[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 theLondon Gazettein 1711 (see p.8).
[256c]See24.
[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, inThe Female Phaeton, as jealous, when a young girl, of her sister, “Lady Jenny,” who went to balls, and “brought home hearts by dozens.”
[257a]See257.
[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]TheExaminerwas 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 theJournal. 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.5note 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’sDiary, 15, 16), a lady whose “piercing” beauty it was, apparently, that Steele described under the name of Chloe, in No. 4 of theTatler. 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’sRape 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 CharlesII., 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: seeSpectator, 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 WilliamIII. 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’sArmy 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 theJournal.
[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 thenon plus ultraof 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 thoseCharactersupon which Swift wrote comments. Formerly a secret service agent under WilliamIII., 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]See34.
[281c]Edward Villiers (1656–1711), created Viscount Villiers in 1691, was made Earl of Jersey in 1697. Under WilliamIII. 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 CharlesII.; 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 theJournal.
[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 theWentworth 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 theWentworth 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 JamesII., afterwards married Colonel Charles Godfrey, Clerk Comptroller of the Green Cloth and Master of the Jewel Office. Her second son by JamesII. 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. SeeWentworth 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. theImitation 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 linesWrit underneath the country signs.”
“gravely try to read the linesWrit 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 thePolitical Statefor 1711 (p. 646) he speaks of Swift as “a shameless and most contemptible ecclesiastical turncoat, whose tongue is asswiftto revile as his mind isswiftto change.” ThePostboysaid 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’sSwift, 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 theDaily 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’sKnights, 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 theGentleman’s Magazinefor 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!’”
“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]OfThe 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.