[Footnote 10:  See No. 26, ante, and note on p. 160. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 11:  On the invitation of the lord lieutenant 3,000 Palatines were sent into Ireland in August, 1709, and 800 in the following February.  Many of them subsequently returned to England in the hope that they would be sent to Carolina.  Large numbers had been brought to England from Holland at the Queen’s expense, after the passing of the Naturalization Act.  The government spent L22,275 in transporting 3,300 of them to New York and establishing them there, undertaking to maintain them until they could provide for themselves.  These sums were to be repaid within four years. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 12:  See No. 35, ante, and note on p. 225. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 13:  See No. 41, ante, and note on p. 264.  The debt on the navy is a portion of the thirty-five millions referred to. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 14:  Harley proposed a scheme, on May 2nd, 1711, by which all public and national debts and deficiencies were to be satisfied.  Resolutions were passed on May 3rd, and a Bill brought in on the 17th, which was the origin of the celebrated South Sea scheme referred to later in the text. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 15:  The Bill for examining the Public Accounts (9 Ann. c. 18) became law on May 16th. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 16:  See No. 43, ante, pp. 278 et seq. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 17:  On August 15th, 1711, Swift wrote to Archbishop King:  “He [the lord treasurer] told me, ’he had lately received a letter from the bishops of Ireland, subscribed (as I remember) by seventeen, acknowledging his favour about the first-fruits’” (Scott’s edition, xv. 465). [T.S.]]

[Footnote 18:  The South Sea Company was established in pursuance of the Act 9 Ann. c. 15. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 19:  The disastrous results of the South Sea scheme, when the company failed in 1720-21, are matter of history. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 20:  A Bill for the better preventing of Excessive and Deceitful Gaming, was introduced January 25th, 1710/1, passed April 11th, and obtained the Royal Assent, May 16th (9 Ann. c. 19).  A similar bill, which had passed the House of Commons in 1709/10, was dropped in the House of Lords. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 21:  A committee of the House of Commons was appointed, on February 5th, 1710/1 to inquire into alleged false musters in the Guards.  A petition was presented to the House on February 13th, complaining that tradesmen were listed in Her Majesty’s Guards “to screen and protect them from their creditors.”  A clause was inserted in the Recruiting Bill to remedy this evil (10 Ann. c. 12; see sec. 39), and the House passed a strong resolution against the practice, on May 26th, when considering the report of the committee. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 22:  The House of Commons, on June 4th, presented a representation to the Queen on mismanagements and abuses. [T.S.]]