[320] Mrs. Manley.
[321a] Swift’s own lines, “Mrs. Frances Harris’s Petition.”
[321b] Thomas Coote was a justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, in Ireland, from 1692 until his removal in 1715.
[321c] Probably a relative of Robert Echlin, Dean of Tuam, who was killed by some of his own servants in April 1712, at the age of seventy-three. His son John became Prebendary and Vicar-General of Tuam, and died in 1764, aged eighty-three. In August 1731 Bolingbroke sent Swift a letter by the hands of “Mr. Echlin,” who would, he said, tell Swift of the general state of things in England.
[321d] “This column of words, as they are corrected, is in Stella’s hand” (Deane Swift).
[323a] Swift’s verses, “The Description of a Salamander,” are a scurrilous attack on John, Lord Cutts (died 1707), who was famous for his bravery. Joanna Cutts, the sister who complained of Swift’s abuse, died unmarried.
[323c] Fourteen printers or publishers were arrested, under warrants signed by St. John, for publishing pamphlets directed against the Government. They appeared at the Court of Queens Bench on Oct. 23, and were continued on their own recognisances till the end of the term.
[324a] Robert Benson (see p. [41]).
[324b] “The South Sea Whim,” printed in Scott’s Swift, ii. 398.