 Churchill received a considerable sum from sales of the poem, paid off all of his old creditors, and gave an allowance to his wife.This year James Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic on the subject of "Fingal" which Macpherson claimed was written by Ossian.In December he published "Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language", written in the musical measured prose of which Macpherson had made use in his earlier volume.