Note 447a — JOURNAL TO STELLA (continued 10)

Toland’s Invitation to Dismal to dine with the Calf’s Head Club. The Earl of Nottingham (Dismal) had deserted the Tories, and Swift’s imitation of Horace (Epist. I. v.) is an invitation from Toland to dine with “his trusty friends” in celebration of the execution of Charles I. The Calf’s Head Club was in the habit of toasting “confusion to the race of kings.”