[1]. Works of Henry Fielding, Edited by Edmund Gosse. Introduction, p. xxi. [Back]
[2]. Life of Garrick. T. Davies. 1780, vol. i. p. 223. [Back]
[3]. Notitia Dramatica, MSS. Dept. British Museum, speaks of Pasquin as performed for the fortieth time on April 21, 1736: and quotes an advertisement of the play for March 5. There seems to be no record of the actual first night. [Back]
[4]. Rich appears to have been the manager at Covent Garden from 1733 to 1761. [Back]
[5]. Autobiography of Mrs Delany. 1861. Vol I. p. 554. [Back]
[6]. See Fielding's ironic reference to such "iniquitous surmises" in the Dedication to the Historical Register. [Back]
[7]. The earliest newspaper reference, so far available, is that of the Daily Journal for April 6 1737, which speaks of April 11 as the ninth day of the Register. [Back]
[8]. In the succeeding Epilogue of Eurydice Hiss'd it must be admitted that Sir Robert's love of the bottle is broadly satirised. [Back]