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March 2025
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January 2025
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December 2024
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November 2024
Cheyne [George]
Geddes [Michael]
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Savage [Richard]
August 2024
Dryden, J. jun [John]
Tacitus (New Page)
July 2024
Anon.
Boyle [Robert]
Harris [John]
[Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben
Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
Unattributed phrase or definition
June 2024
Addison [Joseph]
Croxal [Samuel]
Sidney [Philip]
Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
May 2024
Bible (Song of the Three Holy Children: glorious; Ecclus: little)
April 2024
Bible (Note d: tabernacle, v. n.)
December 2023
Builder’s Dict.
Phil. Trans.
November 2023
Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
September 2023
About this effort and its precursors (2023 Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer article; presented at EC/ASECS Winterthur, 2022)
Context - History Relevant to Authors (includes number of cites for each author)
August 2023
Nigel de Wetekre
July 2023
[Collier, Jane] Art of Tormenting
Cowel [John]
Garlick [ J----- G----- ] (corrected from Garlick [Thomas])
Lauderdale [Richard Maitland] (corrected from [John Maitland])
Lucas [Richard] (New Page)
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Norris [John]
Old Comedy
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Oxford Reasons Against the Covenant
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Pezron [Paul-Yves]; Pezon
Philips [Ambrose] ; Phillips, A.
Phillips; [Philips, John]
Pierce [Thomas]; Pierce’s Lett.
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Pope, Dr. [Walter]
Raleigh [Walter]
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Ray [John]
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Rowe’s Life [James Welwood]
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Smith [Edmund]
Sternhold [Thomas]
Tatler
Trevoux [Dictionnaire de Trevoux]
Turberville [George]
W____n [Waldren]
Walker [William]
Waller’s Life
Wallis [John]
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Wase [Christopher]
Welsted [Leonard]
Wise [Francis]
Wiseman [Richard]
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June 2023
Herring [Thomas]
Holder [William]
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James’s Voyage [Thomas]
Jewel [John]
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Locke [John]
Logie
London Dispensatory
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Melmouth [William Melmoth]
Military Dict.
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More [Thomas]
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Mortimer [John]
Motteux [Peter Anthony]
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Muschenbroek [Musschenbroek, Pieter van]
Nicene Creed
May 2023
Anon.
Calamy [Benjamin] (corrected from Edmund Calamy)
Fell [John]
Felton [Henry]
Garlick [Thomas]
Garretson [John]
Garth [Samuel]
Gay [John]
Geddes [Michael]
Gentleman Instructed [William Darrell]
Gerard [John]
Gibson [Edmond]; Gibson’s Camden
Grainger [James]
Gray [Stephen]
Gray [Thomas]
[Greek] Anthology
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Hacket [John]
Hakewell [Hakewill, George]; Hakewill
Hale, Dr. [Stephen Hales]
Halifax [Charles Montague]
Hearne [Thomas]
Heigh [R.]
Henley [John]
Henshaw [Thomas]
Herring [Thomas]
Introduction to Grammar
[Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of]
April 2023
Baxter [Richard]
Baxter [William]
Brown[e] [William]
Bruno [de Segni]
Builder’s Dict.
Burnet [Thomas]
Burton [Robert]
[Butler, Samuel] Hudibras; Butler
Calamy [Edmund]
[Callimachus]
Carte [Thomas] Life of Ormonde
Casseneuve [Cazeneuve, Pierre de]
Cervantes (New Page)
Chaucer [Geoffrey]
Cheselden [William]
Chesterfield, Earl of [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
Chevy Chase
Cheyne [George]
Chillingworth [William]
Church Catechism
Cicero [Marcus Tullius]
Clarendon [Edward Hyde]
Clarke [John]
Collins [William]
Congreve [William]
Cromwell [Henry]
Croxal [Samuel]
Cujas [Jacques]
Daniel; Daniel’s Civil War [Samuel]
Daniel (Dr. Daniel in 4th) [Richard]
Digby [Robert]; Digby to Pope
Donne [John]; Don.
Dryden, J. jun [John]
Du Cange [Charles Du Fresne Du Cange]
Duke [Richard]
Evelyn [John]
Evelyn [John, the Younger] (New Page)
Fairfax [Edward]
Fanshaw [Richard]
Farrier’s Dict.
Felibien [Andre]
Fell [John]
Ferne [Henry] Bishop
Fiddes [Richard]
Fitzgerald [Thomas]
Flatman [Thomas]
Fortunatus; Ven. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]
Jervas [Charles]
Jones, Capt. [David Lloyd] (New Page)
Song of the King and the Miller
March 2023
Ainsworth [Robert]
Alleyne [Aleyn, Charles]
Anon.
