Note 8 — Front matter

Settle's authorship of The Notorious Impostor is confirmed by his name appended to the Dedication of The Compleat Memoirs. Although Diego Redivivus occasionally resembles The Notorious Impostor, it need not necessarily be Settle's work. The similar style and the identical documentation (e.g. the will) may be due to Settle's direct use of the earlier narrative. None of its minutely-drawn description, curiously, is perpetuated in The Compleat Memoirs. The authorship of Diego Redivivus remains an unsettled question.