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Academie´ Royale des Sciences, 317 Kensington, 439; his Guardian essay Account of the Duel . . . with Previous on coinage, 486; at a chocolate party of Reflections on Sham Plots, An, by Boyer, S.’s, 519; his play Cato, 521, 524 459 agues, 100, 240, 242, 270, 445 Account of the Earl of Peterborough’s Conduct Aire-sur-la-Lys, 53 in Spain, An, by Freind, 64 Aitken, George, lxvii, lxx Account of the Mock-Procession of Burning the Aldrich, Henry, 408 Pope and the Pretender, intended to be alehouses, 117, 170, 236, 318, 482, 531 performed on the 17th of November, Alexander, Henry, fifth Earl of Sterling, 1711, An, 326 45 Acheson [nee´ Savage], Anne, 86 Alexander the Great, 398 Acheson, Sir Arthur, fifth baronet, 86 Allies, 16, 335, 382, 387, 392 Adams, John, 257, 280, 282 Allies and the Late Ministry Defended Addison, Joseph, 20, 27, 36, 38, 41, 46, 47, against France, and the present friends of 51, 52, 54, 200, 218, 279, 314; career, France, part III, The (1711), by Francis xliv; S. spends evening w., 9, 44, 46, Hare, 390 47, 57, 58; S. dines w., 10, 12, 14, 21, Amadeus, Victor, Duke of Savoy, 168, 35, 43, 52, 53, 62, 69, 133, 279, 522, 188, 514 524; S. visits drawing of a lottery w., Amphitryon, by John Dryden, 332 12; election to Parliament, 35; cold Anne, Queen, 14, 17, 25, 26, 41, 58, 70, behaviour to S., 46, 120, 133, 155, 194, 255, 291, 324, 393, 400, 402, 195, 473; letter for S. directed to, 39; 478, 486; and the First Fruits, xl, 30, S. goes to a coffee house w., 69, 102; 33, 40, 45, 56, 57, 62, 98, 104, 138, S. and he good friends who differ 238, 303, 519; S. never meets, xlvi; politically, 69, 523; E. Johnson writes and S., 58, 90, 104, 254, 255, 353, to, 71; meets S. once in a fortnight, 392, 404, 447, 509, 524, 529, 530, 86; drags S. out to supper, 90; S.’s 531, 532, 536 (see also Swift); and affection for, 91; and Philips, 92; asks removing the ministry, 74; her health S. to help Philips, 92; S. drinks w., and fits of gout, 93, 186, 243, 245, 109; and The Tatler, 109; S. thinks he 260, 271, 284, 290, 313, 316, 318, has been used ill by, 120, 231; 335, 371, 381, 383, 409, 431, 445, introduces Harrison to S., 133; S. will 448, 449, 450, 472, 491, 494, 499, no longer back, 164; and The Spectator, 501, 503, 504, 512, 520; receives the 195; and the State of Wit, 207; E. sacrament, 100; her chaplain, 102; and Johnson is not to send letters care of, the Duke and Duchess of 213; a meeting w. S., 249; goes to Marlborough, 104, 119, 327 (see also Bath, instead of Ireland, 265; S.’s Churchill, John; Churchill, Sarah); opinion of, 279; calls on S. in deliberation in matters granted by her,

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109; and Parliament, 115, 340, 368, Annesley, Arthur, ﬁfth Earl of Anglesey, 369, 484, 527 (see also Parliament); her 82, 101, 178, 179, 181, 183, 187, 371, birthdays and celebrations, 134, 381, 388, 481; S. dines w., 385, 386; and 383, 386, 494, 509; and Irish the Abercorn–Hamilton dispute, 472; Parliament, 263; and Mr and Mrs and Tisdall, 469; and Clements, 469 Masham, 372 (see also Masham); her Annesley, Francis, 516 political predicament, 146; and Annesley, John, fourth Earl of Anglesey, Harley, 154, 161, 206, 215, 303, 410 14–15, 49 (see also Harley, Robert); cautioned apoplexy, 181, 261, 268, 297 against being governed, 155; and the Appendix to John Bull still in his Senses: Or, Duchess of Somerset, 154, 353, 366, Law is a Bottomless-Pit, An,by 371, 374 (see also Seymour, Elizabeth); Arbuthnot, 423 orders Guiscard to be buried, 169–70; Arbuthnot, George, 288, 289 her oculist, and physician, 183, 408; S. Arbuthnot [Arbuthnott], John, 166, 366, fears she will not live long, 195; 409, 410, 499, 521; S. rides and sups touches for the King’s Evil (scrofula), w., 255, 276, 281, 293; inner cabinet 203; horseracing and hunting, 252, dinner, 276; visits Mrs Masham, 282, 254, 255; S.’s descriptions of her, 252, 393; his History of the Maids of Honour, 255, 276, 280; and cards and dancing, 282, 284; plays picquet, 283; his power 281; and a joke about the maids of w. the queen, 288; attempts to get his honour, 282; in council, 284; and brother promoted and S.’s to dissuade Bernage’s promotion, 289; secret him, 288, 289; S.’s gratitude, 290; his audience w. French ministers, 289; at and his family’s illness, 293, 401; and Hampton Court, 299, 305, 308; and the political crisis, 341, 342, 347; and Prior, 300, 461; transfers a ballad on Marlborough, 360; S. Peterborough, 301; and the dismissal dines w., 417, 520, 530; his John Bull of Count Gallas, 310; and a pension pamphlets, 405, 410, 423, 442; S.’s for Frowde, 322; coming to, or in, affection for, 408; John Bull attributed town, 327, 329, 465, 470; at court, to S., 423; and the queen’s health, 449; 337; and the political crisis, 341, 342, his Art of Political Lying, 449 343, 344, 347, 348, 350, 356; creates Arbuthnot, Margaret, 281 new peers, 356, 357, 359; and Prince Aristobulus, 398 Eugene, 361, 381, 383; and the Peace, Armstrong, Mary, 132 351, 389, 504, 506; procrastinations Arrian, 398 of, 395; discourages libels, 396; Arundell, Henry, sixth Baron Arundell of lessening of her power, 398; Wardour, 158 anniversary of her accession, 403; Arundell, Richard, 158 going to, or at, Windsor, 255, 257, Ashburnham, John, third Baron 430, 437, 447, 449, 455; her servants Ashburnham, 44, 230, 319, 427, 477, ill, 441; and the Duchess of Hamilton, 479, 482 459, 461; and a daily Drawing Room, Ashburnham [nee´ Butler], Lady Mary, 472, 483; refuses to appoint St John 43, 52, 227; marries Lord Knight of the Garter, 476; and the Ashburnham, 44; engages S. to dine French ambassador, 478; libellous and puts him off, 216; sits in a ‘closet’ poem on, 517; her picture, 528; angry w. S., 220; a favourite of S.’s, 230; w. Grattan, 520; will be ‘teased no plays at ombre, 230; her likeness to E. more’ over the deaneries, 531 Johnson, 230; S. takes leave of, 231;

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Ashburnham [nee´ Butler] (cont.) join, 127; his parson Richardson, 155, fails to send her coach for S., 309; S. 174; speaks on behalf of Clements, admires her court clothing, 382; her 178, 185; and a request from death and S.’s grief, 477; S. considers Beaumont, 225; tells S. that E. her sister’s grief affected, 480, 482 Johnson is in the country, 232; writes Ashe, Dillon, lvii, 111, 243, 322, 501, 523; to Dillon, 235; tells S. of Archbishop’s love of punning and verbal games, pleasure in him, 238; going to his lxiii, 231, 235, 442, 514, 524; his face, Parliament in Dublin, 253; Dillon 182, 231; his letter to S., from Bath, writes to, 257; a message for, 298; and 204; in town, 231; S. dines w., 233, the statues, 309, 325; stays w. E. 235, 243, 262; ‘uncouth’, 235; Johnson, 412; and the Duchess of conveniently placed for S., 235; S. Shrewsbury, 415; coming to England, avoids, 246; his love of the theatre, 418, 423, 433, 437; his proxy, 423; his 247, 264, 270; at Windsor, 257; glad dinners, 461; buys pictures, 476, 518; to be rid of his sisters-in-law, 264; S. takes to Court, 478, 501; plays at dresses like a beau, 270; leaves for ombre, 486; S. avoids his house, 513; Ireland secretly, 279, 298, 305; and a funeral, 514; at a rehearsal, 524; recalled by Archbishop King, 324; and and S.’s deanery, 532 S.’s introductions, 333; his opinion of Ashe, Thomas, 225, 235, 514, 523 S., 333; pesters S., 469; at the French Atterbury [nee´ Osborne], Catherine, 199, church, 484; S. rides in his coach, 492; 200, 203 a letter from E. Johnson to, 514 Atterbury, Francis, Dean of Carlisle, later Ashe [nee´ St George], Elizabeth, 412, 423, Bishop of Rochester, 110, 215, 234, 427, 430, 442 238, 408; anticipates adverse effects of Ashe [nee´ St George], Jane, 442, 527; S. to Tale of a Tub on S.’s career, 31; buy statues for her and St George, Prolocutor of the Lower House of 191, 197, 309, 325; and Dillon Ashe, Convocation, 113; buries Dr Duke, 264; and Lt Newcomen, 408; E. 144; and the Examiner, 156; S. lodges Johnson’s guest, 412; gives S. a near, 192; and the Westminster chocolate pot, 480 School election, 199; in town w. his Ashe, Master, 437, 442, 499 Convocation, 199; his wine and meat, Ashe, Miss, 474, 495, 499, 500, 501, 513, 199; S. sits w., 207, 210, 215, 217, 518, 527 218, 261; S. dines w., 209, 210, 229, Ashe, Mrs Thomas, 18, 264 238, 246, 269, 377, 380; and S.’s Ashe, St George, Bishop of Clogher, intention to ﬁx the English language, xxxvii, 3, 4, 18, 21, 22, 23, 32, 42, 88, 228; and the deanery of Christ 438, 449, 469, 474, 475, 478, 492, Church, 230, 269; S. crosses to 494, 500, 520, 527; his pun, lxiv; S.’s Battersea w., 243; ill w. gout, 269; letters to, 19, 55, 72, 76, 78, 153, 191, tutors Charles Boyle, fourth Earl of 314, 341, 371, 413, 414, 432; letters to Orrery, 408; and Lady Kerry’s son, S., 56, 79, 94, 176, 238, 350, 387, 401, 502; prematurely congratulates S., 531 408; and E. Johnson, 71, 79; and S.’s Aumont, Louis, duc d’, 476, 478, 481, 485, bell metal, 84; and the vice- 488, 489, 490 chancellorship of Dublin University, Austria, 188, 310 93; and a pun, 514, 523; shows E. Johnson a pamphlet, 106; not to be Bacon, Sir Edmund, 99 removed, 121; S. urges E. Johnson to Bagshot Heath, 219

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Baker, John, 119 Bathurst, Allen, ﬁrst Earl Bathurst, 333, Balderig (now Belderrig or Belderg), 353, 354, 357 Kilcommon, Co. Mayo, 279 Beaumont, Sir George, fourth baronet, ballads, 308, 309, 330 politician, 184, 202 Ballygall, 18, 384, 388, 412 Beaumont, Joseph, lvii, 3, 14, 17, 20, 22, Bandbox Plot, 458, 459, 488 23, 28, 427, 430, 466; S. supports his Bank of England, 243 claim to a government award, 8, 11, bank stock, 51, 60, 66, 97, 100, 107, 243, 17, 27; letter from, to S., 77, 204; E. 302 Johnson rides w., 147; S. commends Barbados, 210, 299, 409, 520 him to Duke of Ormonde, 203, 222; Barber, John, and relationship with with asks S. to get him a collector’s place, S., liv, 301, 329; S. dines w., 101, 112, 205; asks S. to write about his father’s 258, 266, 296, 305, 312, 344, 357, position, 225; full of complaints, 239; 397, 405, 414, 474, 529, 537; to have his £200, 319, 334; his sneers and S.’s the Gazette w. Tooke, 249, 251; S. good wishes, 354; a foolish request, recommends to the South Sea 404, 412; letter to S. contains a section Company, 272; amanuensis for New from E. Johnson, 405; and a Journey, 277; ‘A friend in the city’, parliamentary vote, 466 317; and the Conduct, 332; to be Belasyse, Mary [nee´ Cromwell], Countess Stationer of the Ordnance w. Tooke, Fauconberg, 66 361, 368; another employment, 369; Belasyse, Sir Henry, 237 fears Manley cannot live long, 377; S. Belasyse [nee´ Armyne], Susan, Baroness plays hazard w., 437; and South Sea Belasyse of Osgodby, 512 stock, 443 Belfast, 306 Barrier Treaty, 380, 381, 386, 388, 490, Bell, Eveleen, lxix 496 Bellesis, see Belasyse Barry, Henry, third Baron Barry of Santry, bellman, 8, 23, 64, 266, 371, 375, 428, 206, 320, 333, 379, 386 487 Bartholomew Fair, by Ben Jonson, 112, Bennet [Bennett],John[alias William 160 Freeman or Hill; called the Golden Barton, Catherine, 12; S. dines w., 20, 76, Farmer], 220 78, 158, 181; E. Johnson jests about, Benson, Robert, Baron Bingley, 41, 308, 78; S. visits, 94, 127, 239, 299; reputed 366, 392, 394, 423, 472, 485, 511, mistress to Lord Halifax, 174; S. loves 528 her, 174; her tale about the virgins, Bentley, Richard, classical scholar, 408 174; going to the country, 246; grief Berested’s bridge, 224 on the death of her brother, 296; S. Berkeley [nee´ Villiers],Barbara, makes her merry, 299; teases S., 327 Viscountess FitzHardinge, 456 Barton, Robert, 296 Berkeley Castle, 15, 18, 26, 39 Bateman, Christopher, 114, 132, 240, 482 Berkeley, Charles, second Earl of Berkeley, Bath (town), S. thinks E. Johnson should 15, 26, 143 visit, 177, 185, 199, 236; Mrs St John Berkeley [nee´ Noel], Elizabeth, Countess leaves for, 180; Dillon Ashe at, 182, of Berkeley, lxiv, 15, 18, 39, 209, 221, 204; Addison and Philips at, 265; Mrs 283, 298 Wesley and, 395, 410, 414; the Berkeley, George, xlv, 528, 530, 531 Percivals going to, 396; Parnell and, Berkeley, James, third Earl of Berkeley, 433; S. and, 514 127, 144, 221

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Berkeley, Katherine, Viscountess Boyle, Henry, Baron Carleton, 15 Fitzhardinge, Lady Clarges, 496, 498, Boyle [nee´ Noel], Juliana, Countess of 499, 506 Burlington and Cork, 357 Berkeley [nee´ Lennox], Louisa, Countess Boyle, Sir Robert, 431 of Berkeley, 221 Brabazon, Dorothea, Countess of Meath, Berkeley, William, fourth Baron Berkeley 396 of Stratton, 47, 58, 466, 512, 527, 528, Bradley, Mrs, servant to Lady Giffard, 530 281, 430, 433 Bernage, Moses, xlv, 156, 159; S. helps, Bragg, Philip, 81 101, 139, 151, 165, 166; approaches Brailsford, Matthew, xliii, 404 E. Johnson, and writes to her in bread, 371, 373, 374 French, 123; gives S. no address, 123; Brent, Mrs (S.’s housekeeper), 5, 19, 53, E. Johnson must write to, 129; St John 130, 286, 413, 436, 477; and S.’s and, 140, 142, 146, 150, 151, 288; books, 169, 185; and S.’s shelves, 212; made capt-lt, 165; offers to buy his and a printer, 447; S.’s New Year’s gift promotion after all S.’s efforts, 160; to, 477 S.’s annoyance w. him, 165, 185; S. Brentford, Essex, 273, 280 writes to, 177; his letter to S. from Breton [Britton], William, 301, 302, 311, Kinsale, 188; returns from Portugal, 326 267, 279; a threat to his position, 288; Brihuega, 99 his promotion, 288; his commission Bristol, Bishop of, 63, 95, 107, 117, 270 signed, 290; receives his commission, (see Robinson, John) 299; neglects S., 334; calls on S. again, Br—sh Ambassadress’s Speech to the French 365, 423; his regiment broken, 445 King, The, 517 Bernard, Charles, 21, 165, 171, 172 Broad, James, 372 Bertie, James, 221 Brodrick, Alan, first Viscount Midleton, Bertie, Mary, 111 93, 243 Bertie, Montagu Venables-, second Earl of Bromley, Cloberry, 166 Abingdon, 499, 523 Bromley, William, 74, 182, 502 Bertie, Robert, first Marquess of Lindsey, Brooke, Henry, 195 341 Brooke [nee´ Burton], Lettice, 195 Bethlehem Royal Hospital, 87 Brookmans Manor, North Mymms, Bible, the, 161, 196, 252, 314, 438, Hertfordshire, 435 536 Browne, Mary, niece of Sir Charles Bickerstaff, Isaac, 18, 59; see also Tatler Duncombe, 181 Bisse, Philip, 479, 492 Browne, Peter, 478 Blenheim, 260 Bruce, Charles, fourth Baron Bruce of Bligh [nee´ Naper], Elizabeth, 386 Wharton, 355 Bligh, John, 386, 507 Brutus, 483 Bligh, Thomas, 23 Brydges, James, first Duke of Chandos, 14, Bolton, John, 38, 48, 78 193, 249, 400 Bothmar, Johann Caspar von, 339, 381 Buckingham House, 202, 208 Bouchain, 271, 278 Bucklebury, Berks., 253 Boyer, Abel, 297, 300, 459, 464 Buissiere,` Paul, 159, 391 Boyle, Charles, fourth Earl of Orrery, Bull, ----, a Whig haberdasher, 11 xxxvii, 65, 71, 333, 340, 345, 402, 407, Burgh, William, 514 408; his Remarks, lxvi Burnet, Sir Thomas, 405

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Burton, Benjamin, banker, 151, 205, 403, to Ireland, 384; appointed general of 412 the forces, 396; helps to put out a ﬁre, Burton, Samuel, MP for Sligo, 151 399; taking his oaths, 410; S.’s claims Bushy Park, near Hampton-Court, in for others on, 411; leaving for Middlesex, 37 Flanders, 414, 417; his secret orders, Butler, Charles, Earl of Arran, 398, 402, 426, 427; credit for his behaviour, 440; 411, 473, 474, 528 S. claims him on arrival, 456; sends S. Butler [nee´ Stopford], Emily, Lady chocolate, 465; one of the few people Newton, 9, 113, 148, 270 S. sees, 465; S. tips his porter, 472; Butler, James, second Duke of Ormonde, like the duc d’Aumont, 478; grief at 8, 9, 22, 47, 54, 61, 68, 217, 220, his daughter’s death, 479; S. will chide 334, 400, 403, 404, 409, 415, 446, him, 480; and inner cabinet dinners, 467, 473, 477, 484, 486, 495, 510, 481; Peterborough leaves, for S., 481; 516, 518, 520, 523, 528; lord lt. of S. dines w., 484, 491, 493, 501, 507, Ireland, 7, 34, 36, 43; his secretary, 528, 529; and duc d’Aumont, 485; and 103; deanery of St Patrick in his gift, a project for Ireland, 486, 491; S. 530, 532, 533; S. presents Charles introduces Harrison to, 491; and Ford to, 11; Irish bishops address, 72; Sterne for bishop, 493; will connection w. First Fruits, xli, 7, 72, recommend no one without consulting 73, 75, 153, 194, 224, 258, 259, 261, S., 493; and Thomas Hanmer, 501, 286, 303; proteg´ e´ Sir Richard Coxe, 503; confers w. S., 511; and S.’s 67–8; against Bishop of Clogher’s promotion, 529, 530, 531; a living for promotion, 93; Clogher’s letter to, 94; Raymond in his gift, 538; favours the going to Ireland, 153, 203; S. presents claims of Dunbar, 538 Richardson to, 155; breaks an Butler, Lady Elizabeth, 15, 43, 52, 495; at appointment, 167, 365; wounds Mrs Vanhomrigh’s, 151, 164, 220; Guiscard, 169; sends for S., 179; at the expects S., 153; sits in a ‘closet’ w. S., House of Commons, 179; S. 220; S. suggests E. Johnson know commends Beaumont to, 203, 205, her, 220; S. has tea w., 221; S. sits w., 222; S. suggests Price apply as his 227; plays cards at the Vanhomrigh’s, chaplain, 222; his speech in 230; S. visits, 397; her young lady-in- Parliament to mention the First waiting, 397; S.’s anger w., 480, Fruits, 224; at Chester, 231; E. 482 Johnson and, 233; censured, 282; his Butler [nee´ Somerset], Lady Mary, 478, character, 283; brings away Irish 495, 510; does not go to Ireland w. the society, 324; returning to England, Duke, 153, 203; desires S.’s company, 340; present at debate in the House, 191; dressing to go out, 217; and the 341; S. gives him advice, 345; and the political crisis, 354, 365; S. dines w., political crisis, 350, 354; and the 354, 429, 456; S. visits, 396; endures Society, 354, 360, 362, 368, 371, 376, S.’s scratching, 424; and S.’s orders 383, 398, 402, 411, 490, 503; his regarding the Duke, 456; sends S. her regiment of foot guards, 358; and portrait and the Duke’s, 468; S.’s letter Prince Eugene, 362, 366, 392; and S.’s of thanks to, 469; death of her interest in impeaching Somerset, 368, daughter, 477; her grief, 482 369; and William Penn, 369; S. ‘uses Butler, Theophilus, 113 like a dog’, 371; E. Johnson’s Buys, Willem, 329, 331, 337, 338, 344, conjectures about, 375; not to return 348

