negotiations for Peace_. Boyer says that he was released from custody by
Harley; and in the _Political State_ for 1711 (p. 646) he speaks of Swift
as “a shameless and most contemptible ecclesiastical turncoat, whose
tongue is as _swift_ to revile as his mind is _swift_ to change.” The
_Postboy_ said that Boyer would “be prosecuted with the utmost severity
of the law” for this attack.
{315a} The “Edgar.” Four hundred men were killed.
{315b} William Bretton, or Britton, was made Lieutenant-Colonel in 1702,
Colonel of a new Regiment of Foot 1705, Brigadier-General 1710, and
Colonel of the King’s Own Borderers in April 1711 (Dalton, _Army Lists_,
iii. 238). In December 1711 he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the
King of Prussia (_Postboy_, Jan. 1, 1712), and he died in December 1714
or January 1715.
{317a} See p. 229, note 4.
{317b} It is not clear which of several Lady Gores is here referred to.
It may be (1) the wife of Sir William Gore, Bart., of Manor Gore, and
Custos Rotulorum, County Leitrim, who married Hannah, eldest daughter and
co-heir of James Hamilton, Esq., son of Sir Frederick Hamilton, and niece
of Gustavus Hamilton, created Viscount Boyne. She died 1733. Or (2) the
wife of Sir Ralph Gore, Bart. (died 1732), M.P. for County Donegal, and
afterwards Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. He married Miss
Colville, daughter of Sir Robert Colville, of Newtown, Leitrim, and, as
his second wife, Elizabeth, only daughter of Dr. Ashe, Bishop of Clogher.
Or (3) the wife of Sir Arthur Gore, Bart. (died 1727), of Newtown Gore,
Mayo, who married Eleanor, daughter of Sir George St. George, Bart., of
Carrick, Leitrim, and was ancestor of the Earls of Arran.
{318} “Modern usage has sanctioned Stella’s spelling” (Scott). Swift’s
spelling was “wast.”
{320} Mrs. Manley.
{321a} Swift’s own lines, “Mrs. Frances Harris’s Petition.”
{321b} Thomas Coote was a justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, in
Ireland, from 1692 until his removal in 1715.
{321c} Probably a relative of Robert Echlin, Dean of Tuam, who was
killed by some of his own servants in April 1712, at the age of
seventy-three. His son John became Prebendary and Vicar-General of Tuam,
and died in 1764, aged eighty-three. In August 1731 Bolingbroke sent
Swift a letter by the hands of “Mr. Echlin,” who would, he said, tell
Swift of the general state of things in England.
{321d} “This column of words, as they are corrected, is in Stella’s
hand” (Deane Swift).
{323a} Swift’s verses, “The Description of a Salamander,” are a
scurrilous attack on John, Lord Cutts (died 1707), who was famous for his
bravery. Joanna Cutts, the sister who complained of Swift’s abuse, died
unmarried.
{323b} See p. 323.
{323c} Fourteen printers or publishers were arrested, under warrants
signed by St. John, for publishing pamphlets directed against the
Government. They appeared at the Court of Queens Bench on Oct. 23, and
were continued on their own recognisances till the end of the term.
{324a} Robert Benson (see p. 41).
{324b} “The South Sea Whim,” printed in Scott’s _Swift_, ii. 398.
{324c} See pp. 200, 205, 340.
{325a} Count Gallas was dismissed with a message that he might depart
from the kingdom when he thought fit. He published the preliminaries of
peace in the _Daily Courant_.
{325b} William, second Viscount Hatton, who died without issue in 1760.
His half-sister Anne married Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham, and
Lord Hatton was therefore uncle to his fellow-guest, Mr. Finch.
{326a} Crinkle or contract. Gay writes: “Showers soon drench the
camblet’s cockled grain.”
{326b} The Countess of Jersey (see p. 294), like her husband, was a
friend of Bolingbroke’s. Lady Strafford speaks of her having lately
(November 1711) “been in pickle for her sins,” at which she was not
surprised. Before the Earl succeeded to the title, Lady Wentworth wrote
to her son: “It’s said Lord Villors Lady was worth fower scoar thoussand
pd; you might have got her, as wel as Lord Villors. . . . He [Lord
Jersey] has not don well by his son, the young lady is not yoused well as
I hear amongst them, which in my openion is not well.” _Wentworth
Papers_ (pp. 214, 234).
{329a} Cf. p. 66.
{329b} Charles Crow, appointed Bishop of Cloyne in 1702.
{330a} Swift.
{330b} Mrs. Manley.
{330c} The titles of these pamphlets are as follows:—(1) _A True
Narrative of . . . the Examination of the Marquis de Guiscard_; (2) _Some
Remarks upon a Pamphlet entitled_, _A Letter to the Seven Lords_; (3) _A
New Journey to Paris_; (4) _The Duke of Marlborough’s Vindication_; (5)
_A Learned Comment on Dr. Hare’s Sermon_.
{331} See the pun on p. 329.
{332a} See p. 10.
{332b} See p. 97.
{333a} Pratt (see p. 5).
{333b} Stella and Dingley.
{333c} _Noah’s Dove_, _an Exhortation to Peace_, _set forth in a Sermon
preached on the Seventh of November_, 1710, _a Thanksgiving Day_, _by
Thomas Swift_, _A.M._, _formerly Chaplain to Sir William Temple_, _now
Rector of Puttenham in Surrey_. Thomas Swift was Swift’s “little parson
cousin” (see p. 225).
{333d} See p. 36. The book referred to is, apparently, _An Impartial
Enquiry into the Management of the War in Spain_, post-dated 1712.
{334a} Lord Harley (afterwards second Earl of Oxford) (see p. 30)
married, on Oct. 31, 1713, Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, only daughter
of John Holles, last Duke of Newcastle of that family (see p. 257).
{334b} Bolingbroke afterwards said that the great aim (at length
accomplished) of Harley’s administration was to marry his son to this
young lady. Swift wrote a poetical address to Lord Harley on his
marriage.
{334c} Thomas Pelham, first Baron Pelham, married, as his second wife,
Lady Grace Holles, daughter of the Earl of Clare and sister of the Duke
of Newcastle. Their eldest son, Thomas, who succeeded to the barony in
1712, was afterwards created Earl of Clare and Duke of Newcastle,
{335a} Francis Higgins, Rector of Baldruddery, called “the Sacheverell
of Ireland,” was an extreme High Churchman, who had been charged with
sedition on account of sermons preached in London in 1707. In 1711 he
was again prosecuted as “a disloyal subject and disturber of the public
peace.” At that time he was Prebendary of Christ Church, Dublin; in 1725
he was made Archdeacon of Cashel.
{335b} Swift’s pamphlet, _The Conduct of the Allies_.
{335c} Lord Oxford’s daughter Abigail married, in 1709, Viscount
Dupplin, afterwards seventh Earl of Kinnoull (see p. 30). She died in
1750, and her husband in 1758, when the eldest son, Thomas, became Earl.
The second son, Robert, was made Archbishop of York in 1761.
{335d} Kensington Gravel Pits was then a famous health resort.
{336a} Draggled. Pope has, “A puppy, daggled through the town.”
{336b} Writing of Peperharrow, Manning and Bray state (_Surrey_, ii. 32,
47) that Oxenford Grange was conveyed to Philip Froud (died 1736) in
1700, and was sold by him in 1713 to Alan Broderick, afterwards Viscount
Midleton. This Froud (Swift’s “old Frowde”) had been Deputy
Postmaster-General; he was son of Sir Philip Frowde, who was knighted in
1665 (Le Neve’s _Knights_, Harleian Society, p. 190), and his son Philip
was Addison’s friend (see p. 58).
{336c} Probably the Charles Child, Esq., of Farnham, whose death is
recorded in the _Gentleman’s Magazine_ for 1754.
{337} Grace Spencer was probably Mrs. Proby’s sister (see p. 176, 202).
{338a} Cf. Shakespeare, _As You Like It_, v. 3: “Shall we clap into ’t
roundly, without hawking or spitting, which are the only prologues to a
bad voice?”
{338b} In the “Verses on his own Death,” 1731, Swift says
“When daily howd’y’s come of course,
And servants answer, ‘Worse and worse!’”
Cf. Steele (_Tatler_, No. 109), “After so many howdies, you proceed to
visit or not, as you like the run of each other’s reputation or fortune,”
and (_Spectator_, No. 143), “the howd’ye servants of our women.”
{341a} See p. 304.
{341b} See p. 132.
{341c} The Tories alleged that the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of
Montagu, Steele, etc., were to take part in the procession (cf.
_Spectator_, No. 269). Swift admits that the images seized were worth
less than £40, and not £1000, as he had said, and that the Devil was not
like Harley; yet he employed someone to write a lying pamphlet, _A True
Relation of the Several Facts and Circumstances of the Intended Riot and
Tumult_, etc.
{343a} A brother of Jemmy Leigh (see p. 6), and one of Stella’s
card-playing acquaintances.
{343b} Of _The Conduct of the Allies_ (see pp. 335, 345).
{344a} Sir Thomas Hanmer (see p. 69) married, in 1698, Isabella, widow
of the first Duke of Grafton, and only daughter and heiress of Henry,
Earl of Arlington. She died in 1723.
{344b} James, Duke of Hamilton (see p. 262), married, in 1698, as his
second wife, Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir of Digby, Lord Gerard.
She died in 1744.
{345a} _The Conduct of the Allies_.
{345b} See p. 238.
{346a} Sir Matthew Dudley (see p. 7) married Lady Mary O’Bryen, youngest
daughter of Henry, Earl of Thomond.
{346b} See p. 305.
{346c} Sir John St. Leger (died 1743) was M.P. for Doneraile and a Baron
of the Exchequer in Ireland from 1714 to 1741. His elder brother,
Arthur, was created Viscount Doneraile in 1703.
