17. Baker's Chronicle. Sir Richard Baker, who died in 1645, was the author of A Chronicle of the Kings of England. The observations which Sir Roger applied to Prince Eugene had not, of course, been written with regard to him.
23. Squire's. v. Appendix I.
25. waited on. Attended. Cf. Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, III. ii. 96:
We'll wait upon your grace till after supper.
30. the Supplement was 'an alternative edition of The Postboy, by Jacob Abellius, a postscriptorian, otherwise Boyer.' (Fox Bourne.)
SPECTATOR 329.
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5. my paper upon Westminster Abbey. Spectator 26.
8. promised another paper upon the Tombs. 'I have left the repository of our English kings for the contemplation of another day.'
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