[351a] See p. [341].

[351b] See p. [336]. Debtors could not be arrested on Sunday.

[352a] Sir George Pretyman, Bart., dissipated the fortune of the family. The title became dormant in 1749.

[352b] See the Introduction.

[352c] For the Whites of Farnham, see Manning and Bray’s Surrey, iii. 177.

[352d] The Conduct of the Allies.

[352e] The Percevals were among Swift’s principal friends in the neighbourhood of Laracor. In a letter to John Temple in 1706 (Forster’s Life of Swift, 182) Swift alludes to Perceval; in spite of different views in politics, “I always loved him,” says Swift, “very well as a man of very good understanding and humour.” Perceval was related to Sir John Perceval, afterwards Earl of Egmont (see p. [175]).

[353a] See p. [2].

[353b] See p. [58].

[354a] The Examiner was resumed on Dec. 6, 1711, under Oldisworth’s editorship, and was continued by him until July 1714.