15 James, Lord Compton, afterwards fifth Earl of Northampton, was the eldest son of George, the fourth Earl.  He was summoned to the House of Lords in December 1711, and died in 1754.

16 See Letter 11, note 12.

Letter 21.

1 In 1670 Temple thanked the Grand Duke of Tuscany for “an entire vintage of the finest wines of Italy” (Temple’s Works, 1814, ii. 155-56).

2 Mrs. Manley (see Letter 17, note 22).

3 Charles Caesar, M.P. for Hertford, was appointed Treasurer of the Navy in June 1711, in the room of Robert Walpole.

4 Joseph I. His successor was his brother Charles, the King of Spain recognised by England.

5 Simon Harcourt, M.P. for Wallingford.  He married Elizabeth, sister of Sir John Evelyn, Bart., and died in 1720, aged thirty-five, before his father.  He was secretary to the society of “Brothers,” wrote verses, and was a friend of the poets.  His son Simon was created Earl Harcourt in 1749, and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

6 Doiley, a seventeenth-century linen-draper,—­probably “Thomas Doyley, at the Nun, in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden,”—­invented stuffs which “might at once be cheap and genteel” (Spectator, No. 283).

7 A special envoy.  The Resident from Venice in 1710 was Signor Bianchi.

8 See Letter 17, note 5.

9 Nanfan Coote, second Earl of Bellamont, who died in 1708, married, in 1705, Lucia Anna, daughter of Henry de Nassau, Lord of Auverquerque, and sister of Henry, first Earl of Grantham.  She died in 1744.

10 “Farnese” (Deane Swift).

11 See Letter 20, note 3.

12 Swift’s changes of residence during the period covered by the Journal were numerous.  On Sept. 20, 1710, he moved from Pall Mall to Bury Street, “where I suppose I shall continue while in London.”  But on Dec. 28 he went to new lodgings in St. Albans Street, Haymarket.  On April 26, 1711, he moved to Chelsea, and from there to Suffolk Street, to be near the Vanhomrighs.  He next moved to St. Martins Street, Leicester Fields; and a month later to Panton Street, Haymarket.  In 1712 he lodged for a time at Kensington Gravel Pits.

13 At raffling for books.

14 James Brydges, Paymaster-General, and afterwards Duke of Chandos (see Letter 3, note 31).

15 Thomas Foley, M.P. for Worcestershire, was created Baron Foley in December 1711, and died in 1733.

16 See 25th April, 1711 and Letter 20, note 3.

17 See Letter 19, note 3.

18 Charles Dering, second son of Sir Edward Dering, Bart., M.P. for Kent, was Auditor of the Exchequer in Ireland, and M.P. for Carlingford.

19 See Letter 11, note 44.

20 See Letter 17, note 4.

21 A Whig paper, for the most part by Mainwaring and Oldmixon, in opposition to the Examiner.  It appeared weekly from October 1710 to August 1711.