[B] D. F. Foxon, English Verse 1701-1750 (Cambridge: The University Press, 1975), 1, 77. I should also like to thank Mr. Foxon for generous personal help.
[C] I owe my knowledge of Bell's edition to Kent Mullikin of the University of North Carolina.
[D] Woolston was convicted on four counts of blasphemy on 4 March 1729. His offending works were six Discourses on the Miracles of our Saviour (1727-29). He never succeeded in paying his fine of £100 (Pope, Poems (Twickenham Edition, genl. ed. John Butt; London: Methuen, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939-69), 5, 459). Hereafter referred to as TE.
Methuen's resignation is erroneously dated in 1730 in DNB and in Romney Sedgwick, The House of Commons 1715-1754 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970), 2, 254. See Abel Boyer, The Political State of Great Britain, 37 (May 1729), 523, and John, Lord Hervey. Some Materials towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II, ed. Romney Sedgwick (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1931), pp. 101-02. According to Hervey, Methuen's ostensible reason for resigning was his dislike of the general conduct of the court, his real reason his failure to be appointed Secretary of State.
[E] Translations of Horace are taken from the Loeb Library edition, trans. H. Rushton Fairclough (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1961). Line numbers of the Latin verse are in the text.
[F] "Verses on the Art of Politicks," Additions to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. Together with Many Original Poems and Letters, of Contemporary Writers, Never Before Published (London, 1776). 1. 158-59. I have been unable to discover where the poem was first printed.
[G] J. H. Plumb. Sir Robert Walpole (London: Cresset). Vol. I (1956). pp. 249-50; Sir Edward Knatchbull, Parliamentary Diary, 1722-30, ed. A. N. Newman (London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1963), p.42.
[H] Most of my information about the Scipios comes from the Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.
[J] DNB; Ray A. Kelch, Newcastle: A Duke without Money (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974), pp. 9-11; Reed Browning, The Duke of Newcastle (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975), pp. xi-xiii, 80-88.
[K] DNB; Browning, p. 18.