[Footnote 3: _Gay's Chair_, p. 12.]

[Footnote 4: _Gay's Chair_, p. 13.]

[Footnote 5: _Notes and Queries_, N.S. VI, 488, December 16th, 1882,
from the _North Devon Herald_ of December 7th.]

[Footnote 6: Aaron Hill (1685-1750), dramatist and journalist.]

[Footnote 7: Charles Douglas, third Duke of Queensbury and second Duke
of Dover (1698-1777), married Catherine, second daughter of Henry Hyde,
Earl of Clarendon and Rochester.]

[Footnote 8: Ayre: _Pope_, pp. 11, 97.]

[Footnote 9: _Gay's Chair_, p. 13.]

[Footnote 10: _Gay's Chair_, p. 5.]




CHAPTER II

1706-1712

GAY COMMENCES AUTHOR