Atterbury [Francis]
Ayliffe [John]
Baker [Thomas]
Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher
Beaumont [Joseph] [incorrect attribution; page to be deleted]
Bentley [Richard]
Berkley [George Berkeley]
Blount [Edward] to Pope
Boerhaave [Herman]
Bourd [Boorde, Andrew]
Boyle [Robert]
Brampston [James Bramston] Man of Taste
Brerewood [Edward]
Broome [William]
Brown[e] [Thomas]
Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
Davies [John]
Denham [John]
Orrery [John Boyle, 5th earl]
February 2023
Arbuthnot [John]
December 2022
Dryden [John]; Poem to Roscommon; Oedipus
Upton, [John] (New Page)
November 2022
Bacon [Francis]
September 2022
[Lennox, Charlotte] Female Quixote; Shakespeare Illustrated
August 2022
Authorities added in the 1773 Dictionary
Brown [John] (New Page)
By the Numbers
Context - History Relevant to Authors (includes number of cites for each author)
Context - Temporal Summary of Word List
July 2022
Abbot [George]
Addison, Dr. [Lancelot]
Amhurst [Nicholas]
Apostles Creed
Authorities added in the 1773 Dictionary (New Page)
Bailey [Nathan]
Bluteau [Raphael]
Brown[e] [Thomas]
By the Numbers (temporal breakdown of Authorities by death date)
Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
Cockburn [John]
Collier [Jeremy]; Collyer
Common Prayer
Context - History Relevant to Authors
Douglass [Gavin Douglas]
Gentleman Instructed [William Darrell] (New Page)
Quincy [John]
Raleigh [Walter]
Rowland[s] [Henry]
Salmon’s Survey; Salmon [Nathanael]
Topsell [Edward] Book of Animals
Trapp [Joseph]
William of Wickham [Wykeham]
June 2022
AEn. [Aeneid; Pitt, Christopher]
Arbuthnot, C. [Charles]
Budaeus [Guillaume Budé]
Caius [John Kays]
Carte [Thomas] Life of Ormonde
Casseneuve [Cazeneuve, Pierre de]
Cave, Edward
Chesterfield, Earl of [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
Coke [Edward]
Cotton [Charles]
Cromwell [Henry]
Cromwel[l] [Thomas] to King Henry
Cudworth [Ralph]
Derham [William]
Digby [George] (Lord Digby to Sir Kenelm Digby)
Digby [Kenelm]
Dodderidge [Philip Doddridge]
Eachard [Laurence Echard]
Fortunatus; Ven. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]
Francis [I] of France
Horace
Hough [John]
King James [I]
Lawrence, Dr. [Thomas]
Layer's Trial
Littleton [ Thomas] (also Lyttleton, de Littleton)
Littlet. ; Littleton, Dr. [Edward]
[Lyttelton, George] Littleton on the Conversion of St. Paul
Manger's [Mauger] French Grammar
More’s Life of Sir Thomas More [Christopher Cresacre]
Pezron [
Paul-Yves]; Pezon
Phil. Trans.
Pope, Dr. [Walter]
[Rudyerd, Benjamin] Rudgerd
Sherburne [Edward]
Steevens [George]
Theobald [Lewis]
Verses on Cleaveland
Virgil
February 2022
Wafer [Lionel]
Wallis [John]
Wise [Francis]
January 2022
Shakespeare [William]
Song
December 2021
Ascham [Roger]
Crashaw [Richard]
Delany [Patrick]
Garrick’s Epilogue [David]
Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
Lee [Nathaniel]
Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
Swift [Jonathan]; Gulliver (4th edition added Swift cites)
November 2021
Baxter [Richard] (new page)
Baxter [William]
Boerhaave [Herman]
Glanville [Glanvill, Joseph]
Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
Law [William]
Milton [John]; Par. Regained; Par. Lost
Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
October 2021
Carew [Richard]; Car.
Carew [Thomas]
Cowley [Abraham]
Drayton [Michael]
Drummond [William]
Harte [Walter]
Lesley [Leslie, Charles]
Pope [and various works][Alexander]; Pype
Tillotson [John]
Waller [Edmund]
Waterland [Daniel]
Wilkins [John]
Wiseman [Richard]
Wollaston [William]
Wotton [Henry]
September 2021
Fell [John]
Hammond [Henry]; Ham.
Harvey [Gideon]
Holder [William]
Hooke’s Roman History [Nathaniel]
Hough [John]
Lloyd [William]
Ogle [George]
Oldham [John]
Oldham’s Life
Peacham [Henry]
Persius [Aulus Persius Flaccus]
Taylor [Jeremy]
Thomson [James]
August 2021
Martial
Sharpe [Samuel]; Sharp.
July 2021
Macbean [Alexander]; Macbean’s Remonstrance
Madden [Samuel]
Mandeslo [Mandelslo, John Albrecht]
Manger's French Grammar
Mareschal [Thomas Marshall]
Nelson [Robert]
June 2021
Junius [Francis]
Kennet [White Kennett]
L’Acad. [Dictionnnaire l’Academie francaise]
Latimer [Hugh]
Lauderdale [John Maitland]
May 2021
Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
Garth [Samuel]
Halifax [Charles Montague]
Markham [Gervase]
April 2021
Dict. [e.g. Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips]
Knolles [Richard]
March 2021
Young [Edward]
February 2021
Boileau [-Despreaux, Nicholas]
Bourne [Vincent]
Bracton [Henry de]
Calvin [Johannes Wetteranus Calvinus]
Henshaw [Thomas]
Hickes [George]
Hoveden (Howden) [Roger of Hoveden] (corrected from John of Hoveden)
Knighton [Henry] (new page)
Melmouth [William Melmoth]
Molineux [William Molyneaux]
Skinner [Stephen]
Steele [Richard] to Pope
Turnebus [Adrien Turnebe]
January 2021
Blackmore [Richard]; Black.
Chapman [George]
Harris [John]
Savary [Jacques Savary du Bruslon and Louis-Philemon Savary]
Scaliger [Joseph Justinian]
Selden [John]
Sewel [George Sewell]
Shadwell [Thomas]
Skelton [Philip]
Steevens [George]
Stephens [William]; Stephens' Sermons (Bio Update)
Stone [Edmund]
Taliessyn [Taliesen]
Taylor [John] the Water-poet
[Trevisa] John de Trevisa (NEW PAGE)
Trevoux [Dictionnaire de Trevoux]
December 2020
[Sedley, Charles] Sidley
Seed’s Sermons [Jeremiah]
Sharpe [Samuel]; Sharp.
