The Notorious Impostor (1692); Diego Redivivus (1692)

[4] E.g. Alfred Beasley's in The History of Banbury (1841), pp. 448-492, and G. T. Crook's in The Complete Newgate Calendar (1926), pp. 117-124.

[5] The text of The Compleat Memoirs is indeed a composite. Paragraph one of p. 1 unites a paragraph from p. 1 of Part One and a paragraph from pp. 34-35 of Part Two; pp. 1-27 are the same as pp. 5-27 of Part One; pp. 27-46: pp. 2-21 of Part Two; pp. 46-50: pp. 27-29 of Part One; pp. 50-57: pp. 22-29 of Part Two; pp. 57-65: pp. 30-36 of Part One; pp. 66-71: pp. 29-36 of Part Two.

[6] The Post Boy advertised The Compleat Memoirs from February 17 to April 23, 1698. See also W. Carew Hazlitt (Bibliographical Collections, Third Series, p. 229) for a description of a copy dated 1699.

[7] Morrell's last impersonation involving the fake will resembles Pantalon's "last Will and Testament" jest in Mabbe's The Rogue or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache (The Tudor Translations, 1924), II, 184-186.

[8] Settle's authorship of The Notorious Impostor is confirmed by his name appended to the Dedication of The Compleat Memoirs. Although Diego Redivivus occasionally resembles The Notorious Impostor, it need not necessarily be Settle's work. The similar style and the identical documentation (e.g. the will) may be due to Settle's direct use of the earlier narrative. None of its minutely-drawn description, curiously, is perpetuated in The Compleat Memoirs. The authorship of Diego Redivivus remains an unsettled question.

[9] The Literature of Roguery (1907), I, 153: The Mary Carleton Narratives (1914), p. 6.

[10] I, 153. Ernest A. Baker makes a similar statement (The History of the English Novel [1937], III, 46). With respect to the influence of The Notorious Impostor on Mrs. Eliza Haywood, he should have cited Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751)--the very book praised by Captain Minikin as "worth reading" in Ferdinand Count Fathom (Chap. XXXIX).