[Footnote 222: Queen Catherine. See note II.]
[Footnote 224: Duke of Monmouth. See note III.]
[Footnote 226: Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth. See note IV.]
[Footnote 231: Here, Flanders or Holland; afterwards Scotland.]
[Footnote 236: A sneer at the doctrine of transubstantiation, which our author afterwards attempted to defend.]
[Footnote 238: Shaftesbury. See note VIII.]
[Footnote 241: First edit. _A patron's_. The next twelve lines were added after the first edition. See Introduction.]
[Footnote 245: The land of exile, more particularly Brussels, where Charles long resided.]
[Footnote 250: James Duke of York, whose exclusion, as a Catholic, was warmly urged in the House of Commons.]
[Footnote 252: The allusion is to the Republic, who acknowleged God alone for their king, but were dispossessed by Cromwell, here, as formerly, called Saul.]
[Footnote 257: A thrifty and frugal doctrine, not forgotten by the reformers of our own day.]
[Footnote 259: The dissenting clergymen, expelled by the Act of Conformity.]
[Footnote 260: The Duke of Buckingham. See note XVIII.]
[Footnote 261: Balaam, the earl of Huntingdon; Caleb, lord Gray of Wark; Nadab, lord Howard of Escrick. Note XIX. XX. XXI.]
[Footnote 262: Sir William Jones. See note XXII.]
[Footnote 263: Slingsby Bethel, one of the sheriffs of London. See note XXIII.]
[Footnote 265: He wrote a treatise on the Interest of Princes.]
[Footnote 266: Titus Oates. See note XXV.]
[Footnote 268: Oates pretended to have taken his degree of doctor at Salamanca. See note XXVII. Also vol. VII. p. 164.]
[Footnote 269: Sir Edmondbury Godfrey. See Note XXVIII.]
[Footnote 270: First edit.--Dissembling joy.]
[Footnote 272: Duchess of Portsmouth, mistress to Charles II.]
[Footnote 274: Thomas Thynne, Esq. See note XXX.]
[Footnote 276: The Duke of Ormond. See note XXXII.]
[Footnote 278: The Earl of Ossory. See note XXXIII.]
[Footnote 279: Alluding to Lord Ossory's services in the Dutch war against the French.]
[Footnote 291: The four following lines were added after the first edition. See Introduction.]
_Michal, of royal blood, the crown did wear, A soil ungrateful to the tiller's care._--P. 217.
Queen Catherine of Portugal, the wife of Charles II., resembled the daughter of Saul in the circumstance mentioned in the text. She was plain in her person, and consequently possessed little influence over her gallant husband. She was, however, always treated by him with decent civility; and indeed, when persecuted by the popular party, experienced his warmest protection. Her greatest fault was her being educated a Catholic; her greatest misfortune, her bearing the king no children; and her greatest foible an excessive love of dancing. It might have occurred to the good people of these times, that loving a ball was not a capital sin, even in a person whose figure excluded her from the hopes of gracing it; that a princess of Portugal must be a Catholic, if she had any religion at all; and, finally, that to bear children, it is necessary some one should take the trouble of getting them. But these obvious considerations did not prevent her being grossly abused in the libels of the times,[294] and very nearly made a party in Dr Titus Oates' Appendix to his Original Plot.