FOOTNOTES:
[1] Vide England in the Eighteenth Century, vii. 211; viii. 42-44, 45, 191, 240, etc.
[2] See Froude's English in Ireland, vol. iii. sec. vi.
[3] I have been further encouraged by the very favourable judgment of an acute critic, the late Mr. Hepworth Dixon, regarding a book of mine, written on the same lines as the present. See Athenæum, No. 1649, pp. 744 et seq.