Key to abbreviations of published titles thus cited in Calendar entries, in the Directory of Correspondents, and in annotations to the letters


Admiralty Officials
J. C. Sainty. Admiralty Officials 1660-1870. Office-Holders in Modern Britain 4. London: Athlone Press, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 1975.

Alumni Cantab.
John Venn and J. A. Venn. Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1922-54.

Atterbury
Francis Atterbury. The Epistolary Correspondence …. Ed. J. N[ichols]. Vols. 1 & 2. London, 1783.

Baxter
Stephen B. Baxter. William III and the Defense of European Liberty 1650-1702. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966.

Bayle
Pierre Bayle. Dictionaire Historique et Critique. Ed. Des Maizeaux. 5th ed. 4 vols. Amsterdam, 1740.

Bickley
Francis Bickley. The Life of Matthew Prior. London: Pitman & Sons, 1914.

Bolingbroke
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke. Letters and Correspondence…. Ed. Gilbert Parke. Vols. 3 & 4. London, 1798.

Brit. Dipl. Reps
D. B. Horn. British Diplomatic Representatives, 1689-1789. London: Office of the Royal Historical Society, 1932.

Burke’s Landed Gentry
Burke’s Landed Gentry, 18th ed. London: Burke’s Peerage Limited, 1965.

Burke’s Peerage
Burke’s…Peerage Baronetage & Knightage. Ed. L. G. Pine and F. S. A. Scot. 102nd ed. London: Burke’s Peerage Ltd., 1959.

Cal. of State Papers, Domestic…1698
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series…1698. Ed. Edward Bateson. 1933. Nendeln/Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1969.

Calendar of Treasury Books
Calendar of treasury books…preserved in the Public Record Office. Comp. William A. Shaw. 32 vols. London: HMSO, 1904-1957.

Cole
Christian Cole. Historical and Political Memoirs. London, 1735.

DBF
Dictionnaire de Biographie Française. Ed. J. Balteau, M. Barroux, and M. Prevost. 19 vols. [to date]. Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ané, 1933-.

DNB
The Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee. London: Oxford UP, 1921-22.

Ency. Brit.
Encyclopedia Britannica. 11th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1910-11.

Eves
Charles Kenneth Eves. Matthew Prior: Poet and Diplomatist. New York: Columbia UP, 1939.

GEC
[George Edward Cokayne]. The Complete Peerage …. 11 vols. London: The St. Catherine Press, 1910-49.

Hanmer
Sir Thomas Hanmer. The Correspondence…. Ed. Sir Henry Bunbury. London, 1838.

Hardwicke
Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, ed. Miscellaneous State Papers. From 1501 to 1726. In Two Volumes. Vol. 2. London, 1778.

History
Matthew Prior. The History of His Own Time…. 2nd ed. London, 1740.

HMC Bath
Historical Manuscripts Commission. Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquis of Bath Preserved at Longleat, Wiltshire. Vol. 3 (Prior Papers). Hereford: HMSO, 1908.

HMC Buccleuch
Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report on the Manuscripts of the Duke of Bluccleuch and Queensberry…. Vol. 2, Pts. 1 & 2. London: HMSO, 1903.

HMC Downshire
Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report on the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Downshire…. Vol. 1, Pts. 1 & 2 (Papers of Sir William Trumbull). London: HMSO, 1924.

HMC Laing
Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report on the Laing Manuscripts Preserved in the University of Edinburgh. Vol. 1. London: HMSO, 1914.

HMC Portland
Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report on the Manuscripts of the Duke of Portland…. Vol. 5. Norwich: HMSO, 1899.

Journal to Stella
Jonathan Swift. Journal to Stella. Ed. Harold Williams. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948.

Legg
L. G. Wickham Legg. Matthew Prior: A Study of His Public Career and Correspondence. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1921.

Lexington
H. Manners-Sutton, ed. The Lexington Papers…. London, 1851.

Lit. Works
Matthew Prior. The Literary Works…. Ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971.

Lords’ MSS.
The Manuscripts of the House Of Lords. Ed. Maurice F. Bond. New Ser. Vol. 10. London: HMSO, 1965.

Luttrell
Narcissus Luttrell. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714. 6 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1857.

Morrison
Alred Morrison. Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters…. Vol. 5. London, 1891.

NBG
Nouvelle Biographie Générale. Ed. M. Le Dr Hoefer. 46 vols. 1857-66. Copenhague: Rosenkilde et Bagger, 1963-69.

Officials of the Boards of Trade
J. C. Sainty. Officials of the Boards of Trade 1660-1870. Office-Holders in Modern Britain 3. London: Athlone Press, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 1974.

Officials of the Secretaries of State
J. C. Sainty. Officials of the Secretaries of State 1660-1782. Office-Holders in Modern Britain 2. London: Athlone Press, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 1973.

Parl. Hist.
Cobbett’s Parliamentary History of England…. Vol. 7. 1811. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1966.

The Penny Post
Frank Staff. The Penny Post 1680-1918. London: Lutterworth Press, 1964.

Saint-Simon
[Louis de Rouvroy, duc de] Saint-Simon. Mémoires. Ed. Gonzague Truc. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. 7 vols. [Paris]: Gallimard, 1953-61.

Strong
S. Arthur Strong. A Catalogue of Letters…Exhibited in the Library at Welbeck. London: J. Murray, 1903.

Swift
Jonathan Swift. The Correspondence…. Ed. Harold Williams. Vols. 1 & 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963.

Treasury Officials
J. C. Sainty. Treasury Officials 1660-1870. Office-Holders in Modern Britain 1. London: Athlone Press, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 1972.

Woolley
The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Ed. David Woolley. Vols. 1 & 2. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999, 2001.

Wright
H. Bunker Wright. “Matthew Prior and Elizabeth Singer.” Philological Quarterly 24 (1945): 71-82.