Swale appears to be unknown in literary history. At the same time, a
positive entry of this sort, with respect to an obscure person,
doubtless had some foundation. On the authority of this note, Dr. Swale
is registered as the author of Gaudentio in the printed catalogue of the
British Museum Library, whence it has passed into Watt's _Bibl. Brit._
Perhaps some of your correspondents, who are connected with Huntingdon,
may be able to throw some light on Dr. Swale.

Lastly, it should be added, that the writer of the article "Berkeley,"
in the _Biographic Universelle_, adverts to the fact that _Gaudentio di
Lucca_ has been attributed to him: he proceeds, however, to say that--

"The author of a Life of Berkeley affirms that Berkeley is not
the author of that book, which he supposes to have been written
by a Catholic priest imprisoned in the Tower of London."

I have been unable to trace the origin of this statement; nor do I know
what is the _Life of Berkeley_, to which the writer in the _Biogr.
Univ._ refers. The Life published under the direction of his family
makes no allusion to Gaudentio, or to the belief that it was composed by
Bishop Berkeley.

The _Encyclopédie Méthodique_, div. "Econ. pol. et dipl." (Paris, 1784),
tom. I. p. 89., mentions the following work:--

"La République des Philosophes, ou l'Histoire des Ajaoiens,
relation d'un voyage du Chevalier S. van Doelvett en Orient en
l'an 1674, qui contient la description du Gouvernement, de la
Religion, et des Moeurs des Ajaoiens."