[448b] Swift probably was only repeating an inaccurate rumour, for there is no evidence that Steele was arrested. His gambling scheme was withdrawn directly an information was laid under the new Act of Parliament against gambling (Aitken’s Life of Steele, i. 347).
[448c] Dr. William Moreton (1641–1715), Swift’s diocesan, was translated from the see of Kildare to that of Meath in 1705.
[448d] Words obliterated. Forster reads conjecturally, “when ME wants me to send. She ought to have it,” etc.
[449a] Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “July 23.”
[449b] “N. 33” seems a mistake. Letter No. 32 was received after Swift had left Kensington and gone to Windsor; see pp. [452], [456] (Ryland).
[450a] Dr. Moreton (see p. [448]).
[450b] Memoranda.
[450c] Again.
[450d] O Lord, drunken slut.
[450e] There’s for you now, and there’s for your letter, and every kind of thing.