21.  Dryden had already distinguished Shadwell and Settle by those
   names, which were destined to consign the poor wights to a painful
   immortality, in the second part of Absalom and Achitophel,
   published in 1682.

22.  See note on p. 222.  Vol.  VI. describing this famous procession.

23.  This passage, in Hunt’s defence of the charter, obviously alludes
   to the Duke of York, whom he elsewhere treats with little ceremony,
   and to the king, whose affection for his brother was not without a
   mixture of fear, inspired by his more stubborn and resolved temper.

24.  William Viscount Stafford, the last who suffered for the Popish
   plot, was tried and executed in 1680.  It appears, that his life was
   foully sworn away by Dugdale and Turberville.  The manly and patient
   deportment of the noble sufferer went far to remove the woful
   delusion which then pervaded the people.  It would seem that Hunt
   had acted as his solicitor.

25.  A quip at his corpulent adversary Shadwell.

26.  The infamous Titus Oates pretended, amongst other more abominable
   falsehoods, to have taken a doctor’s degree at Salamanca.  In 1679,
   there was an attempt to bring him to trial for unnatural practices,
   but the grand jury threw out the bill.  These were frequent subjects
   of reproach among the tory authors.  In the Luttrel Collection,
   there is “An Address from Salamanca to her unknown offspring Dr
   T.O. concerning the present state of affairs in England.”  Also a
   coarse ballad, entitled, “The Venison Doctor, with his brace of
   Alderman Stags;”

     Showing how a Doctor had defiled
     Two aldermen, and got them both with child,
     Who longed for venison, but were beguiled.

27.  Our author has elsewhere expressed, in the same terms, his
   contempt for the satire of “The Rehearsal.”  “I answered not the
   Rehearsal, because I knew the author sat to himself when he drew
   the picture, and was the very Bayes of his own farce.” Dedication
   to Juvenal.—­The same idea occurs in a copy of verses on the Duke
   of Buckingham sometimes ascribed to Dryden: 

     But when his poet, John Bayes, did appear,
     ’Twas known to more than one-half that were there,
     That the great’st part was his Grace’s character;

     For he many years plagued his friends for their crimes,
     Repeating his verses in other men’s rhymes,
     To the very same person ten thousand times.
                                   State Poems, Vol.  II, p. 216.

28.  Besides those who were alarmed for civil liberty, and those who
   dreaded encroachment on their religion, the whig party, like every
   one which promises to effect a great political change, was embraced
   by many equally careless of the one motive or the other; but who
   hoped to indulge their licentious passions, repair their broken
   fortunes, or gratify their inordinate ambition amidst a
   revolutionary convulsion.