^{Note 1 in page 534} The Battle of the Authors Lately Fought in Covent-Garden, between Sir John Edgar, Generalissimo on one Side, and Horatio Truewit; on the Other: 44 pages in quarto, besides 16 prefatory pages, 14 of them devoted to a sarcastic epistle addressed to Heidegger as “Masquerade Master-General of Great Britain.” I am deeply indebted to Professor Rae Blanchard of Goucher College for first calling my attention to this tract and for some further suggestions, and to Professor John Loftis of the University of California for some valuable details regarding the background of the tract.

^{Note 2 in page 534} The Critical Works of John Dennis (Baltimore, 1939–43), ii, lxiv.

^{Note 3 in page 536} E.g., see The Fears of the Pretender Turn'd into the Fears of Debauchery with a hint to Richard Steele esq. (1715); Burnet and Bradbury (1715), p. 19; Mercurius Politicus (1716), p. 23; ibid. (1719), pp. 758–759, 778–782; William Lee, Daniel Defoe (London, 1869), II, 27–28, 68–69, 279, iii, 411; A Collection of Miscellany Letters, Selected out of Mist's Weekly Journal (1722), I, v, ii, 40, 105–106; The Commentator (1720) and other periodical writings on the South Sea crash; most of all, a later volume of A Collection of Miscellany Letters, Selected out of Mist's Weekly Journal (1727), iii, 235–236,251, 258, 274. The mock trial (based directly on the trial scene in The Battle of the Authors) appears in this Collection, iii, 283–287. Recently, through the kind assistance of Professor Richmond P. Bond, I have identified an unassigned tract in the Bodleian Library which contains what was apparently Defoe's first full-length attack on Steele: A Condoling Letter to the Tattler: On Account of tfie Misfortune of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; A Prisoner in the on Suspicion of Debt (Sept. 1710).

^{Note 4 in page 536} Robinson Crusoe Examin'd and Criticis'd (London and Paris, 1923), pp. 31, 35, 43, 57–58.

^{Note 5 in page 536} The Battle of the Authors, p. 30.

^{Note 6 in page 536} Les Soupirs de la Grand Britaigne (London, 1713), p. 67. Cf. my article in Papers of tlte Bibliog. Soc. of Amer., XL (1946), 22–31: “The Groans of Great Britain: An Unassigned Tract by Charles Gildon.'^!

^{Note 7 in page 537} Les Soupirs, p. 66.

^{Note 8 in page 537} Cf. Dottin's reprint in Robinson Crusoe Examin'd and Criticis'd, pp. 65, 66, 69, 71–72, 74–75, 76, 77–78, 86, etc.

^{Note 9 in page 537} Ibid., pp. 69, 72, 86.

^{Note 10 in page 537} Professor Loftis has called my attention to the fact that the most important newspaper comment on Steele's dispute with Newcastle appeared in Applebee's Original Weekly Journal. Without attempting any further explanation at this time, I wish to point out that these articles were definitely hostile to Steele, and that their dates (between 13 Feb. and 9 July 1720) fall just before the time assigned for Defoe's connection with Applebee's Journal.

^{Note 11 in page 538} Op. cit., p. 55.

^{Note 12 in page 538} Cf. George Sherburn, The Best of Pope (New York, 1929); The Dunciad, ed. James Sutherland (New York, 1943), p. xiv.