Part I

. Act I. Sc. 2.

_As honest Hector Macintyre, etc._ See _The Antiquary_, chap. XX.

‘_Thinly scattered_,’ _etc._ _Romeo and Juliet_, Act V. Sc. 1.

_Rari nantes, etc._ _Æneid_, I. 118.

356. ‘_I remember my grandfather_,’ _etc._ Wilson’s _Memoirs, etc., of Defoe_, I. 6, and Defoe’s _Review_, vii. Pref.

357. _Mr. Samuel Wesley._ Samuel Wesley the elder (1662–1735), whose attack on the education of the Dissenters (1703) engaged him in a controversy.

_Shortest Way with the Dissenters._, 1702.

358. _Harley._ Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford (1661–1724).

‘_Heaven lies about us_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, Ode, _Intimations of Immortality_, 66.

‘_Poor Robinson Crusoe_,’ _etc._ _Robinson Crusoe_, Section XV.

358. _True-born Englishman._ 1701.

_Review._ 1704–1713.

_Essays on Trade._ Defoe wrote several tracts on the subject of trade.

360. _Legion Petition._ ‘Legion’s Memorial’ to the House of Commons in reference to the Kentish Petition of 1701. A second Memorial appeared in the following year.

‘_Heaping coals of fire_,’ _etc._ _Romans_, xii. 20.

‘_Stuff of the conscience._’ _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 2.

‘_A foregone conclusion._’ _Othello_, Act III. Sc. 3.

361. _Toland._ John Toland (1670–1722), the deist.

362. Note. See Wilson’s _Memoirs, etc., of Defoe_, I. 73 note.

363. ‘_There goes a very honest gentleman_,’ _etc._ According to Madame de La Fayette (_Mémoires de la Cour de France_), it was Louvois’ brother, the Archbishop of Rheims, who, on seeing James come from Mass, said: ‘Voilà un fort bon homme, il a quitté trois royaumes pour une messe.’

_Dr. Sherlock._ William Sherlock (1641?–1707), one of the non-jurors for a short time after the Revolution.

364. _An eloquent passage._ See Wilson’s _Memoirs, etc., of Defoe_, I. 76–77 and Defoe’s _Review_, IV. 643–644.

_The Exclusion Bill._ Passed by the House of Commons and rejected by the House of Lords, 1680.

_A very curious account._ Wilson’s _Memoirs, etc., of Defoe_, I. 156 _et seq._

366. _His Complete Tradesman._ _The Complete English Tradesman_, 1727.

367. ‘_To keep their seats firm._’ _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 97).

‘_The fate of James_,’ _etc._ Wilson’s _Memoirs, etc., of Defoe_, I. 162–163.

368. ‘_Courage had been screwed_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 7.

_An Address to the Dissenters._ This pamphlet (1687) seems to have been Bishop Burnet’s. See Lee’s _Life of Defoe_ and _Notes and Queries_, 4th Ser. IV. 253, 307.

_The Marquis of Halifax._ George Savile, Marquis of Halifax (1633–1695). The pamphlet referred to by Hazlitt appeared in 1686.

369. _An early Piece._ Lee (_Life of Defoe_, I. 15) regards this piece (1683) and _Speculum Crape-gownorum_ (1682) as spurious.

_Lives of the Philipses._ William Godwin’s _Lives of Edward and John Philips_, 1815.

Note. _An Appeal to Honour and Justice._ 1715.

370. ‘_The Hortus Siccus of Dissent._’ _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 14).

_Oldmixon._ John Oldmixon (1673–1742), whose _History of England during the Reign of the Royal House of Stuart_ was published in 3 vols. 1729–1739.

371. ‘_Though that his joy_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 1.

372. ‘_Not pierceable_‘, _etc._ Cf. ‘Not perceable with power of any starr.’ _The Faerie Queene_,