[300] Mrs. Fenton.
[302a] Charles Paulet, second Duke of Bolton, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1717, and died in 1722. In a note on Macky’s character of the Duke, Swift calls him “a great booby”; and Lady Cowper (Diary, p. 154) says that he was generally to be seen with his tongue lolling out of his mouth.
[302b] Stella’s maid.
[303b] Colonel Fielding (see p. [154]).
[304a] The envoys were Ménager and the Abbé du Bois; the priest was the Abbé Gaultier.
[304c] Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, General, who died in 1702, married Eleanor, daughter of Richard Wall, of Rogane, Tipperary. She died in 1732, and Swift described her as so “cunning a devil that she had great influence as a reconciler of the differences at Court.” One of her sons was General James Oglethorpe, the philanthropist, and friend of Dr. Johnson.
[305a] “Worrit,” trouble, tease.