Edmund Curll, Bookseller

Edmund Curll, Bookseller

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-400

  Baines, Paul ^a   Rogers, Pat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexander Pope; Caricature; Copyright Infringement; Edmund Curll; Obscene Publications; Pillory; Piracy; Publishers; Seditious Libel; Unauthorised Publication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919868967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199278985.001.0001     Document Type: Book

References (278)

1. A Trip from St. James's, reprinted in Tricks of the Town, ed. Ralph Straus (London: Chapman & Hall, 1928), 245-6.
2. The Covent-Garden Journal and A Plan of the Universal Register-Office, ed. B. A. Goldgar (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988), 282-3. Nathaniel Mist, the printer and newspaper editor often locked in combat with Curll, had been sentenced to the pillory in 1721.
3. Sir Edward Coke, The Ninth Part of the Reports (London, 1613), 59. 'Publisher' here would cover one who disseminated the work as an editor and one who distributed it for profit.
4. William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1769), iv. 150.
5. Charges to the Grand Jury 1689-1803, ed. Georges Lamoine (London:Royal Historical Society, 1992), 220.
6. These two paragraphs draw on the discussion in Pat Rogers, Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (Brighton: Harvester, 1985), 26-7.
7. 'Mrs. CURLL, Bookseller, in Rose-Street, Convent-Garden', did keep going for a few years, however; her retirement notice, following Edmund's model, appears in the Public Advertiser, 10 February 1753.
8. Hearne, Remarks and Collections, vi. 14.
9. This is not the same volume as Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, apparently edited by Sewell for Mears and Brown in 1717, which also included poems by Wyatt. Subsequently Curll's edition had an edition of Wyatt tacked on to it. See Sir Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria, i (1815), 90-2.
10. Hearne, Remarks and Collections, vi. 131-2. 'S' might be the previously mentioned Sliford, and 'Mr. W' is probably Browne Willis.
11. Bodleian MS Rawl. B400F, ff. 84-5. Mapledurham was the home of Pope's friends the Blount sisters until 1716. Curll's notes are transcribed in B.J. Enright, 'Rawlinson's Proposed History of Oxfordshire', Oxoniensia, 16 (1951), 57-78.
12. Hearne, Remarks and Collections, vi. 334 (18 April 1719).
13. Ashmole's modern editor blames Curll in like fashion, and seems unaware of Rawlinson's role in the series: Elias Ashmole, 1617-1692. His Autobiographical and Historical Notes, ed. C. H. Josten, 5 vols. (Oxford:Clarendon, 1966), i. 155 and iii. 1000-1.
14. One manuscript is now Bodleian Aubrey 4. For an account of the Surrey volumes see B.J. Enright, 'Richard Rawlinson and the Publication of Aubrey's "Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey" ', Surrey Archaeological Collections, 54 (1956), 124-33.
15. PB, 9 July 1720.
16. DC, 8 April 1717.
17. The correspondence is BL, Landsdowne MSS 1038, ff. 48-9; Straus, 88-91.
18. See e.g. The Conduct of the Reverend White Kennett, Dean of Peterborough (A. Dodd, 1717), a pamphlet apparently edited by Richard Rawlinson.
19. PB, 14 and 19 March 1719.
20. For Clarke's earlier protests, see his The Sheep in his own Cloathes (for the author, 1708).
21. For an account of the poem, which was praised by Defoe, see Bowyer, Celebrated Mrs Centlivre, 226-9.
22. PB, 18 May 1721.
23. PB, 19 and 26 December 1721, 4 January 1722;
24. PM, 4 January 1722;
25. DP, 10 January 1722;
26. DJ, 12 January 1722. Straus, 268-9, seems to think there was an actual edition of the poems before the edition of the works in prose and verse that got Curll into trouble; but the advertisements show that this was a single, evolving project which had not even been published by the time Curll was summoned to the House of Lords.
