s, not taken Notice of, than the Generality of
People are aware of.

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NOTES TO _DUMPLING_

Pp. [ii].2-[iii].25. The information on Brand, Braund, and Marsh is
confirmed by records in the Willesdon Public Library and by Lyson's
_County of Middlesex_.

P.2.30-31. Carey also attacks the Freemasons and Gormogons in _Poems_,
ed. Wood, p. 118.

P.5.3. Old Mr. Lawrence is mentioned several times (see particularly
_Key_, pp. 16-17). There was a farmer Lawrence of 70 in Willesdon at the
time, but I have found no direct connection with an antiquary, with
Swift's Namby Pamby talk (see _OED_ under _Namby Pamby_) and his
_Wilsden Prophecy_; nor with Jonathan Richardson (see note to _Key_,
p. 17). On another level, the laziness attributed to Swift (_Key_,
p. viii) and the gridiron here connected with the Kit Cat club are both
commonly associated with Saint Lawrence.

P.6.11-12. "Bull and Mouth" refers to a tavern known as the Boulogne
Mouth (John Timbs, _Clubs and Club Life in London_ [London, 1872],
p. 529).

Pp.6.13-9.6. Knight of the Gridiron: Walpole was a member of the Kit
Cat club, which originally met at the pie shop of Christopher Cat in
Shire Lane. The "Second Edition" probably refers to the fact that the
Order of the Bath was reintroduced for Walpole's benefit in June 1724.
(See also _Key_, p. 19.) There is intentional confusion with Estcourt,
who as providore of the Beefsteak club wore about his neck a small
gridiron of silver and was made a Knight of Saint Lawrence. The Knights
of the Toast were an associated group. The gridiron is a symbol both of
gormandizing and of the roasting of Saint Lawrence.

P.9.9. J[acob] T[onson], the publisher, founded the Kit Cat club which
also met at Tonson's home in Barns Elms, and in Hampstead (which was
only a few miles northeast of Willesdon).

P.11.15-18. King John is reputed either to have been poisoned or to
have died from overeating at Swineshead Abbey (18-19 October 1216).

Pp.14.15-16.24. See also _Key_, pp. 25-26. King Harry, at this point,
would appear to be George I, with either Walpole or Marlborough as Sir
John Pudding. Nevertheless, there are carefully interpolated overtones
regarding Falstaff and Hal. "One knows not where to have him" (_Key_,
p. 25) is one of several apt Shakespearian allusions in the work.

Pp.17.25-18.26. In _Dumpling