{346d} _Relation of the Facts and Circumstances of the Intended Riot on
Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday_.
{346e} _The Conduct of the Allies_.
{346f} See p. 73.
{347a} The first motto was “Partem tibi Gallia nostri eripuit,” etc.
(Horace, 2 Od. 17–24).
{347b} See Plautus’s _Amphitrus_, or Dryden’s _Amphitryon_.
{347c} It is not known whether or no this was Dr. William Savage, Master
of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. No copy of the sermon—if it was
printed—has been found. See Courtenay’s _Memoirs of Sir William Temple_.
{347d} Of _The Conduct of the Allies_, a pamphlet which had a very wide
circulation. See a paper by Edward Solly in the _Antiquarian Magazine_,
March 1885.
{348a} Allen Bathurst, M.P. (1684–1775), created Baron Bathurst in
December 1711, and Earl Bathurst in 1772. His second and eldest
surviving son was appointed Lord Chancellor in the year preceding the
father’s death. Writing to her son in January 1711 (_Wentworth Papers_,
173), Lady Wentworth said of Bathurst, “He is, next to you, the finest
gentleman and the best young man I know; I love him dearly.”
{348b} See p. 72.
{348c} See p. 153.
{348d} Swift is alluding to the quarrel between Lord Santry (see p. 215)
and Francis Higgins (see p. 335), which led to Higgins’s prosecution.
The matter is described at length in Boyer’s _Political State_, 1711, pp.
617 seq.
{348e} See p. 176.
{349a} No doubt the same as Colonel Newburgh (see _Journal_, March 5,
1711–12).
{349b} Beaumont (see p. 1, 250).
{349c} See p. 301.
{350} Cf. p. 144.
{351a} See p. 341.
{351b} See p. 336. Debtors could not be arrested on Sunday.
{352a} Sir George Pretyman, Bart., dissipated the fortune of the family.
The title became dormant in 1749.
{352b} See the Introduction.
{352c} For the Whites of Farnham, see Manning and Bray’s _Surrey_, iii.
177.
{352d} _The Conduct of the Allies_.
{352e} The Percevals were among Swift’s principal friends in the
neighbourhood of Laracor. In a letter to John Temple in 1706 (Forster’s
_Life of Swift_, 182) Swift alludes to Perceval; in spite of different
views in politics, “I always loved him,” says Swift, “very well as a man
of very good understanding and humour.” Perceval was related to Sir John
Perceval, afterwards Earl of Egmont (see p. 175).
{353a} See p. 2.
{353b} See p. 58.
{354a} The _Examiner_ was resumed on Dec. 6, 1711, under Oldisworth’s
editorship, and was continued by him until July 1714.
{354b} Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham, a staunch Tory, had
quarrelled with the Government and the Court. On Dec. 7, 1711, he
carried, by six votes, an amendment to the Address, to the effect that no
peace would be acceptable which left Spain in the possession of the House
of Bourbon. Harley’s counter-stroke was the creation of twelve new
peers. The Whigs rewarded Nottingham by withdrawing their opposition to
the Occasional Conformity Bill:
{354c} This “Song” begins:
“An orator dismal of Nottinghamshire,
Who had forty years let out his conscience for hire.”
{355} _The Conduct of the Allies_.
{356} Robert Bertie, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, and fourth Earl of
Lindsey, was created Marquis of Lindsay in 1706, and Duke of Ancaster and
Kesteven in 1715. He died in 1723.
{357a} Lady Sunderland (see p. 267) and Lady Rialton, ladies of the
bed-chamber to the Queen.
{357b} Hugh Cholmondeley (died 1724), the second Viscount, was created
Viscount Malpas and Earl of Cholmondeley in 1706, and in 1708 was
appointed Treasurer of Her Majesty’s Household, an office which he held
until 1713, in spite of his Whig sympathies. “Good for nothing, so far
as ever I knew,” Swift wrote of him.
{357c} Prov. xxv. 3.
{360a} See p. 304.
{360b} Thomas Parker, afterwards created Earl of Macclesfield, was
appointed Lord Chief-Justice in March 1710. In September 1711 he
declined Harley’s offer of the Lord Chancellorship, a post which he
accepted under a Whig Government in the next reign.
{361} The Bill against Occasional Conformity.
{362} The proposed visit to London of Prince Eugene of Savoy, the
renowned General, and friend of Marlborough, was viewed by the Government
with considerable alarm.
{363} Swift’s “An excellent new Song; being the intended Speech of a
famous orator against Peace,” a ballad “two degrees above Grub Street”
(see p. 354).
{364a} Robert Walpole was then M.P. for King’s Lynn, and Leader of the
Opposition in the House of Commons. He had been Secretary at War from
February 1708 to September 1710, and the Commissioners of Public Accounts
having reported, on Dec. 21, 1711, that he had been guilty of venality
and corruption, he was expelled from the House of Commons, and taken to
the Tower.
{364b} William King, D.C.L., author of the _Journey to London in 1698_,
_Dialogues of the Dead_, _The Art of Cookery_, and other amusing works,
was, at the end of the month, appointed Gazetteer, in succession to
Steele, on Swift’s recommendation. Writing earlier in the year, Gay said
that King deserved better than to “languish out the small remainder of
his life in the Fleet Prison.” The duties of Gazetteer were too much for
his easy-going nature and failing health, and he resigned the post in
July 1712. He died in the following December.
{364c} At the bottom of St. James’s Street, on the west side.
{365} The Rev. John Shower, pastor of the Presbyterian Congregation at
Curriers’ Hall, London Wall.
{366a} _The Windsor Prophecy_, in which the Duchess of Somerset (see p.
162) is attacked as “Carrots from Northumberland.”
{366b} _Merlin’s Prophecy_, 1709, written in pseudo-mediæval English.
{366c} See p. 10.
{367a} Dorothy, daughter of Sir Edward Leach, of Shipley, Derbyshire.
{367b} Sir James Long, Bart. (died 1729), was at this time M.P. for
Chippenham.
{367c} The number containing this paragraph is not in the British
Museum.
{368a} Joseph Beaumont (see pp. 1, 250, 349).
{368b} See p. 19.
{368c} Apparently a misprint for “whether.”
{369a} See p. 321.
{369b} James Compton, afterwards fifth Earl of Northampton (died 1754),
was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Compton in December 1711.
Charles Bruce, who succeeded his father as third Earl of Aylesbury in
1741, was created Lord Bruce, of Whorlton, at the same time.
{370} James, Lord Compton, eldest son of the Earl of Northampton;
Charles, Lord Bruce, eldest son of the Earl of Aylesbury; Henry Paget,
son of Lord Paget; George Hay, Viscount Dupplin, the son-in-law of the
Lord Treasurer, created Baron Hay; Viscount Windsor, created Baron
Montjoy; Sir Thomas Mansel, Baron Mansel; Sir Thomas Willoughby, Baron
Middleton; Sir Thomas Trevor, Baron Trevor; George Granville, Baron
Lansdowne; Samuel Masham, Baron Masham; Thomas Foley, Baron Foley; and
Allen Bathurst, Baron Bathurst.
{371a} Juliana, widow of the second Earl of Burlington, and daughter of
the Hon. Henry Noel, was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Anne. She died
in 1750, aged seventy-eight.
{371b} Thomas Windsor, Viscount Windsor (died 1738), an Irish peer, who
had served under William III. in Flanders, was created Baron Montjoy, of
the Isle of Wight, in December 1711. He married Charlotte, widow of
John, Baron Jeffries, of Wem, and daughter of Philip Herbert, Earl of
Pembroke.
{372a} The Hon. Russell Robartes, brother of Lord Radnor (see p. 8), was
Teller of the Exchequer, and M.P. for Bodmin. His son became third Earl
of Radnor in 1723.
{372b} Gay (_Trivia_, ii. 92) speaks of “the slabby pavement.”
{373} See p. 158.
{374a} George Granville (see p. 130), now Baron Lansdowne, married Lady
Mary Thynne, widow of Thomas Thynne, and daughter of Edward, Earl of
Jersey (see p. 281). In October 1710 Lady Wentworth wrote to her son,
“Pray, my dear, why will you let Lady Mary Thynne go? She is young,
rich, and not unhandsome, some say she is pretty; and a virtuous lady,
and of the nobility, and why will you not try to get her?” (_Wentworth
Papers_, 149).
{374b} See p. 225.
{375} Harness.
{377a} On his birthday Swift read the third chapter of Job.
{377b} See p. 329.
{377c} Sir George St. George of Dunmore, Co. Galway, M.P. for Co.
Leitrim from 1661 to 1692, and afterwards for Co. Galway, died in
December 1711.
{378a} See pp. 305, 346.
{378b} See p. 20.
{378c} Dr. Pratt (see p. 5).
{378d} _King Henry VIII._, act iv. sc. 2; “An old man broken with the
storms,” etc.
{379} “These words in the manuscript imitate Stella’s writing, and are
sloped the wrong way” (Deane Swift),
{380a} Archibald Douglas, third Marquis of Douglas, was created Duke of
Douglas in 1703. He died, without issue, in 1761.
{380b} Arbuthnot and Freind.
{381} Sir Stephen Evance, goldsmith, was knighted in 1690.
{382} Because of the refusal of the House of Lords to allow the Duke of
Hamilton (see p. 262), a Scottish peer who had been raised to the peerage
of Great Britain as Duke of Brandon, to sit under that title. The
Scottish peers discontinued their attendance at the House until the
resolution was partially amended; and the Duke of Hamilton always sat as
a representative Scottish peer.
{383} Sir William Robinson (1655–1736), created a baronet in 1689, was
M.P. for York from 1697 to 1722. His descendants include the late Earl
De Grey and the Marquis of Ripon.
{384} See p. 152. The full title was, _Some Advice humbly offered to
the Members of the October Club_, _in a Letter from a Person of Honour_.
