It is believed that the text here given contains every note accurately placed to its proper account in Burnet's "History." The references are to the edition in folio issued in 1724-1734.
In the twenty-seventh volume of the "European Magazine," and in the two following volumes, a fair proportion of Swift's notes were first published.

These were reprinted by Dr.Burnet in 1808, in his "Essay on the Earlier Part of the Life of Swift." Both these authorities have been consulted.

Dr.Routh's modesty forbade him including six of the notes, because they were "not written with the requisite decorum." These have been included here.

Mr.Osmund Airy has "thought it unadvisable to encumber the pages with simple terms of abuse"; but an editor of Swift's works cannot permit himself this licence.

His duty is to include everything.
The text of the "Short Remarks" is taken from vol.viii., Part 1, of the quarto edition of Swift's works, edited by Deane Swift, and published in 1765.
[T.S.] SHORT REMARKS ON BISHOP BURNET'S HISTORY.
This author is in most particulars the worst qualified for an historian that ever I met with.