MARBLE HILL

Kind Richmond Lodge, the same to you.

[Footnote 1: The King left England on the 3rd June, 1727, and after

supping heartily and sleeping at the Count de Twellet's house near Delden

on the 9th, he continued his journey to Osnabruck, where he arrived at

the house of his brother, the Duke of York, on the night of the 11th,

wholly paralyzed, and died calmly the next morning, in the very same room

where he was born.--_W. E. B._]

[Footnote 2: Swift was probably not aware how nearly he described the

narrowed situation of Mrs. Howard's finances. Lord Orford, in a letter to

Lord Strafford, 29th July, 1767, written shortly after her death,

described her affairs as so far from being easy, that the utmost economy

could by no means prevent her exceeding her income considerably; and

states in his Reminiscences, that, besides Marble Hill, which cost the

King ten or twelve thousand pounds, she did not leave above twenty

thousand pounds to her family.--See "Lord Orford's Works," vol. iv, p.

304; v, p. 456.--_W. E. B._]

[Footnote 3: Who was "often in Swift's thoughts," and "high in his

esteem"; and to whom Pope dedicated his second "Moral

Epistle."--_W. E. B._]

[Footnote 4: This also proved a prophecy more true than the Dean

suspected.]

[Footnote 5: Lady Charlotte de Roussy, a French lady.--_Dublin

Edition_.]

[Footnote 6: Marquis de Mirmont, a Frenchman, who had come to England

after the Edict of Nantes (by which Henri IV had secured freedom of

religion to Protestants) had been revoked by Louis XIV in 1685. See

Voltaire, "Siècle de Louis XIV."--_W. E. B._]

[Footnote 7: The gardener.]

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