[Footnote 14:  Rev. Roger Throp, whose death was said to have been occasioned by the persecution which he suffered from Waller.  His case was published by his brother, and never answered, containing such a scene of petty vexatious persecutions as is almost incredible; the cause being the refusal of Mr. Throp to compound, for a compensation totally inadequate, some of the rights of his living which affected Waller’s estate.  In 1739, a petition was presented to the House of Commons by his brother, Robert Throp, gentleman, complaining of this persecution, and applying to parliament for redress, relative to the number of attachments granted by the King’s Bench, in favour of his deceased brother, and which could not be executed against the said Waller, on account of the privilege of Parliament, etc.  But this petition was rejected by the House, nem. con. The Dean seems to have employed his pen against Waller.  See a letter from Mrs. Whiteway to Swift, Nov. 15, 1735, edit.  Scott, xviii, p. 414.—­W.  E. B.]

[Footnote 15:  Richard Tighe, so called because descended from a baker who supplied Cromwell’s army with bread.  Bettesworth is termed the player, from his pompous enunciation.]

[Footnote 16:  “Right Honourable Owen Wynne, county of Sligo.—–­Owen Wynne, Esq., borough of Sligo.—­John Wynne, Esq., borough of Castlebar.”]

[Footnote 17:  “Sir John Bingham, Bart., county of Mayo.—­His brother, Henry Bingham, sat in parliament for some time for Castlebar.”]

[Footnote 18:  John Allen represented the borough of Carysfort; Robert Allen the county of Wicklow.  The former was son, and the latter brother to Joshua, the second Viscount Allen, hated and satirized by Swift, under the name of Traulus.  The ancestor of the Allens, as has been elsewhere noticed, was an architect in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth’s reign; and was employed as such by many of the nobility, particularly Lord Howth.  He settled in Ireland, and was afterwards consulted by Lord Stafford in some of his architectural plans.—­Scott.]

[Footnote 19:  There were then two Clements in parliament, brothers, Nathaniel and Henry.  Michael Obrien Dilks represented the borough of Castlemartye.  He was barrack-master-general.]

[Footnote 20:  Doctor Marcus Antonius (which Swift calls his “heathenish Christian name”) Morgan, chairman to that committee to whom was referred the petition of the farmers, graziers, etc. against tithe agistment.  On this petition the House reported, and agreed that it deserved the strongest support.]

[Footnote 21:  Whose hair consisted of snakes, and who turned all she looked upon to stone.—­W.  E. B.]

[Footnote 22:  A suggestion that if the tithe of agistment were abolished, the clergy might be sent to graze.—­W.  E. B.]

[Footnote 23:  On the margin of a Broadside containing this poem is
written by Swift: 
  “Except the righteous Fifty Two
  To whom immortal honour’s due,
  Take them, Satan, as your due
  All except the Fifty Two.”—­Forster.
probably the number of those who opposed the Bill.—­W.  E. B.]