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Battersea by water, 243; S. walks to, attends, at Windsor, 250; a dunce of a 246, 269, 408, 502; a Chelsea chapel preacher at, 250, 290 and altar, 520; Arbuthnot’s lodgings Churchill [nee´ Spencer], Lady Anne, in, 520 Countess of Sunderland, 255, 342, Chester, 23, 34, 298, 537, 538; E. 357, 378 Johnson’s box at, 109, 114, 123, 126, Churchill, Arabella, 282 137, 138, 147, 230, 301, 318, 330, Churchill, John, ﬁrst Duke of 374; Raymond goes to, 118, 137; Mrs Marlborough, 116, 370, 375, 376, Edgeworth at, 209; Richardson at, 484; S. never meets, xlvi; campaign of 214; Murry of, and Raymond’s bill, 1710, 53; Thanksgiving Day for 223, 225; Duke of Ormonde at, 231; success, 58; laments joining the Walls riding to, 248; Lord Abercorn Whigs, 104; S.’s character of, 104, sets out for, 269; S. will send his 375; St John and, 104, 303, 374; S. baggage to, 529; S. determines to walk defends, 115; rumour that he will to, 529; S. arrives at, 537; inn at, 538; ‘serve no more’, 119; his go-between, walls of, 538 130; object of S.’s impeachment, 131; Chester, Bishop of: Sir William Dawes, Lord Rivers deplores his defence in 527; and see Gastrell, Francis The Examiner, 146; his avarice, 156; Childe, Leonard, lawyer and town clerk of his daughters, 255, 257, 507; his Guildford, 321 cutting of the French lines, 260; and china and china shops, 13, 29, 49, 196, the capture of Bouchain, 271, 278; 240, 536 Manley’s Vindication of, 305; lands at chocolate, eating and drinking, for E. Greenwich, and at Hampton Court, Johnson, 21, 28, 41, 56, 91, 141, 170, 327; not fond of S., 327; Mrs Masham 176; for Dingley, 80, 96; S. receives, on, 340; S. would dismiss, 342; the from Bristol, 117; without sugar, 315; queen and Harley’s dislike of, 358; for S., 255, 480, 493; S. receives, from dismissal of, 357, 358; attitude of his Ormonde, 465; S.’s parties, 509, 511, soldiers and the French to, 358; ballad 519 attacking, 360; former master of the chocolate houses, 65, 261, 336, 386, 417 ordnance, 361; hopes to soften S., 364, Cholmondeley, Hugh, ﬁrst Earl of 479; S.’s pity for, 365, 375; and Prince Cholmondeley, 342, 507, 526 Eugene, 365; a poem against, 366; Christian Triumph: or, the Duty of Praying accused of bribery, 371, 373; and for our Enemies illustrated and enforc’d convicted, 374; and The Examiner, from our blessed Saviour’s example on the 371; and the impeachment of Lord Cross, The, by Sacheverell, 522 Townsend, 386; Dutch rumour of his Christmas, 127, 314, 324, 327, 346, 350, arrest of S., 390; and the St. Alban’s 351, 352, 453; S. prays he may never ghost, 393; passes S. in Hyde Park, be apart from E. Johnson at, 96; 396; and Wharton, 431; growing ill, everyone out at, 102; no merriment at, 445; leaving England, 454; reasons for, 114; S. wishes E. Johnson a happy, 454; S. desired everything for him 346, 352, 355, 465, 472; fare and tips except power, 479; in Germany, 527 at, 359; end of, 380 (and see Blenheim) church, 254, 336; Queen Anne and, 93, Churchill, Sarah, Duchess of 250, 284, 290, 381, 389, 400; S. Marlborough, xlvi, 58, 119, 282, 479, avoids, because of his health, 133, 219, 484, 527, 528 351, 352, 419; S. goes to, 206, 523; S. Cibber, Colley, 522

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Congreve, William, 52, 81; his The Old Crowe, Mitford, 210, 225, 299, 409 Bachelor, lxii; failing eyesight, 48, 236, Crowe, William, 49, 67 360; E. Johnson jokes about his Crown rents, 519 eyesight, 91; afflicted w. gout, 48, 142; Curll, Edmund, 207 S. dines w., 58, 80, 144; prevails on Curry, Mr, S.’s Dublin landlord, 43, 137, Kneller to paint S., 82; writes a Tatler 146, 177, 235, 239, 242 for Harrison, 142; his ‘nasty white Curry, Mrs, 4, 41, 209 wine’, 144; S. advances him w. Harley, Customs, the, 242, 259, 383, 385, 506; 228, 235, 473; his other sinecure Prior and, 300, 370, 379, 407; offices, 228; anxious at change of commissioners to lose their office, 300, ministry, 228; an agreeable 370 companion, 240; to dine w. Harley, Cutts, Joanna, complains of S. to Harley, 241; S. visits, 299; Patrick and S. read 308 his plays, 310 Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran, Connor, Charles, 463 called ‘Salamander’, 308 Conolly, William, 21, 142 Contes des fees,´ Les (1697), by Daily Courant, The, 277, 310 Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Dalrymple, Sir Hew, first baronet, Lord Barneville, baronne d’Aulnoy, 378 North Berwick, 41 Convocation, Irish, 45 Danvers, John, 451 Cook, Mr, threatens Harley, 323 Dartiquenave, Charles, 24, 93, 109, 151, Coote, Charles, fourth Earl of Mountrath, 167, 192, 413, 479, 521 34, 62, 267–8 Dauphin, the, 181, 389, 390 Coote, Henry, 34, 267, 279, 308, 310 Davenant, Charles, 57, 338, 373 Coote [nee´ van Nassau van Ouwerkerk], Davenant, Henry Molins, 404, 406 Lucia Anna, 191 Davys, Mary, 203, 500 Coote, Thomas, 306, 355 Dawes, Sir William, third baronet, 527 Cope, Robert, of Loughgall, Co. Armagh, Dawson, Joshua, under-secretary at Dublin 141 Castle, 38 Cork: MPs for, 93, 167–8; deanery of, 94 debtors, 91, 336, 399 corn, 447, 452, 494 Delany, Patrick, xxxvii, lxvi coroner’s inquest, 460, 461 Delaval, George, 24, 25, 27, 28, 58, 80, 82 Corr, Daniel, 494 Dering, Charles, 194 Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 186 Dering, Sir Cholmeley, 204, 261 court of requests, 372; S. attends, 81, 90, Desaulnais [Disney], Henry, 146, 160, 95, 123, 143, 205; meets Harley at, 75, 333, 499, 512, 513, 514, 517, 522 136, 142, 149; discussion of Walpole’s Devil Tavern, 35 conviction at, 370; S. is plagued w. a Dialogues des Morts, Les, by Bernard le poem at, 379 Bovier de Fontenelle, 317 Cowper, William, first Earl Cowper, 12, Diaper, William, xlv, 407, 412, 471, 496; 527 his poems, 407, 471 Coxe, Sir Richard, first baronet, 67–8, 72 Dingley, Capt. Robert, 495 Craik, Henry, lxx Dingley, Rebecca, xxxii, 4, 5, 7, 19, 21, Cromwell, Oliver, 66 22, 27, 28, 31, 40, 44, 49, 59, 60, 62, Cross, Letitia, 123 79, 224, 230, 233, 274, 451, 453, 456, Crow, Charles, Bishop of Cloyne, 314, 462, 466, 467, 470; no Journal letters 363, 378, 390 survive, xxxi; her biography, xxxii;

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Dingley, Rebecca (cont.) Display of Heraldrie, by John Guillim, her relationship w. S., xxxvi–xxxix; 395 correspondence w. S., lvi–lvii; reads Dobbins, James, 176 Journal letters out loud, lix, lxxxiv; Dobbins, Mary, 176 corrects S.’s letter, lx; recipient of Doctors Commons, 35 Journal letters, lxxix; her change of Domvile [or Domville], William, letter to lodgings, 4; her tobacco, 20, 41, 80, S., 71, 78; returns from his travels, 91; her interest in politics, 23, 374, 331; S.’s character of, 331; S. presents 380, 483, 523; annuity held by Lady to Lewis and Prior, 332; S. presents to Giffard, 51; plays on her name, 61; Lord Harley, 333; S. sups w., 366; S. spectacles for, 67, 68, 96, 139 (and see dines w., 367, 374, 410, 416; leaving spectacles); her letter to S., 71; her for Ireland, 418, 419 share in E. Johnson’s letters, 77; S.’s Donnybrook, 128, 163, 208, 219, 271, message to, for Mrs Walls, 79; S. 428; R. Dingley at, 128; Mrs Stoyte reproves, 89; and S.’s prolonged at, 128; Mrs Walls at, 129; E. Johnson absence, 90, 176; her reading-glass, should go to, 199, 203, 283 96; her chocolate, 96; and her Dopping, Samuel, 54, 62, 90, 94, 175 petticoats, 96, 321; S.’s allowance to, d’Ossuna, duc, 522 98; errand through Raymond, 107; S. Douglas, Archibald, Duke of Douglas, 366 teases her about ‘shorter journals’, 109; Douglas, Catherine [Kitty],Duchessof Patrick buys a linnet for, 113, 134, Queensberry and Dover, lv 213; S. urges her to visit Bishop of Douglas [formerly Hamilton], Charles, Clogher, 127, 129; her handwriting, second Earl of Selkirk, 472, 475, 486, 136, 157, 177; S. asks her for her 489 opinion on E. Johnson’s appearance, Douglas, James, second Duke of 138; and the candle-ends, 139; Queensberry and ﬁrst Duke of Dover, handles letter for Bernage, 146; ‘as fair 37, 51 and fresh as a lass in May’, 158; her Doyly, Thomas, linen-draper, 190 exchequer business, 171, 302, 305; her Doyne, Robert, 93 money transactions w. Mrs Vedeau, Drummond, James, fourth Earl of Perth, 175, 176, 183, 219, 225; S. corrects 489 her spelling and English, 177, 364, Drummond, John, ﬁrst Earl of Melfort, 374, 464; her pocket books, 191; E. 489 Johnson to dictate to, 213; reads to E. Dryades: Or, the Nymph’s Prophecy,by Johnson, 214, 229; addressing of a Diaper, 471 letter to S., 215; her money affairs w. Dryden, Frances, cousin of S., 467 Tooke, 219, 356, 421, 486, 494, 534; Dublin, 6, 20, 46, 219, 245, 253, 263, 279, S. enquires about, 220, 229; ‘full of 329, 413, 416, 464; E. Johnson and R. carking and caring’, 230; her fondness Dingley’s lodgings in, xxxii, 4, 7, 128, for ale, 230, 250; her ‘millions of 145, 155, 156, 161, 260, 267; businesses’, 244; S.’s imagined picture contrasted w. London, 26, 35, 57, 149, of, 248; weary of Wexford, 285; 151, 173; recorder, mayor, and advises S. about his health, 314; Mrs alderman of, 82, 306; lord chancellor St John sends her a snuff-rasp, 315, and, 114; S. wishes he was w. E. 363; S. asks for his accounts from, 355 Johnson in, 119; coaches and coach Discourse of Free Thinking, by Anthony fares in, 149, 208; a letter from, in The Collins, 484 Post-Boy, 180; lord mayors of, 218,

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222, 263, 283; Adam Swift lives in, Dutch, the (see also Holland), 295; and the 211; politics of the corporation, 214; Hanoverian succession, 381; a Dutch E. Johnson to walk in, 214; opinion of mail, 381, 387; playing the English The Examiner, 225; S.’s return to, 230; false, 387, 395; and the Peace distance from Wexford, 285; edition negotiations, 387, 450, 453, 466, 467, of Conduct, 331, 337; plays in, 461; 481, 483, 490; English rail against, ﬂoods in, 464; S. expects to be in, 434; and rumour of S.’s arrest, 390; before April ends, 529, 538; S.’s 3,000 taken prisoner, 439, 442 journey to, 537, 538 Dutchman, a, 379, 455 Blind Quay, 76 D——y, 18, 106 Capel St, 137, 240 Dyer, John, Jacobite newsmonger, 375, Castle, 39, 206 390 Royal Hospital at Kilmainham, 520 Dyott, Richard, 26, 35 St Patrick’s Cathedral: prebendary of, 48; S. and the choir of, 292; Dr Earl, Mr, his sister has E. Johnson’s box, Stearne, Dean of, 113–14; school 138 attached to, 501 ears: S. threatens to crop Patrick’s, 250; S. Trinity College, 463; rumours of S.’s cuffs Patrick’s, 292 appointment as provost of, 507; S.’s Easter Sunday, 173, 180, 523, 524 gift of books to, 208, 392, 427, 508; East India Company, the, 312 S.’s contemporaries at, 18, 399, 463; Echlin, James, 306 and Grattan’s difﬁculty, 519; and Eckershall, James, courtier, 151, 291, 471 George Berkeley, 528 Edgeworth, Ambrose, 42 Dubois, Guillaume, cardinal and Edgeworth [nee´ Annesley?], Margaret, statesman, 289, 291 138, 147, 148, 156, 176, 209, 213 Dudley [nee´ O’Brien], Lady Mary, 330 Egerton [nee´ Churchill], Elizabeth, Lady Dudley, Sir Matthew, second baronet, 261; Bridgewater, 383 S. passes afternoon w., 9; Ehrenpreis, Irvin, liii, lxviii, lxix, lxxxi ‘extraordinary’ letter to S., 38; S. dines Elizabeth, Queen, 325, 326 w., 46, 47, 85, 115, 171, 316, 322, Elliott, John, 70 385; S. spends evening w., 57; turns Ellis, Welbore, Bishop of Kildare, 72 away his butler, 86; S. speaks for him Elwick, Robert, 424, 470 to the ministry, 171; a ‘violent Whig’, Elwood, John, Fellow and MP for Trinity 171; likely to be dismissed, 171, 242, College Dublin, 274, 275 322, 370; S. warns him, 243, 302; S. Ely, deanery of, S.’s expectation of, 528 attempts to aid, 246; dismissed, 300, English language, the, 228, 330, 392, 406, 385 423, 426, 457, 465 duels, 204, 261, 457 Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, 274, 285 Duke, Richard, 143, 144 Enniskillen, 84 Dunbar, clergyman, 538 Erskine, John, twenty-second or sixth Earl Duncombe, Sir Charles, 181 of Mar and Jacobite Duke of Mar, Dunkirk, 414, 433, 434, 437, 439, 446; 270, 381 French governor of, 436 (English Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry, An,by Governor of; see Hill, John) Thomas Parnell, 470 Dun´ Laoghaire, seaport and borough of Estcourt, Richard, 52, 144 Co. Dublin, 3 Estrees,´ Victor Marie, duc d’, 500, 504 Durham, Bishop of (Lord Crewe), 15 Eton, 252, 441

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Eugene of Savoy, Prince: his intended visit Excellent New Song, Called, Credit Restored, to England, 347; lands, and is at An, by Arthur Mainwaring, 309 Leicester House, 361; to dine w. Duke of Ormonde, 362, 366, 369, 392; at Farnham, 321, 330, 332, 337, 492 Lady Betty Germain’s, 365; S. sees at Farrington, Thomas, 58 court, 368; fails to appear at court, Fauconberg, Mary, 66 371; the Whigs and, 376; his new suits Feering, Alice, 505 and sword, 381, 383; S. sees at court Felton, assassin of Duke of Buckingham, and describes, 386; dines w. St John, 324 389; and the siege of Quesnoy, 426 Female Tatler, The, 321 Europe, 311 Fenton, Jane, S.’s sister, 244; message for, Evance, Sir Stephen, 367 in S.’s letter to E. Johnson, 72, 92; E. Eversﬁeld, Charles, appointed treasurer by Johnson w., 97; her money w. Lady Harley, 434 Giffard, 97, 108; S. overtakes her on Examiner, The, 315, 363, 437; S.’s share in, the road, 277; S. invited to be w., at 65, 76, 97, 98, 101, 166, 190, 194, Sheen, 285; her deafness, 286; S.’s pity 207, 225, 315, 372; Delarivier Manley for her, 286; S. will not allow her to takes over the editorship of, 315; see him when ill, 423; leaves Lady Barber, the printer of, 251; S. advises Giffard, 446; her son or stepson, 446 E. Johnson to get, 105; Mrs Fenton, Joseph, 108, 286 Armstrong decries, 132; Harley’s Ferris, ----, former steward of Lord payment to S. for, 135, 156; and the Berkeley, 95 Duke of Marlborough, 156, 371; E. Fetherston, Thomas, 411 Johnson’s account of, 138; cursed by Fielding, Edmund, 147, 151, 160, 288 Lord Rivers, 146; S, reads, but does Fielding, George, equerry to the queen, not disclose authorship, 156; S.’s 293 opinion of, 194; Gay speaks highly of, Fielding, Israel, 415 207; ‘very silly’, 263; S. buys a set of, Filby [nee´ Johnson], Anne, 26, 451 305; a small edition of, 312; S. sends Filby, Mr, xlv, 451, 461, 464, 493, 500, E. Johnson, 312, 315; and S.’s hints, 501, 504, 505, 516 339, 483; S. deplores severity of, 375; Finch [nee´ Kingsmill], Anne, Countess of Lord Lansdowne offended at, 407; Winchilsea, poet and dramatist, 218, small volume of, published 1712, 416; 443 effect of tax on, 442; and a new game, Finch, Charles, fourth Earl of Winchilsea, 480; S. exonerates Lewis in, 488; and 99, 247, 409, 443 the clearing of Lewis’s name, 491; and Finch, Daniel, second Earl of Nottingham a payment of 20 guineas, 511; S. and and seventh Earl of Winchilsea, 527; the editor, 511; clears S. of authorship his son, 310; goes over to the Whigs, of a libel, 517 339; called Dismal, 339, 433–4; speaks references to individual issues: no. 6, 64; in the House against a Peace, 340; and no. 9, 480; no. 14, 50; no. 15, 449; no. the Occasional Conformity Bill, 346; 21, 86, 124; no. 25, 18, 124; no. 27, and S.’s ballad on, 349; and the 132, 138; no. 28, 115; no. 32, 158, Archbishop of York, 377; and Lord 162, 164, 186, 264; no. 33, 186; no. Wharton, 431; S.’s Invitation to 36, 350; no. 39, 26; no. 41, 200, 300; Dismal, 433–4 no. 45, 225, 245; no. 46, 245; no. 47, Finch, Heneage, ﬁrst Earl of Aylesford, 229 184

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Finch, Heneage, second Earl of Aylesford, Floyd, Biddy, 163, 166, 169, 202, 296, politician, and leading October Club 298, 301 member, 184 Flying-Post, The, 442, 455 Finch, William, 310 Foedera, by Thomas Rymer, 427, 508 Finglas, 199, 303 Foley, Thomas, first Baron Foley, First Fruits of England, 237 politician, 193 First Fruits of Ireland, 24, 45; S.’s Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 317 commission for and role in securing, Fonvive, John de, 50 xxxix, 23; role of the Convocation in, food and drink (see also wines): at New 3; remission of, 11, 30, 34, 38, 40, 50, Year, 105; a feast at a Tory Sheriff’s, 54, 56, 62, 72, 73, 74, 98, 154, 237; 416; S.’s love of stuffing, 511 S.’s memorials to Harley, 30, 33, 40, bread and pastry, 199, 280, 299, 351, 495 41; ‘business will soon be over’, 77; drinks, 31, 189, 255, 296, 351, 364, 465 ‘nothing remains but the forms’ for, (see also Tea) 89; St John promises letter from the fish, 189, 219, 273, 298, 302, 309, 317, queen, 104; St John assures S. warrant 402, 499 is drawn, 109, 112; the patent, 138; fruit, 141, 166, 180, 201, 219, 222, 228, the queen’s letter and the warrant, 239, 245, 257, 262, 271, 277, 317, 138; and the Duke of Ormonde, 153, 334, 359, 375, 432; S.’s fear of eating, 224; S.’s use of them as excuse for not see Swift: physical health returning to Ireland, 194; finished, meat, 29, 31, 32, 95, 100, 165, 189, 200, 224; the queen and Harley lose a paper 206, 252, 262, 280, 281, 316, 339, on, 241; S. refuses to advertise his part 364, 474, 523 in, 269; Harley’s recognition of S.’s poultry and game, 189, 245, 248, 317, part in, 270; S.’s bitterness over, 302, 474 436; S. attacks Bishop of Killaloe over, various, 114, 203, 208, 248, 296, 317, 519; cost of, to S., 532 359, 401, 438–9, 536 Fitzmaurice [nee´ Petty],Anne,Countess vegetables, 120, 203, 224 of Kerry; S. sees the sights w. her, 86, footmen, 233 87; S. dines w., 105; sends S. Forbes, Alexander, fourth Baron Forbes of medicine, 130; her head bad, 132, 142; Pitsligo, 247 S.’s fondness for her, 132, 142; her Forbes, Thomas, 314 bitter medicine for S., 133, 142; goes Ford, Charles, 52, 54, 219, 229; S. presents to Hyde Park w. S., 143; sends for S., him to Duke of Ormonde, 11; goes to 148; makes him a gift, 200; her see tombs w. S., 74; S. dines w., 76, character and appearance, 200; leaving 82, 92, 100, 103, 118, 120, 122, 125, for Ireland, 209, 219, 237; w. S. at 130, 131, 134, 135, 140, 141, 147, Vauxhall, 209; S. may go out of town 150, 161, 180, 184, 204, 213, 215, w., 226; a favourite of S.’s, 502 229, 348, 367, 410, 509; S. brings Fitzmaurice, William, second Earl of Ford and Lewis together, 92; S. drinks Kerry, Irish politician, 87, 252, bad claret w., 94; S. begs a shaving 502 from, 112; S. and he buy books, 117, FitzRoy, Charles, second Duke of Grafton, 132; and S. drink Florence together, 503 117; S. meets, in the Park, 125; his FitzRoy [formerly Palmer], George, Duke birthday, 131; comments on E. of Northumberland, 435 Johnson’s handwriting, and carries her Flanders, 374, 414, 417, 427, 440, 501 letters, 136, 189; his opera day, 103,

