I still cling to the hope that Fielding was _not_ the author of _Shamela_. The matter is examined at some length at pp. 42-45 of the "Men of Letters" Memoir of Richardson; and it is plain that, if Fielding had wished to father it, he would have included it in the _Miscellanies_ of 1743. The remaining points which call for notice are little more than dispersed adversaria. To the _amende honorable_ which Fielding made to Richardson in the _Jacobites Journal_ (pp. 113-14) should be added a further passage from the later _Covent-Garden Journal_, No. 10-- _Pleasantry_ (as the ingenious Author of _Clarissa_ says of a Story) "_should be made only the Vehicle of Instruction_." Among other places connected with the composition of _Tom Jones_ (p. 118) may be mentioned Widcombe House, Bath (then Mr. Philip Bennet's), a Palladian villa close to the road from Widcombe Hill to Prior Park; and, if we are to believe _Rambles round Edge Hills_, 1896, p. 17, Fielding actually read that work in MS. to Lyttelton and Lord Chatham in the dining-room of Radway Grange in Warwickshire (Mr. Miller's). It should also be added that the agreement for _Tom Jones_ (p. 121), dated 5th March 1749, together with Fielding's antecedent receipt for the money, dated 11th June 1748, of which in 1883 I could obtain no tidings, are (or were lately) in the Huth collection. But perhaps the most important item which has come to light since 1883 is the Will discovered in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury by Mr. George A. Aitken. It is undated, though it was evidently executed at Ealing in the novelist's last days, and runs as follows:--