27. A very similar advertisement announcing the books as published 'This Day' had appeared in PM, 4 January 1722.
28. Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence. Volume the Second (Curll, 1735), p. x.
29. National Archives, SP 44/80; Copies taken from the Records of the Court of King s-Bench, at Westminster (London, 1763), 26.
30. London Inhabitants Within the Walls, ed. D. V. Glass (London: London Record Society, 1966), 79.
31. See Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster, 4 vols. (Oxford: Parker, 1891);
32. Alumni Cantabrigienses...Part I: From the Beginnings to 1751, compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn, vol. i (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922);
33. J. Charnock, Biographia Navalis, 6 vols. (1794-8).
34. 'J.H.', Remarks On 'squire Ayre's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Pope. In a Letter to Mr. Edmund Curl, Bookseller (London: M. Cooper, 1745), 43-4.
35. Henley had a strong connection with Curll, but the pamphlet is not included in the list of Henley's writings in Graham Midgley, The Life of Orator Henley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973). John Hill was much younger and had much less connection with the relevant circle.
36. For general accounts see Marjorie Plant, The English Book Trade:An Economic History of the Making and Sale of Books, 3rd edn. (London:George Allen & Unwin, 1974), especially Part One;
37. John Feather, A History of British Publishing (London: Croom Helm, 1988), especially Part Two.
38. Particularly relevant for Curll's period is David Foxon, Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, rev. and ed. James McLaverty (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991);
39. see also Michael Treadwell, 'London Trade Publishers 1675-1750', The Library, 6th ser. 4 (1982), 99-134.
40. Blagden, Stationers' Company, 166-77.
41. Quoted in Kathleen M. Lynch, Jacob Tonson: Kit-Cat Publisher (Knoxville:University of Tennessee Press, 1971), 35.
42. Swift, A Tale of a Tub, ed. A. C. Guthkelch and D. Nichol Smith (Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1920), 28-9, and see pp. 182-3, 206-7.
43. Life and Errors, i. 38-9, 158.
44. Life and Errors, i. 52, 61-2, 184.
45. The Notebook of Thomas Bennet and Henry Clements (1686-1719) with some Aspects of Book Trade Practice, ed. Norma Hodgson and Cyprian Blagden, Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications, NS vol. vi (Oxford, 1956), 72 n. 1.
46. See also Plant, English Book Trade, 245.
47. R. L Haig, '"The Unspeakable Curll": Prologomena', Studies in Bibliography 13 (1960), 220-3, citing National Archives, C5/350/27. Curll's answer has not been found.
48. Munby and Coral, Union List, 21; Straus, 203-4.
49. The book was reprinted in 1712, 1719, 1726, 1732, 1737, and later, but Curll has no further ostensible connection with it. Gosling, however, one of his associates, is named in the imprints of several of the later editions. Curll quotes from the book in The Case of Dr. Sacheverell (1710), 4, so he had actually read it.
50. Charles A. Rivington, 'Tyrant': The Story of John Barber 1675 to 1741 (York: William Sessions, 1989), 233.
51. An Impartial History of the Life of Mr. John Barber (1741), pp. iv-vii.
52. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, ed. A. C. Elias, jr, 2 vols. (Athens:University of Georgia Press, 1997), i. 192.
53. For a discussion of Matthew's probable share in the composition of the book, see Memoirs, ii. 574-5.
54. Pilkington, Memoirs, i. 68, 193-4.
55. See David Greenwood, William King: Tory and Jacobite (Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1969), 110-18.
56. William Ayre, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esg, 2 vols. (1745) i. 63.
57. J. H., Remarks on 'squire Ayre's Memoirs (1745), 47.
58. Nichols, LA v. 535.
59. W. R. Chetwood, A General History of the Stage, from its Origin in Greece down to the Present Time (1749), 172-3.
60. See John Rocque's Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster (1746); and Old Bailey proceedings for 11 October 1738, trial of John Machell and Richard Wilkinson.
61. Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle, Esq., 2 vols. (1756-66), ii. 381-4.