{385a} See p. 377.
{385b} “It is the last of the page, and written close to the edge of the
paper” (Deane Swift).
{385c} Henry Somerset, second Duke of Beaufort. In September 1711 the
Duke—who was then only twenty-seven—married, as his third wife, Mary,
youngest daughter of the Duke of Leeds. In the following January Lady
Strafford wrote, “The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are the fondest of one
another in the world; I fear ’tis too hot to hold. . . . I own I fancy
people may love one another as well without making so great a rout”
(_Wentworth Papers_, 256). The Duke died in 1714, at the age of thirty.
{386a} “Upon the 10th and 17th of this month the _Examiner_ was very
severe upon the Duke of Marlborough, and in consequence of this report
pursued him with greater virulence in the following course of his papers”
(Deane Swift).
{386b} A term of execration. Scott (_Kenilworth_) has, “A pize on it.”
{387a} See p. 89.
{387b} In a letter to Swift of Jan. 31, 1712, Sacheverell, after
expressing his indebtedness to St. John and Harley, said, “For yourself,
good Doctor, who was the first spring to move it, I can never
sufficiently acknowledge the obligation,” and in a postscript he hinted
that a place in the Custom House which he heard was vacant might suit his
brother.
{387c} Thomas Yalden, D.D., (1671–1736), Addison’s college friend,
succeeded Atterbury as preacher of Bridewell Hospital in 1713. In 1723
he was arrested on suspicion of being involved in the Atterbury plot.
{387d} Tablets.
{388a} Sir Solomon de Medina, a Jew, was knighted in 1700.
{388b} Davenant had been said to be the writer of papers which Swift
contributed to the _Examiner_.
{389a} Henry Withers, a friend of “Duke” Disney (see p. 153), was
appointed Lieutenant-General in 1707, and Major-General in 1712. On his
death in 1729 he was buried in Westminster Abbey.
{389b} See p. 360.
{390} Dyer’s _News Letter_, the favourite reading of Sir Roger de
Coverley (_Spectator_, No. 127), was the work of John Dyer, a Jacobite
journalist. In the _Tatler_ (No. 18) Addison says that Dyer was “justly
looked upon by all the fox-hunters in the nation as the greatest
statesman our country has produced.” Lord Chief-Justice Holt referred to
the _News Letter_ as “a little scandalous paper of a scandalous author”
(Howell’s _State Trials_, xiv. 1150).
{391} Dr. John Sharp, made Archbishop of York in 1691, was called by
Swift “the harmless tool of others’ hate.” Swift believed that Sharp,
owing to his dislike of _The Tale of a Tub_, assisted in preventing the
bishopric of Hereford being offered to him. Sharp was an excellent
preacher, with a taste for both poetry and science.
{392a} An edition of the Countess d’Aulnoy’s _Les Contes des Fées_
appeared in 1710, in four volumes.
{392b} Francis Godolphin, Viscount Rialton, the eldest son of Sidney,
Earl of Godolphin, succeeded his father as second Earl on Sept. 15, 1712.
He held 3 various offices, including that of Lord Privy Seal (1735–1740),
and died in 1766, aged eighty-eight. He married, in 1698, Lady Henrietta
Churchill, who afterwards was Duchess of Marlborough in her own right.
She died in 1733.
{392c} See p. 256. Ladies of the bed-chamber received £1000 a year.
{392d} William O’Brien, third Earl of Inchiquin, succeeded his father in
1691, and died in 1719.
{393a} Lady Catherine Hyde was an unmarried daughter of Laurence Hyde,
first Earl of Rochester (see p. 60). Notwithstanding Swift’s express
statement that the lady to whom he here refers was the late Earl’s
daughter, and the allusion to her sister, Lady Dalkeith, in Letter 60,
note 26, she has been confused by previous editors with her niece, Lady
Catherine Hyde (see p. 256), daughter of the second Earl, and afterwards
Duchess of Queensberry. That lady, not long afterwards to be celebrated
by Prior, was a child under twelve when Swift wrote.
{393b} Sir John Trevor (1637–1717), formerly Speaker of the House of
Commons.
{393c} See p. 97.
{393d} See p. 335.
{393e} See p. 215.
{393f} Charles Trimnel, made Bishop of Norwich in 1708, and Bishop of
Winchester in 1721, was strongly opposed to High Church doctrines.
{394a} Jibe or jest.
{394b} See p. 206.
{394c} The treaty concluded with Holland in 1711.
{395a} Feb. 2 is the Purification of the Virgin Mary.
{395b} See p. 284.
{396} See p. 99.
{397a} Lady Mary Butler (see pp. 14, 44), daughter of the Duke of
Ormond, who married, in 1710, John, third Lord Ashburnham, afterwards
Earl of Ashburnham.
{397b} See p. 4.
{397c} See p. 357.
{397d} Scroop Egerton, fifth Earl and first Duke of Bridgewater,
married, in 1703, Lady Elizabeth Churchill, third daughter of the Duke of
Marlborough. She died in 1714, aged twenty-six.
{397e} See p. 294.
{398a} Heart.
{398b} Edward Fowler, D.D., appointed Bishop of Gloucester in 1691, died
in 1714.
{399a} Isaac Manley (see p. 7).
{399b} This letter, the first of the series published by Hawkesworth, of
which we have the originals (see Preface), was addressed “To Mrs. Johnson
at her Lodgings over against St. Mary’s Church, near Capell Street,
Dublin, Ireland”; and was endorsed by her “Recd. Mar. 1st.”
{400a} See p. 85.
{400b} See p. 116.
{400c} See p. 215.
{400d} Charles Ross, son of the eleventh Baron Ross, was Colonel of the
Royal Irish Dragoons from 1695 to 1705. He was a Lieutenant-General
under the Duke of Ormond in Flanders, and died in 1732 (Dalton, ii. 212,
iii. 34).
{400e} Charles Paulet, Marquis of Winchester, succeeded his father (see
p. 302) as third Duke of Bolton in 1722. He married, as his second wife,
Lavinia Fenton, the actress who took the part of Polly Peacham in Gay’s
_Beggars Opera_ in 1728, and he died in 1754.
{401a} John Blith, or Bligh, son of the Right Hon. Thomas Bligh, M.P. of
Rathmore, Co. Meath (see p. 22). In August 1713 he married Lady
Theodosia Hyde, daughter of Edward, third Earl of Clarendon. Lord
Berkeley of Stratton wrote, “Lady Theodosia Hyde . . . is married to an
Irish Mr. Blythe, of a good estate, who will soon have enough of her, if
I can give any guess” (_Wentworth Papers_, 353). In 1715 Bligh was made
Baron Clifton, of Rathmore, and Earl of Darnley in 1725. He died in
1728.
{401b} Obliterated.
{401c} Word obliterated; probably “found.” Forster reads “oors, dee
MD.”
{401d} Words obliterated.
{401e} See pp. 86, 301.
{401f} See pp. 73, 192–3.
{402a} Words obliterated. Forster reads “fourth. Euge, euge, euge.”
{402b} Words obliterated; one illegible.
{402c} See p. 5.
{402d} See p. 2.
{402e} Service.
{402f} “Aplon”—if this is the right word—means, of course, apron—the
apron referred to on p. 389.
{402g} Words obliterated.
{403a} As the son of a “brother” of the Club.
{403b} The Archbishop, Dr. King.
{403c} See Tacitus, _Annals_, book ii. Cn. Calpurnius Piso, who was
said to have poisoned Germanicus, was found with his throat cut.
{403d} This satire on Marlborough concludes—
“And Midas now neglected stands,
With asses’ ears and dirty hands.”
{404a} Dr. Robinson, Bishop of Bristol.
{404b} _Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty_.
{405a} Several words are obliterated. Forster reads “MD MD, for we must
always write to MD MD MD, awake or asleep;” but the passage is illegible.
{405b} See pp. 95, 517–8.
{405c} A long erasure. Forster reads “Go to bed. Help pdfr. Rove
pdfr. MD MD. Nite darling rogues.”
{405d} Word obliterated. Forster reads “saucy.”
{405e} Letter from.
{406a} Words partially obliterated.
{406b} Swift wrote by mistake, “On Europe Britain’s safety lies”; the
slip was pointed out by Hawkesworth. All the verse is written in the
MSS. as prose.
{406c} “Them” (MS.).
{406d} See Wyons _Queen Anne_, ii. 366–7.
{407a} _A Proposal for Correcting_, _Improving_, _and Ascertaining the
English Tongue_, _in a Letter to the Most Honourable Robert_, _Earl of
Oxford_, 1712.
{407b} “Help him to draw up the representation” (omitting every other
letter).
{407c} See p. 217.
{407d} Robert Benson.
{408a} _The Story of the St. Albans Ghost_, 1712.
{408b} “Usually” (MS.).
{408c} These words are partially obliterated.
{408d} This sentence is obliterated. Forster reads, “Farewell, mine
deelest rife deelest char Ppt, MD MD MD Ppt, FW, Lele MD, ME ME ME ME
aden FW MD Lazy ones Lele Lele all a Lele.”
{408e} Endorsed by Stella “Recd. Mar. 19.”
{409a} “Would” (MS.).
{409b} Conversation.
{410a} John Guillim’s _Display of Heraldrie_ appeared first in 1610.
The edition to which Swift refers was probably that of 1679, which is
wrongly described as the “fifth edition,” instead of the seventh.
{410b} “One of the horses here mentioned may have been the celebrated
Godolphin Arabian from whom descends all the blue blood of the
racecourse, and who was the grandfather of Eclipse” (Larwood’s _Story of
the London Parks_, 99).
{410c} See p. 352.
