_.

[Asterism] These "memoirs" were intended to be the first
instalment[TN-162] of a general satire on the false taste in literature
prevalent in the time of Pope. The only parts of any moment that were
written of this intended series, were Pope's _Treatise of the Bathos, or
Art of Sinking in Poetry_, and his _Memoirs of P. P., Clerk of this
Parish_ (1727), in ridicule of Dr. Burnett's _History of His Own Time_.
The _Dunciad_ is, however, preceded by a _Prolegomena_, ascribed to
Martinus Scriblerus, and contains his notes and illustrations on the
poem, thus connecting this merciless satire with the original design.

=Scriever= (_Jock_), the apprentice of Duncan Macwheeble (bailie at Tully
Veolan to Mr. Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine, baron of Bradwardine and Tully
Veolan).--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time George II.).

=Scriptores Decem=, a collection of ten ancient chronicles on English
history, in one vol., folio, London, 1652, edited by Roger Twysden and
John Selden. The volume contains: (1) Simeon Dunelmensis [Simeon of
Durham], _Historia_; (2) Johannes Hagustaldensis [John of Hexham],
_Historia Continuata_; (3) Richardus Hagustaldensis [Richard of Hexham],
_De Gestis Regis Stephani_; (4) Ailredus Rievallensis [Ailred of
Rieval], _Historia_ (genealogy of the kings); (5) Radulphus de Diceto
[Ralph of Diceto], _Abbreviationes Chronicorum_ and _Ymagines
Historiarum_; (6) Johannes Brompton, _Chronicon_; (7) Gervasius
Dorobornensis [Gervais of Dover], _Chronica, etc._ (burning and repair
of Dover Church; contentions between the monks of Canterbury and
Archbishop Baldwin; and lives of the archbishops of Canterbury); (8)
Thomas Stubbs (a Dominican), _Chronica Pontificum ecc. Eboraci_ [_i.e._
York]; (9) Guilielmus Thorn Cantuariensis [of Canterbury], _Chronica_;
and (10) Henricus Knighton Leicestrensis [of Leicester], _Chronica_.
(The last three are chronicles of "pontiffs" or archbishops.)

=Scriptores Quinque=, better known as _Scriptores Post Bedam_, published
at Frankf[:u]rt, 1601, in one vol., folio, and containing: (1) Willielm
Malmesburiensis, _De Gestis Regum Anglorum_, _Historiae Novellae_, and _De
Gestis Pontificum Anglorum_; (2) Henry Huntindoniensis, _Historia_; (3)
Roger Hovedeni [Hoveden], _Annales_; (4) Ethelwerd, _Chronica_; and (5)
Ingulphus Croylandensis [of Croyland], _Historia_.

=Scriptores Tres=, three "hypothetical" writers on ancient history, which
Dr. Bertram professed to have discovered betwee