[ 12 ] The London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 December 1740. "This Day is Published. A Supplement to a late excellent Poem, entitled Are these things so?"
[ 13 ] The Daily Post, 23 January 1741. "This Day is Published. The Third Edition. They are Not."
[ 14 ] At the same time the South Sea Company agreed to pay a duty of 25% on all profits to the King of Spain. It was the question of the payment of this duty for illegal trips that became the basis of Spain's later claim for reparation. These details are taken from William Coxe, Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, 3 vols. (London, 1798), I, 589.
[ 15 ] Coxe, I, 579.
[ 16 ] These figures are taken from H.W.V. Temperley, "Chapter II, The Age of Walpole and the Pelhams," The Cambridge Modern History, ed. A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes (Cambridge, 1909), VI, 66.
[ 17 ] Coxe, I, 617.
[ 18 ] Coxe, I, 618 n.
[ 19 ] I have been unable to do any more to settle the authorship and have had to be content here with presenting the evidence.
[ 20 ] D. E. Baker, I. Reed, and S. Jones, Biographia Dramatica, 3 vols. (London, 1812), I, ii, 512-515.
[ 21 ] Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica, 4 vols. (Edinburgh, 1824), II, 670.