{410d} Dorothea, daughter of James Stopford, of New Hall, County Meath,
and sister of Lady Newtown-Butler, was the second wife of Edward, fourth
Earl of Meath, who died without issue in 1707. She afterwards married
General Richard Gorges (see _Journal_, April 5, 1713), of Kilbrue, County
Meath, and Swift wrote an epitaph on them—“Doll and Dickey.”
{411} Here follow some obliterated words.
{412a} Barber (see p. 106).
{412b} “The editors supposed Zinkerman (which they printed in capitals)
to mean some outlandish or foreign distinction; but it is the little
language for ‘gentleman’” (Forster).
{412c} The Hon. Charles Butler, second son of Thomas, Earl of Ossory,
eldest son of James, Duke of Ormond, was elevated to the peerage of
Ireland in 1693 as Earl of Arran, and was also created a peer of England,
as Baron Butler. He held various offices under William III. and Queen
Anne, and died without issue in 1759.
{413a} “They” (MS.).
{413b} See pp. 10, 381–2.
{413c} See p. 89.
{414a} Sir William Wyndham, Bart., of Orchard Wyndham, married Lady
Catherine Seymour, daughter of the sixth Duke of Somerset (see p. 236).
Their eldest son, Charles, succeeded his uncle, the Duke of Somerset, as
Earl of Egremont; and the second son, Percy, was afterwards created Earl
of Thomond. The Wyndhams’ house was in Albemarle Street; the loss was
over £20,000; but they were “much more concerned for their servants than
for all the other losses” (_Wentworth Papers_, 274). The Duke of Ormond
“worked as hard as any of the ordinary men, and gave many guineas about
to encourage the men to work hard.” The Queen gave the Wyndhams
temporary lodgings in “St. James’s house.”
{414b} See p. 12.
{415a} What.
{415b} Devil’s.
{415c} “To” (MS.).
{416a} See p. 349.
{416b} See p. 406.
{416c} See pp. 113–4.
{417a} Peregrine Hyde Osborne, Earl of Danby, afterwards Marquis of
Caermarthen and third Duke of Leeds (see p. 473). His sister Mary was
married to the Duke of Beaufort (see p. 385).
{417b} See p. 72.
{417c} Several undecipherable words. Forster reads, “Pidy Pdfr, deelest
Sollahs.”
{417d} “K” (MS.). It should, of course, be “Queen’s.”
{417e} See p. 213.
{418a} Addressed “To Mrs. Johnson, at her lodgings over against St.
Mary’s Church, near Capel Street, Dublin, Ireland.” Endorsed “Mar. 30.”
{418b} See p. 66.
{419a} The Mohocks succeeded the Scowrers of William III.’s reign. Gay
(_Trivia_, iii. 325) says—
“Who has not heard the Scowrers’ midnight fame?
Who has not trembled at the Mohocks’ name?”
Lady Wentworth (_Wentworth Papers_, 277) says: “They put an old woman
into a hogshead, and rolled her down a hill; they cut off some noses,
others’ hands, and several barbarous tricks, without any provocation.
They are said to be young gentlemen; they never take any money from any.”
See also the _Spectator_, Nos. 324, 332, and 347 (where Budgell alludes
to “the late panic fear”), and Defoe’s _Review_ for March 15, 1712.
Swift was in considerable alarm about the Mohocks throughout March, and
said that they were all Whigs. The reports that numbers of persons,
including men of figure, had joined together to commit assaults in the
streets, made many fear to leave their houses at night. A proclamation
was issued for the suppressing of riots and the discovery of those guilty
of the late outrages; but it seems probable that the disorders were not
more frequent than might be expected from time to time in a great city.
{419b} Henry Davenant, son of Charles Davenant (see p. 58), was Resident
at Frankfort. Macky described him as “very giddy-headed, with some wit,”
to which Swift added, “He is not worth mentioning.”
{419c} Thomas Burnet, youngest son of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of
Salisbury, was at this time a young man about town of no good reputation.
Afterwards he turned his attention to the law, and was appointed a judge
of the Court of Common Pleas in 1741. He was knighted in 1745, and died
in 1753.
{420a} By Arbuthnot, written to recommend the peace proposals of the
Government. The full title was, _Law is a Bottomless Pit_. _Exemplified
in the case of the Lord Strutt_, _John Bull_, _Nicholas Frog_, _and Lewis
Baboon_; _who spent all they had in a Law Suit_.
{420b} See pp. 238, 407.
{420c} Our little language.
{421a} Forster reads, “two deelest nauty nown MD.”
{421b} See p. 36.
{422a} William Diaper, son of Joseph Diaper of Bridgewater, was sent to
Balliol College, Oxford, in 1699, at the age of fourteen. He entered the
Church, and was curate at Brent, Somerset; but he died in 1717, aged
twenty-nine.
{422b} The _Examiner_ (vol. ii. No. 15) complained of general bribery
and oppression on the part of officials and underlings in the public
service, especially in matters connected with the army; but the writer
said that the head (Lord Lansdowne) was just and liberal in his nature,
and easy in his fortune, and a man of honour and virtue.
{422c} Sealed documents given to show that a merchant’s goods are
entered.
{422d} Thomas Lawrence, First Physician to Queen Anne, and
Physician-General to the Army, died in 1714 (_Gentleman’s Magazine_,
1815, ii. 17). His daughter Elizabeth was second wife to Lord Mohun.
{423a} See 163.
{423b} See 245.
{423c} No officer named Newcomb appears in Dalton’s _Army Lists_; but
the allusion to General Ross, further on in Letter 43, adds to the
probability that Swift was referring to one of the sons of Sir Thomas
Newcomen, Bart., who was killed at the siege of Enniskillen. Beverley
Newcomen (Dalton, iii. 52, iv. 60), who was probably Swift’s
acquaintance, was described in a petition of 1706 as a Lieutenant who had
served at Killiecrankie, and had been in Major-General Ross’s regiment
ever since 1695.
{423d} Atterbury.
{424a} Evidently a familiar quotation at the time. Forster reads,
incorrectly, “But the more I lite MD.”
{424b} See p. 400.
{424c} See p. 104.
{424d} In 1681, Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of John Ayres, of
the City of London, then aged about twenty, became the fourth and last
wife of Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchelsea, who died in 1689. She lived
until 1745.
{424e} See p. 218.
{424f} Enoch Sterne (see p. 20).
{424g} Lieut.-Col. Robert Sterne was in Col. Frederick Hamilton’s
Regiment in 1695.
{425a} Letter.
{425b} See p. 120.
{425c} The title was, _John Bull in his Senses_: _being the Second Part
of Law is a Bottomless Pit_.
{425d} See p. 352.
{425e} Cf. note 9 above. Forster reads “nautyas,” when the words would
mean “as naughty as nine,” apparently.
{426a} See p. 424, note 1.
{426b} In 1549, James, second Earl of Arran, was made Duke of
Chatelherault by Henry II. of France. His eldest son died without issue;
the _second_, John, became first Marquis of Hamilton, and was
great-grandfather of Lady Anne Hamilton (Duchess of Hamilton), mother of
the Duke of Swift’s _Journal_. The Earl of Abercorn, on the other hand,
was descended from Claud, _third_ son of the Earl of Arran, but in the
male line; and his claim was therefore the stronger, according to the
French law of inheritance.
{426c} Madams.
{427a} This word is doubtful. Forster reads “cobbled.”
{427b} A mistake, apparently, for “writing.” The letter was begun on
March 8.
{427c} Silly jade.
{427d} O Lord, what a clutter.
{427e} On the death of Dr. William Graham, Dean of Wells, it was
reported that Swift was to be his successor. Dr. Brailsford, however,
received the appointment.
{427f} Abel Roper (1665–1726), a Tory journalist, published, thrice
weekly, the _Postboy_, to which Swift sometimes sent paragraphs. Boyer
(_Political State_, 1711, p. 678) said that Roper was only the tool of a
party; “there are men of figure and distinction behind the curtain, who
furnish him with such scandalous reflections as they think proper to cast
upon their antagonists.”
{427g} Joe Beaumont.
{428a} Beg your pardon, Madams, I’m glad you like your apron (see p.
402).
{428b} This word was smudged by Swift.
{429a} I cannot find Somers in contemporary lists of officials. Cf. pp.
159, 298.
{429b} Obliterated and doubtful.
{429c} Words obliterated and illegible. Forster reads, conjecturally,
“Pray send Pdfr the ME account that I may have time to write to
Parvisol.”
{429d} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Apr. 14.”
{430a} “Is” (MS.).
{430b} The words after “yet” are partially obliterated.
{431a} See p. 53.
{431b} John Cecil, sixth Earl of Exeter (died 1721).
{432a} See p. 206.
{432b} Arbuthnot.
{433a} A resort of the Tories.
{433b} Deane Swift, a son of Swift’s uncle Godwin, was a merchant in
Lisbon.
{433c} Winces. Lyly says, “Rubbe there no more, least I winch.”
{433d} Probably William Whiston, who was deprived of the Lucasian
professorship at Cambridge in 1710 for his heterodox views. Parliament
having offered a reward for the discovery of means of finding the
longitude, Whiston made several attempts (1714 and 1721).
{434a} Word obliterated.
{434b} Distilled water prepared with rosemary flowers. In Fielding’s
_Joseph Andrews_, a lady gives up to a highway robber, in her fright, a
silver bottle which, the ruffian said, contained some of the best brandy
he had ever tasted; this she “afterwards assured the company was a
mistake of her maid, for that she had ordered her to fill the bottle with
Hungary water.”
{435a} As I hope to be saved.
{435b} Added on the fourth page, as the letter was folded.
{436a} Addressed to “Mrs. Johnson,” etc. Endorsed “May 1st.”
{436b} A kind of clover, used for soothing purposes.
{437a} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “May 15.”
{437b} Madam Ayris.
{437c} Simpleton.
{437d} Robert Benson (see p. 41).
{437e} See pp. 407, 420.
