[331] See the pun on p. [329].
[333b] Stella and Dingley.
[333c] Noah’s Dove, an Exhortation to Peace, set forth in a Sermon preached on the Seventh of November, 1710, a Thanksgiving Day, by Thomas Swift, A.M., formerly Chaplain to Sir William Temple, now Rector of Puttenham in Surrey. Thomas Swift was Swift’s “little parson cousin” (see p. [225]).
[333d] See p. [36]. The book referred to is, apparently, An Impartial Enquiry into the Management of the War in Spain, post-dated 1712.
[334a] Lord Harley (afterwards second Earl of Oxford) (see p. [30]) married, on Oct. 31, 1713, Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, only daughter of John Holles, last Duke of Newcastle of that family (see p. [257]).
[334b] Bolingbroke afterwards said that the great aim (at length accomplished) of Harley’s administration was to marry his son to this young lady. Swift wrote a poetical address to Lord Harley on his marriage.
[334c] Thomas Pelham, first Baron Pelham, married, as his second wife, Lady Grace Holles, daughter of the Earl of Clare and sister of the Duke of Newcastle. Their eldest son, Thomas, who succeeded to the barony in 1712, was afterwards created Earl of Clare and Duke of Newcastle,