[10] The passage of the soul into another body; one might have supposed that the soul of the uncle had taken up abode in Franklin's body.
[11] Franklin omitted the verses.
[12] Who was queen from 1553 to 1558.
[13] "Joint stool," i.e., a stool made of parts fitted together.
[14] "Outed for nonconformity," i.e., turned out of the church for not conforming to the usages of the Church of England and for holding meetings of dissenters for public worship.
[15] Franklin was born Sunday, Jan. 17, 1706 (Jan. 6, old style). The family then lived in a small house on Milk Street, near the Old South Church, where the Boston Post building now stands.
[16] The persecution which the first settlers practiced against all who differed with them in religious doctrines.
[17] Sherburne is now called Nantucket.
[18] The lines which Dr. Franklin had forgotten are these:
"I am for peace and not for war,
And that's the reason why
I write more plain than some men do,
That used to daub and lie.
But I shall cease, and set my name
To what I here insert,
Because to be a libeler
I hate it with my heart."