[2] _The London Daily Post and General Advertiser_, 23 October 1740. "This Day is Published. Are these things so? The previous question from an Englishman in his Grotto, to a Great Man at Court." [3] _The London Daily Post and General Advertiser_, 8 November 1740. "This Day is Published. Yes, they are: Being an answer to Are these things so?" [4] _The Daily Gazetteer_, 15 November 1740. "This Day is Published. What of That! Occasioned by a Pamphlet intituled Are these things so? And its Answer, Yes, They are:" [5] _The London Daily Post and General Advertiser_, 17 November 1740. "Tomorrow will be published. The Weather-Menders. A proper Answer to Are these things so? By Mr. Spiltimber." [6] _The Daily Gazetteer_, 22 November 1740. "This Evening will be Published; The Second Edition of What of That!" [7] I have been unable to find an advertisement for this pamphlet, but it must have been published at the end of November or very early in December since _Have at you All_ (see following footnote) lists it as one of the pamphlets it is replying to. [8] _The London Magazine_, December 1740. The Monthly Catalogue. Item 13. "Have at you all. By the Author of Yes they are." This listing can only be taken as giving a terminal date. The pamphlet may well have been published in late November. _Are these things so?_, for example, is listed in the Monthly Catalogue for November. [9] _The London Daily Post and General Advertiser_, 1 December 1740. "Tomorrow, at Noon, will be published. What Things? or, An Impartial Inquiry What Things are so, and What Things are not so. Occasion'd by two late Poems, the one entitled Are these things so? And the other entitled Yes, they are." [10] _The Daily Post_, 6 December 1740. "This Day is Published. (The Second Edition, corrected; with the Addition of twenty lines omitted in the former Impressions) Are these things so? The previous question from an Englishman in his Grotto to a Great Man at Court." [11] _The Daily Post_, 18 December 1740. "This Day is Published. The Great Man's Answer. In a Dialogue between his Honour and the Englishman in his Grotto. By the author of Are these things so?" [12] _The London Daily Post and General Advertiser_, 20 December 1740. "This Day is Published. A Supplement to a late excellent Poem, entitled Are these things so?" [13] _The Daily Post_, 23 January 1741. "This Day is Published. The Third Edition. They are Not." [14] At the same time the South Sea Company agreed to pay a duty of 25% on all profits to the King of Spain. It was the question of the payment of this duty for illegal trips that became the basis of Spain's later claim for reparation. These details are taken from William Coxe, _Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford_, 3 vols. (London, 1798), I, 589. [15] Coxe, I, 579.