George Harris Healey (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), p. 1.

7. London Gazette 3879 (n-14 January 1703).

8. Cited in Maximillian E. Novak, Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 180.

9. The Letters of Daniel Defoe, pp. 1-2.

10. Novak, Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions, p. 183.

11. Novak, Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions, p. 185.

12. Cited in Novak, Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions, p. 189.

13. Defoe, The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings, p. 182.

14. Cited in Novak, Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions, p. 191.

15. Novak, Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions, pp. 194-7.

16. The Letters of Daniel Defoe, p. 11.

17. Daily Courant 409 (2 December 1703); London Gazette 3972 (2-6 December 1703).

18. See Paula R. Backscheider, Daniel Defoe: His Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), p. 64.

19. Cited in Novak, Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions, p. 102.

20. A Letter from a Gentleman in London, to his Friend in the Country; containing an Account of the Dismal Effects of the Terrible Storm of Wind, or, rather, Hurricane, that began in London the 27th November 1703 (London, 29 November 1703). Guildhall Library, London.

21. Jack Lindsay, The Monster City: Defoe’s London, 1688-1730 (London: Granada, 1978).

22. See Mark Schorer, ‘A Study in Defoe: Moral Vision and Structural Form’, Thought 25 (1950), p. 282.

23. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, ed. John Richetti (London: Penguin Books, 2001), p. 39.

24. Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, ed. Cynthia Wall (London: Penguin Books, 2003), p. 60.

25. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, p. 10.

26. ‘A Calculation of the Credibility of Human Testimony’, Philosophical Transactions 21 (1699), pp. 359-65.

27. The Republican Bullies; Or, a sham Battel between two of a side, in a Dialogue between Mr. Review and the Observator, lately fall’n out about keeping the Queen’s Peace (London: J. Nutt, 1705), p. 2.

28. The Best of Defoe’s Review: An Anthology, ed. William L. Payne (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951), pp. 14-15.

29. The Republican Bullies, p. 7.

30. George Macaulay Trevelyan, England Under Queen Anne, 3 vols.