for that office (though it is probable I had) yet I cannot be positive in it: sure I am, that upon my application to him he promised readily, and as near as I can remember, in these very words, "that he would help me to it;" without intimating in the least that I asked him a thing which was out of his power.'
P. 182, l. 22. It had been more to the purpose, &c. Bennet replied in the Appendix to the Short Account (p. 126) that Gibson was 'corrector of a press, [who] could allow no part of his days from that laborious service; and which is more, Dr Bentley knew it too; for it was what I then urged to him to excuse the collator's delay, and to procure a further term; and it was so much insisted upon by me at that time, that I cannot think it possible for the Doctor to have forgotten it.'
P. 184, l. 6. for at that time I lived, see note on p. 124, l.23.
P. 185, l. 21. a great person, Robert Boyle, founder of the Boyle Lectures. Cf. S. i. pp. 331-4.
P. 187, l. 2. his buffoonery upon the learned Dr Lister. King's Journey to London (see note on p. 123, l. 14) was a travesty upon Martin Lister's Journey to Paris in the year 1698.
P. 188, l. 12. To account, then, &c. Bennet's reply to the charge made here by Bentley is to be found in the Appendix to the Short Account (pp. 114-8). Bentley's reply to Bennet's defence is in Whateley's Answer to a late Book written against … Dr Bentley … 1699 (pp. 199-207).
P. 191, l. 3. prolling, proll is an older form of prowl. Cf. Chaucer: The Chanouns Yemannes Tale (859): 'Though ye prolle ay, ye shul it never finde.'
P. 191, l. 13. English Polyglot, the Biblia Sacra Polyglotta,
