Note 533a — JOURNAL TO STELLA (continued 12)

Forster found, among the MSS. at Narford, the “lie” thus prepared for All Fools’ Day. Richard Noble, an attorney, ran away with a lady who was the wife of John Sayer and daughter of Admiral Nevill; and he killed Sayer on the discovery of the intrigue. The incident was made use of by Hogarth in the fifth scene of “Marriage a la Mode.”