[212] Cibber: Lives of the Poets, vol. III, pp. 201-03.
[213] Thoresby: Diary, May 13, 1709; May 1, 1713; April 22, 1716; Sept. 2, 1716.
[214] The most complete account of Miss Barker is in an inaugural dissertation by Karl Stanglmaier, Berlin, 1906, entitled Mrs. Jane Barker. Ein Beitrag zur Englischen Literaturgeschichte.
[215] "To Mrs. Jane Barker on her most Delightful and Excellent Romance of Scipina, now in the Press."
"To my Ingenius Friend Mrs. Jane Barker, on my Publishing her Romance of Scipina."
Both of these poems are in Part II of Poetical Recreations (1688). The second one is by Benjamin Crayle.
[216] Amours of Bosvil and Galesia, pp. 3-4.
[217] In the second edition of the Entertaining Novels (1719), in a dedication to the Countess of Exeter, Miss Barker says, "Was it not Burleigh House with its Park, &c., that formed in me the first idea of my Scipio's country retreat? Most sure it was, for when I composed my Romance I knew nothing further from home than Burleigh and Warthorp." These two seats of the Exeter family are about seven miles from Wilsthorp. (Notes and Queries, Series IX, no. 10, p. 171.) Miss Baker lived at Wilsthorp which is near Stamford and only about forty miles from Cambridge.
[218] Barker, Jane: Poems, passim.
[219] Poems: "To my Unkind Strephon."