2 Erasmus Lewis, Under Secretary of State under Lord Dartmouth, was a great friend of Swift, Pope, and Arbuthnot.  He had previously been one of Harley’s secretaries, and in his Horace Imitated, Book I. Ep. vii., Swift describes him as “a cunning shaver, and very much in Harley’s favour.”  Arbuthnot says that under George I. Lewis kept company with the greatest, and was “principal governor” in many families.  Lewis was a witness to Arbuthnot’s will.  Pope and Esther Vanhomrigh both left him money to buy rings.  Lewis died in 1754, aged eighty-three.

3 Charles Darteneuf, or Dartiquenave, was a celebrated epicure, who is said to have been a son of Charles ii.  Lord Lyttleton, in his Dialogues of the Dead, recalling Pope’s allusions to him, selects him to represent modern bon vivants in the dialogue between Darteneuf and Apicius.  See Tatler 252.  Darteneuf was Paymaster of the Royal Works and a member of the Kit-Cat Club.  He died in 1737.

4 No. 23O.

5 Good, excellent.

6 Captain George Delaval, appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Portugal in Oct, 171O, was with Lord Peterborough in Spain in 1706.  In May 1707 he went to Lisbon with despatches for the Courts of Spain and Portugal, from whence he was to proceed as Envoy to the Emperor of Morocco, with rich presents (Luttrell, vi. 52, 174, 192).

7 Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax, as Ranger of Bushey Park and Hampton Court, held many offices under William iii., and was First Lord of the Treasury under George I., until his death in 1715.  He was great as financier and as debater, and he was a liberal patron of literature.

8 John Manley, M.P. for Bossiney, was made Surveyor-General on Sept. 3O, 1710, and died in 1714.  In 1706 he fought a duel with another Cornish member (Luttrell, vi. 11, 535, 635).  He seems to be the cousin whom Mrs. De la Riviere Manley accuses of having drawn her into a false marriage.  For Isaac Manley and Sir Thomas Frankland, see Letter 3, notes 3 and 4.

9 The Earl of Godolphin (see Letter 2, note 3).

10 Sir John Stanley, Bart., of Northend, Commissioner of Customs, whom Swift knew through his intimate friends the Pendarves.  His wife, Anne, daughter of Bernard Granville, and niece of John, Earl of Bath, was aunt to Mary Granville, afterwards Mrs. Delany, who lived with the Stanleys at their house in Whitehall.

11 Henry, Viscount Hyde, eldest son of Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, succeeded his father in the earldom in 1711, and afterwards became Earl of Clarendon.  His wife, Jane, younger daughter of Sir William Leveson Gower,—­ who married a daughter of John Granville, Earl of Bath,—­was a beauty, and the mother of two beauties—­Jane, afterwards Countess of Essex (see journal, Jan. 29, 1712), and Catherine, afterwards Countess of Queensberry.  Lady Hyde was complimented by Prior, Pope, and her kinsman, Lord Lansdowne, and is said to have been more handsome than either of her daughters.  She died in 1725; her husband in 1753.  Lord Hyde became joint Vice-Treasurer for Ireland in 171O; hence his interest with respect to Pratt’s appointment.