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be said here; but of the late representative of the Chetwode family I crave permission to add a word. His rare talents and taste suffered from his delicate health and fastidious temperament, but in my life I have seen few things more delightful than his pride in the connection of his race and name with the companionship of Swift. Such was the jealous care with which he preserved the letters, treasuring them as an heirloom of honour, that he would never allow them to be moved from his family seat; and when with his own hand he had made careful transcript of them for me, I had to visit him at Woodbrooke to collate his copy with the originals. There I walked with him through avenues of trees which Swift was said to have planted, and was witness to his romantic interest in every minutest memory of the immortal Dean. A part of this interest he was so friendly as to transfer to the work in which I had engaged ; and it is no common grief to me to include, in the list of those now dead who encouraged the enterprise, Mr. Edward Wilmot Chetwode.

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PALACE GATE HOUSE,

KENSINGTON, June, 1875.

J. F.

ADDITIONAL CORRECTION.

Page 71, last line. 'But' should be 'although'; and after 'livelihood' there

should be a semicolon, not a full stop.

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In the same year when Swift, playful in his bitter and kindly moods alike, so described a punishment then just invented, and inflicted ever since on famous men, he was doing his best to abate in some degree his own share of its penalties and pains. The anecdotes of his family and himself were begun at the time, as portion of an autobiography. They were laid aside and never finished; but such of them

as he did complete are the highest authority for the matters
to which they relate, and find their fitting place upon the
opening page of the Life of Jonathan Swift.

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Bathurst the bookseller published in 1755 Mr. Deane Swift's Mr. Deane Essay upon the Life, Writings, and Character of Dr. Jonathan Swift's Essay. Swift, containing, as the title-page expressed, 'That Sketch of Dr. 'Swift's Life, written by the Doctor himself, which was lately' (23rd of July, 1753) 'presented by the Author of this Essay to 'the University of Dublin.' The Sketch had been given to him by 'his old, faithful friend, and cousin-german, Mrs. Whiteway;' Swift's nurse and last companion, whose daughter by her first husband Mr. Deane Swift had married; and from whom he derived the farther information that it was written 'about six or 'eight and twenty years ago, as an introduction to his Life, which

'he had reason to apprehend would some time or other become a 'topic of general conversation.' To this very valuable relic I am so fortunate as to be able to contribute several corrections, and a few not unimportant additions, undoubtedly authentic. Some years after the original was written, Swift permitted the then bishop Anecdotes. of Kildare and dean of Christchurch (it was not until later years

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that the dean of St. Patrick's was also dean of the sister cathedral), Dr. Charles Cobbe, afterwards archbishop of Dublin, to transcribe it; and this copy, already differing in some points from its predecessor, doubtless by suggestions made at the time when the copy was taken, appears to have been used by Dr. John Lyon, in or about the year 1738, for the insertion of corrections and additions manifestly derived from, and occasionally entered in the handwriting of, Swift himself, at whose request Dr. Lyon was then engaged (Scott, i. 504) in biographical researches connected with his family. So it has remained, unused by any of Swift's biographers, in the possession of the bishop's descendants; and by their representative, Thomas Cobbe, Esq. of Newbridge, Donabate, Malahide, it was obligingly lent to me a few years ago, for the purposes of this work. The points in which it differs from Mr. Deane Swift's publication (which I have myself carefully collated in Trinity Col

of the MS. lege with the manuscript in Swift's hand), as well as the variations from the original text of the copy as printed by Mr. Deane Swift, are noted at the bottom of the page; and the additions, all of which are indicated by inverted commas, will be remarked upon in their proper place in the biography.

The family of the Swifts are (1) ancient in Yorkshire. From OF AUTOBI- them descended (2) a noted person, who passed under the 1667-1699. name of Cavaliero Swift, a man of wit and humour. He was created (3) an Irish Peer by King Charles the First, 20 March 1627, (4) with the title of Viscount (5) of Carlingford, but never was in that kingdom. Many traditional pleasant stories are related of him, which the family planted in Ireland hath (6) received from their parents. This lord died without issue male; and his (7) heiress, whether of the first or second descent, (8) was married to Robert Fielding, Esquire, commonly called handsome Fielding (9). She brought him a considerable estate in Yorkshire, which he squandered away, but had no

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(1) 'Was': D. S.

(7) 'Daughter, Lady Margaret, an'

(2) D. S. inserts in a note 'Bar- inserted and erased.

'nam Swift, Esq.'

(3) 'Made': D. S.

(4) D. S. inserts 'or King James.'

(5) 'Baron': D. S.

(6) Incorrectly printed 'had' in modern copies.

(8) Whether of the first or second

'descent' erased and restored.

(9) Dr. Lyon substitutes, 'member 'of parliament for Gowran Co. Kil'kenny, afterwards pardoned, and died '12 May, 1712.'

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