[21] Though he signed the proclamation against the author of the Drapier’s Letters, Lord Middleton was himself inimical to Wood’s project.
[22] The printer of the Drapier’s Letters.
[23] Undertakers:—a name which was, in Charles II.’s time applied to those ministers who gained power by undertaking to carry through pet measures of the Crown. Swift here uses it ambiguously.
[24] The Earl of Sunderland.
[25] The obligation arising from their having sworn allegiance to him.
[26] The memorial was written by Sir John Browne.
[27] Ireland was, for political reasons, much favoured by the Crown, during the reigns of Charles II. and James II.
[28] England.
[29] Scotland and Ireland.
[30] The Irish Sea.