FOOTNOTES:
[117] If all the bishops present had not merely abstained, but actually voted in favour of the measure, it would have been carried by one vote.
[118] Sir George Nicholls, History of the English Poor Law, vol. ii., see especially pp. 242, 243.
[119] Peel to Goulburn (May 25, 1834), Parker, Sir Robert Peel, ii., 244.
[120] Hatherton, Memoir; Creevey, Memoirs, ii., 285-88.
[121] See Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, viii., 446-57.
[122] Compare Walpole, History of England, iii., 478.
[123] Lord Melbourne's Papers, p. 220.
[124] Ibid., pp. 222, 223.
[125] Stockmar, Memoirs (English translation), i., 330.
[126] Parker, Sir Robert Peel, ii., 235.
[127] Stanley to Peel (Dec. 11, 1834), Peel's Memoirs, ii., 39, 40.
[128] Croker to Mrs. Croker, Croker Papers, ii., 219.
[129] Peel, Memoirs, ii., 58-67.