[156b] “It is a measured mile round the outer wall; and far beyond any the finest square in London” (Deane Swift).
[156c] “The common fare for a set-down in Dublin” (ib.).
[156d] “Mrs. Stoyte lived at Donnybrook, the road to which from Stephen’s Green ran into the country about a mile from the south-east corner” (ib.).
[156e] “Those words in italics are written in a very large hand, and so is the word large” (ib.).
[157] Deane Swift alters “lele” to “there,” but in a note states how he here altered Swift’s “cypher way of writing.” No doubt “lele” and other favourite words occurred frequently in the MS., as they do in the later letters.
[158a] Sir Thomas Mansel, Bart., Comptroller of the Household to Queen Anne, and a Lord of the Treasury, was raised to the peerage in December 1711 as Baron Mansel of Margam. He died in 1723.
[158b] Lady Betty Butler and Lady Betty Germaine (see pp. [14], [17]).
[159] James Eckershall, “second clerk of the Queen’s Privy Kitchen.” Chamberlayne (Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia, 1710, p. 536) says that his wages were £11, 8s. 1½d., and board-wages £138, 11s. 10½d., making £150 in all. Afterwards Eckershall was gentleman usher to Queen Anne; he died at Drayton in 1753, aged seventy-four. Pope was in correspondence with him in 1720 on the subject of contemplated speculations in South Sea and other stocks.
[160a] In October 1710 (see p. [43]) Swift wrote as if he knew about the preparation of these Miscellanies. The volume was published by Morphew instead of Tooke, and it is frequently referred to in the Journal.