[Footnote 4:  A pamphlet, ascribed to W. Wotton, was issued in reply to this paper.  It was entitled, “The Case of the Present Convocation Consider’d; In Answer to the Examiner’s Unfair Representation of it, and Unjust Reflections upon it.” 1711.]

[Footnote 5:  The Dissenters were at first disposed to make common cause with the Catholics in favour of the dispensing power claimed by James II.; and an address from the Presbyterians went so far as to praise the king for having “restored to God His empire over conscience.” [S.]]

[Footnote 6:  “The Case etc.  Consider’d,” remarks:  “The boldest, and the most insolent book of that sort, is the ‘Rights of the Church’ ...  Yet how long was Dr. T[inda]ll, then Fellow of All Souls, suffered at Oxford after the ‘Rights’ appeared?” Dr. Matthew Tindal, author of “The Rights of the Christian Church” (1706), was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1678 till his death in 1733. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 7:  “At this time [February, 1703/4] Queen Anne gave up the first-fruits and tenths, which had long been possessed by the crown, to be appropriated to a fund for the increase of small livings.  This fund is known as Queen Anne’s Bounty” (Lathbury’s “Hist. of Convocation,” second edition, p. 386).  The Queen’s Message to Parliament was dated February 7th, 1703/4, and the Bill was introduced February 17th, and received the royal assent April 3rd, 1704.  See also Swift’s “Answer” in the following number. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 8:  A hint to withdraw. [T.S.] This is said to have been the mode in which the governors of a Dutch province were wont to give intimation to those who intermeddled with state affairs, that they would do wisely to withdraw themselves from the state. [S.]]

[Footnote 9:  Swift notices his own misquotation in the succeeding number (q.v.).  See a further reference to the subject in No. 26. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 10:  Convocation was assembled on November 25th, and the Latin sermon preached by Kennet. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 11:  Queen Anne’s letter was printed in “The Daily Courant” for December 19th.  It is dated December 12th, and says:  “It is with great grief of heart we observe the scandalous attempts which of late years have been made to infect the minds of our good subjects by loose and profane principles openly scattered and propagated among them.  We think the consultations of the clergy particularly requisite to repress these daring attempts and to prevent the like for the future.  The just abhorrence that our subjects from all parts of the kingdom have expressed of such wicked principles and their abettors, give us good ground to hope that the endeavours of the clergy in this respect will not be unsuccessful.  For our part we are ready to give them all fitting encouragement to proceed in the dispatch of such business as properly belongs to them, and to grant them such powers as shall be thought requisite,” etc. [T.S.]]