4 See Letter 7, note 35.

5 John Cecil, sixth Earl of Exeter (died 1721).

6 See Letter 22, note 5.

7 Arbuthnot.

8 A resort of the Tories.

9 Deane Swift, a son of Swift’s uncle Godwin, was a merchant in Lisbon.

10 Winces.  Lyly says, “Rubbe there no more, least I winch.”

11 Probably William Whiston, who was deprived of the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge in 1710 for his heterodox views.  Parliament having offered a reward for the discovery of means of finding the longitude, Whiston made several attempts (1714 and 1721).

12 Word obliterated.

13 Distilled water prepared with rosemary flowers.  In Fielding’s Joseph Andrews, a lady gives up to a highway robber, in her fright, a silver bottle which, the ruffian said, contained some of the best brandy he had ever tasted; this she “afterwards assured the company was a mistake of her maid, for that she had ordered her to fill the bottle with Hungary water.”

14 As I hope to be saved.

15 Added on the fourth page, as the letter was folded.

Letter 45.

1 Addressed to “Mrs. Johnson,” etc.  Endorsed “May 1st.”

2 A kind of clover, used for soothing purposes.

Letter 46.

1 Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc.  Endorsed “May 15.”

2 Madam Ayris.

3 Simpleton.

4 Robert Benson (see Letter 6, note 36).

5 See Letter 41, note 35 and Letter 43, note 7.

6 The title was, An Appendix to John Bull still in his Senses:  or, Law is a Bottomless Pit.

7 Arbuthnot.

8 Enquiries by servants.

9 See Letter 17, note 5.

10 Sick.

11 Afterwards Rector of Letcombe, Berks.  It was to his house that Swift repaired a few weeks before the Queen’s death.  On June 8, 1714, he wrote, “I am at a clergyman’s house, whom I love very well, but he is such a melancholy, thoughtful man, partly from nature, and partly by a solitary life, that I shall soon catch the spleen from him.  His wife has been this month twenty miles off at her father’s, and will not return these ten days, and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes.”  Swift spells the name “Geree”; later on in the Journal he mentions two of Mr. Gery’s sisters, Betty (Mrs. Elwick) and Moll (Mrs. Wigmore); probably he made the acquaintance of the family when he was living with the Temples at Moor Park (see Letter 59, note 11).

12 Because she is a good girl in other things.

Letter 47.

1 Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc.  Endorsed “June 5.”

2 Sice, the number six at dice.

3 At Laracor Swift had “a canal and river-walk and willows.”

4 Splenetic fellow.