[8] Settle's authorship of _The Notorious Impostor_ is confirmed by his name appended to the Dedication of _The Compleat Memoirs_. Although _Diego Redivivus_ occasionally resembles _The Notorious Impostor_, it need not necessarily be Settle's work. The similar style and the identical documentation (e.g. the will) may be due to Settle's direct use of the earlier narrative. None of its minutely-drawn description, curiously, is perpetuated in _The Compleat Memoirs_. The authorship of _Diego Redivivus_ remains an unsettled question. [9] _The Literature of Roguery_ (1907), I, 153: _The Mary Carleton Narratives_ (1914), p. 6. [10] I, 153. Ernest A. Baker makes a similar statement (_The History of the English Novel_ [1937], III, 46). With respect to the influence of _The Notorious Impostor_ on Mrs. Eliza Haywood, he should have cited _Miss Betsy Thoughtless_ (1751)--the very book praised by Captain Minikin as "worth reading" in _Ferdinand Count Fathom_ (Chap. XXXIX). THE Notorious Impostor, Or the History of the LIFE of William Morrell, ALIAS BOWYER, Sometime of _Banbury_, Chirurgeon. Who lately personated _Humphrey Wickham_ of _Swackly_, in the County of _Oxon_, Esquire, at a Bakers House in the _Strand_, where he Died the third of _Jan. 169-1/2_ Together With an Authentick Copy of his Will, taken out of the _Prerogative Court_, and the manner of his Funeral in St. _Clements_ Church-yard. _LONDON_, Printed for _Abel Roper_ at the _Mytre_ near _Temple-Bar_, 1692. TO THE Honourable Capt. _Humph. Wickham_. SIR,