Smalridge [George]; Smallridge
Smart [Christopher]
Somerville [William]
Somner [William]
South [Robert]
Sparrow, Dr. [Anthony]
Spelman [Henry]
Spratt [Sprat, Thomas]
Stephens [William]; Stephens' Sermons (corrected from Nathaneal Stephens)
Stillingfleet [Edward]
September 2020
London Dispensatory
Perkins [William]
Ralph [James]
Randolph [Thomas]; T. Randolph; Tho. Randolph
Richards [Nathanael]; N. Richards
[Richardson, Samuel] Clarissa; Pamela; Richardson’s Pamela
Robert of Gloucester
Rogers [John]
August 2020
[Johnson, Samuel] Irene, Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Vanity of Human Wishes; Johnson (Vanity); Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man
Mackenzie [George]
Smith [Edmund]
Smith [John]
June 2020
Bacon [Francis]
Brown[e] [Edward]
Brown[e] [Isaac Hawkins] (new page)
Brown[e] [William]
Henley [John] (new page)Steuart
March 2020
Bruno [de Segni] (+corrected name)
Salernum, School of; Schol. Sal. (new page)
Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]
August 2019
Creech [Thomas]
Decay of Piety; Decay [Allestree, Richard]?
Farquhar [George]
Felton [Henry]
Harte [Walter]
Hayward [John]
Herbert [George]
Heylin [Heylyn, Peter]
Hill, Aaron
Hill [John]
Holyday [Barten]
Old Song
July 2019
Brown[e] [Edward]
Brown[e] [William]
Davies [John (Sir)]
Government of the Tongue
Hakewell [Hakewill, George]; Hakewill
Kettlewell [John]; Kettleworth
Pearson [John]
Pezron [Paul-Yves]
Quarles [Francis]
June 2019
Prideaux [Humphrey]
Prior [Matthew]
March 2019
Ainsworth [Robert]
Bailey [Nathan]
Dict. [e.g. Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips]
Phillips [Edward]
January 2019
Casaubin [Meric Casaubon]
Hale [Matthew]
Homer
Horace
Martial
Murphy [Arthur] (New Page)
Persius [Aulus Persius Flaccus] (New Page)
Sappho
Sherlock [Thomas]
Westmonasteriensis, Matt. [Matthew Paris] (New Page)
December 2018
A Proverb
Bible (1773 Dict. additions)
Carew [Richard]; Car.
Carew [Thomas]
Cock[er]; Cocker [Edward]
Malcolm [Alexander]
Martin [Benjamin]
Marvel[l] [Andrew]
May [Thomas]
Mead [Richard]
Menage [Giles]
Miller [Philip]
[Minsheu] Minshew [John]
Moore [Edward]; Moore’s Fables; Moore’s Foundling
More [Henry]
Moxon [Joseph]
November 2018
Arbuthnot, C. [Charles] (new page)
Arbuthnot [John]
Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher
Fletcher [John]
Warburton [William]
October 2018
Grew [Nehemiah]
Hanmer [Thomas]
Maine; Maine, Dr. Jasper [Mayne]
Newton [Isaac]
Pasquier [Etienne]
Pattison [William]
Pearce [Zachary]
Pemberton [Henry]
Unknown correspondent (a)
Unknown correspondent (b)
Wake [William]
Walker [William
Ward [Seth]
Warton’s Spencer [Thomas Warton; Wharton’s [Warton’s] Isis; Progress of Discontent
White [Francis]
Wood [Anthony]
September 2018
Blount [Thomas]
Graunt [John]
Sandys [George]; San.
Walton [Izaak]
August 2018
Bathurst [Ralph]
Baynard [Edward]
Bramhall [John]
Camden [William]
Chambers [Ephraim]
Harris [John]
Manwood [John]
West [Gilbert]
Whitgift [John]; Whitgifte
Yalden [Thomas]
July 2018
Accidence; Preface to Accidence
Brooke [Henry]
Caius [John Kays]
Calmet [Antoine Augustin]
Corbet, J.
Corbet; Corbet , Bp. [Corbett, Richard]
Cowel [John]
Crashaw [Richard]
Creech [Thomas]
Lily [William]
Stepney [George]
Sternhold [Thomas]
Steuart
Suckling [John]
Sylvester [Joshua]
Tate [Nahum]
Tusser [Thomas]
Verstegan (Rowlands, Richard)
June 2018
Fletch, P. [Phineas Fletcher]
Fox [John Foxe]
[Johnson, Samuel] Irene, Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Vanity of Human Wishes; Johnson (Vanity); Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man
Ken [Thomas]
Latimer [Hugh]
Rymer [Thomas]
May 2018
Betterton [Thomas]
Clarke [Samuel]
[Kane] Cane
Lesley [Leslie, Charles]
Wesley [Samuel]
April 2018
Brown[e] [Thomas]
Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
Halifax [Charles Montague]
Roscommon [Wentworth Dillon]
March 2018
Dennis [John]
Donne [John]; Don.
[Fryer, John] Fryer's Travels (new page)
Goodman [John]
Hawkesworth [John]
[Johnson, Samuel] (added credits to W.R. Keast)
Pope [and various works][Alexander]; Pype (Letters citations added)
Swift [Jonathan]; Gulliver
Walsh [William]
Woodward [John]; Woodw.
