Endnotes + 

A stang is a pole or perch; sixteen feet and a half. ↩ + 

An act of parliament has been since passed by which some breaches of trust have been made capital. ↩ + 

Britannia. —⁠Sir W. Scott ↩ + 

London. —⁠Sir W. Scott ↩ + 

This is the revised text adopted by Dr. Hawksworth (1766). The above paragraph in the original editions (1726) takes another form, commencing:⁠—“I told him that should I happen to live in a kingdom where lots were in vogue,” etc. The names Tribnia and Langdon are not mentioned, and the “close stool” and its signification do not occur. ↩ + 

This paragraph is not in the original editions. ↩ + 

The original editions and Hawksworth’s have Rotherhith here, though earlier in the work, Redriff is said to have been Gulliver’s home in England. ↩ + 