62. Laurence Sterne, A Political Romance (1759), 50.
63. Joe Miller's Jests: or, The Wits Vade-Mecum (14th edn., 1762), p. 40.
64. GM 61 (1786) 93, 190.
65. See De Quincey, Writings, vol. ii Biographical Essays, ed. J. T. Fields (Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850), 117.
66. The Proceedings at the Sessions of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, for the City of London, and County of Middlesex, on Wednesdaythe 26th, Thursday the 27th, Friday the 28th of February, and Saturday the 1st of March, 1735, in the Eighth Year of His Majesty's Reign (1732), 48;
67. M. Dorothy George, London Life in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Capricorn Books, 1965), 83;
68. George Augustus Sala, Twice Round the Clock, or The Hours of the Day and Night in London (London, 1859), 164-5.
69. The Clarendon-Family Vindicated (1732), 21-2.
70. The Bee: or, Universal Weekly Pamphlet. Containing Something to hit every Man's Taste and Principles, 9 vols. (1733-35), ii. 875.
71. Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and D. W. Hayton, The House of Commons 1690-1715, 5 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), v. 204.
72. Gentleman's Magazine, iii (September 1733), 499.
73. For Budgell's version of the transactions between Curll and himself over Tindal, see The Bee: or, Universal Weekly Pamphlet. Containing Something to hit every Man's Taste and Principles (London, 1733-35), iii. 1417-22.
74. The Harlot's Progress. Being the Life of the Noted Moll Hackabout (1740), 46.
75. The Man of Taste (1733), 8: The Manners of the Age (1735), 125, 127.
76. Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence. Volume the Second (1735), iv-v. The short prose description appears late in this volume.
77. Achilles Dissected: being a Compleat Key of the Political Characters in that New Ballad Opera, Written by the late Mr. Gay (1733), 25.
78. Curll liked it enough to include it at the end of Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence. Volume the Second (1735), 82-92, the source of the note quoted.
79. See The Correspondence of Edward Young, 1683-1765, ed. Henry Pettit (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), 7, 10-11.
80. LEP, 1 September 1717, quoted in Correspondence of Young, 11-12.
81. LEP, 7 September 1717, quoted in Correspondence of Young, 12.
82. Correspondence of Young, 11-13.
83. To Tickell, 14 September 1717, Correspondence of Young, 13-14.
84. To Tickell, 19 September 1717, Correspondence of Young, 14-15.
85. For an overview of the matter see Helen Leek, 'The Edward Young-Edmund Curll Quarrel', Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 62 (1968), 321-35.
86. See P.N. Furbank and W.R.Owens, A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1998), 95
87. Defoe De-Attributions:A Critique of J. R. Moore's Checklist (London: Hambledon Press, 1994);
88. J. R. Moore, A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960), 67-8.
89. Defoe, The Secret History of the Secret History of the White Staff (1715), 23-4, 34. Furbank and Owens accept Defoe's authorship: no.167, pp.150-1.
90. Queen Anne Vindicated (1715), 12-15.
91. Moore, Checklist, 389; dated by Straus 25 February.
92. MWJ, 12 April 1718;
93. Lee, Defoe, ii. 34-6. 'Tom-turd men' were haulers of excrement. A further attack, identifying masquerades as a kind of bodily Curlicism, appeared on 19 April in the same journal.
94. Treatise of the Use of Flogging, Preface, unpaginated; dated 5 May 1718.
95. The Curliad, p.14. Four people were aquitted of Motteux's murder at the Old Bailey, 23 April 1718.
96. Bartholin (1616-80) was an anatomical writer. For commentary on the links between medical discourse and erotica see Peter Wagner, 'The Discourse on Sex-or Sex as Discourse: Eighteenth-century Medical and Paramedical Erotica', in Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment, ed. G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987), 46-68
97. Julie Peakman, Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornographyin Eighteenth-Century England (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
98. See the sequence of advertisements in PB, 6 February to 22 March;
99. AWJ, 5 April, and 7 June to 5 July 1718;
100. MWJ, 22 February 1718. When the Treatise of the Use of Flogging came out you could get seven volumes for 18 shillings. The advertising continued: e.g. WEP, 5 March 1719.
