[84] Andrews’s History of British Journalism, vol. ii. p. 285.

[85] Strype, B. iv. p. 118.

[86] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 391.

[87] The Mourning Bride.

[88] It is doubtful whether it was not the duchess. (Wilson’s Life of Congreve, 8vo, 1730, i. p. 1 of Preface.)

[89] Cibber’s Lives of the Poets (1753).

[90] Stow, p. 165.

[91] Spectator, No. 454.

[92] Malachi Malagrowther’s Letters.

[93] Croker’s Boswell, vol. i. p. 475.