{438a} The title was, _An Appendix to John Bull still in his Senses_:
_or_, _Law is a Bottomless Pit_.
{438b} Arbuthnot.
{438c} Enquiries by servants.
{438d} See p. 160.
{438e} Sick.
{439a} Afterwards Rector of Letcombe, Berks. It was to his house that
Swift repaired a few weeks before the Queen’s death. On June 8, 1714, he
wrote, “I am at a clergyman’s house, whom I love very well, but he is
such a melancholy, thoughtful man, partly from nature, and partly by a
solitary life, that I shall soon catch the spleen from him. His wife has
been this month twenty miles off at her father’s, and will not return
these ten days, and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes.”
Swift spells the name “Geree”; later on in the _Journal_ he mentions two
of Mr. Gery’s sisters, Betty (Mrs. Elwick) and Moll (Mrs. Wigmore);
probably he made the acquaintance of the family when he was living with
the Temples at Moor Park (see p. 502).
{439b} Because she is a good girl in other things.
{439c} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “June 5.”
{439d} Sice, the number six at dice.
{440a} At Laracor Swift had “a canal and river-walk and willows.”
{440b} Splenetic fellow.
{440c} One of them was by Oldmixon: _Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter
to the Earl of Oxford_.
{440d} Beg your pardon.
{440e} See p. 239.
{440f} On May 28, Lord Halifax moved an Address to the Queen that the
instructions given to the Duke of Ormond might be laid before the House,
and that further orders might be issued to him to act offensively, in
concert with the Allies. Wharton and Nottingham supported the motion,
but it was negatived by 68 votes against 40. A similar motion in the
House of Commons was defeated by 203 against 73.
{440g} See p. 335.
{441a} See p. 217.
{441b} _Some Reasons to prove that no Person is obliged by his
Principles_, _as a Whig_, _to oppose Her Majesty_: _in a Letter to a Whig
Lord_.
{441c} Several words obliterated.
{441d} Several words obliterated.
{441e} The bellman.
{442a} This present writing.
{442b} Please.
{442c} Addressed to “Mrs. Rebecca Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “June 23d.”
{443a} Mr. Ryland reads “second.”
{443b} As I hope to be saved.
{444a} See p. 295.
{444b} Glad at heart.
{445a} The threepenny pamphlet mentioned on p. 441.
{445b} _I.e._, for.
{445c} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley.” Endorsed “July 8.”
{445d} See p. 277.
{446a} See p. 76.
{446b} See p. 9.
{446c} See pp. 295, 444.
{446d} Dr. William Lloyd—one of the Seven Bishops of 1688—was
eighty-four years of age at this time; he died five years later. He was
a strong antipapist, and a great student of the Apocalypse, besides being
a hard-working bishop. A curious letter from him to Lord Oxford about a
coming war of religion is given in the Welbeck Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm.)
v. 128.
{447a} _Toland’s Invitation to Dismal to dine with the Calf’s Head
Club_. The Earl of Nottingham (Dismal) had deserted the Tories, and
Swift’s imitation of Horace (Epist. I. v.) is an invitation from Toland
to dine with “his trusty friends” in celebration of the execution of
Charles I. The Calf’s Head Club was in the habit of toasting “confusion
to the race of kings.”
{447b} Bolingbroke.
{447c} George Fitzroy, Duke of Northumberland (died 1716), a natural son
of Charles II., was also Viscount Falmouth and Baron of Pontefract. See
_Notes and Queries_, viii. i. 135.
{447d} Enoch Sterne.
{448a} Templeoag (p. 443).
{448b} Swift probably was only repeating an inaccurate rumour, for there
is no evidence that Steele was arrested. His gambling scheme was
withdrawn directly an information was laid under the new Act of
Parliament against gambling (Aitken’s _Life of Steele_, i. 347).
{448c} Dr. William Moreton (1641–1715), Swift’s diocesan, was translated
from the see of Kildare to that of Meath in 1705.
{448d} Words obliterated. Forster reads conjecturally, “when ME wants
me to send. She ought to have it,” etc.
{449a} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “July 23.”
{449b} “N. 33” seems a mistake. Letter No. 32 was received after Swift
had left Kensington and gone to Windsor; see pp. 452, 456 (Ryland).
{450a} Dr. Moreton (see p. 448).
{450b} Memoranda.
{450c} Again.
{450d} O Lord, drunken slut.
{450e} There’s for you now, and there’s for your letter, and every kind
of thing.
{450f} Bolingbroke.
{451a} See p. 120.
{451b} Grub Street pamphlet. The title was, _A Supposed Letter from the
Pretender to another Whig Lord_.
{451c} Arnold Joost Van Keppel, created Earl of Albemarle in 1697. He
died in 1718. The action referred to was at Denain, where the Dutch were
defeated by Villars.
{452a} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Aug. 14.”
{452b} Perhaps this was influenza.
{453a} By the Stamp Act passed on June 10, 1712—which was repealed in
1859—a duty of one halfpenny was levied on all pamphlets and newspapers
contained in half a sheet or less, and a duty of one penny on those of
more than half but not exceeding a whole sheet. Swift opposed the idea
in January 1711 (see p. 138), and Defoe argued against the Bill in the
_Review_ for April 26, 1712, and following numbers. Addison, in the
_Spectator_, No. 445, spoke of the mortality among authors resulting from
the Stamp Act as “the fall of the leaf.”
{453b} The title is, _Lewis Baboon turned honest_, _and John Bull
politician_. _Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless Pit_. This
pamphlet—really the fifth of the series—appeared on July 31, 1712.
{453c} Poor Laracor.
{454a} See p. 104.
{454b} On the death of the third Earl in 1712, the title of Earl of
Winchelsea passed to his uncle, Heneage Finch, who had married Anne,
daughter of Sir William Kingsmill (see p. 227).
{454c} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Oct. 1st. At
Portraune” [Portraine].
{455a} Oxford and Bolingbroke.
{455b} Including Hester Vanhomrigh.
{456a} He died on Sept. 15, 1712.
{456b} Elizabeth Villiers, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Villiers,
Knight Marischal of England, and sister of the first Earl of Jersey. In
1695 she married Lord George Hamilton (son of Lord William Douglas,
afterwards Duke of Hamilton), who was raised to the peerage of Scotland
in 1696 as Earl of Orkney. William III. gave her an Irish estate worth
£26,000 a year. Swift’s opinion of her wisdom is confirmed by Lord
Lansdowne, who speaks, in his _Progress of Poetry_, of
“Villiers, for wisdom and deep judgment famed,
Of a high race, victorious beauty brings
To grace our Courts, and captivate our Kings.”
The “beauty” seems a poetic licence; Swift says the lady squinted “like a
dragon.”
{456c} Cliefden.
{456d} See p. 106.
{456e} Swift’s sister (see p. 74).
{457a} Forster reads “returned.”
{457b} See Swift’s letter to General Hill of Aug. 12, 1712
{457c} Swift’s housekeeper at Laracor.
{457d} _I.e._, be made freemen of the City.
{458} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Octr. 18. At
Portraune.”
{459a} “Sometimes, when better company was not to be had, he [Swift] was
honoured by being invited to play at cards with his patron; and on such
occasions Sir William was so generous as to give his antagonist a little
silver to begin with” (Macaulay, _History of England_, chap. xix.).
{459b} _The History of the Works of the Learned_, a quarto periodical,
was published from 1699 to 1711.
{459c} See p. 343.
{459d} See p. 277.
{460a} Lady Elizabeth Savage, daughter of Richard, fourth Earl Rivers
(see p. 88), was the second wife of James Barry, fourth Earl of
Barrymore. Of Earl Rivers’ illegitimate children, one, Bessy, married
(1) Frederick Nassau, third Earl of Rochford, and (2) a clergyman named
Carter; while another, Richard Savage, was the poet. Earl Rivers’
successor, John Savage, the fifth Earl, was a Roman Catholic priest, the
grandson of John, first Earl Rivers. On his death in 1728 the title
became extinct.
{460b} No. 32.
{460c} Very sick.
{460d} From “but I” to “agreeable” is partially obliterated.
{460e} Mrs. Swanton was the eldest daughter of Willoughby Swift, and
therefore Swift’s second cousin. In her will Esther Johnson left to
Swift “a bond of thirty pounds, due to me by Dr. Russell, in trust for
the use of Mrs. Honoria Swanton.”
{460f} This sentence is partially obliterated.
{460g} See p. 452.
{461a} See p. 25.
{461b} The latter half of this sentence is partially obliterated.
{462a} Partly obliterated.
{462b} See p. 54.
{462c} Wise.
{462d} Partly obliterated.
{462e} See p. 43.
{462f} This sentence is almost obliterated.
{463a} The MS. of this letter has not been preserved.
{463b} See p. 245.
{463c} Swift’s friend, Dr. Pratt (see p. 5), was then Provost of Trinity
College, Dublin.
{463d} Samuel Molyneux, then aged twenty-three, was the son of William
Molyneux (1656–1698), M.P. for Dublin University, a writer on
philosophical and scientific subjects, and the friend of Locke. Samuel
Molyneux took his M.A. degree in Dublin in 1710, and in 1712 visited
England. He was befriended by the Duke of Marlborough at Antwerp, and in
1714 was sent by the Duke on a mission to the Court of Hanover. He held
office under George I., but devoted most of his attention to astronomical
research, until his death in 1728.
{464a} Probably _The Case of Ireland’s being bound by Acts of Parliament
in England stated_ (1698).
{464b} Oxford and Bolingbroke.
{464c} See p. 360.
{464d} See p. 453.
{464e} George Ridpath (died 1726), a Whig journalist, of whom Pope
(_Dunciad_, i. 208) wrote—
“To Dulness Ridpath is as dear as Mist.”
