NOTE TO THIS VOLUME
I have to thank the Editors of the English Historical Review for permission to reprint the passages dealing with the War of Jenkins' Ear, published by Sir John Laughton in the fourth volume of the Review, and the Scottish History Society for a similar permission with regard to the Proclamation of James III. and the Landing of the Young Pretender. The Letters of Horace Walpole are quoted throughout under the dates and names of correspondents, not from any particular edition, as this enables a letter to be found without difficulty in any edition; otherwise the sources are given in full.
The lover of the eighteenth century is born, but he is also made. It is the aim of this little book to help in the making.
K. A. E.