, the sister who complained of Swift's abuse, died
unmarried.

2 See Letter 6, note 5.

3 Fourteen printers or publishers were arrested, under warrants signed
by St. John, for publishing pamphlets directed against the Government.
They appeared at the Court of Queens Bench on Oct. 23, and were
continued on their own recognisances till the end of the term.

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

5 "The South Sea Whim," printed in Scott's Swift, ii. 398.

6 See Letter 21, Apr. 24, 1711, Letter 22, Apr. 28, 1711, and Letter 34,
17 Nov. 1711.

7 Count Gallas was dismissed with a message that he might depart from
the kingdom when he thought fit. He published the preliminaries of peace
in the Daily Courant.

8 William, second Viscount Hatton, who died without issue in 1760. His
half-sister Anne married Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham, and
Lord Hatton was therefore uncle to his fellow-guest, Mr. Finch.

9 Crinkle or contract. Gay writes: "Showers soon drench the camblet's
cockled grain."

10 The Countess of Jersey (see Letter 30, note 6), like her husband, was
a friend of Bolingbroke's. Lady Strafford speaks of her having lately
(November 1711) "been in pickle for her sins," at which she was not
surprised. Before the Earl succeeded to the title, Lady Wentworth wrote
to her son: "It's said Lord Villors Lady was worth fower scoar thoussand
pd; you might have got her, as wel as Lord Villors.... He (Lord Jersey)
has not don well by his son, the young lady is not yoused well as I hear
amongst them, which in my openion is not well." Wentworth Papers (pp.
214, 234).

11 Cf. Letter 9, Nov. 11, 1710, and Letter 9, note 3.

12 Charles Crow, appointed Bishop of Cloyne in 1702.

13 Swift.

14 Mrs. Manley.

15 The titles of these pamphlets are as follows: (1) A True Narrative
of.. . the Examination of the Marquis de Guiscard; (2) Some Remarks upon
a Pamphlet entitled, A Letter to the Seven Lords; (3) A New Journey to
Paris; (4) The Duke of Marlborough's Vindication; (5) A Learned Comment
on Dr. Hare's Sermon.

16 See the pun this day above.

LETTER 34.

1 See Letter 3, note 17.

2 See Letter 11, note 44.

3 Pratt (see Letter 2, note 14).

4 Stella and Dingley.

5 "Noah's Dove, an Exhortation to Peace, set forth in a Sermon preached
on the Seventh of November, 1710, a Thanksgiving Day, by Thomas Swift,
A.M., formerly Chaplain to Sir William Temple, now Rector of Puttenham
in Surrey." Thomas Swif