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2 A kind of clover, used for soothing purposes.



Letter 46.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Dingley," etc. Endorsed "May 15."

2 Madam Ayris.

3 Simpleton.

4 Robert Benson (see Letter 6, note 36).

5 See Letter 41, note 35 and Letter 43, note 7.

6 The title was, An Appendix to John Bull still in his Senses: or, Law is a
Bottomless Pit.

7 Arbuthnot.

8 Enquiries by servants.

9 See Letter 17, note 5.

10 Sick.

11 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 Letter 59, note 11).

12 Because she is a good girl in other things.



Letter 47.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Dingley," etc. Endorsed "June 5."

2 Sice, the number six at dice.

3 At Laracor Swift had "a canal and river-walk and willows."

4 Splenetic fellow.

5 One of them was by Oldmixon: Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to the Earl
of Oxford.

6 Beg your pardon.

7 See Letter 25, note 9.

8 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.

9 See Letter 34, note 10.

10 See Letter 23, note 13.

11 "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."

12 Several words obliterated.

13 Several words obliterated.

14 The bellman.

15 This present writing.

16 Please.



Letter 48.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Rebecca Dingley," etc. Endorsed "June 23d."

2 Mr. Ryland reads "second."

3 As I hope to be saved.

4 See Letter 30, Sept. 18, 1711.

5 Glad at heart.

6 The threepenny pamphlet mentioned in Letter 47, note 11.

7 I.e., for.



Letter 49.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Dingley." Endorsed "July 8."

2 See Letter 28, note 24.

3 See Letter 10, note 2.

4 See Letter 3, note 11.

5 See Letter 48, note 4.

6 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.

7 "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."

8 Bolingbroke.

9 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.

10 Enoch Sterne.

11 Templeoag (see Letter 48, Jun. 17, 1712).

12 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).

13 Dr. William Moreton (1641-1715), Swift's diocesan, was translated from the
see of Kildare to that of Meath in 1705.

14 Words obliterated. Forster reads conjecturally, "when ME wants me to send.
She ought to have it," etc.



Letter 50.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Dingley," etc. Endorsed "July 23."

2 "N.33" seems a mistake. Letter No. 32 was received after Swift had left
Kensington and gone to Windsor; see Letter 51, Aug. 7, 1712 and Letter 52,
Sept. 18, 1712 (Ryland).

3 Dr. Moreton (see Letter 49, note 13).

4 Memoranda.

5 Again.

6 O Lord, drunken slut.

7 There's for you now, and there's for your letter, and every kind of thing.

8 Bolingbroke.

9 See Letter 13, note 10.

10 Grub Street pamphlet. The title was, A Supposed Letter from the Pretender
to another Whig Lord.

11 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.



Letter 51.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Dingley," etc. Endorsed "Aug. 14."

2 Perhaps this was influenza.

3 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 Letter
15, note 1), 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."

4 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.

5 Poor Laracor.

6 See Letter 12, note 1.

7 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 Letter 24, note 7).



Letter 52.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Dingley," etc. Endorsed "Oct. 1st. At Portraune"
[Portraine].

2 Oxford and Bolingbroke.

3 Including Hester Vanhomrigh.

4 He died on Sept. 15, 1712.

5 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 pounds 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."

6 Cliefden.

7 See Letter 12, note 7.

8 Swift's sister (see Letter 9, note 22).

9 Forster reads "returned."

10 See Swift's letter to General Hill of Aug. 12, 1712

11 Swift's housekeeper at Laracor.

12 I.e., be made freemen of the City.



Letter 53.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Dingley," etc. Endorsed "Octr. 18. At Portraune."

2 "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.).

3 The History of the Works of the Learned, a quarto periodical, was published
from 1699 to 1711.

4 See Letter 35, note 4.

5 See Letter 28, note 25.

6 Lady Elizabeth Savage, daughter of Richard, fourth Earl Rivers (see Letter
11, note 9), 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.

7 No. 32.

8 Very sick.

9 From "but I" to "agreeable" is partially obliterated.

10 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."

11 This sentence is partially obliterated.

12 See Letter 51, note 2.

13 See Letter 5, note 16.

14 The latter half of this sentence is partially obliterated.

15 Partly obliterated.

16 See Letter 8, note 2.

17 Wise.

18 Partly obliterated.

19 See Letter 6, note 45.

20 This sentence is almost obliterated.



Letter 54.

