[347d] Of The Conduct of the Allies, a pamphlet which had a very wide circulation. See a paper by Edward Solly in the Antiquarian Magazine, March 1885.

[348a] Allen Bathurst, M.P. (1684–1775), created Baron Bathurst in December 1711, and Earl Bathurst in 1772. His second and eldest surviving son was appointed Lord Chancellor in the year preceding the father’s death. Writing to her son in January 1711 (Wentworth Papers, 173), Lady Wentworth said of Bathurst, “He is, next to you, the finest gentleman and the best young man I know; I love him dearly.”

[348b] See p. [72].

[348c] See p. [153].

[348d] Swift is alluding to the quarrel between Lord Santry (see p. [215]) and Francis Higgins (see p. [335]), which led to Higgins’s prosecution. The matter is described at length in Boyer’s Political State, 1711, pp. 617 seq.

[348e] See p. [176].

[349a] No doubt the same as Colonel Newburgh (see Journal, March 5, 1711–12).

[349b] Beaumont (see p. [1], [250]).

[349c] See p. [301].

[350] Cf. p. [144].