Footnotes:

{1} A stang is a pole or perch; sixteen feet and a half.

{2} An act of parliament has been since passed by which some
breaches of trust have been made capital.

{3} Britannia.--Sir W. Scott.

{4} London.--Sir W. Scott.

{5} 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," &c. The names Tribnia and
Langdon an not mentioned, and the "close stool" and its
signification do not occur.

{6} This paragraph is not in the original editions.

{7} 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.