101. The Letters of Daniel Defoe, ed. by George Harris Healey (Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1955), 459.
102. Paula Backscheider, Daniel Defoe: His Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), 432;
103. Maximilian E. Novak, Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 491-2.
104. PB, 2 December 1718.
105. PB, 4 December 1718.
106. The History of the Revolutions that Happened in the Government of the Roman Republic (Taylor, Pemberton, Symon, 1720 and much reprinted).
107. PB, 5 July 1721; Straus 271-2. Ozell died in 1743.
108. Pack, Religion and Philosophy: A Tale. With Five other Pieces (20 February 1720).
109. He published Centlivre's The Artifice through T. Payne in October 1722; she died in December 1723.
110. DP, 8 February 1720; the publication was 'occasion'd by the silencing of the Drury Lane players'.
111. Samuel Johnson, Life of Savage, ed. Clarence Tracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), 16, 39.
112. There are fewer references to Curll's shop than one might expect, but Manley's Adventures of Rivella is assigned to Curll, p. 168.
113. Poetical Register, i. 297-8.
114. Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell, ed. Claude Rawson and F. P. Lock (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989), 25.
115. The signature is dated from St James's, 26 December 1718. The sale of Rowe's library alerted buyers to a stock of manuscripts, but Curll appears not to have bitten at this: DC, 17-28 August 1719.
116. Peter Smithers, The Life of Joseph Addison, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968), 373, 446.
117. Doom's Day: or, The Last Judgment. A Poem, by 'William, Earl of Sterline' (1720), Preface.
118. Swift, Corr, ii. 327. Woolley conjectures that the 'Gentleman' may be Dr. Helsham.
119. For useful discussion of Macclesfield's judgment, see Mark Rose, Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 49-51.
120. The will of Francis Wilkinson, barrister of Lincoln's Inn, was proved on 20 May 1728. The author of a prefatory letter to Thomas Foxton, the translator of The Future Restauration of the Jews (1729), 3-6, describes the will in detail. This writer can only have been Curll.
121. For Fowke, see Clio: The Autobiography of Martha Fowke Sansom (1689-1736), ed. Phyllis J. Guskin (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997), an edition of her memoirs with an introduction and notes;
122. Christine Gerrard, Aaron Hill: The Muse's Projector (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 88-96. Most of Hill's wider circle, including at times Fowke, Savage, Hammond and Bond, had connections with Curll.
123. B. J. Enright, 'Edmund Curll and the "Cursed Blunders" in Fresnoy's New Method of Studying History, 1728', The Library, 3rd ser., 9 (1954), 200-5.
124. Not in August 1730, as has been stated: see William Congreve: Letters & Documents, ed. John C. Hodges (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964), 258. A second edition (or issue) was advertised on 13 January 1730.
125. This fact is noticed by Kathleen Lynch, A Congreve Gallery (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951), 10.
126. Entries in the published lists confirm the fact that the book came out in August: see Monthly Catalogue, iii. 90-1;
127. Monthly Chronicle, 185. Straus, 290, notes an advertisement by Curll on 12 August.
128. See also Angus Ross, 'The Correspondence of Dr. John Arbuthnot' (Ph.D. diss., Cambridge University, 1956), ii. 504-5.
129. Memoirs, pp. ix-xiii. A marginal note in Malone's copy, now in the Bodleian Library, Godwyn Pamphlets, 339 (5), identifies 'a certain Lady' as Mrs Bracegirdle. Leigh Hunt and others have accepted the identification.
130. James M. Osborn, John Dryden: Some? Biographical Facts and Problems (New York, 1940), 8 n. 15.
131. Letters, ed. Hodges, 230.
132. The claim seems to be admitted by John W. Bowyer, The Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre (Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1952), 4.
