[3]. In a manuscript copy of the Minutes, in the possession of the present writer. [Back]
[4]. London Daily Post, June 18-26, 1741. [Back]
[5]. The hard frost would be the terrible preceding winter of 1739-40, a winter long remembered for the severity of the cold, the cost of provisions, and the suffering of the poor. [Back]
Footnotes for Chapter 8
[1]. Cleopatra and Octavia. Sarah Fielding. Introduction. [Back]
[2]. See the ledgers of Woodfall, the printer, quoted in Notes and Queries, Series vi. p. 186.[Back]
[3]. It is interesting to note that Samuel Rogers was heard to speak with great admiration of chapter xiii. of Book iii., entitled "A curious Dialogue which passed between Mr Abraham Adams and Mr Peter Pounce." (MS. note by Dyce, in a copy of Joseph Andrews, now in the South Kensington Museum.) [Back]
[4]. This copy, published in Amsterdam in 1775, is now in the possession of Mr Pierpont Morgan. [Back]
[5]. Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Vol. ii. p. 194. [Back]