ift's "old Bookseller" had been T[ooke] (though there may
be overtones here regarding Tonson). His new publisher was [Benjamin]
M[otte].

Pp.viii.24-ix.14. The "Hackney Writer out of _Temple Lane_" could very
well be Carey. (See Carey's _Records of Love_ [London, 1710], pp. 175,
93, and 104.)

P.13.6-9. Carey's poem "The Plague of Dependence" cautions: "You may
dance out your shoes in attendance;/ [while you] .... wait for a court
dependence" (p. 90).

Pp.14.7-15.2. Here Carey cleverly ties in Swift's surgeon Gulliver,
through the "Pancake of Rabbets" (_Dumpling_, p. 17), with the topical
and notorious case of Mary Tofts, who in November 1726 was "delivered"
of fifteen rabbits. All the people mentioned were connected with this
case. Nathaniel St. Andre was the surgeon and anatomist to the King,
and Cyriacus Ahlers the King's private surgeon; John Howard was the
apothecary. The imposture was finally brought to light before Sir
Richard Manningham (the famous man-midwife who probably influenced
Sterne) and Dr. James Douglas. Among the many contemporary pamphlets on
this subject is one by Thomas Braithwaite.

Pp.16.14-17.13. The following is a very revealing quotation from
records in the Willesdon Public Library under F. A. Wood [not Dr. F. T.
Wood], _Willesdon_ I, 99: "These nurse children must have been sent from
workhouses round Willesdon ... the parish must have become a baby
farm.... The large number of deaths between 1702 and 1727 ought to have
caused some official enquiry, which probably did take place, as after
1727 they soon ceased altogether."

P.17.14-22. See Jonathan Richardson, _Works_, Strawberry Hill Press
(London, 1792), pp. 198-199: "...had the honour of a letter ... the term
_Connoisance_ was used.... I must not conceal the name it was Mr.
Prior." Richardson, a frequent visitor to Hampstead, painted both Prior
and Pope. His essay on "The Connoisseur" was frequently published.

P.18.6-22. See also p. 24 and _passim_. Robert Walpole was born and
died at Houghton in Norfolk; he was helped up by Marlborough but lost
power with him under the Tories. Walpole went to the Tower for five
months in 1712 before going to his home county, where Defoe calls him
"King Walpole in Norfolk."

P.24.19-20. The "Fable of the _Court Pudding_" (see also _Dumpling_,
pp. 13-14) ties together both meanings of the scatological Latin-English
pun on the title page of _Dumpling_.

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