t was Swift's "little parson cousin" (see Letter
24, note 2).

6 See Letter 6, note 11. The book referred to is, apparently, An
Impartial Enquiry into the Management of the War in Spain, post-dated
1712.

7 Lord Harley (afterwards second Earl of Oxford) (see Letter 5, note
35) married, on Oct. 31, 1713, Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, only
daughter of John Holles, last Duke of Newcastle of that family (see
Letter 26, note 26).

8 Bolingbroke afterwards said that the great aim (at length
accomplished) of Harley's administration was to marry his son to
this young lady. Swift wrote a poetical address to Lord Harley on his
marriage.

9 Thomas Pelham, first Baron Pelham, married, as his second wife, Lady
Grace Holles, daughter of the Earl of Clare and sister of the Duke of
Newcastle. Their eldest son, Thomas, who succeeded to the barony in
1712, was afterwards created Earl of Clare and Duke of Newcastle,

10 Francis Higgins, Rector of Baldruddery, called "the Sacheverell
of Ireland," was an extreme High Churchman, who had been charged with
sedition on account of sermons preached in London in 1707. In 1711 he
was again prosecuted as "a disloyal subject and disturber of the public
peace." At that time he was Prebendary of Christ Church, Dublin; in 1725
he was made Archdeacon of Cashel.

11 Swift's pamphlet, The Conduct of the Allies.

12 Lord Oxford's daughter Abigail married, in 1709, Viscount Dupplin,
afterwards seventh Earl of Kinnoull (see Letter 5, note 34). She died in
1750, and her husband in 1758, when the eldest son, Thomas, became Earl.
The second son, Robert, was made Archbishop of York in 1761.

13 Kensington Gravel Pits was then a famous health resort.

14 Draggled. Pope has, "A puppy, daggled through the town."

15 Writing of Peperharrow, Manning and Bray state (Surrey, ii. 32, 47)
that Oxenford Grange was conveyed to Philip Froud (died 1736) in 1700,
and was sold by him in 1713 to Alan Broderick, afterwards Viscount
Midleton. This Froud (Swift's "old Frowde") had been Deputy
Postmaster-General; he was son of Sir Philip Frowde, who was knighted in
1665 (Le Neve's Knights, Harleian Society, p. 190), and his son Philip
was Addison's friend (see Letter 8, note 13).

16 Probably the Charles Child, Esq., of Farnham, whose death is recorded
in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1754.

17 Grace Spencer was probably Mrs. Proby's sister (see Letter 19, note
3).

18 Cf. Shakespeare, As You Like It, v. 3: "Shall