[456e] Swift’s sister (see p. [74]).

[457a] Forster reads “returned.”

[457b] See Swift’s letter to General Hill of Aug. 12, 1712

[457c] Swift’s housekeeper at Laracor.

[457d] I.e., be made freemen of the City.

[458] Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Octr. 18. At Portraune.”

[459a] “Sometimes, when better company was not to be had, he [Swift] was honoured by being invited to play at cards with his patron; and on such occasions Sir William was so generous as to give his antagonist a little silver to begin with” (Macaulay, History of England, chap. xix.).

[459b] The History of the Works of the Learned, a quarto periodical, was published from 1699 to 1711.

[459c] See p. [343].

[459d] See p. [277].