Note 159 — JOURNAL TO STELLA (continued 4)
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James Eckershall, “second clerk of the Queen’s Privy Kitchen.” Chamberlayne (Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia, 1710, p. 536) says that his wages were £11, 8s. 1½d., and board-wages £138, 11s. 10½d., making £150 in all. Afterwards Eckershall was gentleman usher to Queen Anne; he died at Drayton in 1753, aged seventy-four. Pope was in correspondence with him in 1720 on the subject of contemplated speculations in South Sea and other stocks.