[199a] 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).
[199b] A special envoy. The Resident from Venice in 1710 was Signor Bianchi.
[199d] 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.
[200a] “Farnese” (Deane Swift).
[200c] 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.
[201a] At raffling for books.
[201b] James Brydges, Paymaster-General, and afterwards Duke of Chandos (see p. [12]).
[202a] Thomas Foley, M.P. for Worcestershire, was created Baron Foley in December 1711, and died in 1733.