[53] Vol. I. p. xxxviii. The anonymous friend was put in the place of Lord Oxford. Half the notes relate to the Wycherley manuscripts in the Harley library, and could only have proceeded from the author of that fiction. Pope's official editor, Warburton, signed all the notes with Pope's name.
[54] Vol. I. p. xxxv.
[55] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 445.
[56] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 444.
[57] This circumstance at once attracted the attention of Swift. "I detest the House of Lords," he wrote to Lady Betty Germain, from Dublin, June 8, 1735, "for their indulgence to such a profligate, prostitute villain as Curll; but am at a loss how he could procure any letters written to Mr. Pope, although by the vanity or indiscretion of correspondents the rogue might have picked up some that went from him. Those letters have not yet been sent hither; therefore I can form no judgment on them." Swift's detestation of the House of Lords for not punishing a man who was proved to be innocent of the offence with which he was charged, is an instance of the kind of justice to be expected from violent partisans.
[58] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 445.
[59] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 429.
[60] Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 429, 445.
[61] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 439.
[62] P. T. said 380, but the 3 was probably a misprint for 4.