Footnotes:
[1] Deane Swift, p. 15.
[2] Readers may remember a clever adaptation of this incident in Lord Lytton’s My Novel.
[3] Possibly this was his cousin Thomas, but the probabilities are clearly in favour of Jonathan.
[4] In the Short Character of Thomas, Earl of Wharton.
[5] It will be seen that I accept Dr. Barrett’s statements, Earlier Part of the Life of Swift, pp. 13, 14. His arguments seem to me sufficiently clear and conclusive, and they are accepted by Monck Mason, though treated contemptuously by Mr. Forster, p. 34. On the other hand, I agree with Mr. Forster that Swift’s complicity in the Terræ Filius oration is not proved, though it is not altogether improbable.
[6] Temple had the reversion of his father’s office.
[7] It may be noticed in illustration of the growth of the Swift legend, that two demonstrably false anecdotes—one imputing a monstrous crime, the other a romantic piece of benevolence to Swift—refer to this period.
[8] M. Maralt. See appendix to Courtenay’s Life of Temple.