22 “As I hope to be saved.”

23 Stella’s maid.

24 See letter from King to Swift, May 15, 1711.  Alderman Constantine, a High Churchman, indignant at being passed over by a junior in the contest for the mayoralty, brought the matter before the Council Board, and produced an old by-law by which aldermen, according to their ancientry, were required to keep their mayoralty.  King took the side of the city, but the majority was for the by-law, and disapproved of the election; whereupon the citizens repealed the by-law and re-elected the same alderman as before.

Letter 24.

1 The Lord Treasurer’s staff.

2 Swift’s “little parson cousin,” the resident chaplain at Moor Park.  He pretended to have had some part in The Tale of a Tub, and Swift always professed great contempt for him.  Thomas Swift was son of an Oxford uncle of Swift’s, of the same name, and was at school and college with Swift.  He became Rector of Puttenham, Surrey, and died in 1752, aged eighty-seven.

3 The Duke of Ormond’s daughter, Lady Mary Butler (see Letter 7, notes 2 and 3.)

4 Thomas Harley, the Lord Treasurer’s cousin, was secretary to the Treasury.

5 Lord Oxford’s daughter Elizabeth married, in 1712, the Marquis of Caermarthen.

6 Henry Tenison, M.P. for County Louth, was one of the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland from 1704 until his death in 1709 (Luttrell, v. 381, vi. 523).  Probably he was related to Dr. Tenison, Bishop of Meath, who died in 1705.

7 Anne Finch (died 1720), daughter of Sir William Kingsmill, and wife of Heneage Finch, who became fourth Earl of Winchelsea in 1712.  Lady Winchelsea published a volume of poems in 1713, and was a friend of Pope and Rowe.  Wordsworth recognised the advance in the growth of attention to “external nature” shown in her writings.

8 See Letter 23, note 24 and Letter 30, note 13.

9 This was a mistake.  Charles Hickman, D.D., Bishop of Derry, died in November 1713.

10 “These words in italics are written in a large round hand” (Deane Swift). [Italics replaced by capitals for the transcription of this etext.]

11 “This entry is interlined in the original” (Deane Swift).

12 Colonel James Graham (1649-1730) held various offices under James ii., and was granted a lease of a lodge in Bagshot Park.  Like his brother, Viscount Preston, he was suspected of treasonable practices in 1691, and he was arrested in 1692 and 1696.  Under Queen Anne and George I., Colonel Graham was M.P. for Appleby and Westmorland.

13 Mr. Leslie Stephen has pointed out that this is the name of an inn (now the Jolly Farmer) near Frimley, on the hill between Bagshot and Farnborough.  This inn is still called the Golden Farmer on the Ordnance map.

14 “Soley” is probably a misreading for “sollah,” a form often used by Swift for “sirrah,” and “figgarkick” may be “pilgarlick” (a poor creature) in Swift’s “little language” (cf. 20th Oct. 1711).