The poems are reprinted from copies in libraries of the U.S. and Great Britain. I am obligated to The Houghton Library for _Poems on Several Occasions_ and _The Earth-quake of Jamaica_, to Yale University Library for _The Foreigners_, and to the British Museum for _A Pindarick Ode, in the Praise of Folly and Knavery_. For permission to reproduce the "_Pulchrum Est Pro Patria Mori_" portrait of John Tutchin as the frontispiece, I wish to express my thanks to the Trustees of the British Museum.
Spiro Peterson Miami University Oxford, Ohio
[1] _The Dunciad_, ed. James Sutherland (The Twickenham Edition, Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1943), pp. 115-18.
[2] Tutchin's birth-year is variously given. The Van der Gucht engraving and the authentic _Elegy_ of Tutchin's death state that he died "Aged 44"; but the mock _Elegy_, falsely claiming to be "Written by the Author of the Review," gives his age to be 47. In _The Observator_ (Oct. 20-23, 1703), Tutchin implied that he was "Born some years after the Restoration of King _Charles_ the 2d." His certificate of marriage to Elizabeth Hicks on Sept. 30, 1686 places his age then at twenty-five, and supports the birth-year 1661, as given in the _DNB_. See also _The Observator_, May 17-20, 1704; July 8-12, 1704; and July 24-28, 1703. One of Tutchin's enemies charged that he was born in the north of England (_An Account of the Birth, Education, Life and Conversation of ... the Observator_, 1705); and another, that his father was "a Scot, canting Presbyterian Sot" (_The Picture of the Observator_, 1704).
[3] _The Observator_, June 2-6, 1705. Tutchin stated, in _The Case, Trial, and Sentence_, that Judge Jeffreys had "a true Account" of his activities in Holland. See J. G. Muddiman, ed., _The Bloody Assizes_ (Toronto, [1929]), p. 137.
[4] Muddiman, pp. 136-37. _The Case, Trial, and Sentence_ is reprinted as a true record in T. B. Howell's _A Complete Collection of State Trials_ (London, 1812), XIV, 1195-200, but as a highly questionable document in Muddiman, pp. 137-46.
[6] _The History of England_, ed. C. H. Firth (London, 1914), II, 639. Insofar as the _DNB_ article on Tutchin relies on Macaulay, it is erroneous.
[7] Shortly after Tutchin's death, the Country-man of _The Observator_ lauded his beloved master as "an Officer in the Army," and addressed him "Captain Tutchin," as did the mock _Elegy_ and the friendly Dunton.