1 The MS. of this letter has not been preserved.

2 See Letter 26, note 2.

3 Swift's friend, Dr. Pratt (see Letter 2, note 14), was then Provost of
Trinity College, Dublin.

4 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.

5 Probably "The Case of Ireland's being bound by Acts of Parliament in England
stated" (1698).

6 Oxford and Bolingbroke.

7 See Letter 36, note 18.

8 See Letter 51, Aug. 7, 1712.

9 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.

10 See Letter 52, note 5.

11 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.

12 For the street criers, see the Spectator, No. 251.



Letter 55.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Dingley." Endorsed "Nov. 26, just come from Portraine";
and "The band-box plot--D: Hamilton's murther."

2 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.

3 This duel between the Duke of Hamilton (see Letter 27, note 9) 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.

4 "Will" (MS.).

5 See Letter 27, note 9.

6 George Maccartney (see Letter 11, note 13 and Letter 39, Jan. 22, 1711-12 )
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.

7 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.

8 "That" (MS.).

9 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.

10 "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).

11 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.

12 Cf. Letter 16, Feb. 20, 1710-11.

13 This sentence is partially obliterated.

14 Part of this sentence has been obliterated.

15 See Letter 43, note 39. I have not been able to find a copy of the paper
containing Swift's paragraph.

16 This sentence is partially obliterated.

17 See Letter 12, note 2.

18 Apparently Humphrey Griffith, who was one of the Commissioners of Salt; but
Swift gives the name as "Griffin" throughout.

19 See Letter 53, note 13 and Letter 5, note 16.

20 For these shorter letters Swift folded the folio sheet before writing.



Letter 56.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Dingley," etc. Endorsed "Decr. 18."

2 Vengeance.

3 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.

4 The History of the Peace of Utrecht.

5 See Letter 55, note 7.

6 Lord Oxford's daughter Elizabeth married, on Dec. 16, 1712, Peregrine Hyde,
Marquis of Caermarthen, afterwards third Duke of Leeds (see Letter 42, note 23
and Letter 24, note 5). She died on Nov. 20, 1713, a few days after the birth
of a son. Swift called her "a friend I extremely loved."

7 "Is" (MS.).

8 Disorders.

9 See Letter 34, note 10.

10 John Francis, Rector of St. Mary's, Dublin, was made Dean of Leighlin in
1705.

11 See Letter 9, note 7.

12 Possibly "have."

13 See Letter 55, notes 9, 10, 11.

14 This clause is omitted by Mr. Ryland.

15 See Letter 31, note 6.

16 See Letter 54, Oct. 30, 1712.

17 Thomas Jones, Esq., was M.P. for Trim in the Parliament of 1713-4.

18 A Dutch agent employed in the negotiations with Lewis XIV.

19 When I come home.



Letter 57.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Dingley," etc. Endorsed "Jan. 13."

2 "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.

3 In this letter (Dec. 20, 1712) Swift paid many compliments to the Duchess of
Ormond (see Letter 17, note 5): "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."

4 Tisdall's Conduct of the Dissenters in Ireland (see Letter 61, note 7).

5 See Letter 9, note 20 and Letter 20, Apr. 13, 1711.

6 Monteleon.

7 See Letter 5, note 8 and Letter 3, note 3.

8 Utrecht, North and South Holland, and West Frieseland.

9 See Letter 46, note 11.

10 See Letter 46, note 11.

11 "On Queen Anne's Peace."

12 See Letter 43, note 11. The poem was "Dryades, or the Nymph's Prophecy."

13 See Letter 35, note 4.

14 See Letter 17, note 3.

15 Dr. Tobias Pullen (1648-1713) was made Bishop of Dromore in 1695.

16 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 Letter 52, note 5). The difference between Lord Selkirk and the
Earl of Abercorn (see Letter 10, note 33) to which Swift alludes was in
connection with the claim to the Dukedom of Chatelherault (see Letter 43, note
32).

17 Heart.

18 This sentence is almost illegible.

19 A reward of 500 pounds was offered by the Crown for Maccartney's
apprehension, and 200 pounds by the Duchess of Hamilton.