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Ford, Charles (cont.) settlement of England w., 289; 118, 125, 140, 147, 150, 155; invited Academie´ Royale des Sciences, 317; to Vanessa’s birthday dinner, 143; as a intrigues w. the Dutch, 387; raises companion, 157; visits S. when his leg difficulties over the Peace, 387; laws of is bad, 164; S. takes him to dine w. St inheritance of, 411 (see also Peace, John, 182; goes to the City w. S., 186; the); rumours of overtures for Peace leaving for Ireland, 229, 314; letter to from, 414, 431, 513; Bolingbroke goes S., 295; returns to town, 344; sits late to, 441; Prior’s return from, 453, 461; w. S., 359; sups w. S., 366; and the Hamilton wished to take Swift to, lottery tickets, 367, 399; copies a 458; and the king of Spain, 461; pamphlet for S., 370; S. gets him made Shrewsbury leaves for, 466; the queen gazetteer, 11, 433, 437; ungrateful, of, 470; and the Pretender, 489; and 433; S. plays ombre w., 506, 537 trade w. Spanish West Indies, 492 foreign ministers, 255, 507 Francis, John, Dean of Leighlin, 464 Forester, Mary, maid of honour, 255, 256, Frankfort, 301 293 Frankland, Mrs William, 8, 17, 267 Forester, Sir William, 254 Frankland, Sir Thomas, second baronet, Forster, John, lxviii, lxix, 71, 161, 485, 521 joint postmaster-general, 9, 19, 25, 89, Foulke, Francis, rector of Kilbrew, 523 223; S. dines w., 93, 114; and his post, Fountaine, Lady Sarah, 112, 116, 123, 146 213; and a bill of Raymond’s, 223, 225 Fountaine, Sir Andrew, 28, 29, 34, 36, 40, Frankland, Thomas, 25, 93 49, 435; his love of puns and verbal Frankland, William, comptroller of the games, lxiii, lxiv, 235, 328, 514, 523, inland office at the post office, 8, 9, 17, 524; famous collection of majolica, 29; 19, 20, 66, 93 S. at a tavern w., 32; writes to S., 38; Freeman, Richard, 67, 77 S. dines w., 70, 146, 172, 185, 191, Freind, Col., 12, 57 233, 243, 299, 310, 313, 324, 348, Freind, John, physician, 366; writes in 350, 493, 501, 510; illness of, 102, defence of Peterborough, 64; S. dines 103, 105; and S.’s prognosis, 102; w., 72, 82, 155, 188, 236, 240, 305, recovery of, 103, 105, 110, 123, 137, 340, 369, 380; a jest at his house, 155; 146; S. visits, 105, 110; still in a fever, S. passes evening w., 170; takes S. in 116; costs of his illness, 120; S. reads his chariot, 203; S. recommends him prayers to, 141; shifts his relations to be physician-general, 404, 408, 411; back to the country, 146; dines w. Mrs S. shares a coach w., 491 Vanhomrigh, 151, 199, 219, 220, 231, Freind, Robert, 198, 380 239; ill w. asthma, 185; buys a new French, Matthew, 151 house, 233; misses appointment with French Church, the, on Threadneedle S., 318; S. drinks punch w., 326; has a Street, 484 bad leg, 491, 494; S. plays ombre w., Frowde, Philip, ‘old’, 321, 336 230, 493, 495, 500, 501, 510, 518; S. Frowde, Col. William, 57, 323 writes to, 507; and the Duke of Kent’s Full Account of a Desperate and Bloody Duel: house, 520 which was Fought this Morning in Fowler, Edward, Bishop of Gloucester, High-Park, A, 458 384 Full Answer to the Conduct of the Allies, A, France, 198, 263, 266, 270, 273, 278, 285, 416 288, 290, 300, 310, 325, 389, 442; S. Further Search into the Conduct of the Allies, dines w. ministers from, 289; A, 416

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Gallas, Count, 310 treasurer’s staff, 215; passes S. in the Galway, 222 Park, 396; and Lord Wharton, 431; Garth, Sir Samuel, 32, 35, 52, 62, 261, 326 eulogies of, 445; death of, 449; a Gastrell, Francis, theologian and Bishop of Knight of the Garter, 449; to be Chester, 229, 243, 294, 372 buried in Westminster Abbey, 449 Gaultier, François, 263, 289, 317, 466, ‘Golden Farmer’, nr. Frimley, 220 467, 489, 504 Gorges, Richard, 523 Gay, John, lv Graham, Col. James, army officer and Gazette, The London, 10, 249, 251, 266 politician, 219 Gazetteer, 9–10, 46, 433 Graham, William, Dean of Wells, xliii, George (Jørgen), Prince of Denmark and 404, 425 Norway, prince consort of Queen Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne, Anne, 398 secretary of war, 187, 274; S. asks him Geree, Elizabeth, sister of John, 424, to make Bernage a captain, 124; S. 470 chooses as a guest, 150; S. dines w., Geree, John, 424, 470 181, 187, 189, 270, 279; S. threatens Geree, Mary [Moll], 491 to expel him from the Society, 239; Germain, Lady Elizabeth [Betty], 18; S. inner cabinet dinner, 276; informs S. watches her play cards, 136; S. dines of Bernage’s promotion, 289; and the w., 136, 221, 327; her miscarriage, queen’s wishes, 289; his illness, 297; 143; at Mrs Vanhomrigh’s, 151; made Baron Lansdowne, 356; marries smallpox in her house, 163; coming to Mary Thynne, 359; tells S. Whig town, 299; talks politics w. S., 301; her rumours, 372; and the Society, 376; appearance, 301; teases S., 327; her and a passage in The Examiner, 407, assembly, 365 417; and a quarrel w. S., 417; and a Germain, Sir John, 143 lawsuit w. Carteret’s mother, 455 Gernon, Stephen, 217, 242 Granville [nee´ Villiers; first married name Giffard [nee´ Temple], Martha, Lady Thynne], Lady Mary, Lady Giffard, xxxii, 13, 17, 60, 67, 451; Lansdowne, 359 quarrel w. S., 8; her servants, 244, 281, Grattan, Charles, 519 433, 446; legacy to E. Johnson and Green Cloth, the committee of Dingley, 51, 337; S.’s dislike of, 6, 65, management of the royal household, 71; legacy to Jane Fenton [nee´ Swift], 254, 255, 256, 282, 283, 290; see also handled by, 97, 108; E. Johnson writes Forester, Sir William; Scarburgh, to, 107; S. calls at her house, 126; goes Charles to Sheen, 188; S. overtakes her on the Green, Mr, surgeon, 159, 170, 182, 245, road, 277; at Moor Park, 285; her 391 portrait, 330 Greenwich, 243 Godfrey, Charles, 282, 283, 291, 294 Gregg, William, 264, 315 Godolphin [nee´ Churchill], Henrietta Gresham College, 87 [Harriet], suo jure Duchess of Grey, Henry, Duke of Kent, 521 Marlborough, 342, 378, 383, 506 Griffith, Humphrey, of the commissioners Godolphin, Sidney, first Earl of of salt, 461, 462, 500, 501, 504, 516 Godolphin; and the First Fruits, xl; Griffith, Mr or Dr (possibly Humphrey), cold reception of S., xli, 6; dismissal 91, 179, 390, 506, 508 of, 10; satirised by S. in Sid Hamet, 40; Guardian, The, 486, 517, 522 and Sir Matthew Dudley, 171; lord Guillim, John, 395

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Guiscard, Antoine de, marquis de w., 505; out of town, 508; comes to Guiscard, 159, 169, 315, 324; attempts town, 514; doses S., 508, 518 to assassinate Harley, 159, 195, 201; Hamilton, George, sixth Earl of Orkney, taken up for treason, 159; likely to die 457, 475, 522, 527, 532, 537; S. dines of his wounds, 159, 163, 164; his w., 473, 485, 489, 491, 494, 501, 528 death and coroner’s verdict, 164; his Hamilton, Gustavus, ﬁrst Viscount Boyne, body pickled in a trough for 14 days, 532 and exhibited, before burial, 169; Hamilton, James, fourth Duke of literature following the attempt on Hamilton and ﬁrst Duke of Brandon, Harley, 172, 186, 194; Harley wanted plays a prank on S., 251; angry w. the him to live, 183; a portrait of, 390 House, 368; his patent, 379, 381; gives Gyllenborg, Charles, Count Gyllenborg, S. snuff, 456; his quarrel and duel w. Swedish ambassador, 511 Mohun, 457, 458, 464; inquest on, 460; trial of his second, 463; ‘never Hague, The, 163; envoys to, 86, 163, 386, dreamt of a chaplain’, 464; his house, 406 507 Hales, Mary, maid of honour, 255 Hamilton, James, seventh Earl of Hamburg, 242, 259, 451, 488 Abercorn, 153, 197 Hamilton [nee´ Douglas], Anne, suo jure Hamilton, James, sixth Earl of Abercorn, Duchess of Hamilton, 475 S. solicits for him, 83, 411, 414; S. Hamilton, Col. John, 457, 458, 463 dines w., 84, 197, 262; his son’s Hamilton [nee´ Gerard], Elizabeth, 295, marriage, 153, 269; his second son and 329, 465, 510; arranges a visit to S., a lottery, 269; to live in Ireland, 269; 376; not yet up, 415; visits S. in his attempts to recover a French illness, 423; sews for S., 446; her dukedom, 468, 472, 475, 489; irritates husband’s duel, 458; S. cares for her in S., 466, 468, 482; going to France, her grief, 458, 459, 460; her nature, 486; at court w. S., 486 460, 483; S. tries to reconcile her w. Hamilton, John, 269 Lady Orkney, 460; S. informs her of Hammersmith, 95, 429 results of the Duke’s murder, 460; S. Hampstead, 11, 17 fears he is in disgrace w., 467; and Hampton Court: the queen, court and Lord Abercorn’s claim, 468, 472, 475; ministers at, 24, 25, 27, 43, 261, 295, advertises reward for Macartney, 473, 299, 301, 305, 308, 312, 313, 316, 507; asks S. to dine, 495; offended by 317, 319, 324, 326; description of the Bligh, 507 town, 313; no room for S. at, 313; Hamilton [nee´ Reading], Elizabeth, Marlborough w. the queen at, 327 Countess of Abercorn, 85, 197, 261 handwriting, 136, 157, 177, 275, 283, 364 Hamilton [nee´ Villiers], Elizabeth, Hanmer, Isabella, suo jure Countess of Countess of Orkney, 465, 516; Arlington, and Duchess of Grafton, mistress of William III, 445; the wisest 328, 501, 503, 507, 518 woman S. knows, 445; Harley and, Hanmer, Sir Thomas, speaker of the 445; S. dines w., 452, 466, 469, 534; House of Commons, 68, 328, 391, her gifts to S., 456; motherly, ‘squints 518, 527; S. composes Representation like a dragon’, 456; S. reconciles her to to the Queen w., 392, 393, 394, 397; S. her sister-in-law, 459; S. goes to dines w., 82, 102, 183, 328, 501, 507, Wimbledon w., 476; ill, 482; gives her 516, 528; chairman of a committee, portrait to S., 495, 503; S. talks politics 391; his activities and reputation, 501;

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and S., 501, 503; and S.’s History of the Harley, Lady Elizabeth [Betty], 96, 217, Four Last Years, 504; unwell, 522 382, 463, 468, 469, 474, 476 Hanover, 291, 339, 351, 360, 363, 381 Harley [nee´ Cavendish], Lady Henrietta, Harcourt, Simon, first Viscount Harcourt, 319 12, 58, 59, 239, 257, 265, 283, 284, Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and 294, 339, 363, 517; lord keeper, Mortimer, xli, 24, 26, 31, 43, 44, 50, 12–13, 96; attorney-general, 14; S. 52, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 65, 73, 89, 94, introduced to, 33; S. visits, 141; and 95, 96, 101, 143, 146, 176, 186, 197, inner cabinet dinners, 144, 153, 201, 201, 210, 211, 214, 221, 227, 231, 205, 276, 481; S. speaks of Addison 232, 235, 249, 251, 257, 259, 261, and Steele to, 164; S. intends to 272, 277, 283, 287, 288, 291, 294, inform him of the treatment he 308, 333, 338, 347, 348, 349, 354, expects, 175; S. dines w., 186, 187, 359, 360, 363, 368, 376, 386, 388, 189, 270, 370, 482, 483, 494; and S.’s 389, 400, 409, 410, 414, 416, 417, pun, 190; and stabbing of Harley, 202; 418, 430, 432, 439, 441, 465, 473, to be made a peer, 204, 209, 211; S.’s 474, 478, 479, 492, 493, 496, 503, jest on his promotion, 206; learns of 517, 522, 538; his porter, 30, 41, 47, S.’s Miscellanies, 207; and a living for 90, 193, 259; publicly ridiculed, 86; S., 244; S. dines w., at Windsor, 256; his chaplains, 126, 229; his late hours goes to Windsor w. St John, 266; S. for dining, 134, 290, 298; over- talks familiarly w., 271; absent from burdened with affairs of state, 138; Windsor, 280; cannot keep Harley’s Prior’s verses on, 175; Archbishop late hours, 290; teases Sir John King’s Tacitus analogy, 180; rumoured Walters, 295; S.’s efforts to reconcile to be lord treasurer, 182, 186, 189, him w. Harley and St John, 304; and 190, 203; to be made a peer, 190, the political crisis, 342; and a living for 204, 206, 209, 211, 215; Guiscard’s a friend of S.’s, 470, 471; his portrait, attack benefits him politically, 212; 503; S.’s concern for, 510; his quinzy, dislikes being called ‘My Lord’, 216; 509–10; and Harrison’s grant, 518; to have the garter, 218; his staff of made lord chancellor, 526 office, 217, 219; carries a ‘dead Harcourt, Simon, ‘young Harcourt’, 189, warrant’, 220; petitions to, 220; at the 209, 239, 282, 338, 483 top of power and favour, 220; and Hare, Thomas, 248, 252, 257 Congreve, 228; blamed for slowness in Harley, Abigail, 320, 382 dismissing others, 230; and Sir John Harley, Edward, 118, 204, 225, 277, Walters, 295; quotes Scripture, 342; 342 and a jest about his death, 343; and S.’s Harley, Edward, second Earl of Oxford, Fable of Midas, 388; will not employ 30, 305, 318, 329, 339, 468, 474; others, 401; denies a separate peace informs S. that his father is asleep, plan, 428; dismissing Whigs in office, 162; and S., 258; travels to Windsor 434; his daughter’s marriage, 469; w. S., 260; S. begs him to excuse him easy in mind, 526; argues down to his father, 273; attends christening William Lloyd, 433; S. tries to get of Mrs Masham’s son, 273; detains S. Masham’s child named after, 465; and at Windsor, 280; dines w. S., 295, Selkirk, 475; promises money for 502; rumour of his marriage, 319; and patronage, 496; looking thoughtful, Domville, 331, 333; letter to S., 336; 512 and the political crisis, 342 and Archbishop King, 194, 201

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reads verses at his house, 104; S. calls 502, 510, 513; S. wishes his portrait, for at the treasury and chides, 123; S. 503; foreign ministers approach and St. John w., 124; enquires if S. is through S., 507; S. makes him attend alive, 134; S. refuses to dine w., 135, court, 508; engaged in serious business 370, 508; and the offer of £50 to S., w. S., 512; S. abbreviates his name for xliv, 135, 156, 177, 250; mistakes E. safety, 516; S. demands an honourable Johnson’s writing for S.’s, 136; says post from, 529; promises S. immediate nothing of presenting S. to the queen, satisfaction, 529, 530, 531; stops the 138; S. uses him as a lackey, 142; and warrants for vacant deaneries, 529, takes him into favour again, 142, 144, 530; S. determines not to see again, 156; affection for S., 155, 156; S.’s 530; wants S. to be prebend of deep concern when his life is in Windsor, 530; forces S. to dine w. danger, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162; S. during period of suspense, 531, 534; informs him he will no longer back and a payment to S., 536 Addison and Steele, 164; S. informs and the Westminster School election him of treatment he expects, 175; S. and plays, 198, 199, 517 defends Archbishop King to, 192, and William Penn, 30 194, 201; S. says he should lose his at Wimbledon, 468, 524 head, 193; ‘all the world knows’ of S.’s at Windsor, 236, 250, 255, 257; takes S. intimacy w., 205; S.’s joke on his being to, 247, 260, 274; returns from, 271, raised to the peerage, 206; and S.’s 277, 284, 295; refrains from going to, Miscellanies, 207; S. calls on him as 445 Earl of Oxford, 215; suggests making Harley [nee´ Middleton], Sarah, Countess S. his chaplain, 216; teases S. with a of Oxford and Mortimer, 96, 217, nickname, 216, 225, 232, 297; and S.’s 323, 382, 474, 478 proposal to fix the English tongue, Harley, Thomas, 216, 236, 237, 360, 495, 392, 406; S. w. at Windsor, 257, 274; 534 repeats S.’s bons mots at Court, 251, Harrison [nee´ Meade; first married name 272; invites S. to meet Mrs Masham, Swift], Elinor, 395, 446 258; angry w. S., 261, 262; S. talks Harrison, Theophilus, Dean of familiarly w., 271; his Thursday Clonmacnoise, 446 evenings, 274; S.’s fears for, 326; S. Harrison, William, xlv, 36, 37; befriended curses his late hours and meals, 290, by S. and Addison, 36; St John and, 298; S. as mediator between him and 36, 118, 163, 188, 496; continuation St John, 304; and S.’s Conduct, 332, of The Tatler, 118; S. ‘makes his 336, 337; sends for S. late at night, fortune’, 109; brings S. his first Tatler, 372; suspects S.’s authorship of Some 118; S. fears he will fail, 119, 121; S.’s Advice to the October Club, 373; S. part in helping him, 121, 163; fetches papers from, 380; S. plays dismisses S.’s printer-cousin, 123, 133; cards w., 449; S.’s letters sent care of, introduced by S. to Harley, 133; S. 470; S. advocates ‘Whig Witts’ to, dines w., 151; fails to meet S., 141; 473; chides S., 472, 486, 511; hunts S. Congreve writes for him, 142; made out at court, and teases S., 483; asks secretary to Lord Raby, 163; goes to S.’s advice, 484; and S.’s coinage The Hague, 188; S. advances him w. project, 486; S. takes him to task, 487; Harley, 235; orders shirts for S. from habit of asking S. to dine and S.’s Holland, 397; made queen’s secretary, evasions, 488, 489, 494, 495, 498, 500, 406, 490; brings the Barrier Treaty,

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Harrison, William (cont.) Fruits, xl; love of punning, lxiv, 52, 490; unpaid by the government, 490, 221, 231, 235, 328, 493, 523; Dillon 491; S.’s fund for him, 496, 497; sends Ashe w., 231; coming to town, 299, for S., 496; his illness and death, 496, 302; S. calls on, 308; invited to join 497; S.’s grief, 497; his mother and the Academie´ Royale des Sciences, sister, 497, 499, 518; S. orders his 317; S. looks at books w., 507 funeral, 497; an accident at his funeral, Hereford, bishopric of, 485, 487, 492 498; S. sees to his debts, 498, 499, 518 Hickman, Charles, Church of Ireland Hartstonge, John, Bishop of Ossory, 169, Bishop of Derry, 218 333, 476, 479, 487, 519 Higgins, Francis, 320, 333, 379, 426, 430, Hatton, William Seton, second Viscount 438, 464 Hatton, 310 Hill, Alice, position in royal household, Hawkesworth, John, xxxv, xxxvi, lxxii, 281; godmother to Mrs Masham’s lxxvi–lxxviii son, 274; S. dines w., 281; visits Mrs Hawkshaw, John, xxxiv, 41, 75, 91, 243, Masham, 282, 382, 393; dines w. S., 322; and E. Johnson’s box, 107; 282, 292, 293, 295, 469, 473; rides w. money transactions w., handled by E. S., 293; S. advises her to go to the Johnson and R. Dingley, 138, 262, recital, 294; S. sups w., 354; S. plays 288, 304, 334, 451, 482 picquet w., 404; S. writes to her of the Hay, George, eighth Earl of Kinnoull, 30, Bandbox Plot, 458 90, 474, 476, 498, 520; travels to Hill, John, 74, 296; will second S.’s Windsor w. S., 260; attends requests for Bernage, 142, 146; S. christening of Mrs Masham’s son, chooses as guest, 150; S. refuses to 273; detains at Windsor, 280; S. to dine w., 175; and failure of expedition dine w., 305, 307, 390, 502, 517; against Quebec, 198, 294; returns created Baron Hay, 356; and a from Canada, 298, 300; calls a council pamphlet of S.’s, 373; S. walks w., of war, 298; elected a member of the 402; christening of his daughter, 489 Society, 333; rumour about his Hay, Thomas, seventh Earl of Kinnoull, commission being stopped, 372; going 270 to Dunkirk, 433; as governor, 434, Hay Drummond, Robert, Archbishop of 436; sends his sister a headdress, 439; York, 321 sends S. a magnificent snuff-box, 446, Hecatompolis, 514 454; S. dines w., 473; his sisters, 472, Henley, Anthony, 37, 218; S. dines w., 81; 473; magnificent dinner of, 496 S. refuses, 95; goes to country for History of the Maids of Honour since Harry Christmas, 111; wants S. to go w. him the Eighth, The, by John Arbuthnot, to eating houses, 111; message for S. 282, 284 through Lord Herbert, 111 ; and a History of the Works of the learned: or, An pun, 179; and Steele and Rowe, 183; impartial account of books lately printed death of, 261 in all parts of Europe, The, 449 Herbert [nee´ Slingsby], Barbara, Countess Hoadly, Benjamin, 11 of Pembroke and Montgomery, Hockley in the Hole, Clerkenwell, 224 299 Hoffmann, Johann Philipp von, 347, Herbert, Henry, sixth Baron Herbert of 361 Cherbury, 108, 111 Holborn, 521 Herbert, Thomas, eighth Earl of Holland (see also Dutch, the), 128, 131, Pembroke and fifth Earl of 290, 295, 348, 352, 385, 387, 397, Montgomery, 58, 305; and the First 406, 455, 461, 478, 491, 513; E.

