[335a] Francis Higgins, Rector of Baldruddery, called “the Sacheverell of Ireland,” was an extreme High Churchman, who had been charged with sedition on account of sermons preached in London in 1707. In 1711 he was again prosecuted as “a disloyal subject and disturber of the public peace.” At that time he was Prebendary of Christ Church, Dublin; in 1725 he was made Archdeacon of Cashel.
[335b] Swift’s pamphlet, The Conduct of the Allies.
[335c] Lord Oxford’s daughter Abigail married, in 1709, Viscount Dupplin, afterwards seventh Earl of Kinnoull (see p. [30]). She died in 1750, and her husband in 1758, when the eldest son, Thomas, became Earl. The second son, Robert, was made Archbishop of York in 1761.
[335d] Kensington Gravel Pits was then a famous health resort.
[336a] Draggled. Pope has, “A puppy, daggled through the town.”
[336b] Writing of Peperharrow, Manning and Bray state (Surrey, ii. 32, 47) that Oxenford Grange was conveyed to Philip Froud (died 1736) in 1700, and was sold by him in 1713 to Alan Broderick, afterwards Viscount Midleton. This Froud (Swift’s “old Frowde”) had been Deputy Postmaster-General; he was son of Sir Philip Frowde, who was knighted in 1665 (Le Neve’s Knights, Harleian Society, p. 190), and his son Philip was Addison’s friend (see p. [58]).
[336c] Probably the Charles Child, Esq., of Farnham, whose death is recorded in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1754.
[337] Grace Spencer was probably Mrs. Proby’s sister (see p. [176], [202]).
[338a] Cf. Shakespeare, As You Like It, v. 3: “Shall we clap into ’t roundly, without hawking or spitting, which are the only prologues to a bad voice?”
[338b] In the “Verses on his own Death,” 1731, Swift says