133. It is questioned by Clarence Tracy, The Artificial Bastard: A Biography of Richard Savage (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1953), 18.
134. E. Bellchambers, ed., An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (London, 1822), 3.
135. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover (London, 1861), i. 212; the letter by Mrs Pendarves is dated 23 August 1729.
136. Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden (London, 1800), i. 347.
137. For fuller analysis of the authorship, see Pat Rogers, 'The Identity of Charles Wilson: Congreve's First Biographer', Modern Language Quarterly, 31 (1970), 330-44.
138. Notes & Queries, ii. 78 (1857), 503
139. GM lxviii (1798), 191.
140. The Proceedings at the Sessions of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, for the City of London, and County of Middlesex on Thursday the 25th, Friday the 26th, Saturday the 27th, and Monday the 29th of May 1732, in the Fifth Year of His Majesty's Reign (1732), 144.
141. Henry Fielding, Contributions to the Champion and Related Writings, ed. W. B. Coley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 395, 422-3. The odd phrase 'hopper br[eec]h'd' seems to mean with a sharply indented posterior (shaped like the funnel of a mill).
142. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams, 3 vols. (Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1958), ii. 560-1.
143. The work has been republished with an introduction by Richard I. Cook (Los Angeles: Augustan Reprint Society, 1973).
144. The Correspondence of Edward Young 1683-1765, ed. H. Pettit (Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1971), 74-7, 88-9.
145. See also Mack, Life, 664-70.
146. Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence (1741), sig. π4v. Straus, 193 misprints 'taking' for 'tacking' in the first sentence.
147. Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence (1741), 26.
148. For citation of this case, see eg. Sir William Holdsworth, A History of English Law, 17 vols. (London: Methuen, 1903-72), xii. 283;
149. Copinger and Skone James on Copyright (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 10th edn., 1965), 33;
150. Goodeve's Modern Law of Personal Property (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 8th edn, 1937), 398;
151. John Mews, Mews Digest of English Case Law, 24 vols. (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1925-28), v. 1251.
152. See Howard P. Vincent, 'Some Dunciad Litigation', Philological Quarterly, 18 (1939), 285-9.
153. For Mansfield's connection with the case, see C. H. S. Fifoot, Lord Mansfield (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936), 222.
154. John Tracy Atkins, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, 3 vols, (London, 1781), ii. 356-7.
155. See also P. C. Yorke, The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke Earl of Hardwicke, 3 vols. (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1913), ii. 464.
156. Harry Ransom, 'The Personal Letter as Literary Property', Studies in English, 30 (1951), 116-31.
157. National Archives, C11/1569/29. For a fuller discussion, see Pat Rogers, 'The Case of Pope v. Curll', The Library, 27 (1972), 326-31.
158. Mark Rose, Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 60-6, 145-53.
159. Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence (London, 1741), sig. 4r: Corr, iii. 95. See Straus, 193.
160. 'The rules of pleading and of procedure were applied with rigorous precision; there was no power to allow the amendment of the most venial error. If a plaintiff spelled the defendant's name incorrectly in his process, he was non-suited'. See Sir F. D. MacKinnon, 'The Law and the Lawyers', Johnson's England, ed. A.S. Turberville, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933), ii. 294. Pope's bill has it both ways: Curll and Curl were equally common, so Pope uses each form of spelling in turn.
161. Samuel Richardson ran into the same trouble with Sir Charles Grandison a decade later; the Irish printers strongly asserted their right to bring out the work in spite of the author's opposition. See T. C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel, Samuel Richardson: A Biography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), 378-83.
162. Ransom, 'The Personal Letter as Literary Property', 121.
163. This paragraph draws on Atkins, ii. 356-7.
164. For Pope's self-fashioning in his professional life, see David Foxon, Pope and the Early Eighteenth-CenturyBook Trade (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).