February 2018
Bailey [Nathan]
Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
Philips [Ambrose] ; Phillips, A.
Phillips; [Philips, John]
Phillips [Edward]
January 2018
Addison [Joseph]
Alleyne [Aleyn, Charles]
Amhurst [Nicholas]
Davenant [Charles]
D'avenant [William] (new page)
Granville [George]
[Johnson, Samuel]
[Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben
Unattributed phrase or definition
Whole Duty of Man; Duty of Man [Allestree?]
December 2017
Cowley [Abraham]
Howel [Howell, James]
Rowe [Nicholas]
Sea Dict. [Capt. John Smith]
Spelman [Henry]
Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
November 2017
Cave, Edward (new page)
Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
Gibson [Edmund]; Gibson's Camden
Hooke’s Roman History [Nathaniel]
Hooker [Richard]; Hook. (added 1773 Dict. cites identified)
King Charles [Charles I]
Oldham
Orrery [Charles Boyle, 4th Earl] (new page)
Orrery [John Boyle, 5th Earl]
Orrery [Roger Boyle, 1st Earl] (new page)
Otway
Walton [Izaak]
October 2017
King [William]
Sidney
Southerne
Tickell
September 2017
Congreve
Daniel [Samuel]
D'Herbelot (new page)
Dryden, John
Dryden, J. jun
Felibien
Hesychius
Lye
Stone
Temple
Turberville
August 2017
Barker
Carter
Collier [Jane]
Epitaph on Vanbrugh
Escape of King Charles
Evelyn
Expedition to Carthagena
Fairfax
Floyer
Gay
Gerard
Geddes
Giffard [Gifford]
Glover
Goldsmith
Goodman
Gouldman
Gower
Grainger
Hacket
Halifax
Hall
Harrington
Heigh
Hickes
Keil [Keill]
Lennox
Locke
Logie
Mulso
Reynolds
Sappho
Savage
Vanbrugh
What is the Johnson Dictionary? (Links to Folio and Abtracted Dict. added)
Women Writers Cited in the Dictionary (new page)
July 2017
Concanen
Cotton [Charles]
Cudworth
Daniel [Dr. Richard]
[Defoe, Daniel] Robinson Crusoe
Dier; Dyer [John Dyer]
Dodsley
Drayton
Drummond
Duke
Duncomb
Duppa
Eachard [John]
Eachard [Laurence Echard] (NEW PAGE)
Ellis's Voyage
Fanshaw [Fanshawe]
Farquhar
Fenton
Ferne
Fiddes
Fielding
Fisher
Fitzgerald
Flatman
Fleetwood
Forbes
Freind
Hughes
Lewis
Parnell
Pierce
Sanderson
Sherburne
Strype
June 2017
Bible (N.T.)
Boyle
Cheyne
Child
Chillingworth
Clarke, [John]
Clarke [Samuel]
Cleaveland [Cleveland]
Cockburn
Colson
Holinsh. [Holinshed]
James's Voyage
Jervas
Jewel
Muschenbrock [Musschenbroek]
Verses on Cleaveland
May 2017
Bible (Apocrypha, O.T.)
Common Prayer
Scaliger (manuscript photo)
April 2017
Anon.
Blackmore
Bramston
Brerewood
Boyse
Brooke
Builder's Dict.
Bull
Calamy
Carew, R.
Chaucer
Cheselden
Context - Temporal Summary of Word List
Ray
Rochester (new page)
W____n [Waldren]
Wycherley
March 2017
Pope
Martinus Scriblerus
February 2017
Blount [Edward]
January 2017
Aristotle
Beattie
Berkeley (Berkley)
Betterton
Bramhall
By the Numbers
Buckingham
Cicero
Context - History Relevant to Authors
Digby [Robert]; Digby to Pope
Lauderdale
Samuel Johnson's Literary Sphere (new page)
Scaliger
Sharp
December 2016
Accidence
Ascham
Bathurst
Gay
Hale, Dr. [Stephen Hales] (new page)
Hearne
Newton [Thomas]
Pope, Dr. [Walter](new page)
Robert of Glouster
Scaliger
Selden
Sparrow, Dr. [Anthony] (new page)
Theobald (new page)
Waller
November 2016
Ascham
Bailey
Camden
Chapman
Chaucer
Dryden
Fell
Fenton
Hammond
Heylyn
Hooker
Jonson
Junius
More [Thomas]
Scaliger
Skinner
Waller's Life
Wallis
Wesley
October 2016
Arbuthnot
Bourd [Boorde]
Camden
Destruction of Troy (Caxton, tr.)
Donne
Drayton
Garth
Lennox
Lye
Mandeville
Miller
Thompson
Ray [John]
March 2025
Layer's Trial
Davies [John (Sir)]
January 2025
Clarendon [Edward Hyde]
December 2024
Newcastle [Margaret], Dutchess [Duchess] of
November 2024
Cheyne [George]
Geddes [Michael]
Kettlewell [John]; Kettleworth
Savage [Richard]
August 2024
Dryden, J. jun [John]
Tacitus (New Page)
July 2024
Anon.
Boyle [Robert]
Harris [John]
[Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben
Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
Unattributed phrase or definition
June 2024
Addison [Joseph]
Croxal [Samuel]
Sidney [Philip]
Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
May 2024
Bible (Song of the Three Holy Children: glorious; Ecclus: little)
April 2024
Bible (Note d: tabernacle, v. n.)
