Note 195 — Chapter VII

Lord Bolingbroke had trusted him to get six copies printed off of his Letters on Patriotism; after Pope’s death, it was discovered that he had secured a vast number of copies for his own benefit. Vide the Preface to the Idea of a Patriot King, where this story is exposed. What aggravated Lord Bolingbroke’s exposing his friend was, that after his own death it was discovered that he had secretly preserved a copy of Dr. Middleton’s Essay on Prayer, which his lordship had persuaded the doctor’s executors to burn.