[Footnote 5: No. 50, Sept. 14; No. 61, Oct. 26.]
[Footnote 6: According to the impression I have of this "morbus" it was a skin-ailment particularly appropriated to beggars, who might contract it upon long exposure to filth and louse-bites. Even then, though there would doubtless be a certain amount "of discomfort about it, it would scarcely prove fatal.]
[Footnote 7: This and subsequent vital statistics as to Baker's university and clerical career are from the account of him in J. and J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, 1922 et sq.]
[Footnote 8: British Apollo, No. 49, Sept. 14, 1709.]
[Footnote 9: Ibid.]
[Footnote 10: Both Paul Bunyan Anderson, "The history and authorship of
Mrs. Crackenthorpe's Female Tatler," MP, XXVIII (1931), 354-60, and
Walter Graham, "Thomas Baker, Mrs. Manley, and The Female Tatler," MP,
XXXIV (1937), 267-72, think that some, at least, of the F.T. is from
Baker's pen, but they disagree as to what part and how much. I am
considering the matter and may have an opinion to express in future.]
[Footnote 11: Victoria History of Bedfordshire, II, 181 n.; III, 128.]
THE
Fine Lady's Airs:
OR, AN
EQUIPAGE of LOVERS.
A
COMEDY.
As it is Acted at the
THEATRE-ROYAL IN DRURY-LANE.
Written by the Author of the Yeoman of Kent.