6.  Mrs. Bridget Johnson, who married, as her second husband, Ralph Mose or Moss, of Farnham, an agent for Sir William Temple’s estate, was waiting-woman or companion to Lady Giffard.  In her will (1722) Lady Giffard left Mrs. Moss 2O pounds, “with my silver cup and cover.”  Mrs. Moss died in 1745, when letters of administration were granted to a creditor of the deceased.

7.  Dr. William King (165O-1729), a Whig and High Churchman, had more than one difference with Swift during the twenty years following Swift’s first visit to London in connection with the First-Fruits question.

8.  Swift’s benefice, in the diocese of Meath, two miles from Trim.

9.  Steele, who had been issuing the Tatler thrice weekly since April 17O9.  He lost the Gazetteership in October.

10.  James, second Duke of Ormond (1665-1745) was appointed Lord Lieutenant on the 26th of October.  In the following year he became Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief.  He was impeached of high treason and attainted in 1715; and he died in exile.

11.  “Presto,” substituted by the original editor for “Pdfr,” was suggested by a passage in the Journal for Aug. 2, 1711, where Swift says that the Duchess of Shrewsbury “could not say my name in English, but said Dr. Presto, which is Italian for Swift.”

12.  Charles Jervas, the popular portrait-painter, has left two portraits of Swift, one of which is in the National Portrait Gallery, and the other in the Bodleian Library.

13.  Sir William Temple’s nephew, and son of Sir John Temple (died 17O4), Solicitor and Attorney-General, and Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.  “Jack” Temple acquired the estate of Moor Park, Surrey, by his marriage with Elizabeth, granddaughter of Sir William Temple, and elder daughter of John Temple, who committed suicide in 1689.  As late as 17O6 Swift received an invitation to visit Moor Park.

14.  Dr. Benjamin Pratt, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, was appointed Dean of Down in 1717.  Swift calls him “a person of wit and learning,” and “a gentleman of good birth and fortune,. . very much esteemed among us” (Short Character of Thomas, Earl of Wharton).  On his death in 1721 Swift wrote, “He was one of the oldest acquaintance I had, and the last that I expected to die.  He has left a young widow, in very good circumstances.  He had schemes of long life. . . .  What a ridiculous thing is man!” (Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift, 1899, p. 106).

15.  A Westmeath landlord, whom Swift met from time to time in London.  The Leighs were well acquainted with Esther Johnson.

16.  Dr. Enoch Sterne, appointed Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, in 17O4.  Swift was his successor in the deanery on Dr. Sterne’s appointment as Bishop of Dromore in 1713.  In 1717 Sterne was translated to the bishopric of Clogher.  He spent much money on the cathedrals, etc., with which he was connected.