December 2023
Builder’s Dict.
Phil. Trans.
November 2023
Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
September 2023
About this effort and its precursors (2023 Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer article; presented at EC/ASECS Winterthur, 2022)
Context - History Relevant to Authors (includes number of cites for each author)
August 2023
Nigel de Wetekre
July 2023
[Collier, Jane] Art of Tormenting
Cowel [John]
Garlick [ J----- G----- ] (corrected from Garlick [Thomas])
Lauderdale [Richard Maitland] (corrected from [John Maitland])
Lucas [Richard] (New Page)
Nichols [Nicholls]
Norris [John]
Old Comedy
Old Song
Oxford Reasons Against the Covenant
Ozenam [Ozanam, Jacques]
Parnel [Parnell, Thomas]
Pezron [Paul-Yves]; Pezon
Philips [Ambrose] ; Phillips, A.
Phillips; [Philips, John]
Pierce [Thomas]; Pierce’s Lett.
Pineda [Pedro]
Pope, Dr. [Walter]
Raleigh [Walter]
Randolph [Thomas]; T. Randolph; Tho. Randolph
Ray [John]
Reynolds [Joshua]
Robert of Gloucester
Rowe’s Life [James Welwood]
Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]
[Sanderson, Robert] Saunderson; Sanderson
Shaw [Peter]
Shaw; Shaw’s Gramm. [Samuel]
Shelvock [Shelvocke, George]
Smith [Edmund]
Sternhold [Thomas]
Tatler
Trevoux [Dictionnaire de Trevoux]
Turberville [George]
W____n [Waldren]
Walker [William]
Waller’s Life
Wallis [John]
Wandering Pr.[Prince] of Troy
Wase [Christopher]
Welsted [Leonard]
Wise [Francis]
Wiseman [Richard]
Woodward [John]; Woodw.
June 2023
Herring [Thomas]
Holder [William]
Holyday [Barten]
James’s Voyage [Thomas]
Jewel [John]
[Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben
King Charles [Charles I]
Lawrence, Dr. [Thomas]
L’Estrange [Roger]
Littleton [Thomas] (also Lyttleton, de Littleton)
Littlet. ; Littleton, Dr. [Edward]
Locke [John]
Logie
London Dispensatory
Lye [Edward]
Mandesto [Mandelslo, John Albrecht]
Mandeville; Maundeville [John]
Melmouth [William Melmoth]
Military Dict.
More’s Life of Sir Thomas More [Christopher Cresacre]
More [Thomas]
Moreton [Anne]
Mortimer [John]
Motteux [Peter Anthony]
Mulso, Mrs. [Hester Chapone]
Muschenbroek [Musschenbroek, Pieter van]
Nicene Creed
May 2023
Anon.
Calamy [Benjamin] (corrected from Edmund Calamy)
Fell [John]
Felton [Henry]
Garlick [Thomas]
Garretson [John]
Garth [Samuel]
Gay [John]
Geddes [Michael]
Gentleman Instructed [William Darrell]
Gerard [John]
Gibson [Edmond]; Gibson’s Camden
Grainger [James]
Gray [Stephen]
Gray [Thomas]
[Greek] Anthology
Grosthead, Bishop [Robert Grosseteste or Grossetete]
Guardian [Richard Steele, Addison]
Hacket [John]
Hakewell [Hakewill, George]; Hakewill
Hale, Dr. [Stephen Hales]
Halifax [Charles Montague]
Hearne [Thomas]
Heigh [R.]
Henley [John]
Henshaw [Thomas]
Herring [Thomas]
Introduction to Grammar
[Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of]
April 2023
Baxter [Richard]
Baxter [William]
Brown[e] [William]
Bruno [de Segni]
Builder’s Dict.
Burnet [Thomas]
Burton [Robert]
[Butler, Samuel] Hudibras; Butler
Calamy [Edmund]
[Callimachus]
Carte [Thomas] Life of Ormonde
Casseneuve [Cazeneuve, Pierre de]
Cervantes (New Page)
Chaucer [Geoffrey]
Cheselden [William]
Chesterfield, Earl of [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
Chevy Chase
Cheyne [George]
Chillingworth [William]
Church Catechism
Cicero [Marcus Tullius]
Clarendon [Edward Hyde]
Clarke [John]
Collins [William]
Congreve [William]
Cromwell [Henry]
Croxal [Samuel]
Cujas [Jacques]
Daniel; Daniel’s Civil War [Samuel]
Daniel (Dr. Daniel in 4th) [Richard]
Digby [Robert]; Digby to Pope
Donne [John]; Don.
Dryden, J. jun [John]
Du Cange [Charles Du Fresne Du Cange]
Duke [Richard]
Evelyn [John]
Evelyn [John, the Younger] (New Page)
Fairfax [Edward]
Fanshaw [Richard]
Farrier’s Dict.
Felibien [Andre]
Fell [John]
Ferne [Henry] Bishop
Fiddes [Richard]
Fitzgerald [Thomas]
Flatman [Thomas]
Fortunatus; Ven. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]
Jervas [Charles]
Jones, Capt. [David Lloyd] (New Page)
Song of the King and the Miller
March 2023
Ainsworth [Robert]
Alleyne [Aleyn, Charles]
Anon.
