[33c] “Seventy-three lines in folio upon one page, and in a very small hand.” (Deane Swift).
[34a] I.e., Lord Lieutenant.
[34b] Tatler, No. 238.
[34d] Charles Coote, fourth Earl of Mountrath, and M.P. for Knaresborough. He died unmarried in 1715.
[34e] Henry Coote, Lord Mountrath’s brother. He succeeded to the earldom in 1715, but died unmarried in 1720.
[35a] The Devil Tavern was the meeting-place of Ben Jonson’s Apollo Club. The house was pulled down in 1787.
[35b] Addison was re-elected M.P. for Malmesbury in Oct. 1710, and he kept that seat until his death in 1719.
[35c] Captain Charles Lavallee, who served in the Cadiz Expedition of 1702, and was appointed a captain in Colonel Hans Hamilton’s Regiment of Foot in 1706 (Luttrell, v. 175, vi. 640; Dalton’s English Army Lists, iv. 126).