Volume 18 — DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.
Reading edition
The Binder is requested to pay particular attention to the placing of the following Cancels in Dryden’s Works:—
Vol. I. Pages 29, 75.
II. Page 3. (Advert.), Pages 15, 111, 469, and add pages 471-2.
III. Page 429, to be found in the last sheet of Vol. VI.
VII. Page 317.
IX. Page 435.
XI. Add pages 161-2 after the Title, “Odes, Songs, and Lyrical Pieces.”
XII. Contents.
XIII. Pages 97, 297.
The Cancels will be found put up with Vol. II.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Sir Thomas Skipwith, joint patentee and manager with Charles Rich of the Drury-Lane theatre.Note 2 · Mary Tudor, natural daughter of Charles the Second, and lady of Lord Ratcliff, (now Earl of Derwentwater,) to whom Dryden dedicated his ThirNote 3 · Arabella, daughter of Sir Edward Allen, Bart. She first married Francis Thompson, Esq. and was at this time the wife of Lord George Howard, Note 4 · Elizabeth, daughter of Digby, Lord Gerard, and second wife of James, Duke of Hamilton, who was killed in a duel by Lord Mohun, in November 1Note 5 · Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Bertie of Uffington, in the county of Lincoln, Esq. a younger son of Montague, the second earl of Lindsey. ShNote 6 · Margaret, daughter of George, Lord Chandos, and relict of William Brownlow of Humby, in Lincolnshire.Note 7 · Richard Norton of Southwick, in Hampshire, Esq. Cibber’s comedy, entitled, “Love’s last Shift,” was dedicated to this gentleman, in FebruaryNote 8 · Anthony Henley, of the Grange, in Hampshire, Esq., a man of parts and learning, and a correspondent of Swift, who died in 1711.Note 9 · Perhaps General Webbe, whose “firm platoon” was afterwards celebrated by Tickell. Of the prowess of Mr Beereton no memorials have been discoNote 10 · Lord Henry Scott, second surviving son of James, Duke of Monmouth, who was born in 1676. In 1706 he was created Earl of Deloraine; and died Note 11 · The Earl of Derwentwater’s poetry, which, according to Dryden, was none of the best.Note 12 · The famous Betterton, who, in 1695, again divided the two companies, and headed that in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.Note 13 · Robert, third Earl of Scarsdale, a protector of Betterton’s company.