165. Merryland Displayed (1741), 9, 13, 25.
166. The Proceedings on the King's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, and Goal-Delivery of Newgate, held for the City of London, and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the Old Bayly (1739), 32.
167. A Short Description of the Roads which Lead to Merryland (1743), pp. iii-iv.
168. The Letters of Doctor George Cheyne to Samuel Richardson (1733-1743), ed. C. F. Mul-lett (Columbia: University of Missouri, 1943), 46-7, 65.
169. On Halsey see his entry in Stationers' Company Apprentices, 1641-1700, ed. McKenzie, and Dunton, Life and Errors, 217; Ruhe's article (cited in Chapter 1, n. 2 above) is the fullest account of these early associations.
170. Technically, Rochester was another Tonson brand: see Nicholas Fisher, 'Jacob Tonson and the Earl of Rochester', The Library, 7th ser., 6 (2005), 132-60.
171. Quoted in The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edn., 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), ii. 899-900..
172. Works of Shakespear, pp. i-ii.
173. 'Advertisement', Charitable Surgeon, p.xvii.
174. Charitable Surgeon, 73.
175. Quoted from Spinke, Quackery Unmask'd, 2nd edn., part III, and Straus, 29.
176. Spinke, Quackery Unmask'd, 2nd edn., part II, p. 16. Spinke advertised the feat in PB, 14 April 1709.
177. The basic sequence is in Straus, 154-87. The most psychologically coherent and chronologically ordered account is in J. A. Winn, A Window in the Bosom: The Letters of Alexander Pope (Hamden, CT: Archon, 1977), 203-21.
178. McLaverty, 'First Printing', 268-9.
179. Mack, Alexander Pope: A Life, 656.
180. Corr, iii. 359-60; 'E.P.' must be Pope.
181. 'Initial Correspondence', p. 12;
182. EC vi. 441.
183. Corr, iii. 460;
184. see further Prose Works ii. 350
185. 'Initial Correspondence', p. 13;
186. EC vi. 441.
187. Journals of the House of Lords, xxiv. 550.
188. McLaverty, 'First Printing', 273-9.
189. Winn, A Window in the Bosom, 217.
190. See William K. Wimsatt, Jr., '"Amicitiae Causa": A Birthday Present from Curll to Pope', in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature: Essays in Honor of Alan Dugald McKillop, ed. Carroll Camden (London: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 341-9.
191. A. J. Sambrook, James Thomson, 1700-1748: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 138.
192. Christine Gerrard, The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), 150-1; see also pp. 169-73.
193. The Life of the late Right Honourable George Lord Carpenter (1736); Curll manages to drag the Earl of Wintoun's trial into this, pp. 22-32.
194. Poetical Works of Richard Savage, ed. Clarence Tracy (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1962), 192, 241. Curll is not known to have been involved in any of the many publications on the trial of Colonel Francis Charteris in 1730.
195. LEP, 5 June 1736, quoted in Straus, 302-3.
196. Impartial Memoirs, 'Introduction' by 'Philalethes', pp. iii-iv.
197. See Sarah Markham, John Loveday of Caversham 1711-1789: The Life and Times of an Eighteenth-Century Onlooker (Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984), 208-9; Hearne's letter about Willis is on p. 33.
198. The Poetical Works of Elijah Fenton (Edinburgh, 1779), 51-2.
199. See also Earl Harlan, Elijah Fenton 1684-1730 (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia, 1937), 83-4.
200. [Samuel Wesley,] Neck or Nothing: A Consolatory Letter from Mr. D-nt-n to Mr. C-rll upon his beingtost in a Blanket (London: King, 1716), 13, 15.
201. J. W. Bowyer, The Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1952), 208. The title-pages asserts that the play was printed for 'Curl' and Bettesworth; press notices state also that it was sold by Mrs Burleigh.
