FOOTNOTES TO BOOK III, CHAPTER VII:

78 A living.

79 Dean Swift to Mrs. Howard, Dublin, 21st November, 1730. Suffolk Correspondence.

80 Dr. Arbuthnot to Swift, 19th March, 1729.

81 In his Memoirs Lord Hervey makes no mention of his quarrel with Pope or his duel with Pulteney, and slips over the years 1730–1733 without a line of comment. This seems to show that he was not proud of either of these achievements.

82 Sir Richard Steele to Mrs. Clayton, May, 1724.

83 Dr. Alured Clarke to Mrs. Clayton, Winchester, 18th August, 1730.