Note 134a — JOURNAL TO STELLA (continued 3)

James, third Earl of Berkeley (1680–1736), whom Swift calls a “young rake” (see p. 151). The young Countess of Berkeley was only sixteen on her marriage. In 1714 she was appointed a lady of the bed-chamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales, and she died of smallpox in 1717, aged twenty-two. The Earl was an Admiral, and saw much service between 1701 and 1710; under George I. he was First Lord of the Admiralty.