Atterbury [Francis]
Ayliffe [John]
Baker [Thomas]
Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher
Beaumont [Joseph] [incorrect attribution; page to be deleted]
Bentley [Richard]
Berkley [George Berkeley]
Blount [Edward] to Pope
Boerhaave [Herman]
Bourd [Boorde, Andrew]
Boyle [Robert]
Brampston [James Bramston] Man of Taste
Brerewood [Edward]
Broome [William]
Brown[e] [Thomas]
Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
Davies [John]
Denham [John]
Orrery [John Boyle, 5th earl]
February 2023
Arbuthnot [John]
December 2022
Dryden [John]; Poem to Roscommon; Oedipus
Upton, [John] (New Page)
November 2022
Bacon [Francis]
September 2022
[Lennox, Charlotte] Female Quixote; Shakespeare Illustrated
August 2022
Authorities added in the 1773 Dictionary
Brown [John] (New Page)
By the Numbers
Context - History Relevant to Authors (includes number of cites for each author)
Context - Temporal Summary of Word List
July 2022
Abbot [George]
Addison, Dr. [Lancelot]
Amhurst [Nicholas]
Apostles Creed
Authorities added in the 1773 Dictionary (New Page)
Bailey [Nathan]
Bluteau [Raphael]
Brown[e] [Thomas]
By the Numbers (temporal breakdown of Authorities by death date)
Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
Cockburn [John]
Collier [Jeremy]; Collyer
Common Prayer
Context - History Relevant to Authors
Douglass [Gavin Douglas]
Gentleman Instructed [William Darrell] (New Page)
Quincy [John]
Raleigh [Walter]
Rowland[s] [Henry]
Salmon’s Survey; Salmon [Nathanael]
Topsell [Edward] Book of Animals
Trapp [Joseph]
William of Wickham [Wykeham]
June 2022
AEn. [Aeneid; Pitt, Christopher]
Arbuthnot, C. [Charles]
Budaeus [Guillaume Budé]
Caius [John Kays]
Carte [Thomas] Life of Ormonde
Casseneuve [Cazeneuve, Pierre de]
Cave, Edward
Chesterfield, Earl of [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
Coke [Edward]
Cotton [Charles]
Cromwell [Henry]
Cromwel[l] [Thomas] to King Henry
Cudworth [Ralph]
Derham [William]
Digby [George] (Lord Digby to Sir Kenelm Digby)
Digby [Kenelm]
Dodderidge [Philip Doddridge]
Eachard [Laurence Echard]
Fortunatus; Ven. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]
Francis [I] of France
Horace
Hough [John]
King James [I]
Lawrence, Dr. [Thomas]
Layer's Trial
Littleton [ Thomas] (also Lyttleton, de Littleton)
Littlet. ; Littleton, Dr. [Edward]
[Lyttelton, George] Littleton on the Conversion of St. Paul
Manger's [Mauger] French Grammar
More’s Life of Sir Thomas More [Christopher Cresacre]
Pezron [
Paul-Yves]; Pezon
Phil. Trans.
Pope, Dr. [Walter]
[Rudyerd, Benjamin] Rudgerd
Sherburne [Edward]
Steevens [George]
Theobald [Lewis]
Verses on Cleaveland
Virgil
February 2022
Wafer [Lionel]
Wallis [John]
Wise [Francis]
January 2022
Shakespeare [William]
Song
December 2021
Ascham [Roger]
Crashaw [Richard]
Delany [Patrick]
Garrick’s Epilogue [David]
Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
Lee [Nathaniel]
Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
Swift [Jonathan]; Gulliver (4th edition added Swift cites)
November 2021
Baxter [Richard] (new page)
Baxter [William]
Boerhaave [Herman]
Glanville [Glanvill, Joseph]
Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
Law [William]
Milton [John]; Par. Regained; Par. Lost
Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
October 2021
Carew [Richard]; Car.
Carew [Thomas]
Cowley [Abraham]
Drayton [Michael]
Drummond [William]
Harte [Walter]
Lesley [Leslie, Charles]
Pope [and various works][Alexander]; Pype
Tillotson [John]
Waller [Edmund]
Waterland [Daniel]
Wilkins [John]
Wiseman [Richard]
Wollaston [William]
Wotton [Henry]
September 2021
Fell [John]
Hammond [Henry]; Ham.
Harvey [Gideon]
Holder [William]
Hooke’s Roman History [Nathaniel]
Hough [John]
Lloyd [William]
Ogle [George]
Oldham [John]
Oldham’s Life
Peacham [Henry]
Persius [Aulus Persius Flaccus]
Taylor [Jeremy]
Thomson [James]
August 2021
Martial
Sharpe [Samuel]; Sharp.
July 2021
Macbean [Alexander]; Macbean’s Remonstrance
Madden [Samuel]
Mandeslo [Mandelslo, John Albrecht]
Manger's French Grammar
Mareschal [Thomas Marshall]
Nelson [Robert]
June 2021
Junius [Francis]
Kennet [White Kennett]
L’Acad. [Dictionnnaire l’Academie francaise]
Latimer [Hugh]
Lauderdale [John Maitland]
May 2021
Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
Garth [Samuel]
Halifax [Charles Montague]
Markham [Gervase]
April 2021
Dict. [e.g. Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips]
Knolles [Richard]
March 2021
Young [Edward]
February 2021
Boileau [-Despreaux, Nicholas]
Bourne [Vincent]
Bracton [Henry de]
Calvin [Johannes Wetteranus Calvinus]
Henshaw [Thomas]
Hickes [George]
Hoveden (Howden) [Roger of Hoveden] (corrected from John of Hoveden)
Knighton [Henry] (new page)
Melmouth [William Melmoth]
Molineux [William Molyneaux]
Skinner [Stephen]
Steele [Richard] to Pope
Turnebus [Adrien Turnebe]
January 2021
Blackmore [Richard]; Black.
