[450f] Bolingbroke.
[451b] Grub Street pamphlet. The title was, A Supposed Letter from the Pretender to another Whig Lord.
[451c] Arnold Joost Van Keppel, created Earl of Albemarle in 1697. He died in 1718. The action referred to was at Denain, where the Dutch were defeated by Villars.
[452a] Addressed to “Mrs. Dingley,” etc. Endorsed “Aug. 14.”
[452b] Perhaps this was influenza.
[453a] By the Stamp Act passed on June 10, 1712—which was repealed in 1859—a duty of one halfpenny was levied on all pamphlets and newspapers contained in half a sheet or less, and a duty of one penny on those of more than half but not exceeding a whole sheet. Swift opposed the idea in January 1711 (see p. [138]), and Defoe argued against the Bill in the Review for April 26, 1712, and following numbers. Addison, in the Spectator, No. 445, spoke of the mortality among authors resulting from the Stamp Act as “the fall of the leaf.”
[453b] The title is, Lewis Baboon turned honest, and John Bull politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless Pit. This pamphlet—really the fifth of the series—appeared on July 31, 1712.
[453c] Poor Laracor.