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nded primarily for a Scottish audience. Further, Defoe's name for Marlborough--_Heymuthius_--comes from his one Scottish title, Baron Aymouth (now Eyemouth, a fishing town on the southeast coast of Scotland), and not from his better-known English title, the Duke of Marlborough. State University College Brockport, New York NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION 1. George Macaulay Trevelyan, _England Under Queen Anne_ (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1948), III, 68. 2. These are Trevelyan's figures (_op. cit._, 73). W. A. Speck (_Tory and Whig_ [London: Macmillan, 1970], p. 123) gives the Tories 332 seats and 181 seats to the Whigs in this election. 3. In point of fact, Harley's concern for the loyalty of the representative peers is unique in the history of these elections. In subsequent Parliaments, the Scottish peers seldom, if ever, voted against the Government--even at the trial of Lord Lovat in 1745-6. For one thing, almost without exception, the representative peers were dependent on governmental subsidies and this dependence increased during the course of the eighteenth century (see J. H. Plumb, _The Growth of Political Stability in England_ [London: Penguin, 1973], p. 180; and Geoffrey Holmes, _British Politics in the Age of Anne_ [London: Macmillan, 1967], p. 393). The practice of electing a representative peerage for Scotland was discontinued after 1782 (see Trevelyan, _op. cit._, 235). 4. Trevelyan, _op. cit._, 58. 5. James R. Sutherland, _Defoe_ (London: Methuen, 1950), p. 179. 6. _The Letters of Daniel Defoe_, ed. by George Harris Healey (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), p. 296. 7. _Ibid._, pp. 294-295. 8. Healey reports that "in such issues as I have been able to find of the _Scots Postman, or the New Edinburgh Gazette_, there is no mention of the _Scots Atalantis_" (_Letters_, p. 306, n. 1). The title of this work and of Defoe's _Atalantis Major_ are derived from Mrs. Manley's _New Atalantis or Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality of both Sexes from the New Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean_ (1709). The OED records that the word _atalantis_ enjoyed a brief currency in the eighteenth century with the meaning, "a secret or scandalous history." 9. _Letters_, p. 307. 10. John Robert Moore, _A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe_ (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960), p. 82. 11. Page 12, line 5: _do_ is omitted before _this_; page 16, line 24
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