[Footnote 142: Plunket, the titular primate of Ireland, Whitebread, provincial of the Jesuits, and several other Catholic priests, suffered for the alleged plot. Derrick most absurdly supposes the passage to refer to the period of the Civil War.] [Footnote 143: _Quarry_ signifies, properly, "dead game ready to be cut up by the huntsman," which the French still call _faire la curée_. But it is often taken, as in this passage, for the game in general. Vermin comprehends such wild animals as are not game, foxes, polecats, and the like.] [Footnote 144: Note II.] [Footnote 145: The test-oath, against popery, in which transubstantiation is formally disavowed. See Note III.] [Footnote 146: There was a dispute among naturalists, whether sight was accomplished _per emissionem vel per receptionem specierum_.] [Footnote 147: _Dolus versatur in generalibus_, was an axiom of the schools.] [Footnote 148: Note IV.] [Footnote 149: The Catholics interpret our Saviour's promise, "that he would be with the disciples to the end of the world," as applicable to their own church exclusively.] [Footnote 150: Note V.] [Footnote 151: By the doctrine of consubstantiation.] [Footnote 152: Alluding to Lucan's description of the Roman civil war.] [Footnote 153: Note VI.] [Footnote 154: See Note XIV. Part I. page 156.] [Footnote 155: The gallows.] [Footnote 156: By the Blatant Beast, we are generally to understand slander; see Spenser's Legend of Courtesy. But it is here taken for the Wolf, or Presbyterian clergy, whose violent declamations against the church of Rome filled up many sermons.] [Footnote 157: The Presbyterian church utterly rejects traditions, and appeals to the scripture as the sole rule of faith.] [Footnote 158: Note VII.] [Footnote 159: It is probable, that from this passage Swift took the idea of comparing the scripture to a testament in his "Tale of a Tub."] [Footnote 160: By this asseveration the author seems to infer, that, because the church of Rome avers her own infallibility, she is therefore infallible.] [Footnote 161: In a Polish Diet, where unanimity was necessary, the mode adopted of ensuring it was for the majority to hew to pieces the first individual who expressed his dissent by the fatal _veto_.] [Footnote 162: "The church, according to the articles of faith, hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith; and yet it is not lawful for the church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's word written, neither may it so expound one place of scripture, that it be repugnant to another." Article xx.] [Footnote 163: This romantic name is given to the sword of mercy; which wants a point, and is said to have been that of Edward the Confessor. It is borne at the coronation. The sword of Ogier the Dane, famous in romance, the work of Galand, who made Joyeuse and Durandal, was also called Curtana.] [Footnote 164: The Lutherans.]