[Footnote:  1:  No. 20 in the reprint. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 2:  Ovid, “Metamorphoses,” xiii. 353: 

“Well assured, that art
And conduct were of war the better part.” 
                       J. DRYDEN.
[T.S.]]

[Footnote 3:  A.D. 1093.  See Matthew Paris. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 4:  Lord Campbell, in his “Lives of the Chancellors” (vol. iv., p. 322), states that Marlborough, in order to increase the confidence of the allies, proposed “he should receive a patent as commander-in-chief for life.”  On consulting with Lord Chancellor Cowper he was told that such a proceeding would be unconstitutional.  Marlborough, however, petitioned the Queen, who rejected his application. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 5:  Aemilius Paulus, the celebrated Roman general, and conqueror of Macedonia, was twice consul, and died B.C. 160. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 6:  Scipio Africanus, the greatest of Roman generals and the conqueror of Carthage, who died c. B.C. 184. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 7:  Julius Caesar “applied to the Senate to be exempted from the usual law, and to become a candidate in his absence” ("Dict. of Greek and Roman Biog.").  This was strongly opposed; so that to be a candidate it was necessary for him “to solicit after the custom of his ancestors.” [T.S.]

The “Examiner” seems to allude to the remarkable, and, to say the least, imprudent, article in “The Tatler,” No. 37.  Such a passage, published by so warm an adherent of Marlborough as Steele, gives credit to Macpherson’s assertion, that there really was some intention of maintaining the Duke in power, by his influence in the army.  It is even affirmed, that under pretence his commission under the great seal could not be superseded by the Queen’s order of dismissal, it was designed that he should assemble the troops which were in town, and secure the court and capital.  To prevent which, his commission was superseded by another under the great seal being issued as speedily as possible.  The industrious editor of “The Tatler,” in 1786, is of opinion, that the article was written by Addison; but the violent counsels which it intimates seem less congenial to his character than to that of Steele, a less reflecting man, and bred a soldier.  It is worthy of notice, that the passage is cancelled in all subsequent editions of “The Tatler,” till restored from the original folio in that of 1786.  This evidently implies Steele’s own sense, that more was meant than met the ear; and it affords a presumptive proof, that very violent measures had at least been proposed, if not agreed upon, by some of Marlborough’s adherents. [S.]]

[Footnote 8:  General Ireton and Colonel Pride placed guards outside the entrances to the House of Commons “that none might be permitted to pass into the House but such as had continued faithful to the public interest” (Ludlow’s “Memoirs,” vol. i., p. 270). [T.S.]]

[Footnote 9:  The judges of the field, in a formal duel, whose duty it was to interfere when the rules of judicial combat were violated, were called sticklers, from the wooden truncheons which they held in their hands.  Hence the verb to stickle. [S.]]