[5] Re-issued as The Unfortunate Princess, or, the Ambitious Statesman, 1741.
[6]
J.E. Wells, Fielding's Political Purpose in Jonathan Wilde, PMLA,
XXVIII, No. I, pp. 1-55. March, 1913. See also The Secret History of
Mama Oello, 1733. "The Curaca Robilda's Character [i.e. Sir Robert
Walpole's] will inform you that there were Evil Ministers even amongst
the simple Indians" … and The Statesman's Progress: Or, Memoirs of
the Life, Administration, and Fall of Houly Chan, Primier Minister to
Abensader, Emperor of China (1733).
[7] A.C. Ewald, Sir Robert Walpole (1878), 444.
[8] A.C. Ewald, Sir Robert Walpole, 450.
[9] Lord Hervey's Memoirs, London, 1884, II, 143.
[10] The Unfortunate Princess, 18, etc.
[11] Memoirs of a Certain Island, II, 249. "Marama [the Duchess of Marlborough] has been for many Years a Grandmother; but Age is the smallest of her Imperfections:—She is of a Disposition so perverse and peevish, so designing, mercenary, proud, cruel, and revengeful, that it has been a matter of debate, if she were really Woman, or if some Fiend had not assumed that Shape on purpose to affront the Sex, and fright Mankind from Marriage."
[12]
J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, III, 649, records the tradition that
Chapman was the publisher of Mrs. Haywood's Utopia.
[13]
Anne Mason, formerly Lady Macclesfield, and the Earl of Rivers, whom
Savage claimed as his father.
[14] She had a way of rechristening her friends by romantic titles. See her poem, "To Mr. Walter Bowman … Occasion'd by his objecting against my giving the Name of Hillarius to Aaron Hill, Esq."