“Talk about Autographs,” by George Birkbeck Hill, London, 1896, p. 69.

“Memoir of William Oldys,” 1862, p. 104.

Nichols’s “Literary Anecdotes,” vol. i. p. 593.

Lang’s “Books and Bookmen,” p. 13.

The versions given in Noble’s Continuation of Granger are inferior to the above, which were taken from an old MS. by the Rev. Cecil Moore, and are believed by him to be the originals. See “Bibliographer,” vol. vi. p. 92.