Note 2 — INTRODUCTION

The dates given by Professor H. Teerink in The History of John Bull for the first time faithfully re-issued from the original pamphlets (Amsterdam, 1925), pp. 6-7, are drawn from dates in the Examiner, a weekly newspaper. Three of these dates are correct, and the other two are close, but can be corrected by consulting papers published more often. The first pamphlet seems to have appeared on 4 March 1712 (see Post-Boy of that date), and the third may have appeared on 16 April 1712 (see the Daily Courant of 16 and 17 April; the Post-Boy, however, agrees with the Examiner on the date 17 April).