20 In the proposed History of the Peace of Utrecht.

21 Mr. Ryland's reading. Forster has "Iss." These words are obliterated.

22 Hoist. Cf."Hoised up the mainsail" (Acts xxvii. 40).

23 It was afterwards found that Miss Ashe was suffering from smallpox.

24 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."

25 A thousand merry new years. The words are much obliterated.

26 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.

27 The quarrel between Oxford and Bolingbroke.

28 See Letter 19, note 1.

29 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."

30 Partially obliterated.

31 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."

32 On the third page of the paper.

33 See Letter 7, note 3.



Letter 58.

1 To "Mrs. Dingley," etc. Endorsed "Feb. 4."

2 This sentence is scribbled over. Forster reads the last word as "lastalls,"
i.e. rascals, but it seems rather to be "ledles."

3 Dr. Peter Brown was appointed Bishop of Cork in 1709.

4 See Letter 5, note 22.

5 See Letter 5, note 3.

6 See Letter 5, note 11.

7 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 Letter 3, note
36).

8 Thomas Keightley, a Commissioner of the Great Seal in Ireland.

9 Nearly obliterated. Mr. Ryland reads, "deelest MD."

10 See Letter 57, note 14.

11 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.

12 Earl Poulett (see Letter 20, note 7).

13 "Say" (MS.).

14 Dr. Pratt.

15 See Letter 13, Jan. 6, 1710-11.

16 This sentence is partially obliterated.

17 See Letter 31, note 10 and, in the same letter, Oct. 5, 1711.

18 Cf. the account of Beatrix's feelings on the death of the Duke in "Esmond",
book iii. chaps. 6 and 7.

19 See Letter 21, note 3.

20 "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].

21 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.

22 The History of the Peace of Utrecht.

23 A line here has been erased. Forster imagined that he read, "Nite dear MD,
drowsy drowsy dear."

24 Hereford.

25 Very well.

26 Sentence obliterated. Forster professes to read, "Pay can oo walk oftener-
-oftener still?"

27 See Letter 57, note 15.

28 Dr. Bisse, translated from St. David's.

29 See Letter 58, note 7 and Letter 19, note 1.



Letter 59.

1 To "Mrs. Dingley," etc. Endorsed "Febr. 26."

2 See Letter 58, note 21.

3 See Letter 28, note 11.

4 See Letter 55, note 9.

5 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."

6 Lord Dupplin (see Letter 5, note 34) had been created Baron Hay in December
1711.

7 A composition of inflammable materials.

8 Assessors.

9 See Letter 6, note 12.

10 See Letter 59, note 5.

11 See Letter 46, note 11.

12 See Letter 3, notes 21 and 22, Letter 39, Jan. 12, 1711-12 and Letter 42,
Mar. 1, 1711-12.

13 Dr. Bisse.

14 See Letter 33, note 10.

15 Forster reads, "something."

16 Hardly legible.

17 See Letter 7, note 31.

18 Stella's brother-in-law (See Letter 53, note 13, Letter 5, note 16 and
Letter 55, Nov. 18, 1712).

19 Forster guesses, "Oo are so 'recise; not to oor health."

20 For "poo Ppt's." Mr. Ryland reads, "people's."

21 See Letter 57, 21 Dec. 1712.

22 See Letter 57, note 23.

23 See Letter 14, note 9.

24 Obliterated; Forster's reading.

25 Writing in October 1713, Lord Berkeley of Stratton told Lord Strafford of
"a fine prank of the widow Lady Jersey" (see Letter 29, note 3). "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 Letter 63, note 8. I am not sure whether in the present
passage Swift is referring to the widow or the younger Lady Jersey (see Letter
33, note 10).

26 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 Letter 54, note 11), daughter of Sir Edward
Villiers.

27 See Letter 43, Mar. 21, 1711-12 and Letter 49, Jul. 1, 1712.

28 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.

29 See Letter 43, note 11 and Letter 57, note 12.


Letter 60.

1 Addressed to "Mrs. Dingley," etc. Endorsed "Mar. 7."

2 See Letter 5, note 23.

3 Sedan chairs were then comparatively novel (see Gay's Trivia).

4 Some words obliterated. Forster reads, "Nite MD, My own deelest MD."

5 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 pounds, and the Queen owed him 500
pounds, 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 pounds, and give the remainder to his mother and
sister" (Wentworth Papers, 320).

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