REMUNERATION OF AUTHORS.
(Vol. vii., p. 591.)
Responding to the challenge of your correspondent Mr. Andrews, I copy the following from my common-place book:
From Lintot's memorandum-book of "Copies when purchased."
| Farquhar. |
| £ s. d. |
| 1705. | Recruiting Officer | 16 2 6 |
| 1706. | Beaux Stratagem | 30 0 0 |
Betterton. |
| 1712. | The Miller's Tale, with some characters from Chaucer | 5 7 6 |
Mr. Centlivre. |
| 1703. | May 14. | Love's Contrivance | 10 0 0 |
| 1709. | May 14. | Busy Body | 10 0 0 |
Mr. Cibber. |
| 1701. | Nov. 8. | A third of Love's Last Shift | 3 4 6 |
| 1705. | Nov. 5. | Perolla and Izadora | 36 11 0 |
| 1707. | Oct. 27. | Double Gallant | 16 2 6 |
| | Nov. 22. | Lady's Last Stake | 32 5 0 |
| | Feb. 26. | Venus and Adonis | 5 7 6 |
| 1708. | Oct. 9. | Comical Lover | 10 15 0 |
| 1712. | Mar. 16. | Cinna's Conspiracy | 13 0 0 |
| 1718. | Oct. 1. | The Nonjuror | 105 0 0 |
Mr. Gay. |
| 1713. | May 12. | Wife of Bath | 25 0 0 |
| 1714. | Nov. 11. | Letter to a Lady | 5 7 6 |
| 1715. | Feb. 14. | The What-d'ye-call-it? | 16 2 6 |
| | Dec. 22. | Trivia | 43 0 0 |
| | | Epistle to the Earl of Burlington | 10 15 0 |
| 1717. | May 4. | Battle of the Frogs | 16 2 6 |
| | Jan. 8. | Three Hours after Marriage | 43 2 6 |
| | | Revival of the Wife of Bath | 75 0 0 |
| | The Mohocks, a farce 2l. 10s. |
| | Sold the Mohocks to him again. |
| | | 234 10 0 |
Captain Killegrew. |
| 1718-19. | Feb. 14. | Chit Chat | 84 0 0 |
Mr. Ozell. |
| 1711. | Nov. 18. } | Translating Homer's Iliad, books i. ii. iii. |
| 1712. | Jan. 4. } | | 10 8 6 |
| 1713. | April 29. | Translating Molière | 37 12 6 |
N. Rowe, Esq. |
| | Dec. 12. | Jane Shore | 50 15 0 |
| 1715. | April 27. | Jane Grey | 73 5 0 |
Somerville. |
| 1727. | July 14. | A Collection of Poems. | 35 15 0 |
Pope. |
| 1712. | Feb. 19. | Statius, 1st book, and Verstumnus and Pomona | 16 2 6 |
| | Mar. 21. | First edition of the Rape | 7 0 0 |
| | April 9. | To a lady presenting Voiture.
Upon Silence. To the author
of a poem called Successio | 3 16 6 |
| 1712-13. | Windsor Forest (Feb. 23) | 32 5 0 |
| 1713. | July 23. | Ode to St. Cecilia's Day | 15 0 0 |
| 1714. | Feb. 20. | Addition to the Rape | 15 0 0 |
| | Mar. 23. | Homer, vol. i. | 215 0 0 |
| | | 650 copies on royal paper | 176 0 0 |
| 1715. | Feb. 1. | Temple of Fame | 32 5 0 |
| | April 21. | Key to the Lock | 10 15 0 |
| 1716. | Feb. 9. | Homer, vol. ii. | 215 0 0 |
| | May 2. | 650 royal paper | 150 0 0 |
| | July 17. | Essay on Criticism | 15 0 0 |
| 1717. | Aug. 9. | Homer, vol. iii. | 215 0 0 |
| 1718. | Jan. 6. | 650 royal paper | 150 0 0 |
| | Mar. 3. | Homer, vol. iv. | 210 0 0 |
| | | 650 royal paper | 150 0 0 |
| | Oct. 17. | Homer, vol. v. | 210 0 0 |
| 1719. | April 6. | 650 royal paper | 150 0 0 |
| 1720. | Feb. 26. | Homer, vol. vi. | 210 0 0 |
| | May 7. | 650 royal paper | 150 0 0 |
| 1721. | Parnell's Poems | 15 0 0 |
| | Paid Mr. Pope for the subscription-money
due on the 2nd volume of his Homer,
and on his 5th volume, at the agreement
for the said 5th vol.—(I had Mr. Pope's
assignment for the royal paper that was
then left of his Homer) | 840 0 0 |
| | Copy-money for the Odyssey, vols. i. ii. iii.,
and 750 of each volume printed on royal
paper, 4to. | 615 0 0 |
| | Copy-money for the Odyssey, vols. iv. and
v., and 750 of each royal | 425 18 7½ |
| | | £4244 8 7½ |
From that storehouse of instruction and amusement, Nichols's Anecdotes, vol. viii. pp. 293-304.
I take this opportunity of forwarding to you a curious memorandum which I found in rummaging the papers of a "note-maker" of the last century. It appears to be a bill of fare for the entertainment of a party, upon the "flitch of bacon" being decreed to a happy couple. It is at Harrowgate, and not at Dunmow, which would lead us to believe that this custom was not confined to one county. The feast itself is almost as remarkable, as regards its component parts, as that produced by Mr. Thackeray, in his delightful "Lectures," as characteristic of polite feeding in Queen Anne's reign:
"June 25.—Mr. and Mrs. Liddal's Dinner at Green Dragon, Harrowgate, on taking Fflitch Bacon Oath.
Bill Fare.
Beans and bacon.
Cabbage, colliflower.
Three doz. chickens.
Two shoulders mutton, cowcumbers.
Two turbets.
Rump beef, &c. &c.
Goose and plumbpudding.
Quarter lamb, sallad.
Tarts, jellies, strawberries, cream.
Cherrys, syllabubs, and blomonge.
Leg lamb, spinnage.
Crawfish, pickled salmon.
Fryd tripe, calves' heads.
Gravy and Pease soup.
Two piggs.
Breast veal, ragoud.
Ice cream, pine apple.
Surloin beaf.
Pidgeons, green peas.
Lobsters, crabs.
Twelve red herrings, twenty-two dobils."
W. R.
Stockwell.