[393a] Lady Catherine Hyde was an unmarried daughter of Laurence Hyde, first Earl of Rochester (see p. [60]). Notwithstanding Swift’s express statement that the lady to whom he here refers was the late Earl’s daughter, and the allusion to her sister, Lady Dalkeith, in Letter 60, note 26, she has been confused by previous editors with her niece, Lady Catherine Hyde (see p. [256]), daughter of the second Earl, and afterwards Duchess of Queensberry. That lady, not long afterwards to be celebrated by Prior, was a child under twelve when Swift wrote.
[393b] Sir John Trevor (1637–1717), formerly Speaker of the House of Commons.
[393f] Charles Trimnel, made Bishop of Norwich in 1708, and Bishop of Winchester in 1721, was strongly opposed to High Church doctrines.
[394a] Jibe or jest.
[394c] The treaty concluded with Holland in 1711.
[395a] Feb. 2 is the Purification of the Virgin Mary.