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Jonathan Swift "Journal to Stella", 1712, March 9
- ↑ A visit to England by certain Native American chiefs in 1710, 'the Four Kings of Canada', apparently resulted in street gangs giving themselves names reminiscent of American tribes, such as 'Mohocks' (Mohawks).
- 1 2 Statt, Daniel (1995). "The Case of the Mohocks: Rake Violence in Augustan London". Social History. 20 (2): 179–199. doi:10.1080/03071029508567934.
- 1 2 Guthrie, Neil (1996). "'No Truth or Very Little in the Whole Story'? A Reassessment of the Mohock Scare of 1712". Eighteenth-Century Life (20): 33–56.
- ↑ Calhoun Winton, “The Mohocks”, ch.2 of John Gay and the London Theatre, University of Kentucky 2015, pp.11-25
- ↑ The Mohocks, a tragic-comical farce, London 1712
- ↑ Quenell, Peter, ed. The Prodigal Rake: Memoirs of William Hickey (1986) pp 158ff.