14 In July 1712 a Commission passed empowering Conyers Darcy and George Fielding (an equerry to the Queen) to execute the office of Master of the Horse.

15 At Killibride, about four miles from Trim.

16 Swift’s “mistress,” Lady Hyde (see Letter 5, note 11), whose husband had become Earl of Rochester in May 1711.  She was forty-one in 1711.

17 See Sept. 19, 1711.

18 See Letter 29, note 14.

19 See Letter 22, note 3.

20 See Letter 27, note 9.

21 See Letter 26, note 10.

22 “This happens to be the only single line written upon the margin of any of his journals.  By some accident there was a margin about as broad as the back of a razor, and therefore he made this use of it” (Deane Swift).

Letter 32.

1 Lieutenant-Colonel Barton, of Colonel Kane’s regiment.

2 A nickname for the High Church party.

3 See Letter 29, note 10.

4 “From this pleasantry of my Lord Oxford, the appellative Martinus Scriblerus took its rise” (Deane Swift).

5 Cf. the Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace, 1714,
where Swift says that, during their drives together, Harley would
          “gravely try to read the lines
      Writ underneath the country signs.”

6 See Letter 23, note 15.

7 See Letter 18, note 4.

8 See Letter 23, note 17.

9 Lord Pembroke (see Letter 7, note 31) married, in 1708, as his second wife, Barbara, Dowager Baroness Arundell of Trerice, formerly widow of Sir Richard Mauleverer, and daughter of Sir Thomas Slingsby.  She died in 1722.

10 Caleb Coatesworth, who died in 1741, leaving a large fortune.

11 Abel Boyer, Whig journalist and historian, attacked Swift in his pamphlet, An Account of the State and Progress of the Present Negotiations for Peace.  Boyer says that he was released from custody by Harley; and in the Political State for 1711 (p. 646) he speaks of Swift as “a shameless and most contemptible ecclesiastical turncoat, whose tongue is as swift to revile as his mind is swift to change.”  The Postboy said that Boyer would “be prosecuted with the utmost severity of the law” for this attack.

12 The “Edgar.”  Four hundred men were killed.

13 William Bretton, or Britton, was made Lieutenant-Colonel in 1702, Colonel of a new Regiment of Foot 1705, Brigadier-General 1710, and Colonel of the King’s Own Borderers in April 1711 (Dalton, Army Lists, iii. 238).  In December 1711 he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Prussia (Postboy, Jan. 1, 1712), and he died in December 1714 or January 1715.

14 See Letter 24, note 14.