202. For this poem, see Ault, New Light, 176-82;
203. Pat Rogers, Eighteenth-Century Encounters (Brighton: Harvester, 1985), 56-74.
204. John Durant Breval, 'The Confederates', in Miscellanies (1719), 33.
205. The Works, in Verse and Prose, of Leonard Welsted...Now First Collected. With Historical Notes, And Biographical Memoirs of the Author, ed. John Nichols (London: Printed by and for the Editor, 1787), 37-9. The longest and most famous of London's maypoles stood at this date in the Strand, but it would be taken down in 1718, five years before Curll moved to this site.
206. John Gay, Poetry and Prose, ed. Vinton A. Dearing and Charles E. Beckwith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), i. 217.
207. See Ault, New Light, 21
208. Sherburn, Early Career, 191-2.
209. The material is found in the Finch MSS, deposited at Leicester Record Office. For a fuller analysis of the entire episode, see Pat Rogers, 'The Conduct of the Earl of Nottingham: Curll, Oldmixon and the Finch Family', Review of English Studies, 21 (1970), 175-81.
210. Swift, Corr, i. 405-6. ''49 never was more afflicted at any death', he wrote to Stella (JTS, ii. 445).
211. See Curll's own A Compleat Keyto the Dunciad (London: A. Dodd, 1728), 13.
212. Emrys Jones, 'Pope and Dulness', Proceedings of the British Academy, 54 (1968), 232-63, reprinted in Pope: Recent Essays by Several Hands, ed. M. Mack and J. A. Winn (Hamden, CT: Archon, 1980), 614.
213. Prose Works, ii. 198.
214. McLaverty, Pope, Print and Meaning, 96.
215. The Proceedings at the Sessions of Peace, Oyer and Terminer, for the City of London, and County of Middlesex [4-9 December 1740] (London, 1740), 16.
216. Sawney. An Heroic Poem. Occasion'd by the Dunciad (1728), xiv.
217. See e.g. Catherine Ingrassia, Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1998), 58-76.
218. Codrus: or, The Dunciad Dissected (1729), 10.
219. See Richard Holmes, Dr Johnson and Mr Savage (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993).
220. Richard Savage, An Author to be Lett (1729), 3-4, 11.
221. On the interest of the Key, see David L. Vander Meulen, Pope's Dunciad of1728: A History and Facsimile (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1991), 20-2.
222. The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, ed. B. Dobrée, 6 vols. (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), ii. 49.
223. John Gay, Poetry and Prose, ed. V. A. Dearing and C. E. Beckwith, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), ii. 339.
224. Swift, Corr, iii. 144.
225. See James Sutherland, 'Polly among the Pirates', Modern Language Review, 37 (1942), 291-303, which reviews a number of the actions Gay brought in defence of his rights.
226. Two Epistles to Mr. Pope, i.17-20.
227. A Trip through London 8th edn. (London, 1728), 21.
228. Hereditary Right Exemplified (1728), 18-21.
229. The Author's Farce, ed. C. B. Woods (London: Arnold, 1967), pp. 29, 32-3. Spelling normalized.
230. Tale of a Tub, ed. Guthkelch, 336.
231. Tale of a Tub, ed. Guthkelch, 20-1; original in italic.
232. Wenham survived for twenty more years, the last person to be sentenced to death for witchcraft in England; see Christina Hole, Witchcraft in England (London: Batsford, 1977), 18-19, 165-6.
233. The letter is transcribed in full from BL, Add MS 7121, f. 39, in Pat Rogers, 'John Oldmixon and a translation of Boileau', Revue de Littérature Comparée 43 (1969), 509-13. Oldmixon and Curll restored some sort of amicable arrangement from about 1715 onwards.
234. See Kathryn R. King, Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675-1725 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), esp. chapters 4 and 5; and below, Chapter 8.
235. The papers are reprinted in Manley, Adventures of Rivella, ed. Katherine Zelinsky (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 1999), 115-17. Gildon was also dead by this time.
