[431b] John Cecil, sixth Earl of Exeter (died 1721).
[432b] Arbuthnot.
[433a] A resort of the Tories.
[433b] Deane Swift, a son of Swift’s uncle Godwin, was a merchant in Lisbon.
[433c] Winces. Lyly says, “Rubbe there no more, least I winch.”
[433d] Probably William Whiston, who was deprived of the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge in 1710 for his heterodox views. Parliament having offered a reward for the discovery of means of finding the longitude, Whiston made several attempts (1714 and 1721).
[434a] Word obliterated.
[434b] Distilled water prepared with rosemary flowers. In Fielding’s Joseph Andrews, a lady gives up to a highway robber, in her fright, a silver bottle which, the ruffian said, contained some of the best brandy he had ever tasted; this she “afterwards assured the company was a mistake of her maid, for that she had ordered her to fill the bottle with Hungary water.”