14 See Letter 24, note 14.
15 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.
16 “Modern usage has sanctioned Stella’s spelling” (Scott). Swift’s spelling was “wast.”
17 Mrs. Manley.
18 Swift’s own lines, “Mrs. Frances Harris’s Petition.”
19 Thomas Coote was a justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, in Ireland, from 1692 until his removal in 1715.
20 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.
21 “This column of words, as they are corrected, is in Stella’s hand” (Deane Swift).
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1 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.
2 See Letter 6, note 5.
3 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.
4 Robert Benson (see Letter 6, note 36).
5 “The South Sea Whim,” printed in Scott’s Swift, ii. 398.
6 See Letter 21, Apr. 24, 1711, Letter 22, Apr. 28, 1711, and Letter 34, 17 Nov. 1711.
7 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.
8 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.
9 Crinkle or contract. Gay writes: “Showers soon drench the camblet’s cockled grain.”
10 The Countess of Jersey (see Letter 30, note 6), 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).
11 Cf. Letter 9, Nov. 11, 1710, and Letter 9, note 3.
12 Charles Crow, appointed Bishop of Cloyne in 1702.
13 Swift.
14 Mrs. Manley.
15 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.
16 See the pun this day above.
Letter 34.
1 See Letter 3, note 17.
2 See Letter 11, note 44.
3 Pratt (see Letter 2, note 14).
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4 Stella and Dingley.
5 “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 Letter 24, note 2).
6 See Letter 6, note 11. The book referred to is, apparently, An Impartial Enquiry into the Management of the War in Spain, post−dated 1712.
7 Lord Harley (afterwards second Earl of Oxford) (see Letter 5, note 35) married, on Oct. 31, 1713, Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, only daughter of John Holles, last Duke of Newcastle of that family (see Letter 26, note 26).
8 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.
9 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,
10 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.
11 Swift’s pamphlet, The Conduct of the Allies.
12 Lord Oxford’s daughter Abigail married, in 1709, Viscount Dupplin, afterwards seventh Earl of Kinnoull (see Letter 5, note 34). 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.
13 Kensington Gravel Pits was then a famous health resort.
14 Draggled. Pope has, “A puppy, daggled through the town.”
15 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 Letter 8, note 13).
16 Probably the Charles Child, Esq., of Farnham, whose death is recorded in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1754.
17 Grace Spencer was probably Mrs. Proby’s sister (see Letter 19, note 3).
18 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?”
19 In the “Verses on his own Death,” 1731, Swift says
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“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.”
Letter 35.
1 See Letter 31, note 8.
2 See Letter 14, note 9.
3 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 pounds, and not 1000 pounds, 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.
4 A brother of Jemmy Leigh (see Letter 2, note 16), and one of Stella’s card− playing acquaintances.
5 Of The Conduct of the Allies (see Letter 34, Nov. 10, 1711, and Letter 35, Nov. 24, 1711).
6 Sir Thomas Hanmer (see Letter 9, note 13) 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.
7 James, Duke of Hamilton (see Letter 27, note 9), married, in 1698, as his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir of Digby, Lord Gerard. She died in 1744.
8 The Conduct of the Allies.
9 See Letter 25, note 6.
10 Sir Matthew Dudley (see Letter 3, note 2) married Lady Mary O’Bryen, youngest daughter of Henry, Earl of Thomond.
11 See Letter 31, note 10.
12 Sir John St. Leger (died 1743) was M.P. for Doneraile and a Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland from 1714