[Footnote 8:  A humorous specimen of this kind of an “Answer” was given by Swift in No. 23 of “The Examiner,” post. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 9:  The Duke of Marlborough and Lord Godolphin, who commenced their political career as Tories, and only became Whigs through the necessity of identifying their own principles with that of the party which supported their power. [S.]]

[Footnote 10:  On December 6th, 1705, the House of Lords passed the following resolution:  “That the Church of England ... is now, by God’s blessing, under the happy reign of her Majesty, in a most safe and flourishing condition; and that whoever goes about to suggest and insinuate, that the Church is in danger under her Majesty’s administration, is an enemy to the Queen, the Church, and the Kingdom” ("Jls. of House of Lords,” xviii. 43).  On December 8th the House of Commons, by a majority of 212 against 162, agreed to this resolution.  In her speech at the prorogation of Parliament on April 5th, 1710, the Queen said:  “The suppressing immorality ... is what I have always earnestly recommended; ... but, this being an evil complained of in all times, it is very injurious to take a pretence from thence, to insinuate that the Church is in any danger from my administration” ("Jls.  Of House of Lords,” xix. 145). [T.S.]]

[Footnote 11:  James, Duke of Cornwall (1688-1766), known as the Chevalier de St. George.  At one time the belief was current that the wife of James II. did not give birth to a child, and the “young Pretender” was supposed to be a son of one Mary Grey (see note on p. 409 of vol. v. of present edition of Swift’s works).  See also:  “State-Amusements, Serious and Hypocritical ...  Birth of the Pretended Prince of Wales,” 1711; “Seasonable Queries relating to the Birth and Birthright of a Certain Person,” 1714; and other pamphlets.  In the Act for the Succession to the Crown (6 Ann. c. 41), he is styled, “the Pretended Prince of Wales.”  History afterwards called him the “Old Pretender” to distinguish him from Charles Edward, the “bonnie Prince Charlie,” the Young Pretender. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 12:  Swift kept his word.  See “An Enquiry into ... the Queen’s Last Ministry,” 1715 (Swift’s Works, vol. v., p. 458 sq.), and his “History of the Four Last Years of the Queen,” 1758. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 13:  By Bishop Burnet in his “Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles.” [T.S.]]

[Footnote 14:  The reference here is to the Bill of Rights (1 William and Mary, Sess. 2, c. 2), where it is said:  “And thereunto the said Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons do, in the name of all the people aforesaid, most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities, for ever.”  In the recital in the Act of Settlement (12 and 13 W. III. c. 2) the words “for ever” are omitted. [T.S.]]