[508c] Sedan chairs were then comparatively novel (see Gay’s Trivia).
[508d] Some words obliterated. Forster reads, “Nite MD, My own deelest MD.”
[509a] Peter Wentworth wrote to Lord Strafford, on Feb. 17, 1713, “Poor Mr. Harrison is very much lamented; he died last Saturday. Dr. Swift told me that he had told him . . . he owed about £300, and the Queen owed him £500, and that if you or some of your people could send an account of his debts, that I might give it to him, he would undertake to solicit Lord Treasurer and get this £500, and give the remainder to his mother and sister” (Wentworth Papers, 320).
[509b] George St. John (eldest son of Sir Harry St. John by his second marriage) was Secretary to the English Plenipotentiaries at Utrecht. He died at Venice in 1716 (Lady Cowper’s Diary, 65).
[509c] Forster wrongly reads, “poor.”
[509d] “Putt” (MS.).
[510a] Montagu Bertie, second Earl of Abingdon (died 1743), was a strong Tory.
[510b] See p. [102]. These friends were together again on an expedition to Bath in 1715, when Jervas wrote to Pope (Aug. 12, 1715) that Arbuthnot, Disney, and he were to meet at Hyde Park Corner, proceed to Mr. Hill’s at Egham, meet Pope next day, and then go to Lord Stawell’s to lodge the night. Lord Stawell’s seat, Aldermaston, was seventeen miles from Binfield.