1. A singer by the name of Mrs. Arne had the best trills ever performed, so in turn Handel would emphasize that strength by adding more embellishments (trills) to enhance the music as well as Mrs. Arne's artistic abilities.

2. " Handel is the greatest composer who ever lived. I would bare my head and kneel at his grave." Lv.  Beethoven (1824)

3. Arias from Guilio Cesare and Rinaldo.

4. May be proven by looking in Handel's Messiah: the original manuscripts in facsimile, edited by Friedrich Chrysander, written by Handel himself. At the top of page 5, in the middle of the recitative, "Comfort ye my people, are wanting", Mr. John Beards' name is clearly written. John Beard was Handel's lead tenor at the time and the music had been written for him.

5. In Handel's original manuscripts on the Messiah at the top of page 23, during the bass aria "Thus saith the Lord", Mr. Reinholds' name is clearly written in by Handel's handwriting.