45 Dr. Thomas Lindsay, afterwards Bishop of Raphoe.

Letter 7.

1 The first mention of the Vanhomrighs in the Journal.  Swift had made their acquaintance when he was in London in 1708.

2 Lady Elizabeth and Lady Mary (see Letter 3, note 40 and below).

3 John, third Lord Ashburnham, and afterwards Earl of Ashburnham (1687-1737), married, on Oct. 21, 1710, Lady Mary Butler, younger daughter of the Duke of Ormond.  She died on Jan. 2, 1712-3, in her twenty-third year.  She was Swift’s “greatest favourite,” and he was much moved at her death.

4 Edward Wortley Montagu, grandson of the first Earl of Sandwich, and M.P. for Huntingdon.  He was a great friend of Addison’s, and the second volume of the Tatler was dedicated to him.  In 1712 he married the famous Lady Mary Pierrepont, eldest daughter of the Duke of Kingston, and under George I. he became Ambassador Extraordinary to the Porte.  He died in 1761, aged eighty.

5 See Letter 5, note 27.  No copy of these verses is known.

6 Henry Alexander, fifth Earl of Stirling, who died without issue in 1739.  His sister, Lady Judith Alexander, married Sir William Trumbull, Pope’s friend.

7 “These words, notwithstanding their great obscurity at present, were very clear and intelligible to Mrs. Johnson:  they referred to conversations, which passed between her and Dr. Tisdall seven or eight years before; when the Doctor, who was not only a learned and faithful divine, but a zealous Church-Tory, frequently entertained her with Convocation disputes.  This gentleman, in the year 17O4, paid his addresses to Mrs. Johnson” (Deane Swift).  The Rev. William Tisdall was made D.D. in 17O7.  Swift never forgave Tisdall’s proposal to marry Esther Johnson in 17O4, and often gave expression to his contempt for him.  In 1706 Tisdall married, and was appointed Vicar of Kerry and Ruavon; in 1712 he became Vicar of Belfast.  He published several controversial pieces, directed against Presbyterians and other Dissenters.

8 No. 193 of the Tatler, for July 4, 1710, contained a letter from Downes the Prompter in ridicule of Harley’s newly formed Ministry.  This letter, the authorship of which Steele disavowed, was probably by Anthony Henley.

9 William Berkeley, fourth Baron Berkeley of Stratton, was sworn of the Privy Council in September 1710, and was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.  He married Frances, youngest daughter of Sir John Temple, of East Sheen, Surrey, and died in 174O.

10 Probably the widow of Sir William Temple’s son, John Temple (see Letter 2, note 13).  She was Mary Duplessis, daughter of Duplessis Rambouillet, a Huguenot.

11 The Rev. James Sartre, who married Addison’s sister Dorothy, was Prebendary and Archdeacon of Westminster.  He had formerly been French pastor at Montpelier.  After his death in 1713 his widow married a Mr. Combe, and lived until 175O.