Note 6 — CATALOGUE OF HOGARTH'S PRINTS.[1] (continued 2)

General Churchill was "the primary puffer of Ward's pill at court;" and Lord Chief Baron Reynolds soon after published "its miraculous effects on a maid servant," as I learn by some doggrel verses of Sir William Browne, addressed to "Dr. Ward, a Quack, of merry memory," under the title of "The Pill-Plot. On The Daily Courant's miraculous Discovery, upon the ever-memorable 28th day of November 1734, from the Doctor himself being a Papist, and distributing his Pills to the poor gratis, by the hands of the Lady Gage also a Papist, that the Pill must be beyond all doubt a deep-laid Plot, to introduce popery."