Note 7 — (Anonymous)

There was at least one avid reader of The Female Wits. The Reverend Arthur Bedford of Bristol, one of Collier's followers who spent his entire career attacking the theatres, mentions it forty times in The Evil and Danger of Stage-Plays (1706). He used it as an example in all the categories of wickedness that Collier had set up in A Short View of the Prophaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, the original attack in 1698.