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Johnson suggests S. is going to, 128; S. advocates use of household coal in, four Provinces of, and the Peace, 121; Mr. Smyth leaves for, 126; S. 470 longs to be in, 11, 154; S. dreams he is Holland, Sir John, second baronet, 13, 19, in, 167; S. leaves, 206; Trapp’s MS in, 22, 29, 57, 120, 171 207; Richardson going to, 208; Mrs. Holles, John, Duke of Newcastle-upon- Pratt going to, 209; commissioners of Tyne, landowner and politician, 246, revenue in, 217, 231, 506; Lord 319 Abercorn going to, 269; S.’s feeling of Holles, Thomas Pelham, Duke of neglect from, 218; S. hopes to return Newcastle-upon-Tyne and ﬁrst Duke to, 290, 305, 366, 375, 383, 397, 417, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, 319 425, 445; never discussed in England, Holyhead, 537, 538 318; society in, compared w. London, Honywood, Philip, 86 324; Domville leaving for, 416; the Horace, 434 ladies of, 415; S. will be over in the horseracing, 255, 256, 281 spring, 461; in a month, 532; neglect horses, 3, 7, 89, 396, 447, 453, 461 of Parnell, 479; scheme for improving, House of Commons and House of Lords, 481, 486, 491; employments in, 524; see Parliament and Ireland: Parliament and lords lt. of, 524; S. protests he Howe [How], John Grobham [Jack],30 must return to, at once, 529; S. joyless Humphreys, Humphrey, Bishop of at passing his days in, 530–1; Hereford, 479, 485 irregularity of post to, 538 Hyde, Henry, Lord Hyde, later fourth Earl archbishops and bishops (and see under of Clarendon and second Earl of their names); ‘fools’, 261; and the First Rochester, 25, 72, 178, 246, 357, 378, Fruits, 38, 56, 72, 73, 75, 241, 258, 479; his daughter Jane, see Hyde 259, 260, 508; their letter of thanks, Hyde [nee´ Leveson-Gower], Jane, Lady and Harley’s reply, 261, 269, 286, 303; Hyde, later Countess of Clarendon six in London, 450 and Rochester, 25, 293 chancellor of the exchequer, 86 Hyde, Lady Catherine, 378, 500, 502 chief justices of the Queen’s Bench, Hyde, Lady Jane, 246, 378 93 Hyde, Laurence, ﬁrst Earl of Rochester, clergy, their exoneration from payment 58, 82, 200, 201; his daughter of 20th parts, 138 Catherine, see Hyde Club, 86 Hyde Park, 143, 227, 395, 458; the former commissary-generals of, see Keeper’s Lodge in, 458; the Ring in, Robinson, Sir William; Vanhomrigh, 458 Bartholomew government yacht, 3, 69 Ignoramus, by George Ruggle, 506 Irish bills, 282 Impartial Enquiry into the Management of Irish Quakers, 369 the War in Spain, An, attrib. Martin joint vice-treasurers, 178 Bladen, 318 language: and John Richardson, 174, Ingoldsby, Richard, 93, 194, 271, 272, 206, 408; printing of Irish prayer 317, 379 books and Bibles, 167 Inns (London) (see also taverns; coffee lords lieutenant of, see Butler, James, houses), 110, 298, 411, 521 second Duke of Ormonde; Herbert, Ireland, 32, 37, 44, 45, 46, 51, 59, 60, 67; Thomas, eighth Earl of Pembroke; S’s anticipation of an early return to, Paulet [Powlett], Charles, second 15; Sir Constantine Phipps and, 114; Duke of Bolton; Wharton, Thomas

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and S.’s family portraits, 395 431; S. weary of, 437; Addison lives S. imagines her speech, 322 in, 439; S. leaves, 439; Mrs Masham S. praises or criticises her beauty, 157, lying in at, 447, 448, 469 298, 315, 322, 412; carriage, and walk, Kent, 204, 267 321; docility, 363; opinion on Sid Keppel, Arnold Joost van, ﬁrst Earl of Hamet, 91; tact, 123, 258, 388, 506; Albemarle, 439 wisdom, 375, 412, 518 Kew, 429, 437 and S.’s snuff-box, 194, 446 Kildare, Bishop of, see Ellis, Welbore and the Vanhomrighs, 60, 151; and see Killala, Bishop of, see Lloyd, William Vanhomrigh Killaloe, Bishop of, see Lindsay, Thomas writings, 264, 306, 330, 363, 383; S. uses Killy, or Kelsey, physician to Sir William her expressions, 127 Temple, 281 Johnson, Samuel, lxvii Kilmore, Bishop of, see Wettenhall, Jones, Richard, ﬁrst Earl of Ranelagh, 282 Edward Jones, Thomas, MP for Trim, 466 Kilmore, prebendary of, see Price, John Joseph I, emperor of Austria, 26, 188 Kingdom, Jane, 513 Journal to Stella, editorial and publication King, William, Archbishop of Dublin, history, xxxvi, xxxviii–xxxix, lii, 165, 176; S.’s correspondence w., xli, lxxi–lxxviii; little language, liii, lv; S.’s letters to, 6, 7, 33, 34, 45, xxxviii–xxxix, lix, lx, lxxiv; genre, 56, 57, 63, 73, 77, 82, 103, 109, 112, xlvii–lviii; as a journal, xlvii–l; as public 158, 179, 201, 260, 270, 314, 341, history, l–li; and epistolarity, li–lviii; 342, 355, 362, 417, 418, 448, 492, composition of letters, xlvii, liii; style, 509, 535; his letters to S., 9, 56, 72, l, lviii; reception history, lxv–lxxi; its 101, 133, 170, 201, 214, 222, 258, title, lxxi; editorial roles: Deane Swift, 263, 269, 278, 283, 320, 325, 358, lxxii–lxxvi; John Hawkesworth, 535; and the First Fruits, xl, xli, 75, lxxvi–lxxviii; condition of the 82, 109, 112, 238; S’s commissions manuscripts, lxxviii–lxxxiv; signed by, 56; his friend Richardson, obliteration and cancellation in the 174; and Guiscard’s attack, 180, 181, manuscripts, lxxix–lxxxiv, lxxxvi; 192, 214; S. defends him, 192, 194, editorial principles and presentation, 201; but fears he is guilty, 194; his lxxxv–lxxxvii; editorial procedure: w. letter of ‘a squabble’, 218; advises S. to printed material, lxxxv–lxxxvi; w. be mentioned in Harley’s letter to the manuscript material, lxxxvi–lxxxvii Irish bishops, 269; advises S. to seek Joyce, James, lxviii preferment and to write on divinity, 278; sends Walls as a messenger to S., Keatley, see Keightley 286; S. accused of being his agent, keeper, lord, see Harcourt 302; E. Johnson’s parody of his letter Keightley, Thomas, 480, 506 to S., 306; recalls Dillon Ashe, 324; Kennett, White, Bishop of Peterborough, complaints against, 355, 388; S.’s xliv distrust of, 362; S. praises to the Kensington, 9, 27, 57, 243, 273, 277, 388, Duchess of Shrewsbury, 411; and S.’s 410, 428, 439, 447; S. walks to, 270, advancement, 531 273; Mrs Masham’s children in, 295; King’s Lynn, 85, 352 Gravel Pits, 321; Gardens, 410, 504; King, William, judge of the admiralty the queen at, 424; S. thinks of living court in Ireland, 349, 358 in, 426, 428, 429; ‘in the Country’, Kinsale, 188

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Kneller, Sir Godfrey [formerly Gottfried office, 187; at Windsor, 254; fails to Kniller], first baronet, 28, 82, 390, ask S. to dine, 291; and Count Gallas’s 495, 503 dismissal, 310; French ministers pass their invitation to Pembroke by, 317; Lady Day, 169 orders effigies to be confiscated, 326; Lambert, Ralph, 91 S. sends for him, 327; S.’s business w., Lansdowne, Baron, see Granville, George 320, 346; and the political crisis, 341, Lapland witches, 429 349; and a court scoundrel, 415; Laracor, S.’s benefice near Trim, 6, 13, 22, Harley appoints to lead Anglo-French 47, 61, 84, 324, 333; S. wishes he was negotatiations, 454, 476; and inner at, w. E. Johnson, 116, 166, 233, 267, cabinet dinners, 481; invites S. to dine, 413; apples at, 128, 364, 428, 452; the 531 canal at, 134, 147, 166, 375, 444; Leicester House, 361 pike-, eel- and trout-fishing at, 147, Leigh, James [Jemmey], Westmeath 166; S. in his dressing gown at, 147; landowner, 8, 20, 49, 63, 143, 176, S.’s nostalgia for, xxxiii, 166; Hill of 286, 299, 305, 327; S. dines w., 95; Bree (now Bray Hill), 147; willows talks of going to Ireland, 106, 309, and thorns at, 166, 375, 385, 417, 424, 330, 346; out of town, 107; and E. 425, 444; S.’s holly bank and river walk Johnson’s box, 123, 300, 310, 318, at, 166, 439, 442, 444; and the floods 363, 366, 388; loves London, 209, at, 166; E. Johnson reproaches S. 245; carries E. Johnson’s apron, books about, 244; S. intends to retire to, 364; and spectacles, 303, 311, 312, 330, cherry trees at, 375, 417, 439, 442; no 388, 412; robbed, 401 fruit from, 442; the living of, 446; corn Leigh, Thomas, 76, 328, 449, 471, 474, at, 447; horses at, 447; S. will return 480, 485, 508, 519 to, 529; S. will not part w., 532 Lennox, Charles, first Duke of Richmond, Lavally [Lavallee´ ],Charles,35 85, 127, 144 Law is a bottomless Pitt. Exemplify’d Lennox, Lady Louisa, 127, 144 in the Case of the Lord Strutt, John L’Epine,´ Francesca Margherita de, 254 Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Letter from Macartney, To a Friend of His in Baboon. Who spent all they had in a London . . . Giving a Particular Account Law-Suit, by Arbuthnot, 405, 410 of what pass’d before and at the Law is a bottomless Pitt: John Bull in his Unfortunate Duel, A, 526 Senses: Being the Second Part of Law Levi, or Lewis, Henry, Hamburg is a Bottomless-Pit, by Arbuthnot, 410 merchant, 488 Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 408 Levinge, Sir Richard, first baronet, 66, 68, Leach, Dorothy, 352 464 Leach, Dryden, 13, 50, 118, 123, 133, 238, Lewis Baboon Turned Honest, and John Bull 527 Politician, by Arbuthnot, 442 Learned Comment Upon Dr Hare’s Excellent Lewis, Erasmus, under-secretary of state, Sermon, A, by Manley, co-authored by lvii, 24, 26, 43, 46, 62, 64, 218, 378, S., 315 418; S. calls on, 69; S. dines w., 70, 72, Le Brocquy, Sybil, lxix 92, 121, 135, 148, 155, 161, 165, 170, Legge, William, first Earl of Dartmouth, 173, 181, 188, 199, 201, 204, 209, 26, 59, 73, 501; and the First Fruits, 215, 228, 242, 273, 308, 329, 349, 56; S. dines w., 71, 279, 371; E. 355, 365, 370, 378, 387, 388, 392, Johnson’s letters to be sent care of his 406, 413, 416, 419, 431, 506, 509,

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518; S. at his office, 85, 130, 135; tries Lloyd, Catherine, 61, 260; her mournful to help Steele to please S., 92; S. and face, 129; S. greets, 149, 176, 214, Ford visit, 122; S. demands an apology 278, 286, 295, 311, 325, 385, 430; S. from Harley through him, 135, 156; S. imagines her a godmother, 152; chooses as a guest, 150; observes St ‘honest Catherine’, 196; and a dinner, John’s melancholy, 173; E. Johnson’s 364; goes to Wales, 412 letters sent care of, 187, 202, 213, 269, Lloyd, William, Bishop of Killala, 4, 18, 366; and Parvisol’s, 205; informs S. of 32, 48, 61 passing of Harley’s patent, 211; S. w., Lloyd, William, Bishop of Worcester, 433 at Windsor, 250, 254, 257, 269, 271, Lodgings: S.’s Irish, 4, 18, 185, 199, 536, 280, 284, 291; tries to calm S., 250; S. 538; Vanhomrigh’s, Mrs, 258 takes him fruit, 271; plays picquet, London, 20, 34, 46, 63, 231, 257, 295; 283, 292; a slow walker, 284; and S.’s contrasted w. Dublin, 26, 35, 57, 149, Conduct, 310; a letter to S., 328; and 151, 173; and general election of 1710, Archbishop King’s packets, 320; S. 37; Swift reaches, 6; printer to City, introduces Domville to, 332; talks of 101; Marlborough arrives in, 104; E. retiring to Wales, 343; S. begs him for Johnson to visit, 177, 466, 495; Leigh a post abroad, 343; his opinion of the loves, 209; S. walks to, from Moor crisis, 346; his portrait of Guiscard, Park, 219; dust of, 233; plays in, 233; 390; catches a Mohock, 409; accused condition of roads of, 262; emptiness of correspondence w. the Pretender, of, 267, 268, 450; a satire on, 287; 488, 491; S. vindicates him, 489; filling up, 299; seditious preaching in, brings S. bad news about his 320; freedom of City of, 447; preferment, 528; keeps him informed, quantities of Irish people in, 450; S. 530, 531; his clerk sends S.’s warrant, fancies he is in, 538; S. leaves for 533 Dublin, 537; rural character of, see Lichfield: Bishop of (John Hough), 4; Swift: love of nature deanery of, 528 Bishops of, see Compton, Henry; Lightburne, Stafford, S.’s curate at Laracor Robinson, John (1722 onwards), 450 criers, 456; old satin and taffeta, 456; old Lindsay, Thomas, Bishop of Killaloe and coats, suits and cloaks, 457; S. imitates Archbishop of Armagh, 42, 452, 519, cry of, 457; cabbages and savoys, 466 533 districts, see Chelsea; Kensington Lismore, Bishop of (Thomas Miller), 245 London Gazette, The, see Gazette ‘little language’, between S., E. Johnson Londonderry Society, 68 and R. Dingley, xxxviii, lix, lx, lxxiv, 4, Long, Anne, 12, 13, 53, 66, 85, 352, 353 5, 7, 8, 28, 77, 78, 89, 124, 139, 145, Long [nee´ Leach], Dorothy, 352 149, 157, 158, 220, 307, 385, 386, Longfield, Robert, 293 387, 388, 390, 393, 395, 397, 400, longitude, alleged discovery of, 418 406, 409, 411, 412, 413, 415, 423, Long, Sir James, fifth baronet, 353 424, 425, 426, 428, 430, 438–9, 440, lord chamberlain, see Talbot, Charles, 451, 452, 460, 464, 466, 467, 468, Duke of Shrewsbury 472, 474, 475, 477, 482, 485, 486, lord chancellor, see Somers, John, Baron 493, 502, 514, 515, 516, 524, 525, Somers; Cowper, William, first Earl 533, 534, 536, 538; ‘all our keys in’, Cowper 149; S. mouths it when writing, 157, lord chief justice, see Parker, Thomas, first 201; S.’s comment on, 406 Earl of Macclesfield

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lord keeper, see Somers, John, Baron Manley, Fanny [Frances?], 470, 494, 501, Somers; Harcourt, Simon, first 514 Viscount Harcourt Manley, Isaac, postmaster-general in lord lieutenant of Chester and North Ireland, 9, 470; intercepts letters, 9, Wales, see Cholmondeley, Hugh, first 19, 384; E. Johnson plays cards w., 27, Earl of Cholmondeley 28, 35; S. writes to, 19, 22; his place in lord lieutenant of Ireland, see Butler, James, danger, 19, 89, 213, 223; writes to S., second Duke of Ormonde; Herbert, 39; S. discusses, w. Frankland, 93; Thomas, eighth Earl of Pembroke; Southwell a good friend to, 93; S. Paulet [Powlett], Charles, second drinks his health, 114; S. bids E. Duke of Bolton; Wharton, Thomas Johnson go dine w., 121; Irish against lottery prizes, 12, 269, 367, 397, 436 him in London, 224; S. assists, 385 Louis XIV, 389, 411, 470, 504 Manley, John, 25, 69, 89, 115, 223, 242, Louis-Phelypeaux,´ comte de 470 Pontchartrain, 317 Mansel, Martha, Lady Mansel, 173 Lovet, John, yeoman porter, xlv, 281, Manley, Mrs, wife of ‘young Manley’, 242 291 Mansel, Thomas, first Baron Mansel, 187, Lowman, Henry, court official, 284 211; S. chooses him for a guest, 150; Lowndes, William, treasury official, 211 declares Patrick is a Teaguelander, Lucian, 114 172; S. dines w., 173, 189, 416; his Lucy [nee´ Cotton], Lady Catherine, 12, wretched dinners, 173; S. walks in the 17, 62, 132, 218, 316 Park w., 216, 496; S. congratulates, Lyndon, Elizabeth, Lady Lyndon, 235 359; engages S. at court, 367, 369; Lyon, John, lxvi, lxxii, lxxv plagues S., 482 Margaret, E. Johnson’s maid, 213, 288 Macartney, George, 86, 372, 457, 458, Marie-Adelaide of Savoy (the 460, 472, 473, 478, 479, 507, 526 Dauphiness), 389 Madameris, 422 Masham, Samuel, 124, 184, 272, 277, 336, Madrid: taken, 16; ambassador to (Robert 366, 368, 373, 381, 382, 388, 389, Benson), 41 393, 397, 406, 409, 410, 414, 415, magnifying-glass, R. Dingley and, 262 432, 502; and S.’s requests about maids of honour, 282, 284, 293, 416, 513 Bernage, 142, 146; S. chooses, as his Malolly, Mrs, S.’s landlady, 259 guest, 150; S. dines w., at Windsor Manley, Delarivier, liv, 112; author of The and in London, 247, 252, 254, 257, New Atalantis, 88, 237, 305; takes on 260, 270, 272, 276, 290, 295, 348, the editorship of The Examiner, 245, 362, 374, 382, 400, 401, 403, 404, 315; her True Narrative of what pass’d 495, 508; birth of his son, 261; invites at the Examination of the Marquis de S. to his son’s christening, 270; the Guiscard, 158, 159, 162, 186, 315; christening, 273; inner cabinet dinner, solicits Peterborough for a pension, 276; returns from Windsor, 277; 237; and Harley, 237; and the Duke of promises to provide S. w. dinners, 291; Marlborough’s Vindication, 296, 305, rides w. S., 292, 293; and the 315; her Comment on Hare’s Sermon, parliamentary crisis, 342, 347; made a 315; her life in danger, 377; S.’s Baron, 356, 357; S. dislikes his meals description of, 377 and late hours, 362, 430; w. the queen Manley, ‘Dolly’, 155, 260, 301, 303, 334, late at night, 372; S. sits late w., 380; 363, 443 S. and his children, 388, 410; and S.’s

