After recommending Pamela from his pulpit sometime before 6 January 1741, Dr. Benjamin Slocock (1691-1753) earned the undeserved reputation of having been paid by Richardson for this praise (see Eaves and Kimpel, Samuel Richardson, pp. 123-24).
5.1-2
The third (duodecimo) edition of Pamela, published 12 March 1741, is virtually the same in content and collation as the second edition, published less than a month earlier (see William Merritt Sale, Jr., Samuel Richardson: A Bibliographical Record [New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1936], pp. 18-19).
6.9-8.17
An attack on the various promises made by Richardson on the title page of Pamela.
8.18-12.27
An attack on Pamela's "Preface by the Editor." Concerning these objections, the "Introduction" to Pamela's Conduct in High Life finds fault with the author of Pamela Censured: "I shall pass by his Contradictions with Regard to the Character he draws of the Editor, or as he will have it Author, who appears in his Party-colour'd Writing a very artful, silly Writer, a Man of fine Sense, and excellent in his Method of conducting the whole Piece, but at the same time vain, ignorant, and incorrect" (I, xiii).
9.26
The "certain Noble Lord" is probably either Sir Arthur Hesilrige or Lord Gainsborough (see McKillop, Samuel Richardson, pp. 27-29).
10.1-3