ion of 1715. His first wife, Lady Margaret Hay, was a
daughter of Lord Kinnoull.

8 Thomas Hay, sixth Earl of Kinnoull (died 1719), a Commissioner for
the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland, and one of the Scotch
representative peers in the first Parliament of Great Britain. His son
and heir, Viscount Dupplin, afterwards Baron Hay (see Letter 5, note
34), who married Harley's daughter Abigail, is often mentioned in the
Journal.

9 See Letter 3, note 5.

10 The title of the pamphlet was, "A New Journey to Paris, together
with some Secret Transactions between the French King and an English
Gentleman. By the Sieur du Baudrier. Translated from the French."

11 See Letter 11, note 44.

12 See Letter 28, note 6.

13 The Earl of Strafford (see Letter 18, note 3) married, on Sept.
6, 1711, Anne, only daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Johnson, of
Bradenham, Buckinghamshire, a wealthy shipbuilder. Many of Lady
Strafford's letters to her husband are given in the Wentworth Papers,
1883.

14 Samuel Pratt, who was also Clerk of the Closet.

15 Alice Hill, woman of the bed-chamber to the Queen, died in 1762.

16 Enniscorthy, the name of a town in the county of Wexford.

17 Scrambling.

18 "These words in italics are written in strange, misshapen letters,
inclining to the right hand, in imitation of Stella's writing" (Deane
Swift). (Italics replaced by capitals for the transcription of this
etext.)

19 Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.

20 John Pooley, appointed Bishop of Raphoe in 1702.

21 These words in italics are miserably scrawled, in imitation of
Stella's hand (Deane Swift). (Italics replaced by capitals for the
transcription of this etext.)

22 See Letter 8, note 2.

LETTER 30.

1 See Letter 25, note 1.

2 See Letter 9, note 22.

3 See Letter 29, note 10.

4 Cf. the entry on the 11th (note 3 above).

5 See Letter 6, note 4.

6 William, Lord Villiers, second Earl of Jersey (died 1721), a strong
Jacobite, had been M.P. for Kent before his father's death. He married,
in 1704, Judith, only daughter of a City merchant, Frederick Herne, son
of Sir Nathaniel Herne, Alderman; she died in 1735. Lord Jersey, one of
"the prettiest young peers in England," was a companion of Bolingbroke,
and stories in the Wentworth Papers (pp. 149, 230, 395, 445), show that
he had a bad reputation.

7 See Letter 28, note 4.

8 The name of Arbuthnot's wife is not known: she died in 1730.

9 James