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Fable of Midas, 388; S. eats oysters w., Medina, Sir Solomon de [formerly Diego 402; and his interest in paintings, 508, de Medina], 373 511; S. plays cards w., 508 Medley, The, Whig paper, 194, 223, 416, Masham [nee´ Hill], Abigail, 142, 146, 442, 455 274, 382, 393, 417, 437, 438, 476, Mein, Charles, 32, 52 493, 500, 521; and the queen, 469; S. Melchisedec, 111 to meet, 258; her pregnancies and Melthrop, Mrs, 427 miscarriages, 258, 273, 281, 447, 453, Menagerie, the king’s, at the Tower, 87 456, 459, 465, 507; her appearance, Meredyth, Thomas, 86, 399 259, 323; S. sups and dines and sits Mesnager, M. de, French envoy, 289, 317 late w., 292, 295, 348, 354, 381, 473, Metamorphoses (Ovid), 51 479; her son’s birth, 261; advisable for Methuen, John, 25 her to be at Windsor, 282; S. squires Methuen, Sir Paul, 58 her out of her chaise, 291; drives w. S., Meziere, a French spy, 382 292; her brother’s defeat, 294 (see Hill, Michaelmas, 21 John); her children, 295, 388, 410, microscope, miniature, 68, 96 413, 423, 465, 527, 530; S. and she militia, the, 326 correspond, 315; and the Peper Harow Milles, Thomas, Church of Ireland Bishop estates, 321, 323; settling the nation of Waterford and Lismore, 245 w. Harley, 323; S. calls on, 332, 339; Milton, John, 59 and the Duke of Marlborough, 340; ministry, the, S. and, lxx, lxxi, 65; enquiry and the political crisis, 341, 342, 344, into corruptions of, 110; no good puns 353; invites S. to dine during the from, 111; nothing thrives under, 115; political crisis, 346; and the Windsor and the ‘country’ opposition, 115; hear Prophecy, 353; S. plays cards w., 382, S. with regard, 116; character of 404, 414; and her new title, 359; and members, 116; Marlborough’s S.’s hat-peg, 376; S. reads to her and go-between and, 130; S.’s opinion that enjoys his evenings, 392; but ﬁnds her ministries neglect companions of room a ‘stove’, 396; to excuse Harley to pleasure, 145; and the October Club, the queen, 402; grief-stricken at illness 146; beg S. to stay in England, 154; of her son, 413, 517, 527; begs S. to S.’s description of their dilemma, 154; live in Kensington, 426; gets ginger and the keeping open of places, 171; S. from the court for S., 447; to comfort used barbarously by late, 177; S.’s the Duchess of Hamilton, 459; one of credit w. the, 183, 234; character of the few people S. sees, 465; her new late, 190, 391; ill management of the lodgings, 469; promises to sit for her treasury by late, 193; S. expects no portrait, 503; her concern for S.’s reward from, 266; come to Windsor, preferment, 530; unwell, 448, 530 283; unsteady, 338; S. regards as Massue de Ruvigny, Henri, Earl of ruined, 346; the queen intends to Galway, and Marquess of Ruvigny, 36, change, 348; ‘desperate’, 358; 318 Ormonde a staunch supporter of, 375; Master of the rolls (Sir John Trevor), 378 delay in providing materials for S., Maurice [Morris], Theodore, archdeacon 444; and the Hamilton–Abercorn of Tuam, 141 dispute, 472; and Sir Thomas Meadows, Sir Philip, 26 Hanmer, 501; S.’s surprise that they Meath, Bishop of, see Moreton, William let him go, 531 Meath, Co., 386, 523 Mint, the, 402

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Mohocks, the, 404, 405, 406, 409, 410, 237; leaving town, 247; S. dines at his 414, 417 house in his absence, 271; his fine fruit Mohun, Charles, fourth Baron of Mohun, and gardens, 271; transferred to Italy, 457, 458 301; rumour of his death, 301, 481; his Moimed, see Moymet affection for S. and S. for him, 481; Molesworth, John, second Viscount his character, 481; his illness, 512; Molesworth, diplomat and writes to S., 514; his long harangues, government official, 17, 19, 24, 47, 519; in the House, 527 418 Moreton, William, Bishop of Meath, 28, Molesworth, Robert, MP for Lostwithiel, 436, 438, 538 418 Morgan, Richard, 20, 28, 48, 59 Molyneux, Samuel, 454 Morice, Lady Catherine, 158 Molyneux, William, 454 Morphew, John, bookseller, 305, 345, 442, Montagu, Charles, Earl of Halifax, 25, 27, 455 218, 488; and the First Fruits, xl; S. Morphew and Lillie, printers, 133 dines w., 25, 37, 76; his politics, 76; S. Mose, Mrs Ralph, E. Johnson’s mother, see seldom sees, 127; his reputed mistress, Johnson, Bridget 174; patronises Congreve, 228; S. talks Motte, Benjamin, 446 w., at court, 295; forces his bow on S., Moult, Francis, apothecary, 431 347; Harley dines w., 515; opposes the Mount Atlas, 196 address, 527 moving pictures, 519 Montagu, Edward Wortley, 44 Moymet, two miles from Trim, the living Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 44 of, 535, 538 Montagu [nee´ Churchill], Mary, Duchess Musgrave, Christopher, MP and of Montagu, 257, 383, 507 government official, 199, 416 Montagu, Sir James, 25 music, fiddlers, 248, 254 Montgomery, Alexander, 172 music meeting, 254, 257, 292, 294 Moor Park, 219, 285, 291, 379, 413 Moore, Arthur, financier and politician, Nelson, Robert, brother-in-law to Lord 153, 202 Berkeley, 143 Moore, Lady Betty, see Rochfort Nereides: or, Sea Eclogues, by Diaper, 407 Moorhead, J. K., lxviii New Atalantis, The, by Manley, 88, 237, Mordaunt, Charles, third Earl of 305 Peterborough, 40, 45, 64, 234; and S.’s Newburgh, or Newbury, Col., 334, 401 Sid Hamet, 40, 41; S.’s description of, Newcastle, rumour of the plague at, 83, 85, 72; S. dines w., 72, 103, 109, 251; 137 foretells defeat in Spain, 101; goes to Newcomb, see Newcomen Vienna, 103, 110, 112; S. discusses Newcomen, Beverley, army officer, 408, politics w., in barber’s shop, 109; his 410, 411, 415 large number of staff, 110; and New Dialogues on the Present Posture of Spanish matters, 110; promises to be Affairs, by Davenant, 57 correspondent of S., 110; sends New Method of Discovering the Longitude, Burgundy to S., 145; in Vienna and S. A, by Humphrey Ditton and William writes to, 145; his letter to S., 188; S. Whiston, 418 writes to, 200; returns from Vienna, Nichols, John, lxxi, lxxiii, lxxiv 229; his agility, activity and age, 229; Nimrod, 252 S. visits, on his return from Vienna, Noble, Richard, 521

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Parliament (cont.) Parnell, Anne, 264, 433, 499 29, 37; S. goes to see it meet, 74; Parnell, Margaret, 515 queen’s speech at opening of, 369, Parnell, Thomas, his wife, 264; his 370; adjourned, 97, 166, 368; ‘may be melancholia after her death, 264, 433; chosen Whig or Tory’, 115; cannot S. praises his verse, 470; S. introduces move without Harley or St John, 154, him to St John who patronises him, 394; S. at lobby of the Commons, 179, 470, 472, 474, 479, 499, 514; his 181, 182, 184; lengthy sitting, 188, poems, 470, 484, 491, 499, 514, 518; 423; a debate in, 193, 340; up in a S. aims to ‘hoise up’, 474; S. makes fortnight, 203; about to sit, 313, 335, Harley seek him out, 491; goes w. S. 340, 487, 491, 501, 503, 525; St John’s to see the dying Harrison, 497; dines oratory in, 314; and the Whig w. S., 506, 509, 521, 531; unwell, 508, majority, 331, 335; a crisis in, 341, 515; S. recommends for prebend of 342, 343, 344; and the Occasional Dunlavin, 535 Conformity Bill, 346; and the Conduct, Parson’s Green, 229, 271, 426 348, 382, 384; the queen ensures a Parvisol, Isaiah, S’s steward and tithe majority in, 356, 359; robing-room of, collector, xxxiv, 5, 7, 16, 18, 22, 23, 359; S. attends a Tory triumph in, 39, 48, 67, 130, 240, 243, 262, 286, 359; late sitting of, 370; and 334, 335, 413, 461, 466; to sell E. accusations against Marlborough, 371; Johnson’s horse, 89, 108–9; letter and the Barrier Treaty, 386; and the from, 94, 176, 204, 225, 438; and the longitude, 418; a tack, 423; S.’s pippins at Laracor, 129; bills on, 156, opinion on convening of, 509 185, 204, 212, 232, 364; and S.’s rents House of Commons, 340; Harley and, and arrears, 166, 239, 426, 451; and 180, 190; St John and, 190, 197; S.’s watch, 167; to give £50 towards E. former speaker of, 378, 379; and the Johnson’s trip to Bath, 177, 178; and Barrier Treaty, 380, 381, 388; the asparagus, 203; E. Johnson to members of, base their speeches on oversee S.’s monetary affairs w., 204, S.’s Conduct, 382; mauls the late 205, 288; to send S. money, 311; E. ministry, 391; and the queen’s request Johnson’s ‘slave’, 430; and Laracor, concerning libels, 396, 405; limiting of 442; and S.’s tithes, 447, 452, 535, ofﬁcers in, 398; and the suspension of 536; S. displeased w., 453, 463; and hostilities, 428; and Sir Thomas S.’s accounts, 494; sends S. £50, 509; Hanmer, 501 and S.’s preferment, 533, 534 House of Lords, 257, 335, 340; and a Parvisol, Mrs, 49 poem of S.’s, 349; to meet sooner than patent for S.’s deanery, 532, 533, 534 Commons, 351, 354; small majority patents for peerages, 204, 272, 358, 404, in, 377; and a Whig sermon to, 379; 434 passes an Act, 379, 398; and an Pate, William, 13, 19, 29 address to the queen, 389; weak Patrick, S.’s servant, 10, 34, 41, 63, 74, 75, majority in, 401; a Tory victory in, 77, 90, 94, 97, 105, 126, 240, 246, 426; and the suspension of hostilities, 259, 265, 267, 273, 306, 337, 401, 427; and the Dutch haverings over the 410; drunken habits, 18, 42, 172, 252, Peace, 481; and Molyneux’s tract, 454; 299, 352, 419; S. abuses, 80, 84, 85, votes by proxy in, 526; order for an 87, 123, 172, 179, 215, 216, 250; lies address passes, 527 for S., 95; his mistakes, 96, 324; and parliamentary votes, 466, 526 S.’s lodgings, 101; bids S. rise, 104;

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and the linnet, 113, 132, 134, 157; his meets the envoys concerned with, 289; bills for coals and candles, 121; carries Whigs enraged about, 291, 308, 309, E. Johnson’s letters from coffee house, 325, 335; Lord Strafford informs the 123, 125, 153, 170, 204, 238; to deny Dutch of, 295; preliminaries for Leach entrance, 133; out of favour w. published, 308; and Count Gallas’s S. who calls him ‘Friend’, 134; brings dismissal, 310; and the French word of E. Johnson’s box, 138; broke ministers, 317; and Prior’s part in, key of S.’s chest, 149; looks up the 319, 327, 336; past danger, 328; and calendar for S., 153; brings news of the Hanoverian envoy, 339; and the Harley after attempt on his life, 159; Earl of Nottingham, 340; the Duke of informs S. of arrivals in town, 172; Somerset against, 341–2; the peers in Mrs Vanhomrigh to intercede for, 172; favour of, 344, 351; Lord Shelburne S. threatens to discharge, 172, 216, and the, 345; negotiations for, 252, 419; goes to city w. S., 182; and continue, 348; Whig speeches against, S.’s Chelsea lodgings, 192; does not 354; and the queen’s announcement have to lie for S. at Chelsea, 199, 201; of, 370, 526; the Duke of Ormonde S. and he and a brawl, 201; and the for, 375; and the Dutch, 381, 481; grocer, 203; forgets to carry S.’s gown nearly concluded, 385; and death of and wig, 215; and his livery, 216, 233, the Dauphin, 390; goes on slowly, 252; stands guard while S. swims, 220; 395; and Stratford’s ruin, 399; French calls S. six times of a morning, 232; offers towards, 414; flagging, 416, mauled by a footman, 233; leaves S. 450; coming soon, 423, 425, 431, 470, without any linen, 247; fills the inkpot 513; and Ormonde’s orders, 427; and too full, 249; to pack S.’s clothes for rout of the Dutch, 440, 466; St John’s Windsor a second time, 250; S. part in negotiations for, 441, 442; and plagued w., 277; carries off key of S.’s a Dutch book on, 455; and the king of house, 292; S. beats, 292, 293; and S.’s Spain, 461, 480, 492, 522; and S.’s caps, 320; describes the weather to S., History of the Four Last Years, 485; and 322; S. scolds, 323; goes to a friend’s French delays, 492; past all danger, funeral, 349; S. gives him half a 498; delayed, 499, 501; ready to sign, crown, 352; not in his bed, 247, 365; 503, 504, 506, 513, 517, 518, 520; S.’s admits a musician by mistake, 383; opinion on, 509; conclusion of, 522; warns S. of the Mohocks, 406; finally ratification of, 528 dismissed, 427; tries to come back to Peace. A Poem: inscribed to the Right S., 452 Honourable the Lord Viscount Paulet [Powlett], Charles, third Duke of Bolingbroke, by Trapp, 521 Bolton, 287, 386 peers, creation of new, 354–5, 356, 358 paymaster-general, see Hyde, Henry, Penn, William, 30, 369 second Earl of Rochester penny post, 17, 19, 26, 65 Peace, the, 318, 335, 338, 358, 375, 397, Peper Harow, 321 485, 490, 499, 510, 512; S.’s devout Perceval, John, first Earl of Egmont, wish for, 115, 154, 237, 278; 167–8, 396 hastening of, 188; Lord Peterborough Percival, John, of Knightsbrook in Laracor, against, 237; the ministry for, 237; 414, 417 Prior’s mission for, 263; expectation Percival [Williams], Mrs John, 337, 410 of, 270, 285, 363; Bernage fears, 279; Perry [nee´ Swift], Anne, 211 contriving, 284; going on fast, 288; S. Perry, James, attorney, 211

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Petkum, Herman, 467 Portlock, Benjamin, 95, 103 Petty, Henry, Baron Shelburne, 185, 237; Port-Mahon, 527 his illness, 80; S. dines w., 80, 105, portmantua, S.’s, 192, 247, 277 119, 142, 200, 208, 209, 219; his portraits: of S., 7, 10, 49, 82; of an ancestor children, 87; S. commiserates w. him, of S., 92, 213, 395; of Lady Giffard, 94; S. excuses himself from, 118; goes 330, 505; of Guiscard, 390; of the to Hyde Park w. S., 143; S. may go Duke and Duchess of Ormonde, 468; out of town w., 226; a violent arguer, of the Countess of Orkney, 495, 503; 345; invites S. to dine, 355 of Bolingbroke and Lady Masham, Petty [nee´ Williams], Mary, Lady 503; of Harley, 503; of the queen, 528 Shelburn, 94, 101 Portrane, near Donabate, Co. Dublin, 464 Philanglus and Astraea: or, the Loyal poem, Portugal, 24, 58, 80, 267, 279 by Charles Kirkham Esq., 415 Post, Evening, The, 458, 459, 464, 473, Philippe, duc d’Anjou, Philip V of Spain, 478, 488, 510 461, 470, 522 Post-Boy, The, 180, 188, 318, 326, 353, Philips, Ambrose, 92, 229, 231, 235, 265, 360, 393, 460, 464, 507; edited by 279, 473 Roper, 412; and plague at Hamburg, Phipps, Sir Constantine, 67–8, 85, 114, 451; and the Bandbox Plot, 458; 118, 157 advertises Macartney proclamation, picquet, 136, 283, 292, 313, 327, 331, 404, 460, 473; S. exonerates Lewis in, 488; 438, 444; S. plays, 403, 440, 495; S. advertises picture auction, 508, 511 wins at, 404, 444, 445, 466; S. loses at, Postman, The, 50, 123, 416 414, 444, 452, 530 post office, the, 171, 267, 276, 287, 307, picture auction, 476, 508, 511, 514, 517 325, 385, 394, 403, 414, 461, 504, Pierrepont, Evelyn, first Duke of Kingston 525; receivers, not senders, pay the upon Hull, 221 postal fee, lvii; S. dines w. the plague, the, 83, 85, 137, 363–4, 451 postmaster-general at, 114; Act of Plotter Found Out: Or, Mine Arse in a 1710 and, 223 Band-Box, The, 459, 464 Poulett, John, fourth Baron and first Earl Plutarch, 482 Poulett, 182, 261, 371, 481, 516, 519 Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part, pub. by Powell, Sir John, 239 Tonson, 37 Pratt, Benjamin, provost of Trinity College Polignac, Melchior de, churchman and Dublin, 8, 25, 392, 469, 475, 478, diplomat, 290 485, 492, 493, 523, 527; stands proxy Pomfret, see Pontefract Castle for S. at christening of Mrs Walls’s Pompey, servant of Col. Hill, 74 son, 160; buying pictures for St Pons, Emile,´ lxxxi, lxxxii George Ashe, 191, 476, 510; English Pontac, Arnaud de, 259 opinion of, 318; ‘a coxcomb’, 363; Pontefract Castle, 435, 439 letter to S., 387; S.’s letters to, 397; Pooley, John, Bishop of Raphoe, 275, 454 and a matter of 10s., 427; intercepts Pooley, Thomas, portraitist, 514 S.’s suspension, 436, 438; likely to be Pope, the, 317, 326, 327, 331, 332 promoted, 454; S. presents him to Pope, Alexander, 7, 48, 207; and The Harley, 454; brings S. news of Dublin, Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, 297; 461; S. dines w., 481, 509; takes and the Scriblerus Club, 297; and his chocolate w. S., 480; goes to a Windsor Forest, 252, 510; his Rape of bookshop w. S., 482, 490; plays at the Lock, 28, 131; S. writes to, 473 ombre, 486, 501, 506; his attendance

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at picture sales and S.’s term for him, a this journey, 288; Harley calls him by ‘virtuoso’, 476, 508, 517, 518; S. sits S.’s feigned name, 297; thanked by the late with, 514; S. plays ombre w., 537 queen, 300; to make the Peace, 319; Pratt, John, 11, 14, 27, 49, 72, 79, 178, dines w. Lord Harley, 319; his 185 commission to be ambassador for the Pratt [nee´ Brookes], Honoretta, 86, 87, Peace, 327, 329; Strafford’s refusal to 143, 185, 208, 209, 210, 219, 226, negotiate w., 319, 328, 336; S. 237 introduces Domville to, 332; and the Pratt, Samuel, Dean of Rochester, 273, Conduct, 337; and the political crisis, 294 344, 346; to be in office, 370, 379; his Present State of Wit In a Letter to a Friend in financial losses, 401; his hatred of the the Country, The, traditionally Customs office post, 407; goes to attributed to John Gay, 207; identified France w. Bolingbroke, 442; in as Addison’s work, 207 England for a few days, 453; returning Pretender, the Old, 168, 489 to France, 454, 461; kisses the queen’s Pretyman, Sir George, second baronet, 337 hand, 461 Price, John, 222 prisons, 169–70, 399, 402, 406 Price, Mrs, 506 privy seal, office of, 268, 269, 272 printers, 308, 336, 447,andseeBarber, Proby, Mrs, 169, 232, 248, 285, 322 John; Morphew, John; Tonson, Jacob; Proby, Thomas, 194 Tooke, Benjamin processions, 317, 326 Prior, Matthew, 40, 51, 64, 70, 80, 105, proclamations, 410, 460 187, 230, 279, 313, 379, 410; dines w. prolocutor, the, 113, 199 S., 40, 70, 72, 82, 83, 134, 183, 189, Proposals for Printing a very Curious 209, 257, 279, 289, 311, 319, 380; Sid discourse, in two volumes in quarto . . . or, Hamet attributed to, 41, 44, 62; a treatise of the art of political lying, with commends S.’s Shower, 51; his puns, an abstract of the first volume of the said 111, 269, 328; S. walks, and sits w., treatise, by Arbuthnot, 449 148, 170, 380; gives S. a Plautus, 122; Protestant Post-Boy, The, 297, 332, 429 insulted in the street, 138; goes to a Protestant religion, 155 funeral, 144; goes to a coffee-house w. Proud, Col., see Frowde, Col. William S., 146; walks to get fat, 148; and the Ptolemy, 398 Examiner, 138, 156; his verses on Pullen, Tobias, Bishop of Dromore, 471, Harley’s stabbing, 172; observes St 480, 485, 486 John’s melancholy, 173; his verses on punch, 240, 326 Harley, 175; his appearance, 189; and puns and punning, lxiv, 269, 328, 493, 514, S.’s pun, 191; and the Westminster 523, and see under individuals’ names School election, 198; St John and, puppet show, 88 263, 268, 277; abroad for two months on secret mission, 263, 266, 268, 270; Quakers, 118, 369 arrested on his return, 278; S.’s Quebec, expedition of, 198, 294, 333 fictitious narrative on the event, 270, 273, 278, 285; his anger at the above, Radcliffe, John, 21, 140, 170, 182, 189, 278, 279; phenomenal success of the 202, 245, 308, 313, 337, 391, 489 pamphlet, 278, 285; to go on a Ram, the, in Capel St, 5 mission to France again, 285, 288, Ramsay, Eliz., companion to the Countess 290; S. intends a second account of of Orkney, 474

