[5] Thomas Roscoe, ed., The Works of Jonathan Swift (London, 1850), I, 529; [C.W. Dilke], "Dean Swift and the Scriblerians v. Dr. Wagstaffe," Notes and Queries, 3d ser., I, 381-384; Sir Walter Scott, ed., The Works of Swift, 2d ed. (London, 1883), V, 414; Herbert Davis, "Introduction," Prose Works of Swift, VIII, xiv-xv; Mark Noble, A Biographical History of England, From the Revolution to the end of George I's Reign (London, 1806), III, 367-368. Vinton A. Dearing in his "Jonathan Swift or William Wagstaffe?" HLB, VII (1953), 121-130, makes a survey of previous discussions, and concludes that Wagstaffe wrote all the pieces in the Miscellaneous Works. See also the article cited in footnote 6.
[6] "Words and Numbers: A Quantitative Approach to Swift and some Understrappers," Computers and the Humanities, IV (1970), 289-304. This article has been reprinted with minor revisions in Roy Wisbey, ed., The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Research (Cambridge, 1971), pp. 129-147.
[7] The question of verb typography will be further studied in a future article.
[8] Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, II (New Haven, 1965), 217.
[9] Tint for Taunt. The Manager Managed: or the Exemplary MODERATION and MODESTY, of a Whig Low-Church-Preacher discovered, from his own Mouth (London, 1710); and Punch turn'd Critick, in a Letter to the Honourable and (some time ago) Worshipful Rector of Covent-Garden. With some Wooden Remarks on his Sermon (n.p., 1712). Neither squib is of much literary value, but the second acquires some interest by being associated with the Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost and a third edition of A Learned Comment on Tom Thumb (an earlier Pseudo-Wagstaffe piece) in the advertising column of Examiner, vol. II, no. 13 (28 February 1712).
[10] Reproduced in The Novels of Mary Delariviere Manley, intro. by P. Köster (Gainesville, Fla., 1971), 2 vols.
[11] Jane Wenham was sentenced 4 March 1712. White Kennet lists a number of pamphlets on both sides in The Wisdom of Looking Backwards (London, 1715), pp. 203-205, but does not mention the Story. The Protestant Post-Boy has a series of articles, stemming from the trial, on the improbability of witchcraft (3, 5, 8, 12 April 1712), but predictably ignores the Story.
[12] Dr. Moore, however, seems to include the Story in his condemnation of all the Pseudo-Wagstaffe pieces except the Comment upon ... Tom Thumb (now reproduced in Augustan Reprint no. 63) as "abusive, coarse, or dull" (History of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, II, 526).
[13] Mr. Allan Trumpour wrote a sorting program which provided the statistics here and below; Mr. James Carley and Mrs. Edna Cox both gave considerable help in preparing the contents of the Catalogue for computer sorting.
[14] For biographical information see G.A. Aitken, The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot (Oxford, 1892), pp. 159-161.