W.R. Chetwood, _A General History of the Stage_, 56.

[8]
Genest, III, 59.

[9]
Genest, III, 73.

[10]
John Rich opened the New Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields during
December, 1714.

[11]
Genest, III, 113.

[12]
Genest, III, 241.

[13]
_Biographia Dramatica._ The production is mentioned by Genest, III, 281.

[14]
W.R. Chetwood, _A General History of the Stage_, 57.

[15]
Genest, III, 408.

[16]
In Kane O'Hara's later and more popular transformation of Tom Thumb into
a light opera, the song put into the mouth of the dying Grizzle by the