[6]. Notitia Dramatica (British Museum. MSS. Dept.) and Genest give 1734 as the date of Don Quixote; Murphy, edition of 1766, vol. iii p. 249, gives 1733. [Back]
[7]. For the refutation of Genest's confusion of Timothy Fielding, a strolling player, with Henry Fielding, see Austin Dobson, Fielding, pp. 28, 29. [Back]
[8]. The Miscellanies. Edition 1743. [Back]
Footnotes for Chapter 3
[1]. Tom Jones. Book xiii. Introduction. [Back]
[2]. See the registers of St Mary Charlcombe. As Sarah Fielding, the novelist's sister, was buried in the entrance to the chancel of this church, it would appear that some connection existed between Charlcombe and the Fielding family. [Back]
[3]. Seasonable Reproof--a Satire in the manner of Horace, 1735. [Back]
[4]. The entry in the East Stour Registers is "W'm. Young, Curate 1731-1740." [Back]