Contributions to _The Rolliad_. The work known as _The Rolliad_ is only for the sake of convenience so styled. The name serves as a collective title for a group of many works, differently titled and separately published, ranging from squibs a quatrain long to extended mock-heroic poems. These collaborative Whig satires began to appear in Henry Bate’s _Morning Herald_ late in 1784; and the inclusive editions, issued from 1795 on under the title of _The Rolliad_, contain _Criticisms on The Rolliad_, _Political Eclogues_, _Probationary Odes for the Laureateship_, and _Political Miscellanies_. Many ancillary pieces by the same group of authors appeared in newspapers and fugitive miscellanies but were never reprinted. A good deal has been written in appreciation of the literary and political satire of the _Rolliad_ pieces, but no thorough study of their history and bibliography has been attempted. So complex is their bibliography that it is impossible to give a satisfactory account of any single author’s share. The principal information on authorship will be found in several contributions to _Notes and Queries_, 1st ser., II, 1850, and III, 1851, from copies of _The Rolliad_ annotated by the authors or by those who knew them, as follows: French Laurence’s notes, II, 373, and III, 129-131; George Ellis’ notes, II, 114-115; Alexander Chalmers’ notes, II, 242; Sir James Mackintosh’s notes, III, 131. To these should be added Sheridan’s notes in a copy used by Walter Sichel; see his _Sheridan_, II, 87ff. There is much other scattered information, of which full use has not yet been made, in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century memoirs and journals.