[538a] Lord Cholmondeley (see p. [357]).
[538b] Harcourt.
[538c] Forster’s reading; the last two words are doubtful.
[538e] Francis Palmes, who was wounded at Blenheim, was made a Lieutenant-General in 1709. In 1707 he was elected M.P. for West Loo; in 1708 he was sent as Envoy Extraordinary to the Duke of Savoy, and in 1710 to Vienna.
[538f] Apparently “so heed.”
[538g] Henry Villiers (died 1743), second son of the first Earl of Jersey and of Barbara, daughter of William Chiffinch (see p. [281]).
[539a] See p. [520]. The Speech and Address are in the Commons’ Journals, xvii. 278, 280. For the draft Address, in Swift’s handwriting, see the Portland Papers (1899), v. 276.
[539b] Scoffed, jeered.