Chapman [George]
Harris [John]
Savary [Jacques Savary du Bruslon and Louis-Philemon Savary]
Scaliger [Joseph Justinian]
Selden [John]
Sewel [George Sewell]
Shadwell [Thomas]
Skelton [Philip]
Steevens [George]
Stephens [William]; Stephens' Sermons (Bio Update)
Stone [Edmund]
Taliessyn [Taliesen]
Taylor [John] the Water-poet
[Trevisa] John de Trevisa (NEW PAGE)
Trevoux [Dictionnaire de Trevoux]
December 2020
[Sedley, Charles] Sidley
Seed’s Sermons [Jeremiah]
Sharpe [Samuel]; Sharp.
Smalridge [George]; Smallridge
Smart [Christopher]
Somerville [William]
Somner [William]
South [Robert]
Sparrow, Dr. [Anthony]
Spelman [Henry]
Spratt [Sprat, Thomas]
Stephens [William]; Stephens' Sermons (corrected from Nathaneal Stephens)
Stillingfleet [Edward]
September 2020
London Dispensatory
Perkins [William]
Ralph [James]
Randolph [Thomas]; T. Randolph; Tho. Randolph
Richards [Nathanael]; N. Richards
[Richardson, Samuel] Clarissa; Pamela; Richardson’s Pamela
Robert of Gloucester
Rogers [John]
August 2020
[Johnson, Samuel] Irene, Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Vanity of Human Wishes; Johnson (Vanity); Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man
Mackenzie [George]
Smith [Edmund]
Smith [John]
June 2020
Bacon [Francis]
Brown[e] [Edward]
Brown[e] [Isaac Hawkins] (new page)
Brown[e] [William]
Henley [John] (new page)Steuart
March 2020
Bruno [de Segni] (+corrected name)
Salernum, School of; Schol. Sal. (new page)
Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]
August 2019
Creech [Thomas]
Decay of Piety; Decay [Allestree, Richard]?
Farquhar [George]
Felton [Henry]
Harte [Walter]
Hayward [John]
Herbert [George]
Heylin [Heylyn, Peter]
Hill, Aaron
Hill [John]
Holyday [Barten]
Old Song
July 2019
Brown[e] [Edward]
Brown[e] [William]
Davies [John (Sir)]
Government of the Tongue
Hakewell [Hakewill, George]; Hakewill
Kettlewell [John]; Kettleworth
Pearson [John]
Pezron [Paul-Yves]
Quarles [Francis]
June 2019
Prideaux [Humphrey]
Prior [Matthew]
March 2019
Ainsworth [Robert]
Bailey [Nathan]
Dict. [e.g. Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips]
Phillips [Edward]
January 2019
Casaubin [Meric Casaubon]
Hale [Matthew]
Homer
Horace
Martial
Murphy [Arthur] (New Page)
Persius [Aulus Persius Flaccus] (New Page)
Sappho
Sherlock [Thomas]
Westmonasteriensis, Matt. [Matthew Paris] (New Page)
December 2018
A Proverb
Bible (1773 Dict. additions)
Carew [Richard]; Car.
Carew [Thomas]
Cock[er]; Cocker [Edward]
Malcolm [Alexander]
Martin [Benjamin]
Marvel[l] [Andrew]
May [Thomas]
Mead [Richard]
Menage [Giles]
Miller [Philip]
[Minsheu] Minshew [John]
Moore [Edward]; Moore’s Fables; Moore’s Foundling
More [Henry]
Moxon [Joseph]
November 2018
Arbuthnot, C. [Charles] (new page)
Arbuthnot [John]
Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher
Fletcher [John]
Warburton [William]
October 2018
Grew [Nehemiah]
Hanmer [Thomas]
Maine; Maine, Dr. Jasper [Mayne]
Newton [Isaac]
Pasquier [Etienne]
Pattison [William]
Pearce [Zachary]
Pemberton [Henry]
Unknown correspondent (a)
Unknown correspondent (b)
Wake [William]
Walker [William
Ward [Seth]
Warton’s Spencer [Thomas Warton; Wharton’s [Warton’s] Isis; Progress of Discontent
White [Francis]
Wood [Anthony]
September 2018
Blount [Thomas]
Graunt [John]
Sandys [George]; San.
Walton [Izaak]
August 2018
Bathurst [Ralph]
Baynard [Edward]
Bramhall [John]
Camden [William]
Chambers [Ephraim]
Harris [John]
Manwood [John]
West [Gilbert]
Whitgift [John]; Whitgifte
Yalden [Thomas]
July 2018
Accidence; Preface to Accidence
Brooke [Henry]
Caius [John Kays]
Calmet [Antoine Augustin]
Corbet, J.
