[xlviii] P. 35, line 1. Tonson: Jacob Tonson, prominent bookseller.
[xlix] line 9. Cler. Dom. Com.: "Clerk of the House of Commons."
[l] P. 36, line 2. Die Martis is Tuesday; Thursday is Die Jovis.
[li] line 6. Wyndham: Sir William Wyndham, MP for Somerset 1710-40, prominent opposition leader from the 1720s. See Sedgwick, 2, 562-64, for his reputation. Hervey believed that his high reputation was partly due to Walpole's henchmen, who inflated it in order to deflate Pultney's (p. 21).
[lii] P. 44, line 4. Sir Robert Fagg was better known for horse-racing and wenching than for politics; he appears in Hogarth's painting of The Beggar's Opera admiring Lavinia Fenton and in the ballad cited in my note to p. 20, line 8. Running for Parliament in the borough of Steyning, Sussex, in 1722, he came in third in a five-man race with nineteen votes. He also ran third in 1727; the vote is not recorded, unless Bramston's "two Voices" is to be taken literally.
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NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
[A] Letter to John Caryll, 6 Feb. 1731. Correspondence, ed. George Sherburn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956), 3, 173. See also Antony Coleman's introduction to James Miller's Harlequin-Horace (1731; ARS 178).