He edited the _Flying Post_ for some years, and also wrote for the
_Medley_ in 1712. In September William Hurt and Ridpath were arrested
for libellous and seditious articles, but were released on bail. On
October 23 they appeared before the Court of Queen’s Bench, and were
continued on their recognizances. In February 1713 Ridpath was tried
and, in spite of an able defence by leading Whig lawyers, was convicted.
Sentence was postponed, and when Ridpath failed to appear, as ordered, in
April, his recognizances were escheated, and a reward offered for his
discovery; but he had fled to Scotland, and from thence to Holland.
{466a} See p. 456.
{466b} Lady Orkney’s sister, Barbara Villiers, who married John
Berkeley, fourth Viscount Fitz-Hardinge, had been governess to the Duke
of Gloucester, Queen Anne’s son. She died in 1708, in her fifty-second
year; and on her husband’s death four years later the peerage became
extinct.
{466c} For the street criers, see the _Spectator_, No. 251.
{466d} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley.” Endorsed “Nov. 26, just come from
Portraine”; and “The band-box plot—D: Hamilton’s murther.”
{467a} Charles Mohun, fifth Baron Mohun, had been twice arraigned of
murder, but acquitted; and during his short but turbulent life he had
taken part in many duels. Even Burnet could say nothing in his favour.
{467b} This duel between the Duke of Hamilton (see p. 262) and Lord
Mohun, who had married nieces of Lord Macclesfield, had its origin in a
protracted dispute about some property. The challenge came from Lord
Mohun, and the combatants fought like “enraged lions.” Tory writers
suggested that the duel was a Whig conspiracy to get rid of the Duke of
Hamilton (_Examiner_, Nov. 20, 1712). The whole subject is discussed
from the Whig point of view in Boyer’s _Political State_ for 1712, pp.
297–326.
{467c} “Will” (MS.).
{467d} See p. 262, note 2.
{467e} George Maccartney (see pp. 89, 387) fought at Almanza,
Malplaquet, and Douay. After the duel, Maccartney escaped to Holland,
but on the accession of George I. he returned to England, and was tried
for murder (June 1716), when Colonel Hamilton gave evidence against him.
Hamilton’s evidence was discredited, and he found it necessary to sell
his commission and leave the country. Maccartney was found guilty as an
accessory, and “burnt” in the hand. Within a month he was given an
appointment in the army; and promoted to be Lieutenant-General. He died
in 1730.
{467f} Colonel John Hamilton, of the Scots Guards. He surrendered
himself, and was tried at the Old Bailey on Dec. 12, 1712, when he was
found guilty of manslaughter, on two indictments; and on the following
day he was “burnt” in the hand. Hamilton died in October 1716, soon
after Maccartney’s trial, from a sudden vomiting of blood.
{467g} “That” (MS.).
{468a} The story (as told in the Tory _Postboy_ of Nov. 11 to 13) was
that on Nov. 4 a bandbox was sent to the Earl of Oxford by post. When he
began to open it he saw a pistol, whereupon a gentleman present [Swift]
asked for the box, and opening it, by the window, found powder, nails,
etc., so arranged that, if opened in the ordinary way, the whole would
have been fired, and two barrels discharged different ways. No doubt a
box so packed was received, but whether anything serious was intended, or
whether it was a hoax, cannot be said with any certainty. The Earl of
Oxford is said to have met allusions to the subject with a smile, and
Swift seems to have been annoyed at the reports which were put into
circulation.
{468b} “We have received a more particular account relating to the box
sent to the Lord Treasurer, as mentioned in our last, which is as
follows,” etc. (_Evening News_, Nov. 11 to 13, 1712).
{468c} Either _A Letter to the People_, _to be left for them at the
Booksellers_, _with a word or two of the Bandbox Plot_ (by T. Burnet),
1712, or _An Account of the Duel_ . . ., _with Previous Reflections on
Sham Plots_ (by A. Boyer), 1712. Swift’s connection with the Bandbox
Plot was ridiculed in the _Flying Post_ for Nov. 20 to 22.
{468d} Cf. p. 154.
{469a} This sentence is partially obliterated.
{469b} Part of this sentence has been obliterated.
{470a} See p. 427. I have not been able to find a copy of the paper
containing Swift’s paragraph.
{470b} This sentence is partially obliterated.
{471a} See p. 104.
{471b} Apparently Humphrey Griffith, who was one of the Commissioners of
Salt; but Swift gives the name as “Griffin” throughout.
{471c} See pp. 25, 461.
{471d} For these shorter letters Swift folded the folio sheet before
writing.
{472a} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Decr. 18.”
{472b} Vengeance.
{472c} Charles Connor, scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, who took his
B.A. degree in the same year as Swift (1686), and his M.A. degree in
1691.
{472d} _The History of the Peace of Utrecht_.
{473a} See p. 467, note 6.
{473b} Lord Oxford’s daughter Elizabeth married, on Dec. 16, 1712,
Peregrine Hyde, Marquis of Caermarthen, afterwards third Duke of Leeds
(see pp. 226, 417). She died on Nov. 20, 1713, a few days after the
birth of a son. Swift called her “a friend I extremely loved.”
{473c} “Is” (MS.).
{473d} Disorders.
{473e} See p. 335.
{473f} John Francis, Rector of St. Mary’s, Dublin, was made Dean of
Leighlin in 1705.
{473g} See p. 67.
{473h} Possibly “have.”
{473i} See p. 468.
{474} This clause is omitted by Mr. Ryland.
{475a} See p. 304.
{475b} See p. 466.
{475c} Thomas Jones, Esq., was M.P. for Trim in the Parliament of
1713–4.
{476a} A Dutch agent employed in the negotiations with Lewis XIV.
{476b} When I come home.
{476c} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Jan. 13.”
{477a} “Ay, marry, this is something like.” The earlier editions give,
“How agreeable it is in a morning.” The words in the MS. are partially
obliterated.
{477b} In this letter (Dec. 20, 1712) Swift paid many compliments to the
Duchess of Ormond (see p. 160): “All the accomplishments of your mind and
person are so deeply printed in the heart, and represent you so lively to
my imagination, that I should take it for a high affront if you believed
it in the power of colours to refresh my memory.”
{478a} Tisdall’s _Conduct of the Dissenters in Ireland_ (see p. 517).
{478b} See pp. 73, 192–3.
{478c} Monteleon.
{479a} See pp. 7, 24.
{479b} Utrecht, North and South Holland, and West Frieseland.
{479c} See p. 439.
{479d} See p. 439.
{479e} _On Queen Anne’s Peace_.
{479f} See p. 422. The poem was _Dryades_, _or the Nymph’s Prophecy_.
{480a} See p. 343.
{480b} See p. 159.
{480c} Dr. Tobias Pullen (1648–1713) was made Bishop of Dromore in 1695.
{480d} Lord Charles Douglas, Earl of Selkirk, died unmarried in 1739.
When his father, William, first Earl of Selkirk, married Anne, Duchess of
Hamilton, the Duchess obtained for her husband, in 1660, the title of
Duke of Hamilton, for life. James II. conferred the Earldom of Selkirk
on his Grace’s second and younger sons, primogenitively; and the second
son having died without issue, the third, Charles, became Earl. The
fifth son, George, was created Earl of Orkney (see p. 456). The
difference between Lord Selkirk and the Earl of Abercorn (see p. 86) to
which Swift alludes was in connection with the claim to the Dukedom of
Chatelherault (see p. 426).
{481a} Heart.
{481b} This sentence is almost illegible.
{481c} A reward of £500 was offered by the Crown for Maccartney’s
apprehension, and £200 by the Duchess of Hamilton.
{482} In the proposed _History of the Peace of Utrecht_.
{483a} Mr. Ryland’s reading. Forster has “Iss.” These words are
obliterated.
{483b} Hoist. Cf. “Hoised up the mainsail” (Acts xxvii. 40).
{483c} It was afterwards found that Miss Ashe was suffering from
smallpox.
{484a} See p. 101. We are told in the _Wentworth Papers_, p. 268, that
the Duchess of Shrewsbury remarked to Lady Oxford, “Madam, I and my Lord
are so weary of talking politics; what are you and your Lord?” whereupon
Lady Oxford sighed and said she knew no Lord but the Lord Jehovah. The
Duchess rejoined, “Oh, dear! Madam, who is that? I believe ’tis one of
the new titles, for I never heard of him before.”
{484b} A thousand merry new years. The words are much obliterated.
{484c} Lady Anne Hamilton, daughter of James, first Duke of Hamilton,
became Duchess on the death of her uncle William, the second Duke, at the
battle of Worcester.
{485a} The quarrel between Oxford and Bolingbroke.
{485b} See p. 276.
{485c} Burnet (_History_, iv. 382) says that the Duc d’Aumont was “a
goodnatured and generous man, of profuse expense, throwing handfuls of
money often out of his coach as he went about the streets. He was not
thought a man of business, and seemed to employ himself chiefly in
maintaining the dignity of his character and making himself acceptable to
the nation.”
{486a} Partially obliterated.
{486b} For the most part illegible. Forster reads, “Go, play cards, and
be melly, deelest logues, and rove Pdfr. Nite richar MD, FW oo roves
Pdfr. FW lele lele ME ME MD MD MD MD MD MD. MD FW FW FW ME ME FW FW FW
FW FW ME ME ME.”
{486c} On the third page of the paper.
{486d} See p. 44.
{487a} To “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Feb. 4.”
{487b} This sentence is scribbled over. Forster reads the last word as
“lastalls,” _i.e._ rascals, but it seems rather to be “ledles.”
{488a} Dr. Peter Brown was appointed Bishop of Cork in 1709.
{488b} See p. 26.
{488c} See p. 23.
{489a} See p. 24, note 4.
{489b} Dr. H. Humphreys, Bishop of Hereford, died on Nov. 20, 1712. His
successor was Dr. Philip Bisse (1667–1721), Bishop of St. David’s (see p.
