Letter 21.
1 In 1670 Temple thanked the Grand Duke of Tuscany for "an entire vintage of
the finest wines of Italy" (Temple's Works, 1814, ii. 155-56).
2 Mrs. Manley (see Letter 17, note 22).
3 Charles Caesar, M.P. for Hertford, was appointed Treasurer of the Navy in
June 1711, in the room of Robert Walpole.
4 Joseph I. His successor was his brother Charles, the King of Spain
recognised by England.
5 Simon Harcourt, M.P. for Wallingford. He married Elizabeth, sister of Sir
John Evelyn, Bart., and died in 1720, aged thirty-five, before his father. He
was secretary to the society of "Brothers," wrote verses, and was a friend of
the poets. His son Simon was created Earl Harcourt in 1749, and was Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland.
6 Doiley, a seventeenth-century linen-draper,--probably "Thomas Doyley, at the
Nun, in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden,"--invented stuffs which "might at
once be cheap and genteel" (Spectator, No. 283).
7 A special envoy. The Resident from Venice in 1710 was Signor Bianchi.
8 See Letter 17, note 5.
9 Nanfan Coote, second Earl of Bellamont, who died in 1708, married, in 1705,
Lucia Anna, daughter of Henry de Nassau, Lord of Auverquerque, and sister of
Henry, first Earl of Grantham. She died in 1744.
10 "Farnese" (Deane Swift).
11 See Letter 20, note 3.
12 Swift's changes of residence during the period covered by the Journal were
numerous. On Sept. 20, 1710, he moved from Pall Mall to Bury Street, "where I
suppose I shall continue while in London." But on Dec. 28 he went to new
lodgings in St. Albans Street, Haymarket. On April 26, 1711, he moved to
Chelsea, and from there to Suffolk Street, to be near the Vanhomrighs. He
next moved to St. Martins Street, Leicester Fields; and a month later to
Panton Street, Haymarket. In 1712 he lodged for a time at Kensington Gravel
Pits.
13 At raffling for books.
14 James Brydges, Paymaster-General, and afterwards Duke of Chandos (see
Letter 3, note 31).
15 Thomas Foley, M.P. for Worcestershire, was created Baron Foley in December
1711, and died in 1733.
16 See 25th April, 1711 and Letter 20, note 3.
17 See Letter 19, note 3.
18 Charles Dering, second son of Sir Edward Dering, Bart., M.P. for Kent, was
Auditor of the Exchequer in Ireland, and M.P. for Carlingford.
19 See Letter 11, note 44.
20 See Letter 17, note 4.
21 A Whig paper, for the most part by Mainwaring and Oldmixon, in opposition
to the Examiner. It appeared weekly from October 1710 to August 1711.
22 See Letter 17, note 22.
23 See Spectator, No. 50, by Addison.
24 In all probability a mistake for "Wesley" (see Letter 1, note 12).
