13 Dr. William Moreton (1641-1715), Swift’s diocesan, was translated from the see of Kildare to that of Meath in 1705.

14 Words obliterated.  Forster reads conjecturally, “when me wants me to send.  She ought to have it,” etc.

Letter 50.

1 Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc.  Endorsed “July 23.”

2 “N.33” seems a mistake.  Letter No. 32 was received after Swift had left Kensington and gone to Windsor; see Letter 51, Aug. 7, 1712 and Letter 52, Sept. 18, 1712 (Ryland).

3 Dr. Moreton (see Letter 49, note 13).

4 Memoranda.

5 Again.

6 O Lord, drunken slut.

7 There’s for you now, and there’s for your letter, and every kind of thing.

8 Bolingbroke.

9 See Letter 13, note 10.

10 Grub Street pamphlet.  The title was, A Supposed Letter from the Pretender to another Whig Lord.

11 Arnold Joost Van Keppel, created Earl of Albemarle in 1697.  He died in 1718.  The action referred to was at Denain, where the Dutch were defeated by Villars.

Letter 51.

1 Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc.  Endorsed “Aug. 14.”

2 Perhaps this was influenza.

3 By the Stamp Act passed on June 10, 1712—­which was repealed in 1859—­a duty of one halfpenny was levied on all pamphlets and newspapers contained in half a sheet or less, and a duty of one penny on those of more than half but not exceeding a whole sheet.  Swift opposed the idea in January 1711 (see Letter 15, note 1), and Defoe argued against the Bill in the Review for April 26, 1712, and following numbers.  Addison, in the Spectator, No. 445, spoke of the mortality among authors resulting from the Stamp Act as “the fall of the leaf.”

4 The title is, “Lewis Baboon turned honest, and John Bull politician.  Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless Pit.”  This pamphlet—­really the fifth of the series—­appeared on July 31, 1712.

5 Poor Laracor.

6 See Letter 12, note 1.

7 On the death of the third Earl in 1712, the title of Earl of Winchelsea passed to his uncle, Heneage Finch, who had married Anne, daughter of Sir William Kingsmill (see Letter 24, note 7).

Letter 52.

1 Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc.  Endorsed “Oct. 1st.  At Portraune” [Portraine].

2 Oxford and Bolingbroke.

3 Including Hester Vanhomrigh.

4 He died on Sept. 15, 1712.