[110]. Mary the cookmaid ... Mrs. Harris. ‘Mary the Cook-maid’s letter to Dr. Sheridan,’ 1723, which begins thus:—
‘Well, if ever I saw such another man since my mother bound my head!
You a gentleman! marry come up! I wonder where you were bred.’
‘Mrs. Harris’s Petition,’ 1699, after the preliminaries—
‘Humbly sheweth,
That I went to warm myself in Lady Betty’s chamber, because I was cold;
And I had in a purse seven pounds, four shillings, and sixpence, besides farthings, in money and gold.’
Rector of Laracor. Swift was appointed to the vicarage of Laracor, Trim, West Meath, Ireland, in 1700.
Gulliver’s nurse. In the Voyage to Brobdingnag.
An eminent critic. Jeffrey’s article on Scott’s Swift, Edinburgh Review, No. 53, Sept. 1816, vol. xxvii. pp. 1 et seq.