[Footnote 4: A village near Winchester, Hampshire, England, where Dr. Jonathan Shipley had his country house. Dr. Shipley was Bishop of St. Asaph's in Wales, and Franklin's friend.] [Footnote 5: Franklin's only living son, William, who in 1762 had been made royal governor of New Jersey, with the hope of detaching Franklin from the cause of the colonists.] [Footnote 6: A franklin was a freeman, or freeholder, or owner of the land on which he dwelt. The franklins were by their possessions fitted for becoming sheriffs, knights, etc. After the Norman Conquest, men in England took, in addition to the first name, another which was suggested by their condition in life, their trade, or some personal peculiarity. See Note, p. 203.] [Footnote 7: A title given in England in Franklin's time to the descendants of knights and noblemen.] [Footnote 8: A writer whose duties were similar to those of our notary.] [Footnote 9: "Old style," i.e., the method of reckoning time which formerly prevailed and which had caused an error of eleven days. The new style of reckoning was adopted in England in 1752.] [Footnote 10: The passage of the soul into another body; one might have supposed that the soul of the uncle had taken up abode in Franklin's body.] [Footnote 11: Franklin omitted the verses.] [Footnote 12: Who was queen from 1553 to 1558.] [Footnote 13: "Joint stool," i.e., a stool made of parts fitted together.] [Footnote 14: "Outed for nonconformity," i.e., turned out of the church for not conforming to the usages of the Church of England and for holding meetings of dissenters for public worship.] [Footnote 15: Franklin was born Sunday, Jan. 17, 1706 (Jan. 6, old style). The family then lived in a small house on Milk Street, near the Old South Church, where the Boston Post building now stands.] [Footnote 16: The persecution which the first settlers practiced against all who differed with them in religious doctrines.] [Footnote 17: Sherburne is now called Nantucket.] [Footnote 18: The lines which Dr. Franklin had forgotten are these: "I am for peace and not for war, And that's the reason why I write more plain than some men do, That used to daub and lie. But I shall cease, and set my name To what I here insert, Because to be a libeler I hate it with my heart." ] [Footnote 19: In Franklin's time the grammar school was a school for teaching Latin, which was begun by committing the grammar to memory.] [Footnote 20: Characters, or method of writing shorthand.] [Footnote 21: Candles were made by dipping wicks in the fat a number of times, and also by setting the wicks in a mold and pouring the fat round them.] [Footnote 22: Ants.] [Footnote 23: The marble having crumbled, a larger stone was placed over the grave in 1827, and Franklin's inscription repeated. It stands in the Granary Burying Ground.] [Footnote 24: Aged.]