Note 4 — INTRODUCTION

The pseudonymous author, Peter Paragraph, is identified by Halkett and Laing, Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature, as James Makittrick Adair. Adair did write some works under that pseudonym but probably did not write The Methodist and Mimic. Lyles, op. cit., p. 129n., suggests that the author may be Samuel Foote, in whose play, The Orators, a character, Peter Paragraph, appears, probably representing George Faulkner. Robert Lloyd, in “The Cobbler of Cripplegate’s Letter,” hints that Peter Paragraph may be Bonnel Thornton.