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Raphael, cartoons of, 25 Richardson, John, Church of Ireland Dean Raphoe, bishopric of, 454, 533 of Kilmacduagh, 155, 167, 174, 208, Raphoe, Bishops of, see Pooley, John; 209, 214, 218, 245, 408 Lindsay, Thomas Ridpath, George, 449, 455 Rathborne, Joseph, Dublin tradesman, 67, Ring, the, in Hyde Park, 458 107 Rio de Janeiro, taken by the French, 377 Raymond, Anthony, rector of Trim, 3, 20, roads, condition of, 262, 282, 295 59, 61, 76, 81, 118, 202, 222, 227, Robartes, Charles Bodvile, second Earl of 240, 244, 302, 489; in Chester, 3, 8; Radnor, 10, 93, 262, 265, 357, 359, returns to Ireland, 3, 95, 222; S. 427 presents him to Lord Wharton, 8; at Robartes, Russell, 357 Bristol, 63, 95; in town, 72; S. eludes, Robinson, John, Bishop of Bristol, made 74, 75, 93; and Trim, 78; preferring to lord privy seal, 270, 272, 327, 348, 389 leave London, 84, 94; alarmed at loss Robinson, Sir William, commissary- of Irish packet, 85; S. hears nothing general of Ireland, 369 from, 107; with S. while he dresses, Rochester, Dean of, see Pratt, Samuel 108; his bill on Murry of Chester, 223; Rochfort, Lady Betty, 169 S. receives a basket of wine, etc., from, Rollinson, William, 175 117; S. receives a letter from Chester Rolt, Martha (‘Patty’), 12, 13, 39, 50, 57, from, 137; cannot settle his affairs, 238, 249, 476, 505, 527 139, 318; possible visit to Laracor, Rooke, Matthew, cousin of S., 467 147; and Rev. Walls’s money, 160; and Roper, Abel, 412, 460, 464 E. Johnson’s box, 164; S. drinks his Ross, Charles, army officer, 386, 409 wine, 204, 299; praises S., 222; strains Rowe, Nicholas, 27, 51, 80, 183, 473, 497 relationship with S. through financial Royal Exchange, the, 87, 114, 287, 288, dealings, 223; S.’s opinion of his 403 money sense, 223; and E. Johnson, Ryland, Frederick, lxviii 233; his children, 286; his itch for building, 363, 427, 446; prides himself Sacheverell, Barber, printer, 409–10 on his manners, 430; writes to S., 436, Sacheverell, Henry, 12, 114, 265, 326, 345, 442; and S.’s proxy, 438; S. would 372, 373, 379, 409, 522, 523 recommend him, 446; his Sacheverell, Thomas, 373, 380, 409 extravagance, 451; and S.’s preferment, salt office, 461, 501 535; and a living at Moymet, 535, 538 Sankey, Nicholas, 84 Raymond, Elizabeth, 3, 61, 63, 66, 84, Sartre [nee´ Addison], Dorothy, 47 233, 318, 446, 451 Saturday Club, or inner cabinet dinners, Raymond, Robert, first Baron Raymond, 201, 205, 210; see also Harcourt, 85, 118, 204, 227 Simon, first Viscount Harcourt; Reading, Daniel, lawyer and MP, 227, Savage, Richard, fourth Earl Rivers 235, 239, 255, 256, 264 Savage; Harley, Robert, first Earl of Read, porter to Robert Harley, 259, 261 Oxford and Mortimer; St John, Read, Sir William, oculist in ordinary to Henry, first Viscount Bolingbroke; the queen, 183 Swift, Jonathan Representation of the Loyal Subjects of Savage, John, fifth and last Earl Rivers, 450 Albinia, The, by William Wagstaffe, Savage, John, scholar and clergyman, 332 360 Savage, Lady Elizabeth, 450 Revelations, Book of, 161, 433 Savage, Philip, 86

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Savage, Richard, fourth Earl Rivers Seymour, Algernon, seventh Duke of Savage, constable of the Tower, 85, Somerset, Earl of Hertford, 106 90, 272, 279; desires S.’s acquaintance, Seymour, Charles, sixth Duke of Somerset; 85; resolved to hear S. preach before St John refuses to sit w., 257; queen, 90; dines w. S., 103, 150, 371, examination of Gregg, 264; goes to a 428; disregards S.’s reproofs, 144; horserace at Windsor, 281; the queen curses The Examiner, 146; S. chooses favours, 341–2; S. would dismiss, 342; him for a guest, 150; and the ‘inner and the political crisis, 344, 345; goes cabinet’ dinners, 144, 153, 201, 205, to Petworth, 347; rumoured turned 481; S. speaks of Addison and Steele out, 356, 357, 360, 366, 371; S. desires to, 164; tells S. a secret, 168; advises S. his impeachment, 368, 370; his yellow not to walk late at night, 211; S. rides liveries, 371; former master of the to Brentford w., 273; attends horse, 371; and an alleged letter from christening of Mrs Masham’s son as the queen, 374 godfather, 273; goes to Hanover, 291; Seymour [nee´ Percy], Elizabeth, Duchess master of the ordnance, 361; grants S. of Somerset, 366; a favourite of the a favour, 361, 368, 370; his cherries queen, 154, 282, 343; S. would blasted, 428; his extraordinary will, dismiss, 342; ‘damned’, 343; and the 450 political crisis, 345, 350, 356; goes to Savage, William, clergyman, 332 Petworth, 347; contradicted, 348; and Savoy, Eugene, Prince of, see Eugene the Windsor Prophecy, xliii, 351, 353; S. Savoy, and the negotiations of Lord hopes for her removal, 371; at court, Peterborough, 237; S. rumoured to be 371; not yet out of office, 374, 384 envoy to the Duke of Savoy, 514 Seymour, William, 224 Scarburgh, Charles, clerk of the board of Shaftesbury’s Plot, 209 Green Cloth, 254, 255, 256 Shakespeare, William, S. quotes, 364 Scarburgh, Henrietta Maria, 292, 293 Sharp, John, Archbishop of York, 377, Schomberg, Lady Frederica, 230 532, 534 Schomberg, Lady Mary, 230 Sheffield, John, first Duke of Buckingham, Scotland, 41, 79 politician and writer, 58, 94, 173, 210, Scott [nee´ Hyde], Henrietta, Countess of 251, 275, 324, 371; Buckingham Dalkeith, 502 House, 202 Scott [ formerly Crofts], James, Duke of Sheridan, Thomas, lxiii Monmouth and first Duke of Sheridan, Thomas, Sr, xxxvi, xxxvii, lxvi, Buccleuch, 502 lxvii, lxxi Scriblerus Club, the, 195 Shilling, The, 79, 89 scrofula, 203, 423 shops, 322 sculler, a, 429 Shower, John, 350 Scurlock, Mary, Lady Steele, 55 Skelton, Charles, 488 Scurlockstown, Co. Meath, 147 Skinner’s Hall, 68 secretary of state, see Legge, William, first Slaney, river, 274 Earl of Dartmouth; St John, Henry, smallpox: Biddy Floyd and, 163, 166, 169, first Viscount Bolingbroke 202, 296, 301; Lady Louisa Lennox, secretary of the treasury, see Harley, 127; S. never had, 163; Dauphin and Thomas Dauphiness die of, 181, 389; death of secretary’s office, see Lewis, Erasmus, their heir Louis Duke of Brittany, under-secretary of state 389; Earl of Danby dies of, 261;

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smallpox: Biddy Floyd and (cont.) big, 503; a prodigious dinner at the Miss Percival and, 410; a maid of Duke of Beaufort’s, 511 honour and, 416; Miss Ashe and, 495, Somers, John, Baron Somers, 11, 15, 81, 499, 500; deaths from, 518 127, 154, 216, 218, 343, 413, 488, Smalridge, George, 102, 110 523; and the First Fruits, xl; his house Smith, John, Dublin bookseller, 76, 79, Brookmans, 435 114, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128, 137, 148 Somerset, Henry, second Duke of Smith/Smyth, William, Dublin physician, Beaufort, 371, 376, 383, 388, 392, 430, 431, 506 415, 511, 517 Smyrna, the (coffee house), 41, 70, 146 South, John, 83 snuff (see also tobacco), 181, 187, 189, 194, South, John, Irish commissioner for the 222, 456, 463 revenue, 287 snuff-box, 194, 446, 454 South, Mrs, 116, 287, 334, 387, 400, 406, Society, the, or the Brothers’ Club: S. and, 538 227; St John and, 227, 231, 239, 280; South Sea Company, 145, 272, 273, 309, meetings, 231, 239, 378, 383, 457, 322, 367, 443 465, 514, 518; fourth Earl of Orrery South-Sea Whim, The, 309 and, 332; Harley teases S. about his Southerne, Thomas, his tragedy Oroonoko, exclusion, 237; and Col. Masham, 123 258, 274; meet at St John’s, 259, 388; Southwell, Edward, 27, 400, 404, 486; S. Harley’s son and son-in-law members dines w., 38, 355, 356, 481; his letter of, 260; members are called ‘brothers’, from the Irish Bishops, 72; and the 261, 274, 388, 410; Earl of Jersey First Fruits, 72, 73, 75, 224; friend of chosen as a new member of, 280; Lord Isaac Manley, 89, 224; and his news of Bathurst and, 333; takes a room in St two packets lost, 167; his letters from James’s to meet in, 333; its secretary, Ireland, 167; and the Duke of 338; Walpole’s description of, 349; S. Ormonde, 167, 179, 478; memorial made president of, 350, 353; meets at about Beaumont and, 203, 222; S. the Thatched House, 353, 362; S. pays sends him a message for an Irish for a dinner of, 359; cost of dinners at, bishop, 302; and the Bishop of 359, 402, 411, 489; customs of, 359; Clogher’s request, 387; and Walls’s dismissal of Tom Harley, 360; and the business, 406; and S.’s preferment, Duke of Ormonde’s election, 362, 533 369, 397; subscription for a poet at Southwell, Meliora, Lady Southwell, 169 meetings of, 366; late meetings of, Spain, 16, 35, 64, 139, 140, 142, 185, 318; 370, 371; and the Duke of Beaufort, news from, 97, 99; Lord Peterborow 371, 376, 383, 388, 392, 402; and the foretells British defeat in, 101; his Earl of Arran, 398; growth of, from investigation into affairs in, 110, 112; twelve to twenty-two members, 402; and Bernage, 129; Duke of Argyle sets and Diaper, 407; and Lord out for, 165; and the succession to Lansdowne, 407; changes houses, 411; Austrian throne, 188; and Sir Henry never merrier, 417; S. attends after his Bellasyse, 237; and the debate about illness, 423; dines under an arbour, the Peace, 480, 492, 513; card games 426; declining, 468; suspension of from, 449 (and see ombre); no minister meetings of, 485; change in at Utrecht, 517 management of its affairs, 489; a great spectacles, 304, 305; for R. Dingley, 56, dinner at Col. Hill’s., 496; S. ﬁnds too 61, 67, 68, 75, 80, 91, 96; coming in

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by Dr Hawkshaw, 91; cost of, 96; for St John [nee´ Winchcombe], Frances, 117, E. Johnson, 108, 311; four pairs ‘for 159, 180, 181, 182, 253, 315, 374, the Lord knows who’, 315 378, 499, 502 Spectator, The:S.asksifE.Johnsonhas St John, George, 498, 522 seen it, 164, 169; and Steele, 164, 195; St John, Henry, ﬁrst Viscount Bolingbroke, S. gives a hint, 195; and Addison, 109, 30, 62, 63, 64, 68, 110, 120, 181, 186, 164, 195, 207; editions of, 312; S. 188, 190, 211, 214, 215, 217, 220, declares he never reads, 327; constant 222, 231, 235, 239, 245, 248, 256, phrase ‘the fair sex’ in, 384; Steele’s 261, 278, 280, 283, 284, 286, 294, impertinence in, 435; doubles its price 323, 327, 341, 349, 350, 361, 380, after tax, 131, 442; a Whiggish preface 386, 401, 404, 408, 409, 414, 442, in, 427 464, 474, 481, 482, 493, 517; and the references to individual issues: no. 35, October Club, 145; secretary of war in 172; no. 43, 179; no. 50, 195; no. 88, Godolphin ministry, 119; S.’s 74; no. 135, 228, 426; no. 227, 312; description of his way of facing no. 251, 63, 456; no. 283, 190; no. responsibility, 118; verses on, 119; S.’s 324, 404; no. 340, 386; no. 344, 20; comments on his drinking, 124; E. no. 413, 435; no. 417, 435; no. 428, Johnson suggests he is going to 119; no. 436, 224; no. 457, 41 Holland, 128; ‘a great Whig’ at his spelling, E. Johnson’s, S.’s correction of, ofﬁce, 130; wounds Guiscard, 159; 306, 333, 335, 363 visits the queen after, 161; melancholy, Spencer, Brent, 96, 194 173; attacked by Archbishop King Spencer, Charles, fourth Earl of through Tacitus, 180; ill w. overwork Sunderland, 310, 488 and wine, 180, 183; Irish abuse of, Spencer, Charles, third Earl of 181, 192; at Windsor, 236, 240, 242, Sunderland, xl, 379 247, 248, 249, 250, 253, 257, 266, Spencer, Gracy, 322 271, 289; returns from Windsor, 242, St Anthony’s Fire, 182, 437, 442 254, 260, 268; at Bucklebury, 253; St David’s Day, 398 signs Peace Treaty, 289, 308, 428; his St George, Sir George, 363, 371 London lodgings, 300, 312; his St George’s Fields, 402 procrastinations, 311, 456; comes to St James’s, 333, 469, 530 town from Hampton Court, 324, 326; St James’s Church and Chapel, 90, 93, at his formal devotions, 330; to be 472 made a peer, 356, 434; and the St James’s coffee house, see coffee houses political crisis, 343; out of humour, St James’s Park: S. walks in, 38, 84, 95, 378; and S’s Remarks on the Barrier 125, 134, 136, 143, 144, 148, 150, Treaty, 391; unwell, 393, 394; at Mrs 151, 154, 170, 171, 173, 208, 211, Masham’s, 393; his ability, 394; Lord 216, 238, 241, 279, 309, 366, 380, Lansdowne complains to, 417; his 405, 410, 480, 496, 512; Rosamond’s house at Windsor, 430; controversy Pond in, 131; S. compares the Canal surrounding his title Bolingbroke, 434; and Rosamond’s Pond in, w. St and the Peace, 434; denied an Stephen’s, Dublin, 149; the ‘rabble’ get earldom, 434; his chaplain, 439; goes into, 174; the lime trees in, 188, 268; to France on negotiations, 441, 442; and Buckingham House, 202, 208; S. returns from France, 453; in the meets Addison and Philips in, 279; country, 452; growing discontent, 476; tree in, 464 and duc d’Aumont, 478

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St John, Henry (cont.) 371, 373, 374, 378, 396, 471, 498, and Bernage, S.’s proteg´ e,´ 140, 142, 146, 500, 537; resolved S. shall preach 150, 151, 288 before the queen, 90; promises to and the Brittons, 301, 302 finish S.’s business concerning the and Diaper, 471, 496 First Fruits, 103, 109; S. intends to and a dinner bill, 280 call on, 104, 117; promises to get the and the Duke of Ormonde, 426, 427 queen’s letter for S., 104; sends for S., and the Dutch packets, 387 or S. waits on, 112, 115, 131, 179, and The Examiner, 338 214, 227, 518; tells S. rumour about and a French spy, 382 Manley is false, 114; S. refuses to go and a Grub Street editor, 455 to, 116, 142, 175; and the Stamp Act, and Hanmer, 392 131; S. handles an impeachment, 131; and Harley, 116, 124, 144, 158, 162, drinks S.’s wine, 145; S. discusses 186, 193, 266, 304, 455, 475; S. and Lord Rivers w., 146; S. runs to tell of he call on, after attempt on his life, attempt on Harley’s life, 158–9; S. 161; merry w. S. and Harley, 183; informs that he will no longer back cooling of relations w. Harley and S.’s Addison and Steele, 164; S. to tell of attempts to bring them together, 194, Pretender’s marriage, 168; S. warns 258, 304, 454, 476; and Harley’s him that he will not be treated like a promotion, 203, 205, 206; and his late schoolboy, 174; S. introduces Ford to, hours, 290; friendship ends, 434; 182; S. scolds, 183, 202; S. warns, 194; stormy cabinet meeting, 454 neglects S., 197; S.’s fears for, 202, 326; and Harrison, 118, 163, 188, 496 suggests S. should meet Buckingham, and the House of Commons, 190, 197 210; and a living for S., 244; S. gets and the inner cabinet dinners, 153, 201, him to assist Tooke, 246; at Windsor 205, 276, 481, 528 and Bucklebury together, 247, 248, and Lady Jersey, 311, 498, 500 249, 253, 271, 289; at his office S. and Lady Masham, 396 prevents a man’s pardon, 248; and bons and Marlborough, 104, 130, 303, 327; mots of S.’s, 251, 455; deep discussion tells S. of his conviction, 374 together, 252; walks w. S., 262; offers and the ministry, 193, 194 to lend S. money, 288, 510; gives S. and the pamphleteers, 283, 308 access to his cellar, 291; defends S. and Parnell, 474, 479, 499, 515 against press attacks, 297, 300; S. and the Peace of Utrecht, 518 stuffs his pocket w. papers, 313; S.’s and Pembroke’s invitation, 317 character of, 314; S.’s familiarity w., and Prince Eugene, 361, 389 314; and Conduct, 337; S. begs and Prior, 263, 268, 277 protection from, 343; S. introduces and the Quebec expedition, 198 King to, 358; S. waits on, at night, and the queen’s physician, 408 372, 374; and S.’s Fable of Midas, 388; and the Society, 239, 259, 280, 350, 378, S. busy w., 403, 439; S. advises, about 388, 402 his title, 434, 439; one of the few and S.: S. dines w., for the first time, 64; people S. sees, 465; tries in vain to and afterwards, 70, 82, 90, 103, 109, dismiss S., 473, 480; S. as intermediary 142, 144, 145, 150, 153, 159, 163, between him and foreign ministers, 165, 169, 173, 180, 182, 190, 219, 507; teases S., 511; persuaded by S. to 251, 252, 257, 270, 271, 278, 279, ask Addison to dine, 521, 523; and S.’s 289, 300, 337, 338, 357, 358, 362, preferment, 529

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‘to pick up some wench’, 262 23; E. Johnson plays cards w., 29, 192, and the Whigs, 268 230, 301; retains Dublin parishes, 49; and wine from the Duke of Tuscany, 186 deputises for S., 60, 89; fails to answer St John, Sir Henry, 64–5, 90 S.’s letter, 82, 435, 444, 452; S. St Leger, Sir John, 331 enquires about his dinner, 95; like St Nicholas Without, curacy of, 49, 454, Atterbury, 113–14, 157; S. imagines, 535 113, 152, 328; E. Johnson must walk St Patrick’s Day, 513 to visit, 155; his dinners, 173, 186, St Quintin, Sir William, second baronet, 199; tells E. Johnson of Harley’s 83 stabbing, 176; offers to lend S. money, Stamp Act, the, 442 212; S.’s letters to, 355, 357, 363, 371, Stanhope, Dr George, Dean of 380; and the bishopric of Raphoe, 454, Canterbury, 243 493, 525, 529; and the bishopric of Stanhope, James, 16, 28, 97, 99, 101, 112 Dromore, 525, 530, 531, 532; has a Stanhope, Mary (‘Moll’), 12, 132, 243 fever, 452; and a letter to be burnt, Stanley, Lady Anne, 32, 117 525; Ormonde’s dislike of, 531; his Stanley, Sir John, 25, 32, 81, 150, 181, Irish enemies, 532; his letter to S., 182, 246, 279 533; his ungracious behaviour, 535; Staunton, Thomas, 140, 170 and S.’s preferment, 535 Stawell, Edward, fourth Baron Stawel, 97, Steele, Richard, 39, 133; editor of the 100 Gazette, xliv; his franking privileges, 4, Stawell, William, third Baron Stawel, 499 23; S. spends evening w., 9–10, 20, 57, Stearne, Enoch, cousin of Dean of St 62, 183, 218; loss of the Gazette, 9–10, Patrick’s, 21, 28, 41, 49, 176, 309, 46; S.’s letters must be sent under 333, 412; and E. Johnson’s box, 43, cover to, 4, 23; nicknamed ‘The 56, 75, 107, 108, 109, 115, 123, 137, Tatler’, 7; and The Tatler, 108, 109, 138, 147, 196, 213, 230, 233, 286, 119; S. tries to help through Harley 374, 401; S. vexed w. his carelessness, and Lewis, 46, 92, 133; S. dines w., 128, 310; S. refuses to dine w., 143; 47, 70; advocates the use of Great and an affair w. the treasury, 148, 153, Britain instead of England, 80; in 231, 236, 237, 299; E. Johnson’s prison, 91; commissioner of the stamp power over, 196; comes to see S. by ofﬁce, 92; his apparent indifference, water, 209; S. dines w., 42, 210, 225; 92; his inability to keep appointments, his reasons and memorials, 238; meets 109; ﬁnishes w. The Tatler, 109; and S. in the street, 245; a ‘jackanapes’, estrangement from S., 120; S. will no 286; a friend of Mitford Crowe, 299, longer back, 164; and The Spectator, 409; in hiding, 300, 305; ‘seduced’ and 195; S. advances him w. Harley, 235; in debt, 330; leaves for Ireland, 346; S. never sees, 195; and The State of buys a commission in the army, 409; Wit, 207; asks S. to support a friend, S. calls on, 435; in mourning, 496 231; S. dines w., again, 249; S.’s biting Stearne [Sterne], John, Dean of St letter to, 249; rumour of his arrest, Patrick’s, prolocutor of Convocation 435; S.’s recommendation of, 473; in the Church of Ireland, 8, 10, 60, 61, begins The Guardian, 522 200, 230, 236, 260, 262, 288, 318, Sterne, Laurence, lxvii 322, 427, 535, 538; E. Johnson dines Stewart, Anne [nee´ Boyle], Viscountess w., 10, 29; S. writes to, 11, 19, 48, Mountjoy, 56, 99, 270, 304, 308, 323, 127, 354, 355, 379; lends S. money, 324, 478