14).
{490a} Thomas Keightley, a Commissioner of the Great Seal in Ireland.
{490b} Nearly obliterated. Mr. Ryland reads, “deelest MD.”
{490c} See p. 480.
{490d} In the _Examiner_ for Jan. 5 to 9, 1712[–13], there is an account
of the game of Similitudes. One person thinks of a subject, and the
others, not knowing what it is, name similitudes, and when the subject is
proclaimed, must make good the comparisons. On the occasion described,
the subject chosen was Faction. The prize was given to a Dutchman, who
argued that Faction was like butter, because too much fire spoiled its
consistency.
{490e} Earl Poulett (see p. 190).
{491a} “Say” (MS.).
{491b} Dr. Pratt.
{491c} See p. 120.
{492a} This sentence is partially obliterated.
{492b} See pp. 305, 308.
{493a} Cf. the account of Beatrix’s feelings on the death of the Duke in
_Esmond_, book iii. chaps. 6 and 7.
{493b} See p. 195.
{494a} “Her Majesty is all goodness and tenderness to her people and her
Allies. She has now prorogued the best Parliament that ever assembled in
her reign and respited her own glory, and the wishes, prayers, and wants
of her people, only to give some of her Allies an opportunity to think of
the returns they owe her, and try if there be such a thing as gratitude,
justice, or humanity in Europe. The conduct of Her Majesty is without
parallel. Never was so great a condescension made to the unreasonable
clamours of an insolent faction now dwindled to the most contemptible
circumstances.”—_Examiner_, Jan. 12–16, 1712[–13].
{494b} _Mr. Collins’s Discourse of Freethinking_, _put into plain
English by way of Abstract_, _for the use of the Poor_, an ironical
pamphlet on Arthur Collins’s _Discourse of Freethinking_, 1713.
{495a} _The History of the Peace of Utrecht_.
{495b} A line here has been erased. Forster imagined that he read,
“Nite dear MD, drowsy drowsy dear.”
{496a} Hereford.
{496b} Very well.
{497a} Sentence obliterated. Forster professes to read, “Pay can oo
walk oftener—oftener still?”
{497b} See p. 480.
{497c} Dr. Bisse, translated from St. David’s.
{497d} See pp. 176, 489.
{498a} To “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Febr. 26.”
{498b} See p. 494.
{498c} See p. 271.
{498d} See p. 468.
{499a} A result of confusion between Erasmus Lewis and Henry Lewis, a
Hamburg merchant. See Swift’s paper in the _Examiner_ of Jan. 30 to Feb.
2, reprinted in his _Works_ under the title, “A Complete Refutation of
the Falsehoods alleged against Erasmus Lewis, Esq.”
{499b} Lord Dupplin (see p. 30) had been created Baron Hay in December
1711.
{499c} A composition of inflammable materials.
{500a} Assessors.
{500b} See p. 36.
{501} See p. 499.
{502a} See p. 439.
{502b} See pp. 10, 381, 413.
{503a} Dr. Bisse.
{503b} See p. 326.
{503c} Forster reads, “something.”
{503d} Hardly legible.
{504a} See p. 52.
{504b} Stella’s brother-in-law (See pp. 471, 473).
{504c} Forster guesses, “Oo are so ’recise; not to oor health.”
{504d} For “poo Ppt’s.” Mr. Ryland reads, “people’s.”
{505a} See p. 478.
{505b} See p. 483.
{505c} See p. 132.
{505d} Obliterated; Forster’s reading.
{506a} Writing in October 1713, Lord Berkeley of Stratton told Lord
Strafford of “a fine prank of the widow Lady Jersey” (see p. 281). “It
is well known her lord died much in debt, and she, after taking upon her
the administration, sold everything and made what money she could, and is
run away into France without paying a farthing of the debts, with only
one servant and unknown to all her friends, and hath taken her youngest
son, as ’tis supposed to make herself a merit in breeding him a papist.
My Lord Bolingbroke sent after her, but too late, and they say the Queen
hath writ a letter with her own hand to the King of France to send back
the boy” (_Wentworth Papers_, p. 357). See also p. 538 below. I am not
sure whether in the present passage Swift is referring to the widow or
the younger Lady Jersey (see p. 326).
{506b} Sir Thomas Clarges, Bart. (died 1759), M.P. for Lostwithiel,
married Barbara, youngest daughter of John Berkeley, fourth Viscount
Fitz-Hardinge, and of Barbara Villiers (see p. 466), daughter of Sir
Edward Villiers.
{507a} See pp. 428, 447.
{507b} Altered from “11” in the MS. It is not certain where the error
in the dates began; but the entry of the 6th must be correctly dated,
because the Feb. 6 was the Queen’s Birthday.
{507c} See pp. 422, 479.
{508a} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Mar. 7.”
{508b} See p. 27.
{508c} Sedan chairs were then comparatively novel (see Gay’s _Trivia_).
{508d} Some words obliterated. Forster reads, “Nite MD, My own deelest
MD.”
{509a} Peter Wentworth wrote to Lord Strafford, on Feb. 17, 1713, “Poor
Mr. Harrison is very much lamented; he died last Saturday. Dr. Swift
told me that he had told him . . . he owed about £300, and the Queen owed
him £500, and that if you or some of your people could send an account of
his debts, that I might give it to him, he would undertake to solicit
Lord Treasurer and get this £500, and give the remainder to his mother
and sister” (_Wentworth Papers_, 320).
{509b} George St. John (eldest son of Sir Harry St. John by his second
marriage) was Secretary to the English Plenipotentiaries at Utrecht. He
died at Venice in 1716 (Lady Cowper’s _Diary_, 65).
{509c} Forster wrongly reads, “poor.”
{509d} “Putt” (MS.).
{509e} See p. 506.
{510a} Montagu Bertie, second Earl of Abingdon (died 1743), was a strong
Tory.
{510b} See p. 102. These friends were together again on an expedition
to Bath in 1715, when Jervas wrote to Pope (Aug. 12, 1715) that
Arbuthnot, Disney, and he were to meet at Hyde Park Corner, proceed to
Mr. Hill’s at Egham, meet Pope next day, and then go to Lord Stawell’s to
lodge the night. Lord Stawell’s seat, Aldermaston, was seventeen miles
from Binfield.
{510c} See p. 153.
{510d} “I” (MS.).
{510e} Obliterated. Forster reads, “devil,” and Mr. Ryland, “bitch.”
{511a} See p. 393.
{511b} Victor Marie, duc d’Estrées, Marshal of France (died 1727).
{511c} See 471.
{511d} Several words are obliterated. Forster reads, “the last word,
God ’give me”; but “’give me” is certainly wrong.
{512} See p. 69. Sir Thomas Hanmer married, in 1698, at the age of
twenty-two, Isabella, Dowager Duchess of Grafton, daughter of Henry, Earl
of Arlington, and Countess of Arlington in her own right. Hanmer was not
made Secretary of State, but he succeeded Bromley as Speaker of the House
of Commons.
{513a} William Fitzmaurice (see pp. 91, 263) entered Christ Church,
Oxford, matriculating on March 10, 1712–13, at the age of eighteen.
{513b} See p. 89.
{513c} William Bromley, second son of Bromley the Speaker (see p. 76),
was a boy of fourteen at this time. In 1727 he was elected M.P. for
Warwick, and he died in 1737, shortly after being elected Member for
Oxford University.
{513d} See 133.
{513e} Sometimes “list” means to border or edge; at others, to sew
together, so as to make a variegated display, or to form a border.
Probably it here means the curling of the bottom of the wig.
{513f} The last eight words have been much obliterated, and the reading
is doubtful.
{514a} Lady Henrietta Hyde, second daughter of Laurence Hyde, first Earl
of Rochester (see p. 60), married James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, son of
the Duke of Monmouth. Lord Dalkeith died in 1705, leaving a son, who
succeeded his grandmother (Monmouth’s widow) as second Duke of Buccleuch.
Lady Catherine Hyde (see p. 293) was a younger sister of Lady Dalkeith.
{514b} Swift first wrote “I frequent.”
{515a} See p. 456.
{515b} D’Estrées.
{515c} Little (almost illegible).
{516a} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Mar. 27.”
{516b} See p. 10.
{516c} Formerly Lady Rialton (see p. 392).
{517a} See p. 490.
{517b} See pp. 95, 405.
{517c} Pun on “gambol.”
{517d} See p. 478.
{518a} See p. 401.
{518b} “Upon Tuesday last, the house where His Grace the late Duke of
Hamilton and Brandon lived was hired for that day, where there was a fine
ball and entertainment; and it is reported in town, that a great lady,
lately gone to travel, left one hundred guineas, with orders that it
should be spent in that manner, and in that house” (_Postboy_, Feb.
26–28, 1712–13). The “great lady” was, presumably, the Duchess of
Marlborough.
{518c} See pp. 357, 397.
{518d} Trinity College, Dublin.
{518e} See p. 512.
{518f} See p. 357.
{519a} Dr. Pratt, Provost of Trinity College.
{519b} Obliterated, and doubtful.
{519c} A deal at cards, that draws the whole tricks.
{520} Previous editors have misread “Trevor” as “Treasurer.” Thomas
Trevor, Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas, was created Baron Trevor, of
Bromham, in January 1712. By commission of March 9, 1713, he occupied
the woolsack during the illness of the Lord Keeper, Harcourt.
{521a} This is the only reference to Pope in the _Journal_. In his
_Windsor Forest_ the young poet assisted the Tories by his reference to
the peace of Utrecht, then awaiting ratification.
{521b} Several words have been obliterated. Forster reads, “Rove Pdfr,
poo Pdfr, Nite MD MD MD,” but this is more than the space would contain.
