To Mrs.Whiteway he replied, on the same day, that he would wait on Lord Orrery to receive the papers.

On July 23rd, 1737, Lord Orrery wrote to Swift informing him that "Dr.King has his cargo." With the knowledge that the manuscript was on its way to King, Swift wrote the following reply to Lewis's letter: July 23, 1737.
"DEAR FRIEND, "While any of those who used to write to me were alive, I always inquired after you.

But, since your secretaryship in the queen's time, I believed you were so glutted with the office, that you had not patience to venture on a letter to an absent useless acquaintance; and I find I owe yours to my Lord Oxford.

The History you mention was written above a year before the queen's death.

I left it with the treasurer and Lord Bolingbroke, when I first came over to take this deanery.