6 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.
7 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.
8 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 Letter 5, note 34), who married Harley’s daughter Abigail, is often mentioned in the Journal.
9 See Letter 3, note 5.
10 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.”
11 See Letter 11, note 44.
12 See Letter 28, note 6.
13 The Earl of Strafford (see Letter 18, note 3) 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 NOTES.
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to her husband are given in the Wentworth Papers, 1883.
14 Samuel Pratt, who was also Clerk of the Closet.
15 Alice Hill, woman of the bed−chamber to the Queen, died in 1762.
16 Enniscorthy, the name of a town in the county of Wexford.
17 Scrambling.
18 “These words in italics are written in strange, misshapen letters, inclining to the right hand, in imitation of Stella’s writing” (Deane Swift). [Italics replaced by capitals for the transcription of this etext.]
19 Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.
20 John Pooley, appointed Bishop of Raphoe in 1702.
21 “These words in italics are miserably scrawled, in imitation of Stella’s hand (Deane Swift). [Italics replaced by capitals for the transcription of this etext.]
22 See Letter 8, note 2.
Letter 30.
1 See Letter 25, note 1.
2 See Letter 9, note 22.
3 See Letter 29, note 10.
4 Cf. the entry on the 11th (note 3 above).
5 See Letter 6, note 4.
6 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.
7 See Letter 28, note 4.
8 The name of Arbuthnot’s wife is not known: she died in 1730.
9 James Lovet, one of the “Yeomen Porters” at Court.
10 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.”
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11 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.
12 See Letter 28, note 4.
13 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).
14 “These words in italics are written enormously large” (Deane Swift). [Italics replaced by capitals for the transcription of this etext.]
15 See Letter 3, note 39.
16 Henry Lowman, First Clerk of the Kitchen.
17 “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).
18 Mrs. Fenton.
Letter 31.
1 See Letter 10, note 31.
2 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.
3 Stella’s maid.
4 See Letter 12, note 7.
5 Colonel Fielding (see Letter 16, note 21).
6 The envoys were Menager and the Abbe du Bois; the priest was the Abbe Gaultier.
7 See Letter 18, note 3.
8 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.
9 “Worrit,” trouble, tease.
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10 Sir John Walter, Bart. (died 1722), was M.P. for the city of Oxford. He and Charles Godfrey (see Letter 30, note 11) were the Clerks Comptrollers of the Green Cloth.
11 See Letter 17, note 3.
12 No doubt one of the daughters of Mervyn Tuchet, fourth Earl of Castlehaven, who died in 1686.
13 Henrietta Maria, daughter of Charles Scarborow (see Letter 27, note 19). She married, in 1712, Sir Robert Jenkinson, Bart., M.P. for Oxfordshire, who died without issue in 1717. See Wentworth Papers, 244.
14 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.
15 At Killibride, about four miles from Trim.
16 Swift’s “mistress,” Lady Hyde (see Letter 5, note 11), whose husband had become Earl of Rochester in May 1711. She was forty−one in 1711.
17 See Sept. 19, 1711.
18 See Letter 29, note 14.
19 See Letter 22, note 3.
20 See Letter 27, note 9.
21 See Letter 26, note 10.
22 “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).
Letter 32.
1 Lieutenant−Colonel Barton, of Colonel Kane’s regiment.
2 A nickname for the High Church party.
3 See Letter 29, note 10.
4 “From this pleasantry of my Lord Oxford, the appellative Martinus Scriblerus took its rise” (Deane Swift).
5 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.”
6 See Letter 23, note 15.
7 See Letter 18, note 4.
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8 See Letter 23, note 17.
9 Lord Pembroke (see Letter 7, note 31) 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.
10 Caleb Coatesworth, who died in 1741, leaving a large fortune.
11 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.
12 The “Edgar.” Four hundred men were killed.
13 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.