236. Keynes, Bibliography, 109.
237. Hearne, Remarks and Collections, iv. 144.
238. Hearne, Remarks and Collections, iv. 154, and see 176 (14 May 1713).
239. Hearne, Remarks and Collections, iv. 324-5.
240. Crull, Antiquities of Westminster Abbey (1713), 347.
241. Bragge, Witchcraft Farther Display'd (1710).
242. Norman Ault, New Light on Pope (London: Methuen, 1949), 104;
243. See Daniel A. Fineman, Leonard Welsted: Gentleman Poet of the Augustan Age (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1950), 37-40.
244. George Sherburn, The Early Career of Alexander Pope (Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1934), 166. Sherburn canvases the possibility that the reference is to William Oldisworth, but the nature of the text renders this impossible.
245. For a contemporary account, see The Diary of Dudley Ryder 1715-1716, ed. William Matthews (London: Methuen, 1939), 196-9.
246. The History of England, during the Reigns of King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, King George I (London, 1735), [627].
247. See, however, Isobel Grundy, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1999), 104, where the possibility is left open that Lady Mary was also responsible for the Friday poem.
248. The fullest analysis of this episode remains Robert Halsband, 'Pope, Lady Mary, and the Court Poems (1716)', PMLA 68 (1953), 237-50.
249. The Curliad (1729), 20-1.
250. Sherburn, Early Career, 170.
251. Sherburn, Early Career, 179.
252. For fuller analysis of the background to the work and of its content, see Pat Rogers, 'The Catholick Poet (1716)', Bodleian Library Record, 8 (1971), 277-84.
253. All the Wonders of the World Out-wonderd: In the amazing and incredible Prophecies of Ferdinando Albumazarides (1722), 17;
254. The Free Masons: An Hudibrastick Poem (London, 1723), 15.
255. John Toland, A Collection of Several Pieces, ed. Pierre Des Maizeaux, 2 vols. (London: J. Peele, 1726), ii. 484.
256. The Poet Finish'd in Prose (1735), 35.
257. Alexander Pettit, 'Rex v. Curll: Pornography and Punishment in Court and on the Page', Studies in the Literary Imagination, 34 (2001), 63-78.
258. Political State, xxviii (August 1724), 207.
259. Rawlinson MSS, C 195. This is printed by W. J. Thoms, 'Stray Notes on Edmund Curll', Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. 60 (1857), 141-4, and Straus, 104, with minor variants.
260. Quoted in State Trials, vol.1, Treason and Libel, ed. Donald Thomas (London: Routledge, 1972), 143.
261. For a full transcription of the report, see Treason and Libel, ed. Thomas, 135-43.
262. For Fortescue's dissenting view, see John Fortescue-Aland, Reports of Select Cases in all the Courts of Westminster-Hall (London, 1748), 100.
263. Pettit, 'Rex v. Curll', 68.
264. The Proceedings on the King's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, and Goal-Delivery of Newgate, held for the City of London, and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the Old Bayly [on 11-14 September 1717] (London, 1717), 8.
265. Howard Weinbrot, 'Alexander Pope and Madame Dacier's Homer', Huntington Library Quarterly, 62 (2000), 1-23, provides the fullest account of this episode.
266. Whartoniana (1726), 1: iii-iv.
267. See Ault, New Light, 225-31;
268. TE vi. 253-5.
269. Maynard Mack, Alexander Pope: A Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 655-6.
270. A Compleat Collection (1728), 2-3.
271. Two Lilliputian Odes (1727), 24-5.
272. [Corolini di Marco], Gulliver's Travels Compendiously Methodized (1726), 35.
273. Joseph M. Levine, Dr. Woodward's Shield (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), 258-61.
274. See Pat Rogers, 'A Cambridge Chatterton: William Pattison and his Poetry', Cambridge Review, 29 February 1964.
275. Poetical Works of Pattison, 44-5.
276. Poetical Works of Pattison, 199-201.
277. 'Iscariot Hackney', An Author to be Lett (1729), 3.
278. Barbara Benedict, Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 125.