Footnotes:
[310] 'B——:' Bute.
[311] 'F——:' Fox.
[312] 'Grafton:' see Junius, passim.
[313] 'First:' Lyttelton.
[314] 'Archibald:' Archibald Bower, the infamous author of 'Lives of the Popes,' patronised at first by Lyttelton, but detected and exposed by Dr Douglas.
[315] 'Second:' Churchill himself.
[316] 'Hogarth:' here satirically represented as dead, lived four weeks after this poem was published, and died nine days before Churchill.
[317] 'M——:' Melcombe.
[318] 'Wingate:' the purse-proud upstarts of the day are here designated by the generic name of Wingate, an eminent arithmetician, who lived early in the seventeenth century.