course of his reign; which plainly appears, not only from his own speeches and declarations, but also from a most ingenious pamphlet just come over, relating to the wicked bishop of Rochester. — But enough of politicks. I have no town news: I have seen nobody: I have heard nothing. Old Rochfort[1] has got a dead palsy. Lady Betty[2] has been long ill. Dean Per—[3] has answered the other dean's journal[4] in Grub street, justly taxing him for avarice and want of hospitality. Madam Per— absolutely denies all the facts: insists that she never made candles of dripping; that Charly never had the chin cough, &c.
My most humble service to Mrs. Cope, who entertained that covetous lampooning dean much better than he deserved. Remember me to honest Nanty, and boy Barclay.
- ↑ Robert Rochfort, esq. He was made attorney general to king William, June 6, 1695: chosen speaker of the house of commons the same year; and appointed chief baron of the exchequer in 1707, in which post he continued till the death of the queen.
- ↑ Wife to Mr. George Rochfort (the chief baron's son); and daughter to the earl of Drogheda.
- ↑ Dr. William Percivale, archdeacon of Cashel in 1713, appears, by Boulter's Letters, to have been promoted in the year 1725 to the rectory of St. Michan's in Dublin. He was then a dean, and evidently the person here meant. Dr. Percivale died suddenly at Gaulstown, Oct. 10, 1727.
- ↑ See The Country Life, by Dean Swift, in Vol VII, of this collection, p. 204.
