[232a] Swift is referring to St. John’s defence of Brydges (see p. [201].)
[232b] “He does not mean smoking, which he never practised, but snuffing up cut-and-dry tobacco, which sometimes was just coloured with Spanish snuff; and this he used all his life, but would not own that he took snuff” (Deane Swift).
[232d] Sir Alexander Cairnes, M.P. for Monaghan, a banker, was created a baronet in 1706, and died in 1732.
[233b] Isaac Manley (see p. [7].)
[233c] Sir Thomas Frankland.
[234a] Hockley-in-the-Hole, Clerkenwell, a place of public diversion, was famous for its bear and bull baitings.