{522a} William Oldisworth (1680–1734), a Tory journalist and
pamphleteer, who published various works, including a translation of the
_Iliad_. He died in a debtors’ prison.
{522b} Some words obliterated. The reading is Forster’s, and seems to
be correct.
{523a} Susan Armine, elder daughter of Sir William Armine, Bart., of
Osgodby, Lincolnshire, was created a life peeress in 1674, as Baroness
Belasyse of Osgodby. She died March 6, 1713. Her first husband was the
Honourable Sir Henry Belasyse, son and heir of John, Baron Belasyse, of
Worlaby; and her second, Mr. Fortney, of Chequers.
{523b} See p. 48.
{524a} A word before “Ppt” is illegible. Forster’s reading, “yes,” does
not seem right.
{524b} In November 1711 it was reported that Miss Kingdom was privately
married to Lord Conway (_Wentworth Papers_, 207), but this was not the
case. Lord Conway was a widower in 1713, but he married an Irish lady
named Bowden.
{525a} Forster reads, “Nite, my own dee sollahs. Pdfr roves MD”; but
the last three words, at least, do not seem to be in the MS.
{525b} Probably the Bishop of Raphoe’s son (see p. 289).
{526a} What.
{526b} As Master of the Savoy.
{526c} William Burgh was Comptroller and Accountant-General for Ireland
from 1694 to 1717, when his patent was revoked. He was succeeded by
Eustace Budgell.
{526d} William Paget, sixth Lord Paget, died in March 1713, aged
seventy-six. He spent a great part of his life as Ambassador at Vienna
and Constantinople.
{526e} Pocket.
{526f} Forster reads, “Lele lele logues”; Mr. Ryland, “Lele lele . . . ”
{527a} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Apr. 13.”
{527b} Esther Johnson’s brother-in-law, Filby (see p. 471).
{527c} Earl Poulett (see p. 190).
{527d} Francis Annesley, M.P. for Westbury. His colleague in the
representation of that borough was Henry Bertie (third son of James, Earl
of Abingdon), who married Earl Poulett’s sister-in-law, Anthony Henley’s
widow (see p. 117).
{528a} “Has” (MS.).
{528b} A dozen words are erased. The reading is Forster’s, and appears
to be correct.
{528c} _The British Ambassadress’s Speech to the French King_. The
printer was sent to the pillory and fined.
{528d} The _Examiner_ (vol. iii. No. 35) said that Swift—“a gentleman of
the first character for learning, good sense, wit, and more virtues than
even they can set off and illustrate”—was not the author of that
periodical. “Out of pure regard to justice, I strip myself of all the
honour that lucky untruth did this paper.”
{529a} A purgative electuary.
{529b} Bargains.
{529c} Three or four words illegible. Forster reads, “Nite, nite, own
MD.”
{530a} Forster reads, “devil’s brood”; probably the second word is
“bawd:” Cf. p. 510.
{530b} Several “moving pictures,” mostly brought from Germany, were on
view in London at about this time. See _Tatler_, No. 129, and Gay’s
_Fables_, No. 6.
{531a} See p. 43.
{531b} “Mr. Charles Grattan, afterwards master of a free school at
Enniskillen” (Scott).
{531c} So given in the MS. Forster suggests that it is a mistake for
“wood.”
{532a} See p. 271.
{532b} It is probable that this is Pope’s friend, William Cleland, who
died in 1741, aged sixty-seven. William Cleland served in Spain under
Lord Rivers, but was not a Colonel, though he seems to have been a Major.
Afterwards he was a Commissioner of Customs in Scotland and a
Commissioner of the Land Tax in England. Colonel Cleland cannot, as
Scott suggested (Swift’s _Works_, iii. 142, xviii. 137–39, xix. 8), have
been the son of the Colonel William Cleland, Covenanter and poet, who
died in 1689, at the age of twenty-eight. William Cleland allowed his
name to be appended to a letter of Pope’s prefixed to the _Dunciad_, and
Pope afterwards described him as “a person of universal learning, and an
enlarged conversation; no man had a warmer heart for his friends, or a
sincerer attachment to the constitution of his country.” Swift,
referring to this letter, wrote to Pope, “Pray tell me whether your
Colonel (_sic_) Cleland be a tall Scots gentleman, walking perpetually in
the Mall, and fastening upon everybody he meets, as he has often done
upon me?” (Pope’s _Works_, iv. 48, vii. 214).
{532c} Henry Grey, Lord Lucas (died 1741), who became twelfth Earl of
Kent in 1702, was made Duke of Kent in 1710. He held various offices
under George I. and George II.
{533a} Forster found, among the MSS. at Narford, the “lie” thus prepared
for All Fools’ Day. Richard Noble, an attorney, ran away with a lady who
was the wife of John Sayer and daughter of Admiral Nevill; and he killed
Sayer on the discovery of the intrigue. The incident was made use of by
Hogarth in the fifth scene of “Marriage a la Mode.”
{533b} See p. 23.
{533c} See p. 100.
{533d} Charles XII.
{533e} “Is” (MS.).
{533f} Cibber says that he saw four acts of _Cato_ in 1703; the fifth
act, according to Steele, was written in less than a week. The famous
first performance was on April 14, 1713.
{533g} The first number of the _Guardian_ appeared on March 12, and the
paper was published daily until Oct. 1, 1713. Pope, Addison, and
Berkeley were among the contributors.
{534a} See p. 456.
{534b} See p. 389.
{534c} The first preached after the period of his suspension by the
House of Lords. It was delivered at St. Saviour’s, Southwark, before his
installation at St. Andrew’s, and was published with the title, _The
Christian’s Triumph_, _or the Duty of praying for our Enemies_.
{535a} Swift’s curate at Laracor.
{535b} Richard Gorges (died 1728) was eldest son and heir of Dr. Robert
Gorges, of Kilbrue, County Meath, by Jane, daughter of Sir Arthur Loftus,
and sister of Adam, Viscount Lisburne. He was appointed Adjutant-General
of the Forces in Ireland 1697, Colonel of a new Regiment of Foot 1703,
Major-General of the Forces 1707, and Lieutenant-General 1710 (Dalton’s
_Army Lists_, iii. 75).
{536a} See p. 510.
{536b} Mrs. Oldfield.
{536c} See p. 473.
{536d} Never saw the like.
{536e} See p. 460.
{537a} The remainder has been partially obliterated.
{537b} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “May 4.”
{538a} Lord Cholmondeley (see p. 357).
{538b} Harcourt.
{538c} Forster’s reading; the last two words are doubtful.
{538d} See p. 52.
{538e} Francis Palmes, who was wounded at Blenheim, was made a
Lieutenant-General in 1709. In 1707 he was elected M.P. for West Loo; in
1708 he was sent as Envoy Extraordinary to the Duke of Savoy, and in 1710
to Vienna.
{538f} Apparently “so heed.”
{538g} Henry Villiers (died 1743), second son of the first Earl of
Jersey and of Barbara, daughter of William Chiffinch (see p. 281).
{539a} See p. 520. The Speech and Address are in the Commons’ Journals,
xvii. 278, 280. For the draft Address, in Swift’s handwriting, see the
Portland Papers (1899), v. 276.
{539b} Scoffed, jeered.
{539c} Dr. Gastrell (see p. 238).
{540} George Berkeley, afterwards Bishop of Cloyne, but then a young man
of twenty-eight, came to London in January 1713. He was already known by
his _New Theory of Vision_ and _Treatise on the Principles of Human
Knowledge_, and he brought with him his _Three Dialogues between Hylas
and Philonous_. Steele was among the first to welcome him, and he soon
made the acquaintance of Addison, Pope, and Swift. On March 27, Berkeley
wrote to Sir John Perceval of the breach between Swift and the Whigs:
“Dr. Swift’s wit is admired by both of them [Addison and Steele], and
indeed by his greatest enemies, and . . . I think him one of the
best-matured and agreeable men in the world.” In November 1713 Swift
procured for Berkeley the chaplaincy and secretaryship to Lord
Peterborough, the new Envoy to Sicily.
{541} Forster reads, “all oo sawcy Ppt can say oo may see me”; but the
words are illegible.
{542a} Possibly “see,” written in mistake for “say.”
{542b} “J” (MS.).
{544a} Obliterated. Forster imagined that he read, “Nite dee logues.
Poo Mr.”
{544b} There were two General Hamiltons at this time; probably Swift’s
acquaintance was Gustavus Hamilton (1639–1723), who was created Viscount
Boyne in 1717. Hamilton distinguished himself at the battle of the Boyne
and the capture of Athlone, and was made Brigadier-General in 1696, and
Major General in 1703. He took part in the siege of Vigo, and was made a
member of the Privy Council in 1710.
{545a} See p. 427.
{545b} _The History of the Peace of Utrecht_.
{545c} This is Forster’s reading, and appears to be correct. The last
word, which he gives as “iss truly,” is illegible.
{545d} Belonging to Ireland.
{545e} See p. 391.
{545f} Another excellent reading of Forster’s. I cannot decipher the
last word, which he gives as “dee rogues.”
{546a} Sentence obliterated.
{546b} The number at the beginning of each entry in the _Journal_.
{546c} Mr. Ryland’s reading. Forster has “morning, dee.”
{546d} Dr. Thomas Lindsay (see p. 43).
{546e} I think the “MD” is right, though Forster gives “M.” The “Pr” is
probably an abbreviation of “Pdfr.”
{547a} The last three lines have been obliterated.
{547b} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “May 22.”
{548a} Illegible. Forster reads, “and dee deelest Ppt.”
{548b} The last few words have been partially obliterated.
{548c} Am very angry. The last word is scribbled over.
{548d} _The History of the Peace of Utrecht_.
{549a} The signature has been cut off.
{549b} Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Chester Letter.”
{549c} “Others” (MS.).
{550a} See pp. 86, 301.
{550b} See p. 46.