NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
[1] See advertisements in the Evening Post, 19, 21, 26 February, 13 March 1712; and in the Post-Boy, 10 May and 19 July 1712.
The research necessary for the present publication was supported by a grant from the University of Victoria and by a Leave Fellowship from the Canada Council.
[2] The dates given by Professor H. Teerink in The History of John Bull for the first time faithfully re-issued from the original pamphlets (Amsterdam, 1925), pp. 6-7, are drawn from dates in the Examiner, a weekly newspaper. Three of these dates are correct, and the other two are close, but can be corrected by consulting papers published more often. The first pamphlet seems to have appeared on 4 March 1712 (see Post-Boy of that date), and the third may have appeared on 16 April 1712 (see the Daily Courant of 16 and 17 April; the Post-Boy, however, agrees with the Examiner on the date 17 April).
[3] Although no publisher is named on the title page of the Keys, the fifth edition is advertised among "New Pamphlets Printed for E. Curll" on the back of the half-title page to The Tunbridge-Miscellany: Consisting of Poems, &c. Written at Tunbridge-Wells this Summer. By Several Hands (London, 1712).
[4] Wagstaffe died 5 May 1726, Levett 2 July 1726; the Miscellaneous Works were published on about 18 October 1726. Dr. Norman Moore in his account of Wagstaffe has shown that the "life" in the Miscellaneous Works is substantially correct, and has suggested that Dr. Levett wrote it; see Moore, History of St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London, 1918), II, 523-529.
[5] Thomas Roscoe, ed., The Works of Jonathan Swift (London, 1850), I, 529; [C.W. Dilke], "Dean Swift and the Scriblerians v. Dr. Wagstaffe," Notes and Queries, 3d ser., I, 381-384; Sir Walter Scott, ed., The Works of Swift, 2d ed. (London, 1883), V, 414; Herbert Davis, "Introduction," Prose Works of Swift, VIII, xiv-xv; Mark Noble, A Biographical History of England, From the Revolution to the end of George I's Reign (London, 1806), III, 367-368. Vinton A. Dearing in his "Jonathan Swift or William Wagstaffe?" HLB, VII (1953), 121-130, makes a survey of previous discussions, and concludes that Wagstaffe wrote all the pieces in the Miscellaneous Works. See also the article cited in footnote 6.
[6] "Words and Numbers: A Quantitative Approach to Swift and some Understrappers," Computers and the Humanities, IV (1970), 289-304. This article has been reprinted with minor revisions in Roy Wisbey, ed., The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Research (Cambridge, 1971), pp. 129-147.
[7] The question of verb typography will be further studied in a future article.
[8] Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, II (New Haven, 1965), 217.
[9] Tint for Taunt. The Manager Managed: or the Exemplary MODERATION and MODESTY, of a Whig Low-Church-Preacher discovered, from his own Mouth (London, 1710); and Punch turn'd Critick, in a Letter to the Honourable and (some time ago) Worshipful Rector of Covent-Garden. With some Wooden Remarks on his Sermon (n.p., 1712). Neither squib is of much literary value, but the second acquires some interest by being associated with the Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost and a third edition of A Learned Comment on Tom Thumb (an earlier Pseudo-Wagstaffe piece) in the advertising column of Examiner, vol. II, no. 13 (28 February 1712).
[10] Reproduced in The Novels of Mary Delariviere Manley, intro. by P. Köster (Gainesville, Fla., 1971), 2 vols.
[11] Jane Wenham was sentenced 4 March 1712. White Kennet lists a number of pamphlets on both sides in The Wisdom of Looking Backwards (London, 1715), pp. 203-205, but does not mention the Story. The Protestant Post-Boy has a series of articles, stemming from the trial, on the improbability of witchcraft (3, 5, 8, 12 April 1712), but predictably ignores the Story.
[12] Dr. Moore, however, seems to include the Story in his condemnation of all the Pseudo-Wagstaffe pieces except the Comment upon ... Tom Thumb (now reproduced in Augustan Reprint no. 63) as "abusive, coarse, or dull" (History of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, II, 526).
[13] Mr. Allan Trumpour wrote a sorting program which provided the statistics here and below; Mr. James Carley and Mrs. Edna Cox both gave considerable help in preparing the contents of the Catalogue for computer sorting.
[14] For biographical information see G.A. Aitken, The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot (Oxford, 1892), pp. 159-161.
[15] See W. Wulff, "Introduction," Rosa Anglica seu Rosa Medicinae, Irish Texts Society, XXV (London, 1929), p. xix.
[16] Aitken, p. 159.