The foundling hospital for wit
Subtitle: Intended for the reception and preservation of such brats of wit and humour whose parents chuse to drop them. Number iv. to be continued occasionally
By: Containing, 1. Ode to H--y F-x, on the marriage of the Duchess of M------r. [& 13 other titles, numbered 2-14] With many curious pieces never before printed, and a general table of contents to the whole. By Timothy Silence, esq; [pseud.]
Publisher: Printed for W. Webb, near St. Paul's.
Published: 1747
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Notes: Where may be had number i, ii, and iii, containing all the satires, odes, ballads, and epigrams, by the prime wits of this age, since the change of the late Earl of O--d's administration.

Case 440 (4) (a) 1747.

The editorship is usually attributed to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, but also, though less probably, to the Earl of Chesterfield. In no. i, the editor appears under the pseudonym of "Samuel Silence, esq."