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Stewart, Richard, 53, 83, 415 Swanton, Ferdinando, a British merchant Stewart, William, second Viscount in Lisbon, 450, 463, 464, 494, Mountjoy, 4, 34, 53, 54, 56, 62; S. 524 dines w., 9, 27, 41, 52, 70, 97, 98, 130, Swanton [nee´ Swift], Honoria, 450 179, 191, 243, 381, 478; rumoured Swedish envoy, 511, 521 return to Ireland, 60, 243; S. visits, Swift, Abigail, S.’s cousin, 4 81 Swift [nee´ Erick/Herrick], Abigail, S.’s stocks, 310, 399, 453 mother, 108, 120, 244 Stone, Andrew, banker, 130 Swift, Adam, S.’s uncle, 91, 211 Story of the St. Alb—ns Ghost, Or the Swift, Deane, xxxvii, xxxviii, lviii, lxvi, lxxi, Apparition of Mother Haggy, lxxii–lxxvi, 418; his editorial role in The, attrib. William Wagstaffe, Journal to Stella, lxxii 393 Swift, Godwin, S.’s uncle, 395 Stoyte [Stoite], John, 144, 278 Swift, Honoria, see Swanton, Honoria Stoyte [Stoite][nee´ Lloyd], Mary, 175, Swift, Jane, see Fenton, Jane 200, 218, 236, 260, 318, 364, 430, Swift, Jonathan 443; and card-playing, 55, 124, 167, books: Aristophanes, 132; Arrian, 398; 192, 230, 301; E. Johnson dines w., Barnard’s sale, 165, 182, 184; 89; S. greets, 95, 97, 111, 121, 129, Bateman’s shop, 482; boxes for, 169, 149, 155, 176, 196, 214, 278, 286, 185, 397, 505; buys some at a raffle, 295, 325, 334, 385, 427; imagines her 193; Fontenelle’s Dialogue, 317; gift of as godmother, 152; her sister some, to him, 242, 259, 303; hopes to Catherine, see Lloyd, Catherine; S.’s buy a library, 510, 512; Lucian for E. preference for, 311; her health, 363; Johnson, 114; Plautus, 122; Plutarch, coming to town, 435 482; Rymer’s Foedera, 208, 392, 396, Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, see 427; Strabo, 132 Wentworth, Thomas characteristics and habits: active Stratford, Francis, 11, 51, 66, 98, 312; S.’s imagination, 365; cannot read verse relations w., 11, 12; dines w. Will well, 105; cautiousness, 518; Pate, 13, 19; S. dines w., 23, 41, 69, cleanliness, 197; dining, supping and 95, 97, 114, 126, 165, 186, 229, 240, wining, see alehouses coffee houses, 259, 268, 273, 288, 322; advances S. Ford, Saturday Club, dinners, inns, money, 51, 67; and a bill of taverns, wine, and separate individuals; Raymond’s, 232, 240, 242, 243; and dreams and nightmares, 38, 79, 89, some books for S., 268, 273; a director 102, 110, 135, 136–7, 167, 239, 240, of the South Sea Company, 11, 272, 250, 280, 285, 316; economies: on 273; and some business w. S., 360; his fires, 34, 58, 62, 66, 67, 299, 301, 311, financial collapse, 367; in debtors’ 320, 322, 417, 524, on lodgings, 466, prison, 399, 402; and Meredith’s on coaches, 492, 518, his reluctance to money, 399; out on parole, 403; and pay for coach-hire, 37; exercise; belief Roper, 412; his wife, 403; going in, 299, 314, riding, 130, 196, 255, abroad, 492 256, 282, 292, 395, 413, 537, 538, Stratford, William, archdeacon of swimming, 219, 220, walking (see also Richmond, 126, 502 St James’s Park), 93, 132, 143, 144, Strode, Lady, 18, 20, 106 147, 152, 164, 172, 191, 192, 197, Sutton, Richard, army officer and 198, 201, 202, 203, 211, 225, 233, diplomat, 257, 271, 272 246, 252, 255, 262, 269, 271, 273,

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284, 294, 312, 313, 321, 328, 350, wages, and tips, 101, 116, 187, 216, 358, 366, 380, 396, 410, 428, 429, 252, 259, 352, 359, 465, 472 486, 524, 529; fears: of coaches financial affairs between him and E. overturning, 236, 276, of food and Johnson and R. Dingley, 72, 91, 96, wine, 222, 251, 309, 350, of fire, 100, 121, 138, 156, 177, 178, 185, 205, of fruit, 444, of highwaymen and 243, 262, 275, 288, 302, 304, 311, robbers (see also Mohocks), 201, 211, 315, 334, 335, 364, 426, 427, 436, 225, 233, 284, 290, 406, of opening 441, 442, 444, 447, 451, 452, 461, letters, 301, 302, of the plague, 83; 477, 482, 494, 504, 533–4, 536; forgetfulness, 315, 502, 511; inability financial year starts 1 November, 158, to help himself, 404, 410; love of 276; she is welcome to all his money, nature (see also food and drink, and 212; financial disputes with Raymond, Laracor); corn in Ireland, 447, 452, 223; wishes he and E. Johnson had fruit crop, 219, haymaking near £16,000, 312; allowance from S. to E. London, 206, 210, trees in the park, Johnson, 532; details of S.’s income, 188, 268, Vauxhall nightingales, 532 210; ‘never had been drunk in his life’, general: as letter writer, lii, liii, and 418; pessimism, 159, 320, 477, 498, obliteration in his letters, lxxxii, 529; pride, 73, 82, 94, 135, 142, 143, obscurity in his letters, 27, 157, 144, 150, 156, 174, 177, 197, 200, writing to the margin’s end, 20; 210, 250, 251–2, 294, 357, 371, 398, attends picture auctions w. Pratt, 476, 417, 423, 465, 483, 529, 530, 531, 510; bad authors, 479, 483, 522, 523; 533, 535; self-estimates, 200, 229, birthday, 79, 106; career and political 447, 458, 459; repetitive thoughts, life, xxxi, xxxiv, lxx; coinage project, 363; snobbery, 63, 346, ‘the 486; comments on the manners of the appearance of enjoying ministerial great, 124, on ‘friendly ministers’, 145, confidence’, 65; social retirement, 122; on doing favours, 184; composing the superstitions, 215, 241; suspicions, queen’s speeches, 526; correspondence 244, 368; tires easily of a place, 437, with Vanessa, see Vanhomrigh, Esther; 465 court and levees (see both): better expenses: boats, 429; books, see Swift: known at court than any man who books; card losses, see cards; candles, goes there, 331, uses the court as a 107, 110, 121, 126, 134, 135, 172, coffee house, 414, 465, 470, 481; 177; coaches and chairs, 13, 17, 33, cousins of, 50; efforts on behalf of 37, 41, 43, 51, 135, 141, 148, 166, Ireland, xxxix–xlii, 181, 182, 184, 456, 179, 188, 192, 193, 198, 267, 278, 486, 491 (see also First Fruits, and 296, 305, 322, 323, 324, 326, 335, Richardson, John); expects no reward, 336, 339, 348, 361, 404, 406, 409–10, 234, 529; employed as intermediary by 413, 416, 417, 421, 422, 451, 452, ministers, 480, 507; hiatus in letter 460, 461, 462, 469, 470, 472, 474, writing, 441, 443; hopes for and 480, 486, 487, 489, 494, 500, 516, anxieties about preferment (and see 517, 519, 524, 526, 529, 530; coals, Introduction), 213, 218, 404, 441, 80, 94, 107, 121, 363, 466; dinners, 505, 531, 534, 535 ; Irish neglect or 36, 52, 280, 281, 350, 359, 410, 468, indifference, 218, 259, 279, 302, 436, 482, 531, 532; letters, 320; lodgings, 519, 535; limited fluency in French, 15, 102, 185, 192, 296, 332; 123; London sightseeing, 86, 87; miscellaneous, 137, 167, 185; servants, memories of Moor Park and Farnham,

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Swift, Jonathan (cont.) rhymes, invented sayings and proverbs, 219, 291, 321, 332, 337, 379, 413, lxiii, 66, 78, 102, 104, 126, 195, 202, 492; patronage and preferment, 303, 322, 334, 502; Be it snow or xlii–xlvii, never met the queen, xlvi, storm or hail, 307; Be you lords, or be rumours of his appointment as provost you earls, 81; Between two stools one of Trinity College Dublin, 507, as falls to the ground, 242; Drink little at Dean of Wells, of Ely, of Lichfield, a time, 189; Ducks and the dirt, 98, 412, 528, as master of the Savoy, 514, 259; Eggs on the spit, 354; Even of his preaching before the queen, 90, Stephen, 125; Few fillings, many does not preach, 93, 137, of going to shillings, 322; Get you gone to your Holland, 128; pestered by solicitations deans, 179, 190; Great wits have but for favour, 234, 264, 287, 329, 337, short memories, 214; Honi soit qui 383, 387, 404, 415, 447, 452, 454, mal y pense, 179; If paper be thin, 66; 455, 461, 463, 469, 471–2, 482, 485, I hate all wind, 106; I have other fish 501, 506, 523; possibility of an Irish to fry, 136; A little bird told me so, preferment, 493; quotes from 213; Little wealth, And much health, Scripture, 313; relationship w. E. 234; Mr White and Mr Red, 99; Johnson, xxxvii; secrecy, codes and Much drinking, little thinking, 396; need for anonymity, 152, 156, 392, Much talkers, Little walkers, 195; 423, 426, 431; shaving routine, 10; Once I guest right, 101; Proffered Tory theory surrounding the service, 47; a Smithfield bargain, 160; Mohun–Hamilton duel, 457 Stay till night, 95; to ‘have an M under jests and puns, 78, 100, 103, 111, 128, your Girdle’, 536; Two sides in a 190, 191, 194, 206, 217, 221, 235, sheet, 81; Walk fast in snow, 126; 251, 272, 275, 294, 300, 313–14, 315, What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for 321, 455, 484 (see also puns and the gander, 127; When Presto begins punning) to prate, 164; Would you have a physical health, 57, 157, 187, 189, 202, settled head, 125; You come with your 203, 222, 362, 384, 451, 453, 493, five eggs a penny, and four of them 518; accident, 162, 170, 389; colds, addle, 128, 149, 304, 325, 364, 509 349, 350, 351, 385, 386, 388, 391, works, collections: Miscellanies. By Dr. 396, 413, 473, 476, 486, 494, 506; Jonathan Swift, 207; Miscellanies in giddiness, 54, 119, 130, 133, 142, 145, Prose and Verse, 58, 152, 194, 207, 223, 150, 156, 186, 187, 189, 195, 209, 278, 303, 306, 311, 315, 318, 352 213, 303, 304–5, 308, 312, 382, 394, works, poems: ‘Atlas’, 401; ‘Author Upon 444, 445, 448, 451, 488, 490, 493, Himself, The’, xlvi, 534; Beautiful 496; gout, 52, 251; hears badly with YoungNymphGoingtoBed,A, 350, left ear (and see Harley), 21; shingles, 502; ‘Bec’s Birthday’, 158, 230; ‘Bon 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 424, Mots de Stella’, 480; ‘Bubble, The’, 425, 429, 432, 437, 445, 447; suffers 429; Cadenus and Vanessa, 151; from Meni´ ere’s` disease, 21 Compleat Key to a Tale of a Tub, 207; portraits of,7,10(and see portraits) ‘Description of a City Shower, A’ press attacks: Abel Boyer, 300; ‘every (Tatler), 34, 36, 37, 42, 44, 51, 54, 59, pamphlet’, 334; Flying-Post and 60, 62, 76, 78, 91; ‘Description of the Medley, 455; left in peace, 390; Morning, A’ (Tatler), 78; ‘Description Protestant Post-Boy, 297, 332; Whig of a Salamander’, 308; Dialogue papers, 464 Between Captain Tom and Sir Henry

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Dutton Colt, A, 28, 29, 31, 36, 44; ‘Battel of the Books’, 7, 238, 408; ‘Dick’s Variety’, 266; ‘Excellent New Complete Refutation of the Falsehoods Ballad, An’, 290; Excellent New Song, Alleged against Erasmus Lewis, A Being the Intended Speech of a Famous (Examiner), 488, 489; Conduct of the Orator against Peace, An, 339, 349; Allies, The, xliii, 104, 198, 277, 283, Fable of Midas, The, 115, 357, 388; 290, 299, 311, 313, 320, 328, 330, Famous Prediction of Merlin, A, 352; 333, 341, 381, 391, 412, publication ‘History of Vanburg’s House, The’, of, 331, phenomenal success, 332, 58; ‘Horace, Lib. 2, Sat. 6. Part of it 333, reactions to, 332, 336, 2nd and imitated’, 298; ‘Lady’s Dressing 3rd edns, 336, 338, 4th edn, 338, 364, Room, The’, 502; ‘Libel on D— D— 5th edn, 364, 6th edn, 377, Irish and a Certain Great Lord, A’, xlvi, editions of, 337, 338, 348, 384, men 228; ‘Longitude missed on by wicked working on Sunday at, 336, to be Will Whiston, The’ (variously condemned in the Lords, 338, price attributed to Parnell, Gay and Swift), of, 338, 364, answers to, 338, 340, 418; ‘Modest Defence of Punning, A’, 384, 390, 416, John Barber ‘stands to 60; ‘On Mr. Pulteney’s being put out it’, 338, Morphew summoned by lord of the Council’, lxiv; ‘Panegyric on the chief justice, 442, 455, opinions of, Reverend D—n S—t, A’, 458; Part of 348; E. Johnson’s fears over, 366, a the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of passage in, 380, Parliamentary debates Horace Imitated, xlvi, 259; Peace and based on, 382, 384, 388; and E. Dunkirk, 437, 442; ‘Progress of Johnson and R. Dingley, 391, 467; Beauty, The’, 350, 502; ‘To the Earl of Decree for Concluding the Treaty P—b—w’, 229; Toland’s Invitation to between Dr Swift and Mrs Long, 15, Dismal, to Dine with the Calves’ Head 151; ‘Dialogue in the Castilian Club, 433–4, 437, 442; ‘To Lord Language’, lxiv; Dialogue upon Harley, since Earl of Oxford, on his Dunkirk, A, 442; ‘Doing Good: A Marriage’, 319; ‘To Mr Harlyes’s Sermon’, 50; Drapier’s Letters, 17, 21, Surgeon’, 172, 391; ‘To Mrs Biddy 238; Duke of M—h’s Vindication, The, Floyd’, 163, 298; ‘Town Eclogue, A’ by Manley, 296, 305, 315; Dunkirk (Tatler), 163; ‘Upon the Horrid Plot, still in the Hands of the French, 442; discovered by Harlequin’, lxxxiv; Enquiry into the Behaviour of the ‘Verses made for the women who cry Queen’s Last Ministry, 64–5; Essay on apples, etc’, 63, 120, 456; ‘Verses the Art of Political Lying (Examiner), Wrote in a Lady’s Ivory Table Book’, 449; ‘Family of Swift’, 395; Gulliver’s lxii; Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician’s Travels, lxxxiv, 22, 77, 87, 123, 156, Rod, The, 19, 25, 36, 40, 44, 59, 62, 162, 178, 195, 238, 282, 283, 308, 79, 91; Windsor Prophecy, The, xliii, 362, 417, 418; History of the Four Last 349, 353, 360; ‘Yahoo’s Overthrow, Years of the Queen, The, l, 131, 375, The’, 124 391, 405, 423, 441, 444, 445, 455, works, prose: Abstract of the history of 463, 485, 492, 504, 532, 536; England, An, 511; Account Books, xxxiii, ‘Holyhead Journal’, xlviii–l; Hue and liv (see also cards, ombre, piquet, Cry after Dismal, A, lviii, 437, 442; Swift, Jonathan: expenses and Humble representation of the House of Vanhomrighs); Address of the House of Commons to the Queen. With Her Lords to the Queen, 509, 512, 513, 525, Majesty’s most gracious answer thereunto, 526; ‘Autobiographical Fragment’, 54; The, 391, 401; It’s Out at Last, 442;

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Swift, Jonathan (cont.) Majesty, 341–2, 426, 427, 431; Some Learned Comment Upon Dr Hare’s Remarks on the Barrier Treaty, 376, Excellent Sermon, A, co-authored by 387, 389, 391; Some Remarks upon a Manley, 296–7; Letter from the Pamphlet, Entitl’d A Letter to the Seven Pretender, to a Whig-Lord, A, 439, 442; Lords, 264; Tale of a Tub, A, lviii, lxiii, Letter of Thanks from my Lord W—n to lxiv, 31, 68, 87, 88, 108, 195, 216, 278, the Bishop of St Asaph, in the Name of 297, 429; Thoughts on Various Subjects, the Kit-Kat Club, 427; Letter to the 135, 282; ‘To Their Excellencies the Archbishop of Dublin, Concerning the Lord Justices of Ireland. The Humble Weavers and his Proposal that all the Petition of Frances Harris’, published Ladies and Women of Ireland Should in Miscellanies, 95, 306 Appear Constantly in Irish Swift, Martha, see Whiteway Manufactures, A, 22; Letters, 16, 20, Swift, rev. William, S.’s great-grandfather, 26, 40, 46, 49, 55, 77, 78, 82, 88, 90, 395 105, 109, 113, 125, 127, 128, 136, Swift, Theophilus, lxxv 139, 145, 149, 157, 158, 166, 172, Swift, Thomas, S.’s cousin, 216, 225, 237, 173, 177, 178, 191, 208, 218, 219, 318, 446 222, 226, 227, 230, 235, 237, 241, Swift, William, S.’s cousin, 84, 253 251, 271, 274, 275, 283, 285, 292, Swift, William, S.’s uncle, 91 293, 296, 297, 303, 306, 318, 328, Swift, Willoughby, S.’s cousin, 450 362, 364, 371, 372, 382; Meditation Upon a Broomstick, 207; Memoirs, Tacitus, 180, 388 relating to that Change which happened Talbot [nee´ Paleotti], Adelaide, Duchess in the Queen’s Ministry in the Year of Shrewsbury, 253, 465; nicknames S. 1710, 210; Mr C—ns’s Discourse of Free ‘Presto’, 253; drives w. S., 292; her Thinking, Put into Plain English, by attendant, 292; sends for S., 293; way of Abstract for the Use of the Poor, reproaches S. for not dining, 295; S. 484, 485, 488; New Journey to Paris, A, unable to dine w., 295; at court w. S., 268, 277, 283, 296, 300, 315; New 357; and the Archbishop of Dublin, Way of Selling Places at Court: in a 411; at her toilet, 415; will please the Letter from a Small Courtier to a Great Irish, 446; attacked in a broadside, 517 Stock Jobber, A, 418; ‘On the Death of Talbot, Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, Mrs Johnson’, xxxii, 44, 315; ‘On politician, 14, 58; lord chamberlain, Good Manners and Good Breeding’, 341; S. presented to, 183; attends 348, 362, 460, 464; Polite Saturday Club dinners, 210; defends Conversation, lxiii, 39, 98, 124, 177, Buckingham to S., 210; and the 209, 259, 290, 302, 303, 511, 536; Society, 227; his illness, 230, 234; S. Proposal for Correcting, Improving and dines w., 279; rides w. S., 293; and Ascertaining the English Tongue, A, lxii, Prince Eugene’s sword, 383; and the 228, 330, 392, 406, 423, 426, 435, viceroyalty of Ireland, 384, 410, 411, 460; Short Character of his Ex. The Earl 415, 446, 456; executor of Lord of Wharton, A, 11, 18, 78, 83, 106, 107, Rivers, 450; leaving for France, 466 128; Some Advice Humbly Offer’d to the Tatler, The, 7, 9–10, 36, 69, 92; S.’s Members of the October Club, 345, 370, contributions to, 14, 18, 21, 24, 28, 372, 373, 377, 380; Some Reasons to 31, 34, 36, 37, 40, 42, 59; Harrison’s Prove that no Person is obliged by his continuation of, 118, 119; Addison Principles, as a Whig to Oppose Her and Steele and, 46, 79, 108, 119, 164;