Corbet; Corbet , Bp. [Corbett, Richard]
Cowel [John]
Crashaw [Richard]
Creech [Thomas]
Lily [William]
Stepney [George]
Sternhold [Thomas]
Steuart
Suckling [John]
Sylvester [Joshua]
Tate [Nahum]
Tusser [Thomas]
Verstegan (Rowlands, Richard)
June 2018
Fletch, P. [Phineas Fletcher]
Fox [John Foxe]
[Johnson, Samuel] Irene, Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Vanity of Human Wishes; Johnson (Vanity); Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man
Ken [Thomas]
Latimer [Hugh]
Rymer [Thomas]
May 2018
Betterton [Thomas]
Clarke [Samuel]
[Kane] Cane
Lesley [Leslie, Charles]
Wesley [Samuel]
April 2018
Brown[e] [Thomas]
Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
Halifax [Charles Montague]
Roscommon [Wentworth Dillon]
March 2018
Dennis [John]
Donne [John]; Don.
[Fryer, John] Fryer's Travels (new page)
Goodman [John]
Hawkesworth [John]
[Johnson, Samuel] (added credits to W.R. Keast)
Pope [and various works][Alexander]; Pype (Letters citations added)
Swift [Jonathan]; Gulliver
Walsh [William]
Woodward [John]; Woodw.
February 2018
Bailey [Nathan]
Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
Philips [Ambrose] ; Phillips, A.
Phillips; [Philips, John]
Phillips [Edward]
January 2018
Addison [Joseph]
Alleyne [Aleyn, Charles]
Amhurst [Nicholas]
Davenant [Charles]
D'avenant [William] (new page)
Granville [George]
[Johnson, Samuel]
[Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben
Unattributed phrase or definition
Whole Duty of Man; Duty of Man [Allestree?]
December 2017
Cowley [Abraham]
Howel [Howell, James]
Rowe [Nicholas]
Sea Dict. [Capt. John Smith]
Spelman [Henry]
Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
November 2017
Cave, Edward (new page)
Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
Gibson [Edmund]; Gibson's Camden
Hooke’s Roman History [Nathaniel]
Hooker [Richard]; Hook. (added 1773 Dict. cites identified)
King Charles [Charles I]
Oldham
Orrery [Charles Boyle, 4th Earl] (new page)
Orrery [John Boyle, 5th Earl]
Orrery [Roger Boyle, 1st Earl] (new page)
Otway
Walton [Izaak]
October 2017
King [William]
Sidney
Southerne
Tickell
September 2017
Congreve
Daniel [Samuel]
D'Herbelot (new page)
Dryden, John
Dryden, J. jun
Felibien
Hesychius
Lye
Stone
Temple
Turberville
August 2017
Barker
Carter
Collier [Jane]
Epitaph on Vanbrugh
Escape of King Charles
Evelyn
Expedition to Carthagena
Fairfax
Floyer
Gay
Gerard
Geddes
Giffard [Gifford]
Glover
Goldsmith
Goodman
Gouldman
Gower
Grainger
Hacket
Halifax
Hall
Harrington
Heigh
Hickes
Keil [Keill]
Lennox
Locke
Logie
Mulso
Reynolds
Sappho
Savage
Vanbrugh
What is the Johnson Dictionary? (Links to Folio and Abtracted Dict. added)
Women Writers Cited in the Dictionary (new page)
July 2017
Concanen
Cotton [Charles]
Cudworth
Daniel [Dr. Richard]
[Defoe, Daniel] Robinson Crusoe
Dier; Dyer [John Dyer]
Dodsley
Drayton
Drummond
Duke
Duncomb
Duppa
Eachard [John]
Eachard [Laurence Echard] (NEW PAGE)
Ellis's Voyage
Fanshaw [Fanshawe]
Farquhar
Fenton
Ferne
Fiddes
Fielding
Fisher
Fitzgerald
Flatman
Fleetwood
Forbes
Freind
Hughes
Lewis
Parnell
Pierce
Sanderson
Sherburne
Strype
June 2017
Bible (N.T.)
Boyle
Cheyne
Child
Chillingworth
Clarke, [John]
Clarke [Samuel]
Cleaveland [Cleveland]
Cockburn
Colson
Holinsh. [Holinshed]
James's Voyage
Jervas
Jewel
Muschenbrock [Musschenbroek]
Verses on Cleaveland
May 2017
Bible (Apocrypha, O.T.)
Common Prayer
Scaliger (manuscript photo)
April 2017
Anon.
Blackmore
Bramston
Brerewood
Boyse
Brooke
Builder's Dict.
Bull
Calamy
Carew, R.
Chaucer
Cheselden
Context - Temporal Summary of Word List
Ray
Rochester (new page)
W____n [Waldren]
Wycherley
March 2017
Pope
Martinus Scriblerus
February 2017
Blount [Edward]
January 2017
Aristotle
Beattie
Berkeley (Berkley)
Betterton
Bramhall
By the Numbers
Buckingham
Cicero
Context - History Relevant to Authors
Digby [Robert]; Digby to Pope
Lauderdale
Samuel Johnson's Literary Sphere (new page)
Scaliger
Sharp
December 2016
Accidence
Ascham
Bathurst
Gay
Hale, Dr. [Stephen Hales] (new page)
Hearne
Newton [Thomas]
Pope, Dr. [Walter](new page)
Robert of Glouster
Scaliger
Selden
Sparrow, Dr. [Anthony] (new page)
Theobald (new page)
Waller
November 2016
Ascham
Bailey
Camden
Chapman
Chaucer
Dryden
Fell
Fenton
Hammond
Heylyn
Hooker
Jonson
Junius
More [Thomas]
Scaliger
Skinner
Waller's Life
Wallis
Wesley
October 2016
Arbuthnot
Bourd [Boorde]
Camden
Destruction of Troy (Caxton, tr.)
Donne
Drayton
Garth
Lennox
Lye
Mandeville
Miller
Thompson