I am told is there in my name upon the survivorship, and for which she has
constantly sent over her certificate and received the interest. I give her
besides my two little silver candlesticks."

Temple left in Swift's hands the task of publishing his posthumous works, a
duty which afterwards led to a quarrel with Lady Giffard and other members of
the family. Many years later Swift told Lord Palmerston that he stopped at
Moor Park solely for the benefit of Temple's conversation and advice, and the
opportunity of pursuing his studies. At Temple's death he was "as far to seek
as ever." In the summer of 1699, however, he was offered and accepted the
post of secretary and chaplain to the Earl of Berkeley, one of the Lords
Justices, but when he reached Ireland he found that the secretaryship had been
given to another. He soon, however, obtained the living of Laracor, Agher,
and Rathbeggan, and the prebend of Dunlavin in St. Patrick's Cathedral,
Dublin. The total value of these preferments was about 230 pounds a year, an
income which Miss Waring seems to have thought enough to justify him in
marrying. Swift's reply to the lady whom he had "singled out at first from
the rest of women" could only have been written with the intention of breaking
off the connection, and accordingly we hear no more of poor Varina.

At Laracor, a mile or two from Trim, and twenty miles from Dublin, Swift
ministered to a congregation of about fifteen persons, and had abundant
leisure for cultivating his garden, making a canal (after the Dutch fashion of
Moor Park), planting willows, and rebuilding the vicarage. As chaplain to
Lord Berkeley, he spent much of his time in Dublin. He was on intimate terms
with Lady Berkeley and her daughters, one of whom is best known by her married
name of Lady Betty Germaine; and through them he had access to the fashionable
society of Dublin. When Lord Berkeley returned to England in April 1701,
Swift, after taking his Doctor's degree at Dublin, went with him, and soon
afterwards published, anonymously, a political pamphlet, A Discourse on the