Perhaps Swift and his old schoolfellow, Mr. Stratford, the Hamburgh merchant.

'Stratford is worth a plumb, and is now lending the Government £40,000; yet we were educated together at the same school and university.'

Journal

to Stella, Sept. 14, 1710.

[return to footnote mark]

[Footnote 2:]

them

[return]

[Footnote 3:]

Leopold the last was also Leopold the First. He died May 6, 1705, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Joseph, who died while the