[M] Plumb, Walpole, 2 (1960), 52-53; Hervey, pp. 411-12; Browning, p. 113; Archibald S. Foord, His Majesty's Opposition, 1714-1830 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964), pp. 142-45.
[N] The British Journal, 258 (2 Sept. 1727), p. 1.
[O] Reported by Hervey toward the end of 1729 (p. 105).
[P] For illuminating discussions of Opposition ideology and literary strategies, see Maynard Mack, The Garden and the City: Retirement and Politics in the Later Poetry of Pope, 1731-1743 (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1969); Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke and his Circle: The Politicks of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968); and J.V. Guerinot and Rodney D. Jilg, eds., The Beggar's Opera: Contexts (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1976), esp. pp. 69-95.
[Q] Part of the research for this introduction was done while I held a Leave Fellowship from the Canada Council, whom I should like to thank for their support.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The facsimile of The Art of Politicks (1729) is reproduced by permission from a copy of the first edition (Shelf Mark: *PR3326/B287A8; Foxon B383) in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The total type-page (p. 19) measures 152 x 93 mm.
