The poems are reprinted from copies in libraries of the U.S. and Great Britain. I am obligated to The Houghton Library for Poems on Several Occasions and The Earth-quake of Jamaica, to Yale University Library for The Foreigners, and to the British Museum for A Pindarick Ode, in the Praise of Folly and Knavery. For permission to reproduce the "Pulchrum Est Pro Patria Mori" portrait of John Tutchin as the frontispiece, I wish to express my thanks to the Trustees of the British Museum.
Spiro Peterson
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
[1] The Dunciad, ed. James Sutherland (The Twickenham Edition, Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1943), pp. 115-18.
[2] Tutchin's birth-year is variously given. The Van der Gucht engraving and the authentic Elegy of Tutchin's death state that he died "Aged 44"; but the mock Elegy, falsely claiming to be "Written by the Author of the Review," gives his age to be 47. In The Observator (Oct. 20-23, 1703), Tutchin implied that he was "Born some years after the Restoration of King Charles the 2d." His certificate of marriage to Elizabeth Hicks on Sept. 30, 1686 places his age then at twenty-five, and supports the birth-year 1661, as given in the DNB. See also The Observator, May 17-20, 1704; July 8-12, 1704; and July 24-28, 1703. One of Tutchin's enemies charged that he was born in the north of England (An Account of the Birth, Education, Life and Conversation of ... the Observator, 1705); and another, that his father was "a Scot, canting Presbyterian Sot" (The Picture of the Observator, 1704).
[3] The Observator, June 2-6, 1705. Tutchin stated, in The Case, Trial, and Sentence, that Judge Jeffreys had "a true Account" of his activities in Holland. See J. G. Muddiman, ed., The Bloody Assizes (Toronto, [1929]), p. 137.
[4] Muddiman, pp. 136-37. The Case, Trial, and Sentence is reprinted as a true record in T. B. Howell's A Complete Collection of State Trials (London, 1812), XIV, 1195-200, but as a highly questionable document in Muddiman, pp. 137-46.
[5] Muddiman, p. 219.
[6] The History of England, ed. C. H. Firth (London, 1914), II, 639. Insofar as the DNB article on Tutchin relies on Macaulay, it is erroneous.
[7] Shortly after Tutchin's death, the Country-man of The Observator lauded his beloved master as "an Officer in the Army," and addressed him "Captain Tutchin," as did the mock Elegy and the friendly Dunton.