[Footnote 8:  “The Medley” (Nos. 6 and 7, November 6th and 13th, 1710) contains a “Story of the Marquiss D’Ancre and his Wife Galigai,” from the French of M. Le Vassor.  The Marquis is there described as “the greatest cheat in the whole world”; and “Galigai had the insolence to say a thousand offensive things.”  The article was intended as a reflection on Harley and Mrs. Masham; but Swift takes it as for the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough.  Certainly the character of Galigai may with greater justice be applied to the Duchess. (See “Histoire du regne de Louis XIII. par M. Michel Le Vassor.”) Concino Concini, Marechal D’Ancre, was born at Florence, and died in 1617. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 9:  “The Medley” was constantly deriding this alleged proportion. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 10:  “The Observator” for December 6th remarks:  “If the ‘Examiner’ don’t find better parallels for his Princeps Senates, Praetor Urbanus, Quaestor Aerarius, and Caesari ab Epistolis, than he has done for his Proconsul, Roger, the gentlemen he aims at may sleep without disturbance.” [T.S.]]

[Footnote 11:  “The Whig Examiner” (No. 3, September 28th, 1710) prints a speech alleged to have been made by Alcibiades in a contest with an Athenian brewer named Taureas.  The allusion was to the Westminster election, when General Stanhope was opposed by a brewer named Thomas Cross.  “The Whig Examiner” was written by Addison.  Five numbers only were issued (September 14th to October 12th, 1710).  “The light and comic style of Addison’s parody,” notes Scott, may be compared “with the fierce, stern, and vindictive tone of Swift’s philippic against the Earl of Wharton, under the name of Verres.” [T.S.]]

[Footnote 12:  “The Medley” (No. 11, December 11th, 1710) remarks of this adaptation from Cicero, that the writer “has added more rude reflections of his own than are to be found in that author, whose only fault is his falling too much into such reflections.” [T.S.]]

[Footnote 13:  See also Swift’s “Short Character,” etc. (vol. v., pp. 1-28 of present edition), and note in loco. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 14:  Hawkesworth notes:  “The story of the Lord Wharton is true; who, with some other wretches, went into a pulpit, and defiled it in the most filthy manner.”  See also “Examiner,” No. 23, post. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 15:  Probably Mrs. Coningsby.  See Swift’s “Short Character” (vol. v., p. 27). [T.S.]]

[Footnote 16:  The “Act for the Queen’s most gracious, general, and free pardon” was passed in 1708 (7 Ann., c. 22).  The Earl of Wharton himself profited by this Act.  A Mr. George Hutchinson gave Wharton L1,000 to procure his appointment to the office of Register of the Seizures.  This was proved before the House of Commons in May, 1713, and the House resolved that it was “a scandalous corruption,” and that as it took place “before the Act of Her Majesty’s most gracious, general, and free pardon; this House will proceed no further in that matter.”  ("Journals of House of Commons,” vol. xvii., p. 356.) [T.S.]]