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on Ithuriel’s spear, 59; S. denies Thames, river: Stearne visits S. by, 209; S. writing for, 76, 108; imitations of goes by water to the City, 95, 101, ‘scrub Tatler’, 119; S.’s part in 182, 203, 206, 208, 215, 238, 273; S. Harrison’s editorship, 118, 121, 133, goes by water to Harley’s, 210; S.’s 141; Congreve writes for, 142; and the lodgings in Chelsea are close to, 219; transfer of Harrison, 163; and Steele, S. thinks he will swim in, by night, 164; a hint from S. for, 195 219; no Sunday boats on, 219; S. references to individual issues: no. 9, 78; swims in, great stones in, 220; the no. 10, 41; no. 12, 229; no. 30, 87; no. tides in, 220; Patrick stands guard, 39, 372; no. 78, 41; no. 116, 321; no. 221; boats after dark on, 221; crossing 127, 87; no. 130, 46; no. 224, 119; no. from Chelsea to Battersea, 243; the 230, 14, 18, 36, 40, 59; no. 238, 34, Edgar blows up in, 300; crossing from 60; no. 237, 59; no. 241, 80; no. 249, Westminster to Southwark, 402; S. 79, 89; no. 257, 108; no. 258, 55, 80; tries to ﬁnd a boat at Sheen, Kew and no. 260, 108; no. 271, 109; The ‘no. Hammersmith, 429; at Windsor, 441 272’s and ‘no. 273’, 119; no. 285, 133; Third Part of Tom Double, The,by no. 292, 142; no. 301, 163; no. 302, Davenant, 57 163; no. 313, 163 Thompson, Mr, cousin of Constance taverns: S. drinks at, w. Ford, 117; S. dines Cleave, 505 at the Bell coffee house, 184; October Thornhill, Richard, 204, 261 Club dines at ‘The Bell’, 184; Thynne [nee´ Finch],Frances,Viscountess Pontack’s, 259, 288, 331, 488, 520; Weymouth, 221 hedge taverns, 52; S. goes to, in Thynne, Lady Mary, see Granville Windsor, 281; S. dines at, w. Lewis, Tighe, Richard, 49, 55, 114, 206, 266, 329; the Thatched House, 350, 353, 280 362; S. dines at, 374, 382; S. says he Tisdall [nee´ Morgan], Eleanor, 538 never goes to, 465 Tisdall, Richard, MP, 240, 266, 295 Taylor, Mrs Samuel, 232 Tisdall, William, Church of Ireland tea: bohea, 177, 202, 364; St John drinks, clergyman and pamphleteer, 55, 306, 180; a pound of, for E. Johnson and 411, 413, 456; correspondence w. S., Dingley, 192; for Mrs Walls, 208, lxiv; convocation disputes, 45; a 214, 245, 262, 285; green, 364; S. and, ‘puppy’, 225, 538; his children, 286; 465, 500 and Lord Anglesey, 469; his Conduct Templars, Irish, 84 of the Dissenters of Ireland, 469; Temple, John, nephew of Sir William, 7, compares himself to S., 506; and an 81 altar, 520; S.’s jest about, 538 Temple [nee´ Rambouillet], Mary, 47 tithes of the Park, 387, 400, 447, 452, 535, Temple, Sir Richard, ﬁrst Viscount 536 Cobham and fourth baronet of Stowe, Titian, 508 52, 58, 526 tobacco (for snuff), 361; Brazil, for Temple, Sir William, xxxii, 51, 64–5, 175, Dingley, 20, 41, 80, 91, 170, 176, 315; 186, 281, 314, 332, 449; his Letters, li, S. receives a gift of, from Bristol, 118; 8 a ‘noble roll of’, 187; S.’s use of, 222; Templeogue, a spa near Dublin, 430, St John smokes, 253 435 Toland, John, 433–4 Tenison, Henry, Irish politician, 217 ‘To Mrs M.M. with a Bough of an Thackeray, William Makepeace, lxviii Orange-Tree’, by Harrison, 37

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Tonson, Jacob, the elder, 249 Travers, John, chancellor of Christ Church Tonson, Jacob, ‘young’, 249 Cathedral, Dublin, 151 Tooke, Benjamin, 10, 31, 127, 171, 245, treasurer, lord, see Godolphin, Sidney, first 305; and the London Gazette, 246, 249, Earl of Godolphin, and Harley, 251; transactions for S., 19, 315, 367; Robert, first Earl of Oxford and and S.’s Miscellanies, 42, 152, 207; S. Mortimer drinks w., 95, 132; and Dingley’s treasurer at war, see Annesley, Arthur, fifth affairs, 175, 219, 233, 302, 305, 328, Earl of Anglesey 356, 461, 534; S. dines w., 468; desires treasurer of the queen’s household, see S. to get him made stationer to Cholmondeley, Hugh, first Earl of ordnance, etc., 361, 368, 369, 370; and Cholmondeley the South Sea stock purchases for S., treasury, the, 210, 211, 220, 230, 518; 272, 367; S. will have E. Johnson’s lords of, 208; secretary of, 216, 231 papers w., 375; and a doctor’s Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, third baronet, 143 certificate, 421; S. plays whist w., 468 Trevor, Sir John, 378 Tories, the, 10, 15, 24, 25, 44, 58; and Trevor, Sir Thomas, 510 election of 1710, 29; and Charles Trim, 3, 7, 16, 430, 446; E. Johnson at, 13; Davenant, 57; S. and his claims on, S. and its affairs, 78, 319; portreeve of, 127; S.’s services to and belief in, 122; 226, 239; S.’s landlady at, 259; riding ‘violent Tories’, 154; and the October parties at, 293; S. recommends E. Club, 145; their need of S., 178; and Johnson to go to, 439, 442 eschewing port for French wine, 179; Trimnell, Charles, 379 at Harley’s levee, 249; S. discusses, True List of the Names of the Mohocks or 299, 301; and the political crisis, 341, Hawkubites, A, 406 343; dissatisfaction w. Ministry, 370; True Narrative of What Passed at the Whigs rail against, 386; a majority in Examination of the Marquis de the House, 388; lazy, 389; a Tory Guiscard, by Manley, 158, 159, 162, sheriff’s feast, 416; majority in the 186, 315 Lords, 388; minority at court, 499; True Relation of the several Facts and and the Peace, 501; must attack the Circumstances of the intended Riot and Whigs, 516; and Addison’s Cato, 524 Tumult on Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday, To The Right Honourable Mr Harley, A, by Manley, 331 Wounded by Guiscard, by Prior, 172 Tuam, Archbishop of, see Vesey, John Touchet, Miss, 292 Tuam, archdeacon of, see Maurice Tower, the, 32, 87, 369, 370, 426 [Morris], Theodore Townshend, Charles, second Viscount Turin, envoy to, see Molesworth, John, Townshend, 386 second Viscount Molesworth Toyman, in Pall Mall, 117 Tuscany, envoy to, see Molesworth, John, Trapp, Joseph, Church of England second Viscount Molesworth clergyman and writer: chaplain to Sir Constantine Phipps, 114, 157, 207; under-secretary of state, see Hare, Thomas his poem on the Duke of Ormonde, Utrecht, 261, 490, 513, 517, 522; Peace of, 264; The Character and Principles of the 188, 270, 290, 370, 476, 504, 517, Present Set of Whigs, 207; ‘Slap, Scrap, 518, 526 Flap’, 207; dines w. S., 409; S. gets him chaplaincy to St John, 439; his Vanbrugh, Sir John, 58 poem Peace, 521; S. corrects it, 522 Vanessa, see Vanhomrigh, Esther

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Vanhomrigh, Bartholomew, Sr, 130, 163, Venetian ambassador, 191 312, 327, 331, 369, 402, 415; S. dines Verney, George, twelfth Baron w., 175, 191, 241 Willoughby de Broke, 257, 272 Vanhomrigh, Bartholomew, Jr, 185, 452 Vesey, Agmondisham, 381 Vanhomrigh, Esther (Vanessa), 19, 38, 43, Vesey, John, Archbishop of Tuam, 94 123, 132, 143, 258, 432; S.’s vice-chamberlain, see Coke, Thomas correspondence w., liii, lv; S.’s vice-treasurer of Ireland, see Annesley, relationship w., liii; S. dines w., 441; S. Arthur, fifth Earl of Anglesey writes to, 441; S. plays cards w., 443 Vienna, Lord Peterborough’s mission to, Vanhomrigh, Mrs Hester: and Anne Long, 103, 110, 112, 237 352; S. dines w., 43, 53, 67, 81, 85, 94, Villiers [nee´ Chiffinch], Barbara, Countess 125, 140, 143, 146, 151, 153, 163, of Jersey, dowager Lady Jersey, 493, 164, 167, 172, 199, 202, 205, 211, 495, 526 216, 217, 218, 220, 231, 235, 238, Villiers, Edward, first Earl of Jersey, 268, 239, 240, 247, 258, 279, 299, 302, 280, 526 304, 309, 312, 313, 332, 348, 350, Villiers, Henry, 526 368, 377, 390, 404, 416, 419; buys S. a Villiers [nee´ Herne], Judith, Countess scarf, 85, 94; sends word that her of Jersey, 311, 498, 500, 502, 504, daughter is ill, 132; S. spends evening 512 w., 143, 260, 494; S. breakfasts w., Villiers, William, second Earl of Jersey, 172; intercedes for Patrick, 172; stores 263, 280, 383 S.’s wine, 192, 199; houses S.’s gown Virginia, ships from, 115 and periwig, 202, 208, 211, 218; lends S. a ‘closet’ to work in, 218; S. changes Wager, Sir Charles, 58, 80 his gown at her house, 230; S. sends a Wales, 343, 412, 427 haunch of venison to, 252; squabbling Walker, Middelton, man-midwife, 198 w. her landlord, 258; can no longer ask Walker, Sir Hovenden, 198 S. to dine, 267; S. takes coffee and an Wallis, Thomas, son of Thomas Wallis, egg w., 296; her landlady, 279, 298; Dean of Derry, 464 changes her lodgings, 298; S. visits Walls [nee´ Newman], Dorothy, 8, 34, 61, when ill, 317; S. and a petition 151, 152, 155, 203, 230, 236, 248, concerning her late husband’s estate, 262, 322, 443, 444, 536; receives a bill 402, 415; S. plays ombre w., 479 from Parvisol, 16; E. Johnson plays Vanhomrighs, the, S. visits, 335, 345, 422, cards w., 28, 55, 78, 95, 301; her child, 457, 491, 537; S. dines w., 19, 60, 170, and S.’s running joke, 92, 113, 121, 219, 323, 324, 336, 398, 421, 503; E. 138, 147, 152, 156, 160, 165, 177; S. Johnson’s opinion on, 151; at Lady greets, 97, 111, 149, 176, 196, 219, Betty Butler’s, 153; move lodgings, 286, 295, 311, 430; at Donnybrook, 258; S. plays cards w., 437, 440, 447, 129; E. Johnson teases S. about, 149; 466, 508 S. concerned for her eyes, 157, 195, Vauxhall Gardens and the nightingales, 260; and health, 165; and a pound of 210 tea S. sends her, 208, 214, 218, 245, Vedeau, Andrew, 99, 100, 171, 175, 285 461 Walls, Thomas, archdeacon of Achonry, Vedeau, John, 171, 173, 175 xxxiv, 8, 21, 61, 71, 87, 147, 152, 334, Vedeau, Mrs Andrew, 99, 175, 183, 219, 493, 536; messages from S. to, 71, 79; 225 letters from, to S., 154, 157, 159, 401;

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Walls, Thomas (cont.) Wetenhall, Edward, Bishop of Kilmore, S. stands godfather to his child and 127, 177 insists on Harley for his name, 160; S’s Wexford, 204, 211, 212, 214, 227, 229, running joke about his child, 177; and 230, 233, 235, 236, 242, 243, 246, S.’s rents and arrears, 166; addresses 250, 253, 260, 263, 265, 268, 274; E. Johnson’s letter to S., 171, 196; waters at, 199, 224, 225, 230, 239, comes to London, 246; leaving 248, 249, 255, 262, 263, 290, 438; London, 247; his character, 248; buys magpies at, 241; treelessness of, 241; a gown and a hat, 248; a reasoning dialect of, 241; enervating character of, coxcomb, 260; E. Johnson says he has 241; politics at, 243; S. lends E. no taste, 275; fit only to be a Johnson the money to go to, 262; great messenger, 286; his ridiculous letter to numbers at the spa, 275; distance from S., 287, 335; his lamentable poem, Dublin, 285; clean sheets and bare 288; S. is obliged to, 303; a message walls at, 285 for, from S., 387, 400, 406, 408, 469; Wharton [nee´ Loftus], Lady Lucy, 6, 383 and S.’s preferment, 535 Wharton, Thomas, Earl and Marquis (see Walpole, Sir Robert, 349, 369, 370 also Swift: works, prose), 3, 8, 10, 14, Walter, Sir John, third baronet, 291, 294, 45, 339, 478, 488; and the First Fruits, 295, 331, 363, 482 xli; accepts bribe from Conolly, 21; Warburton, Thomas, curate at Laracor, 20, S.’s attack on, in A Short Character, 83; 203, 205, 354, 427, 523, 535 rumours that Somers had proposed S. watchman, night, 63, 359, 365, 474; see to be his chaplain, 216; and the Count also bellman of Gallas, 310; runs after S., 336; and Waterford, Bishop of, see Milles, Thomas Lord Inchiquin, 378; leaves town in a waters, spa, see Wexford; Bath and rage, 431; S. will not drink to, 523 Templeogue; S. drinks, 490, 493, 499 When the Cat’s Away . . . A Fable Humbly Webb, John Richmond, 183, 184, 188 inscrib’d to Dr Sw—t, sometimes Wells, deanery of, 528 attributed to Arthur Mainwaring, 379 Wentworth [nee´ Johnson], Anne, Whig Examiner, 416 Countess of Strafford, 272, 489, 498 Whig peers: and examination of Gregg, Wentworth, Peter, 415, 490 264; dine in the City, 488 Wentworth, Thomas, first Earl of Whigs, the, 6, 10, 26, 37, 52, 59, 61, 366, Strafford, 163, 272, 289, 295, 319, 389, 528; welcome S., 6; expect to be 328, 389, 399–400, 455, 461 out of office, 6, 9; S.’s resentment of, Wesley, Mrs Catherine, 4, 34, 55, 78, 357; 6, 10, 24, 45; defeat in 1710, 28; her money affairs, 4, 334; writes to S. retention in office by Harley, 29; for tea, 195; S. to buy some things for, financiers oppose Harley, 52; 268; to consult Dr Radcliffe, 337; S. Marlborough laments joining, 104; reads prayers to, 361; her poor health, ‘malicious toads’, 115; their 376, 378, 400; returning to Bath, 395, miserliness, 118; and the Duke of 410, 414, 416 Marlborough, 119; S. vows he never Wesley, Garrett, MP for Trim, 4, 55, 387, sees them, 127; a great Whig, 130; 400 and the October Club, 146, 154; and West Indies, 492 the Irish account of Harley’s stabbing, Westminster Abbey, 47, 81, 449 181; Trapp’s Character of Present Set of Westminster School, 197, 198, 506, 517 Whigs, 207; Irish, 222; at Harley’s Westminster Stairs, 402 house, 249; anticipation of Tory

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downfall, 268; and appointment of 236, 242; St John at, 235, 240, 242, new privy seal, 270; opposed to a 247, 268; Harley’s arrivals at and Peace, 116, 308, 309, 310, 325, 335, departures from, 236, 247, 254, 255, 339, 354, 387; S. discusses, w. Mrs 283, 460; Mr Masham at, 247; a Barton, 299; and w. Lady Betty ‘delicious place’, 247, 250; S. at, w. Sir Germain, 301; and Count de Gallas, William Temple, 247; S. at, w. St John 310; moonlight procession planned by, for a week, 248, 249; time of journey 326; too strong in the House, 331, to, 249; the prebendary’s house at, 335; and Conduct, 337; pamphlets, 250, 254; the secretary’s rooms in the 338; Nottingham goes over to, 339; in castle, 250; a ‘scoundrel town’, 251; triumph, 342; and Sir Robert Patrick’s misdemeanours at, 250; and Walpole, 349; defeat of, 357, 358, the Green Cloth, 254; Harley’s room 359, 527; and Prince Eugene, 347, in the castle, 255; horseracing at, 255; 376; drunken behaviour of, 386; the lord keeper at, 257; Dillon Ashe diligent, 389; and the Mohocks, 405; at, 257; S. returns to, 260, 270, 289; S. hatred of Harley, 426, 516; and the there four Sundays in a row, 263; St Bandbox Plot, 459; S. assists ‘Whig John takes lord keeper to, 266; the Wits’, 473; and Erasmus Lewis, 489; ministers at, 267, 283; Lewis at, 269; majority at court, 499; schemes of, council meets at, 271; S. enquires 503; and Addison’s Cato, 524 whether E. Johnson ever came to, 271; Whiston, William, projector, 418 great tables at, 276; the cloisters at, Whitehall, 4, 187, 209, 250; the Cockpit 292; the terrace at, 252; S. believes he offices in, 39, 458, 463 will no longer go to, 295; S. refuses to White’s chocolate house, 261, 336, 386 go to, 298; and leaves, 448; and the Whiteway [nee´ Swift], Martha Harrison, queen, 236, 247, 430, 437, 447, 449, lxvi, lxxii, lxxiii 455; S. will follow the queen to, 437, William, S’s manservant, 419, 427, 452, 439, 441; and S.’s Four Last Years, 463 456, 463, 466, 471, 479, 483, 485, Windsor, Deans of, see Robinson, John; 496, 509, 529 Verney, George William III, 93, 120, 268, 445, 488 Windsor, prebendary of, 272; S.’s Williams, Harold, lxxv, lxxviii, lxxxi, lxxxii, expectation of being, 530 18, 99, 101, 144, 281, 306, 318, 360, Windsor, Thomas, first Viscount Windsor 365, 520 of Blackcastle, 357, 359 Williams, Kathleen, lxix Windsor Castle, 250, 255, 271 Willoughby de Eresby, see Bertie, Robert, Windsor Forest, 293 first Marquess of Lindsey Windsor Forest, by Pope, 252, 510 Wimbledon, 468, 476, 524 Windsor Park, 252, 255, 271, 282, 284, Winchcombe [Wynchcombe; alias 293, 443 Smalewoode],John[called Jack of wine (see also wines), 22; S. receives gift of, Newbury], clothier, 254 from Raymond, 117; S. longs for Irish, Winchester, Bishops of, see Trelawny, Sir 141; price of Irish and English, 141; Jonathan; Trimnell, Charles Lord Peterborough’s gift of Burgundy Winchilsea, Countess of, 409 to S., 145; S. drinks the Queen’s, 152; Windsor, 245, 262, 265, 280, 288, 323, S. fears gout from, 165; at a coffee 441, 442, 465, 471, 482; S. at, 247, house, 165; E. Johnson and a pint of, 274; installation of Knights of the 165, 206, 245; S. drinks Lewis’s, 170; Garter at, 96; S. likely to go to, 231, S.’s control over St John’s drinking,

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wine (cont.) Witherington, John, Dublin barrister, 206 180, 181, 378; Sir William Temple’s Withers, Henry, 374, 522 Tuscan, 186; St John sends S. a chest Wittingham, Charles, Church of Ireland of, 187; S. waters his, 53, 117, 189; S. clergyman, later Archdeacon of drinks Raymond’s, 204; Manley sends Dublin, 151 E. Johnson, 224; commissioners of Wolsey, Cardinal, S. likens himself to, licences for, 228; price of, at Pontack’s, 364 259; the lord treasurer’s, at Windsor, Woolf, Virginia, lxviii 281; S. criticises the Queen’s, 294; Worcester, 112 Raymond’s and the Ministry’s, 299; at Worcester, Bishop of, see Lloyd, William the Society dinners, 350, 353 Worrall, Mr, S.’s mother lodges w. his wines, Burgundy, 10, 32, 41, 54, 62, 69, daughter, 120 145, 165, 180, 181, 368, 511; Worsley [nee´ Thynne], Frances, Lady Champagne, 165, 180, 181, 183, 350, Worsley, 127, 181, 326, 495, 524 378; claret, 69, 179, 271, 278, 279, Wyndham [nee´ Seymour],Lady 315, 320, 339, 359, 511; Florence, 32, Catherine, 227, 400 117, 187; French, 132, 204; French Wyndham, Sir William, third baronet, wine called ‘Irish’, 42, 44, 356; 227, 276, 345, 399, 400, 407, 434, Hermitage, 42; Italian, 186; lost their 470 popularity, 193; Portugal, 32, 511; price of, 117, 187, 214, 216; Spanish Yalden, Thomas, 372 healths in, 500, 511; Tokay, 12, 41, York, Archbishops of, see Dawes, Sir 42, 186 William, third baronet; Sharpe, John

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