FOOTNOTES:
[96] Probably this article is by Addison; see note to No. 50.
[97] Nichols suggested that this letter was by Swift, and it is printed in Scott's edition of his works.
[98] Paul Lorrain (died 1719) was the Ordinary of Newgate. In their "dying speeches," compiled by Lorrain, criminals commonly professed to be penitent, and were thus called "Lorrain's Saints." See Spectator, Nos. 338, 341.
[99] Mary Astell; see No. 32.
[100] Mrs. de la Rivière Manley (1672-1724), who afterwards attacked Steele, without ground, as the author of this article. Subsequently she became a writer for the Tories. She is best known by her scandalous "Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality, of both Sexes, from the New Atalantis," 1709, which was continued in "Memoirs of Europe towards the close of the Eighth Century," 1710.
[101] Elizabeth Elstob published, in 1709, an excellent English translation of an Anglo-Saxon homily. In 1715 she brought out "English Rudiments of Grammar for the Anglo-Saxon Tongue." Afterwards, being in poor circumstances, she kept a school with indifferent success, until 1739, when she was appointed governess to the Duchess of Portland's children. She died in 1756, aged 73, and was buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster.
[102] The Battle of Malplaquet.
[No. 64. [Steele.]
From Saturday, September 3, to Tuesday, September 6, 1709.