[Footnote 28:  In the height of the quarrel between the ministers, the queen died.]

[Footnote 29:  Upon Queen Anne’s death, the Whig faction was restored to power, which they exercised with the utmost rage and revenge; impeached and banished the chief leaders of the Church party, and stripped all their adherents of what employments they had; after which England was never known to make so mean a figure in Europe.  The greatest preferments in the Church, in both kingdoms, were given to the most ignorant men.  Fanaticks were publickly caressed, Ireland utterly ruined and enslaved, only great ministers heaping up millions; and so affairs continue, and are likely to remain so.]

[Footnote 30:  Upon the queen’s death, the Dean returned to live in Dublin at his Deanery House.  Numberless libels were written against him in England as a Jacobite; he was insulted in the street, and at night he was forced to be attended by his servants armed.]

[Footnote 31:  Ireland.]

[Footnote 32:  One Wood, a hardware-man from England, had a patent for coining copper halfpence in Ireland, to the sum of L108,000, which, in the consequence, must leave that kingdom without gold or silver.  See The Drapier’s Letters, “Prose Works,” vol. vi.—­W.  E. B.]

[Footnote 33:  Whitshed was then chief justice.  He had some years before prosecuted a printer for a pamphlet writ by the Dean, to persuade the people of Ireland to wear their own manufactures.  Whitshed sent the jury down eleven times, and kept them nine hours, until they were forced to bring in a special verdict.  He sat afterwards on the trial of the printer of the Drapier’s Fourth Letter; but the jury, against all he could say or swear, threw out the bill.  All the kingdom took the Drapier’s part, except the courtiers, or those who expected places.  The Drapier was celebrated in many poems and pamphlets.  His sign was set up in most streets of Dublin (where many of them still continue) and in several country towns.  This note was written in 1734.—­W.  E. B.]

[Footnote 34:  Scroggs was chief justice under King Charles II.  His judgement always varied in state trials according to directions from Court.  Tresilian was a wicked judge hanged above three hundred years ago.]

[Footnote 35:  In Ireland, which he had reason to call a place of exile; to which country nothing could have driven him but the queen’s death, who had determined to fix him in England, in spite of the Duchess of Somerset.]

[Footnote 36:  In Ireland the Dean was not acquainted with one single lord, spiritual or temporal.  He only conversed with private gentlemen of the clergy or laity, and but a small number of either.]

[Footnote 37:  The peers of Ireland lost their jurisdiction by one single act, and tamely submitted to this infamous mark of slavery without the least resentment or remonstrance.]

[Footnote 38:  The Parliament, as they call it in Ireland, meet but once in two years, and after having given five times more than they can afford, return home to reimburse themselves by country jobs and oppressions of which some few are mentioned.]