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Notes
I have been unable to locate an intact copy of the work despite a search in major British libraries. The Bodleian copy, pressmark Pamph. 303 (27), measures 21cm. in height and collates A-F4. Following the title-page (verso blank), pages run 3-48.
Moll also supplied maps for Oldmixon's British Empire in America (1708). It is evident from the signatures and pagination that the engravings were separately inserted, and that no text is lost in the Bodleian copy.
The circumstances in which Cadogan prepared his plan and Maynwaring added his comments are described in the Life of Maynwaring, p. 339. The author of the Conduct refers to Maynwaring as one who "knew as much of the matter as anyone" (p. 48) — note the tense.
Roberts' standing as a solid Whig figure is demonstrated by his appearance as an expert witness in the trial of John Matthews in 1718. Roberts and John Darby were called on to support the ministry's prosecution of a young printer for his part in issuing a Jacobite pamphlet. Cf State Trials, ed. T. B. Howells (1812), XV, 1354-1355.
The charge of "lewdness" is laid against Mrs Manley's Atlantis. It is sufficient to recall Oldmixon's later description of the same work — "a lewd Libel . . . written by a Strumpet too wicked for a Name in History." See his History of England (1735), p. 541.
For "Gallicism," cf. Oldmixon's Clarendon and Whitlock Compar'd (1727), p. vi. For Moore as a "Creature" of the chief ministers, see History (1735), pp. 517, 556.
The author of the Enquiry had evidently read the accounts of Clarendon's impeachment. Oldmixon's interest in this phase of history possibly went back to 1708, the year in which The Lives of All the Lord Chancellors appeared. It was intensified in years to come with Oldmixon's well publicized charge concerning the sophistication of the text of Clarendon's History. Oldmixon's did bring out one posthumous tract by Maynwaring, A Short Account and Defence of the Barrier-Treaty. By the late A.M. Esq. (1713). But the circumstances were different; the work had not previously been published, and was firmly labelled as Maynwaring's in the "Advertisement" (sig. A2r) and in the Life of Maynwaring, pp. 227-247. For further information on Maynwaring's pamphlets, see my note "The Authorship of Four Letters (1710) and Other Pamphlets," Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research [forthcoming].
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