[53] See on this subject the agitation against Wood’s halfpence in the volume dealing with “The Drapier’s Letters.” [T.  S.]

[54] Faulkner and Scott print this word “irony,” but the original edition has it as printed in the text. [T.  S.]

[55] The original edition has this as “Island.”  Scott and the previous editors print it as in the text.  Iceland is, no doubt, referred to. [T.  S.]

[56] Bishop Nicholson, quoted by Lecky, speaks of the miserable hovels in which the people lived, and the almost complete absence of clothing. [T.  S.]

[57] Hely Hutchinson, in his “Commercial Restraints of Ireland” (Dublin, 1779; new edit. 1888) points out that the scheme proposed by the government, and partly executed, by directing a commission under the great seal for receiving voluntary subscriptions in order to establish a bank, was a scheme to circulate paper without money.  This and Wood’s halfpence seem to have been the nearest approach made at the time for supplying what Swift here calls “the running cash of the nation.” [T.  S.]

[58] England.

[59] Scotland and Ireland.

[60] The Irish Sea.

[61] The Roman Wall.

[62] The Scottish Highlanders. [T.  S]

[63] Charles I, who was delivered by the Scotch into the hands of the Parliamentary party. [T.  S]

[64] See note to “A Short View of the State of Ireland.” [T.  S.]

[65] The King of England. [T.  S.]

[66] The Lord-Lieutenant. [T.  S.]

[67] The English Government filled all the important posts in Ireland with individuals sent over from England.  See “Boulter’s Letters” on this subject of the English rule. [T.  S.]

[68] See notes to “A Short View of the State of Ireland,” on the Navigation Acts and the acts against the exportation of cattle. [T.  S.]

[69] The laws against woollen manufacture. [T.  S.]

[70] Absentees and place-holders. [T.  S.]

[71] The spirit of opposition and enmity to England, declared by the Scottish Act of Security, according to Swift’s view of the relations between the countries, left no alternative but an union or a war. [S.]

[72] The Act of Union between England and Scotland. [T.  S.]

[73] The reference here is to the linen manufactories of Ireland which were being encouraged by England. [T.  S.]

[74] Swift here refers to the sentiment, largely predominant in Scotland, for the return of the Stuarts. [T.  S.]

[75] Alliances with France. [T.  S.]

[76] Alluding to the 33rd Henry VIII, providing that the King and his successors should be kings imperial of both kingdoms, on which the enemies of Irish independence founded their arguments against it. [S.] Scott cannot be correct in this note.  The allusion is surely to the enactments known as Poyning’s Law.  See vol. vi., p. 77 (note) of this edition of Swift’s works. [T.  S.]