[Footnote 14]: Dr. Sherlock, de facto. [D.F.]
[Footnote 15]: K. J. I. [D.F.]
[Footnote 16]: K. C. II. [D.F.]
[Footnote 17]: Lady Castlemaine, of the Italian-French family of Villars, was first known to Charles II. as Mrs. Palmer. Afterwards her husband was made Earl of Castlemaine, and in 1668 she was made Duchess of Cleveland. Of the cost of this woman Andrew Marvell wrote:—“They have signed and sealed ten thousand pounds a year more to the Duchess of Cleveland; who has likewise near ten thousand pounds a year out of the new farm of the country excise of beer and ale; five thousand pounds a year out of the Post Office; and, they say, the reversion of all the King’s leases, the reversion of all places in the Custom House, the green-wax, and, indeed, what not? All promotions, spiritual and temporal, pass under her cognisance,” &c. Charles II. had by her five children.
[Footnote 18]: Louise Renée de Puencovet de Queroualle came over to Dover as a maid of honour, and was created Duchess of Portsmouth in August 1673. She cost as much as Lady Castlemaine. Her son, Charles Lennox, was made Duke of Richmond. The Duchess of Portsmouth was living when this satire appeared. She died in 1734.
[Footnote 19]: Frederick de Schomberg, an old favourite of King William’s, was made Duke of Schomberg on the 10th of April 1689. Another friend of the King’s, William Bentinck, was created Earl of Portland on the 9th of April 1689. His son and heir was raised to a dukedom in 1716.
[Footnote 20]: The drunkard’s name for Canary. [D.F.]
[Footnote 21]: “Mobile,” applied to the movable, unstable populace, was first abridged to “mob” in Charles the Second’s time.
[Footnote 22]: The Devil.—[D.F.]
[Footnote 23]: Dating from 1688-89, the Revolution and accession of King William III.