[526e] Pocket.
[526f] Forster reads, “Lele lele logues”; Mr. Ryland, “Lele lele . . . ”
[527a] Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Apr. 13.”
[527b] Esther Johnson’s brother-in-law, Filby (see p. [471]).
[527c] Earl Poulett (see p. [190]).
[527d] Francis Annesley, M.P. for Westbury. His colleague in the representation of that borough was Henry Bertie (third son of James, Earl of Abingdon), who married Earl Poulett’s sister-in-law, Anthony Henley’s widow (see p. [117]).
[528a] “Has” (MS.).
[528b] A dozen words are erased. The reading is Forster’s, and appears to be correct.
[528c] The British Ambassadress’s Speech to the French King. The printer was sent to the pillory and fined.
[528d] The Examiner (vol. iii. No. 35) said that Swift—“a gentleman of the first character for learning, good sense, wit, and more virtues than even they can set off and illustrate”—was not the author of that periodical. “Out of pure regard to justice, I strip myself of all the honour that lucky untruth did this paper.”