13. tithe-stealers. The tithes being paid in kind, it was easy to cheat the parson out of some portion of them.
16. his patron. The squire, who gave him his living.
SPECTATOR 113.
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11. settled. Salmon thinks that the walk was not actually settled upon the widow as her property, but that it was indissolubly connected with her in Sir Roger's mind.
20. Cf. Orlando in As You Like It, III. ii. 10:
Carve on every tree
The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.
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17. rid. v. note on p. 24, 1. 17.
19. bitted. Trained to carry their heads well with a bearing rein.