t away without his Knowledge and Consent: This is to give Notice
to all Persons in general, That if any one shall trust her either with
Money or Goods, or if she shall contract Debts of any kind whatsoever,
the said Mr. Haywood will not pay the same."

[6]
_Tatler_, No. 6 and No. 40.

[7]
W.R. Chetwood, _A General History of the Stage_, 56.

[8]
Genest, III, 59.

[9]
Genest, III, 73.

[10]
John Rich opened the New Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields during
December, 1714.

[11]
Genest, III, 113.

[12]
Genest, III, 241.

[13]
_Biographia Dramatica._ The production is mentioned by Genest, III, 281.

[14]
W.R. Chetwood, _A General History of the Stage_, 57.

[15]
Genest, III, 408.

[16]
In Kane O'Hara's later and more popular transformation of Tom Thumb into
a light opera, the song put into the mouth of the dying Grizzle by the
first adapters was retained with minor changes.

"My body's like a bankrupt's shop,
My creditor is cruel death,
Who puts to trade of life a stop,
And will be paid with this last breath; Oh!"

Apparently O'Hara made no further use of his predecessors.

[17]
S.P. Dom. George I, Bundle 22, No. 97.

[18]
In spite of the fact that "Translated from the French" appeared on the
title-page, Mrs. Haywood has hitherto been accredited with the full
authorship of these letters. They were really a loose translation of
_Lettres Nouvelles.... Avec Treize Lettres Amoureuses d'une Dame a un
Cavalier_ (Second Edition, Paris, 1699) by Edme Boursault, and were so
advertised in the public prints.

[19]
Probably a misprint. When the novels appeared, _Idalia_ was the
Unfortunate Mistress, _Lasselia_ the Self-abandon'd. Perhaps because the
work outgrew its original proportions, or because short novels found a
readier sale, the five were never published under the inclusive
cautionary caption.

[20]
E. Gosse, _Gossip in a Library_, 161, "What Ann Lang Read." Only one of
Mrs. Haywood's novels, _The City Jilt_, was ever issued in cheap form.
T. Bailey, the printer, evidently combined his printing business with
the selling of patent medicines.

[21]
The latter may be read in Savage's Poems, Cooke's edition, II, 162. The
complimentary verses first printed before the original issue.

[22]
His poem _To Mrs. Eliza Haywood on her Writings_ was hastily inserted in
the fourth volume of _Secret Histories, Novels, and Poems_ when that
collection had reached its third edition (1732). In th