Pp.viii.24-ix.14. The "Hackney Writer out of _Temple Lane_" could very well be Carey. (See Carey's _Records of Love_ [London, 1710], pp. 175, 93, and 104.) P.13.6-9. Carey's poem "The Plague of Dependence" cautions: "You may dance out your shoes in attendance;/ [while you] .... wait for a court dependence" (p. 90). Pp.14.7-15.2. Here Carey cleverly ties in Swift's surgeon Gulliver, through the "Pancake of Rabbets" (_Dumpling_, p. 17), with the topical and notorious case of Mary Tofts, who in November 1726 was "delivered" of fifteen rabbits. All the people mentioned were connected with this case. Nathaniel St. Andre was the surgeon and anatomist to the King, and Cyriacus Ahlers the King's private surgeon; John Howard was the apothecary. The imposture was finally brought to light before Sir Richard Manningham (the famous man-midwife who probably influenced Sterne) and Dr. James Douglas. Among the many contemporary pamphlets on this subject is one by Thomas Braithwaite. Pp.16.14-17.13. The following is a very revealing quotation from records in the Willesdon Public Library under F. A. Wood [not Dr. F. T. Wood], _Willesdon_ I, 99: "These nurse children must have been sent from workhouses round Willesdon ... the parish must have become a baby farm.... The large number of deaths between 1702 and 1727 ought to have caused some official enquiry, which probably did take place, as after 1727 they soon ceased altogether." P.17.14-22. See Jonathan Richardson, _Works_, Strawberry Hill Press (London, 1792), pp. 198-199: "...had the honour of a letter ... the term _Connoisance_ was used.... I must not conceal the name it was Mr. Prior." Richardson, a frequent visitor to Hampstead, painted both Prior and Pope. His essay on "The Connoisseur" was frequently published. P.18.6-22. See also p. 24 and _passim_. Robert Walpole was born and died at Houghton in Norfolk; he was helped up by Marlborough but lost power with him under the Tories. Walpole went to the Tower for five months in 1712 before going to his home county, where Defoe calls him "King Walpole in Norfolk." P.24.19-20. The "Fable of the _Court Pudding_" (see also _Dumpling_, pp. 13-14) ties together both meanings of the scatological Latin-English pun on the title page of _Dumpling_. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY University Of California, Los Angeles [Decoration] THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY Publications In Print THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY Publications In Print [Decoration] [Transcriber's Note: Where available, Project Gutenberg e-text numbers (5 digits) are shown in [brackets]. Most other titles are in preparation.] 1948-1949 16. Henry Nevil Payne, _The Fatal Jealousie_ (1673). [16916] 18. Anonymous, "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719), and Aaron Hill, Preface to _The Creation_ (1720). [15870]