7 See Letter 24, note 4.

8 Harness.

9 On his birthday Swift read the third chapter of Job.

10 See Letter 33, note 12.

11 Sir George St. George of Dunmore, Co.  Galway, M.P. for Co.  Leitrim from 1661 to 1692, and afterwards for Co.  Galway, died in December 1711.

12 See Letter 35, note 11 and Letter 31, note 10.

13 See Letter 4, note 16.

14 Dr. Pratt (see Letter 2, note 14).

15 King Henry viii., act iv. sc. 2; “An old man broken with the storms,” etc.

16 “These words in the manuscript imitate Stella’s writing, and are sloped the wrong way” (Deane Swift),

17 Archibald Douglas, third Marquis of Douglas, was created Duke of Douglas in 1703.  He died, without issue, in 1761.

18 Arbuthnot and Freind.

Letter 39.

1 Sir Stephen Evance, goldsmith, was knighted in 1690.

2 Because of the refusal of the House of Lords to allow the Duke of Hamilton (see Letter 27, note 9), a Scottish peer who had been raised to the peerage of Great Britain as Duke of Brandon, to sit under that title.  The Scottish peers discontinued their attendance at the House until the resolution was partially amended; and the Duke of Hamilton always sat as a representative Scottish peer.

3 Sir William Robinson (1655-1736), created a baronet in 1689, was M.P. for York from 1697 to 1722.  His descendants include the late Earl De Grey and the Marquis of Ripon.

4 See Letter 16, note 19.  The full title was, Some Advice humbly offered to the Members of the October Club, in a Letter from a Person of Honour.

5 See Letter 38, note 11.

6 “It is the last of the page, and written close to the edge of the paper” (Deane Swift).

7 Henry Somerset, second Duke of Beaufort.  In September 1711 the Duke—­who was then only twenty-seven—­married, as his third wife, Mary, youngest daughter of the Duke of Leeds.  In the following January Lady Strafford wrote, “The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are the fondest of one another in the world; I fear ’tis too hot to hold. . . .  I own I fancy people may love one another as well without making so great a rout” (Wentworth Papers, 256).  The Duke died in 1714, at the age of thirty.

8 “Upon the 10th and 17th of this month the Examiner was very severe upon the Duke of Marlborough, and in consequence of this report pursued him with greater virulence in the following course of his papers” (Deane Swift).

9 A term of execration.  Scott (Kenilworth) has, “A pize on it.”

10 See Letter 11, note 13.

11 In a letter to Swift of Jan. 31, 1712, Sacheverell, after expressing his indebtedness to St. John and Harley, said, “For yourself, good Doctor, who was the first spring to move it, I can never sufficiently acknowledge the obligation,” and in a postscript he hinted that a place in the Custom House which he heard was vacant might suit his brother.