[284d] The title of the pamphlet was, A New Journey to Paris, together with some Secret Transactions between the French King and an English Gentleman. By the Sieur du Baudrier. Translated from the French.
[286] The Earl of Strafford (see p. [170]) married, on Sept. 6, 1711, Anne, only daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Johnson, of Bradenham, Buckinghamshire, a wealthy shipbuilder. Many of Lady Strafford’s letters to her husband are given in the Wentworth Papers, 1883.
[287a] Samuel Pratt, who was also Clerk of the Closet.
[287b] Alice Hill, woman of the bed-chamber to the Queen, died in 1762.
[288a] Enniscorthy, the name of a town in the county of Wexford.
[288b] Scrambling.
[288c] “These words in italics are written in strange, misshapen letters, inclining to the right hand, in imitation of Stella’s writing” (Deane Swift).
[288d] Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.