[13] Anne Mason, formerly Lady Macclesfield, and the Earl of Rivers, whom Savage claimed as his father.

[14] She had a way of rechristening her friends by romantic titles.  See her poem, “To Mr. Walter Bowman ...  Occasion’d by his objecting against my giving the Name of Hillarius to Aaron Hill, Esq.”

[15] Memoirs of a Certain Island, I, 43-7 condensed.

[16] For an account of Clio see an article by Bolton Corney, “James Thomson and David Mallet,” Athenaeum, II, 78, 1859.  And Miss Dorothy Brewster, Aaron Hill, 188.  Her unsavory biography entitled Clio, or a Secret History of the Amours of Mrs. S-n—­m, was still known at the time of Polly Honeycombe, 1760.

[17] The Authors of the Town; a Satire.  Inscribed to the Author of the Universal Passion.  For J. Roberts, 1725.  A number of lines from this poem appear later in Savage’s “On False Historians,” Poems (Cooke’s ed.), II, 189.

[18] Letters from the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Everyman edition, 4.

[19] Compare the picture of Gloatitia, for instance, with the following of a lady in La Belle Assemblee, I, 22.  “To form any Idea of what she was, one must imagine all that can be conceived of Perfection—­the most blooming Youth, the most delicate Complection, Eyes that had in them all the Fire of Wit, and Tenderness of Love, a Shape easy, and fine proportion’d Limbs; and to all this, a thousand unutterable Graces accompanying every Air and little Motion.”

[20] Miss C.E.  Morgan, The Novel of Manners, 221. Bath-Intrigues was included in Mrs. Haywood’s Works, 1727.  Another work contained in the same two volumes, The Perplex’d Duchess; or, Treachery Rewarded:  Being some Memoirs of the Court of Malfy.  In a Letter from a Sicilian Nobleman, who had his Residence there, to his Friend in London (1728), may be a scandal novel, though the title suggests a reworking of Webster’s Duchess of Malfi.  I have not seen the book.

[21] Ascribed to Mrs. Haywood in the advertisements of her additional Works, 1727.  The B.M. copy, catalogued under “Ariel,” contains only a fragment of 24 pages.

[22] Miss M.P.  Conant, The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century (1908), passim.

[23] The “key” is almost the sole contribution to Mrs. Haywood’s bibliography in Bohn’s Lowndes.  Most of the personages mentioned are described in the notes of John Wilson Croker’s Letters to and from the Countess of Suffolk (1824).

[24] The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. by F. Elrington Ball (1913), Vol.  IV, 264, 266.  The Countess of Suffolk, in a playful attack on Swift, wrote (25 Sept. 1731) ...  “I should not have despaired, that ... this Irish patriot ... should have closed the scene under suspicions of having a violent passion for Mrs. Barber, and Lady M——­ [Montagu] or Mrs. Haywood have writ the progress of it.”  In reply Swift wrote (26 Oct. 1731) that he could not guess who was intended by Lady M——­ and that he had heard Mrs. Haywood characterized in the terms quoted above.