[Footnote 7:  Berkeley was one of the Junta in Harley’s administration of 1710-1714.  He had married Sir John Temple’s daughter.  His connection with a person so disliked by Swift may account for his inclusion here. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 8:  This was Henry Temple, first Viscount Palmerston, with whom Swift later had an unpleasant correspondence.  Palmerston could not have been more than seven years old when he was appointed (September 21st, 1680), with Luke King, chief remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, for their joint lives.  King died in 1716, but the grant was renewed to Palmerston and his son Henry for life.  He was raised to the peerage as Baron Temple of Mount Temple, and Viscount Palmerston of Palmerston, in March, 1722-1723.  Sir Charles Hanbury Williams called him “Little Broadbottom Palmerston.”  He died in 1757. [T.S.] ]

[Footnote 9:  George Bubb (1691-1762) was Chief Secretary during Wharton’s Lord lieutenancy in 1709.  He took the name of Doddington on the death of his uncle in 1720. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 10:  Thomas Herbert, eighth Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733), had preceded the Earl of Wharton as Lord lieutenant of Ireland.  He bears a high character in history and on four successive coronations, namely, those of William and Mary, Anne, George I. and George II., he acted as sword carrier.  Although a Tory, even Macaulay acknowledges Pembroke’s high breeding and liberality. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 11:  This is the Edward Southwell to whom Archbishop King wrote the letters quoted from Monck Mason in previous notes.  He was the son of Sir Robert Southwell, the diplomatist and friend of Sir William Temple, to whom Swift bore a letter of introduction from the latter, soliciting the office of amanuensis.  In June, 1720, Edward Southwell had his salary as secretary increased by L300; and in July of the same year the office was granted to him and his son for life.  The Southwell family first came to Ireland in the reign of James I., at the time of the plantation of Munster. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 12:  Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington (or Bridlington of Yorks), and fourth Earl of Cork (1695-1753), was appointed Lord High-Treasurer of Ireland in August, 1715.  His great-grandfather, the first Earl of Cork, had held the same office in 1631.  The Lord-lieutenancy of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and the office of Custos Rotulorum of the North and West Ridings, seem also to have been inheritances of this family.  The third Earl had a taste for architecture, and spent enormous sums of money in the reconstruction of Burlington House, a building that was freely satirized by Hogarth and Lord Hervey.  His taste, however, seems to have run to the ornamental rather than the useful, and its gratification involved him in such serious financial difficulties, that he was compelled to sell some of his Irish estates.  Swift notes that “My Lord Burlington is now selling in one article L9,000 a year in Ireland for L200,000 which must pay his debts” (Scott’s edit. 1814, vol. xix., p. 129). [T.S.]]