[438b] Arbuthnot.
[438c] Enquiries by servants.
[438e] Sick.
[439a] Afterwards Rector of Letcombe, Berks. It was to his house that Swift repaired a few weeks before the Queen’s death. On June 8, 1714, he wrote, “I am at a clergyman’s house, whom I love very well, but he is such a melancholy, thoughtful man, partly from nature, and partly by a solitary life, that I shall soon catch the spleen from him. His wife has been this month twenty miles off at her father’s, and will not return these ten days, and perhaps the house will be worse when she comes.” Swift spells the name “Geree”; later on in the Journal he mentions two of Mr. Gery’s sisters, Betty (Mrs. Elwick) and Moll (Mrs. Wigmore); probably he made the acquaintance of the family when he was living with the Temples at Moor Park (see p. [502]).
[439b] Because she is a good girl in other things.
[439c] Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “June 5.”
[439d] Sice, the number six at dice.
[440a] At Laracor Swift had “a canal and river-walk and willows.”
[440b] Splenetic fellow.